Hi Mum!

Spoke to my mum on skype last night and we were practically laughing, and sometimes shrieking away... nice to hear mum's happy voice and her laughter... maybe because as a teenager we would always not be around at home so hardly talk that much... much less chatting on the phone and sharing stories. Well Mum! if you're reading this, hope to receive an email from you, with you Vietnam photos attached!

p.s. can't wait to get home to try out the new camera! it rocks!

Anyway, for more stories about my life in china, get onto http://www.the-rebel-in-me.blogspot.com/! Lots of pictures, sights and sounds (ok, no sounds) of China! Where all our ancestors used to come from!

We've been looking at places to go these days, and thinking of inner mongolia too. really must pray hard that we don't have to OT this weekend... actually this job aso no fixed timing... nothing to do, then go home on the dot... got thing to do then pia until night...说 9 to 5 也不算 9 to 5. bascially we are just slaves for the clients... No wonder our prof used to say the developers are the gods and we are just serving them and making them happy.

Been on my estimate for about a month. Got this assignment since day 1 of my work... but half the shopping mall was bought over by another developer so i had to do a new estimate... so in all there's like 3 estimate... old, variation and new. It's not difficult... it's just tedious... and architects just use materials based on aesthetic value... I called one of them to ask for the price of a glass pane and he honestly said he doesn't know, and usually architects wouldn't know. That's where we come in handy lorh. yes!

besides work... let's talk about something fun! Last Friday we went to Fridays! (TGIF) and they've got good food! and the company was great! Basically there were Richie, Vera, Jinkian, Hinlye, Yanmei, Joshie and me! the whole night we were talking about 欠扁问答题... and laughing at how i couldn't get the answer.. even Joshie got it right??!??

talking about qbwdt, 麒麟到北极会变成什么?? yanmei was totally absolutely amused by this qbwdt... we just laughed our heads off!!!! and 小白加小白是什么？ just absolutely hilarious!!! Think we spent half the Saturday holding our tummies and almost rolling on the floor... we were suppose to rush an estimate project but we needed a destresser and qbwdt is the way to go!!! never appreciated these qbwdt jokes so much before... not only because they are funny but they have the power to bring people closer to each other too... and that's really endearing. much more 珍贵. The most difficult one was probably Vera's 大象放屁 - 猜一个歌. that's like so far-fetch! but afterall, qbwdt! Thinking about them, actually i can't wait to do a music recording with the whole gang! (WHOLE GANG, not 1 less!!!) Actually abit regret not joining them for k-session the last time round... must have been quite fun then...

Oh yes! how can i not have blogged about something... our local colleague brought us out and invited us to her house... her mum cooked homecooked dishes! Gosh, it was really very very heartwarming and their whole family is so hospitable... her mum cooked jiao zi and lots of dishes... got fish, got meat, yea, very nice family! She was telling us how young people rather move out to stay on their own... but because she is the only child (so common here) she wants to spend time with her family so she would rather travel to work everyday for 1 hour ++ than to move nearer to the office.

Anyway, Beijing overall is a nice place to live in... the city is quite developed, many people have a decent apartment to live in... and maybe because i haven't seen the other side of Beijing city yet. I would love to but sometimes there isn't much point in doing so because for once, i'm not doing charity work.

Ok, pictures in this edited entry! got work to do!