我是中国人- I am a china man

2008-11-29T09:00:00.001-08:00

More pictures will be up soon...

2008-11-23T09:27:00.000-08:00

Work had finally ended. No more leasing contract, no more market research and i come to a conclusion that desk bound job is really a nono for me.

To sum up:

I need a new laptop. Its not hard core enough for me. So much new application installed. I need a system that can take my heavy duty work load.

That nelgene of mine dosent give me chance to frequent the pantry as much as i hope to. Nonetheless it is definitely my best friend. We have been thru countless thick n thin. Oh, did i ever tell u that i lost the cap before and recently got it replace?

That green notebook was given by the company. It become my bible after 12 weeks of internship. I penned down the lesson learnt and it was loaded with lots of research findings.

Of course, calculator is what you need. It enables me to calculate the risk and opportuinty gain in life.

I guess thats all for now. I am off to nanjing in 6 hours time. Last indiana jones adventure before i am offically air flown to that sunny island i call home.

Some other pictures

2008-11-11T17:49:00.000-08:00

7 more days at work...

2008-11-11T17:46:00.000-08:00

I cant wait to end work. I am tired of everything.
Bring me my bed, bring me the sun. Bring me back home.

=(

Hello-win

2008-11-06T07:28:00.000-08:00

Chang er grow rabbit ear

I was being bullied on that fateful day. Save me.

Drag. I likeee...

Pumkin Soup?

gothic waitress

cheers to ang moh

2008-11-06T07:26:00.000-08:00

A game of 5/10 with fried SPARROW as bet.

Total 6 pieces of sparrow. Whos the loser?

NIKE X HONGYI

2008-11-04T18:30:00.000-08:00

Since the evolution of dinosaur, Nike had never stop producing shoe for unique experience.
In spring of 1972, the first shoe with the NIKE SWOOSH was introduced to the world. This brain child product began as a small distributing outfit located in the trunk of Phil Knight's car. Thats how Nike started.

However, everything became history during fall 2008. Nike once again create history when designer hongyi decided to showcase his creativity on the only pair of Nike X Hongyi collaboration. The gold plated swoosh was made to capture the attention of all passerby and the 08 numerical number at the back marks the day when the shoe was created- 08.10.08.

For those fans out there. This exclusive pair of collaboration is priceless. You cant find it anywhere else on earth. If you wish to get a pair of limited Nike X Hongyi collaboration, kindly drop your proposal at xhongyi@gmail.com.

Suzhou

2008-11-04T06:31:00.000-08:00

Ok, Su zhou picts are arrange from the last day to the first. Make it snappy. I shall let the pictures do the talking with caption below as entertainment only. Pardon me & enjoy!

Last Pict before we bored the train back to Shanghai.
Su Zhou Train Station

Kong Ming Deng. It was orginated from Taiwan. People in mainland dont appreciate it.

Everyone was crowding around us when we light it.

Fly high!

Ok, Mine dont seems to fly.

2 reasons: Not bloated enough. Dreams are too heavy and ambitious.

Chinaman are amused by us.

Its so unexpected.

I don usually show photos of food. However, i can't not show these!

Nice Concept chair

Big & fluffy dogs

I m the pimp. Feel free to choose 1.

Cheapest from the left according to size.

Helmet Brother! Haha

read the english. To enlarge just click the pict!

One of my fav pict

everytime, someone would sneakily take another shot of me

Ok, the sun is bright.

Pri school mate AKA chang er.

Voted number 1 tourist.

Sampan ride

Im explaining to psuan the diff between her helmet and the thickness of the gate wall

Backyard of a noble.

This is one of the gate wall. If you happen to know a bit of history and a bit of geography of suzhou, suzhou is a small town located at the boundary, hence, there are a lot of gate walls in su zhou.

I m on the verge of throwing that life size teddy bear onto the floor. :p

One of the canal once use as a protection to the empire become a tourist attraction with boat ride.

New band formed

Xuan miao. One of the oldest taoist temple in suzhou.

Candy floss magician. Thats my ambition. Selling candy floss.

Shopping at guang qian jie. Look at the expression of xue er (shopping queen).

yummy yummy yum yum

Favourite snack! Pork/chicken/beef 'satays'

Rach look shock! haha! Smelly toufu!

Its the hairy crab season. Usually people order in a pair. One male, one female.

Ask me, i will teach u how to differentiate and how to eat.

Druken live prawn

I like to eat by the road side store.

Pick & choose like u r in a wet market.

They have guitarists going around wth their menu of songs while u r eating and they would strum and sing for you.

Outdoor Arcade at Suzhou's town center.

Arcade Basketball is one of the china younster hobby. Just like Taiwan

What is with Rach's spect ?!

