the chinese experience
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Thursday, July 5, 2007
Finally my exchange in Shanghai has come to and end.
And i can officially declare i have a love-hate relationship with this country very much at odds with itself.
I'm probably really gonna miss quite some parts of this place. namely the cheap food, of course... haha....
Going to Taiwan in a few hours time!!
I'm gonna be back in Singapore on the 15th July! 11pm! =) See all of you guys soon!!! =)
she mumbles her nonsense ; {7:45 AM}
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
the day my supper ran away from me
for those who think i'm enjoying a slacker's life in shanghai, well, my exams starts tommorrow and ends in about 2-3 weeks.
so, in the midst of my revision, my tummy decided i wanted fruits. so we trooped downstairs in search of supper fruits.
once we stepped out of dorm the funniest sight greeted us... a whole long line of running food!!! wahhahah!! all the 路边摊 sellers were pushing their carts and running for their lives!!! it was so funny. and so tragic. that meant my supper-fruits were literally, running away from me. so sad. must be some police raid.
oh and my family left to fly back to singapore today. so sad! didnt realise how much i missed them until i've seen them. okay im not going to be emo because i must study now.
me and daddy and 毛主席!!!
i miss singapore.... boohooo!
she mumbles her nonsense ; {12:21 AM}
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Friday, June 15, 2007
my family came to shanghai to visit me!!! so happy!!!
and they brought what i wanted over. things you CANT get in shanghai. but too bad my stupid brother ate up half the box of my pandan cake. BISH.
they went to some other parts of china le... haha... but they'll be back on monday-wednesday! yeah yeah! time to show them around... happy! =D
oh and i finally finished buying presents for everyone... picture below! happy guessing which present is yours... hahahha...!!
and i was very sad about spending money on everyone and not myself. so on the spur of the moment i splurged on a stupid manicure (inspired by ms goh shui ling). probably my first and last manicure. (S$10) with nail art... i dont like it. i want to wash it off but thats wasting money. growls....
she mumbles her nonsense ; {4:51 PM}
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Monday, June 4, 2007
老爸，53岁生日快乐！
吃少一点（少一点夜宵！），不要整天劳劳碌碌（星期天别上班！），早睡一点（不要一直‘电视看你’！），照顾你自己不要让妈妈担心！
两周后见！！！！ =D
on a very very sad note. my dearest sister informs me that "i have put on meat", a view apparently shared by my dearest family members who happily gossiped about me while celebrating my daddy's birthday. BOOHOO. ITS DIET TIME. SO SAD!!!
she mumbles her nonsense ; {12:35 AM}
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Friday, June 1, 2007
a few days ago, baisheng fried fries for us. whats so special about it, you ask?
HE USED HIS RICE COOKER TO DEEP FRY IT! he's really a genius in using the ricecooker to any dish concievable. faints. anyway the fries are damn good.
on a last min decision... mexican club, zapatas.
hahahaha the place was filled with angmohs. the only asians were girls that were trying to pick up angmohs. i saw this poor girl who spent a really long time dancing alone, trying her best to siddle up to any guy... >.<>
these people REALLY know how to have fun. the guys are nuts. they spend an awful lot of time shaking their butts at you. haha.
she mumbles her nonsense ; {11:35 PM}
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Monday, May 28, 2007
who says u can't get good food in shanghai? i know i eat crap for most of the week, but thanks to the crap, i can afford good meals to splurge on during the weekends!
a typical week would go like this... tues - thurs (studying days... yeah, i got a 3 day 7.5 hr work week, so sue me =P ) will be biscuits-bread-cereal eating in dorm for lunch AND dinner.
friday-monday... BUFFET TIME!!!
lets see what i've been buffeting on for the past few weeks....
Brazillian Steak Buffet
they actually have waiters carrying huge slabs of meat around. if you want, just signal and they will slice of huge slabs of meat for u. beef, lamb, chicken, kebabs, german sausages, u name it, they have it!
includes stuff like roasted bananas. and of course, salad bars, main courses, desert corner.... pure heaven..... (S$16)
Vegetarian Buffet
okay, 2nd time i went for this vegetarian buffet but still as wonderful. did i mention i love salad? (S$12)
Japanese Ala-carte Buffet
its ala carte!!! you can order ANYTHING on the menu. includes sashimi, steamboat, shao1 kao3, udon ramen sushi whatever.... and drinks of course... i ate until i shitted and i continued eating. faints. pure pigging out on jap food. (S$20)
Texas Steak Buffet
Hehe... this is like a buffet with free flow salad and desert (YUMMY!!!) plus one main dish and alot alot alot of free appetizers and stuff... look below....
been there twice too... hahhahaha (S$12)
Singaporean Food
And finally, FINALLY, i got a taste of Singaporean food in a Singaporean style food court!!!
looks familiar? its in the basement of a shopping centre in shanghai... its supposedly a branch oppened by singaporeans... sells hokkien mee, char kui tiao, and oyster omelette!!! has 8 days articles and zao bao stuff pasted all over... its funny hearing those china ppl talking about singaporean food like its some delicacy >.<
me with my hokkien mee.... i DREAMED of this moment for MONTHS!!! my beloved hokkien mee... ok la it wasnt that great but it was acceptable!
