little cheenagirl in shanghai

the end

2007-07-05T07:45:00.000+08:00

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!!! =)

2007-06-21T00:21:00.000+08:00

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!

family

2007-06-15T16:51:00.000+08:00

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....

happybday dad!

2007-06-04T00:35:00.000+08:00

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!!!

zapatas

2007-06-01T23:35:00.000+08:00

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.

BUFFETS

2007-05-28T23:42:00.000+08:00

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!!!

bunny blues

2007-05-22T03:04:00.000+08:00

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!

mothers day

2007-05-13T01:10:00.000+08:00

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！

2007-04-24T03:58:00.000+08:00

japan, here i come!!! wheee!!!

gonna miss all of you... but not too much. mwahahahha!!! =D

2007-04-17T20:23:00.000+08:00

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...

huangshan

2007-04-11T00:05:00.000+08:00

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! =)

2007-04-06T00:04:00.000+08:00

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! =)

2007-04-03T02:10:00.000+08:00

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)

2007-03-28T01:18:00.000+08:00

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!!!

yangzhou

2007-03-25T22:11:00.000+08:00

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

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.

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. =)

2007-03-24T03:33:00.000+08:00

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!

2007-03-22T01:01:00.000+08:00

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!

2007-03-21T21:48:00.000+08:00

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！=)

ANTIQUE STREET

2007-03-20T22:01:00.000+08:00

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

chionging

2007-03-17T08:26:00.000+08:00

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!

haircut

2007-03-14T16:45:00.000+08:00

BOO!! Did I happen to scare you with my new haircut? Hehe!! Don’t blame me for not being able to sleep ok… Went for a hair treatment and hair cut for about S$30. The idiot chopped off my fringe accidentally but Shui insisted on making it the way it is now! I shall be PROUD of my new hairstyle okie… must start learning from Jinny and be more adventurous =P

Icecreams

I finally got to eat my first ice cream in this freezing weather… one word… SHIOK!!! You guys should try it if you can!

Taiwanese Food

Finally got to try out some Taiwanese food… ok I’m talking about food AGAIN. Hehe it costs all over S$2 plus at a small café. Shall stop gushing cause the food wasn’t really that great.

Chilling

We checked out the pubbing scene at 新天地 with the law peeps… whoah… it’s really flooded with angmohs. I figured me and Shuiling were the youngest girls at the place.

Every table had people smoking. I was choking on the smoke…. Faints…

In China you really have to wash your hair everyday. at the end of each day your hair really, really stinks. why do people smoke... seriously!

Random Shots

Times Square. It is an abandoned mall filled with high end shops. Its like our Takashimaya, but an utterly deserted version. Maybe the rich people all flew to paris to shop instead.

This is… actually… a house. Located in the pubbing area. Wonder which rich fella bought a house in this area~!

My address and Contact Number~!

In case anyone needs it (haha) here's my address

Room 604, Foreign Students' Dormitory, Fudan University, Wudong Road 57#, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China 200433

My room number: +86 21 61306281
My hp number: +86 13774204304

Took me a week to memorize that long string. boo.

hair

2007-03-14T03:14:00.000+08:00

I CUT MY HAIR!!

it's pretty serious this time round cause the fringe is hacked off. pictures later cause its late and i want to sleep... will update tmr instead... i hope. the school work is piling up. (YES i do have schoolwork life is not all that easy here you know my dear friends)

anyway.... happy birthday ken! =D wishes from shanghai to india...

CS peeps go drop him a bday mail~! hahahha =P

many singaporeans

2007-03-13T00:40:00.000+08:00

Meeting Many Singaporeans

There are so many of us overseas, and its weird how you can instantaneously feel at home with each other. First and foremost I guess it’s the language that bonds you. And you start realizing you have common backgrounds. Lets face it, if you choose to come china, there must be some hidden inner cheena in you. I’m not denying it!

Well I really just met 2 groups of people. First it was the NUS Law people… there is an awful lot of them here actually. Just that they stay off campus… we’re the only idiots who paid a fortune to stay in this ultra-expensive dorm.

