Long time since updated.................

Life's in singapore so far? Yah, i think after so long, it is ok already. Not forgetting it is my homeland after all. Ok, the last time stop at 8 feb 2007. 9 feb 2007, so tired but yet still have to return to school for class C class photo to be taken. Anyway, it is good as i saw most of my friends and classmates. I was quite happy and still went out with 3 of my friends to Chinatown and spent the entire evening with them after the photo taking in school that day. Though tired but that was a well spent day with friends talking and laughing.

8 Feb 2007----Flying back from Beijing

What a morning it is! The morning started with us waking up at abt 7am. I mean the guys, we slack abt till 8.30am before going up to the girls' room to discuss today's plan. Anyway, the girls ask the guys to go to Dr zhao's office to collect something from him. So i called Dr zhao before going and he insisted that he wanted 1 person to go over only. But Zhen wei followed me as the girls went to xiang shan to buy thank cards for the rest of us. So we move off separately, when the guys reach Dr zhao's office, i ask Zhen wei to stay downstairs as i went into his office alone. To my surprise, Dr zhao handed a pair of new year deco and say it is for Dr derek yeo and wanted us to pass it to him on his behalf.I felt it is a very cheap thing and using a normal transparent plastic bag to store the new year deco,is not the way to give a present all though it is cheap, at least you packaged it! Anyway, showed Zhen wei the present also. He was also quite surprise that the 2 of us think that Dr zhao is a stingy person. Later along the way, me and Zhen wei were talking abt the present and laughing abt it. Actually more like complaining! Anyway, we then called the girls and went to meet them at xiangshan for breakfast. So we met the girls and later went to supermarket as some of them needed to buy something. After that, we went looking around for places to eat our breakfast, but found out that all our favourite places to eat are closed or food not ready. Anyway, we then decided to go back to behind our hostel to eat our breakfast, on our way, we prayed that it is open for business, our prayers worked, it seems like it just open for business and we are their first customers of the day. That is like already 10am. So we had our dinner with shao wen, kelly and Zhen wei eating their last bowl of chicken sliced noodles and me eating fried rice. Feng xian never eat as she didn't have appetite. It seems like the last time in Beijing we came out so early for breakfast , our favourite shops just didn't want to open for us and suddenly the streets are like so deserted with very little people. Anyway, it is just a sad ending huh! Anyway, we then went back to the hostel to write our thank you cards for our teachers and taking photos of the cards. We saw the time,it is like 11.15am and Zhen wei and i rush to our different labs to give the cards. But my professor offered me to eat lunch with her and one of my teachers in my department. So i couldn't reject her good will, and had my last lunch in Beijing with them. After this lunch, i rushed back to the hostel as we were supposed to be going off at abt 12.30pm. I run all the way back to the hostel to pack and move my lugguage to the vechicle provided by Dr zhao. In the end, we set off without Dr zhao as he said he got a meeting which he needed to attend. In the vehicle, i suddenly remember i forgot to take my toothbrush, towel, face towel. Anyway, let it go. Also cannot go back already what!
Ok, when we reach the airport , it is abt 1.30pm already, we were left alone with nobody to guide us. Eventually, we found the way through . We passed through 2 checkpoints before reaching the waiting area at abt 2.15pm. A lot of forms to be completed, first is health and lastly the form abt why and where you going back. Anyway, we rested at the waiting area till abt 2.55pm and ask whether we can board and the staff told us to wait till 3pm. But just when Zhen wei finished asking abt 1 min, they open the gate and everyone rushed to board the bus ,taking
us to the plane. We were like so pissed. Anyway, we boarded the bus and the bus took us to the plane and we were sitted at abt 3.20pm. So we waited for the plane to move, but till 3.30pm the plane didn't move and 3.30pm, a new batch of passengers just arrive and they started putting their things only so the flight was delayed till 3.45pm before the plane started moving. Again we got delayed and must queue for flying so we started flying only 4.10pm. So we flew back singapore, but on the flight i was so damn bored with nothing to do. We reach singapore at abt 10.20pm but pack until also 10.30pm before leaving the plane and checking out already 11pm. The girls also do some shopping for wines and beer. But kelly also bought perfumes. After they are done, we went out to collect our lugguage and went to meet our families waiting for us, it is already 11.30pm. Anyway,ms lee told us we need to go back school the next day for class photos, we were like sian lol.So i was quite happy when i was at the airport when i reach singapore because wee kiong, hui ping , Zhao ming and ah beng also came to see me. After we saw Dr yeo, we gave the present Dr zhao gave him. I think he didn't felt happy upon receving it. Anyway,Dr yeo didn't talk to us much, so the talk with ms lee, we were dismissed.After that, we set off home. I reach home abt 12midnight. Unpacked a bit, but my parents did a lot for me and i went to bathe at abt 12.20am until abt 1am. After that went to eat supper with my mother and brother outside, ate meepok fishball dry, so shiok lol, so long never eat already. So that's the last activity of the nite, after that, we slept....... That's almost a whole day outside,right? So tired huh!!! Anyway, it is over!!!

