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I’ve been doing some cleaning to get my room ready for the new year and I’m finally done! Items have been moved from one shelf to another, from one drawer to another until I was satisfied. The pile of stuff which was near my bed has been removed. Many things were thrown away but with some reluctance. snif snif .I tend to collect things which I keep as souvenirs of this or that event/day.
Now all that I need is a small cupboard. I don’t want to clutter my room with furniture but I have too many things and a small cupboard would be great. I saw a really cute one yesterday. Why cute? Well, it is p i n k! I wanted to buy it but the problem was that there was no delivery service. Moreover,I had gone shopping alone and there was no one to help me carry the cupboard.
The cleaning is done, homework has been completed, I did my grocery shopping and the laundry. I also just deleted 505 spam comments which were in the awaiting moderation section. I don’t understand why I’m getting all those spam comments since Christmas.
The only bad thing about today is that I had to work (my part-time job as interpreter) until 10 pm! wah…. I’ve missed the gathering with the other Mauritians at Istanbul restaurant this year. I was thinking about going to Xintiandi for the countdown and fireworks but in the end, I changed my mind. Home sweet home this year….

Happy New Year!

Ouf!! I can finally access my website! I’ve been trying for days to write an entry here but the page wouldn’t load.
I guess that everyone has already heard about the earthquake which occured in Taiwan by now. The earthquake has caused deaths and injuries. Many problems also arose because undersea fiber-optic cables were damaged. (more information at link 1,link 2,link 3)

Since the Taiwan earthquake, internet speed in Shanghai has been very slow. It’s faster than the day of the earthquake but still not normal. I can connect to my Windows Live Messenger sometimes but I know some people who aren’t able to. Chinese websites load fine for me now (unlike the day of the earthquake) but most websites I usually browse cannot load or take a long time to load completely. Big images just won’t load.:( Surprisingly, the gmail website loads fine for me. (Yay for gmail and gmail chat!) Still, it’s really frustrating not to be able to browse my favorites websites.
I’ve always thought that the Internet connection in my university’s International students dorms wasn’t fast enough but now that this has happened, I’ll stop complaining about the internet. (at least for a few months… )
The internet situation has improved little by little but I’ve heard that it will take a few more weeks for everything to be back to normal.

It has been almost one month since my last entry so I wrote two entries today. I didn’t mean to ‘disappear’. Hopefully, there will be no repeat of my 3+ months ‘break’. Strangely, I don’t feel like writing anymore. Maybe it’s just a phase I’m going through.
Anyway,the good news is that I’ve managed to recover the lost photos thanks to James. He told me about PhotoOne Recovery. The only problem was that I didn’t have a card reader at that time. I bought a multi-card reader at around RMB70 at the nearest Carrefour and using PhotoOne Recovery, I managed to recover every single photo that had disappeared from my CF card. I then formatted my 3 CF cards and I haven’t had any camera problems since.
Picture updates soon.

I always feel like groaning when I see this kind of stuff because I have to tag someone else after I’m done writing my answers. I don’t like the tagging part.

I have tagged James in the past and he has tagged me back so I guess that it’s fair enough.

Ten Stupid Questions Tag

Do you snore?
How would I know? I can’t possibly listen to myself when I’m sleeping.
okay okay, on a more serious note, I don’t snore. I’ve been to sleepovers in the past and friends tell me I don’t snore.

Does God have a sense of Humor?
No answer from me.. One word: agnostic.

What is the average length of time required for your toilet tank to refill after a flush?
Less than 1 minute.

Which animal is the funniest?
La souris (add a very sarcastic haha here)

Do you have a monster in your closet?
hmmm no space for monsters.

Which animal is the funniest?
awww come on… not the same question again!!

Will your home be invaded by crazy chickens?
In China??No way, they’ll get caught and eaten before they ever reach my room.

Are you a llama, an egg or a DEMON CHEEZPUFF?
None of the above. Didn’t you know that I’m an alien?

How do you eat your Oreo?
The same way I eat other biscuits.
Put in my mouth, take a bite, munch munch, swallow and put the rest in my mouth…. *repeat until there are no more Oreos left*

Do You Believe In Cows?
same cows that we eat right? If yes, then yeah. I’d rather write ‘cows’ and not ‘Cows’. No planet of Cowtopia for me. lol