Diet plan

I shall be a good girl and start my diet plan.

Knowing me, i will die without food, so it will definitely not some crazy starving myself plan.

My strategy:

1. Eat till 70% full. My 70% full is a normal girl's VERY full, so it is still erm.. full
2. Eat lesser rice. Can do that in china, especially my company lunch, their serving for lunch is alot so i can be full without even eating the rice.
3. Drink green tea. Since the food here is super oily, i shall drink green tea everyday to help remove the oil from my system.
4. Cut down on my milo. Hahahaha.. Cos my company have free milo, so i will make milo, limiting myself to 2 cups per day at the moment. BUT.. hahaa.. My milo is.. Using the normal paper cup, i will add like 4 full teaspoon of milo powder, 1 cube of sugar and add water. After that add another 2 more spoonful of milo powder. Wahahaha.. So i should really cut down on it. Maybe 1 teaspoon less? haha..

Thats all for the moment. I haven seen 55 on my weighing scale for a longgg time. Hope i can lose some weight by the time i go back.

Heh, eating 山楂 the fruit at the moment, the only thing i remember from my tcm last sem is that eating the fruit help to lose weight!

No complainss

I shall not complain that the laptop i got is a 7 year old one.

I shall not complain that because it is 7 year old, it is super S L O W.

I shall not complain that the battery life is ZERO seconds

I shall not complain that the keyboard is super not sensitive and i need to type super hard.

I shall not complain that the mousepad things is equally not sensitive that it is hard to control.

I shall not complain that the whole operating system is in chinese and i take longer to do simple things.

I am not complaining, i am still not complaining.

I shall train my patience and practice my chinese, at least i have something to entertain me when i am bored. At least i can search for things i do not understand when i read the journals.

No complainss

Finally!!

Finally, going to get my laptop at work tomorrow!! Hopefully, that narks the end of my boredom!!

Finally, got my scholarship money! Hopefully, i can buy my camera! Saw 1 online selling for about $170, will go down to the shop 1 day to take a look!

Finally, can go Suzhou this weekend! Just bought the train tickets today! And Hangzhou will be next weekend! And the next weekend? Is Chinese New Year!! Wahahahaha..

New discovery

Apparently, i have amazing immune system.

Most of the people in my department had food poisoning symptoms like vomiting after taking thursday lunch at our workplace, some even went to the hospital.

And the symptoms i got? More and louder fart! hahahaha..

Weekend again!

Love weekendssss, especially when i have such a long weekend!

Went with Sharon, supposed to meet Alex but he last min need to go back office, so meeting him tml instead.

We went to our tailor to collect our clothes but i didnt managed to bring anything back. Cos everything was too loose! Think i lost alot of weight, the clothes are super loose at my hips area and the pants are super baggy. In the end, need to alter and collect again tml.

After that, we decided to head to Shanghai Book City which is at People's Square station and as usual, on our way there we side tracked. We saw this stall selling super cheap things and decided to pop by.

In the end, I left the stall with 1 fake Agnes b black bag for 39RMB, 2 wool long sleeves top for 29RMB each, 1 shawl for 19RMB (divide the price by 5 to know how cheap it is), haha..

Then, we finally went to the book city and bought 2 travel guide books. 1 for Shanghai and the other for China. Much much cheaper to buy here than in Singapore, like probably cheaper by 70%.

We continue to walk around People's Square area after that and i bought 1 hat/cap/whatever for 23RMB and 1 fake RED Agnes b wallet for 39 RMB. I love the wallet, so nice and good quality and of course, most importantly, it is freaking cheap!!

Feet and legs were breaking after that, walked around somemore, saw some shoes that i like but dont have my size, think it is almost impossible to find shoes of mine and sharon's size in China, so depressing..

Ohhh, before we started our shopping adventure today, we found a counter at our Metro station selling Railway tickets! Which means in future, we can simply buy our tickets to SuZhou or Hang Zhou or whichever Zhou we going from there! Dont have to travel so far to get our tickets!

And also, we found a ctrip counter, it is a website where we can book our air tickets for domestic and international flights, we got a VIP membership card for free!

What a fruitful day!

And the shopping continues tml! We will be going to Ikea (MEATBALLS!!), collect my tailored clothes and hopefully Bao Shan Road to find my camera. Saw some forum that says the person bought a Sony laptop for S$600 there!!

Wow..

Apparently, extreme climate changes do change your menstrual cycle too..

Tried and tested..

Shop Shopped Shopping!!!

