..:: 578. The One With Lost in Translation ::..
now that my colleague, jo is gone, i have to double up as the translator and 'speller' for my chinese colleague.
'how to sur-pell ...'
jo made it damn hilarious. but today i did meaningful translation. i had to do translate all the titles, ministries, departments, offices of the Chinese Government. improve my chinese and at the same time get to know the complicated government structure they have.
国家民族事务委员会 State Ethnic Affairs Commission
对外贸易经济合作部 Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation
国家计划生育委员会 State Family Planning Commission
经济体制办公厅 Office for Economic Restructuring
and not forgeting the very mouthful and powerful
中国人民政治协商会议全国委员会 National Committee of the CPPCC
中国人民政治协商会议全国委员会常务委员会 Standing Committee of the National Committee of the CPPCC
CPPCC: Chinese People Political Consultative Conference
finally grey's anatomy season 4 dvd is out! this week i have been spending my nights watching dvd. first was the hongkong tvb series which was damn nice. i thought grey's finale trauma case was interesting but i would like to see something more bloody. love the part where they discovered bladder is the one that will cause complication.
was watching some youtube about a song composed for the olympics. 北京欢迎你。 beijing welcomes you. its a song sang by dunno-how-many singers. some thing like the sars song but i find it catchy. and stefanie sun sang that line beautifully. she also got selected to represent overseas chinese in a movie theme song 站起来 Stand up. it is a movie of a sprinter who remained undaunted while trying to get to compete in the olympics. all cheena casting.
and i think sharon stone was on some crack or something. how can she say that the earthquake was china's k****... its like getting herself shot. saw the angry comments on the video and one guy mentioned, if everyone of the 13 billion spit on her, she would be drowned by them. oops. not very sanitary.
shucks. tml have to hand in 2 chinese reports and attachment progress report. the EEE guys coming over to our place to adore our new dvd player and watch some chick flicks.
i hear chips, pizza and beer calling me...
Friday, May 23, 2008
..:: 577. The One With Minus One ::..
yesterday night after work, i suddenly feel like singing KTV so i managed to 'jio' 2 of my house mates to go with me for an overnight KTV. prior to that, i went gym at night. training for ippt when i go back. Sang till 6am then we went McDonalds for breakfast before we headed to sch. we were practically walking with our eyes shut.
took a nap in the afternoon and was utterly stunned by a msn msg.
my fellow housemate, joanne HAVE to fly back on SUNDAY to singapore. my first reaction was 'what?'. her visa expired and she could not get them renewed. we all applied for double-entry visa in singapore. however, she went hongkong and then after korea and thus used up the double entries. Now she could not renew, the only choice is to go out of china (nearest hongkong) and come back. but our boss said it is not worth cos we are left with 3 weeks.
In the end, we will be going yunnan without her. supposed to take photoshoot next week. paintball session following week. it was so sudden. supposed to go muse tonight but had to change plans so that she can visit places she havent been. tml going QPL (aka cheapo road) to do last min shopping.
sian. now the office will have one less person i can quarrel with.
Lucky we had our ktv session. one less regret.
yesterday night after work, i suddenly feel like singing KTV so i managed to 'jio' 2 of my house mates to go with me for an overnight KTV. prior to that, i went gym at night. training for ippt when i go back. Sang till 6am then we went McDonalds for breakfast before we headed to sch. we were practically walking with our eyes shut.
took a nap in the afternoon and was utterly stunned by a msn msg.
my fellow housemate, joanne HAVE to fly back on SUNDAY to singapore. my first reaction was 'what?'. her visa expired and she could not get them renewed. we all applied for double-entry visa in singapore. however, she went hongkong and then after korea and thus used up the double entries. Now she could not renew, the only choice is to go out of china (nearest hongkong) and come back. but our boss said it is not worth cos we are left with 3 weeks.
In the end, we will be going yunnan without her. supposed to take photoshoot next week. paintball session following week. it was so sudden. supposed to go muse tonight but had to change plans so that she can visit places she havent been. tml going QPL (aka cheapo road) to do last min shopping.
sian. now the office will have one less person i can quarrel with.