AND ICE MILO DINOSAUR!!! ok fine it sucked, but its the best u can do in shanghai. prob the most expensive ice milo dino too. at S$3, you can eat a few meals in shanghai. and thats just for one drink!!! thanks lio for paying... hahaha....
Eeyore biscuits
to end off my food post... a cute little eeyore biscuit that is left over from Tokyo Disneyland. it ended up in my tummy... and into my toilet bowl. oh well it was nice while it lasted.
i miss everyone more and more recently. love you all loads =)
PS: mommy, i didnt spend THAT much money!! i promise!!!
she mumbles her nonsense ; {11:42 PM}
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
shine opened lio's door today to find a cute little bunny!
it's super, duper, adorable. played with it for the whole afternoon... and no i'm not silly enough to volunteer to keep it after my last rabbit died.
isnt it the cutest little bunny ever!!! oscar brought him down to eat grass and i couldnt resist snapping a million and one pictures of the little dear. it's really tame and sweet!
on a sadder note... one of my hamsters got stolen =( hope he's fine wherever he is....
okok i KNOW i havent been blogging, its just that the japan entry is SO DAUNTING i dont even want to get started!!! 1000 pictures, what do you think? it scares me so much i retreat into the comfort of watching my shows... hahaha.... I WILL GET STARTED. SOON!
she mumbles her nonsense ; {3:04 AM}
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
i've been very, very, lazy in blogging. caught the naughty lazy bug recently. but ive got to post today... cause its mothers day =)
Happy Mothers Day Mommy!!!
母亲节快乐!!!
虽然今年女儿不在你身边，但依然祝愿妈妈开心快乐。
记得妈妈说过，恺妍两个字有着开心，漂亮的含义。我今天将我名字当祝愿献回给妈妈，愿妈妈永远开心，心中永远漂亮 - 感谢妈妈将近21年给予我无私伟大的爱！
妈妈今天要快乐，明天也要快乐，就会永远年轻。。。 女儿想念您！
新年拍的照片... 快到上海来哦！
she mumbles her nonsense ; {1:10 AM}
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
japan, here i come!!! wheee!!!
gonna miss all of you... but not too much. mwahahahha!!! =D
she mumbles her nonsense ; {3:58 AM}
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
THIS will be my breakfast, lunch, and dinner, for the next few days. hehe... and you ask me, "khaiyaaan!! i thought china food so cheap, why you eating these crap man???".
khaiyan happily replies... "BECAUSE IM GOING TO JAPAN NEXT WEEK!!! so must eat grass now. i'm happy eating grass. yum yum."
flying to osaka next tues, and then its off to Tokyo. ROCKS man!! =P
yours truly will be broke for the next few months. because this trip is fully self- sponsored. sigh.... >.<
Backdated Happenings
okay okay OKAY i'm getting lazy in blogging. well i never claimed to be anything but lazy... i love slacking. lalala....
McDonalds Breakfast
i spy hashbrowns!!! but i shall have to continue fantasizing about it, because. IT SOLD OUT AT 9:50 AM!!! how ridiculous is that. u mean, I CRAWLED OUT OF BED ON A SUNDAY JUST TO SEE MY BELOVED, ANTICIPATED BIG BREAKFAST GETTING SOLD OUT AT 9:50 AM? yeah. thats exactly what they meant. horrible lazy people.
me and lionel ended up eating lunch instead. sulks.
we trooped down the streets of shanghai searching for my white 3/4 pants. poor lionel... haha... it seems to me like he was dragged out of bed early, forced to spend a whole afternoon carrying my bag and combing all the boutiques along chang le road, and had to spend a whole DAY listening to me complaining about my feet which was getting tortured in my boots. thanks lah lionel... 够朋友！！！=D
Vegetarian Buffet
and we ended the day with a vegetarian buffet, and let me tell u, IT ROCKED! it is quite possibly the healthiest meal i have ever had since i came to this land where oil is cheaper then water.
lionel with his plate of veggie!
the variety was astonishing... plenty of jap food. jap sushi, jap udon, and their pastries and deserts were solid man... drool... lionel lousy. he ate so little!
Shui and the Singing Competition!
shuiling entered shi2 da4!!! it's like Fudan's version of impressario. thats her performance outfit, with lionel's bear tai4 jian4. The story of the bear will come later.
