Book out week

Finally, everything has been settled and I am good to fly home tmr nite....maybe except for packing my luggage...haven packed at all..maybe shall spend some time 2nite packing...

I am more than halfway thru my IA and I sort of completed my first project..at least the my program can now work..and things can be seen on the PDA..which was a great relief for me and my partner..

Really went thru quite alot of stuff to return back home this week but I have no doubts that it is all worth the trouble...even a simple bb will be worth it..hee...and as they always say..the more bitter the process, the sweeter the victory... this has been such a year for me...met with alot of tough obstacles this year..but glad in the end all turned out well...

Though only back for a week..I shall not tink so much abt coming back to Beijing and juz conc on having a good time back home...anywae it will be the last leg of my journey when i come back.. shall juz bear with it and finish what i set out to do...I am sure December will be my favourite mth of this year...

29 more hours to the airport... I hear my bed back home calling out to me....haha...ok i am goin nuts.. but pls take into consideration I am a person who has not slpt on a mattress bed for almost 3 mths...i am goin to kiss my bed when i get home.. =)

stupidity...

sometimes we let our emotions run wild without realising it...and after we realise it..it has already done it's damage...

i am just 1 such stupid person......

1 word...stupidity...

Murphy's Law

Decided to delete away the previous post cos it looks ugly on my blog..and it irritates me..

Quote of the day:: Murphy's Law: Whatever may go wrong will go wrong..haha

Guess planning never works for me...lolz....but at least I am used to it already...haha... as they sae 习惯成自然.....

Next week is my book out week

It's getting really cold lately in Beijing..a sudden drop in temperature as we march into Autumn.. another change of seasons...looking forward to winter in Dec!

Nothing really to blog abt this week except that next week is my book out week from Beijing..finally..after counting down for so long..and I really appreciate everything abt last week...

looking forward to Singapore! 10 days to go...

每逢佳节倍思亲

Today marks e end of week 10 of IA...had my assessment and it went quite ok..hope can get a good grade for my IA...today was exceptionally stressful as i had to go to an auction house and check some of the stuff for my parents...had to hand really delicate and expensive stuff under so many watchful eyes...and comment on it...haha glad i din break anything..

After that went for a business dinner again...6 ppl 11 dishes...eat til i was really bloated..and once again had to drink along with them...feel like vomitting after that...tink i shall be a vegetarian for tmr and clear my stomach..which i am sure is working OT tonite to digest the stuff..but dining with these ppl is really quite enriching..really made me noe china better...guess when ppl get old they will kan kai also...they kept talking abt life is short and dun keep trying to gain fame and earn money thruout ur life and entangle urself in the struggle for power...why not live life more simply and happily...ya I tink they r rite...normally by the time ppl kan kai, they r already v old le..haha so maybe we shld kan kai more when we r young...easier said than done...

Also celebrated mid-autumn festival with them...they have such high regards for this festival and everyone is saying that during this time..everyone should be reunited with their family... hmm well guess i dun have this luxury this year...din even had the chance to spend CNY in SG this year..suddenly miss home again when they r talking abt maf...

i guess this muz be the feeling of 每逢佳节倍思亲...the result of being away from home for so long....

祝新加坡中秋节快乐 , 大家人圆月圆 , 一家团聚....

Touched by a parcel...

I dun really know how to blog this cos alot of the things that happened can only be explained by feelings and telepathy...sorry if i am making u confused..but i noe at least 1 person reading my blog will understand..hee

i am still wondering wat made me suddenly go to the letter box yest nite after dinner...juz a feeling..cos the letter box is v far away and yest nite was especially cold..but i still made the long walk there...when i opened the letter box...i found a piece of paper that says there is an international mail for my apartment...den after some sms and msn, hee realised the mail is for me...already started to be v happy even b4 i got my mail...

specially took 1 hr off from my supervisor to go to the post office which was ard 25 min walk fr my office..after searching the whole post office for the right place to collect my mail..finally gt it! felt so blissful the moment i opened it..haha shall not mention the contents of the parcel..juz wan to sae it is really a vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv nice feeling to have ur loved one send something from home to you when you are overseas...a feeling that cannot be described by words...

i was smiling on the way back to e office..haha..din get e chance to really see the contents of the parcel till i got home after dinner...the more i look at the gifts...the more touched i am... simply dunnoe wat to say... i really feel very spoilt today...

sometimes i wonder whether there is a wireless connection between beijing and singapore.. cos the rate that things are coinciding is really stunning...so stunning that now i have to change plans for december...haha...i tink today my blog is veri confusing for most ppl..i also dunnoe wat i am blogging...

juz wan to sae a big 谢谢你 to the person who sent the present...

currently in a very good mood...looking forward to 30th september 520pm....

终于等到这一天

A change of fortunes today from the poor day yest...Maybe someone in the top management in coke read my blog and decided to do something today..

