The Four Gates

the weather was better. it was 5 to 12 degrees. its a sign spring is coming :)
unfortunately it means, there's no more snow D:

some ladies chilling at the park playing cards. there were also woman knitting in the cold. i think they were waiting for their children to finish primary school which is like just opposite the park.

muslim man
look at his songkok

so many beggers along the streets, very sad for them D:
there was a begger who persistantly asked people to donate to her and like she'll follow you all the way whereever you go eventhough you refuse so many times. only shakeh and jonathan donated once and like she still followed them after that to ask for more. btw they spent 140 yuan on chocolates. and there were only 7 pieces? they were cheated. haha

we woke up at 1 in the afternoon and went to town. we're ool people like that. i think we were the latest to wake up. we went to buy our groceries and daily necessities like wang wang biscuits, loads of food for cooking, our cooking pot and etc.

ok this is kind of a bad picture but her cheeks were super pink just like many other kids' cheeks here.

this is our underground market where we buy our groceries :)

told you there were fluffy dogs around. adorable ones!

the woman in the black jacket is their nanny

the two best friends! omg so cute. i love them. they were super friendly and very smart. i like the way the one with the ponytail draws on the concrete pillar.

chau liang aiseh
the yellow shirt guy is edward the gentleman :)

aziz and flexman jonathan!

ram was the star player as he scored practically every goal in and shakkir can't play soccer for nuts.

the guys played street soccer in the freezing cold with some of the foreign syudents staying at our dorm building. they actually jogged like half of the campus to come to our dorm building as their dorm is like way on the other side of the campus.
shakkir was the only guy who wore slippers in the cold weather just to pay soccer as his vans isn't suitable for soccer. a russian guy played soccer with the guys and another group of african guys played basketball with chau liang and edward.i played basketball later on too for awhile which kinda like made me sweat in the icy cold weather.

the boy you see here speaks fluent mandarin and speaks like those china kids.

chau liang was the only one who could hold him down. oh and kang qi too, SHOCKINGLY!
kang qi was the only one who could talk to him and like really entertain him. VERY SHOCKING really!

abdul has so much energy in that small body

kit cannot handle children for sure. haha.

this cute adorable boy is abdul
he's a russian and he lives in our dorm building. he has so much energy you feel old just playing with him. he loves Kang Qi alot and kicks kit ming. so i guess he doesnt really like her lah huh. haha! kidding kit! :D amanda is an old fart thats why she can't catch up with him. haha. ok im going to get bombarded in their posts :p

from this to

THIS

amanda cooked this for dinner. does it look like a success? you decide. haha.
ok i've got to ive her credit for taking up the challenged of cooking eventhough the bottom of the pot was burnt and it stinked up the whole floor of dorms. but its ok. we still love you amanda :) so the rest of the girls ate peanut conggi while me and kit ate our mee suah with soup. it was an awesome success cos aqilah cooked it. haha! kidding. nah it was cos of the chicken stock and soup is like real easy to cook. so yeah. oh and we had chicken dumplings as well which the agnes gang bought for us to share.

the kitchen wasn't what we expected as in it had wierd smells cometimes cos of the many foreign food stored in the fridge and whatever in the world they cook in there but still, it is pretty much decent and clean at times. we're contented as long as we can cook dinner ourselves and save on spending on outside food.

maybe they're pretendingto enjoy the food, i don't know.
haha but it was nice to a certain extent, really.