1 month

time flies it's now 1month/4months
so far my stay in china has been fine
other than the freezing weather and on and off of rashes
infact it has been quite smooth

another week has just started
and i'm lucky enough to get the whole of tomorrow's morning off
what can i want for more?
haha

this coming sat, sun and mon we're having holidays
it's for the Qiming festival
and currently i have 3 places to choose to go

1.Beijing

2.盘山 (somewhere in Tianjin,but it's kinda far away)

3.ShaoLinShi (少林诗)

i'm still thinking of which place will be better
or just camp and slack in my hostel

That's all for today.

Kenn

Have fun in NS ivan

29th day-pictures

Okay, we were making our way to the Clay house and we saw the crowd.

Almost all are ah kong, ah ma. Guess what? It's match making session! Woohoot!

They have details of their daughter/son on the white piece of paper and they placed it on their bikes eg. Female 22, Height 168cm... ...

THE CLAY HOUSE

This looks very much like Pepper Lunch eh?

My new transformed room. I took it from the NTU students. They just moved out today, as they say that this hostel rent is expensive. So they gave us this "floor mats". It works wonders. This makes the floor not Icy cold and it's comfortable to step on.

Pro sia. Cool book eh.

This is the TAU SA PIAN. but the tau sa flavour one nicer. this rose one sucks!

Kenn

29th day

Sunday arrives again!!!
it's was a friggin great day
but it was cold, today's temperature is about 1 - 8 degrees
we departed at 9.30am in the morning (that's so early for me, on a sunday morning)
and headed to the Clay House
it was a good place to take pictures
had fun there

After that we went to 古文化街 to window shop
i bought a book from there for 20RMB
and did a cool keychain for 10RMB
and bought tau sa pian (some nice food)

and yesterday we went to the pirated DVD shop and i got ghostwhisperer season 1-3 for 25RMB
and got some HULU for RMB4 each

I'll upload the pictures later

Kenn

27th and 28th day

on the 27th we went to bowl!
it's was quite fun, i sucked at it
i'll upload the pictures soon
and for 3 game, it cost 41RMB

on the 28th
i wasted the whole morning away by watching DEXTER, HOUSE and Pushing Daisies
CC and i went out around at 4plus in seach for food
we bought 狗不理包子 and some bread
and got HULU
i'll upload the pictures maybe tml
haha till then

Kenn

26th day- photos

DUSK : corridor of the lab

The freezing days

The Flaming Tower

Kenn

26th day

today was normal, how great can another day be?

haha

sounds harsh, okay lab took up my morning and afternoon

after dinner we went to gym

after gyming we went to find the NTU dudes and learnt some saving electricity skills

so as to save our bills from exceeding

then till now, i'm tired again and sleeping soon

goodnight!

Kenn

25th day

okay, slept till 10.50am today
haha
my rash is back, because of the cold weather
was damn itchy last night
haha but it's in control

we went dinner at a new place today
have been here for almost 4 weeks
we have been to most eateries
so for today we had dinner with the 4 NTU peeps
they were good company
SINGAPOREANS
rare find

after that we went to play pool
we only played for 3 games and had to go back as it was late
it was 8RMB only
haha
yup this is all
i'm tired , need sleep
goodnight and see ya ard.

Kenn

23rd and 24th day

it's weekday
what can i expect, work work work
so there nothing much to write on work
cos' it's about doing boring experiment
but sometimes there might be interesting parts, only sometimes
oh it snowed this morning and afternoon (24th march)
BUT sadly, i missed it.
i woke up late this morning and in the afternoon, i was in the lab
hope i can see it tomorrow
we also met the other 4 singaporean

oh wait, i just received a message telling me that i need not go lab tomorrow, weee~

about the singaporean, they're from NTU
2 of them are in mechanical engineering, 1 from civil the other is aerospace
yup that's all tomorrow will be a happy day.

Kenn

22nd day

sunday best...
woke up late
we (sam, CC ,dave my senior and i) went to a shopping mall for lunch
we ate at what seems like a foodcourt
the food there is , erm, to put it bluntly, salty and so-so
after that we went window shopping
and to my amaze i saw a shirt that caught my heart and eye
here's the picture of it; (it's about 20 plus SGD)- i think it's not a fake product
it's a round neck tee!

i bought a pair of trunks at the other uni (Nankai Uni)
as both Nankai and Tianjin Uni are side by side
( i was told that Nankai Uni's swimming pool is better, as in water quality)
wanted to swim in the evening but we ended up shopping with Sam, dave, their senior and me
we went to somewhere like orchard road in tianjin
too bad the mall sells mostly ladies stuff
but i bought a adidas pants (40RMB = about 9 SGD)


