haha. there're just too many photos, had a few days of international orientations.. well its more about just briefings. and made friends with all the international students since there aint many of us anyway. if anyone's interested i can probably send all a set of photos i took

went to a snr's hse today to chill. came back early. friend didn't like a guy over there. well. my code of conduct stands. no drinking xD. and there's the biggest.. thickest fog that i've ever seen. but its sooooo cooollll... and just roll down the windows and let the wind in.. fresh .. cool.. moist.. air.. xD what more can we ask for? lovin' it.

In the library of Kutztown

fine. i've arrived and finally reached the internet.

the environment is great imho and the people here's really helpful. i think i can adept pretty well here. there's a tiny international student's community but i think that's perfectly fine. roommate's great. he's a zhikai type of guy just that he's huge. i'm sure you guys know what i'm talkin' about ^^. and i'm making really good friends with daniel and jana, they're germans. we can communicate pretty well.

oh yeah i've got a new cell too. works here thou. 4845387004

Arrived in Newjersy

tadaa... i'm finally up and going again.. living in 2 阿姨 's hse, its pretty comfy and the internet is running well xD. haven't been in that situation for a long while huh. rest assured that i'll keep writing smt from now on so long as i still have my hands on the internet xD

The plane trip took 13 hrs +50 minutes, with 3 hours transfer time. so its around 17 hours on the move. I sat beside a guy with the name of "golden armour" .. okay that's kinda like the direct translation from chinese but he's a decent guy. graduating from one of the top high schs in beijing, he does nothing but study.. oh well not exactly nothing. he said he loved geography and both of his parents worked in a museum.. he does not listen to music, does not hang out, does not play the computer, does not use the instant messenger system.. and he's fatter than me.

we've a good chat on the plane and thats about it. he left me a email which i probably will never bother to be the one who contact him? anyway...

D.C. 's airport is much below expectation. probably because of its old age. I've got the shock of my life when i stepped out of the airplane... its like... " where the hell are the chinese people!? " the fact is, i got used to seeing yellow skin all around me.. now there's only black and white... came across a racist cop who tried to boss the international students around.. "now stand behind the yellow line, this is not china anymore, you're in the US. " he shouted at some random person who just happened to be a little lost and is well behind the line.. i dont know, that guy just got transfered from prison police into the airport police or something? besides being unable to find my way to the right gate easily and the rude policeman, there's not much impression of that airport.

the transfer flight was more memorable. its the smallest plane that i ever boarded... 3 seats per roll and i can easily see the cabin from my seat.. its stability was above my expectation. i was ready to suffer as bad memories in taking small planes overwhelmed me. but when we took off. i just spent my time admiring the night view of the city below. small houses were evenly spread out in the field.. road lights and the lights from houses caused enough light pollution for it to be beautiful.

took a walk out yesterday.. spotted 3 wild dears and a wild rabbit... fire flies under the tree that flies up like some fireworks in blue... then faded away in the darkness.. really cool

going out to play!

have been busy these days.. like finally i can stop rotting at home!

but mum'll be coming 2ml...

- -|.. sian..

grandma + mum = nagging combo. and that's deadly

inevitable. haix...





here's the most interesting menu i've seen..

there's poem attached to each dish. wow. and all look great please. delicious too..

its called "my humble house" recommended by my fren.. it is supposed to be in chinese which says 寒舍 the very polite way of addressing one's home


we're in this eh.. i guess its the study. and the sofa is topped with fur =s

its the living room on the back ground i suppose. with a mini fountain.

the shelf of art works beside us looked like this..

Burp.. too full.

hey ppl guess what's this place




the washroom


[song]
it feels like the first time...
[/song]
okay fine it is my first time..

this place has good food

yep.

wow...

okay . i appreciate this more than the solar thing.. especially in beijing that you cant see the sun...

pollution left this city nearly 4/5 of the time in smog..


at 4 pm today, the sky turned dark. and for a moment i thought all my clocks has stopped...

its a storm. and its like nothing in singapore. cos over there the day just don't turn into night because of the storm.. at one moment i thought it was solar eclipse all over again so i was like wtf...

moments later the sky begin to brighten up..

and the sky was clear.. like very clear. visibility at an all time high.


the simple pleasures in life..


oh well. i loved it.


i went to queue up for a train ticket today for the first time in my life. its an outlet.. so apparently they only start selling tickets 10 days before the day of departure.. and they only begin their sales at 7PM


so i went 10 minutes before.. according to the person at the counter. there'll be a queue...

well. i made it to the 2nd in the queue. and the first person demanded 3 tickets...

the person at the counter processed it for him and printed the tickets out.. one ticket magically went m issing in the process of printing the 3 tickets.. so she searched up and down for it

before she could find anything. her phone rang. and she chatted happily for 15 minutes. as the queue grew longer...

at 7: 20. i managed to get my turn and she told me all tickets has ran out. i asked if i can purchase another type of ticket the next morning and if it will likely be available. she gave me the pissed off face and said that she can only tell me what she can see now.

fuck it

god damn service industry of china's public transport


on my way back.. this is what the storm did to the trees.


interesting advertisement for gum.

hmm.. solar eclipse?

u know.. i nvr figure out what's the big fuss about this thing..

okay i have to say it looks good. and its rare.

so what.

rare stuff happen everyday. so does pretty stuff.

like. rainbows. like. leaf falling off the tree.

i mean. beauty is all around so long as we notice it. and appreciate it

so what if the moon blocked the sun - -|.. that gathered billions of people stare in amusement at the TV or up into the sky..

where what i think its of similar value happens around them that went unnoticed..

bleah. grow up ppl. this is not the proper way to treasure.

can you smell what jiannan's cookin!

talks.

