Work!

today i went for a meeting with my team leader. present were the architects and M&E Engineers, and us, the QS consultants. no names will be mentioned to protect the identity la.. but if u ask me i will tell u...

The client was horrible! we were 10 min late due to the horrible traffic, and the client went like... 每迟到10分钟就要规定罚200元，20 分钟就要罚400元。

WhoA!! what a bad start to the meeting la! my team leader later on went "i hate him! he pissed me off" hahaha... he surely did man...

and he whacked the M&E engineer until i gained sympathy for him instead. At first, he was really blur and honestly, not professional. but then, the client's unreasonable attitute towards him made everyone hate him. Until much later i realised from another Engineer fren in Beijing, that all clients from this paticular developer company are shitheads... well, i might agree, except for 1 lady i particularly liked and she's a singaporean. muahaa...

ya, there actually quite a number of singaporeans, especially so since i'm working on a project that requires collaboration on the Singapore side... Jiahui has finally been given something to do... very very challenging.. guess what it is?

MEASUREMENTS...

that's not the hardest...

IT'S IN CHINESE!!!! All the specifications are in CHINESE!!!

and when she had to ask a colleague for help, we get the explanation in chinese, which actually spiced up our working life. it was funny sometimes, and i suppose frustrating... for a simple instruction made complexed due to communication differences (anybody watched Babel?). Like our colleague would explain 周长，面积等等。。。 然后乘厚度就有了面域。。。ya, and both of us were left with millions of question marks hoovering over our heads...

words like..

施工部署
投标保证金
招标图
防火窗帘
清单= BQ
and 空调 = Air conditioning system...
the waitress is called 服务员
and the taxi drivers are called 师父。（i think its written that way)
卸货区= loading and unloading bay
and 抹灰 = plastering

these are just some of the technical terms that i understand... what's not written above are those that i don't. hahaha.. k la, its not that bad, i'm getting it, really... will blog next time on more chinese vocabulary!

Jiahui's sleeping like a log today, u know why? because she had work to do! hahaha! so i get to use the internet! yay!

ok i still have time... more chinese words!

computer hang = 死机。(haha, we didn't know how to explain that sia...)
碳纤维
钢材
涂刷隔离济

oki, tired for looking out for words that i recognise. ciao people!! blog again when there's much lesser to do!