Kenn

21th day

Cab fare

On our way to the hospital (cause CC was kinda sick)

they have all their doctors picture at all of the corridors

The "bugis street" in tianjin, they have lotsa stuff and it's cheap

Here they sell Nike shoe at a cheap rate (u should know why)

The Sling Bag i bought (justin is so nosey)

Kenn

pre- 21th day

erm i'm lazy , cause today was a busy day

we went many crazy places and went crazy

visited the hospital (i'm not the sick one, no worries)

then a shopping mall where they have lotsa cheap stuff (and i bought a sling bag)

then carrefour for some daily necessities

the a bar (we went in and got seated then after looking at the menu, we sneak out)

then to a place to play pool but it was full

finally to a coffee house.

this a summary of what i did today

i'll post nice pic tomorrow

for now i post some china pictures.

if glen were to drive, everyone would get knock down

Kenn

20th day

results were released today
didn't do well
got a 3.0
seems like getting into uni will be difficult
gotten over about worrying
just have to work harder
finally, saturday, rest day
it's hard work every other weekdays

it's now about results and nothing else
as in nothing other else, seriously
needa get into local uni


i'll add a picture to make this post interesting

that's the theme park i went to, there's a roller coaster with double loop, a spinning thing and a sun that seriously look like jurong west stadium's spotlight.

pls dun spam the poor cbox,or i'll have to close it for good, it's the only way i can stay in contact with some ppl

Kenn

Picture of the day

(OBL was complaining that his life is boring,thus i tot this would brighten him up)

19th day

today's weather was weird
it has been getting warmer lately but this evening was really really cold
the range of today's temperature is about 16- 4 degrees
lab work was good
i get to arrive late and get off quite early
but it's only for today
but i'm still feeling quite tired
nothing much to talk about
hope for interesting thing to happen tomorrow

Kenn

18th day

today was a tiring day
lab started at 9am and ends at 8.30pm
i had a 2 hours plus lunch break in between
but it's still tiring for me
...
weather getting like s'pore, but cooler
in the night about 9pm plus
we went down of our hostel to play badminton and chatay- the feathery thingy where u must kick with your feet
so with today's OT
tomorrow i can go later
weee`~

Kenn

17th day

okay boring life again
the temperature did drop a hell lot, it's getting warmer, i just wore my short arena pants and a short sleeve T-shirt down
dave and i went to get some hangers
today lab was doing HPLC and doing some cool enzyme immobilization thingy
then nothing much
see ya.

Kenn

16th day

firstly, important stuff, the temperature have risen since yesterday, yeah!~
from double layer shirt with jacket to single layer shirt with jacket
having monday blues?
it's alright for me today
doing almost the same routine job
but today was more interesting
used the HPLC machine
but still have doubts about it
oh and also i did small balls of Sodium Alginate by using a syringe, too bad i did take a picture of it
i went to the gym today
it's not as good as singapore's gym
but it's still okay i think
half the machines i used when gyming with dihui cannot be found in this gym
but i'll think of alternatives
there seems to be a good amt of foreign in their gym
ya and i paid 185RMB for their 3 months membership
haha
we had sweet potato after gym
sold by some auntie by road side
sorry mum, i shouldn't eat roadside food
but it's not bad to have something hot in the cold weather

damn tired... goodnight

Kenn

15th day

time passes fast
i hope it pass even faster
haha
two weeks gone about 3 months and a week more to go
today is sunday
so we thought of having some fun
4 of us (samantha, dave, cc and me-the 3 and a half singaporean maybe) decide to go to the tian jin ferris wheel and if there's time, the theme park
sounds like a lot of fun and money spending
i'll be sure to take pictures
so, see ya later then

Kenn

13th and 14th day

13th day-Day of super duper strong wind

it was a freaking windy day
the kind of wind that you can feel a resistance of walking forward
it totally freeze my hands and for the first time my fingers were in pain
and the wind was dry too
my hands were totally moisture free after escaping the wind
as we ran to the lab

it sucks during the night
the toilet bowl in my room got choked
i went to the uncle at the lobby of the hostel for help
he said he could only get the repair man or plumber
-i didn't know what he was saying
and i had no choice
and he said that i wasn't suppose to dump toilet paper into the toilet bowl
cause it will choke the toilet bowl
i was stunned
but unfortunately it work this way here
but miracles happen on friday 13th
after an hour, it went unchoked
so thank friday (x13)