7 feb 2007--------Last minute shopping BUT regrets...............

7 Feb 2007, last full day in Beijing. Kelly need to go office as instructed by her teacher to return the card so she woke up early and went to her lab to do the return card procedures. After that, me and zhen wei also went to our indiviual labs to do our own things. Like for me i upload the photos from my lab office's com and also sent e-mails. Zhen wei finished eariler so went back hostel first and wait for the other girls. After i did my things, i called kelly's office and see if she's ready. She said she leaving soon and ask me to meet her at another building where she did the return card procedures. So i went to meet her and waited for 20mins before she appeared with your teacher, then i waited again for her to do her things at the building before we headed back to the hostel. On our way, we saw feng xian and shao wen bringing the heater we lend back to shao wen's lab to return.So me and kelly followed them back to the labs where we separated so i went back to the hostel first to wait for them. After a while, shao wen came to the guys' room to call us to go out. So the 5 of us went for our last minute shopping for this last full day in beijing. We did our last minute shopping in xiu shui street and wangfujing. But feng xian left early as her department had a farewell dinner for her. So the 4 of us continue shopping till abt 7pm and reach our hostel at abt 8.30pm. Then we did our last minute packing till abt 12am before feng xian came knocking on the guys room to do editing of an article we suppose to hand to Dr zhao to be published in their newsletter. The guys actually were busy packing that time, so feng xian was alone thinking abt the editing. At abt 12.30am, i finished packing and join feng xian for the editing while zhen wei was still packing until abt 12.45am and also join us in the editing. We slowly edit till abt 1am before kelly came knocking on our door and also hurry us to do editing and also join us too and we found out kelly sneak out while shao wen is sleeping in the room. So the 4 of us did editing until abt 3am before the girls went back to their room and the guys sleep. While kelly did the rewriting of the whole article in the girls room till abt 4am before the girls sleep. This is what i found out on 8 feb2007 morning. One thing i regret is actually i wanted to send one of my seniors off at the train station but i do not know how to get there and he told me not to go but on the way back, i found the place in the same bus back hostel just that in opposite directions. Aiyah!!!!! So regrets again lol. So sad ah! Anyway, last day is like that passed one lol.

6 feb 2007-----Regrets.................

7 feb was my off day in Beijing. Ok before that,i actually went out alone on 6 feb in the afternoon as the girls went to zoo area to shop for clothes as i went to xi dan another area to look for clothes as well. First time, went out alone in Beijing, felt lonely at the start but try not to think abt it too much. Left the hostel at abt 1pm after eating lunch.Anyway, was cheated RMB 10 by facial company said to be doing free testing for my face. Nothing much to say, just to say i am stupid and simple-minded. Anyway, after wasting RMB 10, i went to buy what my objective states in the first place. Finished shopping abt 4.30pm before travelling by bus to meet the girls near zoo area, meet them abt 6pm. Then took bus back to hostel together and put our things we bought before going back as Zhen wei's professor was treating us to dinner. Actually,this is the main reason why ZW did not go out with us to do last minute shopping. So ZW's professor took us to a 5-star restaurant for Beijing roasted duck and we had our dinner there, we felt great and thank his professor for that wonderful dinner. After dinner, he sent us to visit qinghua university which is second in China. So we actually visited university to them is a place of interest. Anyway, the university itself is bigger than singapore's university lol and it is self-efficient like a neighbourhood with banks, petrol stations, swimming pools, stadium and etc. That's the last place we visited in China. After that, actually i suppose to meet my seniors in the office as they are leaving on 7feb 2007 but when i return from that dinner abt 10.05pm. i found that the office is locked with nobody there. Sad ah!!!! Never got a chance to chat with them for the last time.