Shui is so ZAI!!!! she is really one of the best girl singers i have ever heard. lets all hope she gets into the finals!!! yeah!!!
The Story of the Bear Who Lost his Man-li-hood
It was once a poor and forgotten bear, a clone of the famous Mr Bean bear, travelling all the way from the shores of Singapore to be Lionel's companion when he feels lonely.
Yet it discovered that its sole function in Shanghai was to be a toyboy, providing free hugs for wondering girls that happened to spy it lying around Lionel's room.
And so it continued its (shameful) function for 3 long semesters.
As fate would have it, 2 nice girls took pity on the bear when they saw it one fine day. The evil-er of the two decided to spare the bear the agony (and shame) of being a toyboy. and she castrated the poor bear.
Lionel was devastated. He couldn't sleep for the whole night, desperate for an answer as to why his companion was castrated. he wanted answers. he knew that only the castrator could undo the grevious error.
In a twist of fate, he found out that the evil girl was due to take part in a singing competition the following day. he emplored the nicer girl to help him, and entusted her with the castrated bear to be passed on to the evil girl, in hopes that its presence will rouse her guilt.
the evil girl breezed through the competition, as the poor castrated bear dealt with its increasingly confused mind as to where his sexual orientation lay. he cheered her on, as he considered his future. all he knew was to be a toyboy. now he was lost...
the evil girl returned home, all but forgetting about the poor castrated, (now, sexually confused) bear, but the nicer girl helpfully reminds her about the bear's plight. all the evil girl did was to mutter in delight,
"from henceforth, this bear shall be known as tai4 jian4!!! WAHAHAHAH"
to be continued...
she mumbles her nonsense ; {8:23 PM}
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
黄山之旅
我现在根本就是走不动了。爬了两天的山，恐怕要变成一个星期的废人。上学。。。 梯级是我的头号大敌人！
黄山根本就是一栋500 层楼高的大厦。梯级是上了又下，下了又上，没完没了的一直延续着！看着那些老婆婆老公公爬着梯级，我可是佩服的很。我的体力真的有那么差吗？惭愧！
但虽然的确爬的辛苦，但一切是值得的。黄山就是赞！景色迷人，天气又好，这一次去得真不白费！黄山，我征服你了！（可以算是啦。。。）
Reflections - Of tears, pain, and muscle aches
To add on to my ramblings above... Huangshan's definitely breathtaking. if you have any breath left to admire it after the climbing, that is.
very soon, you forget what your calves feel like. you stop admiring the things around you. the only thing you are capable of seeing is the 5 steps in front of you. seeing anything more then the next 5 steps will send you straight into depression because there are possibly anyother 1000 more steps until you get a rest.
and very soon after that you stop looking even at the next 5 steps because your mind will play tricks on you and your world will start spinning. so you look at the next 3 steps. and the vicious cycle continues.
The First Night - Of eyebags and wobbly knees
What a horrific experience. We arrived at 1am at this hostel and basically, its the first time i didn't get a WINK of sleep because there was no heater. i tossed and turned for 4 hours straight, and it was time for breakfast. no doubt, it made me fugly for the whole of the second day. boohoo!
our home for one night... there's still construction going on around it. apparently thats why there was NO HOT WATER and NO HEATER. i froze every time i used the water to wash face / brush teeth... it was the first time my knees trembled and buckled under me for the 5 mins i was in the toilet.
me looking forlornly at our very sad looking accomodation.
The Scenery - Of breathless heights and beauty
spot the little hut at the low left hand corner... it's built entirely of pieces of rocks. we were speculating that some sword master flung the rocks over piece by piece... haha
*gasp* the grandeur of the sheer HEIGHT of these mountains! it was amusing to see the guys cower when standing along the hand rail... and throw pieces of rocks down just to see how long it takes to reach rock bottom. why frighten yourself? GUYS. -_-"
spot the little blue area in the picture... water =) makes everything more picturesque, doesn't it?
taken some where mid- mountain... after a while, the mountains tend to all look the same. think you also can't tell the difference from looking at the pictures ya? too bad, you gotta be there to see for yourself.
stairs... never ending stairs... just an exmaple of how horrific the flights of stairs can be. we climbed from 1pm-7pm on the first day, 9am-1pm on the second. all stairs. ALL STAIRS!! i think i even dreamt of stairs in between.
some of the rock formations are really quite interesting. see the figure on the bottom right hand corner? thats supposed to be zhu1 ba1 jie4. you know, the pig from journey to the west. can u see it?