Re: people's attire.

i was in the park with cousin and grandma. we were having this conversation regarding people's attire. like knowing how to dress properly and stuff..

there's this hot girl with a huge bag and this huge groundsheet in it sticking out.

so i was like

"hey that girl looks great.. just a wrong bag. i guess"

my cousin was like.

"yeah, i guess, eh her cloth is translucent.... and.. hmm i can't see anything in there [from the back] "

"eh!? "

then moments later she walked infront of us and i was like

"hey i can see it! its yellow!"

it was all in chinese and my grandma was like

"- -|"

moments later at the dining table.

we begun talking about the relationship between a mother in law and daughter in law.

cos. well

my grandma doesn't get along well with all her son's wife.. although they are very nice people.

uncle once said that its somewhat a competitive relationship between the gender.. unlike guys.. lets say. son in laws and father in laws always get along well...


then once that conversation start. i start to think about my mum.. and honestly..

i'm not expecting much peace either..

we were like..

"yeah.. the relationship would be quite hard for our aunts and my grandma.. "

me: "yeah.. come to think about it.. ,my mum..."

cousin:"..."

cousin and I: " HOLY CRAP"

"..."

cousin: "...i wish you well"

me: "...omg..."



yeah.. but things will work out. ^^ i hope. i will love my wife. and i will try give her all the happiness that's within my power...

park !

say. another makeup post =x.

i went to the park yesterday.. there's a mini amusement park there. for kids.

my cousin wanna play something.. but there's our grandma with us. so its like "- -|"

as if we'll leave her alone.

but she insisted on us going into something.. so there's this 10 bucks / person / visit "haunted hse"

- -|.. fking retarded.. supposed to be "3d".. now if u wear that specs and go in all it does is make you dizzy.

and yeah.. its just walking.. and scary props? there's random leg grabbing going on.. c'mon man.. xD.. like seriously. and there's this group infront of us who.. well. got scared and dont dare to move on.. i say. they're deprived man.

just recalling those days for scream. now that's fun. xD.

@ the gym

i went to the gym today. there was a lady running.

she came over a while later and she said

"do you speak english?"

"yeah? sure, what issit?"

"i just want to thank you for being so polite just now."

and she told me that I was quiet and did not cause a disturbance.

"oh, you're welcomed, i mean, thank you, and that's what i'm supposed to do issn't it"

"well.. yeah i guess but people just don't do it."



its sad.

its just about turning down the tv's volume so that it doesn't disturb others.

and now people need to thank for that action.. because nobody do it.

yes she's polite to say such a thing and being nice and stuff.

but its sad that the society its like that. i mean. this is a 5star hotel right.

its supposed to be the civilized people that lives around here?

i wonder how bad can it get in the neighborhoods

A message to all the depressed ppl out there due to the economic down turn

well i've read it from an article

its nice so i've summarized it somehow

to those ppl out there who're depressed.

At this moment, as you read this, there are hundreds if not thousands of geeky, brilliant engineering wonks sitting in their dorm rooms at MIT and Stanford, not to mention campuses around the world, oblivious to the weather as they pour their hearts into cool new ideas.

Those kids and their ideas are the future of business if we just hang on tight
you canbe sure, too, that legions of people out there aren't frightened by the economy.

they're called the entrepreneurs [wow....] And challenges don't make them surrender; they make them fierce.

or consider that right now, in companies large and small, new and old, teams of employees are huddled in meetings, working their butts off to figure out how to save their organizations and the jobs of their coworkers.

and you can be sure that in laboratories around the world, medical researchers are putting in 18 hour days as they try to unlock the human genome and create cures beyond imagining. all of them, are motivated by a heartfelt desire to save lives. you can be sure that one day you, or someone you love, will owe them a debt of gratitude.

you can be sure that on a warm spring day, a mother and father will hold back tears as they watch the first member of their family graduate from college. you can be sure countless other parents will feel the same pride.

you can be sure that for every jerk who undermines business with his compromised ethics there are 99 decent, hard-working people who wake up everyday determined to do right.

you can be sure the 99 will prevail

you can be sure that there will be a song in radio this fall that is so catchy and fun u can't get it out of your head.

you can be sure that someday in the not-too-distant-future we will look back on this difficult time and say:"It was painful,but we've pushed hard and learnd so much that we've lowered the chances of it ever happening again."



i think its a msg to the suicidal ppl out there due to bankruptcy or smt - -| but hmm interesting =x

i've managed to chat for 3 smses!

last night!

my new sim card has finally put to some chatting purposes o. o|

i can't believe that this is what I'm blogging about. haha

oh well. eh. there are lesser pros in the arena of dota in china. so the games are easy? o. o
too many leavers thou. haix

i look forward to going out on friday. ><|. rotting at home all day aint fun at all

Side effects

suffered from bad breath and bad teeth

culprit : antibiotics / the dripping.

sux.

brushed my teeth 4 times and listrined. hope this helps

tadaa. an advertisment @ a mall.

well. please zoom and see.

