finally i am back!! been neglecting this blog ever since exams started.. been quite an accomplishment to stay at home and study without using the comp! i juz dunwanna switch it on, bcoz the moment i do, i will be so distracted from all the internet and games and fb.. so mid-terms are finally over! 针灸 paper was easy but 内科 paper was tough!
i've decided to give up on blogging abt every single day in beijing starting from day 1! it's too tedious and i gt no time for it.. cant really rem wat happened oso.. so juz a few interesting stories here and there!
17th sep 09
we were happily eating dinner at home and watching our fav tv cartoon show "喜洋洋与灰太狼" when suddenly the house blacked out! we were stunned for a few seconds before we started to react to the situation.. the prob was we used up our electricity! the system in china is tt u need to pre-pay for electricity and top it up when u are running low. we forgot all about it and our electricity got cut off! so, late at night (abt 7 plus i think), we had to walk for about 20min to the power supply company and top up our card.. an experience i will nv forget.. i guess u only get to experience it here in china, with the pre-pay system.
house-visiting
we went to some classmate's houses over these few wks.. yinyue and gang, brandon and gang, yueyou and gang.. all not bad! yinyue's cooking skill is good, i like the chicken.. roger's stewed pot is nice too! kt's dessert apple wine is innovative! we din eat dinner at yueyou house coz we had an impromptu visit tt day when our house blacked out (coz their house is near the power company). but their house is the nicest! biggest and very well furnished.. so we picked up a few dishes here and there.. i wanna try making the dessert apple one day.. but i think it will be an expensive dessert to make back in spore but here the wine is so cheap! a can of beer is like 4rmb and the cheapest wine can go down to less then 10rmb? craziness... had lotsa fun hanging out at yy's house! gossiped abt everything tt we could and juz chilled.. stayed till abt 1am.. brandon's house visiting was on mid-autumn festival! we drank tea and ate mooncakes and enjoyed the excellent piano songs by xuhua! really v zai.. going to visit shuling and gang's house this sun night and catch man u vs liverpool match.. lol! i hope man u players make it back in time.. next wk planning to visit more ppl's house!
17th oct 09
huanfang's bdae today!! happy bdae!!! it's the first time her bdae falls during the exams period.. quite sad coz we all needa mug.. i hope my bdae dun fall anywhere near! but we still planned a little surprise for her.. bought a bdae cake and a boster for her secretly.. then on the day itself, eileen and i came up with some excuses to get out of the house and go collect the items, while junie stayed at home and prepare for the moment.. the boster turned out to be so skinny! coz we told the shopkeeper we wanted 95cm by 20cm.. in the end they took the 20cm as the circumference instead of the diameter! diaoz... it was quite cute thou, looked like a sweet.. so we secretly lit up the cake outside the house and once we opened the door, we started singing bdae song! it was a successful surprise bcoz she din suspect anything at all! she thought we are all too engrossed in studying tt we forgot abt it.. haha.. after tt we went to eat dinner at this "spice girls hotpot restaurant".. v shiok! the 麻辣 feel is craziness. stays in ur mouth and lips especially. we can feel our lips twitching while eating. lol.. ordered quite a spread and we were so full from eating tt i said a very funny sentence.. muz note it down bcoz it's too classic.. we saw this uncle tt sells fruit along the street so i said hi to him.. den after tt junie asked me who did i see.. i said "那个卖 uncle 的水果" when i meant to say "那个卖水果的uncle"! muz be all the blood flowed to the stomach at tt pt in time.. anw felt so relaxed tt night thou our paper was on mon.. haha.. totally put aside the books thou we were all still far from finishing.. the bill sum up to be around 200rmb.. still affordable i guess.. we wanna try all the hotpot restaurants along our stretch of road!
ystd we tried to acupuncture each other and they tried 尺泽 and 合谷 on me coz i am sick.. flu and cough.. den we tried to 点刺出血 coz they nv experience it before.. pretty fun but quite scary at times.. but it din help in my cough bcoz i think it's too late already.. shld have tried when i juz got sick instead. tt day during acupuncture class, we tried 耳针 too.. wanted to help yinyue poke her 下关 (which is near the jaw) bcoz her jaw hurts if she opens it too big.. but ran out of time so maybe next time den i try! quite scary thou the teacher says it's safe.
ate spaghetti for dinner juz now! nice and v simple to make! tts the only western dish we can cook here i guess.. limited ingredients. i miss spore's char kway teow and prawn noodles and seafood! the seafood here totally cmi.. totally miss malaysia's char kway teow too! i can drool while thinking abt it.. but food here have their own charm too! i like the 烤窜 and 米线 here! and also the beef noodles juz downstairs of our house..
the weather is starting to turn cold now! and the wind is unimaginely strong sometimes! we saw a fallen tree on our way to school tt day.. the wind can really blow u away. so we started to wear our trench coats and boots to school now. cant imagine wats it's like in winter.. and the dryness here is making my legs so itchy! gotta apply tons of moisturizer everyday and i can feel my skin growing older already. lol..
going shopping over the wkend! thinking of getting more shoes.. sneakers, boots etc.. yays! happiness..
Thursday, October 1, 2009
day 3 to 6 in beijing
nothing much happened for these few days. we simply went shopping for household stuffs and spent the rest of the time cleaning up our house..
we went to 十里河家具城 to shop for wallpaper initially, coz our walls are quite dirty. but we gave up the idea once we saw the price! so in the end we bought our wardrobes and study tables there.. one set cost 1200rmb. not a bad price considering the fact tt we can customize it and it's brand new with alot of compartments!
meals for these few days included yoshinoya (pretty much the same as spore), 上岛咖啡 (their lunch offer is cheap! and tts one of the rare places we will order fish coz it's boneless!), 南成香 (i love their 麻辣鸡翅!), and a noodles and bao zi stall near our place..
we eat fruits almost everyday here! bcoz it's fresh and cheap! junie and huangfang loves the peach here, crazy over it all the time.. but now tt the peach season is over, they are pretty sad, need to search for new fruits...