suka makan

after cold winters-early spring, there's cold spring winds and sandstorms! sand in your mouth, sand in your eyes, sand in your face! so that's a jollly good excuse not to exercise!

and after the initial complaints about the food here, we've been eating, eating and eating. singaporean student assoc gathering = makan. meet up with qinghua pple = makan. go out with roommate = makan. after dinner, we headed for the minimart - when your food is very salty, you crave for something sweet after dinner! conversation = talk about where has good food (in beijing, china AND singapore). yesterday while trying to decide to get a big purchase for our mums, siok hoon and i headed for... carrefour for more munchies :P fascinated by everything in the supermarket. upon our wondering aloud, a kind auntie explained how beijingers eat the strange-looking vege. friendly beijingers~

and of course, can't miss out on the Peking Duck in beijing
as expected, the first time we ate it with siok hoon's uncle -on my bday!- seemed more yummy! wanted to try the duck heart, duck XX part and duck YY part, but they look more exciting on the dish than when it's actually on your chopstick.

一点点赘肉别紧张,杨贵妃照样迷死唐明皇

eating twice or more of my usual portions :P

upcoming Easter in beijing! quite fascinated by the queue in the middle of a construction site to get into the local church 5min away from beida. but apparently the "approved" churches here have some content "banned". but for what we think as 'conservative' china, our IP professor actually took up a lawsuit against Philips 飞利浦 in her own capacity, trying to make a point about IP protection and exploitation in China. she's one dynamic lady - got Philips to withdraw their patent and donate money to IP R&D in China! it's interesting studying IP law from the Chinese perspective - how they're disadvantaged having started developing their IP system years after the western powers have (which is true!). yes, while downloading my MP3s and watching DVDs from the nearby 地摊...