13 Aug 2005

Today is Friday ored.. so fast.. dun feel like Friday to me cos like haven work much n its weekend le. Hehe.. We had steamboat for lunch at a shop opposite the hotel. Its quite cute cos everyone has his or her own small pot with his or her individual choice of soup base. Then order the ingredients, the quite typical steamboat ingredients except that here ppl will order beef and mutton. Quite nice but very oily. I put the mutton in and there was a puddle of yellowish oil layer on top of the soup. Looks gross but I still ate it..haha..
Muntat say his belt like tighten ored. Haha..a bit kua zhang cos we only here for 3 days.
So we psycho him to go buy swimming trunks so that he can go swimming.
Me oso wanted to bring my own swimming suit but cos I went reborn hair on Tuesday and the auntie told me cannot go swimming if not the hair will not be shiny. So I din bring cos I dun wan to waste the money I spent on my hair. But here I am in this hotel with no other activities I can go for except swimming. The fitness centre here is erm...CMI one.. cos its not a gym, its non air-con and its situated outdoors beside the gym. I tink no one ever go there haha... the equipment are all covered with cloth. The sauna here is not free, but even if its free I wun go too. Cos its boring sitting inside a hot, steaming and dim room doing nuttin except letting the hot air roast ur skin.
Tonite tink we gg to Ajisen Ramen hehe..but me still very full from lunch. Dunno how to eat leta. Muntat said he’s not eating. Haiz.. come to china is to fatten myself. =(

11 Aug 2005

Yday Reached Xiamen at ard 12pm++ then took an almost 3 hr ride to Fuzhou. This time we are staying at ?泉大?店 (WenQuan Hotel). The water that comes out of the tap in this hotel is from a spring (wenquan). The hotel fee per night here is more expensive than the one we stayed in the other time yet the broadband here is not free. Haiz...
Wanna go online also need to pay RMB38 per day. So stoopid... so we tot we can take turns to use the broadband in our working room. But it turns out that only can go online using my senior’s laptop. Think the system recognize my senior’s IP address le.. So our laptop try to use the same password cannot work.
The rooms here are older and dimmer than those in Foreign Trade Centre Hotel. And here got renovation so the air here is a bit smelly. They put pineapples in our room to purge the air hahaha.. my senior keep complaining its smelly. The other senior and me like nose not so sensitive cos we dun find it very smelly haha..
Dinner today was at KFC! Hehe.. First time eat fastfood in Fuzhou. Ate a burger tat looks like a zinger. Got 周杰? or 古天? posters with every 2 meal purchase or sumtin lidat. Too bad the Jay Chou posters finished distributing out liao. He’s so popular here. Haha.. No poster nevamind la..i got buy the 可比克 (Copico) potato chips endorsed by Jay Chou one. Hehe... The KFC here got sell Portuguese egg tart.. very delicious. Makes me wanna go bk or more. Store the egg tarts in the fridge for 5 and half hours then you’ll get冰?蛋塔. Tink it’ll be super delicious lo.

15 aug 2005

Finally i have Internet connection here!!!

shopaholic day..

today bot lots of stuff..spend a lot..help~
really have to control myself..i wun wan to wait till month end then realise i no money for the last week of aug...

i'm gg to borrow camera from yanfen so tat this time wen i update abt my trip u guys can visualize it beta.. hehe..
tml have to go to work..then evening is word for life lesson..after tat our cg gg nite cycling! yeah! my first nite ccling experience! hooray~
hehe..but hor..i juz recall tat tues morning i have tuition...tink i no nd to rest le haha..

mi still haven buy my luggage yet..tink have to wait till tues then can buy...

*fLyinG oN a jEt pLAnE*

today got my air ticket for my flight on wed morning...guess wat time in the morning? 0750 depart... -_____-lll

haiz... miting at 0630 at T2..Shusiang specifically told me cannot be late...heh...

