since i am so boliao and quite high todae, i shall blog more.

Maybe talk about the people in this lab.

Well, on second thoughts, better not. What if someone reads my blog?

But these are the people: Louis(from NJC), Gerald(from VJC), Yu Guang(from HCJC), Natalia(from NTU), Ms Xie Hong(from NUS), Beatrice(from RJC), Emril(from NUS) and BRUCE...

The other student room got these people: Shuting(RJC), Mattew(RJC), Kailing(Crescent), Yidan(HCJC) and those older students.

I think can't get over the thing that fit males like me have to go for 2 ****ing years of National Service.
Not that I am guilty of treason or disloyalty to the country, it is just a scheme that is irrational and illogical.
There's no reasonable argument to convince me that fit males of the country have to go for 2 yrs of torture.
Some say it moulds us as men.. Bullshit. Thiis either comes with finding a job or going to a brothel (i dun mean this though)
Some say it instils loyalty. Again bullshit. Ask anyone from a Uniform Group (u can ask me for a start) and honestly, who enjoys that system... a system of slavery/hierachy. A system that brings anguish.
Some dumb ppl say that since only one or two people die in NS, there's actually no fatal risk going for NS... again another shit argument. The fact that people can actually lose their life preparing for war indicates how poor the preperations are. Love your soldiers and let them defend the country. NOT kill them so that they will be the first to desert the army. But i guess nobody will understand, so well..
Life is long, some may say. But objectively, the essence of life lies in the golden years, which i believe is between age 17-24. Take 2 yrs of NS out and a quarter of it is gone. When boys graduate from JC, they are most like scholastic and brilliant academically. Forcing them to join the army at this point of life, it's like cutting a rock with scissors (scissors can cut paper with ease btw) What logic is there in this policy? To destroy the promising boys and maybe their future??
Even if the government comes out with a billion reasons to counter my argument, i still cannot fathom why girls do not have to serve NS. Not that i am sexist in any sense (neither am i racist) but it is not fair to let girls watch us suffer.
It is proven that girls are better in stealth operations. So the argument that girls are not suitable for army is void. Ditto for service troops in the army. (NOT comfort women LA)
Well, that's a lot of crap i 've written there. Sorrie it's just impromptu, but just that i dun udnerstand why boys are forced to go for NS.

Then todae morning was like having those knd of weirdy dreams again.. X_X
But today wasn't having some stupid dramatic trips overseas. But rather that I cloned my sister. God, i din noe how i did it, but it was probabaly inspired by the recent stories on the Korean scientist who used human ova.

It was nice at first, having twins.. but the issue of birth and stuff soon came to mind and it was lots of thinking... on how to get birth cert etc. And I was like thinking so hard in my dream that i woke up so tired.. like i just did a shit load of math stuff.

And went again lor. My mentor having phd exams at NUS so we kinda did nothign again. Lunch went to science park again. Ate a lot. manz. And i choked on meepok.. damn. I could just feel the un-masticated chilli skin(dripping with crimson and hot juice) rubbing down my poor oesophagus, choking me. I was probably red in the face then..

And afternoon was crap again. I think i was too used to deal-3 solitaire, so i ain't so gd in solitaire anymore. Best is only 167s. Actually the lab ppl are quite fun..

but still bored. -_-"

Let me blog again since i have nothing else to do.

Ytd woke up quite late, though i had set alarm, planning to jog first. Then just slacked away my morning. Afternoon went my dad's ex classmate's house in Jurong West. Their daughter has ap, in crescent.

Their school has this IT-enabled classroom system. I thought it was quite cool, but i knew it would be completely useless at the same time.. haha

My sis was having a temper there, i suppose she jsut couldn't get used to a stranger's house. And she was getting sleepy, so it was jsut a lot of fuss over her. And finally she slept.. thank god.

Dinner soon and went home lor. Took a different path back. Just chatted a bit and slept... ZZzz

today has pretty much been fei.
Woke up and sleepily went to dentist. Waited some time. THen doctor tan removed the lower braces. It was kinda funny. And jjust cold feel those brackets leaving my mouth, for good. After that was even funnier, the empty feeling...

