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I was in school trying to hand in my assignment. So I called Johan and ended up in his apartment. Had lunch. Johan and Ah bang later went to the city to look for an apartment downtown to rent. Recent news is that they ended up in Pudong. Actually better, no need to worry old house don’t look nice, don’t have toilets, and yet they charge crazy rentals every month.

Wool gathering.

The bottle is mine!

Ah bang is there letting me figure out what and how to do exposure with E-410. Not easy, the matrix exposure like shit, always under expose. Never mind, so try figure out lor. That’s before Edgar tell me about nowadays computers in camera getting too clever, that’s why under-exposed(smlj sia). Anyway, he gave me advice to use centre spot metering instead. I seriously think Yashica T3 more fun, no stress, only problem is I only sent it for development every few months.

Johansbang! ISO 1600, that’s why noisy.

Stress

Garlic.

The barber. Nabehz, super not friendly. Ask me where I am from, why I take picture. If not because he is an antique and having a hair cut nowadays not everywhere is 4RMB, and most haircut is not open air hair cut but in nice salon, you think I want take photo? Bzz..

Almost everyone in my generation owns a PSPS nowadays. Sigh

Johan seriously look like his concentration can burst the PSP itno fire. HAha! Choot POWER!!!

They were off travelling to this place called nan-shan(南山), going to one temple over there. I don’t know much so I will keep this short. Again, just look at the pictures. I love Hainan Island man, look at the lovely blue sky and sunshine! Something Shanghai is terribly lacking in. =.=

Hainan has changed a lot the past decade…

They have fancy architecture, they no need us South-East Asians to fork out money anymore.

They arrived at the temple. Must be really hot for dad to actually use an umbrella that sissy.

And yes, many places in China must have a mickey mouse even when it’s no Disneyland.

And every temple might have this kind of bells even when they are not in Tibet…

And Hypes like this for sale to old people as a gimmick for long life..

and stuffs like these..

But back to the place, they have really a terrefic guan-yin and I hopefully hope it last for hundreds of years without breaking up..

more shots.

and another one..

close up shot of guan-yin

and a lovely sunset of the island!

I will just do a quick photo show of what’s going on. Not gonna go into much details. Just look at the pictures of what going on.

Mum and Haikou Airport. The day they are coming over to Shanghai. Flight delayed due to Feng-Shen. I waited for them at Pudong Airport from 1800 Hrs till 0400 Hrs. At 0800 Hrs the next day, I went off for my exams. Apparently, I think I flung that paper…

Cute little boy from distant relative. Was just a baby when I was there 2 years ago. Or was he born yet? o.O

We pay our repects to our ancestors. Safe back Home. Let the dead know we are back home from somewhere far far away.

The new house built. They said a typhoon blew and damaged the old structure.

The old house got more feel. This old house on the other side.

Ground nuts, not peanuts. Back home, they grow lots of these.

Lazing under the shades.

This is a good picture taken by Hau! That’s what i feel!

Priceless.. Always eating, that’s how they kept us occupied. It’s kinda embarassing always eating expensive.

At the padi fields.. 

No more bees inside.

That’s what they do everyday there. Eat Eat Eat. Too luxurious for me.

hmm….

They left about 8 days ago, and that was when I started writing my essays and trying to finish off my school last few papers. The problem with having a new toy(the olympus e-410) is that you tend to take more pictures than you want to blog about it. It’s seriously different from last time: You take a couple of rolls in film and you refuse to scan them because it is so expensive, and by the time you seriously decide to have any photo digitized, its months later. Now, with something around so conveniently, you are just snapping and trigger happy, don’t even feel like blogging about what you are seeing daily!

Passing time after lunch, before taking a taxi to Pudong Airport.

Auntie Liew with Hau Mau’s mum and dad.

I guess Hau Mau don’t take too many pictures together!

Auntie Liew..

Hau showing some pictures to Mau…

The last photo is of auntie liew tired from the whole week of moving here and there. ZzzZzz…

I dunno about coffee, and I learn abit while Hau was here in Shanghai last weekend. There are mainly two species of coffee sold worldwide, known as Arabica and Robusta. Most of our South-east Asian kopi belongs to the Robusta group. They are usually soury in taste, so when I heard that our South-east Asian Kopi that we drink so much back home do not cater to the taste of the locals here in China,

I was rather offended and wondered what’s the difference? So I asked Hau abuot the coffee in the market, most coffee like Nestle, Illy, Lavazza also use Robusta, so they should be sour as well, like our South-East Asian lousy beans that are roasted again to give that lovely aroma we love so much from our Kopi-tiams(coffeeshop). This debate over quality and taste of coffee derive from a conversation about whether selling our kopi in China for 1RMB a cup was feasible. Apparently, there was this 85 degree celcius Cafe growing up a couple of francise here in China. They are attracting a large crowd of people.

So I was wondering why our South-east Asian Kopi cannot do the same job? Bah. Anyway, below are some images I stolen from Hau’s Fuji compact Digi Camera(Yes, I love to steal images). They are some quality coffee machines from a tradeshow or convention Hau attended some time back before coming to China. Some images are blurry from low light conditions. I dunno much about them, but anything shiny and always attract the eye!

Hau, if you are reading this, and whatever is putting you off in writing any blog articles, and if it is because of “dunno how” to upload an image and use it online, here’s how. Find a image hosting site. For mine, I used MSN space(you can right click on image and find location of url after u upload), you can use a variety lie Flickr, Picassa or Facebook if you want o.O. After which you get the image location and link it whenever you need it from your Image hosting site in your post. Viola.