Then I met C Cube! And her roommate… its cool la, finally seeing a friend who I knew back from home. I never get sick of this happy feeling =P

Whole bunch of Singaporeans at this little Japanese restaurant. Guess what, we each paid S$3 and we got an ala carte Japanese Sushi buffet. With drinks, salad, soup, and an endless supply of sushi. I ate till I exploded! THREE DOLLARS!!

C cube brought us there… the restaurant was so small and cozy it served only US! Don’t get too jealous my dearest linzy, ky and jinny =P

The MRT

Gosh the MRT here beats Singapore’s one hands down. By far. Its clean, fast, high-tech. Probably gonna be the first and last time we’re gonna take the train here.

We took line 2 down to meet the rest!

The station which the cabbie brought us to. Darn we got on a cab which brought us on a wild goose chase around Shanghai… we asked him nicely to bring us to the closest MRT station. Instead he brought us to one which was almost a 15 mins drive away… I guess you can’t really avoid getting conned when you are just a stupid little tourist and always paranoid about getting beaten up by the people here.

Shanghai Ke Ji Guan 上海科技馆

Ok I didn’t actually go inside. I just stayed outside. But it was spectacular. The backdrop was of huge beautiful architechture, and there were many people flying kites at the huge open space there. Check out the pictures below.

This is really one nice shot which I took… opinions anyone?

A little girl skating around… china children are really adorable when they are little. I wonder why they change so much once they grow up.

An accidental shot that turned out rather arty farty… besides the fact that I look bad.

FUSSA exchange people! (Baisheng, me, shui, Yucheng) Yucheng’s from NUS law, born a Shanghainese. He’s really nice… brought us around the fake goods market.

Fake Goods Market

Girls, if you want some branded stuff which are first-rate imitations, tell me ok!

Plenty of super-realistic Prada Gucci LV here.

Alternatively there are also stuff like what… Chloe Paddington lock bags and Balenciaga Motorcycle bags… don’t ask me what they are, I don’t really know either. Just that after trailing after Shui for about 3 hours looking at a few hundred motorcycle bags, you kinda start to know abit about them. Tsk…

This place reminds me abit of JB. There is a store front, then there is this hidden passage way which leads you to this hidden room where filled with imitation products. Its really scary cause the people that kinda glare at you if you exit without purchase. I never felt so popular in my whole life, getting approached by about 58 people in one day.

KTV Session 2

With 4 NUS law people, we gamely set ourselves up for another session of late night KTV-ing. WOOHOO!! This time round there was much more people. And guess what, never have I met so many like-minded people when talking about singing Chinese songs.

The songs they chose were songs I have never K-ed before, but have been listening to my whole life. All those old classics which were back from the 80s and 90s era. Seriously, where else but china, can you find a whole group of people chiming in to the lyrics of 新鸳鸯蝴蝶梦 like we were old pros? I remember trying to play this song in Singapore and I think half my friends thought I was crazy, mad, and an ubber-ahtiong. HAHA! Our song list included 草蜢 songs and 小虎队 songs, and old CLASSIC duets like 选择, and loads of Teresa Teng Songs. I forgot many others, and some were songs which I never knew the title and singers until that night. What a fantastic experience, seriously!

The three guys goofing off. (Left to Right) Wen Shan (ex dunmanian, has a superb knowledge of all the duet songs on the ktv song list selection, obsessed with a TV show called shanghai tan) Shawn (the big brother, seems to be a hao nan ren =P) Amos (the chain smoker and the super imitator. He can imitate a whole long list of singers. From Andy Lau to Sammi Cheng. Super pro!)

This k box cost us EACH S$3 to sing from 11.30 pm to 6am… yeap you heard me right. THREE DOLLARS!

They have a fantastic system with inbuild games and movies.

AND they provided free breakfast for us. Yum yum YUM!!

The six of us outside the KTV place at 6 bloody am. Do we look tired to you? (Huiyi is the last girl which I haven’t mentioned…=D )

Crazily, me and Shui cycled back at 6am to hall. Everyone was staring at me cause I was cycling in a skirt but I didn’t really have a choice. Boo.

macdonalds

2007-03-11T01:20:00.000+08:00

The cheapest meal ever

90 cents each. The satay-gravy noodles 60 cents, the bowl of yuntun costs 30 cents per person… faints. Its delicious.

