Fighting in the morning and freezing at nite..

I am currently juz waiting for my roof to collapse...my water heater is not working tonite and the water temperature is 20 degrees...it almost feels like ice cold water...

was considering whether to bathe tonite and after mustering enough courage...i was like wat the heck and i charged into the cold water...argh...freezing...i became from slpy to super jing shen...i was super high after the cold cold shower...shivering in my room as well...thanks to someone for the hug..at least felt the warmth mentally....erm...juz to clear up..the hug is not fr my roomie..bwhahahahhah

this morning saw 2 middle aged men fight at the bus stop...i dunnoe the reason y they fought but they sure were super angry with each other...1 of them tried to push e other onto the road where there was quite an amt of traffic..and the guy almost got knocked down...den the guy who got pushed took out his hp and tried to call the police...den the other guy picked up a loose brick on the floor and flung it at e other person...den after that it was some chasing and scolding of bad words....haiz...according to my analysis i guess it is some small thing that happened on the bus that caused this cos they started this thingy after they alighted...

my impression of cheena has reached greater depths..haha...the funny thing abt this incidend is that i am abt juz 2 or 3 metres away from the 2 guys and i din bother to step further away or attempt to stop them....i was juz numb standing there looking at them...hmm y am i not surprised that they will behave like this...is this the meaning of "immersion" haha... immersing into their behaviour? their lifestyle? if that is so...i guess the immersion has been really successful...

*hoping nothing malfunctions or falls apart tmr.....* but i always believe in murphy's law..wat may go wrong will go wrong...so i am not keeping my hopes too high...

2nd post of the day

this is my 2nd post of the day.....cos really nothing much to do....juz finished my work for PKU history lesson and i am tinking of starting to study for either 301 or 206...muz thanks mr lbj for the notes...

and thanks to my cousin for helping me transfer emoticons...dunnoe wat to blog le...

Zzzzzz

super super slpy in the office currently...struggling to keep my eyes open..so decided to take a break from programming and juz blog a little..

Guess it muz be the heavy lunch juz now..haiz.tink shld not eat so much during lunch time liao or else will keep falling aslp in e afternoon...got a 冲动 to drink coke juz now to get a doze of caffine but managed to have some self discipline...shall not drink so much coke cos my lifestyle and environment is already unhealthy enough...

Juz now during the routine post lunch crapping session, everyone seems to be in the "holiday mood" already...haha kelvin is joining in the countdown to end of sept movement...haha next mth this day..he will be flying back to SG...me will fly 1 day earlier than him..haha which means that this moment next mth I will be lying on my comfortable MATTRESS bed at home and not my WOODEN bed in my current room....tink i am wr0ng...this time next mth..i shld be on my way to ntu..hee hee....

Today coke juz received some assessment forms from ntu asking them to assess the interns at week 10...hmm...hope i get some decent appraisals...afterall, I have been providing free labour for them for the past 2 mths...没有功劳也有苦劳 lor..haiz..in this world still got free labour coke shld feel lucky liao..

1 more hr to knock off le...finally my spirits are getting lifted slightly when i see the first digit on the clock to be 4.....hmm but no feeling to go to the toilet..sigh...that's bad...

Almost reached the mid of the work week...................

My house is falling apart

Guess by now most of you have already read my post abt my "toilet bowl" experience and i must say the feedback for the post is really good...guess I gave all my readers a great laugh with that post...

