During today’s lesson, I had a presentation on the movie 疯狂的石头 which went pretty well… just shared my interpretation of the movie and my opinions on the various key topics brought up in the movie… it’s really about 真真假假，虚虚实实… in this world today, our lives are surrounded by so many lies and so much deceit that people lose faith in one another after having been betrayed by people whom they placed so much of their trust in… it’s no wonder an increasing no. of people are getting more cynical these days, you can hardly blame them, can you?
But anyway… on to a less serious topic… after lessons, I went to my company’s head office to settle some stuff again… and had lunch at 静安寺 – a jap restaurant called 东海洋。 Ordered a beef udon, which was really NICE! Not dat cheap..abt 32rmb I think…but still relatively cheaper than most of sg’s jap restaurants, & tasted really good! Realized I’ve been taking lotza beef since I came to china… to think I never took beef till I had bk’s mushroom swiss burger in sec 2… hahaha… for some reason, think the Chinese really like beef… probably coz beef here is rather cheap… even all the cup noodles are mostly some beef flavour like 红烧牛肉or 酸辣牛肉etc…
oishii beef udon!! =P
we also bought a box of takoyaki... =)
After a satisfying lunch, we were ready to head for nanjing! Apparently, 15 sept (mon) is the mid-autumn festival holiday (yah, china’s lucky to haf a day off for maf!) so we effectively haf a long wkend! =P Saturday’s lessons were cancelled too, so we left shanghai on fri and took a train to nanjing… upon reaching the train station, I told William to queue for the cab first, while I went to the ticket counter to help him purchase his return train ticket for Monday afternoon… there was a FREAKING LOOOOONG queue!!! Omg… so many counters opened, yet every single queue extended out of the whole lobby area! >_< I guess it’s all bcoz of this maf holiday that everyone’s planning to go back to their hometown in another part of china for a reunion with their family… apparently, the way the Chinese here spend maf is like how we spend our cny eve… have a reunion dinner with their families, and perhaps just savour some mooncakes and Chinese tea at the same time… I miss home too… =( well, endure… at least my dad’ll be visiting soon! And bringing lotza love from my other family members and relatives… =) oh, you know the people here don’t carry lanterns on maf! Haha… they carry lanterns on the 15th day of cny, known as yuan xiao 元宵… interesting right… slightly different traditions though we’re all Chinese… =)
So after queuing ultra long for william’s ticket (while being wary of people here who just LOVE to cut queues & would totally do it blatantly like it’s only normal and their way of life), I went to meet William at the taxi stand to cab back to my apartment. Next stop, 湖南路！haha… the all important prawn porridge! As expected, it was marvelous yet again! =P to digest our food, we went to shop at the nearby 苏宁环球百货 where (once again I remind you) I have a vip card… hahahaha… sorry, still find it rather amusing I could get a vip card so soon… obviously william could understand why after seeing how much I bought from there in just an hour of walking around… =P
our delicious prawn porridge... =P
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