So far i'm still happy with my job...not like my professional attachment, 2 or 3 weeks only i bored liao cos v routine... audit is not as routine cos for diff client we may do tins differently.. this adds variety and challenge =)

quite looking forward to fuzhou trip...hope can get to go climb "Wu Yi Shan" Cheng Hong say muz ask them to bring us there. You Zhong oso got mention. yeah~ =] *happy and excited*

-=PAYDAY=-

YEAH! Finally! today i got my first paycheck from my first real job! =) happy~
today i'm happy to go bk to office n c xiaowen they o... =)
the office is more crowded then wen we first entered the company. Cos wen we enter the firm tat time, there were quite a number of teams overseas. now they are all bk =) finally get to see more faces. today wen for lunch wif 5 other collegues, 3 i neva seen b4. 1 of the 3 is a part-timer who came only today, she'll be here for only a week. She's still studying. The other two are Cheng hong and Waiping..ChengHong is fr fuzhou. He's a humorous guy. Hee... waiping is malaysian she looks cute and is v friend.

Xiaowen say she needs Xtrim... if she needs Xtrim then i tink i'm beyond hope le...hahahhaa...

i'll be flying to fuzhou once agn on 10 aug...not sure for how long at this moment. but shdn't b more than 2 wks. this time shd b staying in ?泉酒店. =) Will be gg wif Muntat and Shusiang. Lim Fan will be on another job so he wun be gg this time...Lim Fan is my manager for this job, he's quite a cute guy. cos he makes me luff wif his silly actions, althou he usually dun meant it to funny, it turns out hilarious. Hope this coming trip i'll get to learn more! =)

tink if i get to go to china more then my chinese will surely improve yeah~ can go serve in chinese church ahhaha...

+ Weekend in Xiamen +

came bk from Xiamen this afternoon!
Yday 尤重 bot us to Xiamen to play...(尤重is the 重?理of our client company) =) It's his hometown, his wife and child stay there while he works in 福州.
?? is a pretty and clean town. much cleaner than 福州. it has more litter bins like Sg. 福州 not so many bins and ppl litter.
We went to 鼓浪?which is an island near Xiamen. we took a ferry there. its like fr sg to tekong via ferry but the distance is shorter.
It's a v cool island. there's ppl living on the island but no car. the island is quite big. there's a hill where we can c the whole island from the top. its a really nice island. got shops got houses. once i get the photos fr my colleague i'll upload for ur to c! =)

evening we were bk in fuzhou adn we went to ?街口 (Dong Jie Kou) for shopping! hehe...i bot lots of stuff! Got a hang bag for 45rmb *cheap!*
and there's this shop which sells clothes endorsed by Jay Chou! hahahah... the tee shirts got his signature printed on it! i bot a shirt for myself and 1 tee shirt for my brother...my tee dun haf signature so i'm gg to go there agn to buy a te wif his signature one hahahah... i got 2 plastic bag which has his photo on it i'm gonna gif one to Coco...hehe...she sure v happy one hahaha... yeah~
here got lots of products endorsed by Jay and many other artists. like SHE, twins, sunyanzi even da S etc... even on food products...mi gg to buy the potato snack which has Jay's photo on it! hehehe...

Oya..evening wen we went to ?街口, i wen to take a look at a church here. its quite old. Shusiang said it looks like it has been here for a long time. the main hall looks like its undergg renovation. but cos i cudn't go in the morning so i din get to attend their service. its a pity but i tink there mayb another chance if i am coming here agn in aug. nx time i'll bring camera and take some photo of the church =)

lunchtime!

hehe...juz came bk from lunch~
guess wat i tasted today? DUCK BLOOD!! hahahaha.... gross?
hehe... at first i dun dare to try but my colleague tasted and said its like tofu~
so i tried... and reallt it taste like tofu~ juz like pig blood lidat lo...haha...

and oyster on hotplate hehe...quite not bad...
yummy~~ hahaha... gg bk to work~

BYE~~~

-= Life iN fuzhOu =-

hiya! missed mi? haha...mi here for 5 days lo...ate the free breakfast provided by the Fujian Foreign Trade Center Hotel for 4 days le...same tin everyday. the nicest tasting food is the cornflakes hahahaha....

okie in case u guys tink i'm v ke lian...its not the case. like wat i ored mentioned, its DA YU DA ROU everyday. the ppl for the client coy bring us out for lunch and sumtimes dinner, always bring us to restaurants. Since everytin is charged to their company ma. peanut is gg to be "overnourished" *help*

Typhoon "Hai Tang" is here in fuzhou...here's a link if u wanna take a look at the movement of the typhoon =)

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/guam/guamloops/guamir.html

Other than the heacy and lasting rain on mon, tues and wed the weather is rather fine. no strong wind. actually we were hoping that there is hahaha... cos neva c b4 ma... hehe...

gtg...update ur agn... v late le gg zz le...nitey!