Mini-town near our school

We cycled to this huge shopping area, ten minutes away from our journ school. Called "Wu Jiao Chang" (Pentagon). Gosh its really HUGE there’s this entire mall dedicated JUST to food!!! There’s Burger King, Mcdonalds, KFC, Breadtalk, Ajisen, Starbucks, rows after rows of food and chocolates and icecream and Chinese goodies and delicacies… I was in food hell. HELL!

Spent a lot in Sasa… It’s hard being a girl you know. Especially when the weather is doing horrors to your skin.
Familiar shape? =) Reminds us of home!

It was freezing when we left the place. I was only wearing a tshirt and a normal jacket. So we abandoned our bikes there and cabbed back to hall… we’re such spoilt brats!

McDonalds

Ok I NEED to devote a whole section to McDonalds. Because. The McDonalds here. IS ULTRA CHEAP!!! Ok I sound like a bird again. But everything here is micro mini.

The pictures lie. They probably use some wide angled lens to blow it hugely out of proportion. Cause the food served here is in minute proportions.

Check it out! The double cheese burger meal ($2.50)… looks like a single cheeseburger doesn’t it? The drink is about half the size of the one served in Singapore!

Rebecca looks SO DAMN CUTE!!! She’s a sucker for cute things so she chiong to buy the Happy Meal which was giving out Hello Kitty toys (sorry becks that it ran out of stock) doesn’t she look absolutely adorable? (sorry becks I still think Cyndi Wang is too act cute WHY is she your idol???)

Shui with her banana pie!!! Singapore doesn’t have it. But its delicious!!

Ok though the serving was small I still couldn’t finish it cause we ate too much rubbish before that.

Happy me wearing my eeyore shirt…. Haha… I was the only crazy kid in a short sleeve shirt. I think we scream foreigner every where we go. i need to do something about my eyebags. can you even see my EYES?

Stupid People

You know, the technology and facilities here are THERE already, but the attitude of the people here really sucks.

Lazy to explain… boohoo… Vanny if you really come visit me, be prepared to get the worst culture shocks of your life ya.

2007-03-09T17:31:00.000+08:00

for those who can't read the chinese words... you've got to switch to unicode. right click, encoding, unicode. =)

got to thank clement! now me and shui can access our livejournal blogs. mine's http://khaiyan.livejournal.com its my previous entries about hongkong and shenzhen... think i will just stick with blogger. spent so much time building it up!

playing badminton later. and there's gonna be a party!!! WHEEEE!!! =D

kissed

2007-03-08T23:05:00.000+08:00

i received a peck on the cheek today from this super ultra cute mexican. haha! *blush!!*

the kiss

ok i am making it sound scandalous. but its not la...

we finished astronomy at 8.30pm (shui grumbled about astro the wholeeee lesson i think shes gonna drop it boohoo which means i need to take it myself?!?!)

zhen messaged shui to tell her that her tutorial was FILLED with cute angmohs, many mexicans. shui DRAGGED me into that class to crash.... haiyo so embarassing la. but seriously. this was the FIRST class that i encountered in fudan which was taught in english. and honestly. it was flooded with hunks and babes. i died on the spot.

it was vastly different from all the other classes i have been to. and you can see the difference between the asians and the westerners. the few asians always raised their hands timidly to express their views. the westerners... on the other hand. simply yelled out what they felt. and there was this terribly lively debate about religion going on midway throughout the class, with people shouting out their opinions all over. cool. (okieee im sidetracking)

well the class ended.

shui loved the class so much she promptly abandoned me and went with zhen to find the teacher.

i sulked at one corner, (discreetly) shooting glances at the babes and hunks. (HEY DONT BLAME ME, COME CHINA AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND HOW BAD THE SITUATION CAN BE!)

i sulked for a reaaally looong time.

and before i knew it the mexican guy sneaked up upon me. (ok fine i knew it cause i saw him from the corner of my evil eye)

we talked. ok you dont really need to know what we talked about.

and before i knew it he said "ok gotta run, bye!" and he suddenly put his cheek on mine. i was STUNNED. was he expecting a kiss or what?! anyway he just planted one on me anyway and ran away with his friends. *faints*

i just stared in shock.

this is what i really call a culture shock alright.

