Okay i have to say, i am starting to get sick of china food! haha..
I miss home cooked food! I miss mummy's cooking!!

This explains why khai and i excitedly went over to the law peep's place for dinner yesterday cos Shawn offered to cook for us!
Man! He is a gd cook!
Too bad my camera is with zhen, else there will be pics of the tasty and delicious spagetti he whipped up for us!
Should have seen Shawn toss and turn the food in the pan..so pro!
Please cook more Shawn!!! =P

The weather is really good now. The temperature is just right in the morning and turns slightly colder at night, but still bearable.
We can officially wear shorts and slippers and tees!
But i seriously think china people are super duper scared of cold.
Under such hot sunny weather, they are still clad in their winter wear, all wrapped up tight from top to bottom.
And when i started wearing tube and a vest top over, i invited stares. Lots and lots of stares!
Oh well..i'll never do this in Spore..its so AA..but when u're on exchange, u dont seem to care less..ahhaha..its betta then sweating and torturing yourself under thick layers of clothes!

Please let the weather remain good!
I love the weather!

奢侈的一天!

i've never ever spent so much in my time in Shanghai before!
Everything i've done today, including my meals, the taxi fares are all the most expensive ever.
I vow to be a pauper the next few days!
Stop SPENDING!!!!

My spendings of the day:

200yuan - shopping (1top, 1 bottom)
490yuan - tailor made clothings (1 vest, 2 jeans, 1 corset top)
48yuan - taxi fare (the most i've spent on taxi when usually taxi doesn't cost more than 30yuan)
65yuan - food (if u've been reading my blog, a meal usually only cost 5yuan. But today, khai
and i went to sushi tei to eat! the only branch in Shanghai. Oh my god its super
darn gd when u've been deprived of gd jap food for so long. And its cheap!
Chicken teriyaki and udon only cost $5. The nice sushi roll that cost $16 in spore
only cost $8 here! How can i not eat right???)
48yuan - ziwei's present

Total cost: 851yuan = ~$170!!!!!

AHHHHHHH!!! This is crazy! Absolutely crazy!
Considering i did so many things at this price, its reasonable. But still........i spent a BOMB!
Mummy is going to kill me!
With that money, i can go to huangshan already!

Oh and btw, next wkend i am going to huangshan with the FUSSA pple and that's going to cost arnd 800yuan.

I'm going to eat grass tomorrow.

P.S. Ziwei happy bdae!! hope u enjoyed your bdae celebration today! =)

YANGZHOU TRIP

Slept at 4 the day before.
Woke up late.
Made the whole bus wait for us. Our bad.
I guess it’s a Sporean thing. We are always late.
But the terrible thing is China people are ALWAYS early!
Made us look so bad!
Even if we are on time, they are still waiting for us.
Even if we are earlier than the allocated time, we are still last. Sigh.
We can never beat them to this time competition!

This entry will be super image heavy.



The bottom view

On a side note, Lionel took a pic of this cute thai guy who's with us on the trip!
i'll share it with you guys..haha..okay cant really see..but make do make do please!

And they snapped me sleeping on the bus!
THANKS!

Went out with a new mexican friend Adolfo today.

Another unlucky day at school.

Totally lost and confused in class.
Abandoned.
Cheated.

Though i would say it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
But still I'M PISSED!!!
Screw those irresponsible idiots who left me and zhen in the lurch!

What an unlucky day!
Actually unlucky more for khai than for me.
But I was with her the whole day, so unlucky her means unlucky me!

The day started out with khai being cheated by this man outside school.
We were riding to school when khai got stopped by this man outside the school gate.
He said that khai’s bike needs some air pumping on the wheels.
So he dragged khai’s bike into the school to pump air for her.
But later he claimed that the tyre is spoiled and needs to be changed.
So he started dismantling the front tyre.
After he finished with the tyres, he quoted khai at a price of 60RMB!
That’s super daylight robbery!
Okay maybe after you convert it back to sing you may think that it is already quite cheap.
But now that we have been in china for quite some time, 60RMB is a huge sum of money!! 60RMB can feed us for almost a wk!
So khai started bargaining with him of cos and in the end settled at 40RMB (still ex though, but we are already late for school, no time for the hassle).

Took a cab to school.
Climbed up 5 stories of stairs just to find an empty classroom!
Called up the class monitor and he told us that class is cancelled today.
But we are freaking not informed!!!!
Aaarrrggghhh!!!
Wasted trip, wasted money!