Then on the MRT I witnessed a great display of Singlish. This woman in her 40s was like speaking in English, Chinese, Hokkien, Malay etc speckled with all the las and lors. And she ended off by boasting about how she was "englisheducated". It was so amusing.

Then in the afternoon it was sooo boring. Just read newspapers, get used to lower jaws w/o braces and basically that.

Then was basically slacking around and dling stuff.

At night was fooling around with my sis and chatting lor...
Such as stupid day..

now i know, her name is eve... such a sweet name, for a sweet gal..
..

and the other day, this lame RI boy went to call me, ask me whether i want to go watch HP with him and his friends..
lol
the other day he just asked me to do charity at the east.
I mean, wth would he cal me, just becos i wrote down my hp no once during survey (btw i was the only one nice enough to write for him, on way form MOELC)

Life is getting boring, and I took out lower braces.
Shucks
I look shit now..
Fuck

Suddenly i just feel like blogging now..

I am damn frustrated with 2 personal projects that I am working on..
One is the comics thingy, the other is the racism essay
Started out so fine,
So promising,
Yet on the brink of failure,
I stood firm,
Watching,
Trying.
The job may not be done,
But I know i will neveer be undone..
stop, this is lame

It's not fun talking to ppl from Raffles, I am serious. The talk about Rafflesian Spirit is all ********

if u scold a malay, u are racist,
if u scold a region, u are extremist,
if u scold the opposite race, u are sexist,
if u scold someone of dif. height, u are heightist,
if u scold the govt, u are guilty of everything

oh ya, I remember another incident, on second day.
I was stupid enough to follow the crowd to take a bus all the way to Holland V to eat Burger King. But that's not the point. There was this sweet and incredibly cute RG gal alone, and I was going to sit with her.
And of allllll people, I met Shida there, and he was friendly enough to ask me to sit with him. . And so i had to oblige....
...
...
sad sia

Shall blog about todae then.
It was another slack day, cos Xie had exam next mon(she alos did group presentation this ytd) so obviously she's damn busy. So we were just washing the thiol compounds etc. Heard 4th level very fun, can kill mice..
Maybe on that fateful day..
I should have told Ms Noreena that i like bio, instead of chem...
But it's too late now..
No room for regrets..
Yet the regrets linger on..

Then lunch, the friendly Kailin from Crescent led us to the Container. Had set lunch. I gave all my mushroom from my mushroom pasta to Ivan(from HC). It was quite nice, the meal.

Sometimes it is quite embarrassing when they refer to me as "little boy"

Afternoon I was damn sleepy. Like dunno how many days sleep less than 5 hrs... een though still holidays... nearly fell asleep. And the fucking ellipsometry was damn frustrating, and i got scolded by that czech guy for reflectng laser.

Playing around with the magnetic stirrer was quite fun sia... @@

Now damn pro in solitaire... haha
LOL

erm... long time no blog liaoz
i will jsut talk abt my lack of luck with girls...
You see, there is this cute and sweet HC gal. Not that i have any undesirable intentions, but sometimes just want to spend some private time wiht her. And since she takes MRT to Woodland, can go home with her.
Then last week, I was walking with her to the MRT halfway when i remembered that I had left my EZlink card there (the damn security guard forced me to exchange for visitor's pass!!) so she went first lor...
Then ytd, waited so long but she had to wait for chemical reaction, so it was another futile attempt..
Then todae, i was quite happy and she happend to be early too... so can go with her... but all ends here. On way out, met Shida and of course can't dao him rite (not his fault but he's here at the wrong time!!) so went together lorx. And I alighted at Batok while they contined in Woodlands direction... X_X
WTF
...

