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I’m finally on hols!!! The truth is… I’ve been on hols since almost a month now. I’ve been really busy.
What I’ve been up to after my exams:
went to get a new school pass & student card (my old ones were in my wallet which was stolen when I was out shopping one day),
went to the visa office in Pudong to renew my student visa (going there and getting back home took me 3 hours ),
helped Keisuke move his things to Desmond’s place. Herman will move to the other Tongji campus next semester and my classmate Keisuke is going to take his room in the current appartment.
went to Joshua and Gancho’s place with Rosemary. Asif joined us there. We all went to the Italian restaurant nearby to have lunch.
went to have dinner at a Japanese restaurant with Desmond, Aki and Keisuke.
went to collect my passport at the visa office with JN.
went bowling with Desmond, Herman, Wenfeng, JN, Rosemary and Aki.
went with Rosemary to the train station. Her sis Jennifer came to Shanghai.
went shopping many times, mostly to buy things for my 2 little sisters.
went to dye and cut my hair. Met a strange guy there. -_-
and some other stuffs..
and NOW…………
I’m in Mauritius!!!

I reached Mauritius last Thursday. hehe
I didn’t want to update before I reach Mauritius because I wanted to surprise a few people. I wanted to go to Singapore for my summer hols but Des wasn’t on hols yet. His hols start about a month after mine. =_= The temperature in Shanghai was too much for me. I couldn’t take the heat anymore. Therefore, I escaped to Mauritius. Actually, my main reason for going back to Mauritius this year is my family. My mum and sisters came to Shanghai for only a few days (a few months ago) but not my dad. I haven’t been back to Mauritius since my 2005 holidays. 2 years… Anyway it feels good to be back. It’s a pity that my brother couldn’t come back too.

Note: No photo update for the time being. I need to install Adobe photoshop and WS_ftp Pro on my little sister’s computer first. I’ll add the bowling & Jap restaurant photos (and maybe some others too) to this entry asap.

The meanest words I’ve heard this week are “What do you want?”,said in an exasperated tone. After more than two years together, I should have known that he’d react like that. Note to myself: Stay away from him and do not contact him at all when he is busy with his projects. The submission date is tomorrow.
I don’t plan on seeing or contacting him again, at least not until next Thursday when I finish my exams. Contrary to what he might think,I’m not doing that to get back at him. I have exams next week and I have only started revision yesterday. My turn to be super busy now…
On a happier note, I’ll be officially on hols as from next Thursday 11:30 a.m, after I’m done with my last exam of the semester.The second semester will start in March. I’m not sure of the exact date yet but we’ll have longer hols this year, 1 1/2 months instead of just one month.

…btw……..thanks to everyone for the New Year wishes.

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!

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.