Saturday, March 04, 2006 0 comments Post a Comment alright i am back in shanghai. i've been back for two weeks and gathered enough trivia (discounting my random thinking sprees i go on daily) to write an adequately long entry. so how is life back home for everyone? i have been talking to most of you peeps, even zhaomugger (*snigger* synonymn for chaomugger). besides huili and chris. so do drop a mail. dun bother leaving comments now cos remember i can't access my comment page on anon.proxy! u guys can leave them for the day before i return to singapore so i don't screw u guys up for not leaving any. :) i love you guys too. anyway. i saw snow! i am going to ignore all the unimpressed looks i get from the UK/US-ians. IT IS STILL SNOW OKAY. and according to the oxDele, its called 'sleet'. HAH. hard rain. how cool is that! i woke up one day and man, the streets snow-ed. like white rooftops and roadside shrubs all creamed up, yay! its like a WHITE MORNING. so i ran out for a walk. ooooh, hard ice bits flying at me and stinging my face lightly. ahhhh. ok. reality check. its shanghai. so... nope, we don't need shoveling. yes, it lasted less than 2 hours while i was awake. nope, i didn't manage to make a snow house or an igloo or ski down the dry tar road. But i DID try i really did. Haha i made a palm sized snowman!! But i realised snow compact = ice. so my small ball + big ball equation sorta ended up in a deformed icebulge. tada. So much for carrots for noses and twigs for hands. ill be glad if tt snowman was the size of canned carrots. that's that for snow. Now the MOST IMPORTANT discovery this SEASON (i can't call it spring yet. but its a little overdue to still be winter) is : i-chi-go say it with me. i- (as in yi4) chi- (as in chee4) go (as in goh4) ichigo ICHIGO ICHIIIIIGOOOOOOO! which means Strawberry. *beams of sunlight blast through the clouds* 6.50 RMB - 8 RMB per 0.6 kg of ichigo. means. little little money for many many ichigo. means. goodie good good for us ALL. now you guys know why my msn nicks have been going ON and ON about ichigo-san. there is NOONE like her. (of cos it only makes sense that strawberries are women. esp. since boys can't like strawberry pocky or yamyam. what. feudalistic. thinking.) Anyway i've had bout 3 kg of strawberries till date. in a week or so. Lala. New reason for loving shanghai. and the only dignified way to treat Ichigo-san, is to DEVOUR it with tea and strawberry creamcake from one of Shanghai's best bakeries (sun moulin-comparable), which is , a stroke of fate really, called... *wipes off a tear* Ichido. here it is. i believe i have captured a glimpse of my heaven. there is something sexual about strawberries. is it one of those foods which erm.. what do you call those? release like erm lust molecues... ya know like oysters and chocolates. someone educate me! okay enough cooing over ichigo san. the world might get jealous. (and right before me now, lies ANOTHER plate of succulent S-es. oh did i tell u, they are slightly deformed ? some of them look like baby pumbkins but still with the yellow pimples) ( joni mitchell : dancing clown ) anyway, another important update is me taking 3 philo modules this sem. I have bout 9 modules. Sigh. i think only lihui here can empthasise. erm jj could if he actually understood his lects. LOL. jokes jokes. i just digested schopenhauer that day. he is german. and he is the archrival of Hagel. and he came up with some theory that the world is made up of Xian4 Xiang4 and Yi4 Zhi4. Which i will translate as Appearance and Will. Just to confuse my readers a lil, it goes like this : We have noses on our Appearance cos our inner Will desires to smell. Right. Cool. His most interesting argument is that this world is ultimately hopeless. Hurray. Cos whatever we do is giving in to our Desire and desire begets desire and we are unsatisfied and thus hopeless. What does our great philosopher suggest? Nope, not suicide. Cos that is giving in to the Will ( i compare it to Fate ). But to do everything you do not want for that is NOT giving into your will. I think that doesn't make sense either cos once u start DECIDING u do not want to give in ur will, the 'not giving into your will' means giving into ur NEW WILL. alright. thats thursday. friday is on the Mr. Zis. Kong Zi, Lao Zi, Zhuang Zi, Meng Zi, Han Fei Zi, Sun Zi and a few more schools of thinking that originated from the Qin Dynasty. So much for east meets west. And to top it off, i have an introduction to philo on tuesday. But that teacher is amazing. IMAGINE. The students take their textbooks (written by him of course) to him for him to sign. And he smokes during lectures. DURING. like 7 sticks in 1 hr 40 min. There is no reason not to like him. He is REALLY good. one day ill tape his lect down and let you guys hear it. Besides that, im doing corporate finance, Tang shi Song ci, Visual Basic, chinese language, American TV and movies and culture (woohoo, i spent one period watching clips from Friends and Mona Lisa Smile for the first lesson!) , social work intro. Yep tts about it. But its much tougher this sem. Plus i want to take up a more active role in my volunteer work at Cerecare. And i'm still tutoring my japanese friend. PLUS i still need to eat and hopefully gym one day. And of cos i still have to spend time with my schopenhauer and soda. hur. alright thats that. till the next entry! 3/04/2006 11:37:00 PM

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