The human shots - Of silliness and laughter
GONG FU FORMATION #1
wenshan and shawn duelling on the mountain top... lol... i have so many of their silly action poses! next time when they become rich and famous lawers... i'm gonna splash their pictures all over the station / papers / where ever im gonna work. haha.
i hear dead people! lionel obviously cant hear them though. haha =P
ok this is not really a funny shot but i like it! taken by shui... we're just sitting and admiring the sprawling beauty laid out before us =)
The Posed Shots - Of precarious shots and endless smiles
with wensen... he's the KING of zi4 pai1 and making himself look good! yeap yeap i sense that chris is gonna say something about the guy on the right... cause she has no cute guys and no dar dar. wah laoz... qian and vanny dont so gross about your dar dars leh. its already quite cold in shanghai... haha...
anyway wensen's another singaporean here at fudan! future chinese teacher of your kids... haha... there's hope in singapore after all.
this is one dangerous shot man... we are in fact sitting behind the chains... so. one little mis step. and me and shui will die ugly in the mountains and be eaten by wild geese.
with grace (our korean friend!) isnt the background gorgeous!! =D
we started the climb fresh, happy, exhilarated, and awed by our surroundings... and.. a few hours later...
we qualify for a corpse photoshoot. look at our exhausted faces... someone shoot us and be done with it!!!
Encounters along the Way - Of very expensive cup noodles
halfway down the mountain. we went to an extremely expensive restaurant. lionel bought a 15 RMB cupnoodles and like, 6 or 7 of us shared. back in shanghai... its 3RMB. THEY INFLATED THE PRICE 5 TIMES!!! and soon we found out why it was so expensive...
they use human labour to transport the food up the mountain! as the cable cars dont reach ALL the places on the mountain, human labour is most often the cheapest way to being food and supplies up. we heard its 20 RMB (4 sing) for one trip up the mountain. one trip can possibly take up to one day you know... gawds....
of course, there are people who were hired to carry people up the stairs. the price they charged was crazy.
The Classic Shots - Of Talent by yours truly
The Final Stopping Place - Tunxi Lao Jie
And before we made our way back to shanghai, we stopped by this little town for some shopping (i didnt buy anything though) and an extremely filling dinner.
in all, a satisfying trip with some quiet time alone too... thanks FUSSA for organizing this trip! =)
she mumbles her nonsense ; {12:05 AM}
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Friday, April 6, 2007
Exercise is Good!
finally had some good exercise in Shanghai. Lionel brought us to this sports stadium some distance from school. Six of us went, including Lionel and his 2 Taiwanese flat mates - Shine and Oscar.
Mainly played doubles... my gawd... was doubling up with Shine for most of the part. He's really, really, FREAKING good. i was so stressed i just stood there and didn't dare to do a single thing.
but i learnt alot in the few hours we were there. the guys played points. so i learnt a hell lot of rules about badminton that i never knew before. :) yay!
After Sports FOOD!
you dont feel as guilty when you eat after u exercise. ROCKS! it was Ajisen for dinner.
(above) lionel, shine. (below) oscar, lionel
once in a blue moon do you see me with my hair tied up. i'm wearing the Fudan pullover!! cool huh... hahahhaha =D
CS in Shanghai
Yeap, Jingli, Vic, Zhuomin and Amelia popped over from HK for a visit! It was a traumatizing cab experience all the way to Pudong to find the HK peeps.
Here in Shanghai... we get conned everywhere we go. stupid cab drivers. think we're stupid foreigners. (ok yeaaah we are stupid streetwise but not THAT stupid just scared of arguing with them. boohoo.)
I stay in Puxi. Shanghai is divided into Pudong and Puxi, seperated by the river called Huang Pu Jiang. This picture is taken from the Pudong area. Hence the background is Puxi. Get it? it's really developed and REALLY deserted. apparently it was a city constructed in 10 years.
jingli acting cute coz he spilled a whole bowl of noodles. O.O
all of us at Puxi shop... CS rawks =)
My crazy brother
i just HAVE to paste this MSN offline msg my insane brother left me
gah sent 05/04/2007 17:02:and guess wat...
gah sent 05/04/2007 17:02:my nafa full marks.
gah sent 05/04/2007 17:02:sit up 70
gah sent 05/04/2007 17:02:incline 43
gah sent 05/04/2007 17:02:2.4 running 9.01
gah sent 05/04/2007 17:02:suttlerun 9.8
gah sent 05/04/2007 17:03:standing braod jump 250
My dear brother... YOU. ARE. MAD.
Cycling Chronicles
I have something happy to announce! I can now cycle with ONE hand! i'll train harder to cycle without hands. WHEEEE!!!!
