Ancient Town, Tong Li - Part I

Endless

Naive

Stench

Peek

Skewed perspective

Temptation

Skewed Perspective

Mr Money

Pompous

Mundane

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Good Morning Shanghai

Giant Toast

Antiques...dubious..aren't they?

Get a cool shoeshine

Hey!!! dat's my toy piano

Showing off

Great Expectation

Crowded

Concentration

Concentration

Mundane

Wishful thinking

Wishful thinking and Empty promises

Win a bell contest

My kinda of childhood

boys will be boys

Great plans

Bleak

Luo Han is dead.

Luo Han is dead.

Extraordinary resilent and crazy.

He was found lying flat motionlessly last night.

He had always been lying flat after a major injury on his spine (He had a crazy idea of banging his head against glass, attempting an escape from my condo-mates' aquarium)

R.I.P Luo Han!

It's Friday the 13th... suay suay day

Angmoh say this is a suay suay day.

yet, dunno why the angmohs like to sing about suay...

worse some more,

dat dunno who mikey bubble like to ask people to suay with him wor...

so...PENG U are u suay today?

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shouldn't be so chek ark....ask peng u suay or not...

but but...

Lim Peh...also notice this is the lumber wan flydae der therteen in to-orh-orh-sake ..... somemore.. Kim meh FULL MOON sia... wah .... people say this time sure got werewolf and scary scary things come out u know?

But no scare no scare.. they ownlee karjiao angmoh ownlee...

heng ah....

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See wat see... lim peh no ang moh... hair orh orh eyes orh orh , skin yellow yellow.. limpeh u know the dragon chuan ren ok.. dun play play... mouth still open so big...show teeth somemore....believe or not, limpeh hoot until your teeth lark.. eyes cheng...

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Geez... what's the matter with me...

An Expat's Life in Shanghai Part 1

I think there is nothing much to write about this... an expat life.

My college mates have been pestering and creating big hullabaloos about me not telling them that I am outposted to Shanghai for an extended period of time.

However, I need to thank them all for their concerns and I really appreciate some who even bother to drop by to see whether I am doing well here.

Here are some pictures that I have taken weeks ago when I first arrived in this internationally acclaimed "second unhappiest city of the world"
It has become my study table.
Yes I make my own meals. I will continue to live up to my name

My favourite corner.
Usually, I found myself sleeping on the couch rather than the bed.

Busy

I have not been blogging as often as I would like these days. As cliche as I may sound... I am Busy. "Busy" is a very convenient excuse or probably the best answer to evade responsibilities or promises made mindfully or carelessly. "Busy" seems to be a universal answer to any procrastinators.

I believe it is pointless to ponder whether one is genuinely busy but a follow up question "What is keeping u busy" seems more interesting.

Many times I find myself guilty of not accomplishing task that I have planned e.g. getting my class 3.....or ....not fulfilling a promise that I have made e.g. " send the photos that I have taken to some kids whom I got aquatinted with during a volunteering project that I took part last year."

I am busy....

busy with myself.
busy with myself.
busy with myself.

I am busy

Struggling with little imps who continues to chew my soul
Wrestling with great gigantic disappointment
Shouldering dense emotional burdens

I am busy

Retreating into my Cancerian shell
Escaping into my benzo heaven
Exploring clouds of comfort and consolation

I am busy

...............writing this and letting go

Initial LSF

Mr Li aka Li Shi Fu (Master Li) is a forty-something-big guy with superb-jaw-dropping driving skills and possesses a super short reaction time.

Superbly punctual.

Drives me to work and always ensure I reached office by 8am (though sometimes I have to make him wait at the lobby). I am very impressed by the way he maneuvers the company’s black Toyota crown among the forever-dense-Shanghai impasse.

“Driving in Shanghai requires much more than skill …. It’s all up there”, he claimed and simultaneously poking his right temple. “XING LI ZHAN SHU (psychological warfare) ER BU SHI YOU MEI YOU DAN LIANG (has nothing to do with balls and guts)” he exclaimed proudly.

By the way I realised his name was the same as a late emperor of Tang Dynasty......

Benzo Cloud Nine under my skin

Alone, sitting by the balcony, inhaling quiet chills and expelling little clouds of my life. Everything remains so still at 3am. Watching and feeling the occasional clouds of chaos frolicking the cruel wind chills .....calms me.

I have not been sleeping for the past 72 hours and I am still as hyper as a jack Russell. I realised I have had scribbled interesting things in my notebook last night. Interestingly weird.

They seemed to be incoherent and nonsensical now. Perhaps it takes another state of mind to decipher what those means.

I notice I have created some sketchy recipes as well... gonna try making those weird dishes this week. And perhaps it takes a right frame or perhaps, that particular state of mind to appreciate.

By the way... i suddenly realise ... living by myself in a service apartment.. in a foreign land ....is thrilling... coz i may be dead for more than a couple of days without anybody noticing....

hmmm...weird... very weird.

A kind lady Part IV

I need to blog this.

Need to blog about this kind lady

Need to blog about Ah Yi.

Here she comes with a mini heater and a downfeather coat.

She says I am very "Ke Lian" (pitiful).

I think I must have appeared to be shivering in the office.

yes, i am

I am almost always shivering despite four or five layers of clothes.

I am gravely touched by this.

The important point to note is.... I didn't ask for them.

I am grateful.

very grateful....indeed. She is a beautiful angel