heys! surprise!!!
me and my fellow ntu friends found a method to bypass the proxy here in shanghai, so i can actually post my entries on blogger! just that i can't access my blog itself... =( sounds sad haha! but this means... heh. heh. heh.
these few days had been rather tiring for me... been out walking all day long these 3 days... stiff back =( but so far... feel quite productive... cos been buying and settling quite a lot of things!
for now.. let me just post my previous thoughts when i first arrived in shanghai on 6th jan...
06 Jan 2008 10:37pm
Today's my first day here in Shanghai... Been a really cold and tiring day for me... When i first reached shanghai at around 6am in the morning, it was a freaking -1degrees celcius... and i was just wearing a really thin layer of clothes plus my overcoat... it was the first time i experienced "smoke" coming out of my mouth when i spoke out there in the cold...
Spent the rest of the day trying to fix up the basic necessities in our house while fighting with the bitter cold... one moral i learnt today... when u're cold, the best way out is to exercise, like walking to the "nearby" shopping malls or doing some manual work. once u're heated up, even when the wind blows... wad is it man? lmao~ but at the moment now... it's terribly cold until my muscles are starting to ache... and i really wish i don't have to bathe =( we spent like 1k rmb on bedsheets, detergents, quilts etc... and it was ouch for me cos i was the one paying for everything first... tml i have to remember to get back money from them =X it's scary how fast money goes in front of your eyes... and i need to learn how to manage them properly.. 1k sgd plus my monthly 1.5k rmb... i hope i wouldn't have to resort to drawing from atms here... =X
Now... trying desperately to connect to the wireless connection... but failing numerous times... oh well... must wait until the landlord tells us the account id and password... so in the meantime we were trying to tap onto other people's unsecured wireless networks... but of course the shanghainess aren't dumb... so here i am... rather desperate to talk to those people i left in singapore but with no means to do so...
Need to wake up at 6 tml... i wonder if i can do it... i guess i haven't been sleeping proper even before i left for shanghai... and i haven't bathed! =( can i don't bathe pls? the water is freezing cold.. =(
Some other things that left a terrible impression on me... i was targeted by shanghainese for their scams! *already? oh god* there was this old lady who saw me and my room mates buying loads of things and wanted to chalk up the points from our purchases for her shopping card! alright bah... at least so far i can still tell wad they have in mind... i think it's the scariest when you don't know their motives behind approaching you...
But some things *which i don't know whether i'm proud of* is that... probably i resemble the locals in shanghai! several people spoke to me in shanghainese... and even my friends who came together with me commented that the way i dress is as though i'm one of the locals here... er the comments from my friends i don't know how true that really is... but when the locals start speaking to you in their native language i suppose that's a good sign bah.. so yeaps. my next target is to learn shanghainese and pose off as one of the locals here! lmao~
I didn't really take a lot of photos here... but i hope i can do so tomorrow! for now... all i can think of is how to escape from the biting cold and how in the world am i going to go for the gip group meeting tml... and not forgetting how to get to my workplace!
I miss a lot of people from Singapore... Thanks pansy for your muffins! erms actually i haven't got the chance to eat them yet... but they smell really good! i'm saving them for breakfast tml =) and thanks to sheila shianchi and yin for coming to send me off yesterday night! took some really scandalous photos there bwahahahaha~~ and of course my family... darn i wish i have internet today to let them know i'm alright *except for being extremely cold* and all those who wished me bon voyage and to have a safe and fun trip... =) i don't know how to express my gratitude =) and... =)
ok it sounds stupid... but 6 mths to go in shanghai! jiayous! =) *now why am i even counting down the moment i first step into shanghai? o.O*
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