下雪了

Not a big heavy snow that you can see a white layer all over the places, still... it snows, in Shanghai, light snow!   We checked the weather forecast yesterday and it showed "snow with rain".   So after finishing an article reading, I was walking by myself around the rural area nearby the university to take some photos. On one side, you can see all the skycrappers buildings; on the other side, it's the poor side of Shanghai. A big contradiction indeed.   We are advised not to eat the street food just to avoid getting food poisoned or anything. Yea, I think no one would like fully utilise the travel insurance that we bought. But looking at those "household industry" selling along the streets at 0 degree celcius, it's not the food that tempted me, it's more like a support to them, trying and tasting what they have usually as opposed to the other side of Shanghai where people usually dines in classy restaurant.   You can pay for 35 yuan for 6 dumpings or buns in Din Tai Fung, yet you can also pay for 1 yuan per dumping or per bun at the street stalls. The quality of food is negligible, they are yummy.   Yea, "snow with rain". I tried to make sure it's snow, not rain - just don't want to be fooled by myself. So when the snow gets a little heavier, I'm sure it's snowing, not raining. Double confirmed when I heard someone saying, "下雪了!"

 

Happy Birthday Mommy!

For the past 3 weeks, it feels like months, it's not 度日如年 anymore! I have never been so fully utilising my time ever, or at least in this 2010. Wake up no later than 8.15am - and occupied till the bed time. The cycle goes round and round, and now everyone came to realise that we have not much time left. Oops. Time shoooooooots. Happy Birthday Mommy! This is the first year I'm not home to celebrate your birthday and I can't bake you a birthday cake too :( I missed out dad and the brothers' birthdays since I came to Australia, but at least I could be home on the 13th of Dec each year. Sadly, not this year. Anyway, still... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY! ❤❤❤❤❤

 

塞翁失马，焉知非福

Hahahahahaha I'm so freaking happy!! Hahahahahahahahaha. I'm surrounded with all the professionals everyday and things are interesting here. Listening to their experiences, it's something really special and amazing! At least for me, it's something that I have never expected, ever. Or, it's like.. a fortune teller would never be able to tell that I'd be here today and doing what I'm doing at the moment. ❤ Joe

 

Be sane

I actually have this thought of doing grad law or JD after I'm done with this while I'm here in Shanghai, tell me am I crazy or what?! No, I must keep telling myself I'm sick of studying. This must be a joke to myself. If this is the case, I should have decided to do the combined degree three years ago or I just didn't have that courage back then. No I'm not gonna do that. Be sane. I think this three-week would be the period that I have the most Chinese tea ever. Tea for every meal and tea for every section of the class. But you know, the plastic cup is sooooo thin, only if it doesn't melt with the hot water pouring into. Talking about plastic. They charge 20 cents for a plastic bag in Carrefour at the check-out counter, and they even have barcode on the plastic bag to be scanned on if you ask for one! Cool? Not at all. What's wrong with plastic!? It's you yourself that need to be educated but not overreacting on this innocent non-biological thing. Plus, plastic nowadays could be biodegraded, people!

 

Greetings from Shanghai

Thanks to the extreme restriction I've over here, I gotta start writing diary, a daily one! And I can re-post it here when I get to access to the Blogger. Hopefully I manage to do that if I'm not too lazy, I hope. But I doubt that in a way, hehehe.  Meanwhile I should also try to bypass the restriction, or get someone to help me to bypass it. I heard from Christine that someone knows how to do it. Yea, I should get him to help me probably. Or if you know, feel free to email me please. Haha :D Oh by the way I'm updating using email. I can do it for every post but... I don't think I want to. I wanna get the posts with pictures and captions instead of just words and craps with whole lots of random photos. I love perfection. Arghh I didn't get the email notification for comment done before I came here. That's stupid, isn't it!! Whatever.. Now I miss Hong Kong, absolutely! It was just plain awesome! Okay, diary time! Buhbyeeee.

 

A sneak peek of the first day in Hong Kong

Me, Liz and Ronald

Thanks Albert for the photos! I received it early in the morning from Liz, so efficient wooops!! :D Ahhhh I woke up for thrice in the midnight, was it the effect of the milk tea from last night's supper? Or I'm simply too excited. Teeheehee. I'm super energetic now.