Showing posts with label Surviving China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surviving China. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2009

Surviving China - Video

Liying and I prepared this for the publicity meeting, and i have edited it for my aunt. This is the edited one...I'll do the other posts when i'm not teaching english to my china friends or when i'm not doing posts for my QQ空间 (China's MSN).

I think that we are facing the same problem when we are back, we cant seem to find people who are interested to know how we lived our lifes there. It is hard for them to relate what we have done there, and we are becoming more reserve each time someone asks us how was the trip...

I cant be bothered about how the guys felt about the trip, because the 3 of us had a great time there. I think we must thank them for their childish acts, because without it, the 3 of us might not have made so many friends. I know that each of us have changed during this 4 months, and this change is not isloated to just the 5 of us. Everyone back home is also changing. But I have met friends who are still standing in the same spot as when i left. Should i feel sorry for them? It is true that when someone travels, their mindset becomes broader,and they will look at things from a different angle... what we think and how we look at things become different from what we felt 5months ago.

I am still adapting to the life here....


Monday, November 17, 2008

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 ! ! !

Sunday, November 16, 2008

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.