I’ve been in Wuxi for a little over more than 7 weeks now, since 5 September.

 

I’ve trained in a factory, used lathes like a noob, burned stuff, and watched stuff get burned, including myself.

 

 

I’ve climbed the mountain range which is deemed the most scenic and with the most variety of mountain slopes in China.

 

Mount Huang Shan boasts more than 50 peaks and is much MUCH easier to climb than Mount KK >.< Because there was a cable car which we took lol. Not lazy la, no time

 

 

I’ve hung out with crazy fun people i.e. VP Chuntang, president’s son David the slacker, and boss Charles.

 

I had a cute chick teach me how to play golf…

 

 

Sorry guys I don’t have a better picture. Really

 

I’ve had lots of Nice people in the factory teaching me all that I need to know. They’re been nothing but awesome. You guys probably may never read this but I’m posting this all the same!

 

 

Hmm I just noticed that there are 19 guys and 2 girls in this pic. Why the unbalance!! I’m gona have 1:1 girl/guy ratio in the India factory! LOL.

 

Still, I had my fair share of chasing some chicks around the factory…

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Ah, but all good things somehow have to come to an end.

 

Here’s 6 ways how you should start to realize that it’s time to go home.

 

1.  When you start saying ‘NI HAO’ to people whom you will normally greet with ‘WHASUP!’

 

2.  When your food intake per DAY is what you normally eat in a WEEK. Food in China is too irresistible, and I don’t know why.

 

 

 

 

3.  When your self-made dumbell goes bust and you need to change the milk carton too often.

 

 

4,  When not only your girlfriend back home stops calling you, but your new-found China girlfriend doesn’t call you anymore either. Fail. (this has no particular reference to myself HAA)

 

5.  When you find yourself wanting to borrow cash from everyone, even though you already owe people RMB 6300 @.@  I need a damn Maybank ATM!

 

6. When your phone has decided that it’s time to die on you.

 

I dunno how this could have happened. All we did was have a little fun during Shanghai Karaoke. David, it’s all your fault. You eat too much!

 

So with that said, I’m coming home soon people! People who miss me, rejoice, as I will be back to bug you! HAHAHA.

 

Anyhow, I have the following plans coming up : Shanghai Exhibition (26-30th), back to Wuxi until 5 Nov, when I will go hoooooome.

 

By the way, you may already have heard about the upcoming Salsa Cruise Asia 2009.

 

 

 

I got a text from Tim Low Mr Salsa / Food blogger / Salsa Cruise PR Director, with news that I was chosen as one of the 3 photographers on board.

 

OMG!!

 

7 days of nothing to do but shooting, eating, drinking, chilling…..whoooa! And probably just 3 hours of sleep a day, but damn, it’s worth the eye-bags.

 

Thanks so much Tim for the slot. I promise to take less shots of your potbelly while you and Tammy are dancing on board.

 

The only thing about this is that there’s only 1 person that I can bring, and that’s myself. Psychkin I’ll never forgive you if you don’t come with me for the next cruise. Serious, I’ll spank you really hard.

 

By the way, I’ve been working on my photography blog for the past couple of days. It’s got pictures of events, outings, jobs etc. Also included are many cam-ho shots (blogger’s addiction) If I’ve taken pics with you before and it doesn’t appear on Facebook, then it should be there.

 

 

If not, means it’s too valuable and you need to pay me to send it to you. Buahaha.

 

I’m now looking forward to go back already. Oh yeah.

 

Cheers!
EVo

Sorry for the lack of updates everyone!

I’m currently checked in to the Ryden hotel in Shanghai..been here since yesterday with EGo and David.

Makan + clubbing at Xin Tian Di last night was the bomb yo. Can you imagine 15-20 Chinese from 6 different countries, and all of a sudden you discover that almost all of them speak Cantonese?? Shiok sial!

