Photo shoot in Longyang...

Well the other wk i mentioned that our household went to tailor a suit ya...well before heading home (ben already home liao ba rite now in sunny i mean rainy Spore) we decided to have a series of formal pics taken...think can use for resume pics also haha...
Our very formal family of 6 (required a herculean effort on all our parts to maintain this stern expression)

Our very informal pic

Those feets in the pic super off lor...

Act kawaii time

Big boss me (only one side of shoe for the pic; showmanship all the wayyyyyy)

Carmen (cold jokes 师父, mooncake fest organizer, tee shirt queen; think she bought like 20?!? who knows)

Joyce (baby chinese dictionary, knows loads of old songs (ya n i thou the songs were from my era; whole new meaning to 代沟, tennis junkie)

Gary (Faculty cum office colleagues cum roomies plus US bound lucky arse...*raarrr*)

Beneb (shopping king and official photographer for our household n who shld be back in sunny i mean rainy Spore now)

Dom (fellow street foodie hunter and wanderer of places ard + war movie junkie)

N now for the largest shocker!!! Ben n Gary r gays...muz be learn from the movie 霸王别姬...haha

Farwell treat...

Yesterday my boss, Doctor Linda treated us to lunch at a posh resutuarant at Big Thumb restaurant, 唐朝. It was qte a conincident too that it was to be Marie's (Gary's IC with Francois in France), Gary n me ending work next wk, plus Racheal' bday on that same day, Jane's 1st wk in office and Siron's return to Givaudan aft her long maternity leave. So lunch had so much more meaning than just a farewell.

Anyway the food was totally awesome, after eatin too cheap food in Shanghai tat lacked substances. Had 7 cold dishes (think Shanghai'nese all like it alot) which were mainly Shanghai standard dishes, got like water chestnut tasting chinese yam in choc n strawberry sauce (shiok la!!!), their famous something fish (thumbs up), lousy veg pudding, nutzs, sliced mushroom (tasted like fish cakes), steamed 虾仁（not exactly exciting)- cant remember the rest. Than also got killer egg tarts (flaky n soft, best thing yet), mala char siew bao fried, roasted pork thigh (think i single-handedly finished 4/5 of it), cod fish in mala oil (heavenly...) n foie gras (seriously wats the fuss abt it; think nothing fantastic). O ya the corn juice was totally UPZ also... overall i give it 10.5 out of 10 for the meal. Super full w/o eating rice at all.

Next wk Linda is gg to be in Mumbai for the whole wk so it happens that the 1st week that i came and last wk im abt to leave she is not to be around (1st wk she was not ard due to family matters). Was talking to Siron and i mentioned that Linda seem to be happier since she got back n she replied ya, I remember u getting only 2 niao'ing from her...haha i totally agreed. In the past it was like 1 mistake means kena liao...now she like tell u nicely one...stunned lor...o ya Jane is the latest Master's student intern to join our department aft Tony (great chap; totally helped with the translation of the killer lab manuals when i was 1st here), Chelsea (the MIA all the time but at least she helped me with my essay) and now the super friendly Jane. So im the lao jiao intern liao...lolz


Lunch Treat at 唐朝 (from left front row, Siron, Jane, Marie n Racheal; left back row, Me, Boss Linda, Gary)

Me in the lab, with my assortment of weapons for deadly concoctions of detergents

Siron (Linda's 2nd in command; if only she came back earlier than i would have been protected from excessive niao'in)

Doctor Linda Li (she says she dont like to take pics anymore...i like had to plead with her to take lor)

Jus another post...

Played soccer on sunday at the same old pri sch tat we went the other time...but jus like any good story muz have some drama...this security guard wanted to collect "rent" from us at 200rmb for 2hrs for use of the pitch...wth la!!! so we went to 2 other schs to check if we could use their pitch for soccer...but than the other 2 rejected us outright (scare they lose their job if they do); manz like tat how to promote sports in China sia...so after discussion decided to go back to tat crap of a security to bargain for lower rental... to cut it short we still had to pay the gg rate althou he vehemently refused to issue a receipt or let us talk to the operations masters (this bugger definitely keepin the $$$ for himself la!!!)

Played for 1hr so tat we could keep within our budget of 110rmb for 11 of us ( oya forgot to mention tat there were 2 pple from puxi who joined us for soccer). Ya most of us were in trek pants n long sleeves...10mins into the game we were all panting like mad liao...respect to all those athletes in temperate countries la, dont know how they tahan the disggustingly dry n thin air...but we all worked up a good sweat in the end...game was good expect for a blemish when Gary sprained his ankle n ended our game ard the same time...

Watched many movies this few days, like Nacho Libre (damn funny), Blood Brothers (chinese), My Father (korean movie)n Zodiac...not long now n the countdown is on till i get back...prep'in a list of makan to feast upon when i get back...muahaha...5mths n 4kg heavier Clarence is coming home...woohooo...time to wack more xiao long baos, 肉串，麻辣 n junk food...gg to miss them all...

Im bored....