Well...the 2nd toilet bowl in my house is down...sigh...haiz..now I have to flush it manual by turning on and off the main water supply...win liao...so basically we are all fearing for the worst... hoping the whole toilet does not flood...which would inevitably flood my room which is beside the toilet...hope i dun wake up one fine morning and realise I am living in a kelong...

we had a talk about our toilet during lunch time and we were discussing whether our toilet can withstand a "big" transaction..hahahahah u all imagine wat is that ba..den i said..there is only 1 way to find out....hahahah...lets see who gets a stomachache first...guess I will try to use coke's toilet as much as possible fr now on..hahaha

my house is basically falling apart after almost 2 mths of staying here...bulbs are starting to fuse.. the floor is rising...yes..it is not a typo...due to expansion of the top layer of the floor..a part of the floor has a big hump...and basically our lights in the living room is not working..even the smoke exhaust for cooking has fallen apart...and erm..my toilet sink takes like 5 mins for the water to drain away...and the shower area is flooded with shampoo and soap due to poor drainage...

hmm the house certainly looks good from the photos but the quality of the house is definitely not there...It is supposed to be brand new but I think at this rate it wont last till e end of the year.. luckily my landlord is quite friendly and everytime we have probs he will come down and help us solve..but i doubt that is goin to help cos everytime the repair only creates something worse..

lets hope my roof does not fall off tonite...haha....

km @ jing ju Theatre (2nd Floor) 

The 2nd show - nao long gong 

The first show - Ba Wang Bie Ji 

The view from 2nd floor of e theatre 

Inside the theatre 

km @ Beijing hu guang hui guan 

Km @ Opera Theatre 

京剧

Just went out and watch 京剧 at this threatre which is really 古色古香....juz like in all the movies...the first part was 霸王别姬 and the 2nd part was 闹龙宫...the actors were really power with their voice projection and though we din noe wat they were pronoucing most of e time, it was still quite enjoyable...the 2nd part really impressed me as the person acting as 孙悟空 is really zai with the 金箍棒...spinning and throwing it all ard as if it was part of his body...li hai!

After the show abit tired le after a whole day of lessons...e history lessons in the afternoon was really like an 安眠药...i tink arranging history lessons in the afternoon is a super big mistake..ahha esp for ppl who really feel slpy after lunch..hee that equals to me..lolz..e morning lesson on Chinese language was much more interesting and I am quite impressed with myself that I din slp at all...lets hope I dun slp for tmr's lesson ...haha

Received some not so good news from my family these few days and feeling really 不孝 for not being able to be at home when such things happen...was abit listless when i got the news.. guess that is the price to pay of being the first to go ard the world...

It is almost Sept already and approaching the 9th mth that I am overseas this year....tink I have seen enough of the world for now...both the beautiful and ugly side of them...tinking back on my US trip and then my return home and my trip to Beijing, it has really been a long journey this year..so much happenings..that sometimes i fail to sit down and take a breather....there is simply too much displacement this year..everytime i get in to my comfort zone..i have to be displaced.. and face an entirely new environment..honestly it is really a big mental challenge each time to adapt to a totally new environment and face everything that looks ever so foreign...

must thank all my frenz who have always been there for me throughout this year...no matter whether it is my frenz in SG or my frenz in Georgia Tech or my frenz in Beijing..thank you for the encouragement when i am down and for listening to me when i am complaining... other than thank you , it is still thank you....

n of cse muz thank a special person...thank you not only for e encouragement n chatting yest when i was feeling sian abt e family stuff but simply juz for everything..

it has not been the best of weeks this week but i guess it is coming to an end and glad that finally some good news is coming from home...*breathing a sign of relief*

life is juz sooo unpredictable .... make the most of everyday and cherish everything u have when you have it....

Blue and Suay part II

Already "dl" enough today...den one of the toilet bowl in my house cant flush..so i called the maintenance to come and fix it..den this champion comes and gives me a interview on the phone..

km: "hi the toilet bowl in my house has some prob and cant flush"

champion:"is ur toilet bowl squad one or sit one"

km:"sit one"

champion:"how much water is there in ur toilet bowl?"

km:"huh???"

champion:"Go and lift up the cover of ur toilet bowl and tell me how much water there is inside"

km (begins to get irritated):"ok"

km:"There is some water inside the toilet bowl"

champion:"how much water?? is it full??"

km(starting to get really irritated):" it is not full"

champion:"when u flush does the flushing handle gets stuck?"

km(gives up):"I dunnoe can you juz send someone down??!"

champion:"ok later ba"

km:"ok" (slams the phone)

*shall do nothing tonite except hug my pillow and fold stars............*

Blue and Suay Monday

Din slp well yest nite due to some reasons already and was hoping for a peaceful Monday... but it is juz e start of a disastrous day..