Lucky we had our ktv session. one less regret.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
..:: 576. The One With D&G ::..
just surfed upon D&G (my fave) and saw their winter 2009 collection.
finally mariah carey's E=MC2 is out in china. share a little joke =)
i called a music store in Raffles City (Shanghai) to check whether they had the newest album.
Me: hi, 请问你们有玛丽亚卡利最新的专辑吗？ (do you have MC's newest album ?)
Guy: 有啊
Suspecting that he meant the single she released, Touch My Body...
Me: 我想找的是 E=MC2 ， 是那个吗? ( I am looking for E=MC2, is that the one?)
Guy：我有的是 触摸我的身体 (I have ... Touch My Body)
then i heard girls laughing at the back. i tried to control my laughter and thank him before hanging up. It's funnier in chinese i think.
anyway for the album, despite the marriage crap with nick cannon, i still like some of her songs:
touch my body - her 18th #1 on Billboard
migrate - that song is about migrating from one place to another, whether it's from the bar to the club, from the club to the apartment, to wherever, whatever, city to the beach, beach to who knows where.
i stay in love -
And I know we said let go
But I kept on hanging on
Inside I know it's over
You're really gone
It's killing me
Cause there ain't nothing
That I can do
Baby, I stay in love with you
side effects - mariah's ex and how she 'suffers' with him... if u are in an abusive relationship before, this might click
When I space am I still dreaming 'bout them violent times?
Still little protective 'bout the people that I let inside
Still little defensive thinkin' 'bout me tryin' to run my life
Still little depressed inside, I fake a smile and deal with the side effects
love story - couldnt get together because of friends. such things do happen.
And then his friends
Said "its too soon to settle down"
And then her friends
Said "he's a playa, slow it down"
They couldn't be who they was
Cause it just seemed like love
Wasn't on they side
for the record - for those surviving breakups and still reminiscing the old times... i love the song when it goes ' why we cant just press rewind'
Cause when I'm looking in your eyes
Feels like the first time
Give me one good reason why
We can't just press rewind
I don't wanna spend my life
Thinking what it could've been like
If we had another try (one time)
Like back in the day
That look on your face
Feels like, the first time
and of course, the tear-jerker song of the album, bye bye, for those who have lost somebody. i think of my grandmother everytime i hear this song.
intro:
This is for my peoples who just lost somebody
Your best friend, your baby, your man, or your lady
Put your hand way up high
We will never say bye (no, no, no)
Mamas, daddies, sisters, brothers, friends and cousins
This is for my peoples who lost their grandmothers
Lift your head to the sky 'cause we will never say bye
chorus:
I never knew I could hurt like this
And everyday life goes on like
"I wish I could talk to you for awhile"
"I wish I could find a way try not to cry"
As time goes by
And soon as you reach a better place
Still I'll give the whole world to see your face
And I'm bragging right next to you
It feels like you gone too soon
The hardest thing to do is say bye bye
Delicate this last song to those victims in the earthquake and cyclone tragedies.
just surfed upon D&G (my fave) and saw their winter 2009 collection.
finally mariah carey's E=MC2 is out in china. share a little joke =)
i called a music store in Raffles City (Shanghai) to check whether they had the newest album.
Me: hi, 请问你们有玛丽亚卡利最新的专辑吗？ (do you have MC's newest album ?)
Guy: 有啊
Suspecting that he meant the single she released, Touch My Body...
Me: 我想找的是 E=MC2 ， 是那个吗? ( I am looking for E=MC2, is that the one?)
Guy：我有的是 触摸我的身体 (I have ... Touch My Body)
then i heard girls laughing at the back. i tried to control my laughter and thank him before hanging up. It's funnier in chinese i think.
anyway for the album, despite the marriage crap with nick cannon, i still like some of her songs:
touch my body - her 18th #1 on Billboard
migrate - that song is about migrating from one place to another, whether it's from the bar to the club, from the club to the apartment, to wherever, whatever, city to the beach, beach to who knows where.
i stay in love -
And I know we said let go
But I kept on hanging on
Inside I know it's over
You're really gone
It's killing me
Cause there ain't nothing
That I can do
Baby, I stay in love with you
side effects - mariah's ex and how she 'suffers' with him... if u are in an abusive relationship before, this might click
When I space am I still dreaming 'bout them violent times?
