Sunday, March 4, 2007

Snow!!!

I am now in Beijing. I thought I should share my excitement with all now. Just a moment ago I went downstairs of the hostel and i saw SNOW!!! Together with junda, huaijie and qinghan we looked like some jungle tortoise getting all excited and everything over the snow. To think that we can still see snow at this period of the year. However when we were playing snow, the locals tell us that this is probably just ice. But it's alright, it look like snow to me anyway. However it is said that we might (cross my finger) we might just see snow tomorrow.

To everyone, I have settled down in Beijing already. Have been busy on the first day doing all the administrative work, and Tsinghua University is big, but the offices which we got to go to do all the cards like internet, meal cards and registration are all at different parts of the school. I had my 1st meal there in Tsinghua as well. Not too bad. This meal that you see here don't cost each of us more than S$1, in fact only abt ~S$0.80.


1st day is essentially all admin work and going to Wudaokou to do some shopping for grocery. 2nd day which is yesterday was just busy module mapping and ya, we had a good vegetarian meal, thanks to ian. It's actually a good thing that we have got so many NUS students coming here this time round, even if each of us just contribute one dish we can try a lot of different food. Today we had a dinner over at Ian's place, for Singaporeans who are staying in Beijing. Thanks to Ian again, quite quite incredible to whip out so many savoury dishes for all of us. At the dinner, through interaction with the seniors at the dinner, we start to form ideas of where we want to go for travelling. Originally wanted to go ski tomorrow but I don't think it is possible due to the weather. Overall I would say that I'm fine here at this moment, trying to adapt to the new environment, trying to adapt to living alone overseas away from my family, and many more to come. Right now, me and my friends are in the planning stage on where we are interested to travel to. Should be able to read more about food and travel in posts to come. For now, i got to sleep. We have arranged to learn how to cycle tomorrow morning. Ya, I don't know to cycle...