Greetings from China.

Hey guys, oh my goodness, I have so much to update you girls on. The first 2 days over in Shenzhen is really an eye opener. The apartment is alright, not that clean as we expected. So, thats means one work, housework! And I have never really mop, wash my clothes and undergarments myself before so kinda not used to it. But thats the whole idea. I think I'm such a strange person. Cause I think doing housework in our apartment is so much more fun than doing even simple housework at home. Perhaps, its the crazy roommates I have. Haha, esp, Qiu xin, She's so funny and hilarious! She's officially our cockroach exterminator! The 2nd night, there were a total of 4 cockroaches in our apartment. Yes, 4! So gross. and the roaches here in China is seriously the fattest I've seen in my life. No competition. Haha Oh my goodness big. Alaska (our other roomie) and I screamed so loudly, most prolly we disturbed the other 2 guys friends living next door.

Anyway, everything's surprisingly great! I really love the company here. All 8 of us are getting along really really well. We have designated a movie house and a cyber cafe house amongst all our apartments. Our house has turned into a mini cyber cafe with all 8 of us squeezed into a room to tap wireless internet. And the two guys living across will open up their house for movie marathons (they have super wide screen lappies so that makes good movie viewing). All the movies are bought at only 2 sing at this pirate stall with this back room (they led us thru this hidden door into this dingy room with dvds). In normal circumstances, I will not enter such places. Well since the manager recommended us and we have 8 of us, should be a minor issue.

I've spent 1000yuan in 3 days. Quite abit actually. And it was spent mostly on daily essentials. Look at how long our receipt from Carrefour is....

Roomies: Alaska and Qiu Xin

Our shopping cart was filled to the brim with vacuum packed pillows, wash basins, cockroach insectide, snacks, toilot rolls and pails.

Shenzhen in the night. The skyline is kinda sparse. Seriously, Shenzhen is not as dangerous as what alot of people think. It all boils down to your common street sense. If you take care of your belongings, its actually a safe place to walk around. Most people are really warm and friendly. My colleagues for example, even helped us hire a cabbie chaffeur for shopping trips (see, we are rich folks in Shenzhen, haha even have our own chaffeur to drive us around). Its like 2 bucks sing for each trip. Damn cool.

China rocks totally! (in Adrian's words)

And my chinese is improving albeit at a slow pace. Adrian, Alaska, Qiu Xin and I practised speaking pure chinese (without any english words in mid-sentence) for 30 mins everyday. We just went, 'Speak putong hua now'.

I think Jax should really come visit me. We can speak chinese together. HAHA, that will be interesting! By the way, Putong hua is mainstream chinese in China.

Well, after reading my post, I think my English is kinda going downhill. Hm, I might come back totally a different person.