IT'S BACK!!! THE INTERNET'S BACK!!! I CAN FINALLY SEE THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!
haha. Quote from Cheryl, my roomie: I hereby name the internet here – Tortoise!
Honestly, u’d think that a fast advancing country like China would have good fast connection (especially in an IT school) but the internet here’s really crap! Anyway, the network’s been down perpetually for a day now, so I’m typing this out on good ole Microsoft Word :D
Haven’t updated much – Friday and the weekend was filled with much activities! Friday was a no school day again :( Instead, we went to 天安门 and 故宫, as well as lunch etc in the more urban side of Beijing. I’ll kop the pics from the sharing folder later and put them up :D Having been to天安门 and 故宫 several years back, I must say nothing’s really changed. But there’s much to see (I sure didn’t cover the whole thing the last time or this time!) and lots of pieces were forgotten, so it was still a great trip. The only thing sad was that I had this terribly bad stomach the whole time. It’d hurt on and off, like contractions when getting a baby! I swore I’d never get pregnant after that! Haha..
We had lunch at Macs after that! Some of the guys in my group have already started to miss Singapore food, and Macs was the closest we could get to “a taste of home”. The burgers haven’t started to shrink here yet (unlike those back home), while the prices are pretty reasonable - $16 to $18 for an EVM! It’s like Macs in NUS in the olden days!
Saturday was a free and easy day :) I met up with my ‘grand coach’ and got to eat steamboat lunch with him and his daughter! :) His daughter’s only 15, but she’s taller than me already! *boohoo* I shall… jump more! *laughs* of course, it’s pretty futile now. I enjoyed myself lots. I only wish my 普通话 was better and that I knew him better – it would make talking so much more pleasant! *runs to start memorizing the 词典* Steamboat was fantastic – they cut the machine-cut the meat so thin here, it’s AMAZING! The moment you dip the meat into the pot of bubbling hot soup, your meat turns a delicious pinkish brown! Transfer that steaming hot bundle of joy into the dip provided, then into your mouth, and you’ll get a succulent mouthful of juicy meat sure to make your mouth water with delight! Pictures up soon! Grand coach treated! Many many many thanks 宋教练！
My classmates were all out to the mall when I got back, so I sat down to try to get some work accomplished. All this while, I’ve been experimenting on the different forms I can do for DNO, wasting much time the past week. After many hours of frustration on Saturday, I came to the conclusion that the initial basic form was the most ideal in terms of function, and decided to work from there. Thanks to Saturday’s work, I’ve finally got past all the hesitation of working on “my circles”.
Sunday came and went in a breeze. We had half day work in the lab, which wasn’t very fruitful to be honest. After which was cleanup time! We cleaned the common areas, washed our clothes, cleaned and mopped the bedroom, changed the sheets… The list went on and on! Laoshi was so proud of our hard work when we were done, he took us out for steamboat (again) and surprise-treated us! Thanks Laoshi! Paying for 24 students meals isn’t cheap, and the effort you’ve put into taking care of us these few days is really really a blessing to many of us!
Monday’s work in the lab was really great! Despite being sick (I’m down with runny nose and phlegm again), things were rather good and I’m about 75% finished on my exterior! Gambate! A few of us went to the sports hall after that to play badminton. I went – but ended up watching the Taekwondo training instead. Kinda miss Taekwondo. The team we watched today seems very new, so their moves weren’t refined and they were still training the very basics. What was interesting to note however, was the amount of emphasis and time spent on warming up and on the basics. There was no sparring today. Instead, almost 45 minutes were spent on warm ups while the rest of the time was spent of basic kicking moves. Nothing like what you’d get in Singapore. Back home, you’d get 15 minutes of warm ups, 30 minutes doing patterns, 15 minutes practicing kicking and 30 minutes sparring! No wonder we don’t get the basics right!
After what was meant to be a satisfying day’s work on Tuesday, I realized that I’d made a terrible miscalculation. AARGH! Will have to rework on that model thing again… gah. Still got a cough, so now I’ve got a sexy voice! Haha.. life is meaningless without taste man.. i wanna get my tastebuds back, fast!!! haha...