HuangShan
Going on a weekend trip to HuangShan from tomorrow to Sunday. Take care folks! =)
she mumbles her nonsense ; {12:04 AM}
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007
ok, ok, i admit i've been very, very lazy. and very, very naughty. cause i have not been blogging! and this post shall be an extremely bimbotic post. not that my other posts were anywhere near intellectual, but ah... i think this is probably the most bimbotic one yet. you shall see.
white dress day!
in this spur of the moment i bought a white sundress. and wore it out for a ktv outing for the Singaporeans. and this is how i looked!
pretty? =D (see, this is what i mean by a bimbotic post). anyway, the girl on the left with me is ziwei... she's pretty, cute, and available~! =D
and this is what people do when they get bored in KTV singing...
take pictures!!! the guy's zhengyi, he's definitely, by far, the BEST singer i have EVER heard in my entire life. apparently he won something like bestnewcomer in Fudan's version of impressario last year... >.<
me and shui being photo whores again... okok fine so i'm the photo whore. boo.
Cheng Huang Miao 城隍庙
okie we went to another tourist trap. construction everywhere, nothing much to talk about. everything is expensive.
i think i look deceptively skinny here. notice the word deceptively. in actual fact, i have grown FAT. horribly so. FAT ME! boohoo. stupid weather's turning cold AGAIN. which just makes me so lazy to run. im a bad girl!!! not like ziwei. she runs daily, rain or shine. power.
Food street
Yes, yes, we found yet ANOTHER food street near chenghuangmiao. and this one is BY FAR the cheapest CHEAPEST one i have ever been to!!!
i bought a rotiprata like thing from the uncle and auntie in the picture. TEN CENTS SING!!
Me, amos, and a bowl of hundun. around 8? for like 40 cents sing. go figure. they make it on the spot for you too!!! (dont know whats wrong with amos's face here hahaha)
shui at the hundun stall!!
Playing with my hair
my hair has deteriorated to a very disturbing condition recently. thanks to the horribly dry and acrid air in this place. as a result... i have resorted to... tying up my hair. *shudders* and we all know how much i detest tying my hair cause i look ugly. (bimbo statement again =P)
and shui... turns out to be... a wonder with pins and clips! she did my hair for me in the shopping centre toilet... haha... and it turned out something like this...
ok FINE u cant really see anything based on this picture but ahhhh its quite nice la. haha!
Curry Party
The Singaporeans and some Malaysians had a curry party!!! we had japanese curry, chinese curry, curry fishhead, and many other kinds of home cooked food. YUM!!!
sorry dont really have many pictures... but we ended up taking pictures by HOROSCOPE! and TADAH!! these are the scorpios!!! yes, all 3 exchangies from NTU are scorpios. talk about coincidence.
and as a parting note... BONKERS!!! I FOUND YOUR TWIN IN MY FRIEND SHIYU'S HOUSE!!! i miss you bonkers and my 9 other donkeys!!! =D
(ok OKAY i TOLD u this was gonna be a bimbotic post. sulks)
she mumbles her nonsense ; {2:10 AM}
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
And the money leaks away bit by bit
went on a crazy shopping spree today. dont, DONT ask me how much i spent!
went on the craziest, longest, cab ride today. dont, DONT ask me how much i spent!
went on the BEST jap meal i have ever had in a long time! SushiTeh! I can tell you how much i spent. hehehe. S$10! i ate until my stomach exploded.
THANK YOU SHUI, FOR HAVING THE WEIRDEST FOOD CRAVINGS AT THE WEIRDEST TIMES!!
Birthday Wishes
1. TO MY MOMMY!! 生日快乐，妈妈！女儿想念你！=)
2. TO JASMINE LEE LINZHI!! though you are such an asshole i still need to say something along the lines of like... i miss you and love you.... haha =P
3. ziwei's birthday today! previous classmates... joel, desiree... birthdays yesterday =) so many 21sts!!! happy birthday to ALL OF YOU!!!
she mumbles her nonsense ; {1:18 AM}
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Sunday, March 25, 2007
Yangzhou 扬州
once again, let the pictures do the talking for me. surprisingly... it's fun! met loads of new people. locals and thais. and let me tell you these, the BEST looking people, are, indeed... in Fudan's Journalism school. the girls... some of them are really, really hot.
and yes, cute china guys do exist!
瘦西湖
i need to mention a quote of gohshuiling. "khai, 那个瘦皮湖的皮是怎么写的？" faints... girl, its 瘦西湖~~~!!! =D
Let the scenery do the talking.... :) doubt u really wanna hear me talk about water and grass anyway. (im sure dearest linzy wants to hear gossip not about fishes) but. its really, really gorgeous.
one of the first scenes we saw. china really has these classic scenes made into perfection.