Still little protective 'bout the people that I let inside
Still little defensive thinkin' 'bout me tryin' to run my life
Still little depressed inside, I fake a smile and deal with the side effects
love story - couldnt get together because of friends. such things do happen.
And then his friends
Said "its too soon to settle down"
And then her friends
Said "he's a playa, slow it down"
They couldn't be who they was
Cause it just seemed like love
Wasn't on they side
for the record - for those surviving breakups and still reminiscing the old times... i love the song when it goes ' why we cant just press rewind'
Cause when I'm looking in your eyes
Feels like the first time
Give me one good reason why
We can't just press rewind
I don't wanna spend my life
Thinking what it could've been like
If we had another try (one time)
Like back in the day
That look on your face
Feels like, the first time
and of course, the tear-jerker song of the album, bye bye, for those who have lost somebody. i think of my grandmother everytime i hear this song.
intro:
This is for my peoples who just lost somebody
Your best friend, your baby, your man, or your lady
Put your hand way up high
We will never say bye (no, no, no)
Mamas, daddies, sisters, brothers, friends and cousins
This is for my peoples who lost their grandmothers
Lift your head to the sky 'cause we will never say bye
chorus:
I never knew I could hurt like this
And everyday life goes on like
"I wish I could talk to you for awhile"
"I wish I could find a way try not to cry"
As time goes by
And soon as you reach a better place
Still I'll give the whole world to see your face
And I'm bragging right next to you
It feels like you gone too soon
The hardest thing to do is say bye bye
Delicate this last song to those victims in the earthquake and cyclone tragedies.
..:: 575.. The One With Series ::..
yesterday was at a wonderful dvd store with kelvin, NUS big shot, and i wondered why he didnt choose to become a salesman. he practically watched almost all the dvd series they had on their shelves. he recommended quite a few shows which i hesitated to buy as i knew our tastes were not quite the same.
Dexter, Hustle, Entourage, Boston Legal were his strong recommendations
Gossip Girl was interesting, likewise for Dirt and Nip/Tuck
shall watch a few episodes of those before i decide to buy their series. dvds here are dirt cheap and they are of good quality. i still love my grey's anatomy, 6 feet under and prison break. i was so slow to realise that 'the L word' is actually about lesbians. i am intrigued by this kind of shows cos they always show a lot of personality and interesting behaviors.
now i cant wait for antm to be released. cycle 10 ended just last sunday and it is the only cycle that i did not manage to download in complete series. throughout the cycle, i loved lauren and claire but they were eliminated for the right reason i guess. lauren for her inability to do commercials and claire for her 'one-look' and not being versatile. but i thought they should have let stacey ann go first cos she was also bland, just that tyra keeps harping on her nice jawline and i dont really like her 'model 101' poses, so unnatural. i think for the covergirl (reads: cover the man in you) shoot, i prefer whitney's then fatima and anya last.
i thought whitney's walk on the runway was not at all high-fashion but the judges said she showed her style. o_O she really looked like strutting in a shopping mall. anyway whether anot the show is rigged, a full-figured model has to win to give hope to aspiring models.
but seriously at the end of the day, designers make samples of their works based on a certain build, that's why models have to be of certain height and frame to fit those clothes.
enough of models, back to serious matters. yesterday at about 2.28pm, i could hear sirens and horns from vehicles near my office. only then i realised it was the 3-minute mourning. just puzzled why they wanted to horn for 3-min, cos i thought it is usually moments of silence?
plus, in beijing and shanghai, orders went sent to the entertainment industries to close for 3 days, that includes my fave KTV. o_O though its a nation tragedy, somehow i feel that as depressing as the situation was, we still have to move on. cease entertainment to remind people that they should not enjoy with this incident going on? no TV programs, 24-hour news on the tragedy... it has become so hard for people to move on.
maybe its a different mindset that i have, wouldnt label it as a singaporean mindset. i mean things happen, we feel remorseful and we help in whatever ways we can and we should move on. i was quite disturbed by the repeated news and the voice of the broadcasters telling the people how they should unite and stay strong. how the army and the medical teams sacrifice for the country... of course i know they did and we honour and appreciate, but they dont have to make it so blatant that it almost looks like a propaganda.