Hospital

i hate crowds

i dislike the idea of going to hospital healthy and get infected with something when i come out

so generally

i dislike the idea to visit a doctor in beijing

but i still went. cos grandma is worried and i dont wanna pass the flu on to her.

so i was there! apparently the place was under renovation. and yet still operating. i'm like one of the only patients there. really empty. there's only one guy that went in while i was there. it turns out he's looking for the washroom.

so the doctor tested my blood
nurse poked my finger tip with a sharp thingy to make bleed

she squeezed damn hard for damn long and only one drop came out.. we all were like = =|

"i'll have to do it again" she says.

so my other finger kena oso = =|.. and this time not much more.. so just keep squeezing.. until its enough.

= =| fine, i've got thick skin.

i dont have a problem with that when i was young!

doctor said that a speedy recovery would be dripping + some medicine

so we chose that way. apparently it costs 700 rmb or so. that would be like one month salary for a typical factory worker in non-capital cities.

getting sick, is indeed $ consuming. ppl might not even afford it - -|

oh i was made to wear a mask for the first time.


hello luke i'm ur papa.


they kinda used 4 bottles.. and all of it went into my body.. the rate of dripping is controlled.. they told me that its alright going fast but some ppl's heart can't take it..

3 of us discussed about communist in china =s.. and well.. we are all not really happy about the party =s..

i think my heart is fine.

but for
"safety concerns"
its rather slow at first

until the nurse decided that her lunch break is around the corner. then she came up to me and adjusted it.. til its like - -|.. flowing... 3 drops / second? i see that water level in those containers go down like nobody's business i was like " wtf - -|".. and my arm is feeling the immediate drop of temperature as it poured in..

it wasn't really that bad. the worst part is that grandma can't stop nagging and complaining about how irresponsible the nurse is on the trip back =s...

oh well. i might have to go back 2ml for the last drip. hopefully i'll recover by 2night so dun have to mafan ppl.



zihua and i kaobei'ed the government too. they might as well fking ban the internet usage. ban youtube ban facebook ban twitter. and obvirously there's much more sites mimicing the way those sites work, native chinese sites like youku.com, xiaonei.com.. even the layout and colourscheme are exactly the same. they dont fking ban those.

what. terrorists only know how to use international sites? kns. is this acturally protection of "local internet industry"? god damn it.

Flu

its still here. and makes me thinner. i'm officially 1 kg off o. o|

flu please stay for 10 days. that would be great

A good reason to resist nature calls

as the title show.

for a better world.
for our children.
for the future

resist the call of nature. here's why





knuckle still hurts a lil... the thing is i caught a flu. it doesn't feel very pleasant i gotta say.

some random shots of today





about my theory..

everyone is selfish. yep we are. and we're selfish to the point that we're doing nearly everything for themselves.
we make decisions before putting into action. in some cases. our actions are guided subconciously however that do not suggest that we're not responsible for such actions.

over generalization? maybe.

however. think about it. why do you care for ppl. why do you love. why do people sacrifice themselves for a greater good.

such actions seem selfless i suppose? and yes i still somewhat believe that love is not about recieving but its about giving... - -|.. i dont know how that came through thou.

oh well back to the topic.. the thing is. say. if you care for somebody. why?
first of all. how many people are willing to care about somebody if that somebody don't give a shyt about what the "carers" do? we enjoy the feeling to be appreciated don't we? how certain are you if you're caring and ur not subconciously hoping that they show appreciation or just be a more well-off person such that you, will be contributing to a greater good and be satisified with ourselves

every single action has went through our minds. and we make a decision for a reason.

on the very basic level is to fulfill our needs of survival, instincts as we call it. such actions can mean selfishness. well, cos we're doing smt for ourselves.

however. on the other level, as from young, we're thought morals, what's right and wrong, and learn something called the "greater good", social creatures. morals are built and that's how we attempt to differ ourselves from beasts. such morals are telling we're supposed to do, and deep in us we know, by making a decision that's on the basis moral, we are doing something right...

i say, we all do stuff for a cause, conciously or not, we're for ourselves, whether its just to keep ourselves alive or to die for a greater cause, we made those decisions that we think that will make us feel better. its just not logical and the command will not pass through the human mind if its for absolutely no reason.

think about it.

do not expect anyone to be responsible to our well-being, nobody owes us a living as they say. and we 're accountable for ourselves, think of everyone, as selfish creatures, and live strong, cos we're living for a blardy good reason. don't drown urself into the victim's cycle as the oz principle states, whatever happens, don't point fingers, don't blame fate. we're on our own.

we really are.

life is a blissful journey, its our own responsibility to make good of it, and we ain't living for anyone else, we really aren't that great.



i think parental guidance is neccessary for the viewing of the crap above.

peace out

4 issues.

okay i shall list them down before i forget

i wanna talk about eh..
1. i haven't had dreams since the nightmare of me taking Alevel maths paper a few month ago. and i realized i'm dreaming every night nowadays...

2. i shall disclose this very horrifying theory that might stand.. its my theory okay.. copyright!