Wahaha.. Went shopping with shar at the supermarket i go everyday to take my company shuttle bus call yi chu lian hua.

The things there are much more and cheaper than metro! Shall not shop at metro unless neccesary!

Shar and i damn cheapo.. We went for the cheapest for everything. We bought a set of track suit for 89RMB. I bought a pair of Pony sneakers for 80RMB. Shar also bought a Fox top for dont know how much but also very cheap! Caues the things at fox were going for 80% and 90% discount!! Wahahaa..

I wanna shop shop shop!!

Did my first experiment!

Not really first experiment, just my first experiment at work excluding those from school. At least there is something to look forward to, instead of just sitting there and reading journals all dayyyy.

Doing experiment at a research lab is very different from doing it in school.

In school, you are given a certain set of apparatus that you use all the time, hence you know they are clean as you wash them yourselves. The equipments and solution and everything is properly prepared for you by the lab tech. All you have to do is to idiot proof-ly add everything according to the lab manual or best still blindly follow what the person next to you is doing, anything not sure, there is always the TA.

However, in the Research lab, you are trying to come out with a way to produce a product that no one else have done before. So you have to come out of the reactants, conditions, concentration, quantity, temperature, etc. So you are expected to do your own research, derive and calculate everything yourself.

Not only that, there is no longer any lab tech to prepare and place out everything nicely for you. You have to look for your own apparatus from the most complicated equipments to the most basic like cotton wool. And because everyone else is sharing the things, alot of them are not properly clean and sometimes it can be hard to find a clean and good working thing.

Considering i have not really do my own lab report for dont know how long, and i have forgotten everything i have learnt in school, having to do all this is kind of tough. But i am glad that at least i know i will be learning something at the end of it and the people are all very willing to teach.

=)

Wheeeeee!!!

I officially no need to go to work this friday!

I decided to be honest and told my French boss that i no school this friday and asked if i still need to come in.

And was so nice, and say if there is nothing to do, i can dont come! Wahahaha...

4 day week work, high pay, free not bad lunch, free shuttle bus, good people to work with, nice boss, where else can one find this kind of IA company.. wahahaha..

Strawberries!!

Ohhhh..

I bought Strawberries and Cherry tomatoes last night!

They are damn cheap and damn good!!

For about 500g, only 9RMB! And the strawberries are pretty and sweet!!

And the tomatoes are 7RMB for 500g!!

Yummy!!

First day of work!

My company is Rhodia, located at Jin Du road there, which is rather far from where i stay.

I felt like i am a walking disaster this morning. haha.

Without a clock in the house i keep forgetting to keep track of time to leave my house and end up leaving later than i wanted.

There are 2 routes to my workplace. First one is to take line 2 from LongYang station to Ren Ming Guang Chang station and change line 1 to XinZhuang station. Second is to take line 7 from LongYang and change to line 1 at ChangShu station.

I initially planned to go the second option as line 7 is newly open so lesser people and changing at ChangShu is a much shorter walk and with much lesser crowd. So happily i walked towards the entrance of line 7, had a shock when i saw the shutters down. The first train for tat line do not start that early. Wth, nvm, went with the first option. Good thing the crowd is lesser than friday evening and seem a tiny little bit more civilised.

Then, off to line 2 and change to line 1. Halfway den i realised i got the meeting place wrong, arrange to meet Minghui at Jindu station and all along i thought is Xinzhuang and Jindu require another changing of line. Good thing we in the end change the meeting place to XinZhuang.

On the way to work den i realised i never bring money, my wallet is almost empty and i forgot to top up money, dumb me. Luckily for me, lunch is free at my company!

Lastly, i realised i never bring my passport, they need it to help me open a bank account. Good thing, the lady very nice, allow me to email the soft copy to her.

What a wonderful start to my first day of work.

But other than that, everything else was good!

The pay at the company is quite high and according to the HR lady the tax being deducted is very little, about 100rmb? So i still have quite a bit of take home pay.

Like mentioned, lunch is provided and it is quite okay. Serving is huge, we are given 2 meat, 5 veggie, 1 soup, 1 fruit, i didnt even eat my rice and i am full. It is also not as oily as all the outside food i have eaten.

And i found out that there is a shuttle bus from Pudong as well! Taking the shuttle bus, i take about 1h in total to get to work and i get to sleep on the bus without having to squeeze with everyone on the train. And most importantly, i save money too!

The people at my company are very nice, work is quite slack. Think i only need to go for 4 days per week. And the lady i working with actually told me that if there is nothing there to do and i have something on i can dont need to come. Haha!

