Monday, April 30, 2007
Slacking away...Wasting away...
Here I am sitting in a nice newly opened restaurant just beside my hostel having high tea, typing my latest entry… This looks like a rather high class place… with rather high class prices comparable to stuff back home…Nice ambience… A good place to spend the afternoon… Well, they are having a trial period before the actual opening so everything is on 40% discount… why not…Think I will become fat contrary to what I have initially expected… good food is always around the corner (if you make an effort to find and if you have the guts to try) and it is at a fraction of the price back home…
Now having close to 2 weeks holiday… this week is one of the golden weeks in China… Labour Day… should actually take the chance to travel around…but I think it is not really a wise choice… I am sure most of the tourist attractions will be bursting with locals… I suppose I can fritter my time away this week doing nothing…
A brief run through of what I do every day…
Wake up in the morning …. Go for lunch…walk around…go for dinner…sleep…wake up in the morning…go for lunch….walk around…go for dinner…sleep… (you get the idea…) Zinc told me we shouldn’t wake up early in the morning… cos there is nothing much to do and we will feel hungry, then we will start to look for food and then start growing fat… her theory is to wake up just in time for lunch… so u will just eat lunch and not feel guilty about eating cos u have effectively skipped a meal…I thought that theory was rather warped cos I believe in not mistreating myself…so if I missed a meal…I will make up for it by eating more…得不偿失…
Think I have to spend more effort thinking of what to do with the remaining week meaningfully…
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
I am a problem kid...
Last night my good friend who is currently on SEP with me wrote something on her blog which summarises her anguish or should i say amusement over my heaps of 'problems of the day or week'... Quite funny... I am not aware that I am such a 问题儿童.... I would like to express my sincerest apologies and gratitude to my 2 good friends here who are always bearing towards me and my endless chattering and of course for providing solutions (whether or not they are feasible) to my problems....here's the extract if you all are interested....
This post is dedicated to my friend who lives in Rm205 at the 留学生宿舍.. She has been officially conferred the title of FOP. As you can see from the picture, she is plagued with problems ever since SEP started in Chengdu. I think we spend 1/3 of our time in Chengdu listening and analysing poor friend's problems... It all started with a leaky toilet ceiling... which will drip a liquid (I wouldn't want to know what is that) on you if use the 马桶.. So my poor friend had to report it to the 服务员 about it and it took them quite long to repair it. And it started to leak again after they repaired it... so poor friend had to report to 服务员 again.. and then she realised that her shower area started to leak too! And the 服务员 had to go repair it for her again.. between the day the leak was found and the day it got repaired which spanned over a period of..... about 3 weeks I think, poor friend had been expressing her concern over leaky toilet to us. So being good friends we tried to comfort her that it'll be fixed one fine day and she can always come "bless" our toilets.. Finally, poor friend's toilet got fixed and she managed to dettol it. (in case you don't know wat does "dettol it" means, it means using Dettol, a disinfectant, to disinfect the area/thing/object) And we though her problems will end there... NOT! Poor friend then started to develop rashes.. So we tried to figure out what was the cause of this new problem.. Perhaps it was caused by the cold? dry weather? blanket? bedsheet? bed buds? bed mites? UFOs? After eliminating whatever might be the reason, rashes started to subside a little and poor friend also managed to get a "Made In Singapore" 药膏 to apply on her rashes. And so we thought the rashes problem was solved.... NOT! It became a problem again, now moving to her legs.. So more brainstorming was carried out, trying to solve the problem and a new tube of 药膏 was bought to salvage the situation. Before this problem was solved.. Poor friend suddenly had this "funny feeling" on her hands! So while rubbing her hands together, she expressed her concern to us whether her hands were too dry? funny? And she briefed us on the reasons that might have caused this problem... maybe she wasn't drinking enough water? But I suggested to her, maybe she was just dettol-ing too much and Dettol might be very damaging to her skin.. and while battling "funny feeling" hands problem, she was also found it very problematic going to the toilet numerous times throughout the day. And of course, she had a long list of causes for this weak bladder problem.. maybe it was caused by too high intake of water? high intake of salt? weak bladder? something wrong with kidneys? Oh yah! and while she was battling wif "funny feeling" hands problem and weak bladder problem, she neglected her rashes problem and it didnt itch anymore.. So I think it can be deduced that most of her problems are probably psychological..... right? No matter whether is it psychological or physcial my poor friend, don't worry. We will be glad to try to solve it for you! Because... that's what friends are for right? Must remember that, no matter how not nice is that dou sha bao you bought for me, I'll finish it , because you specially da bao it back for me.. =)[p.s Poor friend's hot water flask was also leaking and 服务员 had to fix it for her but I forgot when did it happen.. too many problems and I got the timeline a bit mixed up..]
