(read with chinese simplified font :>) many people complained to me that the weather back home is very unbearable… 35 deg celsius should be enough to melt anyone… i read that the 50 deg celsius weather in india has killed many people. they literally "热死了". poor thing. in shanghai, the rainy seasons fall during these few months, which means i’ll inevitably get splashed with dirty water when walking along roads that pedestrians share with cyclists and motorists. and my stockings (yes, EVERYONE wear stockings here!) often get spotted with the black waters. but i do feel lucky it is the burrrrrring cold i have to put up with, and not sweltering heat. oh, i do sound like i’m gloating huh? hurhur, sorry, i really don’t mean it that way. deep down, i know this trip is just a good excuse for me to procrastinate the inevitable. the inevitable “sianness” everyone feels when they graduate. especially if there are no jobs around. my good friend wrote in her email, ”life seems a torture… haiz… jobless and aimless…” i think most of my friends back home are busy flipping the classified sections, sending out resumes, attending interviews, anxiously waiting for replies… all the while having to bear with the unbearable heat, and thinking of how to get money to go shopping in the great singapore sale. and they probably sleep too much in the day, they can’t sleep at night. sigh! my turn for that will come, in 2 months time… sian man… “sian” is probably the best word that ever happened in the singaporean language. try replacing it with other words in other languages, it’ll never come out right. “bored” doesn’t bring out the exact no-drive feeling. and neither “tiredness” nor “exhausted” fit in right. the phrase that probably comes closest is “fed-up”. i keep imagining how life would be like for me if i hadn’t came here. hmm, i’ll probably watch zhen qing everyday, window-shop around aimlessly in town, visit the national library before it gets torn down, go swimming once, plan (erm, executing the plan is a different story…) to go to the gym, lie around at home most days, and get scoldings from dear mummy for lazing around… and of course, flip the classifieds everyday. sigh! if only we are people who can sit under the coconut tree and day dream all day and be satisfied…. but of course, not all of us are qiaomei… (wahaha, sorry buay!) so, i’m glad i came, because of the everything new i experienced and observe, be it pleasantness or otherwise. :) really, do go travel if you have the chance. i think it’s an experience worth the while.