Saturday Night Dinner on Fire

Okay,
So this week has really been a big week for me..an interesting week for sure~

So yesterday we were out to Hai Dian area to this restaurant calledThe Middle 8th Restaurant. It serves fine Yunnan cuisine. Bie di le, the cuisine was delicious! It has that sweetness to it and I like it :) .. We were late tho..

Our dearest friend who organized it wasn't really organized.. haha..so we went there and started our dinner by 9pm.. We ordered 9 dishes. By the time we nearly finished our 8th dish, smoke started to appear leaking from the pipes above us. Uh Oh!!!

So we walked downstairs as we wondered how to pay the bills?! Our fish which was meant to be our 9th / last dish had not arrived as well..But oh well, the restaurant was already filled in with smoke...

ANd not long after, the ambulance and police arrived at the scene. We were still waiting outside asking the waiter how we're gonna pay the bill.

Then at the end of the day, they said it's for free.. We didn't have to pay nothing ..Lucky? :P

I guess if we weren't late that night, we would have had paid full price.. I guess, everything happens for reason? haha..

I guess.. thank you God for giving us free Saturday night dinner?

But I hope no one got injured or anything.. and I hope that the restaurant didn't lose so much.. Coz they really have nice interior, nice ambience, and delicious food. I would go back there again if only it's not that far from where I live.. :P

Interesting night in deed..

Now I'm currently watching Despicable Me, while waiting for my fangdong to arrive.

The Singing Contest | Dancing Till Sunrise

Dear blog

There’s so much to write..I don’t really know where to start…

But the highlight of this May would be.. the singing contest …

So basicly it’s a singing contest for overseas students in UIBE. They hold it once every year. So every class gets to participate..it’s quite a big thing, especially, this year is UIBE’s 60^th year anniversary, so they’re really into it. Anyway, so I represented my class. One student, a few, or the whole bunch can join in ..but my class trusted me to represent our B212 class.

I still remembered how I didn’t know what song to pick… I still remembered how my buddies and I went to karaoke at PartyWorld just to warm up and to pick a song. I also still remembered how I wanted to sing Lao Shu Ai Da Mi, but 2 classes already picked the song, so I gotta chose another one.

I was bloody nervous to the core… I trembled as I sang for the first time in front of my classmates…I couldn’t trust myself. I thought I wouldn’t be able to memorize the lyrics for they’re all in Mandarin. God knows how bad I am in memorizing lyrics. I wasn’t sure of myself. The pressure was exceptionally big.

I prayed and I prayed. I asked my close friends to help me prayer so I wouldn’t get nervous on the stage.. I guess this is the power of Ora Et Labora. J On that big day, my hands were cold, I was so nervous. After class, our 班长, and I went to her room to get ready. Fumi, her roommate helped me with the makeup, my Korean girls – classmates –, especially Eun Hye helped me with the hair. And for the last time I practiced singing in front of them.

I’m on number 9. My classmates were terrific. They’re the best classmates ever! They supported me 100%, they even went to the front near where the judges were, and sat there cheering for me with the blue papers printed my name,加油, and 最棒on them. My homeroom teacher printed them for us. I kept on telling myself “God thank you for the confidence, God thank you for the confidence.” , and so I sang 但愿人长久。

Everyone was quiet as I began singing… I don’t know why, but when I was singing on the stage, I didn’t tremble. I felt this surge of confidence surround me, I felt this calmness within. As I sang I also remembered how the day before, my Cell Group mates prayed for me so I wouldn’t get nervous. They prayed if God allowed so, I would win..But we surrendered all according to God’s will.

There’s an intermezzo in the middle of the song where the music played for about 30min and I didn’t have to sing during that period. My 2 best boy-friends in the class, Shino and Lelepin dressed handsomely came up to the stage and gave me Lily flowers bouquet. They’re so lovely! I was so touched…They said it’s meant to be a secret, they wouldn’t let me know about this giving-flowers secret plan J .

At the end of the day..as the judge began announcing the winners, my classmates went gaga. I won two categories: best performance, and best female. :D . I went gaga, my classmates went gaga, we’re all gagagagagaggagagagagaga~ Only by God’s grace I could win this event J.

On that night, we celebrated our ‘victory’ @ this Japanese buffet restaurant.. God, I love my classmates!!!Affin, my best guy-buddy was also present..Thank you for sparing your precious time, Fin! :P.

So basicly at the end of the day, the lovely smelled Lily bouquet were not fresh anymore, they're about to die.. So as I went home that night, I quickly cut the stems and put them into water bottle..and look how beautiful all of them blossoming :) :)

Dancing Till Sunrise

And last night was also the highlight of this month.. A friend of mine, Ronald invited me to Vics..He booked seats and we had fun!!! My sister and I arrived at Vics at about 11.50ish pm then we were there dancing (and drank a bit) till 5am in the morning. My feet hurt but I felt alive inside ;) . It was such a great night to celebrate the week that had just passed. By the time we went upstairs to the main exit, the sky was bright, and we were like “OMG..look at the sky! It’s morning already!” Was a crazy welcome for Saturday.

It’s already 6pm now.. My head isn’t spinning anymore and I’m listening to True Worshippers “Tuhanku Maha Besar”. God, thank you for every opportunity you’ve given me, thank you for Your constant guidance. Although there are things I still could not fathom, but I know You’re always by my side, I know You have a great plan for me and..God, once again, thank you for Your grace J .