Moley Sister!

End of Su zhou picts. For more picts visit the rest of their blogs.

H&S Image Consultancy

2008-11-04T06:26:00.000-08:00

(Rachel is satisfied with her look now. Tumbs up!)

Ok, Si Qian and I change Rachel & Pearleen image as above. Those schoolmates that are viewing this, rachel will be CHANGED! Trust me.

2008-11-04T01:26:00.000-08:00

There is a lot of things running through my mind. But every time when i wanna pen it down into words, my mind either went blank or I have no time.

By this weekend, i will upload the pictures and let the pictures do the talking. Anyway, the connection in China cant make it. So pardon me for not updating myself.

complete in 20seconds. Cheers!

Hongyi Tour Agent

2008-10-28T00:02:00.000-07:00

Stay tune for more picts. Su zhou picts will be up soon.
(More Hangzhou picts too)

A simple meal

2008-10-27T23:35:00.000-07:00

Ok, I had lunch today at a chinese's italiano restaurant for a Carbonara set meat (Milestone soup, Salad and main) for RMB15! The food taste about the same like Pastamania back home.

Setting of the resturant. & rachel's blueberry cheeskcake and Chicken chop is yummy too.

I love rainbows

2008-10-22T19:12:00.000-07:00

Everyone looks colourful in rainy days. :D

Random Pictures II

2008-10-22T18:45:00.000-07:00

Fried corn with mayo

Fried Mid Wing with herbal tea

Rachel always get up my nerve!

Cheng Huang Miao's Night view

Bdae

2008-10-22T18:40:00.000-07:00

朱家角

2008-10-20T23:26:00.000-07:00

Letting go of the fishes at 放生bridge.

Tea house with a iconic mascot.

Selling tortoises n fishes to 放生 for good luck.

Sun set view at the 1500 years old water village.

restaurant by the river
Top view from the bridge.
Main mean of transport in the village. Similar to Venice city.

Hairy Crabs!

2008-10-19T21:59:00.000-07:00

19 years ago, on this particular day. Where were you??

2008-10-16T01:13:00.001-07:00

Your last bits of allowance. To her or for dinner?

Complain about how tiring work is. What about her?

Complain how packed the train is. What about them?

This is my words of wisdom:

Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, and rainbows will follow the clouds,

Faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

2008-10-15T02:24:00.000-07:00

Cooking time

2008-10-10T00:34:00.001-07:00

OK, I enjoy cooking, but plain too lazy at times. Manage to make prata, curry chicken n veg despite the limited ingredient i could get here. Guess Rachel have fun in the kitchen too.

Bye!

Dummy for squeezing China train

2008-10-08T19:11:00.000-07:00

Frustrated when you cant out win the china man when squeezing your way in the train station? Let Prof Lim teach you the art of taking the china train. 4 Simple steps:

1. Prepare

Firstly you gotta do your RAMs (Risk Analysis Management System)
Tips: Always try to keep your hands free and hang your bags in front.
Check surrounding, determine the crowd. (Quantity by dozens? hundreds? or thousands?)
Determine the profile of crowd (Caveman? Barbarians? Kaisu aunties?)
Lastly, time check.
If you got no time and is running late for work, PROCEED!
If you still have time, just wait for a empty train.

2. Stand Back & Relax

When the train arrives. Be a gentleman. Stand behind, let them squeeze in first. Just before they close the train door, WALK GRACEFULLY in. At this point of time, you definitely have enough space by the door. No body odour of Chinaman, no need to be squash like sardines.

3. Be prepare mentally

Ding dong! You had arrived at your stop. Relax and give yourself a pat. Be mentally prepare because it will be bottle neck at the escalator. Especially when its the peak hours at ren min square.
Doors opening, and you will definitely be the first to alight due to your strategic position near the door. (Thats the advantage of being a gentleman as the door open at the same side most of the time)

4. Go with the flow

Now, no strength is needed to jostle your way through the layers of pork lards. Be like a piece of wood, let the waves carry you through. However, you gotta stable yourself and follow the flow. Tips: Do not push. Coz you are just wasting your energy. Be stable and let them push you through.

When you manage to get onto the escalators, you can take out your communicating device and report for sector clear. Take a good look at your watch and head straight to your destination. Most of the time, this pain staking process take less than half an hour. But it will be a pleasant one if you heed my advice.
Tips: If you feel that it is a pain in the ass, you are doing it the wrong way.

Name the mall

2008-10-07T01:06:00.000-07:00

1106hrs, i was commissioned to name 4 parts of a shopping mall in a creative, catchy yet theoretical and boring way. Deadline is 1700hrs.

Status Now: Brain juice drenched out.