-monday-

hi its monday agn! hehe...today have to start work le...but my manager and the lead senior shd b still eating breakfast now... only the other senior and me eaten le...in the working room now... waiting for the lead senior to come so tat he can brief me on wat i nd to do..
yday we went to the shopping area at nite, got big shopping centre but the branded goods and some of the china brand are v expensive. its not cheap to buy branded here. like wat my senior said, "luxury gds are subjected to luxury tax." haha...

interestingly, my senior pointed to a church beside a shopping centre and said this is a v old church. so i asked if i can go on sun then he ask if i am a christian. He said Fuzhou got lots of church compared to the other provinces that he has been to. i was like wow! i was shocked :shock: cos most of the Fuzhou ppl i tok to dun seem to be christians.

nx sun i will visit one of the churches here! den update ur agn! =) cheers!

~* *~

Hiya guys! today is my second day in Fuzhou! arrived yday aftnoon... hehe..this place is not bad, its not those undeveloped parts of china but its also not like Beijing or Shanghai so very developed. Food here is so v cheap!!! haha..the ppl from our client company bot us to restaurants to eat. they always order alot of food! yday nite, there were 6 of us, the director ordered 10-11 dishes! the bill came up to $388++RMB so convert to S$ is ard S$90+ for 6 ppl leh...after dinner they went nightclub (or they call it KTV haha..) and they drank a lot more. hard liquor summore, during dinner we drank some beer. the beer here taste nicer cos the alcohol content is only 3++% unlike in sg its usually 5% hence taste more bitter. mi din go cos i tink not v suitable for me to go ba. so i wen to the supermarket to look for the S.H.E biscuits. i managed to find it haha..the biscuits here are cheaper and many of the packaging got the pictures of singers or actors, even mineral water oso got such photos on the bottles. the picture on QOO bottles oso v cute (yupz..i bot one! haha..) i tried the SHE biscuit this morning..not bad la..but its not like super unique. so if ur dun wan email mi okie...if not i buy for ur the biscuits hor...or if ur dun mind other kinds of biscuits i buy the other kinds. lidat more variety ma...i saw a winnie the pooh one, packaging looks nice. hehe...
today the director took us to "WU SHAN". its a hill, or maybe shd say its a mountain. we climbed up the mountain, its 1800m high! haha...wat a workout~ =P we drank tea at a teahouse at the top pf the mountain.after tat we took the cable car bk to the bottom of the hill and then we went to a small restaurant for lunch. Oh, forgot to mention that we climbed the mountain wif the director and his wife and child. at the peak we were introduced to the director's frenz, professor lin and his wife. then we went for lunch tog wif all of them. ha..china ppl drink a lot of beer/wine/liquor. they director kept toasting wif us. so we all had to drink. haha...but me gal so not so bad. dun nd to drink so much. the guys more jialat. hahaha...we had 12 dishes for lunch, there were 9 ppl and the bill was only $140++RMB (S$40++) so cheap rite!? no wonder my colleagues say come here is DA YU DA ROU. hahahahhaa...till now i'm still enjoying myself. =) later may be gg for spa~ tink its only 100RMB so ard S$20+ cheap? hahaha...

haha...in the end i'm gg for the china trip nx sat...wondering if i'll be gg on sat alone wif my manager? *glup*

anyway i oso dunno why i'm shock instead of happy to hear tat i'm gg china even thou i've only started work for a wk...tink i have some concerns, mainly cos of ministry ba.. cos leaving on sat means i wun be able to attend church..mayb for 2 sundays, cos i duno when i'll be back. No doubt its a learning experience and an exposure, i juz feel i'll miss service and cg and the ppl...ha...oso means my schedule is interrupted...my tuition and meetings wif ppl have to be rescheduled.. Also, tins happen v quickly, mayb still haven completely adjust to the coy ba...