Anywae, missed British Defense Minister ytd, but went for talk on nanoglass... it was an interesting idea but it's quite crappy at the same time.. haha

And my record for solitaire todae was 152 s, and i started becoming damn pro in the deal 3 also. Just pro la... XD

and to add on to my first post today, that peroson has really disgusted me, seriously. Just when I thought the outer shell was indicative of the person's calibre and character, that perosn just shattered my image of that person. Like a blow, it literally blew my mind off, and made me just wonder if all my previous concoctions of that person can be so different.

I can see shit and dun give a damn. But seriously, the hyping by expectations may be unfair to that person, but that person has really disappointed me. I won't curse that person or harm that person( i am not a person to do so) but like a scar, the impression of that person in me is forever corrupted. I shall never forgive that person.. maybe i will after all, but that's not the point.

At Mich's (the very nice RG gal) advice, I have started a self rehabilitation. It is a very difficult and arduous process, when that thing is so entrenched in my mind. But taking from a common quote (most recently,i saw it in INitial D) "one must not defeat others, one must defeat urself"

SO overcoming myself is the greatest barrier. When all physical obstacles have been supposedly removed, it is that emotional residual baggage that must be removed from within me. Well, it is a difficult process, certain excruciating to me.

Right now, I must say, I am halfway through. but with more determination, I really believe i can indeed rid myself of this emotional burden. A good start is half the battle won. I just need the momentum and the WILLpower to go through the last lap. Now is the time for grit and to show myself that i can capable of defeating the other me.

Now is the time. Prove urself! @@ ganbatte!

backie.
just feeling rather pissed now. Some fuckers went to my other blog (supposed to be secretive) and put some shit there. But i changed the url, yet again.

Some people are really assholes. From the outside, they may look nice and seem nice, but the moment you delve into their inner character, all you see is shit. The disparity in expectations and reality is immense, and seriously, I am sure you will meet ( or have met) some ppl like this. Just be careful of such people..
...

Anywae another observations. Met 3 different RJC girls recently, 3 vastly differing characters. The first is the petite, tall, chio one. But as one may expect, shes' kinda prima donna and won't mug a lot. She also has much higher (often unexplained and unjustified) expectations of others. The second is the average next door gal, who's quite mugger but pretty easy to get along with. The third is the horrible looking but incredibly proded kind, who got shit looks but u just get the uncanny feeling that she will eventually become the numero uno in her field. She epitomised the ultra mugger and what they call loser in japan, most likely a spinster but unbelievably successful.
Wellz...

HCJC>RJC. I am serious.

Another thing, i really think people are spreading too much shit abbt me. I know i am a nice guy who is like okie with jokes and everything. But some idiots are just incorrigible. And the worse thing is, people often believe the nonsense they sprout and do i get the chance to defend myself?? NO!!

But this Eric guy from RI 3D did call me a nice person. Gotta commend him though.. :D

Gerald is really talking too much, that's my opinion. If he can do as much as he can talk, he will be really pro (which he is unfortunately not). But it's still quite nice to work with him. How many JC ppl can put up with a Sec 3 outdoing u in all kinds of stuff.

And someone told me to do polymer chem.. THINKING...

I am really not blogging often now. Maybe i am just busy, but i suspect it's laziness. So well, cya!

hmm. i am not blogging for quite some time already.
i dunno la, sometimes i just dun feel like blogging. there's so much more fun to my life, I am derive such joy from a great variety of things.
or Maybe i just know that I can't write certain stuff here, be it sensitive or jsut too personal. So sometimes i don't publish, sometimes i write in my secret blog. So it makes no difference.
Or maybe I just know tht nobody cares. Those who read my blog, who really comes to offer me consolation, or relate to me, or just say something? It just becomes kndas pointless.
But these few days have been quite slack. I am now attached to IBN. Tbh it's really slack, but quite fun at the same time.I am doing something on chemistry, my mentor specialised in chem anywae. Maybe i shall blog later. I need to go off now to do some cv.

