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Ahhhhhh that pollution!
I am feeling bad. Being polluted by such Chi.ne.s working ethic… Aiii!
This company’s culture is unhealthy. I mean it’s really physically unhealthy! More than 60% staff got problems found out after the recent body-check. Sam got his medical advice covered half a A4 paper. I got one problem about my liver, same for most others.
Drinking is the biggest issue, then the oily food.
This is a typical Chinese company, with typical Chinese sales style, that is the deal is made on/under table. Oh it’s not 100% done with the table, but the table is the key! Then the alcohol is the keyhole… It can’t be criticised since it’s been proved to work, for thousands of years.
The company is also typical Chinese because of its canteen only meets the bosses’ appetite. And I wonder, is his favorite that oily? Tss… or it’s just the cooks got silly mind to put tons of animal fat into cooking…
I’d rather go out to spend more money on some more trustworthy food than getting fed by the company canteen, saving only 8 yuan a meal (so they say…)
Some thoughts
Only if it can be read.
Recently quite a few people stepped into my blogsphere. But they never left their footprints. I knew because they told me afterwards. Eh….what were those all about? Whatever!
Made some friends recently. Some good, some okay, some fk off. Been to beach once, with Bro P, amazing place! Don’t mind going there a few more times! And next time, should be with more people to have more fun! yay…
A little bit lonely now every night. Good to have some one to text to. And some one just likes to piss me off. Life gets calm, but should I? 28th birthday is coming soon, I’m not afraid at all. I won’t be until 30. I know what I want, I chose it, I will keep up with it – I keep telling myself this, but seriously, I from time to time really feel too weak to be strong. I need support.
Yeah maybe it’s because I got promoted just a couple of days ago that I started to see my life being calm. Perhaps it’s not that calm. Just got promoted, higher position, more responsibilities, and more opportunities. I earned this on my own! I stirred up my career, up and up and up! I won’t have a settled life until I reach my goal. And that goal is…no telling! I am a determined man! I will make those I love happy, for real!
Colleagues keep asking me to treat them a meal for getting promoted. That’s the culture here in this nation, I can’t stand it but what can I do… So they will be treated when I get my salary, for god’s sake!
Well karaoke will be good enough, remembering last time Jason, JC, Roro, and Ken and me went to that KTV to have fun, nice!
So much for tonight. I feel lighter after writing all these.
Hope you enjoy the fun on the island, dear Xiaofeng!
Hope you enjoy your Mom’s visit, Maja my love!
Haha what a guy weekend!!
Yes it’s been a guy weekend for me. Peanut (aka Joe, what a XXXXsucking name…well as long as he’s happy with it, hahaha…joking lar~) came all the way from Shenzhen to Zhuhai, taking firstly a bus from office to the ferry terminal, then ferry from Shekou port to Jiuzhou port in Zhuhai, with 30 minutes delay of arrival, the whole trip takes a miserable 3 hours, just for me. What a bro he is! And we spent the time just like we did when in university, well, not really, but more crazily!
So what a guy weekend would be?
Pubs, chicks, alcohol, disco, cigarette, World-Cup, sleep late, talking shit, dirty jokes. That’s normal. But between me and P, we can also talk about career, life, dreams (maybe a little bit too old for that for us…but fuck it, we did talk about that!). That’s right, he’s my bro!
Dear gracious me! I haven’t been so relaxed for more than half year.
Since the day I started work, I spent all my energy on it unreservedly. I never looked at my life for the time being that I didn’t realise I haven’t made any new friends yet. Okay Jason counts for one but that dickhead went to Dubai and only thinks of DuoDuo. I’m not moaning…
Knowing P has moved to a new flat with extra space, I could go to Shenzhen and spend some time for relaxation as long as I don’t disturb his personal life. No, wait, I don’t fucking care about his personal life, I’m going anyway whenever I feel like to. That’s a bro for me, hiehiehie~
A pleasant day
…I have had.
Maja’s joke made my day. I haven’t laughed like that for a long time. She says she likes sharing the happiness, and indeed she does.
So Jason has left for Dubai. He corrected one of my mistakes before he left. I admit it. I did misjudge someone, but not in the way that Jason said. Whatever, that doesn’t usually happen.
From the day I joined the company, I devoted all my energy and time into work. Too much energy and time that I haven’t taken really good care of my life. Returned from Sri Lanka, I indulged myself a little bit. Drinking and staying late, watching world-cup and flirting with girls. Suddenly I started to realise that I am actually quite lonely in this city. Where are all my friends? Why am I working so hard that I haven’t even got time to made any new friends yet? I know, because I have a plan, an ultimate goal within my 5-year career life, and I want to stick to the plan. But it’s never easy to stick to the plan.
It happened to me before though.
