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I have reached Singapore since a few days now and I’m loving the weather here. It’s not as hot as Shanghai and I feel like I can tan without getting sunburnt. I’m already a bit tanned by now. I am staying at Hillview with Lisa, a Mauritian friend who was studying at NUS and who is now working in Singapore. I haven’t seen her since 2004. We were both in the majorette team back in secondary & high school. She’s like a little sister to me. Staying at her place reminds me of the times when I used to go and stay over at her house back in Mauritius.
Lisa is at work right now and I am currently at Desmond’s place to upload some of the photos and blog a bit.
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I didn’t take a direct flight from Shanghai to Singapore. I went to Guangzhou first and then took Tigerair from there. Due to the rain, the plane was delayed by 2 hours.
I took a ‘Hot meal of the day’ and it was surprisingly good. A little tip: Pay in SGD. When paid in RMB, the prices were ridiculously higher. (On Tigerair, people have to pay for the meals and drinks because they weren’t included in the plane ticket. )

A typo mistake.

Yummy chicken egg noodles. My first time having a meal on the plane when it hasn’t taken off. We were all bored and hungry and the stewardess had to start serving food and drinks.

Doodles. We were bored.

Our handphones and the handphone chains that we bought at the airport. Desmond’s phone is the gold one, mine is the white one. I wanted to buy the red Olympic mascot handphone chain but it was sold out.

-_- Desmond did that. The one standing is his.

View of Malaysia from the plane.

Photo of Pulao Tekong,an island off the north-eastern coast of Singapore. If I remember correctly, Desmond said that it is a military training area.

View of Singapore from the plane. Desmond helped me snap this photo and then the plane was landing already.

This is the first photo that I took in Singapore.

I’m posting this photo because I just went to see The Dark Knight yesterday at Westmall.

I have been to only a couple of places in Singapore so far but what I can say for sure is that I love the food here. More photos soon. I went to Sentosa and Chinatown already. I’ll go to the zoo and the night safari this weekend. I have to check online about interesting places to visit here. I need to do some shopping too. I didn’t bring much luggage. Too bad I missed the July sales.

OUF!! I finally have time for myself now. My graduation ceremony was around a month ago and I have been super busy ever since. My sisters came to Shanghai for my graduation and afterwards, I was busy taking them around to buy goods for their new store. They left Shanghai last week to go to Hong Kong and now, they are back to Mauritius already.

My 2 little sisters. I took this photo when we were out shopping at Wujiaochang.

Evre since they left, I’ve been busy packing my things. I have to leave the International students dorm in a couple of days. I ‘have to leave’ because I’ve finished my studies. I’m on scholarship and the 4-year scholarship officially ends on the 31st of July. So it will be bye-bye dorm, no more monthly stipend from the government, no more studying, no more free books,no more free medical facilities, etc. I’ve almost finished packing my things by now and I still can’t get over the fact that I have so many stuffs. I’m going to move my things to my bf’s place tomorrow.

AND….. I’ll be going to Singapore for a month . ( and Malaysia too of course) I hope to be able to get a China tourist visa once in Singapore and then come back to Shanghai in September to ship my things to Mauritius etc. I still have no idea what I’ll be doing exactly. Job-hunting in China doesn’t seem likely. Not that I don’t want to but with all this Olympics thing going on, it’s hard to get a work visa now. Applying for other visas isn’t as easy as before. I know many people who have left China already. I love Shanghai but unless I somehow manage to get a job or an internship here(well anything that gets me a visa), I won’t be able to stay here. Anyway, I’ll see when I get back to Shanghai. Right now, I’m pretty excited about my trip to Singapore. I have been planning to go to Singapore since so long already and now I am finally going! hehe . I have bought my tickets already. Leaving in a couple of days.

As for my graduation photos… Well, my camera chose that particular time to go kaput again. Therefore, no photos taken from my camera. I will have to email my classmates to ask them to send me some photos that their friends or relatives took. My sisters took a few pics with their own camera but they left Shanghai without transferring the photos to my computer. I will have to ask them to email me the photos when they get back to Mauritius. I managed to get a few pics taken by the other Mauritians in my university and a couple of pics taken by Desmond. I’ll upload more photos soon.

With my 2 little sisters.(who are younger than me in terms of age but they are both taller than me,especially when I’m not wearing high heels.) Snif snif
In the first pic is Karine who is 2 years younger than me and in the second pic is Celine who is 4 years younger than me. Somehow when I introduce my little sisters to my teachers and friends,most of them ask me if they are my ‘real’ sisters.
ah…and the flowers are from all the other Mauritians in my university.

With Kailash and Vricksha.

With Karina and JN.

With Desmond.

With Deenoo.

Photo with some of my classmates.

I finally got around to writing the second part to my entry 厦门 part 1. I still have pics from my Yangzhou trip but they’ll have to wait. I realize that I also have pics from my 2005 trip to Meixian but I never posted them. I’ll do it… one day… There are so many things I’d like to write about and share with others but they will have to wait. My exams have just started today and even if I don’t really need to study for them, I am busy with homework. I’d rather start doing them early and avoid having them accumulate like last time.
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After Nanputuo temple, we went to Hulishan.

Hulishan(胡里山) Fortress

By now, I’ve forgotten many things I learned about Xiamen. I’ve never been good at geography and history. At least I have some pics.
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I came back from Yangzhou (扬州) on Friday evening but was too tired to resize the pics. I didn’t take many photos there. I will post the part 2 to my Xiamen trip some other time. Today, I’ll post some food pics.
We had lunch and dinner at the hotel restaurant on the first day and lunch on the last day. The food looked pretty much the same all 3 times.

We had fish each time but they were cooked in different ways.
The fish dish on our last day:

Jin duixun from South Korea and Willman from Cuba, the only two guys sitting at our table. They are both very funny. hehe
There were around 10 dishes on the round table with a huge platter of rice in the middle.

This pork dish reminded me of a dish which my mum usually cooks. It doesn’t look exactly the same but tasted quite the same because of the sauce and the vegetables. I forgot the hakka name of the dish but Rosemary tells me that it’s moychoi niouk. I’ll ask my sis to ask my mum next time I chat with her.

At home, I usually just eat the vegetables but this time, I decided to try the pork too. It was surprisingly quite good and seemed to melt in my mouth. That kinda makes me regret all those years during which I didn’t eat the pork in that pork dish my mum cooked. I usually only eat lean meat.

On Thursday night, nearly 5 hours after dinner (which was at around 5:30 pm… Chinese people eat dinner quite early.:shock:) , my friends and I went to Mcdonald. I’m used to having dinner after 8:30 pm in Mauritius. The food was alright but we ate too early and went shopping after dinner.