Communication and Signal Processing Events


March 2, 2005: Dr. Olgica Milenkovic (U. Colorado, Boulder)

Constrained and Error-Control Coding for DNA Computers

Place: 2460 A.V. Williams

Time: 3:00 PM

Host: Dr. Alexander Barg

Abstract: The last century was marked by the birth of two outstanding scientific and engineering disciplines: silicon based computing and the theory and technology of genetic data analysis. The research field very likely to dominate the area of scientific computing in the foreseeable future is the merger of these two disciplines, leading to unprecedented possibilities for applications in varied areas of biology and engineering. The first steps toward this goal were made in 1994, when Leonard Adleman solved a quite unremarkable computational problem with an outstanding method. The computational problem considered by Adleman was a simple instant of the directed travelling salesmen problem. The technique used for solving the problem was a new technological paradigm, termed DNA computing. Adleman's experiment represents a landmark demonstration of data processing and communication on the level of biological molecules.

Following Adleman's initial work, many other DNA computing schemes were developed, including solvers for the 3-SAT problem, DNA systems for analyzing chess games, DNA-based logical components, as well as an intelligent, interactive DNA "game machine", called MAYA. Other applications of DNA techniques include DNA-based storage, DNA biosensing, molecular signal processing and intra-cell disease diagnostics and treatment.

One of the major obstacles to efficient DNA computing, storage and signal processing is the very low reliability of DNA hybridization operations. DNA computing experiments require the creation of a controlled environment that allows for a set of DNA oligonucleotide strands (codewords) to hybridize with their complements in an appropriate fashion. If the DNA codewords are not carefully chosen, unwanted, or non-selective, hybridization may occur. Even more detrimental is the fact that an oligonucleotide sequence may fold back onto itself, forming a secondary structure which prevents the sequence from participating in the computational process.

In this talk, we describe some new DNA code design methods which meet the hybridization-constraint requirements. Several classes of such codes are cyclic, which is a particularly useful property in light of the fact that the presence of a cyclic structure reduces the complexity of testing DNA codes for secondary structure formation. Based on some simple properties of a dynamic-programming algorithm, known as Nussinov's method, which is an effective predictor of secondary structure given the sequence of bases in a DNA codeword, we identify some code design criteria that reduce the possibility of secondary structure formation in a codeword. These design criteria can be formulated in terms of the requirement that the Watson-Crick distance between a DNA codeword and a number of its shifts be larger than a given threshold or that the DNA codewords do not contain long subsequences and their reverse complements. In this talk we address both the issue of enumerating DNA sequences with such properties and the problem of practical DNA code construction under such constraints.

Joint work with Navin Kashyap from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.

Biography: Olgica Milenkovic received the M.S. Degree in Mathematics in 2001, and the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2002, both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests are in the area of error-control coding, constrained coding, probability theory, analysis of algorithms and genetics.

hiya, i am here to blog again.

the past few days have been boring to say of the least, mostly spent outside of school.

monday to wednesday was PL camp, which is so damn slack. Will prob copy some other people's entry, yar it was quite boring. We went hiking in Ubin, and i was the food IC. Did some stuff but it was a lot of useless reflections on the last day. And i hate sleeping in tents....so hot and cramped. X_X

And Thursday to Saturday was Red Cross camp. Thursday i went to help them do up the archives stuff. Then the camp was okie la, i slacked quite a lot. But from what i saw, there were like sooooooooooooooo many ppl who were as slack as me. (okie i won't mention names, but royce does seem pretty prejudiced to single me out) Yup, it was slack. And played a hell lot of soccer.Though the discusision on the theft case was pretty exciting and mind boggling.

So ytd when i got home, it was soo nice. At first i had a hard time tuning my violin. It had been some time since i last played it and the sound was like so shit. Then just played some simple grade 3/4 stuff cos i am really rusty now. But realy like it, i really enjoy my music. Then was just enjoying my commputer until 1am.