3. i knocked my knuckle against the door by accident and its swollen

4. God damn it give us back our facebook.

okay. i know. i should elaborate on my 3rd point but i think i'll leave it for 2ml as its rather thought provoking

Rot Rot Rot

just 1 day of rain. nothing came down for these 2 days although its all dark. can't see the sun...

- -|

reminds me of resident evil diary or smt..

another friend coming to beijing soon. yay.

oh well. nth happened today. nothing much. still rotting.

recommend u guys a book. the OZ principle.
read it.

its "getting results through individual and organizational accountability"

Phone calls.

there were two. on my handphone. i'm using my cousin's old sim card so it was for her.

[in chinese]
"hi i'm calling from the company its about the collection of ur salary."

me: "well i'm afraid you've got the wrong number, she changed to a different one now"

"will it be convinent for you to tell me how to contact her then."

she spoke too fast = =|
i couldn really catch it until the 2nd time and she took down the number.


moments later

"hi sorry to disturb you but i couldnt reach her by her number"
me: "eh i'm afraid that she might have forgotten to bring her handphone as she told me on the msn"

"will it be convinent for you to take down the address for her?"

i'm like.. sure

so i rushed to a pen and paper...

then she start giving me the address.. 国贸大厦... smt smt smt

and i was like.. wtf how do u right MAO. then i got stuck at the 2nd word..

and i stoned for a while..

so i told her in english... all our conversation above was chinese..

"could you please give me an english version of the address?"

then she stun.
and after a short moment she's like "please hold on for a second"

and after 3 minutes of rustle.. she came back and she just spoke english into the phone
...and i'm telling you i can understand 60%. it wasn't easy... but i managed to take down the half of the address before giving up.. i'm like..

"hey, acturally chinese is fine.. i just dont know how to write them now i'm at my laptop its fine.."
and she was like

"can you understand chinese?"

= =|

i answered the phone call in chinese, twice... and how has a chinese address got to do with understanding chinese...

but oh well.. she spoke chinese.. and i realized i took down all the information necessary i just didnt know it ..

"hope you're happy at work" that's what she ended the call with...

i mean.. its in chinese.. 祝您工作愉快.. okay i think she make constant calls to employees and stuff.. its just weird to me - -|.

needless to say i'm like *stun*

"eh.. huh?.. oh!.. good day to you" *english*

i told my cousin about this and she said i might have given an awkward moment for the girl..
i was like - -|.. sorry i just need to revise my chinese spelling.

TERMINATOR``

woohoo. happy yesterday! it rained! like since finally man. it poured. and it feels great.

i told grandma that i'm going out with a friend.. my grandma starts telling me stories about how kids and adults got kidnapped and transported to mines to work to their death.. how maids sold the kids they are to look after.. in attempt in telling me how dangerous my friend might be. ...- -

she went on for 2 hours or so.

like for god's sake this is beijing. the fking capital man. there're tens of thousands of kids out there on the streets every single day... oh well.

went out with my friend and had lunch, watched terminators. i loved that place called bluecoast.. well. its in chinese. but its a great place. like a small town of shops. no cars. and all buildings are of 3 levels high and the roof is great. there's a mini musical fountain ^^


lunched at the place called "da chang jin" = =| i wasn't expecting this.. but its noisy. the waitress all dressed up in the sorta korean thingy.. similiar to changjin. but they sell stuff at the price range of 5-6 sing... the portion is big too. i can't pick my choice = =| so i asked what's not spicy and asked the waitress to recommend something. then she's like.. "what if i recommend something and it is the expensive one" and i'm quite sure there's a smirk on her face... i did flip the menu. and if i'm bad tempered then i think it will be trouble for the place. that's a direct insult issn't it = =|.. unless that waitress is trying to joke around. = =... i mean there're ppl with kids running around and shouting.. there are ppl dressed up like christmas tree and come in with a family and look as if its a great occasion to have lunch there...

we got over it fast but now thinking back its really wtf.

apparently transformers is some big stuff around.. here's why i said it o. o.... i astonished "BUMBLEBEE" and she's like.. huh... *start wondering which shop has that name and looks arnd*



movie starts 1 hr after purchasing the tickets so we went around hunting for something to play. it was a huge place and we constantly asked the person at the information counter.. its like.. "hi its us again!"

arcade is cheap. 1 dollar / token. so.. if u put it in sing. u need 40 cents to play 1 round of timecrisis 3. yeah. i realized that i'm not bad x. x| there's this drum thing fun to play but tiring.. - -|. just zam. with a lil rythum. the songs were like. eh. funny to listen to. i mean drumbeats just dont really go with slow songs.. especially not when we are desperately trying to keep up with the beat and in the process messing up - -| oh well! thats fun still xD

underestimated the travel time and reached the cinema late. i tell you. those stairs in the dark arent popcorn friendly. = =|.

the movie er... pack a little surprise. it was kinda interesting. it wasn't as interesting as transformer 2 i think interms of action. although the latter is a lil messy. but the storyline wins it. yepp.

the hall is like the auditorium sorta seats... there's even the pen stopper in place =s. but there's sufficient space.. and audio system thats a lil too good.

movie ended and we walked around while waiting for her dad to come pick her up. the roof is windy and comes with a great view. its like living in a little town there. thunders sound occasionally and the wind is great. here's what all looked like from my point of view.. i loved the place. seriously. thankyou to whoever developed it. its just so peaceful. its not a good thing for the shopowners but hey. xD. its perhaps the least populated shopin' centre arnd in beijing...



my friend kept telling me that i sound too old when i said i loved this style of things.

when her dad called and we went into the mall looking for the way to the basement.. it started to pour. wind gushed open those closed doors and woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAIN!!!!!...


enjoyed it for a while then went on to search for the way.. there's a lift we saw. cargo lift thou.. we were like.. hmm... OKAY LETS GO. then there's this rule list in the lift.. right the first one. "no unauthorized personel / authorized personel with no cargo allowed" ... well its in chinese we were like.. "- -|.. oops"..

