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SAFARI!!! 71st day. :)

20 June, 2007 No Comments

Just downloaded the Safari beta version for Windows. And I must say, I’m awed by the design!!! 😀 It looks super sleek and I feel like I’m using a Mac. 😀 😀 I’ll still stick with using Opera (my default browser) for now. If I’m taken away by the features and stuff Safari offers when they release it, I’ll probably switch to using Safari. The downside to this is that not many web pages support Safari.

Visited Mount Emei and Le Shan over the weekend. Quite an interesting experience honestly. Made me want to know more about my religion. The next entry would be about it. 🙂 Still currently writing the entry about it. 🙂

Sunday was Father’s Day and my mum called me so that I could wish my Dad a Happy Father’s Day. Still haven’t bought anything for him. I’ll probably get him a belt. That’s the only thing I can think of. So far, I think I’ve bought the most stuff for my dear sis. Lol. 😛

Still haven’t thought of what to get for the band, SNCO and all. :-/

Yesterday was Dragon Boat Festival. The company gave us each 8 Century Eggs and 2 raw rice dumplings. 😀 Already tried one of the century egg, and surprisingly, the smell of it wasn’t as strong as the ones in Singapore.

Recently also learnt a lot of Mandarin and about China from 2 of my colleagues (who I’m teaching English to). Quite interesting lah. Except that sometimes I have no idea how to express myself in Mandarin, which is kind of sad.

Anyway, I’m still up so late coz I just put my laundry into the washing machine about 20mins ago, and must wait for it to finish washing. 🙂

The more time I spend with you, the more I just want to hold on to you and never let go. 🙂

Cheng Du, Interesting, Life, Thoughts

Quiz, POTC and 1st month!

15 June, 2007 No Comments

Firstly, Happy 1 month anniversary for Huzz and I! 😀

Quiz from Xiu Li‘s site. Second time I’m doing this coz I accidentally clicked something wrongly 🙁 The “friends” portion of the quiz shall be ignored coz I don’t really group my friends as “Best” or “favourite”. :-/

1. Full name: Jasmine Chye Fong Yee
2. Name backwards: eey gnof eyhc enimsaj
3. Were you named after someone: Nope.
4. Meaning of name: Not too sure of the exact meaning but it means something about getting weathy. 😛
5. Nickname: “Ah Girl” (My relatives call me that), Jas, FY
6. Screen name: ::Fong Yee::
7. D.O.B: 28 July 1988
8. Place of birth: Singapore
9. Nationality: Singaporean
10. Current location: SDC Office, Chengdu, China
11. Star sign: Leo
12. Religion: Buddhist
13. Height: Between 155-158
14. Weight: Not sure. lol
15. Shoes size: 6 or 7. Depends on the shoe
16. Hair colour: Dark Brown/ Black
17. Eye colour: Dark Brown/Black
18. Who do you look like: Myself
19. Innie or outtie: Innie
20. Leftie or rightie: Rightie
21: Gay, straight, be or others: Straight
22. Best Friends: –
23. Best friend you trust most: –
24. Favourite pals: -.
25. Best friend of opposite sex: –
26. Best buddies: –
27. Boyfriend or Girlfriend: Huzz (boyfriend)
28. Single or attached: Attached
29. Parents: Grace and Ben
30. Worst enemy: Myself.
31. Favourite online guy: –
32. Favourite online girl: –
33. Craziest friend: –
34. Advice friend: –
35. Lame friends: –
36. Person you cry with: My pillow. I know it’s not a person, but yea. lol
37. Any sisters: Yea
39. Any brothers: Nope.
40. Any disease: Nope.
41. Pagers: Who uses them nowadays?
42. Is your room shared: Yea.
43. With who: In SG – with my sis, In Chengdu – with Jia Hui
44. Cell phone: Nokia 7260
45. Pool or hot tub: Pool
46. A car: Wants a VW New Beetle or Mini Cooper
47. Your personality: Can be sarcastic, quiet, serious, lame, funny and nice. Going to get rid of the sarcastic part of me.
48. Driving: Wants to learn
49. Room: Big!
50. What’s missing: ?
51. School: Nanyang Poly
52. Bed colour: Er, brown? Bed colour mah…
53. Relationship with parents: good.
54. Believe in yourself: Yea
55. Believe in love at first sight: Yup.
56. Good listener: should be
57. Get along well with parents: Yea
58. Save email conversation: Nope
59. Pray: Twice daily
60. Believe in reincarnation: Not sure.
61. Make fun of people: Yea.
62. Like to talk on phone: Not really :-/ I prefer talking face to face
63. Want to get married: Yea. 😀
64. Like to drive: Haven’t decided
65. Motion sickness: Nope
66. Eat stem of broccoli: Yes!!
67. Eat chicken with fork: Uh Huh
68. Dream in colour: Yea. I’m not colour blind
69. Type with your finger on home role: ?!
70. Sleep with stuff animal: Yea. Only over here. I sleep with 2 pandas. Lol
71. Net to you: ?!
72. On the walls of your room: In SG: Nothing. Used to have a map of Singapore but removed it liao. In Chengdu: 2 maps of Chengdu
73. On your mousepad: No mousepad
74. Dream car: VW New Beetle, Mini Cooper, Subaru
75. Dream date: Anything with Huzz. 🙂
76. Dream honeymoon spot: Europe
77. Dream husband or wife: Huzz. 🙂
78. Bed time: Recently, it’s after 12. :-/
79. Under your bed: Nothing
80. Single most important question: ???
81. Bad time of day: After lunch. I always want to sleep at that time.
82. Your worst fear: My imagination running wild in a bad way.
83. The weather is: Foggy…
84. Time: 1010
85. Date: 15 June 2007
86. Best trick did on someone: Haha. Can’t remember, but I liked the one LY,YL and I did to the others on Saturday. 😛
87. Theme song: None.
89. Funniest experience: should be the one on Saturday
90. Scariest experience: can’t think of it
91. Silliest thing you ever said: Recently it should be saying 30,000 in Chinese as 三十千 (literally thirty thousand) when it should be 三万
92. Scariest thing while you’re with your friends: No idea. :-/
93. Worst feeling: Sick. Losing someone.
94. Best feeling in the world: Peace.

