Of countdowns and due dates...

2,500 chinese words more...

7 weeks more...

1 more essay...

times up...

Of pure pain...

Sat my ass down in Starbucks for 3hours with a cup of hot chocolate...

Chinese essay as I furiously typed away till very late...

Its time now for dinner...

As I hit 2,000 words till later...

I'm very scared...

Maybe I need some bread?

Know you know how messed up I'm :D... CHINESE ESSAYS O.O

Of nights that are even later...

9 weeks down the road...

Some of my thoughts and feelings and to my khakis in Singapore...

1. Its time for some pool makan and tok cock sessions man! This time lets make it count before school re-opens...

2. I'm still stuck in office at 8.30 pm (read: 12 hours since I stepped into it). But well, I guess that basically why time flies sometimes... 

3. Do Accountants REALLY SUFFER?? (YES.)

4. Do I want to continue? (YES.)

5. Do you believe me? (HECK NO. :D)

Anyways, no photos for this post, too lazy to upload... My eyes are really dry (the air in the office is really dry for some reason) cause of my contacts (my specs broke on the train, the cheapest, dirtiest and well, most uncomfortable one cause i stood up the whole way). But interestingly enough, I didn't mind, now I have a hard time staring at the screen for a long period of time and will feel like someone poked me hard whenever it is too dry.

Its starting to get a little cold in China, I kinda like it, sure beats the 24/7 heat that we get in Singapore, only that the weather change is a little erratic here. Weird. 

Experiences, none that is super amazing only that I'm a little better at squeezing people out of the metro and banging (and acting as if nothing happened) into our chinese brothers and sisters. Otherwise, stuff have been quite cool here. Can't wait to go back, want to stay here a while longer is basically how I feel right now (there is no typo).

All in all, 9 more weeks to go, 63 more days more to go, 2 X 2,500 chinese essay for me to freak out over and basically cold wind and weather that will make me sweat like mad once I go back to Singapore, till then. Coco pudding milk tea with pearls for me... that's LOVE and in the words of a friend BIGLOVE! Woots life is complete...

Of late nights in the Office and strings...

A blog entry from the office when everyone has left but you is kind of sad, but I guess this is the best form of inspiration... 

When everything is quiet and my music is supreme and they is no one, literary no one to stop me!! WOOHOO... I guess. Anyways back to the main topic, did some cool admin stuff China style. Tied basically all the receipts and invoices given out with string and a cool stringing method, string broke a few times, but heck it was worth the experience. Definitely beats AA101 or AA anything, seems like Singapore accountants need to try this stringing thing out!

That aside, lunching was good, by far the one of the best lunch I have had at the office cafeteria but I guess, laksa, mee reubus, mee siam... Well anyways China food is kind of like Singapore food. But the people I guess, are a tad more harsh than the pushing you into the MRT obasan, here I bet if they manage to get a middle-aged rugby category out, China will clinch the gold medal like the US did in the Olympics, no questions asked. 

To the point of the US basketball victory, DAMN I missed it, was so tired after bunking over at my Shanghai mates' place that I totally konked out. Oh well, guess I'll have to Youtube it. 

Well 1 month has gone, and things seem good. I kind of like it her in China though sometimes I wish I had those magic wands that could make people disappear, damn the people here sometimes, you wish you're... I dunno something I guess. 

Back to work stuff, so far... AA101 has done near to nothing to prepare me for my internship except to give me a totally fake/false impression of what accountants do (well all this is my point of view and what I say here has got totally nothing to do with NTU nor it's professors). From day 1 I basically was faced with a learning curve, read: Mount Everest. But that aside, its the fun part of working I guess, new things, if not I would sleep every afternoon at work from the plain boredom of it. 

Every week seems to fly by with the 4 day work week and night time travel to Shanghai and the return trip on Sunday. And I kind of feel in between the ORD mood and being reluctant to leave the beautiful Suzhou. Things here are really WOW, if you stop and stared at the roses... Walked instead of driving... Listened instead of talked, you would really be awestruck or just smacked in the face with the little things that make Suzhou beautiful. I know, I know... This is surprising coming from me, but seriously when you take a step back, you'll see that things are really quite beautiful.

This week would be the 3rd week that I'll attend lessons at 交大 all those broaching-culture lessons, modern culture lessons again I guess than its exploring, exploring, squeezing, squeezing on the train again. YES!! China people do squeeze into trains too, where do you think Singaporeans learnt it from? Chinese are the professionals at queueing up, squeezing into trains and basically sitting down in a packed bus and pretending to be asleep, blind or retarded when there is someone needy, yup, they are the pioneers at that too. 

This will probably be the longest post I will have but what the hell...

PICTURES!!! Click 'em for full res, worth it ")

From under a bridge in Suzhou

小笼包, Suzhou Style

From the Looking Glass in MRT, Shanghai

What a Beauty...

Is it Night Already?

From Outside the Looking Glass, Museum, Suzhou

Duck Meat Anyone? Qi Pu Lu Roadside Store and Something that Fuquan Missed

Wish I had more to say, but...

It has been 3 weeks since I've been in China and well, things are going on quite well and things are well, quite interesting to say the least.

I did a heck lot of walking these few weeks and a wee bit of shopping and lots of eating!

Exhibit A: Seems gross but tastes good

Tibbar

Exhibit B: Shopping Seems Good

To end off everything, I would say that Suzhou is a great place to stay in and Shanghai would require a heck lot of bargaining before anything is done... Till I have something better to blog about :)