Squareface @ 31°North

Monday
Her: My manager resigned.
Me: *discusses possibilities*
Me: (jokingly) And by then maybe you won’t have time and energy to coax me and deal with us…
Her: Nonsense! I’m sure you’re understanding enough…
Me: Hmm…
Tuesday
Me: Hello!
Her: Hey…*yawns*
Me: Oh, tired ah?
Her: Yah loh had to blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah *yawns*……then tomorrow need to blah blah [...]

Remember how I complained about the expensive textbooks at UBC? I was set back by about S$400+ (even after returning most books after photocopying them) on material for 5 classes.
Here, books for 9 classes are 100RMB (S$20). Of course, most of the photocopying has already been done by the teachers, complete with book covers.

I haven’t [...]

This is how my leg looks like if I don’t wear thermal pants before wearing pants:

Winter makes my skin all dry and flaky, and it’s really painful when skin cracks. Ordinary moisturizers won’t be able to sooth it, and skin will just get itchy and agitated, leaving ugly scars on your skin, making it unpleasant [...]

My final residence permit application woot! No more running around getting coloured slips and “introduction letters” (been doing this almost every semester), no need to wait around for hours just to submit application, done with payment, and no more passport photos (needed 3 for physical examination, 1 for travel visa application, 1 for residence permit [...]

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To all who knew my love for tasty quesadillas:
My mouth awaits the day it can sink into the soft, yet crispy, well-assimilated combo of chicken, salsa, and cheeeeeeeeeeezzzzzz once again.
For dinner, I ordered a mushroom quesadilla (the only choice for a quesadilla), for 14RMB, from a place called El Mexicano, which charged me an [...]

Think about what you must abstain from if you have high cholesterol: seafood (already a list on its own: prawns, crabs, lobsters, mussels, clams), egg yolks, chicken skin, duck skin, coconut milk, butter, etc. All these food (and more) increases your LDL(bad) cholesterol which leads to the clogging of arteries. And just like a traffic [...]

So as to make my sojourn here pleasant, I shall work on my picture-taking.

Selling Hainan bananas (they taste really good) outside the gates of Tongji University

Hot hot buns (and making them at the back)!

Condom machines. 1RMB for 1 condom.

Recycling bin?

Mopping the blackboards

Plucking weeds and quarrelling

Sunning clothes, shoes, bedsheets, etc.

I [...]

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