Then we spent the whole day running arnd the school vicinity to find teachers to help us sign our course modules.
You see, in fudan, the administration is really super duper troublesome.
For us exchange students to take a course outside our own school, we have to get the department for which the course we are taking, to sign and authorize, then get our own school to approve, then hand up the form to the foreign student’s administration.
So you see, we have to run to 3 places just to fill up 1 form.
And there is no guarantee that the teacher in charge will be around. So we spent the whole afternoon running around from places to places back and forth waiting and waiting just to get everything signed.

Tiring.

But something positive.
The weather is getting better!
No more strong winds.
The sign of spring coming – flowers blooming in school!

I fell sick!
How terrible.
Felt abit groggy the whole day.

Ice cream on a cold day is really cool!

This was actually taken a few days ago.
Too bored in class.
Translation. Sounds bad right?
So khai and I whipped out our cams and started taking pics!
The ah tiongs in class must have thought that we are crazy.

Clubbing.

Checked out the local clubbing scene last night with khai, andrew, liwen and the law peeps.
Went to Guandii, a club that's frequent by japs, koreans, abcs, ang mohs.
According to zhen, this club is supposed to be one of the best clubs in Shanghai
Apparently not so.

The music wasnt gd.
Or to say i didn't like the music.
It plays RnB but it was a weird mix of songs.
Occasionally they put in some chi songs, like 我爱台妹, which i thought sound better than the eng songs they put in.
Okay call me cheena. I'm in china anyway!

The guys and girls in the clubs are generally quite good looking!
They all really dress up and doll themselves up.
Not to say spore's crowd don't dress up but its just different.
The crowd here is looks relatively more mature and they are very daring in their dressing.
For example, we saw this china girl wearing really low cut and tight top, her boops are almost spilling out! and she wears a red hot shorts. She has tattoos on her back and tummy area and at the side of her thighs! Its a pity i forgot to bring camera.

But the crowd is really rowdy. Which sux.
At the dance floor, we nearly lost our balance and fell a few times cos people were shoving arnd.
Guys and girls. Both really rough.

Luckily wenshan, shawn and andrew were there protecting us!
Thanks alot dudes! You guys were great! =)
Esp wenshan. He looks so tired but he was still hanging in there at the dance floor for such a long time. Impressive..haha..
And khai has amazing stamina man.
She lasted the whole night at the dance floor!
with her toes squashed in her boots. Poor toes!

After the night, we went over to the law peeps' apartment for supper.
Maggie mee， 水饺 and shawn's really nice fried eggs! haha..
Thanks for the hospitality guys!

Oh and i have to say, i feel so cheated staying in the dorm!
The outside apartments are so much bigger AND CHEAPER.
Everybody has their own rooms, a big living room with dvd player and tv, kitchen to cook and refrigerator to store their food.
What do we have in our dorm?
A tv that doesnt work unless we pay monthly subscription to activate it, no refrigerator unless we rent it, a common pantry that looks abit dirty and a smelly refrigerator in the pantry where people may steal your food!
haiz...

I'm starting to feel the pressure.
Its not just fun and fun and more fun anymore!

Readings are piling up.
Chinese readings mind you.

That's the difficult part.
I came to China thinking that with my chinese standard i can pull through.
I'm only half right.
Yes i can survive in China with my conversation skills and all.
But studying in Chinese is a totally different thing!
Esp when there are so many technical terms in chi.
And the courses im taking, Media Management and Media and Culture, talks all about China's media industry which i know nuts about.
This means that i actually have to read extra to find out more about the industry!

I'm just an exchange student!
饶了我吧！

Okay I think the lazy bug is getting to me.
Wy is right. I’ll just start blogging lesser and lesser.
At first its everyday, now its 2 days once, soon its going to be once a wk. haha!

Anw ydae after school, 4 vain girls (me, khai, rebec and huiyi), went to do cheap hair treatment!
Thx to Rebec’s 65% discount card, the treatment is really dirt cheap!
I trimmed and had treatment for only 73rmb!
Cutting hair here is really worth it.
Its just like having a food court meal back home, or maybe even cheaper.
A not bad salon cost 15rmb for cut wash and blow.
For guys, those baba shops only cost 8rmb!
I think I’ll be going back for more treatments!
Plus the salon that we went to have *ahem* not bad looking hairdressers..haha.
And that day would be the first time I had real conversations with pure Shanghainese other than my professors.
Don’t laugh, but I actually have difficulty making out their Chinese.
Made myself look quite bad in front of the hairdresser. Its as though I can’t converse in Chinese properly.

Oh the hairdresser snipped off khai’s fringe.
At first she was super upset cos the hairdresser can’t cut fringe for nuts.
But I made her put her fringe to the front and now she looks like a little doll. Haha!