I like this shot of us! Lionel's another singaporean who we got to know on this trip! he's cool for a marist... which is pretty rare... haha! super tan. friendly. lame. our siblings go to the same school!
spot lionel acting demure by holding a bunch of little flowers.
bamboo grove.
the flowers are really blooming around me everyday... its beautiful =)
its quite fun being touristy and making silly poses. haha! especially with a bunch of friends =P
Toys heaven
it's this huge place filled with vendors selling soft toys that are horrible replicas of the originals. going at horrifyingly cheap prices. minitoons 19.90 cushions going at 2 bucks. IM NOT CARRYING ANY OF THESE HUGE SOFT TOYS BACK FOR ANYONE, ask for smaller souveniers, guys. haha.
come to think of it, guys, if u wanna propose to your girlfriends with huge teddy bears that cost $200 in singapore... come here and buy la.
i can consider doing courier services, for a small sum of course. =)
何园
Just another yuan in China, we stoned around this place for awhile... nice pictures though!
i risked my life to climb on this stone ledge!!
扬州 food and delicacies
“去扬州看什么？”
“扬州炒饭啦！”
god knows how many times i heard that reply from people before i went for the trip.
but seriously we spent quite some time LOOKING for the fried rice laaa.... and it tastes exactly like your $3 fried rice from the kopitiams. ah fang's fried rice is nicer.
oh! the picture above. (left to right) 1. THE fried rice. 2. Brown porridge with banana and milk. 3. 天下第一粥. you got to give the chinese credit for coming up with creative dishes that tastes awfully... normal.
the food in yangzhou is awfully oily. i soaked up 4 pieces of tissue at one particularly famous restaurant. shudders....
Western Dinner
After a long bus ride back. i. finally. had. WESTERN FOOD! ie, pasta and the-world's-biggest pizza. spot the glee on my fat face. haha!
Random Shots
Town area of yang zhou. it's just like any other chinese city. filled with people, noise, HORNS, and pollution. the dust was so thick we could hardly see through it.
shui took this picture from a trishaw. its cool! the trishaw riders were fighting over us. we sat in the carriage in fascination as our lady driver yelled against this chinese uncle at the top of her voice. the people here argue non stop, every where, anywhere. blah. im getting used to ignoring their argumenst anyway. BOO!
Anyone ever saw this cool advertising gimmick?!?!? This guy circulated the shou xihu area for quite some time. someone give me his/her job!!
Lionel pouting (under shui's rapid fire commands) with shui's granny sunglasses. CLASSIC!!!
and as revenge... lionel posing happily beside shui's sleeping position... haha!
my personal favourite of all the pictures taken... shui has taken command of her cam's manual function. changed the aperture such that she got the focused-on-fore-ground-blurred-background effect. =)
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Saturday, March 24, 2007
im lazy to blog today so it has to be pictures.
super tourist day. went jing ah si. arent we minute? the guy's our new mexican friend, aldolfo. he's cool. we went around with him today plus visited his house.
dont think mexico is a super messy country with terrible border problems with the US. well... it does have border problems but thats not all there is to this country. i decided mexico is cool. hola! adios! gracias!!
famous words at jingansi. dont ask me what it means.
silly us!
at jing an gong yuan. cool huh? china men are all cheeko peks. wear skirt only, kena stared by every breathing man alive. anyway in china, people also walk up to you and ask you to be models... its not just orchard road underground tunnels. haha.
met the law guys for a steamboat dinner. not bad not bad! its really shiok to have steamboat now. but the weather's turning better. spring is here =P going yangzhou in 2 hours... coming back on sunday... no need sleep le! =)
take care folks!
she mumbles her nonsense ; {3:33 AM}
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Misconceptions and Clarifications
1. To all my dearest friends who seem to think that China is near the United States.... THE TIME HERE IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS SINGAPORE!!! i get a kick out of counting the times i hear "so what's the time over there now?"... haha! (no ill intentions here guys =P)
2. COLD WEATHER IS NOT NICE. its not nice when you shiver from head to toe uncontrollably from the bone chilling cold. its not nice when u have to cycle to school in the cold and rain. its not nice when you have to wear shoes everywhere. its not nice when you are tempted to buy from every roadside stall selling hot food. ITS NOT NICE WHEN U GET FAT BECAUSE OF THE COLD.