So today got up at 11am plus. Then slacked and slacked. Reading up a lot on soccer. I somehow get the feeling i am the most knowledgeable perosn on soccer in the whole of singapore, honestly. My sister is so damn cute. I am not being biased, but it's really baffling how can someone be so perfect. She's soooooooooo cute, pretty, fair, and intelligent. No wonder my mum i take all the lousy genes while she take the good ones. Obviously she takes the good ones after i have taken the bad ones! ><

Then at night was watching a bit of Golden Horse Awards. The rest were watching enthusiastically, but i tink it dragged on too long. (i watched it last yr, so i know) Was chatting with Monica from Mass., USA. Recently, i am chattin with many ppl from USA and it seems myspace is really hot there.

Then was watcing the 40yo virgin. LOL. It teaches me a lot of gals and sex. Andy is quite funny, but he seem so damn gay.

Haiz.. tmr is the start of attachment and i still haven't read up on redox polymers and all that shit >< gtg now
Cya, enjoy ur holidays when it last.
16 soon..

anywae i just wrote 3 long posts abt love, teachers and love. But i am not publishing them... HAHAHAHAHA(sadistic one, cos they would have made a nice and enjoyable read) If you really wanna know and i think i can trust u enough, come ask me for it, nicely. But its realy nice to be pouring myself out. I jsut dun feel so pressurized again, and supresing one's emotins ain't good, it spoils you. So i feel rather shiok and kinda freee, haha.

BTw i really enjoy KTV, after my first exp on wed, haha

Hi, me here again.
Friday was boring shit. I was first surfing the net. THen was chatting to kevin, ern(lame and vulgar guy from HK), then Cindy(nice gal form Holland) and Aileen(another nice gal from US) and so eventually din sleep at all. Had to go to school to settle all that admin shit, os it was pretty boring. The class din like what i brought them, so well, i won't give a damn now anywae, should have guessed how appreciative they wold be. Went to look for Mrs Lai, scolded by her for like 10min abt not atending sch... bleargh.XX
Then yr head's assembly was rather lame, sorry Mr Lim but it was lame period. Got back my geog paper which is like 0_0. I dunno why i deserve this. Got back bio also, quite disappointed though. Slept in HML till 3.30. Went for that programming course, which is boring shit, tbh. Went home and slacked, basically.

Sat was even lamer. After sleeping from 12am to 11am, i was woken up by Xinyu, abt WEP. Wahhhhh. Boring day. Afternoon was packing up that warzone of a room... things were everywhere, i found all my science stuff under newspapers in that drawer. No wonder i had nothing in my files. 'X Then was watching Wallace and Gromit. Not released yet in S'pore, according to Ben. It was quite funny, a creative masterpiece. I couldn't really guess the plot until halfway thru the movie, which says a lot abt this movie. Could have been longer though... Then was staying up at night to watch Love Actually. It is fucking hilarious, thruout. But toooo many characters. My fav phrase now. Enjoys

Because if you look hard enough you will find love actually IS all around

Today is SUnday, another boring day. Got up at 11am, which is half the day gone again. Will probabbly do some packup and maybe blog without publishing, can write more personal stuff, abt love, families, school etc etc...

