..shui in china..

2007年4月28日星期六

In Japan!!

The past few days have been crazy!
Communication is one BIG problem here..
But pple here are so so friendly everybody is trying to help..
Whenever khai and i looked totally like lost tourists trying to navigate our way, theres bound to be pple offering their help.
We met this old lady when we were trying to look for our hostel in Osaka.
Even though we were left dumbfounded cos we cant understand a single word she is saying, she looked at the map in our hands and even brought us into a convenience store where she helped us ask for information and directed us to the place..
I think we saved a lot of walking with the help of these really friendly japs!!

And they are so polite..
a light gentle touch..yes i mean touch not push..the lady will apologise to me..
who will do that in china???!!
they wont even turn back after they shove u!

And we have been really touristy people for the past few days..hahaha
meaning photos photos and more photos..
visiting touristy places..esp in Osaka cos we managed to get a tourist pass that allows free admission to many tourist places..

in tokyo now...
shopping shopping and lotsa shopping..
but clothes here are so so expensive i dont even wanna look at them..haha..
we just cant afford it!
Its actually japan spring sale now..but guess what..their sale prices are so horrible!
the sale prices are all 3999yen 4999yen...thats like 50plus sing!
what kind of sale is that????!!!!

but still..being gals we are always on the lookout for cheap buys..managed to find SOME..
like this retro store that we went to..really cheap cheap buys!
all the clothes and bags and accessories there are sold for either 333 or 555 or 777 or 999yen..
that equals to bout 5plus sing to 12 plus sing at most..cheap buys in japan!!
khai and i almost went crazy there...hahhaa..

oh but the pple here arent as friendly as those in osaka..
mayb cos its a bigger city and all..
theres lots of shoving and rushing..
i still like osaka better!

photo updates will be up after i get back to shanghai..
tmr more shopping!! =)

Lost @ 08:30

2007年4月23日星期一

Setting off to the land of the rising sun!!

Back on 2 May..

Stay tune for more exciting stories!

Lost @ 12:34

2007年4月22日星期日

我讨厌下雨天！

雨天让人觉得好悲，也让人倒霉透了。

不幸。

这是我的手。

一个被脚车撞过后，脱皮得可怜小手。

在一个刮大风的雨天，雨伞挡在前头看不到路。

迎面而来的轿车也没长眼睛，跟位拼命在挡风的女生撞个正着。
还没来得及闪避，手上的皮已悄悄被带走。

心情完全跌入谷底。

幸亏有joyce 的爱心晚餐拯救了小手的悲惨命运！

简单的一餐，幸福的感觉！

Lost @ 09:18

2007年4月20日星期五

Nice tasty home cooked meal!

After eating for a month plus of china food, I am getting sick of it.
Its always noodles, wanton, rice all the time.
Especially when I’m saving up for my japan trip now, eating budget food all day long is so boring!

Oh but I am getting hooked on road side food though! Hahaha..
There will always be road side hawkers outside our dormitory every night and zhen is always tempting me into eating the road side food with her..
蛋饼，肉夹莫，炸鸡条 all makes me drool!
So sinful! Esp its eating really late at night..

Anyway, back to my home cooked meal today.
All thanks to Zhen the GREAT AND WONDERFUL COOK, I got to eat really tasty 家乡风味food!
Nonya curry yong tau foo and claypot rice (without the claypot)!

Zhen asked me to praise her on my blog..haha..so thick skin!
But oh well..her food is really gd! From the bottom of my heart!
Its been long since I’ve eaten such a full meal!
We have to do this more often zhen!
No wonder little girls like to play mashak..cos its so fun! Haha..

Of course I helped in the cooking as well..
I cooked the vegetables..haha..
And zhen passed it! Yay!
In fact, she said it was good..*pat pat* myself..haha!

Oh btw, can you guys see?? zhen and i are wearing the same tee!

its our NY school camp tee! hahahha...

cheap thrill you might say, but zhen was super excited over wearing that same tee as i am..

those were the fun and memorable days with our beloved YOUTH plus sunshine! haha..