Finally managed to submit my IA report to my professor alr. Now wk day nites are so much more carefree, cold n a little boring. Watched another movie last nite, Mountain Patrol. Its super sad la; pple try to stop poachers to prevent Tibetan antelopes from extinction but outside world bo chap. Until most of the 伟大 volunteers get killed and get written abt by a journalist was action taken. Think tonite will start my 1 litres of tears marathon since i realli got nothing else to do (n its short too).

Facebook is jus amazing. Long lost frenzs and pictures all up. Jus like this one below during NS. Realised i nvr took any pics during that period. Now come to think of it very sad lor, nothing to remember those memorable times by.

Lifes like this...

Been a long time since i last updated this bloggie. Really busy changing my IA report to my boss's liking. U know its supp to be more like she jus check that i did not mention any confidential info but she went the extra step to correct my english n ask me to "beautify" my graph. I was like hur...anyway she was so enthu that she even called me on Thursday nite at 8pm to go thru the report with me. Think im already on my 6th draft already...hopefully monday she would jus accept it...All the others had their reports vetted more like a read-thru style one, minimal correcting. So lesson learnt, when your boss is highly educated (10yrs teaching experience plus Doctorate), yup expect the unexpected from her. Almost like doin a GP essay and making sure u have no sweeping statements inside... *bleach*

Goin down to 16 铺 later to make a suit...jianqing say get the Ocean's 13 one best liao...ya well will see how ba...one of our GIP mates have gone back liao..had a farewell at Bon Bon...freeflow house pours for 24sing...yup its cheap... tonite gg to RX bday party...KTV session with buffet...woohooo...gettin fat here i cant believe it...jus bought a pair of Levi's jean (of course chiong one la) for 16sing...i had to wear a size 34!!! OMG OMG OMG...lots of training to do liao, still got ippt to settle when i get back...

Watched American Gangster jus now...uber long movie...had Denzel Washington in as Frank Lucas the drug kingpin in the 70s...not bad a show jus that the build-up was a little too slow for my liking...watched Quil too...manz the dog is soooo cuteeeee....
kk gg off liao...good luck to all those in the midst of their exams...

Its jus shorts

Long time since i managed to wake up early on a Sat. So i decided to go down some breakfast for me-self. Thou abt the tau sa n radish bao so went down in shorts. How who i have known that this ang mo b4 me would buy 4 tau sa n 5 radish bao. So hungry me bo pian, decided to walk over to the market at far far Du Juan road market to buy breakie n see see. Long time since i actualli walked there plus i was not exactly equipped for the weather this mornin. Checked the forecast n highest temp today was 14degrees (good job la), than the cold wind blowin was disgustinly cold.

So i started walkin over, than along the way got loads of pple starin at me la. So easy to tell from their *who-is-this-mad-老外-in-shorts-in-the-cold" expression walking around like it was summer. Kk so i got looks for at least 3 dozens pple along the way jus because i wore shorts (hey no biggie ma!!!). Bought my tau sa n radish bao at the market n walked ard the place a bit. Realli like lookin at the daily lifestyle of the common pple on another Sat mornin at the market. Realli get to see a variety of pple la, pple rushing to n fro, lots of life stocks n cheap cheap food. Found this confectionary tat sold chicken burger for only 4rmb (the ususal places all sell 6rmb lor)!!! Seein such a steal i jus had to sink me teeth into such a yummi treat...yup yup...another whole day of being at home for the rest of the household as they have their final burst for their reports. Im done with mine, jus tat DOCTOR Linda is lookin thru it now, hope not too many amends to be done cause a expectations is lets jus say not on a humanly scale of 1-100.

Jus some pics...not sure if i posted them up before
The twin towers where we studied, did presentations, slept, makan...

Seriously their carpet grass is gg to be the envy of any student...so shiok to sleep on

The lot of us with the Fudan students who we got to play with

龙阳小降。。。

GIP'07 proudly presents to u the weekend Soccer monsters...

JianQing aka Dominic Kahn...killer slides to stop any attempts on goal

Benebto Carlos...thunder thighs to wack the ball n surging runs forward all with a smile on the face...also can call him smiling assassin...

BingXiang aka BaXio Cannavaro...pillar of defence, marks u out of the game, jus follows u all the way n yes defence is his passion!!!

JianYou Alonso...runs n runs, scores goals, also gg forward n creating the types of opportunities for scoring...silent killer

RongXin better known as Rong-naldo...freaking fast (darn those long legs) with loads of tricks...heartbeat of any team...

Swee Meng aka SM Fabregas....Arsenal thru n thru, good footballing brain n is all over the field (industriousness is affectious)...

YiHao'rea Pirlo (look at the hair can tell liao)...playmakes from deep n still defends...has a knacker for goals too

Hanbin or Gary Inzaghi...poacher in the box, attacks left rite ctr...played soccer for a longgggg time...

Clarence Drogba cause i use my head alot...haha


Ya now even with cold weather we still playin...total maddness...IA report deadline creepin ever closer...pressures on to finish it lo...