CYA GALS N GUYS!
^^

Well, i shall post here a bit on my pathetic Ct results.
English- 34.5/50. That's quite sad. The summary was ok, 21.5/25 but the rest was a complete disaster. Only 1 mark over 5 for vocab WTF! But i was quite lukcy and privileged to be the only one in the class to get 4.0 for English. But in honesty, I feel quite bu ping heng, ppl in other classes can get 4.0 for English so easily(along with some other subjects... sighz =X)
Chinese- 13.5/20 for a nice gong han. i think the kao guan was biased against me, such a shambolic mark for a rather nice piece of writing. Main one was 70.5/100. I thought it was pretty lousy too... but how leh? I wasn't planning to get 4.0 this yr anywae. I am not in 3D and my teacher is not Mr Liu.
Math- 42/60. DISASTER. And i actually practised for 2 hrs before the test, unlike most of the other subjects that I did not even revise for. I was chao carelsss, bt mostly becos i was stoning thruout the test, cannot do the simplest of sums... shits
Jap-?? All I know is that I screwed it up. Before EOY, i got around 80, which account for 75%. After eoy, which is 25%, it dropped to 73, so can imagine how lousy it was rite? And ppl were cruelly maligning me for mugging at home.. X_X
Biology-44/50. Well, i got to be content at times. It was quite a good grade but consideering it was easy as piss, i am rather irritated at myself. I lose all the marks by not writing exactly to the point. Mrs Lim say i get the point but just don't have that extra thingy.. sighz. But not bad la
Chemistry-53/55. THis along with Geog and Math, was another subject i studied for. Honestly, i am quite pleased with myself, but I need to improve on my overall chem. Need to be constantly getting near full marks. Ganbatte!
Physics-39/50. The last qn i did correctly at first but decided to self destruct and change answer, kao bei, so minused 4 marks. And a bit careless here and there. but not too bad la, just could have been better. Physics should really have been my forte.
SS-22/30. Sad. Period.
Geography-53.1/100. Joker paper, really. I still can't fathom how i just plunge into such pathetic marks for geography in term 2. Term 1 can still get 85, term 2 struggle to get 75, and ct can't even get 55. Okie, I am really disillusioned with this subject, really. No point talking me out, i am defo dropping it.

Though one good thing, other than physics for term 1 which i got 67, I still have a personal record of not getting below 75. And perharps another record for nos of 79s..

Thoughts
For this CT, i really did nt want to prepare for it. I was preparing to fail it or do badly. But for such preparations, it was still decent i guess.

Next year, i swear to do better, really. I will get 4.0 for Chinese, Physics, SS, Jap, Math. along with the other subjects that i am getting 4.0 now. Chinese and Jap shoudl be okie, I am pretty strong in languages. Physics and Math, need to practise and try harder. SS, should be able to la. I also promise to get above 90 for the 3 sciences and Math.

If I can go according to this plan, I will get 4.00.haha

Tuesday
Woke up at around 8, 11hrs of sleep. Breakfast at the hotel, must pay though. The pickled cucumber is so cool, of baby cucumbers. Went Yue Fen(know Yue Fei??) TBH, that’s a very tranquil place, the whole place is so serene. Very very nice place. You tiao originated from you zha gui(deep fried qingui) btw, how interesting. My mum called yet again, she calls me like 3 times a day. I know I am alone, but I really tink she’s a bit unduly worried. Went this garden too, which is soooooooo damn beautiful, a must visit for me personally.
Rented bicycles and cycled around. Very good views of Xihu. IT’s such romantic place, too bad I dun have a gf… sighz. Cross Bai causeway(built by Baijuyi when he was governor here) Duan qiao is ok la, I dun see the fuss.
One interesting thing is that here, no 2 chopsticks are the same, all different thickness.
Actully I blogged for todae liao but the comp hanged。
Basically had a simple meal at the hotel for breakfast. The baby pickled cucumbers are really cute. Forgot most of the stuff I blogged.Anywae visited these really beautiful gardens and parks, really. And Yue Fei’s place. It’s a really tranquil and nice place. Got to know about You Tiao(you zha gui) and that split tree. Very very romantic place. Ate at Yue Hu Lou, another centuries old restaurant. Xi Hu Cu Yu failed to deliver, AGAIN. And some other stuff like beef, soup, kourou etc.
Wanted to take a train back , but no good ones , so took bus again.Bought some expensive nice snacks but somehow I fucked up again, byleaving them in the bus. WTF!
Had another quite elaborate dinner(finally ate rice since Thursday night!) and just bathed, read, relaxed etc.