I also felt lonely when I was in Stirling, especially during the time I lived in St Ninians, on top of the hill. I felt extremely lonely at that time that I tried to give up my plan several times. My plan was to learn whatever I could learn and enrich my life experience as much as possible, and I will gain what other Chinese don’t normally gain when living abroad. I came over the loneliness. I did learn a lot more than most Chinese did. And I’m sure I’m already benefiting from my overseas exp.
So I have the experience of gaining experience. I set up the goal, made a plan, then stick to it, as easy as that! This is a colorful world though. Targets are easily lost. ‘Don’t blind yourself!’ my mom always tells me. Thank you mom! I love you!
I’m not lonely, because loneliness is with me. – Jason told me that, purely classic!
The people I like
This is absolutely a shocking night. Germany 4:0 won Argentina!! I was expecting Brazil and Argentina til the final, you know…
Anyway, I went to watch the football game between the two teams at City Inn Karaoke tonight. It’s the second time to be there, not bad a place at all.
The girl who has recently transferred from the other subsidiary went. She’s a very smart girl, and very funny. She gave me a feeling of maturity that she knows how to separate life and work. When work, she concentrates; when live, she enjoys. That said as she’s good at being a colleague as well as a friend. Honestly, I like her very much.
The boy, who just joined our company a couple of months ago, is also a guy I like. He’s good at socialing, and very considerate to others. However, he’s not that focused on his career that he appears not so responsible for himself during work. But I like him anyway, a good guy, can be a good friend. I should tell him what I think of him before he leaves for Dubai again.
And there’s also this Ausie joined us tonigh, a CBA – Chinese Born Australian, to be precise. Nothing much to talk about him yet, I only knew him for less than a week. He’s a new asset to my team, I would expect him to be a good colleague and a good friend too.
There were other colleagues and people having fun together tonight. They were nice.
Tonight reminds me the days of my Scotland-hood. I’m sitting at the balcony, sobering up myself and enjoying the breeze. The moon hangs on the night curtain with half face covered, a shiny star not far away from it, looking like approaching the moon, but never gets any closer. I used to go out with Alex, Michele, Michal, Ruta, and Cicy, then do the same in Stirling, though the view was way much better. I also went out with Larry and Nickie, and Annie and Maja. Remembering those Salsa nights and Edinburgh visits makes me feel warm inside, so warm inside.
I miss my friends, I miss Maja.
Maja gave me a call this afternoon when I was still in office. Hearing her voice surprised me and made me very happy. When seeing other couples, I always think of her. Not knowing when I can see her again worries me. I’m not old, but not young either. I’m at the age that should prioritize the key issues of my life before it’s too late. I would like to multi-tasking, but that always generates unsatisfactory outcome. So no way to go there. Prioritize, prioritize.
I was told there was some eyesore in the department about me recently. I don’t care at all to be honest. I can roughly figure out why it happens. It’s not big deal, but just like Jason said, it could lead to some difficulties in my future work. I’d better see into that. When I am deciding what people I like, the people are also deciding whether they like me. Human beings are so complicated, or is it just Chinese? Eh well…whatever…
We are not the same
It’s an…okay day, that is neither heavily raining nor bloody-helly sun-shining.
There is a cafe called Jane’s Place in Huafa New Town. It’s quite western style, with bar and cafe services mixed. The menu is obviously re-designed to meet Chinese flavor, but they have the authentic cheese, and Bockwurst sausages!! Coffee are those regular choices, but they do ice coffee besides the hot ones. The room’s of moderate size, simply decorated, with one AC and several wall mounted and ceiling hanged fans. Foreign customers are often seen in and out. Generally it’s a lovely place feeling like a coffee shop from the west, and I like it.
I have never met the owner of this place, at least I can’t tell her apart from the rest of the staff. I assume she (presumably it’s a lady guessing by the name, and there is a SHE in the picture above presenting the shop…) is either a native westerner or has a western mind developed from her rich experience working and living in the western world. A lot of ‘cafe’ have I been to, few of them made me feel real. The word Shan Zhai is not a new entry to the dictionary which best describes most coffee shops I tried. They are pretentious. Oops I’m not judging them on a ‘Being humble, being filled with modesty’ basis, but ehh, whatever. My point here is that the very mind behind the operation of this business is what makes it unique and fancy.
This uniqueness is unduplicable. No minds are identical. That’s why we are all different.
Now, My New Toy(s)!!!
Do you know what comes once a month other than women’s period? MY BLOG!
I hate to admit, but yes I have to, that it’s a little waste of money of owning this blog with my name as the domain while I don’t write that often since I got that job.
BUT, well well, and now, I’m updating it with showing off my latest purchased toy(s)!!!
