Yay!

Finally finished uploading all the entries from my Chinese e-blog :D

woah ... come to think of it ... i uploaded it almost a year and a half after writing it :O My first entry in here that isn't actually written before :D

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08/10/09

Today I learnt the consequences of eating too many Pringles. I have a major sore throat today. Anyway today we’re celebrating Winyi’s birthday one day early because tomorrow she has to go to university. In the morning, I woke up at 8:30, brushed my teeth, washed my face, dressed and then left home at 9:10ish to take a taxi to this place to eat brunch. When you say the place’s name in canto it kinda sounds like ‘shoon-joon-chan-teng’ .. I have no idea how to write it in Chinese sorry :( Well in direct translation it means spinning restaurant and that’s really what it is. It’s in a refurnished old building and occupies the entire 16^th floor (the highest floor), and used to be part of the tallest building in Guangzhou … except what with modern technology it’s relatively short now. It spins really slowly and completes a 360°turn in around 2 hours. It’s slightly random because the whole point of the restaurant is to ‘observe the view’ … but the view isn’t really that good. There’s a murky river … and buildings and more buildings. BUT at Australia’s centre point tower you see CLEAN water and the OPERA HOUSE and the HARBOUR BRIDGE and the view is simply so much better. But it was fun watching yourself spin :) The food wasn’t the best I’ve eaten but still nice.

After eating, grandma and grandpa left for home while aunty, uncle, mum, Jason, Winyi and I went shopping. We hadn’t bought too much when it was time to head to MJ Cook … which is an awesome place and I recommend you guys to go and try out. We took a bus there and while our parents shopped, we made our cousin’s birthday cake. We let her watch and tell us what she wanted her cake to look like. She took quite a few photos – basically one photo each step.

1. We beat two eggs into the tin which had a bit of white powder in it already. (it wasn’t flour)

2. Then, Jason and I whisked the two tins (the other had something which looked like milk) until when tipped over, the contents wouldn’t spill.

3. The whisked tin with milk (supposedly) turned into cream!

4. Then we pour the whisked egg into a cake oven tin.

5. Outside the kitchen but still inside the shop, we sat for 30 minutes outside waiting for our cake to rise.

6. This is what our cake looked like when it came out of the oven.

7. The assistant sliced the top layer of the cake where it was cracked and then into quarters. He slabbed some cream onto two of the quarters and placed the other quarters on top, producing a mini version of the cake we were going to make. We had a taste test and boy, it was goooooood!

8. Then, he cut the remaining cake into half horizontally

06/10/09

This morning I woke up at … 8ish to have a breakfast yum cha. It was weird … and I was really full. I’m full all the time now … we eat SO MUCH. Like … the lunch and breakfast I have in Australia combined together is less than the lunch I have in China. Extreme difference. PLUS I don’t exercise here … so I simply gain more and more weight. Yeah. Then we went to the Asian version of galaxy world which is awesome … and played there. We found out that some of the machines spat out at least 10 coins each time you play! (even when you completely miss the mark). The first time I played I got 75 tickets … which was awesome.

After arriving home, Winyi and her family soon arrived and we kinda … lazed about, played computer games, watched Gossip Girl (well, Winyi did), etc. And then I felt like eating food. Surprise, surprise. I wasn’t hungry, but it was a moment where you just feel like eating junk food. Winyi and I went downstairs and bought a stick of original Pringles. It was on discount – originally twelve dollars something but now 10.90. And guess what?

We found out that for every Pringles stick that you buy (even when it’s on a discount) you can take your receipt to the customer’s service desk and get a free can of soft drink (sprite/coke).

And that’s what happened (we got a coke, since we already had 7 up – which is really like sprite). Dinner was BIG (as expected) and I only ate half a bowl of rice because … say I had most of the Pringles stick in my mouth even though it was meant to be shared between three haha.

After that, my cousin waited for the next episode of Gossip Girl to load while Jason played GTA: San Andreas which is this really boring game where you go on missions and go around killing people. With rifles, grenades, chainsaws, swords and running them over with tanks or motorbikes. Very interesting. Winyi and I listened to songs on my mp3, but none of them happened to interest her cause she hated songs sung by guys (it was so funny when she told me cause she said ‘I don’t like guys!! No, I mean I don’t like guy songs =#’) and any songs that are fast. Which nearly eliminates all the songs I have lol. At 9:50 they had to leave because the last buses leave at 10pm. And it’s currently 10:14pm. I should catch up on my entries about the last week … Oh dear. I have tonnes of homework to catch up on and I almost forgot about my geography assignment which I have to email to Alice by the end of this week D= oh my. I better stop entirely slacking off >=)

30/09/09

I’m two days behind in homework. This morning … we ate breakfast in a shop across the road. It was ok … except I loved the fried thick thingos. I’ve eaten them in Australia before … they go with soup. When I was eating I saw a big, red ant with wings gliding along the surface of the window sill next to me. It was a queer sight. Looking closer, I found out that it was actually a smaller ant the size of half the larger ant’s head pushing the supposedly dead larger ant home. It was a slow process but I really was amazed at the strength of the smaller ant! I really wanted to take a picture but I knew the smaller ant wouldn’t show up on the camera – it was teenie. Soon, the ants disappeared into a gap in the wall.