Wednesday
Slacker day for me todae. Slept at 1 plus and woke up at 8 plus, feeling totally vitalized. Good breakfast and just slacked around. Read Harry Potter. To use an analogy, Shanghai is like the teen Tom Riddle while Singapore is like the teen Hermoine Granger. Excellent lunch too. Slacked around and visited a close aunt in the afternoon, my uncle sent me there. Sometimes I feel really bad, getting fat angbaos from everyone, while still enjoying their hospitality. Dinner, bath, and finished reading the book, really looking forward to the new book now. But 20,000+ yuan just spent on dahua cigarettes, wth, I think this is really a bloody waste of good money $$
Actually living here is really relaxing  sorry guys in s’pore. I can like just walk around and bask in the cool autumn weather, or have a good bath(I feel asleep in it many times and it’s really distressing) or just read a book while munching on titbits. Sighz.. wth do we live in s’pore??

chiobu update

TBH, this is what I see here. In shanghai, u meet really really chio gals. The probability of seeing a chiobu on Huaihai Road is approximately 2billion times greater than seeing one on Orchard road. But they seem to be rather haughty, but seriously, just in terms of chioness, they are quite unbeatable. Whereas in Hangzhou, you see a lot of chiobus also, but they seem to be very nice people also. I have met a few of them, and they have such excellent impression on me, personality wise, so I would actually prefer such gals… haha ^^

wellz, just some updates again
firstly, internet here is really in shambles. There's like 3 comps in this house alone but internet is not common. Still using dial-ups.. rather used to broadband already.
secondly, i found that they dun renovate the outside of their house, but the inside decor is done very well, kinda surprising.
Sunday
It was quite fun also. Slept until very late. (i slept damn early somemore) then just went my cousin's hse nearby. Was talking to this distant cousin/uncle in his 20s nearby. He had served in US army from 99-04 and nearly went to Iraq XD... haha, he's now doing constructions here. One uncle drove me around the town nearby. Then around 11 was lunch again.. wow. a HELL lot of food again. I was sitting beside and chatting with this young man. He's backpack travelling around mostly. He just returned from an ultrathrifty 1mth trip from Viet/Cam/Laos. Eventually found out that he's my cousin's neighbor's son. But people there are all like so close and he's treating me like a brother too. The best dish i tot was the eel with bamboo shoots. With sizzling oil poured on it. I swear i ate half of it. LOLZ.
Shanghai really remind me of NY and HK combined. If u come, u will noe.. The landscape is totally like NY, buildings totally like HK... hybrid maybe??
After lunch just took a cab with an uncle to city area. We visited xintiandi. iT IS mostly famous la, i personally just find it a place for beer and dancing, that's all, so not very special for me personaly. Only thing of interest was there als ogot this venue of the first ever communist meeting in china in 1921. will show a picture when i come back. Walked along the busy streets.
Surprisingly i found a lot of parks and gardens built in the heart of the city and very very well done also. Greenary among the forest of buildings. Saw Shanghai's esplanade. Rooftop of that ws the heaviest piece of metal cast. Went the urban planning museum nearby. Honestly, this is a WORLD CLASS piece of architecture and place of interst, really. It showcased shanghai's future. There's this damn damn big model of the whole planning of city area of shanghai. I tink s'pore in Expo 2010 is beside finland. Like 100 mrt stations to be built 0_0 the 3D tour is the best i have ever seen. Very very impressive.
People's square is this romantic piece of green in the city. Very romantic and aesthetically very pleasing. Just across is Raffles City, haha, just like the one in singapore. Experienced taking MRT, like the one in HK actually. But the people are a bit ... no such thing as allowing people to exit first, so it was a bit hard to get out.
Visted Lu Jia Zhui, shanghai's "manhatten". TBH, it's simply not that level yet, but a great idea though. Dongfangmingzhu looks a very impressive building. And i tot that having gardens for every commercial building is a great idea. Went to jinmao building. 4th highest now.(i have not visited all the top 10 ones other than Taipei 101 and the ones in Chicago)Though i tot it was quite ex. 88 storey the view was good, but not smashing. Slightly shrouded in mist, but still great. Very good view. Bought a model of the building. One shot i tried to take, down the middle showing all the storeys. How to describe, but a very nice view down, but cannot be shot.
Ate at the shopping mall just infront. Claimed to be Asia's biggest shopping mall. Not sure, but it's gigantic. But KL's times square's quite big too. Ate noodles and xiao long bao-my favorite :) After dinner just took a cab to visit Liu Shi Ying, my best friend in CTPS, but he left in P2. He's not in ShiFan affliliated High sch. He's not different too, like specs. So chatted with him. Played this lame but really destressing 3D Tom and Jerry game. Then he was like playing world of warcraft while i played fifa on his PSP. One interesting hting that i forgot, he said the teacher in pri sch scolded me for the P2 Math EOY, when i just finished the paper in like 20min and slept. The teacher said my sleeping posture is no good. LOL