Progress Status: All ideas were rejected so far.

Direction: No need to be too clever. Its a China Mall. As stupid as possible.

Tenants included: Zara, Walmart + + + + + mostly premium brands. (High End Positioning)

Conclusion:Everyone should start thinking of a name for your child now.

Remark: I cant do the job. Cause only the emo kids can come out with a not too clever name for a very high end positioning mall.

Bye.

Hangzhou Trip

2008-10-05T19:11:00.000-07:00

After all the hiccups, we manage to get the 10 of us to and back safely from Hang Zhou. It was a great experience after all as it was the first time we tour in China golden week where most of the tourists are Cavemen. They are so different to the extent that i have a good laugh at their uncivilized behaviour. Well, from this trip, i did really open my eyes. I believe the rest of the 9 would definitely stand with the notion that though it was really tiring, it really changes some of our perception. Well, if one cant reflect from this trip or ripe bits n pieces of the history, it is really wasted. Will upload n share my views soon. Too busy. Waiting for photos.

Magnificent

King at prayer

Golden Temple

Flood with PRC at west lake

Black Corn

(To be continued...)
Pls continue to send me picts pls.

Badminton

2008-10-05T19:09:00.000-07:00

We played badminton

3am Lost in the city

2008-10-05T18:33:00.000-07:00

Lost while roaming the city at 3 am. Went into Bi Feng Tang, Order 1 bao luo pao in the middle of the night and left.

Random Pictures

2008-10-05T18:27:00.000-07:00

2am met up

2008-10-05T18:22:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the everything, Wilson. :D
Crossing my balls for u. Haha.

Back Lane Eating Place

2008-10-03T13:36:00.000-07:00

I Hate Sunday in PRC

2008-09-27T20:05:00.000-07:00

In summary, I gotta wake up and squeeze in the cabin like a sardine on a SUNDAY morning for work. Luckily its dress down and my daily mac egg mayo breakfast meal spells RELIEF.

Last few hours of HELL WEEK and... ....

I am already an addict to a cup of morning caffeine.

I was already prescribed with uncountable dosages of sugar rush.

Life still goes on with surprises every morning.

The howling autumn wind every night makes me drag going home.

Its a good day. Hows everyone?

And...

AUDREY! Where is my 85 bar chor mee!

Tour to Hang Zhou

2008-09-24T19:43:00.000-07:00

Nothing to do during your off days? You might wanna take a tour to Hang Zhou (where China most beautiful lake is) and Zhu Jia Jiao (water village off skirt of Shanghai) during the golden week.

Below are the following details:

Hong Yi China Tour Agency

1-2 Day Trip to Hang Zhou
English speaking cute tour guide provided
Fun & excitement provided
Cheap Thrills provided
Happy pills provided
Bitching provided (For members only)
EMO pills NOT provided!
Insurance NOT provided!
Food NOT proivded!
Train NOT provided!
Drink NOT provided!

Promotion:
Current package is filling fast at RMB 100 per head. Only for the first 10 who sign up!

Remark:
This is a non halal tour. Expect pork and alcohol.
This is a smoke free tour. Smoke machines will be demarcated 50m away from the pack :P
This is a dare devil tour. Only cool kids are allowed.

Email to cool_kids_tour_hangzhou_with_Chinaman@HongyiTourGroup.com by 27th Sept 2008.

Wake me up when September end

2008-09-23T06:33:00.000-07:00

Date: 23rd Sept 2008
Party Involve: Lim Hong Yi (18)
Situation: Coughing non stop for pass 1 week.
Remark: Work OT till 1am last night and wake up feeling feverish. MC for today

1100hrs- Registered at Hospital

1124hrs- Refer to GP

1129hrs- Pay for GP consultation RMB 20.00
(Refer for blood test @ 1330hrs)

1130-1320hrs- Walk home to rest

1330hrs- Appear in Hospital again

1335hrs- Blood Test

1345hrs- Collect Blood Test Report & head straight to GP

1350hrs- Make payment for GP RMB 205 (include medicine)
and was ask to refer to mouth, throat and long specialist.

Decision make: Dont care and leave hospital. (feel cheated)

1420hrs- Jasmine call. Outside my apartment. (lost)

1440hrs- reach cheng huang miao again. Slack only!

& the rest of the day is like just another weekend.

Was told that i had to work till sunday 9-6pm everyday. :(

Wake me up when September end...

cheng huang miao is still my favourite place

2008-09-21T19:59:00.000-07:00

Mid Autumn Festival

2008-09-21T19:14:00.000-07:00

Sean, me, qian, rachel, poh suan, xue er, roseann, jasmine

Man with lady finger

Qi pu lu

2008-09-21T18:48:00.000-07:00

做个可爱的上海人

2008-09-21T18:09:00.000-07:00

When I roam the streets, i had observed how the government try to educate their people in this commercial city. It is very much like a replica of how LKY introduce those Singa Lion courtesy campaigns in the 60s whereby banners and ads were all put up around the streets. Though i wasnt born in the era when LKY did it, i had the same sentiment as the people of that time did.