95. AND NOW CHOOSE TO DO THIS QUIZ: Anyone can do it if you’re bored. 🙂

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Watched Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End yesterday with Huzz, Jia Hui, Mike, Yi Long, Henry, Hwa Swee and Edmund at this place called Fortune Mall. We went to the wrong place coz the driver wasn’t too sure where the place was. Just wished that the instructions were clearer. :-/ But that place is quite nice. 🙂 Walked around before watching Pirates at around 9. Not a bad place honestly. Quite similar to SG’s. And oh, I saw a small ad thingy on “I Not Stupid”, except that the name is different. Quite interesting lah.

POTC3… A bit disappointing coz they kept cutting bits of it. >.< We were eagerly awaiting for Chow Yun Fat’s character Sao Feng to say “Welcome to Singapore” but they cut it off!!!! 🙁 Sad ah. And his character like died within 20 mins? A bit weird. It made his character a bit redundant. Lol. Maybe coz I was tired, but I liked POTC2 better. Though I’ll still get the DVD/VCD in SG when I return. 🙂 The bonus scene after the credits was a bit erm, interesting. =X But quite sad though. Will and Elizabeth can only meet each other once every 10 years. 🙁

Reached home at 12+ am.

Haagen Dazs tonight! 😀
峨眉山 (E-Mei Shan) and 乐山 (Le Shan) tomorrow and sunday. Hope it’ll be fun. Hope that I won’t fall asleep during the trip. :-/

Cheng Du, Rants, Thoughts

Random thoughts rants in my head.

13 June, 2007 No Comments

Manners. Something very important to have when you’re living with 12 other people in the same place. Unfortunately, not everyone has that. And with that, I would like to point out that even though you’re to “make yourself at home” and that some friends might say, “Why are you so polite? Do you treat me as your friend?” it is still manners to ask before you take something that do not belong to you. Maybe it’s me, because I still ask my sister or mum or dad whenever I want to use something of theirs, before I switch television channels, before I move their things… So I guess that’s why I get a bit touchy when people take my stuff without asking. The worst thing is that when you need that thing that’s taken from you, you can’t find it, and then realised that it’s because someone took it. Argh. 🙁

And habits are something that I think some should change. Even though the apartment IS our home for these few months, we share stuff together. Bad unhygenic habits should be changed and avoided. Also, it is I guess our own responsibility to clean up after ourselves and not wait for others to clean up after you.