"okay i know."
"lets plan this."
"we're tourists and we cant read chinese"
i said.
"alright. yeah. i cant read chinese. ><"

oh well. nobody saw us when we came out so that wasn't necessary xD there..

the shops are in the sorta ancent style sorta town's outlook.. but what's under it.. is a hugeeeeeee underground carpark. its numbered alphabetically from A to F. with numbers behind the alphebet. lets just say we ended up in F and we had to find A. where her dad is going to give me a lift home. and we took the shortest route. walked for 15 minutes at decent pace before reaching A.. and her dad used 10 minutes wondering around in zone A trying to find us.

we stood beside this.. i really dont know where this thing is manufactured.. it looked like this. and there's no chinese on it!
oh well. great day @ a great place!! i shall go there again next time. ><

ALRIGHT! TRANSFORMERS!

I remembered black skies, the lightning all around me
I remembered each flash as time began to blur
Like a startling sign that fate had finally found me

gaga

well went to catch this. its really expansive here in beijing. and the theatre is damn small.. 80 rmb / ticket . so essentially it will be around 16 sing? i didn't get to watch transformers 1 so i seriously dont know what's good and what's bad.

but i do know that this is kinda messy.. i mean the graphics roll fast.. when they fight i find it hard to catch who is who.. and how did some die so easily where others dont die at all.. and was the humans even useful at all - - not in the beginning when they just casually die like flies and do no harm ..

oh well maybe i'm expecting too much!

service at ajisen in beijing really CMI. = =|. we've to wait 20 minutes for a setmeal and another 10 minutes for an dessert.. how bad can you get seriously.

i took beijing's mrt for the first time. my cousin told me there will be a different setting in different lanes of mrt in beijing.. i thought he was exaggerating the stereotype. but he wasn't i saw it. the 10thlane that leads to where i live was rather quiet and clean.. its all fine. once i've changed to the "1st" lane. which is essentially one of the oldest mrt lane's there is. there're ppl who scream in the phone.. perhaps their newfound gadget of display and takes seats.. shout over the shoulders and calls for the friend and relative to take the seat they've snatched - -|... and i've witnessed the huge crowd there is.. in the junction of the transit of mrt.. there are ppl.. like.. hundreds of them.. like PEOPLE!!!!

it is the time when u realize that we're really over populated = =

the first day that i didn't make it

hey man.. this is a make up post. >< cos ystd i wasn't able to come online due to unforeseen circumstances.. however i'd still like to keep this tradition of a post / a day for my blog incase i go down a slippery slope and abandon my blog again T. T lets recall ,.....................


ARHHH headache.. - - i forgot what did i want to talk about.. i think i'm getting old and stuff... i cant rmbr things well anymore... fine my cousin came around and we crapped pretty much. watched some interesting videos on soccer and played cards.. we were kind of lucky and beat the other pair to the ground xD....

played a little dota game at night cos web just refused to work

randomed to naga siren. it was easy. against ai = =|. damn no life. but there issnt much entertainment for me and my cousin after midnight OH i rmbr. here i did say that i live in a condo right. i mean. gong yu is supposed to be condo right...

but this doesn't look very condo-ish to me unless there's a 5-star kinda condo - -.. and thats weird.


here. spot the missing numbers. and i'm sure u know why.

however i wonder what's in those floors.. i mean when u look up a building u tend to see windows in every level.. so what's going on in there?

eeeheheheheeeeeee

Some recommended links

oh well. just came back from the market.

we spent 100+ rmb for a small bag of stuff.. okay.. well.. if all are counted in sing it would be cheap.. say 20+. ribs.. chickenwings. bao's and stuff. but the figure just seem so big =s. i need some time to get use to

hope yl the stalker can pull through with that crappy story. for those of u suffered in boredom.

i'm sure u are. or u wont be reading this.

here's some links

if u feel wise. and smart.. and you want to be wise and smart.. and you have that thirst for knowledge .. here's the link.
www.ted.com
.inspirational speeches. needless to say more

now youtube wont be new to you i'm sure. and if you dont know who russell peter is .. dude. you're really out. he's hot since 5 years ago and until now its still widely watched... unless ky is behind time ofcos...

now here's another link for youtube.

note: i'm not racist. but i treasure my right to laugh at racist jokes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TQR3hzDOoo

here's just one of it. laugh your ass off if you've yet to see it. i cant find a way to post it here anymore - -|.. there used to be a way.. hmm



oh yeah. i managed to blackmail my cousin into treating me a bbq. Leaving the phone unattended at home and go to work.. is not a wise choice. *evil smile spreads across my face*. reminders to all fellow villains out there. when u black mail ppl. you make sure you get what you wanted. and make sure the victims made a decision to be the victim.. and not trying to con u

which one...

wow it might just rain today!

dont call me somebody with no life. i'm just appreciating simple pleasures in life.

xD

i'm given another wallet.. which one should i use.. = =|

1st. the one i've used for a few days.