Surprisingly, 2day is my first pay day...the HR dept suddenly called us to collect our pay and we were all stunned...we made our way to the HR dept and they distributed our pay in cash.. haha abit funny cos we were like those 打散工 ppl who stand there and collect pay from their 工头...

our paycheck for the 2 mths we have been in coke is....................RMB 1371..........which is.........................SGD288.6315789.............ya i noe alot of you are goin to sae it is pathetic..but well..it is better than nothing...it sure is better than 48 cans of coke and 1 box of mooncakes...at least now i have $ to pay for my electricity, water, internet, phone bills....

shall learn the way mark blogged abt his paycheck last time: pls do not ask me for a treat unless ur name starts with an X and ends with a G....lolz....

The war to work...

juz arrived at work and i am feeling pretty tired already...the 20 min bus ride to work everyday is making me really sianz even b4 i start work...I thought by now i shld be used to being man handled on the bus with all the pushing, shouting etc but i guess I was wrong...this kind of sianness is cumulative...making me really hate the route to work everyday...and wat is worse is i go to work everyday cos i am the only 1 that starts work at 8am..the rest of my apartment mates start at 830am..my best companion is my mp3 player which was my bday gift from Westlife last year..really the most practical gift i ever received for my bday..and it reminds me of the fun and crazy times we had ever since JC...

sorry for the ranting on a monday morning but juz had to put this down somewhere...and there is no one online at all at this ghostly hour of the morning...currently feels as if i juz finished fighting a war on a refugee bus...ya and as usual, something has to break down... the lights in my office are spoilt, i am blogging with a flashing light above me now..what's new?

pretty irritated now and the day has not even started...ya and my colleagues decided to turn off the light cos the flashing is pretty irritating...i guess my colleague is rite..she is also facing the same problems...she says that actually these things are not v big things..but it is the addition and accumulation of these things that make us all feel very 烦.

Song of the day: 最近比较烦 by 周华健，品冠，李宗盛

Professional Repair Man

It's sunday and got a fantastic slp till 1pm..haha feels so great to be able to slp buffet style..hee..

As usual things in my house breaks down..the internet connection has been having some prob for the whole week and we thought it was becos we din pay the bills on time..but apparently even when we paid the bill, the connection was still not up...as usual..i was called into action for internet connection repair..tried a few times also cannot..but in the end after trial and error and some "inspiration" fr SG...haha finally it is up...

finally some decent internet speed after tapping into other's wireless network for the past few days...dun need to hang up on some1 liao..haha although it was not on purpose..

guess one of the most beneficial things i gained from this china trip is the art of repair and troubleshooting..almost everything is having problems...from internet to water to electricity to everything in my bathroom etc...like my supervisor says at work..the art of troubleshooting cannot be gained through books...it is thru experience..tink i am already an expert at setting up wireless networks..haha

lets hope nothing breaks down for this coming week...lolz...

it is week 10...almost the midway point of my IA...and the first assessment will be this coming week...hope i get some appraisal worth of an Apple tree..it is been quite some time since i plucked some Apples...

slpy slpy day..

haha today is a super slpy day at lessons...basically slpt thru the 1st half of the day...den had to rush thru lunch cos the teacher ended almost 1 hr late...den could not slp during the history lesson cos the lect was in front of me...

i tink i have veri powerful toes..haha..i broke a metal part of my toilet flushing system juz by gently tapping it with my toe...the metal part simply broke off..stunner...haiz..next time have to turn on the flushing tingy with my hands liao..sianz..i wonder is my toe that strong or is the metal that fragile...

the mosquitoes in my house are getting really rampant...i tink today i killed 5 of them..sorry i had to kill them but bo bian la..else i have to sacrifice so much blood...

haha we were discussing abt spore food on the way back home today from PKU and it really made all of us hungry...we exchanged pointers on where is the best food in SG..haha..from prata to crabs to jap food to teochew porridge to dessert to buffets to chinese to char kway teow to carrot cake etc....the list juz goes on...i am starting to tink of wat to eat when i get back to sg for a week..lolz...home in less than 3 weeks...yay!!

overall a super slpy day...haha when i looked into the mirror..i see a big panda..lolz..lost some slp yest worrying abt some non-existent stuff...haha..but it was ok...juz glad that everything was ok...even though slp is veri impt to me..but somethings are much more impt than slp..hee...looking forward to sunday when i can finally hibernate...

Week 9

shall give a summary of a relatively peaceful week...nothing too happening this week...juz the usual working at coke blah blah blah...guess i dun need to blog anymore abt coke liao..

haha the next thing that broke down this week is my internet service...tink the reason is that we did not pay the bills...not that we purposely wanted to do it..but paying e bill is so troublesome task....u have to quote the person who subscribed to the service, tell them your user name and then pay at the 邮政局 ... luckily i tapped into other ppl's wireless network...hee...the power of wireless technology...

today my colleague's client brought her some mooncakes and she shared it out amongst the IT department...haha i got to eat this beef mooncake which was sweet and spicy..hmm the taste was abit funny for mooncakes but once u got used to it it was pretty good..haha...

quite an eventful day at office with a company wide hygiene check by the General Managers.. haha...it was super funny...some1 called my sup and told him the GM was coming..den he activated the whole office for area cleaning..haha..like world war III...everyone trying to hide rubbish and clean the server room etc...there were coke bottles everywhr and documents littered the whole office...I was observing the whole scene and it was super comical...I nv seen them all so gan jiong b4...lolz...den in the end..the GM din check our office..haha anti-climax..den juz nice time to knock off le...