What Henry said the other day’s quite true – we clean up after people coz we are the first person who cannot tolerate the mess that they make. But does this fall under the term “initiative” as well? Do we who clean up have more initiative than those who leave their rubbish around?

I dislike buying new shoes. Not only because I always have no idea what design I want the shoes to be (and would get super confused when choosing shoes), but also because of the pain that new shoes will always cause. Even my now-comfy-then-new Converse shoes tore my heel’s skin when I first wore it.

Kind of regretting something I said about 2.5 weeks ago. I always forget that people do change in character. :-/

Guess that’s all for now? Haha. I don’t usually turn so negative, but when you’re tired, everything negative just appears in front of you.

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Recently am teaching some SCS colleagues English. Quite a difficult task especially when you are worried that you might say the wrong things and offend them. So I let Henry do the talking =X Coz he has this sense of humour that wouldn’t offend people.

Quite an interesting experience though I must say. Also will get to know more people over here in SDC. 🙂 Yesterday while Henry, one other colleague and I were waiting for the rest, we 3 were talking about stuff like music, computers, school system, and I even learnt a bit of China’s history from that colleague.

On the way back home, we shared this “cab” with one Chinese whose accent sounded like he was either from Taiwan or other parts of China. And since he’s from another company (though not rival company), I got quite worried when he started asking about what SCS does. Lol. I sometimes imagine too much.

But what’s interesting is that he asked if we were from 湖南 Hu Nan or 湖北 Hu Bei (other states in China). For the past 64 days since I arrived in Chengdu, there were people who asked us if we’re Koreans, Taiwanese, Hong Kongers or from other parts of China like Guang Zhou. Only one was right in saying that we’re Singaporeans (coz he knows Mr Ling and Ms Chua). Quite interesting eh? 🙂

Cheng Du, Friends, Interesting, Thoughts

Friendster Photos

12 June, 2007 No Comments

Was bored yesterday so for some reason, decided to look at my Friendster photos. When I saw this, I couldn’t help laughing. And I laughed for about 5 minutes straight, till I couldn’t breathe properly, till I had tears in my eyes. 😀 hahaha. (Okay I sound evil)

Then I also told the others (buddha, LY and Henry) to take a look at it, and buddha said, “Wah, evolve from Sun Wukong to TPYS!” Lol. TPYS = Tian Peng Yuan Shuai 天棚元帅 = 猪八戒 “Pigsy”. Lol. He said more stuff about him having two more “meat” on his face and stuff like not to evolve into something else scary and all. I didn’t really take note, coz I was laughing too hard. ROFLOL. 😛

I really wonder why I didn’t notice that change. Lol. Maybe coz we all see each other too often? As in everyone in the class sees each other too often. 🙂 As always, I’ve changed the most. Compare my sec 1 and sec 4 picture, and also my yr 1 and yr 3 picture. 🙂 Henry said I’m the one who changed the most hairstyle, which is quite true.

Many things have changed since that picture. 2 of the classmates have already transferred out, and some of us have already changed our hairstyles. It seems that we won’t be having lessons as a class anymore, because of the attachment and all. Oh well.

Since we’re at the topic of my friendster pictures, lets see…

Taken on National Day 2005. I remember this day coz we went to Wild Wild Wet for the first time with Wen Fang (my sis’s friend since kindergarten) and her family, then I got cooked under the sun and got heatstroke :-/ And many people say that we look like each other after looking at this picture 🙂

Taken after we watched Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire at PS! Everyone looks so young, especially Shamin and Dicky. Now Dickson is taller than me liao 🙁 lol

Terence Teow!! I miss the guy! Where is he now? Miss his conducting!! And also Beatriz, Uncle Jack, Swee Teng, Mei Ling… They don’t come back as frequently already. 🙁

I like this picture a lot. I like this cat a lot coz it’s very tame, friendly and all. 🙂

HS Alumni + Mr Lee at NYPSO’s concert. 🙂 I don’t really like this picture coz my mouth’s open -_-” I remember sitting on the steps for this concert, and sms-ing Guangyi throughout, telling him about the pieces the orchestra played (coz they were similar to SNCO’s repetoire) and the violin soloist.

HS ADDICTION! 😀 I took this photo from the circle seat area where I was ushering. 🙂

Mr Jacomo Bairos (SSO Tuba player)!!! I look short in this pic. Why is he so tall?? At BBQ this year. I told him about my attachment in China and he kept calling me “China Girl” for the rest of the day (he doesn’t know my name).