The $1 food corner

Thats right! All the food see in the next few pictures cost me $1. as in, ALL the food in ONE picture cost ONE DOLLAR. hehehehe!

Canteen food. Cold but nice. Ahtiongs eat at 5pm. when we reached at 5.45 the canteen was closing already... go figure -_-"

This is freaking nice... i gobbled down half the plate. its flour with milk deep fried, and the insides have custard in it... it is DELICIOUS. faints.

And one dollar yumyum noodles.

just for the record, my dearest sister and brother, its the four layers of clothes im wearing that makes me look fat!!!!

2007-03-08T00:35:00.000+08:00

学习

用中文来学习的确对我来说是一种考验。

不知道从何开始，英语已成为我的主要沟通语言，而把母语渐渐给淡忘掉了。只在家中和家人说。沟通的机会不多，而又少看中文报章和电视的我，华语能力真的变低了。

今天的科目是从早上十点上到晚上八点半，而全部都是华语来教学的。上媒介经营管理的课时，真是听得一头雾水，了解得慢，笔记也抄得慢，老师举的例子我一个也没听说过。越听越糊涂，自卑心也越来越强。水绫的华文程度比我强多了，理解能力也比较好，幸亏有她替我做解释。

老师今天在讲堂说了一句很有趣的话。说老师们得被“洗脑”，我也不敢多说，简单说，就是新加坡还算在这方面太像中国了吧！

得放弃修读广播节目制作，因为它根本没有实践的机会。现在又得为选科而伤脑筋了。到底我是要修读那一门专业比较好呢？

法医学是个非常有趣的课。是我第一个嫌时间太短的科目。今天看了好多死人照片。我讲得好难听哦。哈哈哈哈哈哈！=P

Something I have to mention to my Chinese-illiterate friends. The most interesting thing that happened today during my media management class – my teacher actually openly told us that a batch of them are sent to the censorship/propaganda department every year for “brainwashing”. Also she mentioned the press as being government mouthpieces (SOUNDS FAMILIAR?!?) Me and Shui just burst out laughing when we heard it. It was one of the times where I really felt happy that I was in China. That’s cause I learnt something which I will never be able to learn in Singapore – about how these people here think.

school day

2007-03-07T01:02:00.000+08:00

Food

I seem to do nothing but blog about food everyday.

Finally we had some authentic Japanese food. Helpings in China are huge.

My $3.50 set meal (in an ultra posh jap restaurant)

Rebecca eating the same set as me!

Wholesale Market

Wholesale shopping today. It was crazy. Imagine, bugis street times 50, its that huge. I looked at boots and clothes until my eyes crossed over.

My purchases… velvet t-shirt dress ($14), jacket ($16), boots ($14). I hear all those whines coming from you girls already. HAHA!

Dinner with Singaporeans

9 Singaporeans at a posh restaurant. We were probably the only students in the entire place. This restaurant is situated at 新天地, which is this F&B area where the angmohs go to. Starbucks, Coffee bean, Ding Tai Feng, many famous names.

One of the restaurants. Ambience is attractive, isnt it?

An up-up high class restaurant, but I paid only $8. I love Shanghai sometimes.

I ate the BEST egg tart I ever had in my life. It’s a cheese-mushroom tart… imagine… the mozerella and mushroom melting *faints*

Crazy Drivers

Shanghai has the CRAZIEST drivers. On our way back, at a traffic light, endless honking behind us broke us out of our gossiping. Guess what?!?! Everyone was honking at US, because they wanted our cab driver to ignore the red lights and drive ahead! (there were no other cars at the intersection)

Can you believe it? They were mad at our cabbie for OBEYING THE TRAFFIC LAWS. what a screwed up logic!