And i can wear casual to work! Jeans and shoes and any top will do.

Wheeeeeee.. So far everything is GOOD!

=))))

Satisfied!

Stayed home with Shar to do spring cleaning today! Lynette went church and Hedi went to some Show Luo thingy..

Sweeped and mopped the floor, packed our room, emptied our luggage, clean the toilet and Shar is ironing the clothes for our work!

So clean and nice now.. My bunnies will be happier too!

Tailoring!

Yesterday, set out with shar to figure out the travel route to my workplace, took about 1h 15min! Sooo Longgggg..

After that we went to Xu Jia Hui station for the Tai Ping Yang dont know what it place to get our lan cable, bought 5m each, wanting to extend it to our room so that we wont have to freeze ourselves in the living room. BUT, it is not long enough, good thing me being the smart me, we managed to shift the router and now our room can use both cable and wireless!

After that we head to Nan Pu Da Qiao station to find the tailor shop to tailor our formal wear. Walked super long to find the place but couldnt find in the end took a cab. I made 4 shirts and 3 pants for 680 RMB which is about $140? So cheap!

After tailoring, we went to some i forgot what place to eat steamboat! So shiok to eat steamboat during winter! Yummy..

After dinner, we rush to Metro to stock up on food again! Been going there almost everyday!

I am hungry nowwww..

SOOO Saddd..

I think i lost my camera..

=((((

Bunnies!

I bought a pair of bunnies house slippers just now too!

They are so cute, totally brighten up my gloomy cold night!

Loving them!

Third day in shanghai!

I am still freezing..


First night was BAD. There was a blackout from 12 am to 7am and we were frozen in bed at -3 degrees?

First day we touch down and they bought us to NTU shanghai office, they fed us some digusting breakfast which we didnt really touch. After that we waited for super long den had the briefing and they fetch us to our apartment.

We settled down and set out to Metro to get our things. Bought about $250 worth of stuff for the household. So many things and so heavy that we took cab back.

And we cooked instant noodles for dinner that night! Our very first 'proper' meal when we reach shanghai.

With nothing much to do, we had an early night.

Day 2, we went out to register our address in Shanghai at the police station.

After that we went to qipu road to shop. But the shops there closes at 5pm! So we made a wasted trip but we had our dinner there, which is our first meal for the day. N the dinner is still bad, hard and not nice xiaolong bao and vegetables soaked in oil.

Today, we cooked breakfast! So delicious! haha.. Noodles plus sunny side up plus luncheon meat. Our first attempt for breakfast seem promising.

After that we went back to qipu road with karen's household joining us. Shopped quite alot! haha.. Some things are really cheap but cant seem to bargain much. And i finally bought my boots! So hard to find our size.. Boooo..

At night, we met the other GIP people staying at longyang for dinner and gathering. Ate at a restaurant called sweet dynasty 糖朝 at huangpu road, seems quite atas but price is quite okay compared to singapore standards. Only ate 2 meals today and we walked quite a bit, think we will slim down at the rate we are eating..

Walked around to xin tian di area den head back to home.

Btw, the train here is SCARY. Finally understand what does packed like sardines mean, it is REALLY REALLY packed, couldnt move at all when inside (during peak period). We took awhile to recover from shock after we came out of the train. And i have to go through that everyday, think i will die..

And the power supply at my apartment sucks, it tripped 3 times while i typed this, till we dun dare turn on the heater. And i am wearing 7 layers at my own house, so wonderful..

BRRrrrrr.. Colddd..

I am freaking heavy now..

OMG, shun bian measure my weight when i weigh my suitcase just now.

SUPER heavy, hopefully it dont increase when i go china

Last day at the zoo..

Today is the last day of me working at the zoo..

So shiok to think that i don't have to work there anymore, or at least for 6 months, though i think i will miss the people there. We spend sooo much time facing angry guest, cute babies, talking and doing funny things..

Just emailed Linda for a testimonial, hopefully she will help me write, pray hard..

How dumb can i get??

Finally went to China embassy to get my visa done with Sharon on thursday.

My passport can be collected on the 6th, cause i am supposed to be in malaysia from 5th to 7th, i happily pass my collection slip to Shar to help me collect.

Until i reach home, it suddenly stuck me, how am i suppose to go malaysia with my passport at the embassy?? OMG.. Why am i soo dumb??

Worst thing is, the embassy number is USELESS. Shar took cab down to help ask but it is closed.

Can only go down on Monday and PRAY they will give me back my passport.

Dumb me..