Trip to Song Jiang and my lead role in the great fake handphone bust

The BF bought me to Song Jiang on Sunday for a romantic getaway.

Apprently when he first came to China, he work there in this place call "University Town" for 6 months as a teacher.

(and yes, the district is call "University Town" as it is filled with 5 or 6 universities. The chinese don't fuck around with naming things.)

The classrooms:


Lecture halls:


Teachers' rooms:


The grounds:








(yes, I said I won't post pics anymore but I changed my mind. I'm a woman. I'm allow to be fickle.)

The scruffy BF and I next go to have a walk around town. Seriously, I like little towns, the people are friendlier, things are cheaper and scenery still contains a certain old time worn in charm than cosmopolitan Shanghai.







Then, while walking around town, someone stood right in front of me, handed me a Nokia phone and ask me whether I want to buy it.

My phone is shitty,and its dying on me. In my little greedy mind I was going "why not? if i don't buy it someone else is going to buy it off him anyway." I bargain it down to 250 rmb and the transaction is made in MacDonalds after I tested it.

He left and the very next moment, a guy tap my shoulder and said "Miss, can you test whether your phone is working?"

Uhh Ohh.

Those guys are undercover police. Basically they have been watching us all the time and they bust the guy once he walk out of the door.

And I didn't get to buy a phone because the real phone has been swap with a fake one once I test it and the handover of goods and money is made.

Well, lucky me, I got my money back and all's well.

Great trip honey.

Monster blog?

Oh yea.

The photos are back!

Please don't ask me how coz I'm too elated to go through that whole fucking story again.

(In short it is just a very dumb thing on my part which involves restarting the computer. But its a story or another day. Possibly never.)

Anyway am listening to Skee-lo - I wish right now. Wicked song. Sought me out on MSN and I will send it to you.

Lyrics this way. http://www.mp3lyrics.org/s/skee-lo/i-wish/

Other songs that I am into right now:
Fog Hat - I just want to make love to you
Rolling Stones - I can't get no satisfaction

Yea, I know its pretty funny putting the songs together like that. It sounds like a before and after sex songs you put on to listen to or have in your head when words are useless in expressing situations like that.

I on the otherhand have not encounter such a depresing combination of songs to myself yet.

(Jolyn, does WK get you satisfaction?)

Just feel like asking.

Here 's a breakdown on all the stuff I did since I last update.
1. Went to Wuzhen during the china national holiday for 2 days with flatmate.

Nothing impressive. Only thing I really like there is this red oriental shoes which I wore for Halloween for the very first time and they are totally destroyed.

2. Went to Hangzhou and Wuxi for a party at both places with the BF. REal crazy trip.

The trip was fantastic.

Not the scenery.

I think my most memorable part about the whole trip is that we could not get a hotel at all on the first night in Hangzhou so me and the BF went back to the pub (where his friends are at) and end up rocking to the rock songs they are playing and he trashing people at the pool table.

THe next morning head out to the famous XI Hu river with him and mate. I don't get it. XI HU is suppose to be the gorgeous place as it is reputed. But I think, the Pasir RIs , East Coast or even the sand imported Sentosa in Singapore looks even better.

Seriously!

I would not even want to justify myself by putting up photos. Waste of my time. That place is so commercialised.

Oh and talking about photos, I am going to post all my photos on Facebook instead of here. Its tiresome to upload on photobucket and transfer to here.I'm lazy like that and I find it really a great waste of time.

Its going to be pretty convenient. I'm going to put the link of my album up so you guys can still view it even if you are not on Facebook.

Here's the most recent one for Halloween: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=19083&l=56070&id=766706473

I dressed up as a Rocker-dead-chinese-ghost thingy.. ehh.. yup. I think that about spells it right.

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I love Facebook.

I'm pretty busy at work these few days but still I kept it close by, open in a new window browser and go check on it once in a while. The tagging of photos, the applications to download, the knowing at anytime when anyone of your friends are updating and thinking about today.

Its geting a bit obsessive.

But then again I'm pretty sure ,after the honeymoon is over for me and Facebook ,its going to regrade to the status of Friendster and Blogger.. something I still do once in a whilr but not on my mind constantly anymore.

I have such a whore's heart.

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Oh and Aliah, hey, happy birthday once again.

Here's your 8 things:

1. I always wake up one hour after my alarm clock rings. Thus sacrificing making and having a luxurious breakfast for myself.

2. I like to listen to rock songs and dance around in my room. Do that most often after I bath and I just groove around the room wearing my bathrobe for at least to 3 songs.

3.I dislike mean insensitive arrogant stuck up people who think they are so gorgeous.

4.I like beer, but I really shouldn't with all those calories.

5.I like the idea of me in the gym, working out hard... again.. idea of it.

6.Deep down I am very very nerdy but I do like to think I'm pretty cool.

7. I always wish I can look good in t-shirts but I suck in them

8.I wish I am shorter. Too many guys off the radar just because I'm too tall. Damn.

Monster blog

I am pissed.

Pissed because all my photos.....all that is stored in my hard disk are all gone.

THey are the photos that are accumulated since I am 19 and now.. all gone.

All gone.

Monster blog as it is suppose to be "chokeful" of photos and stuff. Arrgh.

Definitely not in the mood to write now.

How I survive the Tsunami/Hurricane

According to the good people of the china media, the Hurricane/Tsunami (well, I didn't find out which it is) is the worst that had EVER hit Shanghai for the past 10 years.

Being known to the fact, naturally I went straight to a pub at the Bund or to be known as Wai Tan (beside the bloody river) and ... waited for two nights, drinknig wine with my mates and .. anticipating with great morbid eagerness.

I even wore high heels and short flirty skirts to make it more challenging.(you know, the whole holding on to skirt as I run daintily across the roads in the bustling wind.

TO conclude, it was windy, slighty rainy but the rain completely stop after 10pm and erm.. yea. I survive.

Barbarossa

Went to this moraccan restaurant just now at this place call Barbarossa. Its situated inside a lovely park, this isolated building with a little river right in front of it. Very pretty place, 3 storeys high with a outdoor terrance, you can see high rise building skylines beyond those lush greenery around..

I wanted to take more pictures but was having dinner on the first floor and so all I took was some photos of myself and the food there. By the time I reach the second floor with the gorgeous view for drinks, my camera went flat.

Can you see my face getting visibly thinner? That's 3 kg weight lost. Haha!



Oh and thanks for that necklace! It went very well with my blue cotton dress.. love it!







Total damage: 286 rmb.

The pasta is the best of all. The beef stew is average, but the lamb balls are disappointing. 4 lamb balls laying an two slabs of bean cakes with hummus spread in between.. for the rate of 50 rmb. Not very nice.

A date at that place is very excellent though.

Soft candlelight, diana krall singing in thr background, the cool night breeze, my flatemate and I lament so much that why we had to come with each other to a place like this and not on an actual date with someone else!

Another reason why I love this place, Thursday is Ladies night. They served Bailey's free for ladies from 9pm - 12 am.

Oh yes, I had my glass(es) of milk and you can be sure I can sleep like a baby tonight.

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Gym tomorrow at 8.30pm. Need to run off the guilt.