3. EXCHANGE STUDENTS ARE NOT SLACK. i spend almost everynight reading obscure chinese readings. i can hardly match any subjects, which means that i worry about subject matching everyday and i willl be lagging behind my school mates when i return to singapore! the exchange cooridnators are slow and iro is lousy.
ok end of clarifications. hehe.... for an elaboration of my lousy, lousy, disgusting day, please read my deareast roomie shuiling's blog. http://shuiinchina.blogspot.com
shui is going sick and crazy recently. so cute. shes REALLY going crazy. going into self delusions, monologues, inventing her own scenarios, and giggling and cackling non stop for no reason. shui ah please take good care of yourself la!
she mumbles her nonsense ; {1:01 AM}
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
春天降临
花儿都盛开了。猜想春天也应该要到了。 但这该死的天气还是那么的可恶。但至少这几天的气温似乎提升了，没恐怖到一直发抖的地步。
倒霉的一天
说到倒霉，今天因该就是典型的例子。一起身就被一个修脚车的人耍得团团转，更本就是诈骗集团吗！赶到班上才发现课被取消了，想找的老师都找不着，故事越说越长啦我也不想解释不想讲了。
反正今天倒霉透顶就对了。心。情。不。好！！！！
气死人了！！！
旅行
顺便一提，周末我将会去扬州！那后个礼拜会去爬黄山。。。 等不及了！=)
she mumbles her nonsense ; {9:48 PM}
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Antique Street: Dong Tai Lu (东台路)
Our little trip down to this street filled with antiques turned me into a photo whore. Well contrary to popular belief. at least I was the one behind the camera and not in front of it! =D Check out the pictures below.
How the street looked like when we first saw it. A whole row of little stalls filled with curious trinkets, many of which seems to be replicated and reproduced and obviously not worth the quoted price.
The items on sale. It ranges from terracotta figurines, to karma-sutra scrolls (complete with all kinds of sexual positions), to swords and CCP memorabilia.
Shui and Zhen doing some shopping!
Funny Pictures
The guys are really, really into weird costumes. They seem to be constantly on the look-out for more and more odd clothes and accessories to buy back to Singapore for costume parties. Are there really that many costume parties? Haha!
Wenshan in his Red-Army costume… 毛主席万岁！
Shawn in his weixiaobao specs…. And yes he bought it!
Amos got pulled into trying out an er-hu by some friendly uncles. Created quite some scene as he attempted to play it… a huge crowd formed! Haha! And he ended up buying the er-hu for around S$25… Shawn bought a dizi as well…
POOR HUIYI!!! Not only has she got to put up with seeing 3 prancing guys in boxers, now she has to hear the melodius chorus of er-hus and dizis around the house. O.O
This claws look like they can KILL don’t they? It looks like it can be used for 九银白骨爪… =D
Education
It was really quite an educational trip actually.
The masses of real badges which have survived the ages of time. The uncle who was selling the badges told us a hell lot about Chinese history. He’s actually an avid badge collector, and brought out his private collection to show us! Did you know, there were badges printed that were anti-CCP? Most badges have Mao’s head facing the left. Badges with Mao’s head facing the right were actually worn by anti-Maos! Every badge had their own serial number too… it’s cool. I bought 2!
We had some tea-tasting too… didn’t know all of us were so Chinese-inclined. This cute china guy let us sample about 10 different kinds of tealeaves. Oh I found out Shawn learnt 三字经 (the REAL one, NOT the vulgarities one) the same way as me!!! From that cassette with 小胖 in it… gawds… it was so funny when we both started humming the opening song of the tape! =D
Random Shots
Spot the teracotta soldiers in the crates.
They sell birds here as well...
People gambling along the streets. a very common sight in Shanghai.
some icecream while walking. are we nuts? cornetto here's 60 cents. haha.
Old Streets
Just a side mention, the place we went to really showed us the older side of Shanghai.
KFC Eggtarts
It was dinner after a long day. I declare the eggtarts at KFC here one of the best i have ever eaten. SINGAPORE KFC HAS TO BUCK UP!!
Cooking
OK. DID I MENTION THAT WE COOKED? NO? OK ME AND SHUILING WHIPPED UP A HUGE FEAST AT THE LAW PEOPLE'S APPARTMENT!!!
ok lets me modest here... its not really a huge feast and its actually our first time cooking for 7 people but what the hell, there's always a first time ok!!! We spent 3 long hours preparing the food!
Shui in the midst of preparation.
The dishes.
#1 Mashed Potato
#2 Tung-hoon with quail's eggs and mushroom
#3 南瓜 with tung-hoon and hei bi...
#4 Fried omelette with mushroom and sausages
#5 Fried Rice
#6 四季豆 with 酱油鸡。
ok i bet linzy's rolling her eyes and ky and vanny are laughing their asses off because NO ONE THINKS I CAN COOK and i bet jing and jinny is thinking KHAIYAN IS SO SPOILT HOW CAN SHE COOK and i bet my dearest sister and brother are laughing their assess off thinking of me cooking but THE FOOD WAS NICE OK!!! just ask the NUS law people. HAH! i can cook!! yan can cook!!! BWAHAHAHHAHAHA!!
DONT MESS WITH ME MAN!! =D
she mumbles her nonsense ; {10:01 PM}
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Clubbing
Chionged my toes to death. the poor little things were trapped inside my boots for so long, screaming despserately for help... but i guess the music drowned out their cries cause i didnt hear them squeaking until i left the club. poor dears. i gotta treat them really well today.