maybe singapore has not encountered big incidents, the last one was probably SARS. but i remember that time, they had hourly update and some campaign song by phua chu kang. people still move on, tv still showing comedies and life goes on. maybe i'm comparing apples and oranges but u get the idea.
as china focuses on their own disaster, they had no room for the myanmar cyclone which killed at least twice as many people. no report on other countries or any other news except the olympics and the earthquake.
yesterday was at a wonderful dvd store with kelvin, NUS big shot, and i wondered why he didnt choose to become a salesman. he practically watched almost all the dvd series they had on their shelves. he recommended quite a few shows which i hesitated to buy as i knew our tastes were not quite the same.
Dexter, Hustle, Entourage, Boston Legal were his strong recommendations
Gossip Girl was interesting, likewise for Dirt and Nip/Tuck
shall watch a few episodes of those before i decide to buy their series. dvds here are dirt cheap and they are of good quality. i still love my grey's anatomy, 6 feet under and prison break. i was so slow to realise that 'the L word' is actually about lesbians. i am intrigued by this kind of shows cos they always show a lot of personality and interesting behaviors.
now i cant wait for antm to be released. cycle 10 ended just last sunday and it is the only cycle that i did not manage to download in complete series. throughout the cycle, i loved lauren and claire but they were eliminated for the right reason i guess. lauren for her inability to do commercials and claire for her 'one-look' and not being versatile. but i thought they should have let stacey ann go first cos she was also bland, just that tyra keeps harping on her nice jawline and i dont really like her 'model 101' poses, so unnatural. i think for the covergirl (reads: cover the man in you) shoot, i prefer whitney's then fatima and anya last.
i thought whitney's walk on the runway was not at all high-fashion but the judges said she showed her style. o_O she really looked like strutting in a shopping mall. anyway whether anot the show is rigged, a full-figured model has to win to give hope to aspiring models.
but seriously at the end of the day, designers make samples of their works based on a certain build, that's why models have to be of certain height and frame to fit those clothes.
enough of models, back to serious matters. yesterday at about 2.28pm, i could hear sirens and horns from vehicles near my office. only then i realised it was the 3-minute mourning. just puzzled why they wanted to horn for 3-min, cos i thought it is usually moments of silence?
plus, in beijing and shanghai, orders went sent to the entertainment industries to close for 3 days, that includes my fave KTV. o_O though its a nation tragedy, somehow i feel that as depressing as the situation was, we still have to move on. cease entertainment to remind people that they should not enjoy with this incident going on? no TV programs, 24-hour news on the tragedy... it has become so hard for people to move on.
maybe its a different mindset that i have, wouldnt label it as a singaporean mindset. i mean things happen, we feel remorseful and we help in whatever ways we can and we should move on. i was quite disturbed by the repeated news and the voice of the broadcasters telling the people how they should unite and stay strong. how the army and the medical teams sacrifice for the country... of course i know they did and we honour and appreciate, but they dont have to make it so blatant that it almost looks like a propaganda.
maybe singapore has not encountered big incidents, the last one was probably SARS. but i remember that time, they had hourly update and some campaign song by phua chu kang. people still move on, tv still showing comedies and life goes on. maybe i'm comparing apples and oranges but u get the idea.
as china focuses on their own disaster, they had no room for the myanmar cyclone which killed at least twice as many people. no report on other countries or any other news except the olympics and the earthquake.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
..:: 574. The One With Writing Report ::..
Boss back in singapore so i had the luxury to write blog and do my report. having to do 2 chinese essays each 2500 words is kinda insane. supposed to call companies from chengdu but some companies have not started work.
was chatting with my frenz online and found that they have secured jobs in kpmg, deloitte... envy...
for my 2 reports, i am writing on 中国服饰通史 history of chinese costumes and 满城尽带黄金甲, drawing psychoanalysis theories to analyse the show, curse of the golden flower. My first time watching the show starring chow yun-fat, gong li and jay zhou. i find myself to like zhang yimou's works, though his movies are mostly adapted from novels. but like he said, he used his vision and direction to produce effects you cant get in a book.
the title of the movie comes from the last line of a poem written by huang zhao, who was a rebel leader. pretty much reflective of what the whole show is about.
