Can't believe I'm going back to Singapore tmr! Walking home on a cool, windy night, I already knew I was going to miss Beijing weather. It's already turning warmer here, with daily temps above -5 deg, but tomorrow I'll have to start adapting to hot and humid weather! Sadness. Goodbye to layers, tights, jeans, boots, coats, hats, scarves and gloves - Hello slippers, tees and shorts! I'm positive I've forgotten how to wear slippers, but Jo says it's innate, so I suppose I'll be like a fish in water when i slip into my slippers for the first time in months? Wahahah. Ok the reason I'm crapping here is cos I can't get down to packing. I need to finish packing tonight cos I've to go to the hospital tmr morning to collect my plasters, and I'm surrounded by piles of stuff on my table and floor, which just serves to put me off further. Lol.

I weighed myself on the sample weighing scales in Wu-mart and Carrefour just now, and you won't believe my weight. Never in my wildest dreams, even in full gear of boots, down jacket and my bag. I just bought a weighing scale, shall go weigh myself later to prove it wrong. I thought I was supposed to have lost weight! LOL.


Goodbye Beijing. Tonight's the last night, till a month later. May peace be with you. I'll miss the crazy wind that howls and rattles the windows, blows my cap and muffs off, hurts my ears and bites my face and pushes me forward or stops me from advancing but which is otherwise great fun.

And so I'm back from the land of Terra Cotta warriors. The highlight of such a leisurely trip must be 华山, and though it killed my legs, I'm proud to say we conquered the highest peak! In light snow! Tiring, cold and torturous, I had to keep reminding myself, "吃得苦中苦，方为人上人". LOL. So we dragged ourselves up the countless steep, narrow, scary steps, singing at times to boost our morale, cursing our waning fitness and hoping for any peak to appear. And when we finally reached the peak, we realized it was the highest. Haha. Cool stuff. My legs are aching now - thighs, calves and feet, but I've been through worse years ago so this is still ok! Though I still feel grannified, that I've aged way beyond my years and am in no shape to climb any more mountains.


It's almost 4am. I better go sleep so that I can wake up to wash clothes and go out! There's an agenda! One new observation is that Beijing is really more fun than Xi'an, which is such a sleepy and boring little city in comparison, although the streets are filled with people even on a weekday afternoon. Their stuff is surprisingly more expensive too. But I love the weather there. Cool and comfortable, unlike Beijing's biting wind and cold. Piccies next time!

Me: “你把它们放在外面一整天，不冷吗？ 它们在抖。”

Uncle: “拉布拉多。”

Me: -.-

flying without wings

Was caught in a mini hurricane today, with a huge bag of pocky and tissue papers in hand, and a bag of toilet papers in the other. It was bad! My ear muffs almost got blown off and I couldn't walk straight. Mucus flew out and my face was hurting from the cold wind. Haha. Jo and I were literally flying without wings. This is 29mph wind! 4-5 极 by China standards. Which is pretty high. Yesterday was 3-4 极 and I was feeling cold. I think just now it was about -10 deg but the wind chill factor made it around -20 deg. Yikes. Not fun at all with your hands full and with ear muffs on. But at least they prevented my ears from hurting :D


Anyway despite much anticipation I didn't get to do my x-ray today. Kinda disappointing, cos I was looking forward to analysing my own x-ray especially since we had our x-ray exam today. But I suppose this should be a cause for joy instead, that my foot problem ain't serious! But it'll probably take at least 2 weeks to recover, according to the doctor. Meanwhile I'll have to diligently paste the medicated plaster every day, soak my feet in hot water and wear an ankle guard when I walk. Hopefully I can regain my usual walking speed without pain soon!