Lost @ 12:08

2007年4月13日星期五

i've procrastinate long enough.

here's an update of what i've been doing for the past week.

Huangshan trip

Its a really beautiful place.

But tiring as well.
2 days 1 night up in the mountains

When we first saw the scenary up in the mountains, its breathtaking really.

But soon, all the climbing takes your attention away from the sceneries.

Your eyes are only focused on the steps in front of you, your mind is constantly telling you to push on, you're reaching the top.

Still, we took many many many really nice pics on the way!

Before we start climbing huangshan, we stayed in this really eerie looking youth hostel at the bottom of the mountain.
The bus turned into a construction site and immediately i was thinking "Oh no! This is NOT the place we are going to stay in".

It turned out that this youth hostel is new and only one block is fully renovated and we are the 2nd batch of students staying in!
The amazing thing of the accom is, it is dirt cheap. 25yuan per night! That equals to $5!
But it comes with a price -- no heater, no hot water!
For the whole night, khai and i were freezing to death and none of us slept well.

We took a cable car up to the mountains and we waited a few hours just to board the cable car.
While waiting, we played some lame games, but it was a good time for interacting with new friends!

From left, lionel, wensen, shine, khai, me being blocked by uncle chinguan haha and baisheng

Grace and Zurong, two new korean friends who played lame games with us!
Learnt some korean from them, mostly bad words (all thanks to lionel) haha..

Some nice scenary pics taken on huangshan

Its amazing how people in the past build such magnificent pieces of work.
The structure stacked up with stones is in the middle of a really high mountain that has no paths or roads that is linked to it.
It makes me wonder if people in the past really knew martial arts of some kind, maybe some 轻工 that helped them "fly" to the other side to build the structure.

One of the symbolic stone structures there.
This one is supposed to look like 猪八戒. what do you guys think?

Of course, there will never be lack of photos of the PEOPLE in the trip!

When you're on huangshan, you just feel like you want to perform martial arts. HATA!

A relaxing moment up on the mountain! A short break from the tiring flight of steps.

Ouch my head!

All things up in the mountain are at really costly prices.
A stay in a lousy 8 people room cost 180RMB
A normal cup noodles that cost 3RMB is priced 15RMB up there.
But before we start complaining about the ridiculous prices, think about how the poor workers carry all these things up.
And they are only earning 20RMB per trip that they take!

After we descended Huangshan, went to Tunxi old street for a little shopping.

Joyce’s and Paula’s Bdae party

Introducing the bdae girls

Joyce
She's a great cook man! She's gonna prepare international dinner/lunch for us soon!

And we got her a oven for her bdae present, so that she can bake things for us! hee..

Paula.
Paula is a Spanish girl who can speak really fluent Chinese! Really pretty too!!

Taking this chance to introduce the other FUSSA members that I haven’t done before

Zhengyi Jiaming and Shuzhen (from right)

Beside khai is Chinguan, the president of FUSSA.
Behind Chinguan is Ziwei, a really sweet and nice girl! from ny too!
Behind her is Weixiong. Everybody calls him boss because he is going to be the future high management in MOE. He's ranked no. 1 in his level for chinese faculty! winning all the ah tiongs! Dun pray pray!
Next to him is a korean girl (i don't really know her..haha), and beside her is Lyn! Chio bu!
Beside her is her bf, an indonesian, Jimmy. He's really good at badminton.
Wensen is next. He's a really gd speaker, the taiwanese host kind of speaking. He loves 小S and adores 蔡康永. He actually won first prize in the hosting competition in Fudan last year!
The last person is baisheng.

Lost @ 09:19

2007年4月10日星期二

Okay i haven't updated for quite some time.
Conquered Huangshan over the wkend!
It was a really fun but super tiring trip!

My leg and calves muscles are aching like mad now.
Khai and I have been walking like 90 year old ladies for the past 2 days.

I am a lazy bum.
Photos will be up soon.
Waiting for the wkend to come.