The suay 气 is coming back again .... haha... hope it does not last beyond 24 hrs...first my daily bus fly my aeroplane..din stop for me even though i flagged for it from dunnoe how far away... this made me late for work...den on e way i realised my fingers were bleeding and I din even noe where i got the cut...this really woke me up...

Den came lunch time...walked for a long distance under the hot sun to the bank to settle some stuff den the bank told me pls go to the bank opposite as only the provide this kind of service..that was after a 30 min wait...den another 30 min wait at the other bank..they told me that I could not buy foreign currency with RMB...i was like huh?? have money also cannot buy foreign currency?? den wat's the point of hanging up foreign exchange rates?? walked back to coke again under the sun without accomplishing anything and only left 5 min for lunch..sigh.. juz had a few pathetic vege for lunch..tink muz b my suay mouth again when i was saying i was going on a diet the day b4....

Came back to do work and realised my program had lots of probs..watever...

Muz thank Weisheng and Aaron for the help provided from Singapore today...owe u guys 1...but pls dun ask for a 100+ bucks treat hor..coke dun pay me anything at all!!

ya speaking of that...coke issued my pay today...wow super welfare rite...so nice of them to care for their workers...here's the joke of the day: my pay for the mth shall b.........*drum roll* 2 cartons of the most popular drink in the whole COKE!!!! as if I am in a shortage of coke.. and I still have to take a cab to bring the 2 cartons of coke back..this is called 赔了夫人又折兵 ....

2 more hrs b4 end of work...i really wonder what else is installed for me today... but guess i am already 麻木 le ... *currently feeling like pouring coke onto my computer and crash it...hee hee*

Summer Palace & "Blind Date"

Quite a packed weekend with 2nd week of lessons starting at PKU..the lessons are really getting really hard...with more and more content coming...i am starting to owe a few writeups...tink I shld start doin them this week...

All the GIP students went on a "blind date" session on Friday..hahaha...each of us were matched up to a PKU student (boy boy to ger ger) where we sat and had dinner tog...reminds me of the speed dating session article i read abt in the papers...haha...so typical...even the tables had name tags so we could not choose where to sit...win liao...

Dinner was super CMI...cold vege cold rice, even worse my lunch at coke usually...but overall quite a good session as we got to noe more of the PKU students and their lifestyle...

Some of them even went on to a ktv session after that...haha best....

Sat was the visit to Summer Palace organised by PKU once again..they have really nice to us so far with warm reception and free trips to the places of interest...

The Summer palace is the place where emperors take a break and enjoy themselves...it mainly consists of a lake and different gardens...the lake area covers 3/4 of the total land area of the whole Summer Palace...it is really veri 诗情画意 place...with 垂柳 all over the place which really compliments the lake well...using ur eyes to view the lake area is really juz like viewing a painting..absolutely photo perfect...as u can see from my pics...

The palace was burnt down twice in its history but 慈禧太后 rebuilt it so that she could fulfill her own enjoyment..and guess wat ...she used the budget for the whole China navy to rebuild the palace...she is really a veri extravagant person..according to our tour guide..she has thousands of servants following her whenever she goes out...and has nearly 2000 pieces of clothes in her luggage whenever she travels out of town...hmm if it is today..she confirm go broke paying over weight luggage fees...no wonder my history teacher at PKU says she is a bad ruler...

The palace is also the place to come during summer as it is supposed to be cooler...the main attraction of the palace is the 长廊 which measures ard 700+ metres if i nv remember wrongly.. it is built for the emperor's mummy so that when it rains she also can enjoy the sights and views of the Summer Palace...the pillars and top of the 长廊 has beautiful paintings of the sights the palace as well as 名著 such as Romance of the 3 kingdoms, Monkey God and 红楼梦...