The people in china is still very barbaric, they talk as if they were shouting, spit as if the whole world is theirs, jostle as if they were in the wrestling ring. However, when such acts were seems like a norm, the government had come to realize that these actions are to be condone and should not be accepted in a civilized city where the west is looking at.

They had a campaign which i particularly like - 做个可爱的上海人. They put banners everywhere and the staffs in the station were wearing a vest with that slogan during the peak hours reminding the Chinese to be civilized. The main aim is to inculcate the civil manners in the shanghainese thus create a liking from the world. My first thought is 'cute' for 可爱 though.

To draw the scope closer, there was this incident in the company when my managers jump and scream when a bowl was left unintentionally on the table after a Chinese lady had taken her lunch. It allows me to open my eyes once again and learn that habit can only be change by picking a fuss over every little thing to start with.

Well, like what wilson had share with me, I totally agree with the prediction that Shanghai will be the next commercial power house after the recent US slum. The way they pool their brains together and create history after history is jaw dropping.

One word of advise- Never under estimate the Chinese, judge it with your own eyes.

LX Trainer 3+

2008-09-19T01:11:00.001-07:00

I am so gonna get this for my birthday!
RMB 1088.

NikeID

2008-09-19T00:45:00.000-07:00

I have been spending sometime in NikeID Shanghai designing my own Nike dunk. Yes, it is unavailable back in SG, thus i m so excited and definitely gonna get a pair or 2 back. However, i need help in my decision making process!

Graphics/swoosh or football clubs logo can be custom on the inside.

Design 1

Design 2

Design 3

Design 4

Design 5

Which is nice? Pls help me

Well, you can actually design it online.
www.nikeid.com.
I can bring it back for you. But with an additional 10SGD delivery fee. Because my bag is overweight! Thanks.

2008-09-16T23:01:00.000-07:00

I dont like office life although there is my favourite milo ice cream.

But I miss the sun, sea and rowing!

1 week of Shanghai

2008-09-16T18:17:00.000-07:00

It is time to pen my thoughts after a week away from home in this land of deja vu. Everyone has pretty much settle down after roaming many streets to explore this exciting city- Shanghai.

To start off with, many Singaporeans still stand with the notion that cities in china is ruined and undeveloped. They would usually have the perception that there is nothing better off here than Singapore. However, I would assure that one would be embarrassed by the comparison when they get to explore this commercial city where the east meet the west. It is a city of surprise everyday one wake up. Their development is very fast to the extend that we have to change our map every 3 months. Not to top it up, I have a golden opportunity to study the development of the retail scene here that had stun the world.

Shanghai is also a city where many talented brains gather. The people here are creative and capable in riding the availability of cheap financing to earn bigger bucks. Since 2003, malls just spring up everywhere replacing the old retail hub (shop houses). Mind you, these malls are magnificent. Their operation and turn over is larger than vivo city back at that sunny island. It would really be interesting to study how these Chinese do that.

Well, it is too short a time to conclude or pool together the thoughts. Just stay tune to read more. =)

Its a soldier's winter

Club G+ at Xin Tian Di

2008-09-15T08:52:00.000-07:00

cheng huang miao

2008-09-15T08:17:00.000-07:00

road to cheng huang miao under my umberella

macdonald

Fruits bing tian hu lu. 1 mouth?

soup bao

hustle and bustle street due to public holiday

lost

starbuck

At work

2008-09-11T08:18:00.000-07:00

Waiting for 6pm to knock off!

My SGD 2.00 Meal

outside lift lobby (candid)

First Project on hand

Capitaland- raffles city (shanghai)

Road to work (Renmin Sq)

Ok, I am being attached to the marketing/leasing department. My pen becomes my weapon and my mouth become the key success of a good shopping mall. Job scope includes drafting a leasing proposal that has a win win situation for both the landlord and tenant, editing floor plan to strategies selling space and ambiance of the mall. Market research of the geographic consumer behaviour and many other exciting projects.

Day 2- No work!

2008-09-10T01:28:00.000-07:00

Gay Shit

Supermarket with host

Finding the way around

Changing of SIM card + lunch at subway

Heading to Hong Yi Plaza

Nanjing Road (orchard road)

Accomodation

2008-09-10T01:24:00.000-07:00

Wardrobe

Our Sleeping area

Cosy Corner