Lost @ 10:01

2007年4月6日星期五

My hair!!

My poor hair!!

I snipped off my fringe while i was trimming my brows today!

What a sad day..boohoo!!

Lost @ 00:38

2007年4月4日星期三

Saw this in class today. Really funny!

Shows how boring lessons are..haha..

Just in case you guys can't see it properly, it says:

天涯何处无芳草，何必单恋一枝花
何必要在复旦找
复旦女生虽不少
可惜质量不担保！

China people are quite witty I must say..haha..

The hongkong gang (Jingli, Amelia, Zhuomin, Victoria) came down to Shanghai today.
So khai and i met up with them at the bund after lessons tonight.

We finally got to go over to the other side of the bund, the Pudong area.
The whole atmosphere at Pudong side is really different from Puxi.
It is not as crowded, alot quieter.
The whole place feels more classy, filled with more high class and expensive pubs and cafes.
The surrounding buildings are newer and more westernised.

In Puxi, the bund area is older with colonial style buildings.
The streets are older, full of tourists and locals who will try to shove namecards into your hands, cameramen asking you to take pictures or locals selling weird stuff.
Basically the crowd is rowdy.

That's probably because Pudong is a newly developed area of Shanghai and there are less locals there as the residences there are not fully developed and most of the things sold at Pudong are really out of the affordable range of most locals.

Anyway, a group photo taken with the CS peeps!

Lost @ 09:54

2007年4月3日星期二

Exercise day!

Went for badminton after lessons with khai, shiyu, lionel and his 2 roomies, Shine and Oscar (they are taiwanese)!

Its been long since i've worked out so much!

Seriously, i think khai is turning me into a work out freak...hahaha..

I don't even bother running so much and exercising so much in Spore.

Now im cycling almost all the time to school, walking alot, running at night and now badminton for 2hrs!

This is gd.

It means i won't put on weight! though im eating like a pig still...hahaha..

Im alwaes wanting something more after a proper meal..alwaes think its not satisfying enough...oppss!

Intro of the new addition to the Shuiling friend's list

Lionel (left) and Shine

Lionel and Oscar

Lots of readings to catch up.
Project work to complete.
Just in case everybody thinks im really here to play, there's also work to do!

Off to do work!

Lost @ 07:26

2007年4月2日星期一

Internet down the past few days..so havent got the chance to blog.

Really tired now.

Only going to get 4hrs of sleep! Have morning lessons tmr.

So the entry is going to be brief!

Friday.

Went for another KTV session with the FUSSA people.

Zhengyi can sing really well!!

He totally tok Amos in imitating Fei Yu Ching! haha..

Amos have to work harder!

That's zhengyi, ziwei and ziying in stripes (a korean friend), zifang singing in the background

khai trying to act feminine that day!

After that was pizza at shiyu's place.
Was really gd! ate alot!!

Btw, after the ktv session with the FUSSA people, a few of us are going to take part in the Fudan singing competition! hahha..

just for the fun of it..hope it turns out well!

Sat
Had international curry dinner at shiyu's place!
There's jap curry, indonesian curry, curry vegetable, curry fish head.....
Yum yum!!

Then joyce started to catalogue everybody's pic by horoscope
Presenting the scorpios!

Sunday
Nuaing day.
Spent the whole day in dorm, fed on 3yuan bread the whole day! hahaha..

Today
Cheng Huang Miao.
It was under renovation, so whatever nice views it had was blocked by all the construction.
A pity.
But we went around eating and eating alot!
6 big wantons for 2yuan
煎饼 that comes in salty or sweet flavour that cost only 50cents yuan

Along Cheng huang miao old street. The things sold there are really more ex.
Not surprising cos its a tourist attraction.
But just walk a few streets down, its a cheap food haven!

What are you unhappy with Amos??? haha

And i have to end off saying this, the weather here is SICKENING!!
When im all prepared for spring, pulling out all my shorts, the weather report says that next few days will be back to cold cold temp! AAARRRGGGHHH!!

Lost @ 10:54