Lists
Well, 2007 has come to an end and I decided to make lists for funsies.
Favorite times of 2007
: Anytime I was away from school.
Crappy times of 2007
: Anytime I was in school
: Getting a C5 for Chinese Os
: Jie jie leaving for USA 
: Waking up at 6am every morning
Favorite books read in 2007
: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
: The Minds of Billy Milligan
: Flowers for Algernon
: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Favorite TV shows watched in 2007
: The Office USA and UK
: Ugly Betty (Haha, my guilty pleasure)
: Scrubs
: Knights of Prosperity (Haha)
Favorite movies watched in 2007
: Dog Day Afternoon
: V for Vendetta (Okay, that was last year, but watched again this year)
: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (ditto)
: The Godfather (ditto)
Favorite bands/artists I’ve started listening to in 2007
: John Lennon
: Muse
: Bruce Springsteen
: Meat Loaf
Favorite songs of 2007
: John Lennon – Imagine
: John Lennon – Working Class Hero
: TOTO – Africa
: Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
: The Beatles – Strawberry Fields
: Bee Gees – Tragedy
: Rammstein – Spring
: Radiohead – Arpeggi
: Radiohead – Karma Police
: Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
: David Bowie & Queen – Under Pressure
: Lazy to name the rest
Resolutions for 2008
: Fall ill as little as possible
: Watch Sweeney Todd (Lizard, don’t you DARE watch it without us first! >.< )
: Don't get retained
: Pass Chinese A levels
: Watch Reservoir Dogs
: Watch Candy
: Read The God Delusion
: Read Jude the Obscure
: Don't cheat for 2.4km run (Yeah right)
Might add on to the lists.
Anyway, hung out with Lizard, Dee and Eunice yesterday and exchanged Christmas presents.
I found this totally INVENTIVE, HILARIOUS, AMUSING toy in China! Oh my god, I couldn't resist, I had to buy the pig version for Dee and buy a tomato version for myself ^^ And they're only 3RMB each!
Here's how the toy works: (Sorry for the lousy resolution)
I never knew that flagging cabs was a snatching matter, I mean, seriously.
We learned our lesson on the 2nd day, when we tried to flag a cab on the street. A cab stopped for us. It was pretty obvious that we were gonna board the taxi because, oh I don’t know, we were standing right in front of it?
Little did I know that in China, standing in front of the taxi doors indicates nothing.
Because a dude came running along and we, flabbergasted, watched him slip into the taxi. He never once made eye contact with us, which I infer as a sign that he’s a coward. I mean, if you’re gonna steal a cab, at least acknowledge it.
So my parents obviously asked him what the hell he was doing.
He looked up, smiled his phony smile and said, “Bu hao yi si hor, bu hao yi si,” (An apology in Mandarin) and drove off with his rude, cowardly little ass.
BU HAO YI SI MY ASS!
I nearly wanted to pick up a stone, chuck it at his head and ask calmly, “Are you a total idiot?”
But obviously I wasn’t gonna fight with China people, they’re unpredictable people.
After that incident, we learned that when flagging a taxi, we had to hold onto the door handles so that no one could steal the cab.
But the good thing about cabs there is that the fare is insanely cheap, compared to Singapore.
The basic fee is 11RMB already, which is about SGD1.80, and a trip which would normally chalk up to SGD9.00 would cost only 15 RMB, which is SGD3.00. Oh my god! Total cab heaven.
Another thing was their excessive smoking. They simply just could not stop smoking! Smoking was like breathing to them, which is pretty ironic. Whenever we were in restaurants, there always would be a few men smoking and eating at the same time. They were literally alternating between chewing their food and smoking.
As I recall, I was defending China in one of my previous posts because for the Chinese, it’s where we come from, so we shouldn’t try to peel it away from ourselves. I still stand by that statement. Hating the people there is well, inevitable, but we still have to accept it as our country.
[P.S: Watch the video if you haven't!!]
I still don’t like China.