Hi folks, it's been 11 weeks since i was here and this marks the mid-way of my attachment. Another 11 more weeks and i will be back. Time does passes very quickly in China. Maybe it's due to tthe weather conditions. The sky starts to darken at 5pm and it's pitch dark at 5.30pm. It's seems 10pm to me when it is actually 7pm. Each and everyday ended in a blink of an eye. Winter is approaching.

I just came back from a hypermarket with bags of groceries, mainly foodstuffs. The bus that brings us back home was fully packed until we decided to ask around if anybody stays in our area to share cab but still to no avail. In the end, 2 guys approaching us and we agreed. Flagging cab when there isn't any available ones is really infuriating, moreover the weather is really cold. In the end, one of the dudes called his friend to fetch us with no charges. This makes us felt suspicious towards him as in China, people will do anything and everything just for the sake of money $$. Kind-souls are few and far between. He told us that his friend will be arriving in 10 mins time but we waited for donkey years with arms and legs turning numb and yet he hasn't arrive.

Finally, he arrived and we got on the van. In the van, there is this screen playing some chinese MTV. The video simply suck as the dancer dressed skimpy and the dance moves were horrendous. It's such an eyesore to continue watcching the video. We would have reached home long ago if we had shared cab with a couple but since it's a free ride, we got nothing to complain.
Kind-soul fellow, thanks =)

Looking forward to company's upcoming events: X'mas party in Dec and Annual dinner and dance in 12 Jan. That's all folks.

Finally, we decided to visit the tourist attraction in Wuxi. This time it's Ling Shan. We are very fortunate to go on its 10th year anniversary and hence the admission ticket is 40RMB instead of 88.

The buddha statue was huge. It's was nice though.





Spin spin spin...







Lv and her friend, yo-yo



Look at the mess... horendous...




big and small...




something hidden inside the lotus at the peak.




AH HA! baby buddha



significant pillar...


Thousand kids on laughing buddha


Must touch his belly... as told


Luckily palm... must touch and walk around it... also as told...



STAIRS AGAIN!!!!




As yo-yo have to go back to his hometown in fujian because his grandpa just passed away hence we did not have sufficient to visit other tourist attractions but anyway there is still time.

I decided not to learn piano due to money constraint and also not to develop more photos due to the large amount of photos i had taken. 150 photos was already developed and 200 more was taken. If i'm going to develop all pics, it's gotta cost me a bomb and also the weight.

I had found a church in city although i don't know the name of it and i had already attended service since a month ago.... Oh well....

SAVE MONEY!!!!

Last weekend, we went to nanjing. We took the new train which is about 1 hour journey from wuxi to nanjing. It quite a beautiful place, at least better than wuxi.



Opposite the train station is a big lake park.








After which, we went to the city area. The traffic was terrible. The shopping mall are boring. All branded stuff. Then we headed on to one of nanjing's tourist attraction, zhong shan ling. This place is very very big. We din even mangaged to explore what to were supposed to see and we had to leave the place beacuse at 5.30pm, the sky is already pitch dark.
This place is where sun zhong shan corpse is buried. From all the history recorded, he is someone definitely worth praising. This entire maseuloum is built like a bell shape at the top view. It's completed in 1929.






Tons of steps...


A cauldron...


"grand palace"


Scenic view