Monday
I requested to go to Hangzhou or some cultural places, so this uncle took me. We took a cab to XuhuiQu(a rather prosperous area in Puxi) and so we bought a bus ticket to Hangzhou/. He conversation with a customer on the phone is quite interesting. It went something like this. “yaya, the normal price is 28wan but since u are regular customer, we can give u the lowest-22 wan. (then after more haggling..)well, since we always do business with u, I will see if we can give u 15wan” wah, no wonder can earn money, a bit of difference is in wans(but c’mon la, peanuts in Singapore is 600,000s$). The journey was rather boring , ut the HK movie they showed on the bus was quite corny and very destressing. We got to Hangzhou in 2.5hrs. Btw, Jinmao building is very impressive. I know I am getting very sino-inclined now.
The taxi here is the same price as Singapore. We live in this Xinxin hotel just infront of XiHu(damn famous fyi). The view from the balcony on 3rd storey was slightly blocked by trees, so the uncle requested the 6th storey room. I tink I took taxi for like 30times these few days, and I tink taxi here is very ex, but it’s not my money so well. We had lunch at the city area. The urban area of Hangzhou is very good too, but of course Singapore is still better. Tried some local delicacies, like Maoerduo aka cat ears(it’s just small earshaped stuff in a wonderful seafood broth), xiaolongbao again, snails(I just hate the baby snails inside!) etc. Actually I tink eating here is damn ex also. Just eat a bit and it’s 50yuan liao, quite ex even for Singapore and HK standard.
We took a boat, a bit ex… To the islands on Xihu. They say shang you tian tang, xia you su hang(referring to hangzhou) . Well, I would tink this is exaggerated but honestly, Xihu’s a really beautiful place. It’s impossible to describe its beauty in sheer words, or try to capture it in pictures. But one will simply be caught by its beauty, seriously. Xihu is a beautiful lake, yet it eludes a different flavor from each and every angle. The water in the lake is peaceful, and the gentle mountain ranges form a picturesque portrait. The area is really redolent of the glamour and romance of this ancient city. The islands were very beautiful too, like the pavilions and the gardens on the islands itself(but I heard the gardens in suzhou is even better) The lake on one of the island is really shen, so beautiful I am totally enthralled by it. I din really care abt all those names and the so called 10 attractions, but I really found beautiful elements of this place.
Well, tbh, if I can have the whole area to myself, I would think it’s ultra romantic to go with my lover. Really! ;) Very romantic I would think. Then after much admiration, we took a cab to Liuhe pagoda, a bit out. It’s a nice place. It’s very popular with Japanese tourists too. We climbed to the 13th storey, the view there was almost breathtaking. The area around the pagoda, the garden etc was also nice. So we went to Lou Shang Lou, the most renowned restaurant in Hangzhou for dinner. Tried stuff like Dong Po Rou(very very nice, even the fats on the meat), Yi Ping Zhong(very nice broth with the 5seafood delicacies- shark maw, shark fin, abalone, sea cucumber and scallop), xiaolong etc. I had 1/2 l of honeydew juice too. Tried the xihu beer. After a very sumptuous meal, it was dark already. So we just walked across Su Causeway(I tink it should be dyke, but nvm) built by Su Dong Po. It’s very very long, take around 1hr. Then we sat beside the lake, admiring its night beauty. And uncle was teaching me abt doing business here. Well, I really feel like quitting sch and just doing business now… haha, I am quite serious leh@@
Actually they are still having the banquet, feel so paiseh for not attending..