I sound like I'm in holiday mood (which I actually am) - ponned ultrasound class to come home with the intent of resting but ended up watching 2-3 episodes of the condor heroes on tv then napping and washing clothes. I'm so dead for Friday's exam. But my head feels heavy and I simply can't bring myself to open the stupid textbook again cos the content is simply so overwhelming, it's impossible! 2 days to read, comprehend and memorise everything. Can I just drop ECG? Seriously need a break. This sem's been too draggy. But 13 more days and I'll be back to the sunny island, where (in my friend's words:) "food will appear by itself, clothes will wash by themselves and bills will pay by themselves"! But that means having to adjust to a difference in temp of 40 degrees. Assuming an average temp (not counting wind) here of -10 deg, and 30 deg in Singapore, that's 40 deg difference! I hope I don't fall sick again. I think my pores will face a serious identity crisis.



Changi airport!!!

Was feeling sorry for myself again :( Hope for the best - tmr is the moment of truth : not about the exam, but about my foot. Shall go for x-ray tmr. I seriously need to recover before the hols are here.


It's so difficult to study nowadays, cos I keep visualising myself at Changi Airport already, and going home to a hyperactive doggy. The other night I dreamt mummy cooked and asked me to come home for dinner :(


The school sem in China is really disgustingly way too long. Good luck for the rest of the year.

Lift auntie said this is the biggest snow and the coldest winter in years. Or has it never happened before? It has snowed the whole day and is currently still snowing. Went out to play in the snow downstairs just now and finally did my very first snow angel!!! Like a dream come true :) The snow was calf-deep! It was pretty scary walking through thick fresh snow cos you never know what lies beneath so sometimes there's uneven ground or a hole or something and you just trod right into it unsuspectingly and lose balance haha. Didn't dare go on the pond cos even though snow was piled up on the frozen surface, you can't see how thick the ice is below so I guess it's safer when there isn't snow, just ice as you can estimate the thickness of the ice.


This was taken before noon. But the snow can't possibly pile up my window cos it already formed a sloping angle on the outside.

Snow angel making in progress!

That's my snow angel, but there's an indentation on the left side of my body prob cos I pressed on that area when I was getting up.


The only leafy tree left!


The crazy aftermath which looks like cookie dough gone wrong. Just gross. Now I don't know whether to feel sorry for pedestrains or drivers. Don't even want to think about what it'll be like when the snow finally melts. That probably won't happen in the next week though :)

It's snowing heavily outside. Staring at the falling, swirling snowflakes that keep changing direction with the wind outside my window has made me lose my mood to study. Yet again. 4 days of no-school but practically nothing much done. Sian. 9 days left! Crap. I'm stressed but there's too much and I've simply got no mood and productivity. Couldn't even wake up early today. And I can never get tired of staring at the snow, looking at people sweep snow off the walkways every few minutes, watch kids taking their first steps in snowy land, watch people trying to clear snow off their cars......it mesmerizes me so much more than rain. Then every few moments the snow will just pour in 1 particular direction which looks like a mini blizzard to me, and I've mixed feelings towards being in the snow and just watching the spectacle from home. It's a cold day, and next week will be much colder. Homebound in 22 days!

If Ade hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten that last year at this time (I mean Xmas time) we were preparing sandwiches for our indoor picnic, which was meant to be an outdoor one but it was too frigging hot and we decided that it wouldn't do to sit at the grass patch near Smint's void deck. If I'm not wrong we ended up watching Hard Candy, which is one hell of a stupid show. We always end up watching weird shows so nothing surprising haha. But the point is we were planning for our KL trip! Days of cicak man and mifen queen. And the wrong type of business!!! Muahahaha. I miss those days. And I'm looking at the collage on my window sill as I type this :) Sometimes I really miss home, and you know why. Random thought: I miss cats in the cradle!!! It's tempting me to go hunt down the live bands in 后海 ;) But no time, since exams are coming and I have effectively slacked for more than 2 weeks. Good luck to me. Someone better give me a crash course in reading ECGs. Siann. It snowed again today - no white christmas nor new year, but this signals the progression into a colder winter. Yet another call for good luck. I still want my fingers and toes!! Snow fight tmr? Hope my foot will be back in shape for me to enjoy the rest of winter.