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???".
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...
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.
*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.
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
in all, a satisfying trip with some quiet time alone too... thanks FUSSA for organizing this trip! =)
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! =)
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.
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!! 
ok FINE u cant really see anything based on this picture but ahhhh its quite nice la. haha!
