Finally the 4 day work week in beijing starts le.. woohoo.. With a 4 day week, time in office seems shorter than the usual 5 day one.. maybe it's the tot of not working on friday ba...

Anyway, friday appears faster than it should be.. woke up early in the morning, abt the same time when i went to work daily...transport: chartered bus... the whole journey to PKU takes abt 1.5 hrs during peak morn traffic and 45 mins during sat non-peak period.. cost: 22 RMB, abt 2 times more than taking public transport..but chartered bus save us the trouble to transfer from bus to mrt to bus then walk again.. very mafan ah... haha

First lesson at 北大, our lecturer was absent due to some other commitments.. in his place came another prof.. he's the lecturer for the 2nd part for that particular subject... all i can say of the first lesson was that it was stunning.. think most of the prof in PKU are very zai.. cos taking this prof that took over us for example, even though he did not prepare for the first lesson, he can just go on n on during the lesson without any divergence from the topic.. can see that his tots were very clear and organised... ZAI...

Then came the 2nd day, different prof(cos we are taking 3 different subjects in PKU, so will be meeting abt 5 tutors all in all i think), he wore sandals with t-shirt, bringing his tea and laptop for the morning lesson.. very casual wor.. haha
n that gives us a hint of our dress code for lesson next week ba... hah

He's also another tutor who can just gabble non stop.. n with content somemore... but as compared with the 1st tutor we met, he's still a bit 'died', so after 1.5 hrs of lesson time later, most of us in the class were quite sian liao.. haha, btw, there's only the 14 of us taking the course as PKU dun start their sem till 1st of september.

So much for lessons in PKU, actually the fun thing this weekend is us going for the weekly gathering of Sporeans in beijing at the Swissotel on friday. We got this lobang when we met one of the comm member from the spore chamber of trade in beijing. He's ard 50+ yrs old, living in beijing for abt 10+ yrs.. very friendly guy and with hell lots of business contacts in BJ. Ya, so under his recommendation, me n my apt mates decide to go look look c c how this weekly thingy is actually like....

The ambience at the Swissotel here is not bad, but most of the pple there are sporean in BJ doing business.. so in the end we feel a bit lost there.. haha... but hai hao, luckily the 50+ uncle(we call him uncle andrew) was there and he introduced us to quite a few of his comm members there and brought us to the 'lau pa sat' in beijing for supper. The lau pa sat here is actually a restaurant opened by sporean. The shop is located near 三里屯, selling spore food like carrot cake, fried kway tiao n so on... i tried the teochew kway tiao.. have the looks of spore food, but with the serving of china food and tasted so so only.. hee
as the food there is quite ex(as compared to the usual pricing in BJ), most the customers there i think is sporeans..

After tat i joined the lot, including uncle andrew and his clique, for a chill out session at a nearby pub at 三里屯. The pub is called cappuccino. There's a live band there and basically the crowd there just sit down, listen to music, drink, or play with the dices provided there.(there's a game similar to bluff, like guessing the number on the dice each time it is rolled)
Ya, i had a fun time there, listening to the experiences of the old birds in BJ and drinking diluted chivas like nobody business..and everything is being paid for by uncle andrew and gang...oops... haha.. too bad there's no dance floor in the pub... did feel quite high after the session.