Love hearing from you guys! Do email more! :D
Cheers,
huihui
Honestly, u’d think that a fast advancing country like China would have good fast connection (especially in an IT school) but the internet here’s really crap! Anyway, the network’s been down perpetually for a day now, so I’m typing this out on good ole Microsoft Word :D
Haven’t updated much – Friday and the weekend was filled with much activities! Friday was a no school day again :( Instead, we went to 天安门 and 故宫, as well as lunch etc in the more urban side of Beijing. I’ll kop the pics from the sharing folder later and put them up :D Having been to天安门 and 故宫 several years back, I must say nothing’s really changed. But there’s much to see (I sure didn’t cover the whole thing the last time or this time!) and lots of pieces were forgotten, so it was still a great trip. The only thing sad was that I had this terribly bad stomach the whole time. It’d hurt on and off, like contractions when getting a baby! I swore I’d never get pregnant after that! Haha..
We had lunch at Macs after that! Some of the guys in my group have already started to miss Singapore food, and Macs was the closest we could get to “a taste of home”. The burgers haven’t started to shrink here yet (unlike those back home), while the prices are pretty reasonable - $16 to $18 for an EVM! It’s like Macs in NUS in the olden days!
Saturday was a free and easy day :) I met up with my ‘grand coach’ and got to eat steamboat lunch with him and his daughter! :) His daughter’s only 15, but she’s taller than me already! *boohoo* I shall… jump more! *laughs* of course, it’s pretty futile now. I enjoyed myself lots. I only wish my 普通话 was better and that I knew him better – it would make talking so much more pleasant! *runs to start memorizing the 词典* Steamboat was fantastic – they cut the machine-cut the meat so thin here, it’s AMAZING! The moment you dip the meat into the pot of bubbling hot soup, your meat turns a delicious pinkish brown! Transfer that steaming hot bundle of joy into the dip provided, then into your mouth, and you’ll get a succulent mouthful of juicy meat sure to make your mouth water with delight! Pictures up soon! Grand coach treated! Many many many thanks 宋教练！
My classmates were all out to the mall when I got back, so I sat down to try to get some work accomplished. All this while, I’ve been experimenting on the different forms I can do for DNO, wasting much time the past week. After many hours of frustration on Saturday, I came to the conclusion that the initial basic form was the most ideal in terms of function, and decided to work from there. Thanks to Saturday’s work, I’ve finally got past all the hesitation of working on “my circles”.
Sunday came and went in a breeze. We had half day work in the lab, which wasn’t very fruitful to be honest. After which was cleanup time! We cleaned the common areas, washed our clothes, cleaned and mopped the bedroom, changed the sheets… The list went on and on! Laoshi was so proud of our hard work when we were done, he took us out for steamboat (again) and surprise-treated us! Thanks Laoshi! Paying for 24 students meals isn’t cheap, and the effort you’ve put into taking care of us these few days is really really a blessing to many of us!
Monday’s work in the lab was really great! Despite being sick (I’m down with runny nose and phlegm again), things were rather good and I’m about 75% finished on my exterior! Gambate! A few of us went to the sports hall after that to play badminton. I went – but ended up watching the Taekwondo training instead. Kinda miss Taekwondo. The team we watched today seems very new, so their moves weren’t refined and they were still training the very basics. What was interesting to note however, was the amount of emphasis and time spent on warming up and on the basics. There was no sparring today. Instead, almost 45 minutes were spent on warm ups while the rest of the time was spent of basic kicking moves. Nothing like what you’d get in Singapore. Back home, you’d get 15 minutes of warm ups, 30 minutes doing patterns, 15 minutes practicing kicking and 30 minutes sparring! No wonder we don’t get the basics right!
After what was meant to be a satisfying day’s work on Tuesday, I realized that I’d made a terrible miscalculation. AARGH! Will have to rework on that model thing again… gah. Still got a cough, so now I’ve got a sexy voice! Haha.. life is meaningless without taste man.. i wanna get my tastebuds back, fast!!! haha...
Love hearing from you guys! Do email more! :D
Cheers,
huihui
Tada! Finally! Pictures!!!
That's me and my two roomies, Cheryl and Vion, as well as Eugene (in front)!
This is 福口居，the second steamboat place i had with my classmates!
I have no idea what on earth i was doing. ignore me. The guy to my right is an expert in food, the the guy next to him is Danny, who has the ability to perform the 2 finger pushup, and do the handstand for all eternity. haha. He's also very 欠打.
THIS is the wonderful succulent steamboat meat! The meat is frozen solid, then sliced into impossibly thin slices of equal thickness - perfect when dipped into boiling hot soup!
Mouth watering yet? :P
This is lamb's kidney. It... doesn't taste as nice as i'd hoped. haha. it still got swiped clean tho.. haha..
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