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(My friend took this picture using a cheese shaker and a folk. Damn creative right!)

Updates.
It was a superb saturday!

I have no idea where to start. Its the weekend, a very long awaited one. And it rained cats and dogs. BUT, that didnt stop us from going out. Armed with our umbrellas, we headed out to Shekou (Snake mouth), the pubbing district (somewhat like our clarke quay). Its seriously the wrong time of day to go, but we wanted to go get a glass of beer. So there we go after some light shopping. It was a beer-ti-fied saturday! We drank beer for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Goodness. From imported german beer to local brewed beer.

In the morning/early afternoon:

We went to drink Paulaner at this german pub at Shekou with the department heads Haha, we didnt pay for anything for the whole day. Everything was all free of charge. sponsored by the company. Awesome! Our department heads treated us to beer and german food. We took loads of pictures too.

Presenting to you, my dear Hang-man partner, DONNA. LOL. During the 2 hours company training on Quality Assurance course, we played hang-man for 1.5 hours. The first half an hour, we were dozing off like nobody's business. Very very dry lesson, cause it was ALL in chinese, yet, the ppt slides were all in chinese. (damn cheem kind). Decided to play hangman to ward off the heavy sleep bug since dozing off with my heads bobbing up and down is so un glam and embarrasing. LOL. WE had silly fun hang-maning for 1.5 hours. the rest were playing tic tat toe and trying to pay attention. And I'll definitely wanna go to Donna's house when we get back to Sg, cause she has 2 awesome dogs. One is a Siberian Husky/Labordor and the other, a Mongrol. I just love gi-normous dogs.

The whole lot of us plus the 2 managers. They are such nice folks, always treating us to good food and bringing us around good places to hang out at. Seriously, young at heart and very personable managers.

Nah, to clarify, I DID'NT drink that 1 litre of Paulaner... Just for show.

The fooood. After we're like half finished with it. The german saugages...

Snapping in the rain:

It was still raining after we finished our beers. So it was all dreary and all, however it didnt stop us from walking around Shekou. And I'm not gonna wear my old navy flip flops on rainy days. I nearly slipped and fell 3 times. The first time, I nearly did a split infront of everyone. HAHA. Nearly spilled my starbucks hot choc all over myself. Xin was so nice to hold on to me the whole time we're outdoors. Ha, our motherly figure!. (just kidding, xin) By the way, her blog is much more updated than mine. Check her travel blog here.

Our 2 managers.

Our dinner:

It was Sze chuan cuisine for dinner on Saturday. Charles and Mr Cheok (our 2 managers)brought us to this restuarant at CoCo park (a pretty high end department mall). The dishes are really spicy. Every single plate was chilli-fied. Those with a low threshold for chilli really shouldnt even try Sze Chuan dishes. Haha, it was really spicy and I usually can take chilli but some of the dishes were really hot. We drank beer again. This time, Kingway beer, a locally brewed beer, which kinda sucked. Ha...We drank quite a bit, it was bottoms up all the way, cause according to tradition over here in China, once we knocked glasses, we have to drink it up. We were pretty woozy and high when we left the restuarant.

Check out this dish! Haha, its like hanging clothes to dry. Haha. The bowl below is filled with hot sauce. The way to eat this dish is to dip the slices of pork and cucumber together into the deep red chilli sauce. Its damn shiok. Those folks who love chilli dig this dish lah. Especially Adrian, Xin, Michelle and I, we love our food hot.

This dish of small prawns and fried water chestnuts is the hottest! I accidentally bit on a kind of chinese black pepper which is super duper hot. Hot to the extent, your whole tongue turned dead numb. The feeling is really bad. No matter how much tea and beer I drank, the feeling stayed for the rest of the dinner. It was that bad!

I love this dish, which is glutinous rice on top of roasted duck. It was GOOOOOOOD....

After dinner, it was a special event. We planned a birthday surprise for one of the boys, Shen Yeong. It's his 19th birthday (how young!). Yeah the 7 other friends I talked to you about, 4 of them are 19 and 20 years of age. Adrian is 25, Alaska is 23, Xin and I 22. Haha its a whole range of ages. And the best part, all of us get along really well. All of us are like damn good friends now, Love their craziness.

The cake. it was kinda melting. cause we were waiting for the birthday boy, Adrian and Charles to finish watching the soccer match between Man U and Chelsea. The plan was to ask Adrian to bring Shen yeong up to Mich and Don's place and we'll spring the surprise on him.