Weather

There was sun for the first time since I've been to Shanghai. I felt so freaking blessed at the moment i saw sun. It was pure euphoria =P

Us right outside our school gate. Its freezing, around 0 degrees, but the sun was so pretty!!

First day at School

Journ School is huge. See for yourself at the photomontage below, click to expand.

We stoned throught the disappointing film screened during our film appreciation class today.

2007-03-06T23:41:00.000+08:00

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2007-03-06T23:16:00.000+08:00

click on picture to enlarge :)

wai mai

2007-03-06T00:57:00.000+08:00

before i forget. me and shuiling's dinner. 4 singaporeans and 1 indonesian together in my room.

taiwan biandang. 台湾便当。erm... it costs... $2 per person with delivery. HAHA!!!

thanks to becks for introducing it to us!!! =P oh my god im growing so FAT. puke.

my room

2007-03-05T23:53:00.000+08:00

介绍。。。我的房间！

走进门看到的就是这个画面。binky is sitting on the bed! so cute =P

左边的就是我的床。那两个招牌是我们在香港买的，是两条著名的节名！女人街市个购物天堂。有你们的照片在墙上哦！

We spent so much time and effort making the beds comfortable. the original mattress was horribly thin, we bought an EXTRA matress, and lay TWO comforters (folded into two) below it. FIVE LAYERS altogether. Chinamen like to sleep on hard beds i think.

电视机！但我们没申请，太贵了！和饮水器！得买！

The water dispenser... we had to buy cause the common one in the pantry dispenses horrible water. it is salty and i puked all of it out the first time i tried. shudders. see our exploding food collection below the television!

漂亮的厕所！对了我得提一件事。。。水绫有洁癖！相当严重的。哈哈

My table! it has even more photos on it... im currently sitting on the chair you see on the picture!

ok till next time =P

冷天

2007-03-05T18:50:00.000+08:00

冷天

今天的天气可是冷的恐怖。本来想早起去学校报名，睡到了一点钟。

今天就是所谓的零度。冷的直发抖。脚和手都麻了，失去了感觉。

虽然穿上了棉衣，但阵阵的冷风可说是刺骨的辛苦。

步行街

最后我们到了学校附近的‘步行街’，想买围巾来取暖。复旦可真大，肯定比南大大上至少一倍。周围的店都似乎有复旦的名字。复旦附近到处都是店，什么东西都有卖。吃的穿的都有，难怪这里的学生都说根本不需要到人民广场那去逛街。

买到了围巾才二十人民币，觉得款式还不错。

寒冷的恐怖

我们今天可真是深深的体会到了被寒冷给逼疯的感觉。在走回学校的路途中，我们时时刻刻发出了一阵一阵突如其来的笑声。笑的莫名其妙，也不知为什么自己会笑。但就是发疯似的笑。笑了过后也似乎暖和点了。

The chilling cold.

For the benefit of my friends who shudder at the simple Chinese written above… the cold today was beyond insane. Every breath I exhaled sent puffs of vapour into the air. We played with our breaths like two crazy kids.

You know what the coldness does to you? It drives you insane. On the way back we were sent into hysterical gales of laughter for no apparent reason. It just came in sudden attacks. And we would laugh non stop like crazy hyenas. I laughed till tears came into my eyes.

The coldness became so much easier to bear after our laughter attacks.

I suspect I sound slightly insane but the coldness in making me crazy. enjoy the heat in singapore, peeps.

...

2007-03-05T17:42:00.000+08:00

(sucky part 2)

Wai Mai - Home delivery

it was such a horrible weather we called for home delivery.

the food wasnt bad and i paid only 15rmb. that's zhen in the red sweater!! thanks for the bubble tea treat zhen.

their sushi here is really nice. little carbs and many ingredients. their bubble tea has cereal in it. its cool.