Then, grandma, grandpa and my brother went back home (once again) and aunty 2, mum and I went shopping. Soon, we returned home cause we knew Winyi (my cousin) had arrived. She goes to university and I came home seeing her peel grapes, unseeding them and popping them into my 10 year old brother’s mouth. We played Mr and Mrs Scribble a few times but ended up going out again, leaving grandma and grandpa behind. We shopped along the entire of Beijing Road, spent a few hours at Giordano and ate dinner at Lucky Restaurant.

When we finished eating dinner we waited, waited AND WAITED for a lift … and finally, when we boarded one, something funny happened. The lift went over weight. Someone got off and we went down. There was a … quite plump boy on the lift and a little girl who was also on the lift say quite loudly “I know who’s the heaviest on the lift! It’s my brother!” And at that moment I seriously felt really sorry for him. It must have been a very embarrassing moment and would’ve lowered his self esteem quite a bit. Anyway, we were out for a few hours – returning home at around 10:30. I was exhausted. I still have to shower and skip a day’s worth of homework (oh well – I can always catch up on it later) … so I really should get off the computer. Bye :)

29/09/09

This morning I woke up and had a breakfast yum cha downstairs …once again. Afterwards, mum, aunty 1 and I went shopping while grandma, grandpa and my brother went back home. Apparently my brother was happy he had the computer all to himself for a few hours! Soon, aunty left to buy vegetables and cook. Mum and I spent the rest of the time until dinner searching for a shop which sold stationery. There were none. We drank some cold red bean soup (it was boiling! - the weather that is) with a scoop of mango ice cream on top – it was delicious. After returning home and eating dinner, mum and I went searching for stationery again.

Why? Because I’m picky and I refuse to do maths in pencil – I only do it in pacer. We have no pacers. And that my headings HAVE to be written in blue pen. We have no blue pens. And since I need pacers and pens then I will need rubbers and liquid paper too.

All for my maths homework. Then, returning home, I did all my Monday maths homework – I’m one day behind.

28/09/09

Today was another not-so-interesting day. Mum curled her hair at the salon today … it’s SO CURLY now. It would’ve looked like she had an afro if it was a bit more curly. Um … in the morning we went to the restaurant downstairs to have a breakfast yum cha.

Then, we went and played in an Asian version of Galaxy world.

We went back upstairs, and after going back down again to give a family friend’s relative something from them, we loitered in Hengbao Plaza and shopped a bit. When I went back up, my brother had monopolized the computer and I was left listening to music and lying around. Just as I took my work outside to do it, my grandpa turned on the TV so I decided to watch the news since I wouldn’t be able to concentrate. Dinner was made by grandma, and I hogged the computer after that. I was meant to be doing my work … and guess what I ended up typing?

27/09/09

Boring. Tedious. Workaholic. Guess what? I spent the entire day working on my English ‘MERCHANT OF VENICE’ essay. I woke up at around 8, dressed and prepared for breakfast which was a delicious noodles shop a few minutes walk from home. Then I went back home and worked and worked taking breaks to eat or rest. THEN Winyi (my cousin) came over … and I took a couple hour's break with her … which was cool. We told each other the worst jokes, went through her bag , downloaded phone themes from the internet and talked about Lady Gaga.

Turns out Lady Gaga and Avril Lavigne are quite famous over here.

Then hotmail didn’t work just when I needed to email it to Amanda! I was hyperventilating … until it worked a few minutes later. And after finishing my work I went to bed with the air conditioning on 28°C.

26/09/09

Hello everyone (= I’m writing this in China … but since I can’t access blogger.com there I’m gonna post these posts when I’m back. So. Today I woke up at 6:30 and got everything ready (you know – luggage and last minute checks) and left home at around 7:20. Then, after my dad drove me to the airport, I hugged and kissed him (no tears … obviously) and then went in. After checking in, we (my brother, mum and I) browsed the duty-free shops … then bumped into Sherry’s family! We knew they were going to take our plane, but didn’t expect to bump into them. And guess what we talked about?

Haha … about senpais and wanna bes.

The plane trip took over 10 hours – it was also delayed by 2 hours. I realized that every time I get on a plane it’s ALWAYS delayed. I got to China by 7:30 – ish (local time) and was forced to eat. I was so full – I ate dinner on the plane not long ago. At 11:00 (1:00am EST) my eyes were drooping at their own accord. So I showered, brushed my teeth and went to bed. The air conditioning was at 29°C.