2nd one. its huge = =| but more organized with more card slots

...uncle gave me something for my luggage.. and it looks like this.. i like it . seriously. but i'm afraid that if i use it i'll get bashed up for soiling the name..

Another blue-sky day!

uh huh. another good day. today's even cooler. went down for a walk again. only thing uncomfortable is that all my skin felt too dry.. and i know i dont want moisturizers since i need to adapt.. >< arhh.. hope i'll adapt to dryness soon enough.

i shall catch up with a photo i took ystd afternoon.. there!. not bad huh xD


I've been reading lately.. alot. rather.

Business Week and Fortune. i even catched up on some previous issues to update myself about the crisis that i didn't bother while i was in Singapore, slacking my life away..

okay fine i'm still slacking my life away. but oh well. different style.

There's a book called Learning Journals that i've been trying to chew.. its a collection of stories of leaders in different fields on how they grow to be one.. wise words shared in the form of stories. here's the few questions that's rather significant:

- what are your native abilities and are you using them? how do you use them in the future? will ppl be proud of you?

this is rather against the chinese concept of being the best.. just mug on and climb to the top.. its about being what you're most comfortable doing. and do your teachers / parents proud. the thing is.. nowadays. they wont be proud of you unless you earn big bucks.. or will they?

-is your to-do list of the same weight as the to-learn list.

James Collins wrote this. okay. he may have some points there in saying that we should constantly be learning.. even from the people who seek answers from us. to grow. its more of a reminder to those big bosses out there... not to me i guess. i'd rather say i'll settle with my to-do list when i have to do smt... cos learning will be just a part of doing the thing that i am to do =s

the other stories so far. is more about learning.. if not all.

about learning effectively.. the best way. according to many. is to teach. cos there's this process of preparing.. teaching.. answering doubts.. which essentially would mean more thoughts into the issue..

there are many reminders about listening and learning.. understanding people so that one can manage better. or. on a higher level. learning from them and inspire them to understand their passion and drive in the job.

these are much of interpersonal stuff..

and there's some intrapersonal..

about knowing the destination and setting the "direction of travel"...
the guidelines.. principles in life that we keep to.. knowing where we're going in order to get there..
I think i know mine... do you know your's?

there's a tiny story. from the Naval Proceedings Manual.. which means the story true.. Stephen R Covey quoted it to explain our direction of travel and principles.. as direction of travel constantly change.. we must check our alignment constantly to head to our destinations... although i dont understand why he took principles as obstacles and said that "we dont break them as we will break ourselves against them.. bleah..

here goes.

On a dark and stormy night, the capt of a ship at sea recieved a frantic wake-up call.

"capt capt, wake up!"
"what is it"
"sorry to wake you, sir, but we have a real problem. "
"what is it"
"there's a ship in our sea-line, several miles away and they refuse to move."
"tell them to move."
"we have, sir, they just won't move."
"I'll tell them! move starboard 20 degrees."
the signal returned "move starboard yourself. 20 degrees"
"i can't believe this," roared the capt. "who's this joker? doesn't he know i'm the capt? tell him who i am"
"This is Capt Horatio Hornblower, the 26th, commanding you to move starboard 20 degrees, at once."
"this is seaman Carl Jones, the third, commanding you to move starboard 20 degrees, at once"
"i can't believe this. what arrogance. we're a battleship. we could blow them out of the water. Let him know who we are!"
"this is mighty Missouri, flagship of the 7th fleet."
the signal replied "this is the lighthouse"

...okay honestly this is just for laughs. if u aint laughing then my bad ><

from last few days of reading i've also came across an article about giving a talk to the finiance graduates of universities.. the couple was invited to give a talk to the graduates.. and the school reminded them not to mention certain phrases.. like.. "you're the best of the best" and "the future depends on you guys" or perhaps "the future is in your hands!"...

the graduates now adays are just more mature i guess.. they dont buy those crap anymore.. with the situation at hand they just wanna get tips for getting a job and climb the ladder.

they told the graduates alright. and i find it pretty true.. good common sense.

in short, expand the employer's expectations, exceed them. ignore the ideal work-life balance until we're earning enough.

good common sense and will stay true for a pretty damn long time. hey future me. if you're reading this. make sure you know what i've written.. man i hope i dont lose my memory by then.

Monday Blues.

nope. monday blues can be good too.

like for today.. monday, i woke up to realize the sky aint dusty anymore.. at least we can see the sky now. its blue! like.. there's clouds and stuff up there!!..

grandma and i took a walk in the garden this morning.. the wind is good =p ...the air quality improved a little. at least i'm not coughing.

here comes the photos!

