LIM LIN LUAN

currently working and studying in shanghai. originated from south east asia, miss singapore very much. life's good, for todayy (:

Thursday 25 September 2008

4 super duper happy days!

My name is Wenyang and to some readers of Lin Luan's blog, i guess i don't need further introduction. =)

Let me bring you through a series of events that took place from 19th to 23th Sept. Those 4 days were unarguably the best 4 days of Lin Luan's life. Opps, mistake, i think it is more like Wenyang's life. Nono, it is the best 4 days of LIN LUAN'S AND WENYANG'S life. =)

19th Sept

Wenyang touched down at Pudong International at 0635. Rushed to clear immigration. The moment he cleared immigration, he dashed for the Maglev. Boarded the Maglev at 0710 and the Maglev left at around 0715. Made a Shanghai friend on board the train, spoke a little, but wasn't paying much attention to what my new friend was talking about. Because in 20 mins time, i was about to see my Darling. Yes, my Darling. I've waited for sooo long for this day to come! Maglev (350km/h) was fast. Within 7-8 mins, i was at LongYang station. I made yet another dash to the guardhouse of Lin Luan's apartment. By the time i arrived at the guardhouse, i was perspiring like a pig. And there i stood waiting for SernSiang to come pick me up. Original plan was to have SernSiang pick me up at the guardhouse and together we head back to the house to surprise Lin Luan. But guess what!! When i saw SernSiang, he had Lin Luan, Hazel and Ziming with him too! I was happy and shy at the same time to see Lin Luan with so many of her friends around her. But without further ado, we gave each other a hug. Yes, the hug was good. The last time i hugged her was 23rd July. That's like almost 2 months ago. Finally, finally, finally!

I then attended lessons with Lin Luan, SernSiang, Peiyu and Ziming at Fudan University. The lecture was kinda boring (okay, more like cause my Chinese sucks and catch no ball what the lecturer was talking about). But i do have proof that the lesson was boring, i will post the picture of Lin Luan, Peiyu, Ziming and SernSiang sleeping in lesson later (the pic is still in my phone, usb cable not with me at home). Wahahaha!

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Sleeping in class!!



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SernSiang's Pride in Fudan



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Fudan Twin Towers, nice hor!! The setting of the place very nice!! Like Europe!!



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Miss Lim & Mr Lu



After lunchbreak, we were supposed to head to Shanghai Museum for a tour (part of the afternoon programme for the day by Fudan). But the 5 of us ponteng!! Wahahaha!! We sneaked out via the speciality store exit in the museum while the rest were still in the q to get into the museum.

Dear and I then headed to have dinner at Ajisen at Raffles City. Yes, Raffles City, the shopping mall owned by our very local Capitaland. SernSiang, Peiyu and Ziming headed home. Leaving the two lovebirds with some personal time. Hehe.

Btw, the Ajisen meal was satisfying!! Cause it only costed like 5oRMB, for both of us!! I even added an extra egg (ok, i sound gian ben here, but it was really satisfying!!) We then headed down the shopping belt of Shanghai (Nanjing). Next up was famous brand mall where we shopped at Uniqlo. Bought some things for our friends back home. We then left for the Bund. Yep yep, the bund. First memorable point at the Bund was the first macdonalds kiosk. Wink wink!

Lin Luan and I strolled almost the whole of the Bund mann!! Looking for the place to board the ferry that will give us a tour of the Bund. We walked and walked and walked and walked and finally, we found a ferry terminal!!! Yes, finally a ferry terminal!! When we went to the ticket booth to check out the price of a ticket, guess what!!?? It was only RMB 0.5 a person!! So 2 tickets only cost RMB 1!! Yes, that's like SGD20cents!! For a moment i still thought the goverment subsidised our ride. Maybe that's to encourage couples to date more or something! Heh. We bought the ticket and happily went on board the vessel!! To our horror (okay, maybe horror is exaggerating, we were laughing more than being scared), we stepped onto a single deck in the vessel without any lights. And with us were many motorcycles and workers (chinese version of Banglas). Ohh!! So this ride is to transport workers from one side of the bund to another side!! No wonder so cheap lah!!! The ride was only 3 minutes btw. It was quite an experience though! As long as i'm with a special someone, whatever we do and wherever we are, it'll always be special and meaningful. =)

The ride brought us over to the other side of the Bund (from Pudong to PuXi). It's so hard to get a cab on Puxi side lah!! But we still managed to get one after some waiting and we told the cab driver that we wanted to go to the place to purchase tickets to board the sightseeing ferry. The cab driver brought us there (it was a super short drive, 2 mins?). And there we purchased the tickets (7oRMB for one, 140 for two). What a price difference from the RMB1 for two tickets. Heh. We were then taken from the ticket booth to the ferry terminal in a minivan (as though like they gonna sell us away kind of feeling, and they made me sit in front with the driver with my Darling left alone with some Argentinians). Thank God the ride wasn't long. I didn't feel good allowing Dear to sit alone behind without me. We did make friends with the Argentinians before boarding the ferry cause Dear, being a nice girl, volunteered to help the Argentinians take photos and that's how we started some small talk with them.