14th day

we decided to wash our blankets and pillow cases today
it takes almost an hour for the washing machine to wash
thus we laze around in our rooms
and when it's done we went down and dump it into the dryer
and then we saw a cleaning auntie
(she changed our lives)
she told us not to wash the bedsheets, pillow and blanket cases next time
cause we can change it every two weeks
by just give them the old ones for exchange
-___-
oh great!!!
at least i learnt something new about the hostel

Kenn

12th day

i overslept today
and it rained
woke up at 8.50am

raining is a rare occurance in tianjin
that what one of the senior said

in addition i am still maybe sick with rashes
then i called my senior
and guess what?
he said i should brave the rain and wind as i still have rashes
so i fall back into my slumber till it was 11.15am
cool eh

after that, went to the lab and you know the daily routine i do
need not repeat again
haha, see ya

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Kenn

11th day

yesterday i got the spots thingy
so today the senior asked us to go to the hospital
i didn't brought my camera along,wasted
but anyway
the doctor supect that it was due to the hair tonic i was using
thus having the allergy, as normally my mum would help me apply this few times i apply it myself, and maybe i was careless or whatever
it's cost 180RMB for the medicine
and they gave chinese and western medicine
haah
what a combination...
so in the afternoon we went back to the lab
and i did some stuff again (when i said stuff, it means that i was blur when doing it, or didn't know what i was doing)
in the night
we went shopping!!!
we as in the sense me,CC(the one who works in the same lab with me,who's from singapore),Dave the guy fromCBE and samantha from CBE
we went carrefour
and i bought a lot of things
i'll upload the things i bought tomorrow
yup, it's late, sleep early everyone!

Kenn

where is my pen?
And ya BTW , no one have updated me on jackie
how is he
i bet he's enjoying bah
hopefully
goodluck to fyp ppl.

10th day

day ten was a tiring day

there were little spot around my face

from afar it's fine but when near, u can see little spot like rashes

it wasn't itchy but in the night, i became itchy

i remembered scene of myself waking up in the middle of night and scratching my face

haha

lab was normal, we mixture some chemical i dun remember the name as it was in chinese

then use the spectro to measure the abs readings

and then lunch came, i was released at about 12.30pm

then i went to feast on noodles and tak pau steam dumplings back to hostel

my senior said that he will be meeting me outside my hostel

i psp-ed and nap a while

at 2.30pm he called and pass me something and ask me to head back to the lab

it was a cool new equipment

althought he said that this equipment has phase out

it's something that is able to estimate molecular weight of a substance by measuring it's viscosity

it looked something like that except there a third inlet

haha

and in the process of using

we broke it

as we need to make it stand upright and i suggest a way and my senior tried it and opps, crack

i was really stunned, speechless

and i return to the lab in the night

and did more stuff

i helped to prepare some solution which need to be use the next day

honestly i dunno what i was doing

but i added some stuff every 3 mins

so i must be seated a my place with my stopwatch and add

it's not that bad, seriously

Kenn

9th day

today was the start of my first experiment in lab
it was calculation for the start and till the end
how exciting -_-!
what i did was dilute the chemicals till different conc.
(and again i couldn't calculate the conc. thank god, the senior helped me,haha)
then after a while we used the spectrophotometer to measure the absorbance
and then a curve was plotted
they say we need to use curve to estimate some values, which will be useful in a few days time
don't quite understand thought
but ya this is what i did today
and in the night which is about now
we went to wash our clothes
it's 3RMB per wash
we start the machine and leave it there and most likely, we'll go back down to check later haha
don't think anyone would steal our clothes.
yup that's all
hopefully tomorrow i'll get to do better stuff
see ya!!!

Kenn

8th day

i forgotten to blog yesterday
haha
as for yesterday, there are two new mates who joined us
samantha and dave
they're working within the same building with us but just different labs
in the night we went out to have dinner, i wanted to try china's macdonalds and KFC for some time
and we went
haha
it cost 18RMB which is about SGD 4
for 18RMB you get a extravaluemeal of nuggets
the fries taste the same as s'pore
nothing special
the nuggets maybe a little nicer
it ain't worth it i think
for 18RMB i could have gotten better food
so the next time i might try KFC instead, to see the difference
well that's all.

Kenn

7th day

today's saturday
like in singapore i slack the whole of today too
if i were to type whatever dumb boring stuff i did today, it'll bore you till death, for sure
in conclusion, i slept till 11am, went to lab and went to carrefour to buy some stuff and went back to hostel
interesting stuff for today that is, two NP students arrived today, and most probably they'll be staying in the same hostel with us!!!
we've new mates

that's all , see ya

Kenn

6th day - Photos

Dexter more pictures for you. And everyone!

one of the lake in tianjin university

my room

The lab i'll be working in

Our Friendly senior

Duty roster, i'm on monday, Darn it haha

Kenn