不第后赋菊 黄巢
待到秋来九月八，我花开后百花杀。
冲天香阵透长安，满城尽带黄金甲。
When autumn comes on Double Ninth Festival, my flower [the chrysanthemum] will bloom and all others perish. When the sky-reaching fragrance [of the chrysanthemum] permeates Chang'an, the whole city will be clothed in golden armour.
during tang dynasty, people adored mudan flower (peonies), but huang went against the culture and chose chrysanthemum. so in the movie, this flower became the icon for rebellion.
throughout the show, the sons had no intention to kill the father to take over the throne which could be explained by the oedipus complex. whole load of concept so its better to just watch the show and read wiki. haha.
today i uploaded an album and got shot. didnt know they were private pix. feel so bad now.
Boss back in singapore so i had the luxury to write blog and do my report. having to do 2 chinese essays each 2500 words is kinda insane. supposed to call companies from chengdu but some companies have not started work.
was chatting with my frenz online and found that they have secured jobs in kpmg, deloitte... envy...
for my 2 reports, i am writing on 中国服饰通史 history of chinese costumes and 满城尽带黄金甲, drawing psychoanalysis theories to analyse the show, curse of the golden flower. My first time watching the show starring chow yun-fat, gong li and jay zhou. i find myself to like zhang yimou's works, though his movies are mostly adapted from novels. but like he said, he used his vision and direction to produce effects you cant get in a book.
the title of the movie comes from the last line of a poem written by huang zhao, who was a rebel leader. pretty much reflective of what the whole show is about.
不第后赋菊 黄巢
待到秋来九月八，我花开后百花杀。
冲天香阵透长安，满城尽带黄金甲。
When autumn comes on Double Ninth Festival, my flower [the chrysanthemum] will bloom and all others perish. When the sky-reaching fragrance [of the chrysanthemum] permeates Chang'an, the whole city will be clothed in golden armour.
during tang dynasty, people adored mudan flower (peonies), but huang went against the culture and chose chrysanthemum. so in the movie, this flower became the icon for rebellion.
throughout the show, the sons had no intention to kill the father to take over the throne which could be explained by the oedipus complex. whole load of concept so its better to just watch the show and read wiki. haha.
today i uploaded an album and got shot. didnt know they were private pix. feel so bad now.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
..:: 573. The One With Shanghai Week 18 ::..
wow. time passes real fast. my 22 weeks of GIP coming to an end soon. the best parts about this GIP are probably:
- live independently. go wherever i want to and take full responsibility of myself.
- made lots of cool frenz from diverse background
- more bitching buddies
- clothes you never find in singapore and THAT CHEAP
- overnight KTV 5 SGD
- midnight supper deliveries
- DVD 1 SGD
- squeezing and pushing your way in public transport
- travelling!
i realised posting pics here would make the blog lag and slow to load. hence, i would include the link to my pictures =) YAY!
went suzhou and hangzhou twice as jiejiun came to visit me. haha. apologise for not being a gd host. had to work everyday and only free for dinner =(
Korea Day 1: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90056&id=763130230&op=24
Day 2: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90058&id=763130230&op=24
Day 3: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90061&id=763130230&op=18
Day 4: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90216&id=763130230&op=18
On Day 3, we heard from the news that one of the gates was burnt down, just after we visited that place. No, we didnt light anything.
feb 20. wanna thank my frenz for celebrating my birthday and planning a surprise. also the greetings i received through phone and fb.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=91545&id=763130230
wuxi was alright. nothing really memorable except for the fact we rent costumes to take pictures and that it was a rather big group from NTU GIP
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=98860&id=763130230&op=18
then luoyang was one of the best trips too. i'm glad i went ahead with the offer. for 1k RMB, it was definitely worth it. plus, the frenz i got to know from FUSSA - fudan university singapore - student association.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=101616&id=763130230&op=12
and if you ever visit hangzhou, dont forget 外婆家 grandma's kitchen.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=102613&id=763130230&op=12
then its the nanjing trip which the school organised for us for free (or is it in the S$350 we paid?). the trip was kinda ruined by the rain. cam-whoring with umbrellas was challenging.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=106756&id=763130230&op=12
For labour day holiday, we went to our colleague's hometown, zhenjiang. 镇江. people get confused it with zhejiang, 浙江. It was freaking hot. We also managed to catch Ironman in their cinema for 5SGD, student price.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=110491&id=763130230
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=110497&id=763130230&op=6
'everything also must try', that is the quote we live by. Mayday concert ticket for 30SGD, how to give it a miss? I went not knowing many of their songs.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=110858&id=763130230&op=6
then we went to visit some water village. tongli. kinda commercial but the sex museum was the highlight.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=112253&id=763130230
And all the food we ate, celebrations we had, shopping sprees we did, just made me want to stay in shanghai longer.
