Week 8: Winter Came Back

Monday
Dumplings for dinner. Regina's out sick. 4shared said they have a work-around for the Great Firewall of China (4shared-china...).
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Tuesday
It snowed. Re-installed my firewall. Episode 13 of Hanadan Kr.
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Wednesday

Still snowing. The police is looking Hazel's brother (not kidding). Episode 14 of Hanadan. Hazel's late for work - had to ask Regina to wake her up.

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Thursday

Took a cab with Liza - our driver tried to pick-up more passengers at North train station (parang jip!). Still snowing. Pestered Hazel into coming with me to BeiHai Park then changed my mind three hours later (ang lamig sa labas eh!).

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Friday
Stopped snowing. Scary 23 km/hr winds. Edited PDR review. Pork afritada.
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Saturday
Wore my orange Zara. Bullied Hazel into feeding me and Liza breakfast (hehe). Cancelled breakfast plans, Hazel and Lyndale are still sleeping. Kiss & Bake with Liza. Fixed Tin's laptop.
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Sunday
Lunch at Babela's again. Bought a mask. Exchange rate of CNY to Peso is at 7.xx again.
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I 'm a geek?

Just watched last week's episode of Bones (this week's episode is not in youku yet), Fisher said that he even watches Fringe (apart from all the angst and drama in his life), thus making him a geek. I love Fringe! If that makes me a geek, then so be it!

There's no Fringe episodes til April 7th according to some posts... sad. I guess I can always watch Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and Firefly again. (",)

Tian Lan Tian (天兰天)

I have discovered another place to shop for cheap clothes here in Beijing. It's quite far from the city centre but clothes are at bargain prices. The prices are a little lower than at the shopping place in front of the zoo.

The three-story building is at the north corner of the Lizeqiao Long Distance Bus station, north-east of the Lize Bridge.

After shopping, you can buy a really heavy meal at the restaurant(?) at the other end of the station (didn't get the name) for 10 kuai (one meat dish, 2 vegetable dish and 2 cups of rice). If your speak Chinese is like I do (meaning you don't), you can just go to the counter and point what you like, there's this lady who'll take your order.

To get there:

Subway Line 2 to Xizhimen (Exit D). Walk south towards the bus stop (Xizhimen Nan). Take bus number 604 and get off at Lize Qiao Dong then walk west towards until you see the long distance bus station. Lize Qiao Bus station is also the terminal station of the double-deck #2 bus that travels around the second-ring road.

By Taxi: Tell the driver to take you to Lize Qiao Chang Tu Ke Yun Zhan (丽泽桥长途客运站).