Last 2 days of working: Yesterday and today

Abt yesterday, it seems like i slack the whole day, just chatting with my department people here and updating the blog. Nothing much really happen yesterday, but the feeling is different as i will be leaving soon and back to singapore. I kinda of cannot bare with the people here. It seems like a kinda of sad feeling that flies pass me whenever i came back to this lab office to spend this last few days here and leaving this place where i stayed for 2 months. Anyway, the few days always thinking when will i be back again to visit them(teacher and seniors). Actually nobody really knows the answer. Yesterday was treated to a farewell lunch by Dr zhao and some teachers from the admin side and of course student councillors. Anyway, felt weird eating with them as these people are not really the people we get together with. We had only 1 meal before and this is the second one only. Dinner ate together as a group yesterday, but today i guess will not be as zhen wei having dinner with his department people, rest of us maybe going out for last minute shopping again in the afternoon as we have nothing to do.
Ok enough of the updates till now!! Now for weather reports here in Beijing, just found out that tomo the weather is snow with rain, can you imagine snow with rain the feeling, just wondering how it feels tomo when i wake up and walking on the streets as tomo is a off day for us to do final packing and shopping! Thursday is the day, abt my flight will it change due to weather?

Long and last weekend here in Beijing!

This weekend started early with friday as the first day. Friday, we wake up very early at abt 5am. We left hostel at abt 5.40am to take bus to the train station to transfer to a train there to Badaling Great wall of China. But we reach the place abt 8am and saw a lot of people quening up for the train and decided to change to take a bus to great wall instead. So we went back to the bus interchange to look for a suitable bus to take us to Bus 919 which is to Great wall of china. And this took us quite a while to figure out and in the end we check the map and walk out to find bus 618 to transfer to bus 919. And when we reach Great wall which is a long trip for bus 919, we reach the place at abt 11.30am. Can you imagine almost 6hours to reach Great wall, we took a lot of time, mostly due to poor planning! Anyway, we climb the great wall to the highest peak which is 888.8m above sea level, ok the view is great. On our way down, kelly lost one glove and we help to look by going up and down again. In the end not finding the lost glove, my guess it has flown off. Anyway, we were so tired that day. We came down and out of the great wall at abt 3pm. Walk around the souveirs shop there, and i bought a few there. Took the bus back at abt 3.30pm and reach city area abt 5.30pm before heading to look for hotel for us to stay. That's actually the plan for that day. Look around at hotels near 919 bus interchange but couldn't find a hotel nearby so took bus 27 to Xizhimen and look for hotel again. Couldn't find a hotel within our budget, so sadly went back home and had our dinner at xiangshan, where again the girls went to have dian xin for dinner and the guys went to eat a proper meal. The guys reach home later as the girls finish their meal first in another shop different from the guys. When the guys reach home, only kelly was awake as the other girls sleep earlier. So the guys went back to their room to slack lol and Zhen wei say he want to go lab fill our flask so he went back and i was left alone in the room without entertainment as i left my handphone charger in the girls' room and the china plug also so cannot watch tv or listen to music as my handphone is in low batt. So i lay on my bed in the hostel and don't know why i slept so early that day, maybe i am just plain bored ba! Ok, that's friday, great wall day!!
Coming to saturday now, the girls say they want to sleep longer on friday nite before the guys came down so we went up to the girls room at abt 9.40am. And while we prepare to set off, it is decided that we have breakfast first while kelly says she go her lab to check abt the hotels. So the 5 of us set off, and the 4 of us went to have late breakfast and after that went back to find kelly in her lab. So we search for the hotels using the map while we were there and didn't find the ones kelly found in the internet. So we look again on the internet, so wasted quite a lot of time and left kelly's lab at abt 1pm. So in the end, we took 2 buses to Wangfujing to look for the hotels there. We reach the place at abt 2.30pm before searching around the place for a decent hotel. Found a hotel nearby and cheap, guys one room----260, girls one room---------388, stay for a nite. The feeling is great lol, once we went in the rooms, the girls say they are bathing immediately so the guys also bathe and we went out to do last min shopping and to have our dinner and in the end,we had our dinner from street food. We return to the hotel at abt 11pm and we return to our rooms where i watch soccer till abt 1am. Zhen wei slept in the middle of it, anyway i bathe during halftime and continue to watch the match. I slept at abt 1.30am that night.
At lastly it is sunday, the last day of this long and last weekend. I woke up at abt 7am, don't know why, maybe haven adapt yet! Actually we decided to try the hotel's breakfast and kelly told the guys to go check the breakfast there at basement 1 and after we check we call the girls room using phone to tell them the breakfast is not so good and they wouldn't like it so they decided to continue sleeping after that. Anyway after that, i decided to have breakfast in macdonald's. The time is already 9.20am .So the guys left the hotel at abt 9.40am to eat breakfast and after that zhen wei say he wanted to buy cds. So in the end, Zhen wei and i return to the hotel at abt 11am, we bathe again before the girls and us check out the hotel at abt 12.30pm. After checking out of the hotel, we continued doing our last minute shopping going to the area nearby and xi dan before going back and reach our hostel back again at abt 7pm. After that, Zhen wei and i waited for dinner as the girls cook spagetti. After that , we all sat down on watch harry potter while having dinner till abt 10pm. Before we head on to sleeping as this long weekend is very tiring.
Ok, long weekend huh, so tiring but now don't know will my lugguage be overweight with so many souveirs to bring back. Aiyah, anyway let's take a day at a time ba.