DUN DUN DUN DUN!! <—Please play Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in your mind when reading that…
Tell me, visitor: what do you see?? What? Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol?! Please, don’t let me insult you.
Ok, you know I was kidding.
It’s SONY’s latest ebook reader PRS900 that I am holding in the picture! If you don’t know what ebook reader is, leave my blog and go to google.com.
Maybe you just can’t be bothered to read books on a small and hard-feeling and heavy and, probably the reason why most people don’t like ebook readers, not-a-book machine. But I love it and I enjoy it! I hope I told you I was a hi-tech geek…
You may now wonder, why I said TOY(S)? Look what else I got here:
An inflatable couch!!! (fyi if you get to read this blog, Nickie and Larry, the white box to the left of the couch is my NAS, THE NAS, muehehehe)
By the look of it, I don’t see it necessary to explain.
How pleasant my life is!!
Scary but funny!
Feel sad that Eric has to leave for Dubai on Saturday. But good for him, no more facing-computer-all-day-and-get-tired. He treated me and Sampers tonight to a wonderful seafood meal, at Nanping Seafood Camp. That was my first seafood meal since I returned HOME. And it was really enjoyable, a little bit scary, but funny!
There were quite a few stands selling seafood, FRESHLY ALIVE SEAFOOD!!!! It’s been too long baby, oh yes!! I started to get excited, so did those pedlars!
One yelled at us, then all yelled at once! Like, friendly yell…
Really?? I felt like being harassed by those ‘if you dont buy mine I will eat you’ eyes… But we were hungry, so anyway.
We picked some stuff, then Eric paid. Then the pedlar grabbed the money, and just didn’t give us the changes! He excused not have enough change for us, asked to buy more stuff. Tricky one. Well his stuff were good after all, so we did buy some other stuff. But hey, we were just three people, with only three stomachs. So we taught him when to stop.
The pedlars didn’t cook the food for us, there were restaurants doing food processing in their kitchens for customers like us everywhere in the camp. Annoyingly, we didn’t get to choose our own. Right after we bought the first seafood, a waitress ‘spontaneously’ helped us carry the bag, with no willingness of giving it back! That’s how we got into that Golden Sand restaurant, ended up not that satisfied.
Oh right, about the bargaining part. How should I put this? Sampers rocks!! He’s not ordinarily good at bargaining, I must say. Details are saved for next time…
Now time for bed. Will not be home for about 10 days from tomorrow.
My 2009 Round Up
So this is it! It’s the last day of 2009 – the tenth year of 21st century.
My 2009 was absolutely eventful.
Shop plan, Job-hunt, Website, Research, Hopeless, Opportunity, Re-visit, Canalys, Gutted, Desperation, Decision, Farewell, Emotion, Re-know, Happening, Excitement.
Not too bad. It ended with ‘Excitement’, which means tomorrow starts with ‘Excitement’! It’s something huge going to happen, or that I’m gonna do. I know 2010 is a special year, because I will make it special!
For now, good-bye, 2009
Day 60: Oops, I did it again!
Posted by Terr.Z in Meaningless Gossip, My CHINA on December 29th, 2009
It’s really shame to find out that my English is getting worse after not using it since I came back.
One day I got this phone call from UK about an expo. I talked to that guy, he spoke very slowly, as if he worried I couldn’t follow him. I thought he could totally speak faster. That made me smug for a night. The other day I spoke to Larry on MSN, in English as usual. I could hardly pick suitable words to talk. That’s when I felt shame. Maybe I should keep listening to BBC and calling Stirling often.
I got sick on the very first day of work. That didn’t last long. I bought some strong medicine and got rid of the cold in just three days. But as people always say, the bad luck never comes alone. My teeth got inflamed due to those heaty food from my company’s kitchen. I had to go back to GZ to see dentist (due to some financial reasons…) So I got one tooth fixed, and came back to work. Just one day later, another tooth got inflamed too! For that weekend, I didn’t have enough time to go back to see dentist. The pain tortured me for a week, and it’s still painful when I am writing this blog.
Yeah it’s absolutely miserable to be in that status. But I just couldn’t control myself. Plenty fancy food are there around where I live, heaty as hell too. For unknown reasons I always felt hungry when I saw them, and I couldn’t help buying them. That’s not the cause to my toothache, I’m pretty sure about that. But that’s what kept me from recovering. Yesterday I bought a fried chicken leg. Oops…
I am actually getting better today. For the past few days, I took herbal tea, anti-inflame medicine, painkiller, and &^%$%^ drugs… Those worked!
I will go to see the dentist this weekend. I still remember last time I went, the dentist immediately recognised my tooth was crappy fixed by someone. And by someone, I told her it was the dentist from Stirling Uni Medical Center!! Don’t go there folks, don’t ever!
to be continued…