南京东路

也叫做步行街。

这里就是上海的乌节路。天气可真是冷的没话可说，我们就一直往店里跑，来取暖。这几天的气温可是降到了零度。完全没了心理准备。

七年前来过了南京东路。当时是和家人一起来的。可说是回忆无穷。岁月可真的过得好快啊。这条街也几乎变了许多。

后面有好大的一瓶可乐！这是 Rebecca, 我的新朋友！也是德明和淡初的学妹，未来的好老师！

霓虹灯把照片都搞砸了。但我还是喜欢！效果相当有趣。

石门一路（吴江路）

这又是另一条饮食街，卖了许多街边小吃。上海真是个食物天堂，我不变胖才怪！终于吃到了名副其实的生煎包！冷天气吃热热的东西可真是人间大享受啊！

那里的垃圾堆积如山，人家吐的潭可以说是流成了河，恶心死了。

元宵

没忘了今天是十五，复旦的新加坡人都聚在一起吃了汤圆。希望在新加坡的大家都安好！

有趣的照片

“buy one get two” 意思好像是买一件衣送两件。但读了华文的解释才知道是买一送一！

urgh disgusting weather!! (part 1)

2007-03-05T03:37:00.000+08:00

TODAY SUCKS!!! (sucky part 1)

Registration Day

Is a day that I will never ever forget in a long time to come. Well due to various reasons, possibly many stemming from the fact that I’m a typical sheltered kid from Singapore who has never encountered the horrors I am going to mention.

The bicycle Story

We had to ride bikes to school, as it is a half an hour walk to the journalism school. We knew it was going to rain, but we DIDN’T expect it to be so horrifying! The wind was so strong we could hardly move the bikes forward, and the WOSRT thing was, we were expected to ride with one hand, and the other carrying an umbrella!

I tried using my neck to support the umbrella, but my whole umbrella just got whipped far away by the bloody wind.

Even when I used my hand, the wind was so strong it bent my cheap NTUC Fairprice umbrella such that the metal inside is now crooked instead of straight!!

Me and Shui gave up and just rode to school without umbrellas. We got utterly, totally, ridiculously, drenched.

We got our bikes free, passed down from the previous batch, but mine had no pedal. I was wearing boots, so my feet KEPT ON sliding off the bike!! Like, one push, WHEEE!!! Off goes my feet and my balance and oops I become the laughing stock again.

We looked ridiculous when we reached our journalism school.

On the way back, I pushed my bike back till we bought a rain coat. Ever tried pushing a heavy bike with one hand against the horrendous wind with an umbrella in the other hand? My hands froze over, became white, then red, then purple. Every brush against the sharper edges of the umbrella hurt so much I wanted to cry!

It got a bit better with the rain coat. But my hood flew off every-time the wind blew. So I just got wet anyway.

BOOHOO!!!!!

Our School building

Is really, really gorgeous. About 3 times bigger then SCI. well the exterior looks nicer, but we have yet to go inside, so it remains to be seen.

Missed our wonderful WKWSCI building so much when I was there.

Items lost while cycling.

1) My room key. FANTASTIC. Now I need to waste 50 rmb replacing it! It was in my back pocket but it must have fallen out while I was cycling. I cant put it in my bag cause it will de-magnitise my credit cards!!
2) One earring Miak gave me as a Christmas present. It flew off my ear when I was cycling AND I DIDN’T EVEN FEEL IT cause I was chilled to my bone! My ear is now raw and peeling from where it flew off. It hurts. BOOHOO!!

The Weather

They tell me the rain will last for another few weeks. Absolutely fantastic. And that the weather tomorrow will fall to 0 degrees. ZERO DEGREES!!!

My GOSH!!! Its MARCH already!!! Can they give us a break?!?! BOOHOOHOO.
And I’m already running out of money!!!

rotten day

2007-03-05T03:34:00.000+08:00

(backdated 03/03/07)

Rotten day today.

Spent the whole day searching for blog skins, only to find out that there are problems when you try to change the blog skin.

With wordpress and livejournal banned, I don’t see much of a choice left. Its really depressing.

Met more Singaporeans today! It’s really a small community here, with a hell of a lot of Koreans, Japanese and Caucasians.

Don’t wanna write anymore cause when things suck I just wanna go home.

Thanks to those who entertained me online. Thankyou :)

hello new blog

2007-03-05T00:44:00.000+08:00

since i can't use wordpress OR livejournal, guess i'm left with blogger.... so here's 3 days worth of posts!!

