Ok, good news first...

finally gotten my pay for the past 2 months le.. total abt 1400RMB... maybe enough to cover my transport and dvds for the past month ba.. hee..

Have the feeling that the coming weeks gonna be hectic... IA report, GEs in PKU also need reports, got to show my sup in coke something soon... at least show him that we are still doing things... gotta jia you jia you.. need to shift up my gear...

Here's the sad news, at least to me,

i was lucky that i can 'take part' in the mid term assessment for my IA..
however, think i'm being too harsh on myself, got a chance to grade myself slightly above average, but i chose to take the avg path... then in the end it's really that section that i put myself down that my ntu tutor took note of... sian...
just consolation to myself.. there's still a second assessment at the end of the IA.. gotta come up with something good by then le...

Wah... was just doing some tallying of my expenses for the past week... found that this week i've spend the most as compared to the rest of the weeks in beijing. But still ok, course the things i've spent on is quite worth it, as in they are accountable for.. hee

Went to cheong again on sat, this time when to propaganda at 五道口 near PKU.. it's the holland V in beijing, since it's so near to PKU, it has become a gathering n chill out place for the students from all the uni ard that area..
Actually most of the pple hanging ard there are korean students, that's y u can c shop signs with addition korean wordings.

Then again, i just found out that almost every sat in this month, i've had dinner gathering with different grps of pple here in beijing. Last week was Prof Lim, this week is with the pple from the Singapore student association in beijing..
ya, met them for dinner with the rest of the gip pple on sat. Initially tot that this is going to be a small meeting only, but it turns out to be a full force event, as in the association actually invites everyone, including all the sporeans coming for their overseas study in beijing. So in the end there's super lots of pple at the dinner event.

I've learnt to admire those sporeans who came to study in beijing after their As or army. Cos even though the air n culture here in beijing is a bit different here, but the experiences these pple gain is really immense... cos some of them had stayed here for 2-3 yrs depending on their yr of study, some even stayed for 5 yrs(those going for PHD and masters here).

Through toking to some of them, i can really sense n see that they have really lots of things to share from their experiences.... sometimes i wonder how good will it be if i have a chance to study overseas on a long term basis.. hmmm...

anyway, now is already 5 in the morning n i'm waiting for my hair to dry.. slping le... haha

Sat, 03/09/2005....

the day where China celebrated its 60 yrs anniversary victory over the facist ideology... the day where countless pple gathered on the ground of Tian-anmen square to listen to 北京和平宣言... the day where hundreds of pple flooded the mrt cabins...

the day where our PKU prof decides to lecture us on the jap culture instead of the lesson proper. His immense knowledge on jap culture and history and its relationship with China deeply impress me. His views and arguments show an unique and proof-worthy perspective of the actions of japan during and after the Sino-japanese war. To conclude, he's unbelievable...

the day GIP 'founder' Prof Lim came to visit us and gave us a 'piece of his mind'; he's here not to lecture us but to tell us the importance of being magnanimous, on how to think 'big', on not restricting our vision to only what's in front of us, on being able to think in the shoes of others, on being able to see the different cultural perspective of different nations and pple, on how 'real' the world is, that it is not perfect, on the need to speak up, on the importance of interdependence of the systems ard us, on the need to be different and most importantly, to be able to think objectively...it's a long but memorable dinner.

the day i lost my brand new China sim card due to carelessness... the need of a phone num 'force' me to get a prepaid card in China a week ago; only activated it on thurs. Due to the lack of an extra phone, i have to change my spore sim card and the china sim card quite often. Then today since i'm too lazy to change into china sim card in the morning, i just chunk it into my wallet. An afternoon of activities in Xidan made me careless over taking care of my belonging. Guess the sim card just fell out when i'm taking my wallet in and out of my pocket; the sim card was hanging loosely in one of the pouch compartment.. so sian.. wonder if i'm getting another sim card after this.. thinking.... thinking....