Came back at 5, failed to wash up, failed to shower, failed to change clothes. The only thing I could manage was to take off my shoes, then crashed into bed. And I was in the exact same position when I woke up about an hour ago

These girls were pretty tight last night and pretty much slipped up when they wanted to buy ice cream. They went : ‘Wo yao Ching Pi Ling!’ LOL. Girls, it’s Ling Pi Ching, come on xD

Sei lor, so long didn’t blog, so many pending post. *reminds myself to update when I’m back at Wuxi*.

All photos props EGo’s 50D (but no time to watermark hehe). Thanks David, Ron, Xiao Hong Jie for making this possible. Charles, Chuntang, Sibird, wish you guys were here. I’m loving it babeh! Psychkin, when will you come here with me?

Cheers!
-EVo-

 

 

Hello!!

 

It’s been a while yo people!

 

And it’s weird…when I came to China, I thought I would blog more often, with the lack of facebook / twitter / blogspot. But somehow I lost the mojo to blog. It’s as though the whole blogging thing came packaged with FB, Twitter and other blogs too. Where the lack of either one would take away the whole meaning of blogging. Weird huh.

 

In the early days, the Chinese built the Great Wall of China to keep non-citizens from coming in.

 

Today, we have the Great Fire-Wall of China, to keep net-izens from going out    -__-

 

It’s all thanks to those idiotic protest buggers! Suckers who set up a Facebook group called ‘Global Protests. Support Uygurs to seek independence’, who started the riots in Xinjiang that left 140+ people dead. And also Facebook, for allowing such a group to exist. Really, quite, dumb. Now they’ve gotten themselves, with most other social networking sites banned

 

Still, as I mentioned in my previous post, I found a hack to access these banned sites. The ‘hack’ is basically a redirect site that is hosted in an outside country, which loads the banned sites in its window for sneaky people like me and EGo to access. The trouble is, it loads it without scripts. And no scripts pretty much makes Facebook useless la. I can’t even update my status yo. Damn.

 

So that means I’m practically back to square one lol.

 

And that also means I’ve got no reason to stay up late…my sleep time has been promoted from 1.30am to 12am. And my eye-bags have been promoted from 1cm thick to 0.5cm thick. Yeah babeh.

 

It’s not often that you can have your house, your office and your lunch place in the same picture. But where I am, I’m actually able to pull off this amazing feat.

 

 

 

My dorm is actually 40 seconds walk from office, and 10 seconds walk from the cafeteria. It doesn’t get any closer than that wei!

 

This is Vice President Chuntang’s office, where he has strategically placed the router by the window for us to go online at night, at home, to access stuff that is not-safe-for-work ahem.

 

 

This is our kitchen, where most of the mess happens.

 

It’s where we make our breakfasts…

 

Btw, sausages seem to be a very popular form of breakfast here, and they mass produce it and sell it in little packs like this.

And that’s the whole lot of stuff that Charles (the ‘burglar’ ‘in my window in my previous post), got for our supplies.

 

The kitchen’s also the place where we wash our clothes using this never-seen-before-in-my-life old school washing machine.

 

 

This deserves a different story altogether ahaahaha.

 

And this is what we normally do, right after dinner. Shower and……

Laze in bed then sleep. How not to get fat in China???   LOL.

 

And as you can see, we’re pretty organized when it comes to keeping the place tidy  xD …

 

 

It’s not much, but it’s where I call home for this two months. And being able to live away from the family like this gives me a preview of how life can and probably should be like. My own uninterrupted private time and space. Good stuff yo. And by living out like this, I can cause less trouble at home

 

 

This is David Li, our partner in crime, golfing kaki, slacker club member…

 

…Who likes to go for a smoke while me and EGo are deep in discussion even while walking…

 

 

Really, there are so many random pics in my camera I don’t know which to post! xD

 

OK, one more.

 

This is not one of those dark rimmed specs that Ah Bengs wear to clubs…it’s what the workers here use as ……Safety Goggles! Wah beh tahan.

 

Oh, and one more thing I noticed when I was was getting stuff from the grocery.

These guys are STILL selling these banned tainted-milk stuff! Some people will never learn lol  =.=

 

Cheers!
-EVo-