(backdated, 02/03/07)

This place has successfully irritated the hell out of me.

First I find out I can’t access wordpress. Now, even livejournal is banned!! FREAK!! WHY are they banning all the blogs? Will I get sued into courts for whining about the fact that they ban all blogs? Idiots, I tell you.

Food, food, and more food!!

We went to a “food street” today, the whole row of shops sold DELICIOUS food! I am so getting humongously fat, no one will recognize me when I return to Singapore. Boohoo.

Shui and Baisheng walking down foodstreet.

A plate of chicken cost only $4++ (shared by 3 people, that’s only $1++ each) its good! The queue was really long cause its famous, but eewww people smoked inside these shops. Bleahz.

Me and Shui at the queue... actually there were many people behind us.

The cheap chicken. Cheap cheap! geddit geddit???

And I tried their muslim pastry too… eeeee not nice its cold and salty and the meat is cold. Boo. Sold by middle-eastern looking guys who spoke Chinese!

We entered this other store introduced by Shui’s guidebook that served FANTASTIC 小笼包!! It costs only 80CENTS Sing dollars for a huge basket, and each basket has TEN in it.

Oh mi god the food here is DIRT cheap and its really nice. We bought also this bowl of dumplings and it costs 40CENTS sing. Gosh we’re really living like kings here, taking cab everywhere and eating everywhere.

After that it was STARBUCKS! Whee!!! I’m turning into a starbucks whore here in China, not that its cheap, it’s the same price as Singapore, but it’s like a taste of home.

Boohoo.

We met some Singaporeans for dinner, and we ate western! Yum… I had cheese cake and a fruit salad plus red milk tea… its not bad you know.

A really dark picture of my food...

By the way I tried ALL these food in the space of about 4 hours.

NOW YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I SAY IM GETTING SO INFLATED!!! BOOHOO!!!

KTV

The k-box here are really, really high standard. Seriously. The rooms are all gorgeous, the price is dirt cheap, the food is delicious and again, dirtcheap.

me at the KTV!

The machines even have function buttons that allows you to press it and cheering/clapping/whistling sounds will come from it so you can cheer your friends on!

We sang from 12 midnight to 6am. I am about to faint from exhaustion. And. GOH SHUILING SINGS DAMN WELL!!! I was so so so amazed when I first heard her. Chin Guan as well!!! He’s damn pro. He’s the FIRST guy who managed to successfully finish singing 珊瑚海 with me…. Zai.

Imagine my stress, singing with these two ultra prop people. Can I stress again how much I love shui’s voice. Its really, really, nice. Haha don’t get too swell headed hor girl =P

People at the K box are dead scary. They smoke, they are drunk, and they scold and yell. We were stuck in the lift with a bunch of crazy teens. I never felt so acutely threated in my whole life. -_-“ Other then that, it was a great experience.

Us outside the room at almost 6am. SORRY i HAVE to blur out my face cause 我不可见人 at 6am. trust me.

singing makes me feel closer to home somehow.

Miscellaneous

Oh yeah I saw people fighting and arguing AGAIN today. There were two seafood shops facing each other on the food street, separated by a road. Competitors, I guess. They were fighting. On the ROAD. It was an all out fight.

an extremely blur picture taken by me... (i was trying to avoid trouble ok!!)

I’m starting to think people here don’t like peace. They like noise and action. Boohoo for me.

Why isn’t livejournal working? Gosh I’m so pissed. Growl.

Random Shots

Roadside seafood.....

the bare trees. winter please go away soon!

many people cycle in china. so many they zoom past you like 2/s. they are everywhere, on the roads, in schools, in parks. and everyone can cycle with one hand. boo.

little *cheenagirl* in shanghai

the end

family

happybday dad!

zapatas

BUFFETS

bunny blues

mothers day

huangshan

yangzhou

ANTIQUE STREET

chionging

haircut

hair

many singaporeans

macdonalds

kissed

school day

...

wai mai

my room

冷天

...

urgh disgusting weather!! (part 1)

rotten day

hello new blog

little cheenagirl in shanghai