Music: so-so. R&B but erratic in music choice. sexy back and buttons repeated at least 3 times between 12 midnight to 4am.
Crowd: so-so. ABCs, angmohs, Koreans, Japs. (according to shui... i didn't really pay much notice) better looking then the average quality of singaporean guys in clubs on the whole though.
Company: fantastic. thanks to the girls for waiting patiently for me =D (so sorry i really didn't know you guys were just waiting for me!!!) many a thousand thanks to the guys who took such careful care of us. protected us from those horrible shoving people who knocked into you every 3 seconds. you guys were wonderful. =P a million thanks to wenshan and andrew for taking turns to "babysit" me on the dance floor when everyone else collapsed in exhaution... and a gazillion thanks to wenshan for the world's most expensive evian water that brought me back to life... haha!
Post guandii: bought maggie mee and went over to the law people's appartment. its really, really gorgeous and they are paying less then what i'm paying. boohoo. fantastic supper of noodles scrambled eggs and huntun... THANKS guys~!~! and we watched hannibal. it's a really good show. whoever hasnt watched it... go watch it.
Things lost: another side of a earring. that makes THREE pairs that i lost one side of the earring, all in china. and counting.
Oh and i played badminton. they charge students to book the sports hall facilities. appreciate Singapore, guys.
I'm so sleepy!
she mumbles her nonsense ; {8:26 AM}
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The Girl
khaiyan is currently in shanghai.
having a semester of a total chinese experience
at fudan university
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The Past
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HEARTY TALK
me and daddy and 毛主席!!!
and they brought what i wanted over. things you CANT get in shanghai. but too bad my stupid brother ate up half the box of my pandan cake. BISH.
they went to some other parts of china le... haha... but they'll be back on monday-wednesday! yeah yeah! time to show them around... happy! =D
两周后见！！！！ =D
a few days ago, baisheng fried fries for us. whats so special about it, you ask?
on a last min decision... mexican club, zapatas. 
looks familiar? its in the basement of a shopping centre in shanghai... its supposedly a branch oppened by singaporeans... sells hokkien mee, char kui tiao, and oyster omelette!!! has 8 days articles and zao bao stuff pasted all over... its funny hearing those china ppl talking about singaporean food like its some delicacy >.<
me with my hokkien mee.... i DREAMED of this moment for MONTHS!!! my beloved hokkien mee... ok la it wasnt that great but it was acceptable!
THIS will be my breakfast, lunch, and dinner, for the next few days. hehe... and you ask me, "khaiyaaan!! i thought china food so cheap, why you eating these crap man???".
*gasp* the grandeur of the sheer HEIGHT of these mountains! it was amusing to see the guys cower when standing along the hand rail... and throw pieces of rocks down just to see how long it takes to reach rock bottom. why frighten yourself? GUYS. -_-"
spot the little blue area in the picture... water =) makes everything more picturesque, doesn't it?
taken some where mid- mountain... after a while, the mountains tend to all look the same. think you also can't tell the difference from looking at the pictures ya? too bad, you gotta be there to see for yourself.
stairs... never ending stairs... just an exmaple of how horrific the flights of stairs can be. we climbed from 1pm-7pm on the first day, 9am-1pm on the second. all stairs. ALL STAIRS!! i think i even dreamt of stairs in between. 
some of the rock formations are really quite interesting. see the figure on the bottom right hand corner? thats supposed to be zhu1 ba1 jie4. you know, the pig from journey to the west. can u see it?
wenshan and shawn duelling on the mountain top... lol... i have so many of their silly action poses! next time when they become rich and famous lawers... i'm gonna splash their pictures all over the station / papers / where ever im gonna work. haha.
with wensen... he's the KING of zi4 pai1 and making himself look good! yeap yeap i sense that chris is gonna say something about the guy on the right... cause she has no cute guys and no dar dar. wah laoz... qian and vanny dont so gross about your dar dars leh. its already quite cold in shanghai... haha... 
this is one dangerous shot man... we are in fact sitting behind the chains... so. one little mis step. and me and shui will die ugly in the mountains and be eaten by wild geese.
with grace (our korean friend!) isnt the background gorgeous!! =D
of course, there are people who were hired to carry people up the stairs. the price they charged was crazy.
in all, a satisfying trip with some quiet time alone too... thanks FUSSA for organizing this trip! =)
i risked my life to climb on this stone ledge!!
Go ahead, laugh.
Town area of yang zhou. it's just like any other chinese city. filled with people, noise, HORNS, and pollution. the dust was so thick we could hardly see through it.
Anyone ever saw this cool advertising gimmick?!?!? This guy circulated the shou xihu area for quite some time. someone give me his/her job!!