But i muz say its a great opportunity to enjoy, learn and grow! i am starting to look forward to it ored! hehe...
heard from my fren got 6 flavor of the SHE biscuits, hehe...heard its nice!

~*My LaSt DaY of tRa|nInG*~

This entry is super long so read only when u have the time k!? haha.. :D

Today is the last day of training for me. *no more relaxing* By rite is yday but they cudn't finish so the managers took over fr the director. heh...today the managers took the 4 of us out for lunch at some thai restaurant. supposedly shd be 5 of us newcomers. but Jasmine went to client's place cos she's still an undergrad so she's employed by the firm on a contract basis. Wen sku starts, she'll be working part-time. ur shd be able to understand that lunches wif all the managers wun be that enjoyable la...haha...kind of weird cos they more senior and u'll alwaz wori that u'll say sometin stoopid in front of them... haha... anyway its a blessing la cos we had free lunch and its quite gd.

In the afternoon, we had a role-play on interviewing. Cos as auditors, u may nd to get information fr the employees working in the company u r auditing hence the managers wanted to let us try this. They gave us some info and we are seperated into groups of 2. Xiao Wen and I were supposed to analyze the variance between the current yr no. and the previous yr no. this means note the fluctuation and then ask abt the suspicious items. And the main difficulty is that we have to ask in Chinese. The reason is that my coy has a lot of China clients and we nd to learn many many mandarin accounting jargons. oso sad to say my mandarin is not that great so i had to take some time to process wat the other party replied. haha... really nd to brush up...

We are barely one week old in the coy and the seniors are gg to book us for assignments maybe in the following wk! and its not jobs for Sg clients but china clients! means have to go China! scary rite? yday they wanted to make us go nx mon but our convo is on wed so we were kind of saved. but leta they say got another flight on sat! the newbies drew lots and i struck the lottery... (-__-ll) i was so worried and fearful...but Thank God i they abandon the idea ahahaha... but i tink i will have to travel v often. i hope tat the travelling will be minimal...

~*My 1sT DaY of wORk!*~

Hi! today is my first day of work! hehe... quite relax cos the first 3 days is training.. so will be attending lessons the whole day. There is 2 more NTU gals, Jasmine and Xiao Wen, entering the coy as well as 1 NTU guy, Wei Xiong. on top of that, there's a IT personnel, Winston and another female, Grace oso entering as auditor.

The ppl in the coy are generally friendly. One of the managers offer us sweets. During our training, one of our directors offered us Bengawan Solo kueys. hee... got one particular senior named Tania who is very cute. hehe... she's the only senior who is v happy to talk to us to show us ard, to intro us to ppl and she bot us out for lunch as well. haha... very sisterly... hehe...

I thank God for today, for all the ppl he has placed in my workplace and for his presence. I'm really happy and joyful cos i din feel tired (thank God for sustaining me), my feet hurt cos of the shoes but there were no blisters! Which is a miracle cos usually if not all the time, whenever i wear shoes esp new ones I will surely get blisters on my feet. but today no! even thou there is pain (mayb cos the shoes are a bit small), i did not have any injury. PTL!! very happy to be able to noe new ppl and to start work hehe...i oso quite like the coy =) our coy is expanding.. and now the previously empty unit beside our office is occupied by us..*yeah* i heard that the auditors alwaz work till very late. pls pray tat i wun have to haha...

Craving...for cheesecake...NOW...

wat do u do when u have a craving for sumtin? like now...i feel like having a cheesecake... (actually i have being craving for that since sunday... )

woo~ the original new york cheesecake? blueberry cheesecake? Secret recipe famous marble cheesecake? or the all time favorite CHOCOLATE cheesecake???!! hahaha...

