- I’ve caught a cold.
- There was no cold water in the building until 5pm and the fuyuans didn’t think it was that important to tell us this. Cold water also means no flushing toilet water!!
- Catching a cold means lots of fluids and bed rest, and having no flush on the toilet isn’t really helping any.
- One of my fish died… and it’s the one that I actually wanted to stay alive!
- We had a great indoor picnic with some classmates. Real pasta by an Italian, real tomyum by a Thai and random stir-fry by two alcoholics.
- The Tree should still be called Hidden Tree!!!
- Red leaves at Xiangshan cannot be found from the top.
- My classmates are so nice and sympathetic.
- My roommate cooks lots of yummy food for me.
- Exams are almost over!
- Kai has cheap drinks and good music 25RMB for absinth?!
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07
November
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03
November
I don’t usually celebrate Halloween and I don’t dress up to themes or as characters.
So when Halloween came around the corner during our BLCU mid semesters in Beijing, we decided we had to definitely dress up and celebrate! The celebrating was nice and easy, just drinking and dancing (as per usual). The costumes were a lot harder than I thought!
When we went for dinner at a Yunnan Restaurant near Club 13, we were taken to the back of the restaurant. Where they hiding us from their other patrons or giving us VIP treatment? It doesn’t matter, the food tasted really good! =) The waiters and patrons just couldn’t take their eyes off the group of us. Not only were we foreigners (and speaking quite loudly in plain English), but we were completely dressed up in strange costumes.
Just like the asians back home, a large majority of the people (who happened to be : Korean, Japanese, Chinese) did NOT wear a costume! Ah, what is it about costumes that scares people off?
The club had live Japanese and Korean bands performing on stage. One of the groups sang a few English songs in terrible English… But we couldn’t help but join in the chorus either way =P
Club 13 was pretty packed at one point, they had some pretty good acts and atmosphere but we were a bit disappointed when the party ended at 24:00hrs. We also missed out on the costume competition because we were eating dinner =(
One of the funniest moments I recall from that day was when our Japanese classmate, who told us about the party, dressed up as a mummy! It was so fun and exciting having everyone helping each other prepare and get ready for the event. I was a bit disappointed when the bandages we stitched were taken off though, it took AGES to sew and we had to redo it a few times because of… difficult areas *coff*crotch*coff*
We were expecting to party late into the night so when the party at Club13 ended, we finished off the night at the local Wudaokou club, Propaganda (must blog about this place later!). We might have looked a little odd in costumes but Propaganda alcohol has some nasty side effects, the other patrons probably thought they were hallucinating!
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01
November
All this cramming makes me think of anything but study! Here’s some random things to note:
- Adam’s finally here in Beijing!!! =D But I have a few exams so I can’t just skip classes to hangout with him =(
- The weather is FREEZING and they still haven’t turned on the heating. We were told that we have to wait until the 1st Nov or 15th Nov … And since I’m still freezing my ass, I’m guessing I’ll have to wait til the 15th =(
- Hei and Jing keep head butting each other and they gobble up all the food I feed them so I’m sure one of them will die soon …
- I accidentally bought a Japanese fighting fish…it refuses to eat because I can’t find any freaking bloodworms =(
- We’re going to a Jap/Korean Halloween party Friday night to make up for the Halloween parties we missed on Wednesday night.
- Roughly have plans to go Sunlitun to party with Adam…
- I’m still looking into going to see Groove Coverage in Beijing this Dec!! Turns out my classmate’s bf is a huge fan ^_- I also found out that Linkin Park will be in Shanghai!!! But I’ll probably just stay in Bj
- I haven’t seen my language partner for a week and I don’t plan on contacting her soon because she’ll make me feel guilty for being a bad student.
- Tanya plans to get her language partner drunk, I think all our language partners should get drunk together for their ‘fist time’ =D
- I bought the first 4 Harry Potter books. And I’m halfway through already!
- My roommate has started to wake up at 6am everyday to study and I snooze a bit longer because it’s so freaking cold!
- I’m really hating this dodgy China internet that keeps disconnecting me every 5mins!!!
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20
October
My parents left to join in my grandfathers 80th birthday celebrations in KL already. In the short time they were in 北京 Beijing, we had the chance to go to 北海 Beihai, 西单 Xidan, 秀水街Xiushuijie, walk through 景山公园 Jingshan Park, drive around 故宫 Gugong,天安门 Tiananmen, 后海 Houhai, some 胡同 Hutongs, eat some yummy 北京烤鸭 Beijing Duck and saw my cutie nephew!!!!!
It’s hard when one person wants to do the cultural site seeing thing and the other wants to just go shopping….
Either way, that hotel bed was lovely to sleep on and the showerhead was to die for! I wasn’t too fond with the slow drainage and windowless curtains though. I stupidly walked from the new train station to their hotel on the first day thinking it wouldn’t be that far. Yes well, it wasn’t that far on the map…
The new subway Line 5 was pretty spiffy, their trains were upgraded (lights to show the progress, extra bars for people to hold on to, AC etc) and they also put in glass doors on the platforms which I thought was stupid because the train doesn’t actually line it’s doors with the platform doors when it stops. Anyways, they still have a long way to go before it can even be compared to HK.
So I gave my family a quick call on Saturday to say “Hi!” and “Happy Birthday” to my Grandfather. But it was so noisy I doubt they even heard me… I wish I had been there to see everyone and eat the wonderful banquet I’m sure they had =( Now I’ll just have to make do with the photos and videos…
Yesterday was apparently the Vietnamese Women’s Day! It’s the day where the guys will treat the girls like a queen by buying them flowers or a gift and doing the chores for them. We ended up having a yummy steamboat on the kitchen floor in dorm building 4 with a bunch of Vietnamese people. You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve met more Vietnamese people than local Chinese!
PS. I bought myself a couple of fishies (黑黑 and 金金)! I decided it was just too cruel to kill a turtle.
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13
October
- I just found out that I can access Pitas from Beijing!! go to [linny.pitas.com] for blog with photo updates #
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13
October
Tanya, Rina (one of our Japanese classmate’s) and I went to the zoo and aquarium on the weekend. It was a bit disturbing to see all the animals caged in these tiny prisons. It wasn’t so much the fish and birds, but it’s just cruel to see an adult elephant, hippo, tiger, lion etc in a tiny cement prison with barely any space to move around in. Even the outdoor ‘enclosures’ were tiny although on the plus side, they have plants/grass!
Starved for food and rushing to get into the 3pm sealion-dolphin show at the aquarium, we opted to watch the show and munch on random snacks. The show was really great, too bad my camera ran out of memory though (I took too many videos of monkeys earlier). I wished the show went for a bit longer though, it finished much too quickly!
The aquarium was pretty fun even though we were rushing through the whole place because we only had about an hour before everything closed. It beats AQWA any day just by the size of it! But I can’t compare too much because I can’t even remember the last time I went to the zoo or aquarium!
I bought a couple of souvenirs but for some reason the aquarium had an extremely disappointing range. So much so I was on the verge of buying a Japanese Fighting fish!! soooo very cute… I’m seriously thinking of getting one and my roommate can have it when I leave… =P
Anyhow, I’ve been borderline sick the past few days but thankfully nothing worst than a runny nose and a cough. Tanya on the other hand is not so lucky, she seems to keep getting sick! We’re going to go shopping for some winter stuff after class tomorrow and I’m planning to buy a heap so I can give it to my parents when I see them Wednesday =P
PS. Pikachu is much appreciated by me and my roommate =)
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