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My camera went kaput again, showing me that annoying memory card error message when I switched on my camera. I almost reached for the screwdriver like last time but before that, I shook the camera a bit and gave the bottom a few taps. And… it’s working again.
Now that the photos have been transferred to my computer, I can write about my Christmas.

All the students in my faculty (the students are all international students) got 3 days off for Christmas (24th ,25th and 26th Dec). As for the other faculties (Chinese students and a few international students), the students had to go to class. No hols for them.
Unlike the past few years, we didn’t have a Christmas show in International Students Building 1. Usually, Mrs Pei who organizes activities for the international students would be going from class to class, trying to get students to sign up for the Christmas show. The students would be the ones performing during the show. With exams coming up 2-3 weeks after Christmas, I’ve always thought that the timing wasn’t right. This year, there was surprisingly nothing to be heard about a Christmas show.
Instead, all the people from our faculty got a free lunch at the restaurant on the 2nd floor in International Students Building 1 as a late Christmas treat. Most of us never go there on normal days because the food is much more expensive than at the canteen which is right below the restaurant.
What was on every table when we entered the restaurant at noon:

The dish with the cherry on top was kinda weird. The bottom layer was tasteless, the middle layer was a bit salty and the top layer was sweet.

They brought around 8 more dishes after that, including dessert. Half the people at my table had already left when they brought the last 3 dishes. We didn’t know that there was going to be that many dishes. We were all full already. Pic taken halfway through the meal:

This sweet and sour fish was brought to the table when many people had left the restaurant already. Fortunately, my friends and I were still in the restaurant. This was good. Yummy. My camera was out of battery by then so no pics of desserts.

The Head and Vice-head of our faculty went from table to table during the meal, wishing everyone a Happy New Year in advance. When they came to our table, the Vice-head called me by my name. I didn’t know that the vice-head knew who I was. I wonder what goes on in those faculty meetings. He said : “You already have HSK 8,right?”. I said yes. The Head of the faculty then said to the rest of the people at my table that HSK 8 is part of the requirements to be able to graduate and encouraged them.

Note: Entry has been edited on the 29th to add the 3 above pics. There are 13 more pics in this entry.
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I haven’t logged in my website cpanel since quite a while now. Here’s what I saw in my ‘Disk Space Usage’ page,

I don’t use that email address at all and therefore I was quite surprised to see that the mail folder took up the most space. I went to have a look. All the mails were junk mails. Arghhhhhh
I deleted everything.

I’m sitting in bed right now, using the laptop. After being in this position for one hour, my legs are a bit numb but I’m trying my best not to move because Sushi fell asleep in my lap. Sushi was whimpering earlier, pawing at the bed, obviously wanting to get on the bed too. Minutes later, she’s sitting in my lap.
She managed to get on the bed by herself. She fell alseep not long after. I probably shouldn’t let her do this but it’s quite cold today. My lap is warmer than her own little ‘bed’.

I used to be so scared of dogs. I think it’s because I once saw someone get bitten by a dog back in my childhood days.
When Desmond and I go out and he sees someone with a dog, he’ll go nearer and even try to pet the dog. He loves dogs. As for me, I stand a few meters away. Well, that was what I did before Sushi came into my life.
Now, I stand next to Desmond while he pets other dogs but I don’t pet them. I’m not ready for that yet.

It’s getting colder and colder. Instead of going out to eat lunch, my friends and I have been eating in the canteen, or rather, right outside the canteen because there were no more seats available inside. I don’t like the canteen food much and took a few pics to blog about but now that I look at the pics, I realize that the food doesn’t look that bad.

What we had :

My friend was already eating his food when I yelled Stop. Oops.

What my other friend had for lunch.

That’s what I had for lunch. I like the round ball on the left. Apparently, it is called rou yuan or shizi tou. As for the brownish thing on the right, I have no idea what it is called. I didn’t dare to try it before but my Japanese friend told me that it tastes good.
My verdict: a bit too sweet (cooked by Shanghainese people after all….) but good.

I was going to put my camera in my bag but my Japanese classmate started to make silly faces at me. I was too slow (was laughing!) and only snapped his pic when he made that V sign.