Monday, April 30, 2007

Hello, Sorry For the Late Post.

Hi ppl long time no see,
Today is my 20th day in ChengDu, China
Now i am in office, Secretly blogging, Shhhhh

Firstly About Me.
I have somewhat adapted to the place,
the air, the water, the language(slang) their lifestyle.
Quite influenced by their slang :X
The food here is super spicy and oily,
and wohoo i can eat spicy stuff.
I couldn't take spicy in SG. Now 2-3 days dun eat spicy
will feel bit no appetite. Adapting to their food to well.
Learned to wash cloth and iron le but not tat pro yet.

Secondly about chengdu,
It quite an urban place, feel like Malaysia to me.
The air is blury and dusty, 2 day dun sweep/mop floor
= dirty floor hahaha. but i am still feeling ok with the air
the road is not like sg cars, super messy, anyhow 1,
cars can go in opposite direction de.
saw a 10 yr old child driving motorcycle with his
younger brother cool? The cars here wont let human
cross the road as if they do they wont be able to move,
as there are just lots of people here.
but i have became a jaywalking pro :X
The food here is super spicy and oily.
Not like SG, u eat once here u would
understand the real meaning of spicy.
the food here is cheap, we go to diff restaurant
daily for our 8 course dinner and it cost
80 rmb for 6 person. whats best is the rice
here is free flow, not like sg 1 small bowl 50 Cent.
the branded stuff here like adidas it expensive
though is produce here.
Many people have the wrong perception of china brand,
actually they have many good and cheap brand really
worth buying but u have to try out the diff brands.
The weather here bout 20+ degree now.

Lastly about the company,
The people here are very friendly, willing to teach us
our project ic very nice teach us many things
like taking various bus to sch, good food and restaurants
as company has a pingpong table he also teach us pingpong.
Have been improving my pingpong skills.
We even went to eat 麻辣火锅 with him :X
They also dun force us work to do.
Often give us lots of time to complete.
Also company organize a outing to theme park last week,
like SG escape, so nice.

We will be having a 7 day holiday starting 5/1 to 5/7
its labour day holiday. from 5/2 to 5/5 i will be going
to 九寨沟 Jiu Zhai Gou, it a place of scenery.

Pardon for the Mandarin words over here for those who can’t read Mandarin.

Some of the English translation of the food might not sound so er, appetizing, but it actually is nothing much.

Food tried Can’t remember all the names, will try to recall them again when I encounter them
回锅肉 - fried bacon with chilli
鱼香肉丝 - meat slice with chilli and vegetables
麻辣火锅 - spicy steam boat
玉米鸡丁 - corn fried with chicken
鹅肠 - geese intestine
豆腐干 - dried fried beancurd
紫菜汤 - Seaweed Soup
番茄炒蛋 - Fried tomato and egg
苦瓜炒蛋 - Fried bittergourd and egg
四季豆 - A type of beans. Directly translates to “Four season beans”.

Places visited
天府广场 - Tianfu Square
Floraland Theme Park
天府软件园 - Tianfu Software Park

Places of interest to visit
Panda Adventure
九寨沟 Jiu Zhai Gou
峨眉山 E-Mei Mountain
都江堰 Du Jiang Irrigation System
乐山 Le Shan
武侯祠 Wu Hou Ci

Terms used here which are different from SG
Spoon - China: 勺子 SG:汤匙
Air-conditioner - China: 空调 SG:冷气
Waiter/Waitress - China: 服务员 SG: 小姐
Cold (to describe drinks) - China:冻 SG:冷
Taxi - China:出租车 SG:德士

Other facts

The hand sign for 7 in SG actually means 8 over here.

Here my photobucket add:
http://s148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/Dahiddendragon/
lots of photo in it.