We then boarded the ferry, it consisted of 3 decks. Only the open deck was open air and oh mann, it sure was crowded!! The ride was about an hour. But the time passed fast with someones in my arms ==> fastforwarded.

After the ride and the beautiful night skyline of Shanghai, we headed over to the XinTianDi (also know as French Concession East). Went to the Luna where a Phillipino band was performing. Music was kinda noisy, but then again, the company made my night. =) We ordered one calamari, one onion rings, 1 harbin (Dear) and 1 Carona. The serving size of the calamari and onion rings are easily enough for 5 people mann!! We could not finish the onion rings in the end. But we had a good time nevertheless! A really good one.

We then cabbed home and that's about all for the first night! =))

Friday 19 September 2008

5 more days and i'm officially here in china for 2 months. I am kinda enjoying the life here, getting all the freedom that i always wanted [well, i do miss my mom and home], and for the first time, i didnt mind the change [yup, for now].

well well, work is getting okay, i am doing well with the job scope given and the colleagues are generally nice and kind. they are fascinated with my mandarin and they tried really hard to speak english to me so as to practice their english oral. haha. thats okay, i didnt mind.

Generally i do translation for them too and i thought that being educated bilingually is really amazing and useful, i'm kinda proud of that. haha.

School had started as well, gotta attend school every friday and saturday [usually half day], the school is good and fine, u saw those photos, i bet you can tell. oh well oh well. hope the lessons get interesting soon or we gotta spend time laughing at our own crap during lesson.

oh and below are some random tendon photos that was taken by my phone camera. very chinesesee culturalie.
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Some Seafood street, whereby you choose your own seafood and bring it to the restaurant across the street and they will cook for you, the rate is around 10rmb per kg if i never remember wrongly. hahah. something new but i would say nothing fantastic. its hard to buy seafood ourselves cos we do not know the market rate and it would be really annoying if we get TOK.

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great varieties!

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Suling and prawitpong's favourite!
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our fortnightly routine to the facial [oooops correction!, weekly for sean WAHHAHA!] ! sign a package with them, each session cost around 45 rmb and they will squeeze your black heads, do mask, steam your face and all the shit. freaking cheap!

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yeah mann, i'm sandman.

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LOOKING RADIANT after the session [thats psychological effect i swear]
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dear sean and sernsiang found their second childhood in carerefour!
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one fine monday when i was going to work it was pouring hippos and elephants. Look at the flood, its despicable! WAHAHHAHAHA!

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-------------------------------------------------------------and another one fine day after work, the guys went to decathlon [some sportswear store] to shop. i tagged along and we ended up playing pingpong.
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it was during olympic period and zhangyining was HOT u see. LIJIAWEI also lar.
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next, the traffic and public transport here.
AWWW. a picture speaks a thousand words.

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every morning jam.
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every evening squeeze.
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SO FUCKING PACKED!
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but with dom's 爱,things' gonna be okay. [note: his favourite top! WAHAHHAHA! ]

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sandwich molestors!
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yeah boyy i smell your underarms.
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oh and last friday Fudan no school so sernsiang and i went to walk around at jiaotong university.
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in short, FUDAN's nicer! wahhahaha. i am so irritating!
then as we walk as we walk we found a duck store!

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wAH PEH! half a KG for 13.8rmb! freaking cheap can! when she cuts the duck, there's smoke!
very hot and yummy!
we couldnt resist the smell and temptation so we just have to buy half a duck to eat! immediately!

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DADA! like that for 13.20rmb! DIRT CHEAP!

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shiok!

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we were so glutton that we just stand at the roadside, pick a bike and the backseat became our table. super unglam but nevermind lar , like that we blend in better. WHAHAHA.

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pigging out.
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SHIOK RIGHT!

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veryvery happy with his duck 腿!
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Mr Lu sent me a parcel from Singapore and i wasnt home to receive it so sernsiang had to accompany me to the post office near our place and its a whole new world there.

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its a pretty rundown and lockcock place.

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fish mongers, the fishes are in the red pail/ basin.

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undergarments galore!

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we bought our breakfast here, CHEAP man. the girl on the left, yeah its a girl, she's the daughter of the owner and she kept eating wantons and she's gonna be a sumo soon if she carries on!
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zai! next time i go back Singapore i will buy a scooter and learn this stunt.




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oh and we went to shop for household stuff.

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ALL VERY CHEAP!
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oh and this is how they sell chicken! sernsiang said one day he's gonna cook us curry chicken, mann i'm not gonna be there.

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oh and these are ready-cooked ones.

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OUR FAVOURITE ROADSIDE STALL!
麻辣烫!i can eat it everyday i tell you! its freaking shiok! like yongtauhoo in dirty spicy soup!

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yeah it doesnt look clean hor, they said the owners put opium into the soup thats why all of us get hooked to it! i crave for it almost everyday! okay maybe not, like 3 days a week!

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cool hor?
ALRIGHT. take care. its 1.30am! but i'm currently hooked to prison break 3. HEEHAA! byeee!