since it was thurs..so decided to go out for dinner..we had 刷羊肉 for dinner...and then egg tarts at KFC for dessert and then dumpling soup and 小龙包...crazy day of eating..haha sounds abit like 十字路口....finally came home...

tmr is Fri le..time for lessons at PKU again..hope i dun doze off at my lullaby history lessons.. hee...

to someone: i am sure some "rewards" will keep me awake.. =)

In Memory of New Orleans

Some of you may wonder why am i posting photos of my Mardi Gras trip again...it is simply because I tink there wont be any Mardi Gras in the near future in New Orleans anymore...thanks to a Ms Katrina...a powerful hurricane that swept through Louisiana State.. tearing up the whole city of New Orleans..a place I had juz been to in Feb this year...and a place where I had great fun and memories...it was the place I had my first road trip in the US....

Been reading the reports on New Orleans these few days on channelnewsasia and basically in short the whole city is under water...and it will take years to get the city back on its feet... it is basically a disaster zone there now with the US media calling it the worst natural disaster in US history...cant believe it is the happening and fun place I have been to juz 6 mths ago...looking at the photos on the internet and the photos i have taken in Feb...I am finding it hard to accept it is the same place....

New Orleans is knowned world-wide for its Mardi Gras Festival where they party like no body's business throughout the few weeks right until Fat Tuesday when the Festival will end on a high...Guess the festival will not be there for quite a while...the once bustling city has become a ghost town..and they are pulling bodies out of the I 10 highway...which is the road that leads into New Orleans city...I was once driving on that highway....and it is the highway of death now...haiz..life is juz so unpredictable...

This has made me cherish every piece of souvenir that I got from New Orleans and Mardi Gras...the beads, the t shirts, keychains, mugs , soft toys etc....I also once drove along the Gulf of Mexico where the hurricane landed on the US...and even took some nice photos there...makes me wonder if I would still be on this world if I was there when the hurricane landed...

Well that's life...this post is dedicated to the city of New Orleans, the city of Jazz and Mardi Gras...hope the city recovers soon...and that you guys enjoy some of the photos of the once beautiful city of New Orleans that I have posted....

My dinner Group at Gulf of Mexico 

My dinner group @ Gulf of Mexico 

I10 Highway on 2nd February 2005 

Parade on the streets of New Orleans for Mardi Gras 

My great gang of buddies at New Orleans...thanks for the great memories there..i really had fun 

French Quarters...had alot of great memories there 

The renowned French Quarters...now flooded with water 

The once beautiful and bustling city of New Orleans 

I10 Highway 

The I10 highway leading into New Orleans City 

Another balancing act 

Spinning plates...the classical za ji act 

Balancing Act...Tink the guy in the bottom quite ke lian...muz tahan everyone's weight 

Opening of performance 

Shi Jie Za Ji @ Chao Yang Theatre... 

Long day

Shall juz briefly post abt today cos i am afraid i will forget tmr...

Had dinner with prof lim mong king who is the VP of NTU tonite near jian guo men...it is the 2nd time that i met him for a GIP meeting, the last time being at Georgia Tech...it is abit funny that both meetings were on diff continents, 1 East 1 West and the irony is that I had nv met him in NTU b4...

He is the founder of GIP and that's why he meet GIP students to get feedback from us...I must sae he is one of the better professors with a great attitude...with the courage to make big changes and take a risk sometimes...he also has the great spirit of admiting that ntu admin has alot of room for improvement and that he will do his best to correct the mistakes... I tink that is the correct attitude of facing the students...only this way will the students have confidence in the school...actually whether changes are made after that is secondary...wat's more impt is that psychologically, students noe that the school is willing to change for the better and help them as well....there are bound to be problems anywhere but the most impt thing having the right attitude to solve them....it has been quite some time since i complimented ntu..haha..

The most precious thing i learnt is probably his philosophy of life....he stressed the importance of being different from others and not to follow the main stream blindly .... and also that dun let the small unhappiness of life ruin the beauty of life as a whole... he noes that we face difficulties when we come for exchanges but that is not impt..wat is impt is that we enjoyed the experience and learnt things that we cant learn from books...i totally agree...

Another point he mentioned was that wat is impt in life is the intangible stuff...not the tangible ones... material wants are secondary and that we shld make the most of our lives to really enjoy wat we like..sometimes we lack the courage juz to pursue wat we really wan.... wat's the point of earning tonnes of money...afterall, we cant use them in heaven after we kick the bucket..haha.. dun tink they accept sing dollars up there....perhaps master or visa...haha ok i am starting to crap... ok the impt pt is life is short..enjoy when you have the chance....and cherish the intangible stuff like family, frenz, loved ones, doin wat u like doin etc...

nice to hear ppl share such experiences once in a while...it really reminds us what is really impt in life....not a bad end to a week...tmr shall nua...lazy to post photos of za ji tonite..shall do so tmr..stay tuned tmr...