Just as we enjoy ourselves, i feel china didnt start the year quite as well. jan-feb, china was hit by the worst snow ever. mar - tibet riots were raging. apr - olympic torch incidents. may - bus explosion and now the sichuan earthquake. hope the year will turn better with the commencement of the olympics.
compare with my 1.5K RMB root canal repair, lost of camera, handphone spoilt. my losses are so minor.
4 weeks more and i have to once again lift the baggage up that i left behind in Singapore 18 weeks ago.
wow. time passes real fast. my 22 weeks of GIP coming to an end soon. the best parts about this GIP are probably:
- live independently. go wherever i want to and take full responsibility of myself.
- made lots of cool frenz from diverse background
- more bitching buddies
- clothes you never find in singapore and THAT CHEAP
- overnight KTV 5 SGD
- midnight supper deliveries
- DVD 1 SGD
- squeezing and pushing your way in public transport
- travelling!
i realised posting pics here would make the blog lag and slow to load. hence, i would include the link to my pictures =) YAY!
went suzhou and hangzhou twice as jiejiun came to visit me. haha. apologise for not being a gd host. had to work everyday and only free for dinner =(
Korea Day 1: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90056&id=763130230&op=24
Day 2: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90058&id=763130230&op=24
Day 3: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90061&id=763130230&op=18
Day 4: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90216&id=763130230&op=18
On Day 3, we heard from the news that one of the gates was burnt down, just after we visited that place. No, we didnt light anything.
feb 20. wanna thank my frenz for celebrating my birthday and planning a surprise. also the greetings i received through phone and fb.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=91545&id=763130230
wuxi was alright. nothing really memorable except for the fact we rent costumes to take pictures and that it was a rather big group from NTU GIP
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=98860&id=763130230&op=18
then luoyang was one of the best trips too. i'm glad i went ahead with the offer. for 1k RMB, it was definitely worth it. plus, the frenz i got to know from FUSSA - fudan university singapore - student association.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=101616&id=763130230&op=12
and if you ever visit hangzhou, dont forget 外婆家 grandma's kitchen.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=102613&id=763130230&op=12
then its the nanjing trip which the school organised for us for free (or is it in the S$350 we paid?). the trip was kinda ruined by the rain. cam-whoring with umbrellas was challenging.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=106756&id=763130230&op=12
For labour day holiday, we went to our colleague's hometown, zhenjiang. 镇江. people get confused it with zhejiang, 浙江. It was freaking hot. We also managed to catch Ironman in their cinema for 5SGD, student price.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=110491&id=763130230
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=110497&id=763130230&op=6
'everything also must try', that is the quote we live by. Mayday concert ticket for 30SGD, how to give it a miss? I went not knowing many of their songs.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=110858&id=763130230&op=6
then we went to visit some water village. tongli. kinda commercial but the sex museum was the highlight.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=112253&id=763130230
And all the food we ate, celebrations we had, shopping sprees we did, just made me want to stay in shanghai longer.
Just as we enjoy ourselves, i feel china didnt start the year quite as well. jan-feb, china was hit by the worst snow ever. mar - tibet riots were raging. apr - olympic torch incidents. may - bus explosion and now the sichuan earthquake. hope the year will turn better with the commencement of the olympics.
compare with my 1.5K RMB root canal repair, lost of camera, handphone spoilt. my losses are so minor.
4 weeks more and i have to once again lift the baggage up that i left behind in Singapore 18 weeks ago.
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