Learning Chinese Culture

Sunday morning and i am feeling lazy... a few more reports to do =X

Today is the 30th November. Another month and 10 days till i am back home in Singapore. Why does it have to be so soon? Why does it begin to end, when we have only started to learn and understand?

The first 3 months. But i can't really say i have truly experienced the culture of China, until i came to know and make friends with the local Chinese...and it is only recently that we began to have a stronger friendship with the friends we came to know. Although not all are local Chinese, but getting to meet Korean friends and Malaysian friends are quite fun too.

I know i have yet to introduce Zoey(the Malaysian friend) and the 2 yang yang(s) that Yeah Hooi met in her church. I even left out the fact that we went to wuxi on Monday =X haha.. my bad..

I think that it is only from them that we can really know Chinese culture. And i am confident to say that i am learning things from they, even from Liu Yi. Being brought up with different family background and environment, each of them taught us something different, but then again, there are some similarity between them...

I know we are going to learn more... and i hope that they can learn more about us ^^

小红外套与火车

有一天，小红外套买了从无锡前往苏州的火车票。这是小红外套第一次搭火车。一开始，小红外套傻傻地跟着别人排队。排了很久，也没有听到火车的声音。 小红外套，等到不耐烦，就踏过百线。饰演了女主角在Just My Luck叫车的时候，喊了，"TAXI!!" 转眼间，火车就来了。。（不知道为什么，火车是从另一个方向开来的。。）

小红外套就很开心地踏入火车内。

第一次乘坐的旅程便开始了。。。

Going out with 刘毅

I told you that i made a friend in the salon. And he was nice enough to bring us to China Post to make payment for our electricity bill since not all China Post branch have that service...

We found a new street to play in!! The whole street sells, fishes and plants!! My element !! Heehee, i would definately go back to buy some seeds and maybe some pots. Perhaps, we can get a christmas tree ^^

I think we scared him, by "dragging" him to take neoprint with us.

He taught me something that day, "No thank you!" 不谢！

We were walking along the fish and plant street when, Li Ying noticed a plant bearing some fruits. They began to touch the fruit with the utmost curiosity. The uncle tending the shop began to reprimand them, “麻烦你们不要乱动，谢谢！”（Do not touch the fruits, thank you.）And you know what was Liu Yi's first reaction? He replied to the man "no thank you", which literally means ,"不谢". 不谢 actually means "your welcome", but under the translation of him and his friends, it suddenly became "no thank you".

He explained that China students learn English word by word. And their teacher never taught them how to reply when you receive thanks from others. So they themselves came up with the term, "no thank you!". Interesting...

Video Call

The flexibility and applications available on the Internet is really something that removes distance between people.

I managed to have a video call with my group mates back in Singapore !! Heehee. Just look at Xuan Ming's shirt, a classic example of what it is like back in Singapore. I ave no idea why he is inside the photo. (I wanted to take photo with Mrs Tan ! Xuan Ming, Extra...)

The class seems like they are doing fine. Some new gossips and happenings..and i am not there to join in the fun =(

Enjoyed talking to you guys ! ^^

I love Salons !!

I guess it's the Monday's blue for everyone. 3 of us went out to have our breakfast at a Happy Place call, Macdonald, to have Happy Food.

I introduced to them a bookshop at one tiny street, and we bought a few more books. We're sort of like book addictics. We can stay in a bookshop for more than an hour, doing nothing but flipping pages. Someone have to stop us from buying any more books!!

For some reason or another, we decided to have a hair cut at this salon called, Jane Eyre. "I am now sitting in a hair dressing salon, waiting for Liying and Yeah Hooi to get their hair done. I met someone this afternoon (sounds…erm… ya….), the assistant hair dresser.

He greeted us at the entrance, leading us upstairs to the salon. Each of us got served by a different assistant and the one serving me was him. It was pretty, how do I put this, nerve wrecking to be served by a not-bad looking guy. Being us, we started conversations with the assistants serving us. Awkward, awkward and more… I told him that we are not locals and were students studying in the local university.

He was quite surprise by that, he told me that he did not notice that we are foreigners. We talked. I found out that he is not from Suzhou, but from some other city in Xu Zhou. He came to Suzhou 6 years ago..."

Let me carry on my story... because i allowed the hair dressers to play Crazy Taxi using my laptop thereafter....

After having a sort of in depth conversation with him he told me that my chinese isn't really there yet. *Heart Breaks* And he encouraged me to use the term "普通话" and "中国话" instead of 华文/华语, because locals isn't familiar with the term.

He washed my hair for me! *Blissful feeling* =P heehee.
But then again, he helped 2 other girls wash theirs that night. *Jealous* =(
But he helped me clean my ears! *Melt* hahaha... Victory ! (i'm kidding)

He told me that he intends to tell his boss that he is quiting his job at the end of the month (is it for me?... I'm sorry, but my brain isn't working. It is what people would call "Xiao Lu Luan Zhuan")

If you want to know, this is the hair desser assistant... His name is 刘毅 (liu yi)。You know that i always use "口是心非 (kou shi xin fei) to introduce myself. And he tried using "留意" (liu yi, the meaning is to take note of something) to help me remember his name. And yes, i got his contact number !! *big smile*
This is wang lei...the manger of the salon.



Make me feel like the time during SP Superstar the Musical...
Wang Lei playing Crazy Tazi with my laptop..

I can't find my fringe...!!!



The final looks...
Yeah Hooi and her Hair dresser.
Our hair dresser...


heehee... A Very "Fruitful" Day.

I LOVE MONDAYS ! ! !

Tough Cookie

My Tough Cookie-ness was being eaten up by the Cookie Monster Inside of Me.

BBQ at 太湖

We went to a BBQ at TaiHu, with s friend that we met in during the WuYiShan Trip. He invited us to join him and people from his company =)










The guy behind totally looks like the tou guide from wuyishan trip !! Me and the 2 girls felt that they look alike for a very long time, before i broke the slience and said that he look like the tour guide...!!








Water-powered Generated.

Xinfei acting dumb at the back.. =)

Andy say i look so cartoon.