I such an idiot. hahahaha...

miss mi? ;)

testing......testing......
haha...testing cos its been so long since i touch my blog......Thank God it hasn't rust...
its been more than a month! so much have happen... cant rem everything... guess the more recent BIG news wud be "I'VE FOUND A JOB!"
Yupzzzzz.... no kidding... yeah! hooray! *clap clap clap*
The company is TKH & Company. working as an auditor. Please dun ask me what TKH means... i only noe its the name of one of the directors. The company is small (appx 40 staff) so i hope i can learn lots of things there. hope i get to travel as well... shd be cool! =)
one of my accountancy junior is having her Professional Attachment in that company! hehe... so qiao rite... but i'm starting work on 4 July and she is ending her PA on 15 July... v fast rite. haha

last last wk went to JB for church camp... it was cool! i really enjoyed those 4 days
hehe... learnt alot as well as got to noe my new caregroup members better. now my CG only 2 gals -- Sharon and mi! the rest are Shengteng (my CL), Chukai, Hebing, HuanJie and Guoqiang.

after the camp i fell sick but it din get serious until this mon... i had a terrible sore throat, and in the aternoon i started to feel weak... in the end i wen to the doctor.. well... I'm not someone who likes to go to the doctor... usually i wud think that my body can take it and my body can recover without any medicine... I juz nd to get enuff rest... till yday my voice was still hoarse... sounds awful haha...but today a lot beta... getting sick is not totally bad cos finally my sleeping hours have been adjusted bk and now i dun zz at 2, 3am... in fact i'm feeling sleepy as i'm typing this... hooray...

Hongping shd be enjoying her last few days of her trip now... Pooky is bk from australia (with lots of nougat at home..heh..) Rachel is in australia wif her family now (i told her to buy nougat for me...heh...)
yeah...

Grad trip!!

Yeah! tml i'm gg HONGKONG!! coming back only on sun~ hehe...dun miss me too much hor~~ =)

I'm Free!!!

yupz...tat's wat i am now...a FREE-ed peanut!!! a wandering peanut... no direction YET... still not looking for jobs... 11th may going for my HongKong trip with Peifen *whee!* hehe...after tat June got church camp which is in JB...so i wun be looking for job so soon... spend a bit more time playing first... =) and tinking where do i wanna go, which path to take in my career =) i tink i should give some careful and serious thoughts for my future, esp my career and wat i want to achieve in the next five years of my life... i dun want to juz go out and work and then fall into the rat race and struggle for the next five years wif materialism, back-stabbing, gossips and so on...
Neither do i want to paint a too rosy and idealistic picture of my future and end up disappointed... tink i shall do it in a more sytematic way of setting goals...
heard many stories about the working world...ugly stories...fun stories...dun really noe which kind will i face...hope it wun be ugly...

recently read this book "Confessions of a Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella quite funny...and stoopid... haha... check it out if any1 of u likes to read =)

Exam-feve?

Its the TIME of the Semester once again...and sad to say its the last time for mi =(
so FAST... Friday was my SM paper...yeah finally its over..not as difficult as i tot it wud be... got make some mistakes but hope i wun fail... *fingers crossed*

Tml is my Political Econ paper!!! ArggHhh!!~ haven finish preparing..!! was lookin @ the past year paper n realise there's one question which comes out every sem... hope it comes out this sem as well..

cant write too long...have to go study.. wish me luck for tml! (=

Yeah! got ppl tag mi!

Finally~!!...haha...tot no one will tag mi! yeah...feel free to post ur comments on the tagboard! yeah... so long neva blog liao... quite a lot of things have been happening ard me... guess change is the only thing that is constant...
Ellson is in hospital for dengue fever...scary rite...hope he quickly recovers and gets discharge.
I mean like ppl ard u can fall sick easily and eh...u noe..things juz happen so fast... like....
i'm gg to graduate soon...(that is if i dun fail my SM) haiz... 3 years passed so quickly...i really want to continue to be a uni student for the rest of my life...wahahaha~~ sounds stoopid...but for now tat's wat i hope for la...
but well we all have to grow up...cant remain a childish anymore... hehe...
wonder how's Angela doing in Aust? haven go chk her blog...tink she oso too bz to blog ba...
Yeah...i'm gg to Thailand for my graduation trip with Xinrong and Peifen...haha...Thailand like so near rite? all cos of me...cos i poor ma..can only afford to go there... still haven tell mom and dad...hehe...hopefully no serious objections and hope Thailand will be politically and socially safe this July so that we can have a good trip!

By the way, wish everyone a HappiE !!!!!