SWE percussion with Tama Goh!! I remember Uncle Jack going, “Come come, take picture with your 偶像 (idol).” and Tama Goh replied, “呕吐的对象.” (means someone that makes you vomit or something like that) Cool guy. 🙂

SRJC 1A04. I think this was taken on the day the school celebrated CNY. 4 of us in the end went to NYP. lol

The photo that really makes Twin Vampire and I look like twins (except for the height). 🙂 My cousin couldn’t even tell which is me. LOL. Ah, how i miss those times when the group of us woke up early/didn’t sleep to be at the airport to receive/send Reuben. 🙂

Alright, that’s all for now. Got to prepare for EL lessons later! Bye!

Cheng Du, Friends, Life

61st day in Chengdu!

10 June, 2007 No Comments

“Happy 2 months in China!” – that was what Jerrick messaged me last night. Thank you!

So I spent my 60th day in Chengdu (yesterday) at 春熙路 (Chun Xi Road), the Orchard Road equivalent in Chengdu, with all my 12 housemates. 🙂 Quite an enriching trip. Though I was kind of tired and kept rambling nonsense (I think) =X Was kind of annoyed with myself. :-/ But well, shall take note not to talk nonsense when I’m tired.

There’s this 3-storey bookstore there, and enjoyed myself in there. Lots of books there and they’re cheap compared to Singapore! I bought Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in Chinese version (RMB$58 = ~SGD$11.60) and this ASP.NET 2.0 book for RMB$98! 🙂

Had dinner at Pizza Hut coz we wanted to eat pasta and there’s no such thing as Pastamania over here :-/

My 61st morning in Chengdu was spent playing badminton, eating at 对面 (a noodle store), Carrefour, had dinner at Subway and at this arcade.

The best part was this: Li Ying, Yi Long and I went to meet Li Ying’s Mum and the meeting was like over in less than 10 minutes. So we walked back to our apartments and waited downstairs for the rest. For some weird reason, I suggested that we hide at the side of the apartments and follow them quietly behind. So that was what we did. And the best part was that even though we followed the rest of the group all the way from the bottom of the block till they flag for cab, none of them noticed that we were behind, even though a few of them turned behind to talk to the others. LOL.

That was fun, and funny. 😛

Cheng Du, Food, Friends, Life

When you get drunk…

9 June, 2007 No Comments

… and no one cares about you, you know it’s sad. XD Hahahaha!

Yesterday, the whole group of us went to this Porridge steamboat restaurant as recommended by Mr Ling and Ms Chua near our place. After that, we walked to this beautiful place just on the other side of our apartment and there were a whole row of bars. Wow! So after that, Huzz and I took a walk and went home. The rest of them went to a bar.

They came home around 11pm and knocked on the door. Madeline and I went to open the door and my twin said, “Hwa Swee is drunk.” So I looked behind him and saw a “drunk” TPYS leaning on Teck Hwee. Ookay. In my mind I was thinking, “He’s drunk? That bad meh?” It was none of Madeline and my biz anyway, so we went back to our respective rooms to continue what we were doing. haha. And no one cared about that “drunk” guy.

It was all fake. -_-” Lol. And this is really sad. Imagine TPYS really being drunk and no one caring about it. Hahaha.

Cheng Du, Family, Life, Work

English lessons.

7 June, 2007 No Comments

I’m supposed to be writing up lesson plans for 10 days of English lessons for some SDC employees but I ended up:

– Minesweeping (still can’t break Expert!)
– Looking at my cousin girlfriend’s friendster pictures
– Reading my cousin girlfriend’s blog

Lol. So easily distracted. After this entry I shall go back to work.

So yeah, Henry and I were assigned this task of teaching some employees English. Wow. It’s quite technical actually… As in this is an intensive lesson of learning English for an interview and bio. Oh well, at least the Biz Comm skills we learn can be used here.

And the Straits Times that belonged to my bosses were handed over. I miss reading english newspapers! In fact, I just miss reading newspapers. :-/

I dunno how I ended up at friendster again. Just suddenly thought of my cousin and decided to view his profile. Lol. I’m not close to him anyway, and we hardly talk until recently when I’m supposed to help my dad sell the XBox and my mum asked him to tell me how to research for the price to sell it (I have yet to sell it. Anyone interested? Halo 2 edition).