Ok time to sign off now..bluey monday coming again...but it is goin to b September soon..yay!

Autumn is here...the weather is getting cooler le..this is good news cos lately I have been spending lots of time in the kitchen...tink ard 8 hrs for the weekend...so it better dun get so hot.. hee

km @ the jade boat 

Km @ Chang Lang...the longest alley in Yi He Yuan 

km @ the place where Qian Long spends his time writing poetry in Yi He Yuan - yi yun gong 

Artistic shot of the lake 

The building which signifies great prospects for all officials 

km @ the pavilion which first experiences the taste of spring... 

Km @ Yi He Yuan Lake 

Km n Kelvin @ Yi He Yuan Lake 

Tower in the far end of Yi He Yuan 

Lotus leaves....if u tink it looks good on the pic..wait till you see it for urself... 

Shi qing hua yi picture of the lake 

Nice lake scenery with lotus leaves 

Kelvin and Kai Min @ Yi He Yuan...wearing qing lu zhuang..haha 

ren shou men 

yi he yuan 

Km @ Summer Palace 

Group PHoto with PKU students 

The kitchen, my new fav hideout...

Suddenly for the past 2 nites...i am camping in the kitchen..with ppl looking at me as if I am an animal in the zoo...btw i was not cooking...haha

Sorry to my apartment mates for leaving the chair in the kitchen...haha

Ctrl C and Ctrl V lifestyle

Just in case some of you do not understand the meaning of Ctrl C and Ctrl V....it simply means copy and paste...haha a veri fitting way to desctibe my lifestyle nowadays..DVDs have already become my best frenz...lolz...

I am struggling to find something to blog abt in the past few days other than the no pay issue.. even complaining abt the no pay issue is a once in a mth affair...haha this post is goin to be very bo liao..cos I still dunnoe what to write...a lack of content to write about is something that I seldom experience...but well there is a first in everything...

Thurs le...1.5 hrs to start of weekend...lets hope lessons tmr wil be interesting...

Anyway...thanks for keeping me company yest when I was really bored.. =)

Cheap Labour or should I say free labour??

It is PAY DAY at coke today!!! my supervisor happily came into the office and distributed the eagerly awaited paychecks...I was hoping I would get 1 too..even if it was a pathetic 800RMB... perhaps I was hoping too much..As the last paycheck was handed out, there was no sign of any paycheck for the interns...sigh..free labour for coke for the past 1.5 mths..

Interns had a 2 mth NO-PAY probation at coke...haha wat rubbish...when did interns had a probation period..wat's more, even probation periods have pay....Other than the free lunch coke is providing me with..there is no welfare...Long working hours, ulu factory, no pay, no welfare...Does not give me any motivation to produce any good work for them..if not for my IA grade at stack, I would have given up long ago...

Cl, Kelvin and me complained at our usual resting spot this afternoon abt the poor welfare...As much as we could complain, work stil had to go on...afterall we had to depend on coke for our assessment and appraisal...

It was a rainy and gloomy day today and somehow it reflected all our mood and the gloomy lifestyle here... Mid of my work week already...halfway thru week 6...a 4-day work week definitely seems much faster..I suddenly smell home...juz a small sniff of the fresh air back home..this smell of home suddenly keeps my spirits higher...

You are always welcome!

Once again I proved that nothing goes according to plan...haha...but watever..who cares..as long as the final result is good...hee

To you-know-who for you-know-what: Glad you liked the you-know-what and once again... you are always welcome! =) Hope you will always have a feeling of blissfulness in you...

haha sometimes it is juz amazing what a small surprise can do...but once again..i tink i am spoiling ppl...but who cares..lolz..

Some personal thoughts:

Happiness is not something that can be created anytime....if you have the ability to create it...do it....Gifts do not last....but the thought of the gift does...and lastly..no reasons are needed for this kind of thoughts....

Currently feeling blissful too... =)

Pooh bear's legs and a dozen of pink roses... =)