I’m gonna get ready for buffet tonight with my bunch of Indo buddies at Hai Dian..Oh and KungFu Panda 2 is out today!!! Hmm, Oh..darn it, I haven’t checked China Philharmonic Orchestra concert tix for this Wednesday.. I’ll do that after shower.Oh shoot..I also have to send this email to Li Ning my Fudao.. he’s also awesome!! He helped me translated my song into Mandarin :D (His friend actually did it..was so awesome!!!)

This is the best week so far in May. ：）

The Character Building Trip

Heloo Blog,

I’m gonna write this time, about the trip I just had with my bunch of friends from uni..

So there were 8 of us travelling ..backpackin’ style (^^”)..Our main reason being for the trip was to go to Shaolin Temple (Apparently it’s the only one in China – the true original Shaolin temple - , yep, first ever!)

29/04 : At 5am we all met up in front of our uni’s west gate and off to Beijing Xi Zhan for ZhengZhou. The trip took about 9 hours ride. But it’s still okay, coz we got the best train, ruan zuo, bu zuo! J Everybody’s mood was : HAPPY. Then in the afternoon we arrived in this city called ZhengZhou..well, not too happy about it coz it’s not as good looking as Beijing, the roads were HORRIBLE, the traffic was EVEN MORE HORRIBLE, out of control!!! And it was bloody hot! 33deg.Celcius. We were greeted by this Chinese friend of ours. We found great difficulties in finding taxis. Finally we got into a hei che and really squeezed ourselves in that car.. was freakin’ hot and dry. Then this Chinese friend took us to his friend’s place. We all waited there for hours and hours till evening (while a friend of ours and this Chinese dude organizing the cars for 2morrow). Anyway, but these all weren’t the highlight of that day. In the evening, it was even worse, we were already all so tired, yet we were introduced to this stupid Chinese ZhengZhou “custom” ..it’s about beer stuffs. They said, if the waitress placed fish head facing person A, that means person A ought to drink 2 glasses of beer, and whoever faced the fish’s tail, he’s on the losing side, so he had to drink 3 glasses of beer. I reckon’ it’s so stupid, but we’re fine with it until things got a little ugly. These Chinese dudes really wanted to make us all drunk..stupid! In total, 7 guys drank a total of 45 bottles of beer. CRAZY. And what’s more? The Chinese dude who were supposed to guide us during this supposed-to-be-a-fun-trip, got drunk pretty bad and vomited. EW! By 2am we found ourselves a hostel and stayed there instead of his place.

30/04: Today, right in the morning, we had a little problem with the cars thingo but Toppo got everything under control. Our breakfast was quite interesting as well..Not delicious at all, and it’s like eating while watching the fuwuyuan (waiters and waitresses) snapping flies..LOLz. Then we drove off to this city called Kai Feng. NOTHING SPECIAL. BORING. And in the evening we were shocked by the addition of another 2 people who happened to be this Chinese dude’s friends who wanted to join us. But we weren’t given any notice beforehand, so we were taken back by this situation. We paid for the cars, and they’re just gonna join in without paying anything?No Way. What more? That night, we had a misunderstanding happening between us all..But thankfully, everything was alright in the end.

01/05: This is the day when we decided not to go along with the Chinese dude and his 2 friends. We hired a hei che to Shaolin Temple. The driver hated Japanese so much so that he dared saying that if one of us was a Japanese, he would asked us all to get out of the car. Bloody Hell man, it’s ages ago! The war is over, man! So none of us said we have Japanese amongst us. Oh then, it was raining continuously on the way , at , and from the Shaolin Temple. There’s not much to see in the Shaolin Temple and not much to play around with. But at least, we got to see this Shaolin Performance. I’d say it’s pretty standard, but it was okay. Then at night, we all went for Satay Nite Out to chill out a bit coz it’s our last night in ZhengZhou.

02/05: We missed our train (T________T). It’s supposed to be 12.25, but we were just a little late and couldn’t get in. We had to change tix to “Wu Zuo” train , meaning, ‘NO SEAT / STANDING TICKET”..OH MY GOODNESS.. It was such an experience!!! We originally had 2 choices.. STANDING TICKET or SLEEPING BUS ..meaning a bus with beds in it, but a little more expensive. Why did we choose the bloody standing tickets???? (T_____________T). Anyway, I was lucky enough to get a vacant seat on the train :D hahahaha.. so damn lucky me!! But I felt bad for my other friends who had to suffer seating on a stool / standing for hours on the train aisle…

03/05: Arrived in Beijing safely around 6am-ish.. Then we had difficulties in getting taxies, so again, hei che in the call! Except my sis, we all went for that day’s classes. I was actually quite amazed on how diligent and determined my friends were. They’re really tired from the trip, 9 hours standing on the train, hadn’t had enough sleep, yet still determined to go to class. SALUTE! By 8am I arrived home safely and hurriedly showered and went to class. Was so funny! My 3 classmates bought 3 cups of coffee to keep them awake..Really couldn’t concentrate that day xD.

Anyway the point of the trip’s story is:

- Don’t always trust a Chinese friend..or perhaps, don’t trust others so easily.

- Agent is helpful.

- Research research researchhhh before you wanna go holiday anywhere anytime!

- Chinese culture is surely complicated and interesting!