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Friday, April 06, 2007
She...
She shines, the stars hideShe dazzles, the diamonds cry
She binds, our hearts are bounded
She captures, our friendship is prisoner
She embraces us with love, an ever encompassing love
She protects us so dearly, we indulge in safe bliss
She carries herself with grace, grace that put swans to shame
She’s pretty she reigns, with beauty that drowns all pain
She is a white lily, so pure in kindness and selfless in giving
She is a red rose, a blatant and forward embodiment of love
She is a sunflower, she towers and lights up our days
She is a forget-me-not, our memories of her last forever
She is a dear friend, her sweetness lingers
She is a true friend, her loyalty perseveres
She is a real friend, her honesty advises
She is a good friend, her love touches
But she is an undecided flame,
Burning fiercely and extinguishing in haste
We regret we mourn
Yet we could only cling to the memories of that blazing flame
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Monday, April 02, 2007
Out of town...
I realised that blogging has become a once in a month occurence... Those who read keep asking why i bother to keep the blog since i dun update... dunno... just lazy to start writing... I foresee this to be a long post since it documents the monthly happenings...Ok... i am officially out of town... on student exchange to China... quite a cool place... both figuratively and literally... generally the people here are very friendly... especially the people here at the hostel... super helpful... i shall elaborate on that later... Since I don't really know my way around here the first few days... i tend to ask for directions quite frequently... most people are very eager to help... some people are so ardent that even when i told them i don't understand what they are saying… they continued giving directions in some unknown tongue…quite amusing…
Perhaps I should give a summary of some of the more interesting things or stuff that is worth highlighting… I realized as the days drag on, I will have more and more stuff to add on… so better write down while I can remember….
1. Toilet episode…
This is one that spans 3 weeks. The first day I was here I found the toilet ceiling leaking…I don’t really want to know what was the stuff that was dripping down, just hope that the pipe could get repaired soon. So I reported the leak and they assured me they would repair it the next day after they examined the ceiling… Great… this marked the start of a week’s worth of bathing at my fren’s room… so sorry to trouble her and her toilet…Thanks ming… In the next couple of weeks, I was always in for surprises…. Firstly, I came back to find part of my toilet ceiling missing… there was a big dark hole revealing the pipe above…. I assumed they were at least patching up the hole on the pipe and will eventually fix the ceiling… ming and zinc told me to be careful in case ninja turtles jump down from the ceiling when I am inside….I applaud their imagination and that was really helpful… When I thought my toilet was finally usable after putting it on probation for a couple of days…the dripping began again… how infuriating… then it became fixing, leaking, fixing, leaking… the last straw…. the whole incident was really grating on my nerves… imagine having to knock on other people’s door to borrow the toilet all the time when you have one in the room…how ironic…Finally one day they decided to replace the part of the pipe that was leaking rather than just covering it with cement… IT WORKED… But as I was indulging in the bliss of having a functional toilet in my room, I found a new leaking spot…. and the process repeats… Now at least both spots are not leaking anymore… I think I should just hope for the best and pray that the person staying in the room above me hates bathing…
2. A series of unfortunate events…
I think I am super accident prone… my bed has a permanent depression in the middle for some unknown reason… laptop charger started to rebel and stopped functioning… falling off steps…keeping an important receipt in pocket of jeans and washing it even when my friends specifically warned me about the possibility of that happening (zinc calls me a 番薯 because of that)… mistaking a 50 cent note for 5 dollars…not being able to find fullscape paper of the right size (I guess that’s trivial, haha)… ok beginning to sound whiny…guess I really forgot a lot of stuff already…shouldn’t be this short actually…haha
Maybe I should continue another day…