Come to think of it, I’m only close to like 2 cousins out of the 30+ cousins that I have. Must make it a resolution to be closer and keep in touch with more of them I guess. I find it sad when I don’t know much about my cousins except probably their name and whether they are working or studying. And… some of them, the instruments that they play and that’s about it.

Come August, I shall have things to work hard on and having my cousins on my msn list is one of them. 🙂

Update @ 1.04 am: Alright. So I started on the cousins project just now when I saw one of my cousins Janning online. I asked her for my cousin Mark‘s email address and I tried adding him on MSN, and I succeeded! Just finished chatting with cousin Mark who’s doing his NS currently but busy with gigs. He plays his double bass in a small band with a few other people I think. Not too sure. He went off after a while.

But I’m kind of glad that I’ve got one more cousin on my list. 🙂

Cheng Du, Family, Interesting

蔡

6 June, 2007 No Comments

Li Ying shared an interesting site with me about Chinese surnames. So here’s the one for 蔡: http://www.yutopian.com/names/15/15cai44.html 🙂

Quite a cool story eh? I hope this site (http://www.yutopian.com/names/) will keep me entertained for hours. No task to do again coz system not completed for testing. 🙁

Edited:
No. 1 most common surname in China: 王
No. 2 most common surname in China: 李
No. 3 most common surname in China: 張
No. 4 most common surname in China: 劉
No. 5 most common surname in China: 陳
No. 6 most common surname in China: 楊
No. 7 most common surname in China: 趙
No. 8 most common surname in China: 黃
No. 9 most common surname in China: 周
…
No. 42 most common surname in China: 盧
No. 43 most common surname in China: 蔣
No. 44 most common surname in China: 蔡
No. 45 most common surname in China: 賈

120 surnames in total (in the list)

Cheng Du, Food, Work

Brazil BBQ dinner with SCS colleagues

5 June, 2007 No Comments

Yesterday went to 卡布罗尔巴西烤肉 (Cabrel’s (sp?) Brazil BBQ Buffet) for dinner with some SCS colleagues. Mr Ling, Ms Chua, Mr Li, Ms Xiao, Ms Cao and Henry also went (coz we’re all in the same project group). This buffet costs RMB$58 which is RMB$20 more than the one at Midya International Buffet which we’d went to on 2 occassions. Of course, since we’re paying more here, the service is also much better. Hot towels were provided, and there’s TV for you to watch (all Mr Bean though). As for the food, there are more variety I guess? But then, Brazil BBQ is still Brazil BBQ, so it wasn’t that special or anything.

The buffet part was a bit disappointing though. They don’t have as much food to choose from as compared to Midya’s. Most of the stuff were salad and fruits. But I must say even though there aren’t much choices, it also doesn’t really matter coz we sit there most of the time and wait for people to serve us with cooked food. I ate stuff like, bacon, beef, lamb, sausages, pizza, prawns, mushrooms, cauliflower, lotus roots, ham, ice-cream, fries, fruit salad, potato salad, etc. Lol. Of course, I ate only like one or 2 of each stuff and some of the stuff were shared among 4 people.

Then I asked Mr Ling about E-Mei Shan (E-Mei Mountain) coz he went there before. He told us that part of the itenary is to watch sunrise from the mountain and Henry commented that I’m lucky coz I get to watch sunrise with Huzz if our itenary includes that. Lol. 😀 Guess I’m lucky. 🙂 But still must see how the itenary is.

Oh, and watched So Close on tv yesterday. I think I’d watched it before coz I found some of the scenes familiar. They kept showing this ad on Singapore which features JJ Lin. www.visitsingapore.com 😀 I miss the food!!!

Cheng Du, Life, Thoughts

43rd Day.

23 May, 2007 No Comments

Wow. Time flies. It’s amazing how already 43 days have passed since I came over here to Chengdu. It seems like yesterday when I was still at home packing for this trip, or when I was still deciding before the exams whether I should go for this or not. And now, here I am! I still can’t believe it really. And the many many wonderful things that happened over here. 😀

And as many might have already seen from my MSN nick today, I currently have a boyfriend. 🙂 A wonderful wonderful guy called Huzaen. I’d mentioned his name quite often around here so… yea. 😀

Honestly, it’s not that bad and scary living overseas. It’s the people back home that you miss more than the place. The daily routines have become part of my life. I’ll miss living with these 12 people when we’re back in SG. Which I don’t want to think about right now. >.<

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