OK, long weekend ahead of me!!

Tomo going to Badaling Great wall of china finally, the last place of interest we going to before leaving beijing on 8 feb 2007. Really looking forward to this i guess, after all it is the one of the 7 wonders of the world. Today, had lunch together but it seems that the mood is a bit weird, seems like everyone is a bit sian. I also don't know why! Anyway, tomo have to wake up very early to catch the train to badaling which leaves at abt 8.15am, as we need to take a bus to transfer to the train. Tonite must pack as maybe we will be staying at a hotel near badaling for a night. If staying then, we can bathe there and enjoy the hotel facilities if we find one good hotel i guess.Anyway, this is a long and last weekend for me and the rest of my group so i must enjoy till the fullest. See you guys on monday for my updates on my blog.......Bye!!!!

Normal Day for yesterday But...... And things for now!!

Normal day, yesterday as everyone went for both lunch and dinner together as a group. We sort of enjoy ourselves for the whole day i guess. Anyway, we went to kelly's lab in the afternoon to actually research on the hotels in Great wall, Badaling but i guess we couldn't stay for long as that's a department meeting at the place we are using the computer. Anyway, we then went back to the lab to continue our work. At night we met for dinner after work at abt 6.30pm with feng xian's junior following us to eat again. This time, we order dishes with rice for dinner and each of us ate abt 8.50RMB to 9.50RMB. Met my senior during dinner, saw him eating alone, cause we finishing dinner soon so never invite him over to join us. Anyway, after dinner, the guys went back to hostel to bathe while the girls went to kelly's lab to research on hotels again. The guys then went to met the girls at kelly's lab and look at what they found out. We leave together at abt 9.30pm and Zhen wei return to his lab to do weekly journal again, slept there in the lab office as usual and i did my weekly journal in the girls' room and finish week 8's journal at abt 12.30am before going back to sleep while the girls still carry on watching dvds drama. Wonder what time they sleep?
Anyway, did grinding of samples for my senior again the whole morning, got breaks in between so typing the blog slowly. This morning,Zhen wei bought breakfast for the whole group lol, suddenly become so good, actually i was a bit surprise. Anyway, he bought you tiao and soya bean for all of us. I also rec'd mgs from shao wen in the morning to ask whether the breakfast was bought by me. i think the girls also felt very surprise of what Zhen wei had done today. I actually thought of doing that but he is faster than me lol. Anyway, something i think the girls will appreciate that Zhen wei had done. Let's see how the girls will react during lunch i guess. Yah talking abt lunch, lunch is coming!!!!! Haha actually already feeling hungry.........................Till then everyone....BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!