BEFORE:


nice monday blue s[ky]:



and.. here's grandma
and another shot of her.
these are supposed to be filled with water btw = =|..


oh well =p. happy monday ppl!.. welcome back to sch? xD

Too wise? i wonder.

okay its about our parents / adults near us...

wisdom comes with old age? well.. certain extent its true. i mean.. experiencing is perhaps one of the best ways to learn... its a fact. and thus older => more experience in life. and thus => wiser.

hey. i'm god damn bloody wise. on the assumption that i am really 4 mil years old. ~ ~|.

and there's my grandma, and my aunt. my aunt is leaving for changchun today. so she wanna purchase some vege. that are "cheap" and fresh from the market.. so.. you know. down and dirty again. i came back from workout and bathed.. immediately summoned to be the guy to carry the stuff.. just great.. wasted water to bath T. T...

so we were on the way.. and i asked why buy those stuff.. and .. she did it in bulks.. bought like 20+ kg of stuff? she told me that there's no "soy sauce with out preservatives" in changchun.. so gotta buy here.. and to .. here's the worst part.. to save $..

fyi col of changchun is like so much lesser than beijing. and even if its transportation cost of the veges.. you can at most say save 1 RMB / kilo of stuff? thats like AT MOST! now lets just say she brought back 20kg of vege and each managed to save 1 rmb .. wow. thats 20 bucks.. now what exactly is the cost?.. the energy used to carry it.. to transport.. like for gods sake uncle came to pick her up for 3 days and each day cost around 200 rmb just to stay in the hotel.. and i guess he's here to help carry that vege to save up to 20rmb.. = =|.. so much for cost saving.

okay.. i shall not find any word to describe this incident incase it would be insulting.. and i do believe in the chinese culture of being filial and respectful to the older generation.. i shall. ><

after all i followed their instructions with out talking back right =s..

grandma was worried that i lose my way or meet a bad guy even if its less than 5 minutes walk away in the country's capital. now here's the thing. she blasted me when i wanted to bring my phone and wallet along when i go to the market.

now. for god's sake i dont know my god damn way around this fkin place just yet.. her philosophy is that if you dont bring it. it wont get stolen. okay. true. so if i dont bring them. wtf are they for. showing off? the thing about being pissed is that it feels like a loss of freedom. without phone and wallet there's so little thing that i can do.. besides walking back to the hse and... seriously.. just that. risk getting stolen? think again. the crime rate might be higher than sg. or the states. that does not mean every hour or every day or even every week there's a report loss in a messy market like that one.. worst come to worst.. that i'm so dumb and with zero ability to detect the thief myself... at least i'll feel it when its gone. esp. when extremely alert.. and throw a punch or two? or WORST COME TO WORST. my money and phone might be saving somebody in need. for gods sake nobody wants to be a thief. since there's a reason. they are fking poor and need the money. go ahead and take it. they're in a way better than beggers. at least they worked for the money.

there's just 1 more thing.. about being somebody.

grandma insists that i should bring a pajamas. i'm fine with that. just a lil lazy.. and she asked me to use a christian name... should stop wearing white so the dirt on the shirt dont show.. and that all i need is to study and to score... and stop socializing. in the context.. socializing was potrayed as talking to anybody online.. including now i guess =s.

i'm all fine with the practices and stuff... but the thing is that she insists that i should do it so that the peers will not "laugh at me".. and no talking to anyone? wow.. like for gods sake i've only got grandma and aunt to talk to. nobody of my age around. now is she trying to drive me into depression or what = =|.. okay i do ackowledge her goodwill in trying to remind me to keep reading and .. reading.. i like those stuff. its about human resource alright. but .. hey. dude. human resource. wth is human resource without the interaction man..

the "not laughing at me part".. wise? i can safely and perhaps proudly say i do adapt pretty well =s... to situations.. speak their language.. do as romans do while in rome.. and i know verywell its a should to do it.. not being weird and stuff.. its about respecting their culture and not being stubborn. a easier way to express myself to the future peers. she asked me to do those very surface sorta stuff.. so what if my shirt changed to grey.. dust will still fall and for gods sake i shouldn't be changing them? just using the colour so that ppl dont see it?... not worth commenting.

i told her.. and i think its pretty classic.. holds true.

The worse thing about pretending to be one of the majority and not be "yourself", is to pretend by copying on the surface and fail miserably.

mark my word man. i am who i am. i respect ppl, i blend in. my way. I am chinese and that is that. that yellow skin, black hair and my black eyes marks my identity. i do not represent the race, just myself, there's no way i'm avoiding that.

MARKEEEETT!

... i wanted to take photos but sorry.. for the sake of my phone not being stolen i was convinced not to take it along...

10 minutes walk.. to the huge.. dusty... smelly market that's full of ppl.. my grandma dont really negotiate.. ask for the prize then give.. - -| cos really cannot stand the smell and the heat. the thing about the market is that the stuff they sell lasts much longer than those from the super mart..

freshness you see..

thats the negative aspect of huge retailers compared to small business.. and thus they co-exist xD...
i can think econs too! mr tan will be so proud please.. thats my econs teacher btw.. he's going to get streetfighter for computer but the control was too ex. i think =s.

my skin is really dry now.. the air.. i guess i'll get use to it.. i'm doing great in keep working out everyday.. okay fine its just 3 days for now.. but i will go on! until i get my 6 pecs.. and keeping it xD...

this shall be it. good night ppl!!! 2ml's eating out for dinner again.. = =|.. hai..

the problem of eating out..

today's rather regular. worked out in the afternoon. there's a lady there that started walking before i was there and was still walking while i left.. i dont know but she really look much more professional than i am = =|.. i shall jiayou in my slimming down plan xD i'm sure i'll get pro too.

grandma was afraid that i'll eh.. not find my way or i dont know.. be kidnapped by a bad guy or something. but i still went out alone to the super mart to get some iodine for a toe wound and a chinese sim card! 50 rmb. i'm not sure this might last quite long - - hahaha. that's like 10 sing.
but might last me a month. i only know a few friends in this city. yepp! however its a lil too hot to play.. i wonder.. maybe i shld meet them still.

i've been to a publishing conference today.. in there.. i'm like the YOUNGEST. and most insignificant one around.. head of xxx.. chairperson of xxx.. prof. whatever.. xxx being some imba big sounding organizations in the field of publishing / chinese medicine.



the talk was rather interesting.. the content is one thing.. observing them is another. there're 5 speakers... lets just say the best speaker is the third.. he.. well. he's the head of the chinese medicine research in the country.. and.. many many.. many titles on his name too.. [he gave me his name card over the lunch table.. and here's how it looks like] ...the catch is that he's 78, and he's blind on the left eye, able to see only light, and the right being really weak in seeing too.. he's got a slanted mouth and he cant speak clearly because of that.. [heard he's got 3 major operations but none took his life.. one of them made the mouth slant]. ....

yes he's the best speaker there..

there's two authors.. one read from the script. he was standing up when he begin.. and somehow he just sat down in the middle of reading it.. he murmured and cant look up... the other author.. better in a sense. did not use a script. but he keep repeating himself. he's in a tao-ist suit thou.. good catch. but the content is close or equal to zero.. so =s.. he's out. then.. the 3rd's the good speaker i was talking about.. sensable and persuasive .. at least he cut his stuff short.. the 4th.. is eh.. very swaying speaker.. when i say sway is what he really do throughout his speech.. he's this extremeist that condemns all science and believe that the da dao [ big way ] which we cannot understand .. and nobody can really get the meaning.. cos there's no fixed meaning.. is the only thing that's in the way of preventing the end of the world. ...he tried to make it motivational.. like.. FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS!..... i shall not comment any further.. the last guy.. eh.. from the commitee of nobel price nomination guy... he mumbles and he made getting nobel price sound like a piece of cake and too political... = =|

oh one more thing.. i was the only good audience who bother to listen with eye contact / or acturally face the speaker.. = =|.. everyone else were "busy" with their own stuff.. phone ringing... going in and out of the room.. etc etc...

okay.. they are all very very scholarly.. they can quote great ppl.. time.. and event.. quotes.. like nobody's business.. very knowledgeable indeed. respect.

now that's really the main content..

chinese food

i've absolutely nothing against chinese food... its good. tastes good. rather healthy.

there's just one thing. wastage. the culture says.. or shall i say unspoken thingy.. the guests wont be full until there's leftovers.. so.. you order alot.. the more you order.. the better the hospitality [potrayed] and people share plates of food. when there's food.. you try to eat more.. = =|.. there's nth like "your share"..

there were 16 different dishes on our table and its a table of 9... all 16 is large serving.


these were the 3rd layer of plates you see..

day 2. a decent life.

okay here's what day 2 is about.













had breakfast downstairs. buffet. but it was not really good. huge variety thou. my grandma and my auntie used fork and knife + spoon.. i simply used chopsticks.. = =|.. talking about westernized ppl. hahahaha. okay fine i did use fork later for my salad but thats really minimal. see! i'm a pure breed china man! woohoo. thats my grandma and aunt btw

i had trouble logging into blogspot the whole day. finally managed to come in at night..


okay thats shifting away from the time line.. back track to after breakfast.. went to gym.. ran for 20 minutes but only covered 2.7 km - =.. needa increase the speed.. start slow ^^.. there's a tv infront of the treadmill. discovery + running in a dry environment is really pleasant i must say. should be able to keep it up. there's no weights training machine thou. or whatever its called.. i'll just work with the dumbells =s.

grandma wanted to go to the supermarket.. First STEP for JIANNAN. onto the street and into the air.. it wasn't that bad acturally. morning sun is not so hot. dry environment is really nice. but i think i'll start to suffer on my skin too.. there's no hydration machine in the room.. or whatever its called.. *shrugs*. shall adapt. .. it was a first hand experience of the manpower in china.. there's so many staff in the market that i think its almost as many as the shoppers.. and there're ppl promoting the food and snacks for free tasting.. kena dao by everyone.. rather sad but oh well.. its their job right..

had a great nap in the afternoon.. must be the exercise.. mum called at night to ask me write essay. that is really wtf. i'm enjoying the magazines here thou. uncle booked fortune and business week sorta thing. will not get bored. ^^

*stretches. now, for the uploading of my photos!..



777. sia.
oh yeah. here's some photos of me on the plane.. hahaa. the thing special about this is that i dont have a camera with me. but mum asked me to take some photos.. so.. x. x.. i guess turning on the handphone wont be much of a problem. xD.. and i did! wasn't caught.. there were no signal up there so no harm.. here's some photos.. wasnt very special.. a little of cam whore-ing for me hehe