7 million vs 24 million; 24 million vs 1.3 billion??

Last year, inflation was hitting high in China. In December, it was 4.6% CPI I think. And January, it was 7% something. Anyway, in quarter four of 2007, the China Government raised the minimum retirement monthly salary to the lao-bai-xing, everyone is happy, although the amount is small, but whenever the TV station interviewed those old ah ma and old ah pa of what they think of this action, they answered with tears in their eyes "谢谢国家领导对我们的关爱”. Can feel they were sincerely touched.

And, the China government also doing a lot of thing, to help the non-shanghainese (e.g Ningbo, Hunan, etc etc) to get a job in Shanghai. They have a website, that those local people can log in to find job (something like jobstreet, but more advance, and it's government effort). Every info is on the website. As long as you can read and write, you should be able to find a job, well, as long as you are not lazy as pig also. They even open lots of child-care specifically taking care of those 外来劳工的子女，so they can build houses for shanghainese (hard labor) without worrying who is taking care of their kids.

Recently, they also have opened up a lot of, they called 社区医疗中心 so those old people or people who cannot walk properly can seek doctor advice more easier (just around thier living area should have 1 of this kinda center), and no need to take transportation to go to city to visit hospital. And, they were lowering prices on medicine, so more lao-bai-xing can benefit in the medical area.

They built new subway line, connecting all places, with all places. Though I hate subway takers (I always think only loser take subway. Yah, I am a loser in the morning, coz I cannot catch a taxi in peak hour), I respect the China government who makes 老百姓出行 so convenient! And from what I can see over here, whenever public voiced out something that the government should change, to make life more efficient, the government really listen, and really got action, and changed, within short period of time.

Government also constantly upgrading the road condition, though I hate this becuase this means traffic jam for that time being, but hey, they upgrade the road condition in the city, without asking the 老百姓 to pay toll ok. And, they don't take YEARS to just build a bridge... and they don't build a bridge so near to 老百姓 house and break 老百姓 house wall with shaking noise and movement. Yah lah, I am referring to the Sri Petaling KLP highway lah..

They even do all tax-payer's evaluation timely. All 老百姓 who earned more than 12K a month ought to declare taxes paid before March of every year, regardless u local or not local. Our company submited for us (yes, so nice one, company submitted in group, we just sign), and we received the acknowledgement notice from tax authority that they have received within 10 days(fyi, that time was chinese new year time). Compared to our lhd*, phooh.... I got nothing to comment.

p/s: writing this, because suddenly remembered March 8th is the voting day for Malaysian... suddenly also, feel extremely sad. If you say Singapore can be so successful because the leader only need to 'manage' the 7 million people, and Malaysia cannot beat Singapore because our dearest leader have to "manage" 24 million people, then.... then.... China has 1.3 billion 老百姓, should it be worsed than us then? Suddenly, feeling more sad...

p/s: hey, I still hate rude cheena lang, though sometimes, just sometimes, I respect the government here, ok? ok??!

ALOOOOOO

My sotong assistant made a typo mistake on one of our important communication material. China custom picked it up, and refused to allow us to import that item.

This is not the first time she have typo mistake. It's OK, she is local chinese I know and she ought to get my merciful forgiveness.

But do you know what she replied to me after I wrote to her ask her to be more careful next time?

领导:
针对此个情况的产生,我想解释在由我一人翻译并负责跟踪事后的校对时.相信有些我自己的错误,我蛮难抓得出来.

我想针对此个情况,将来专门找家公司,负责我们最后的校验,主要是针对错别字和语法通病.使用范围为:中文说明书和catalogue等对外公众信息.

I was so shocked. They really can twist the fact around. The fact that she did not apologize on her mistake really pissed me off, and she wanted me to waste money for her to get an outside company to proof read her work?????

Holding my anger, I replied, "if you wish, with MINIMAL cost please."

I am so speecheless. Can anyone of you tell me it is OK for her to behave like this?

By the way, the piece of document she made mistake on, it's not 4-5 pages of articles full of words. It was just a simple instruction sheet, with lots of pictures and minimal words. ngo men nei sei mei?!

Torturing lunch...

Today, the Sales Manager of a Magazine company, die die also want to ask me out for lunch, to thank me for invensting in them this year. I told her no need, but she explained to me, her boss insisted her to make a lunch appointment with me, if I said no, she very difficult to explain to him. Aiyoyoh... ok lah if that is the case.

So, she came with her Vice General Manager. A very talkative man. His face look like 阿毛，a chinese 漫画 character, damn funny face looking.

Anyway, it was a very "difficult" lunch, coz he kept talking. At first, I very 礼貌，if he talks, I don't eat. Then I say to myself, "cannot like that liao, keep on like that I very hungry. This man never stops talking." So, he talks, I still eat and nod my head. Hahahaha... at the end, he asked me "Did I talk too much? Am I too talkative?". I have to lie to myself and him, "no... no... please go on."

You don't see I not talkative, but, from an 1 hour lucnh, I found out that:
1) He was born in 1973
2) Besides HK and Macau, he never been to any country outside of China (HK and Macao actually also not considered countries outside of China..)
3) He is Shanghainese, he thinks there is no place else better than Shanghai (of course, comparison base is so small, just HK, Macao, some other ulu places in China, and Shanghai)
4) His name is named as "swimming", coz while he was given birth, his dad was swiming at changjiang river in a winter (Wow...)
5) His friend brought a Apple phone back for him from U.S., besides SMS, making phone calls and receiving calls, listening to music sometimes, he did not use other functions on the phone. He thinks it is too troublesome to change the module to china-friendly to enjoy the internet service.
6) He asked me want to go to Ha Er Bin togehter or not this year. (He must be joking... this ain't gonna happen - first of all, me no like ha er bin, secondly, me ain't going with anyone other than my frens and hubby)
7) He has a driver
8) He is a heavy meat eater. Don't like to eat vege.

Ehh-hmmm... I think I still have the market-research skillset. Yup... Haha...

I hope no more of this kinda "business lunch" for me anymore. I hate. I gonna pass this task to my assistant next time. Let her go to ha er bin with these kinda business-partners. yayaya... hahahaa...

Anyway, there's a lot of sunshine from today onwards. I am so looking forward to Spring!

Pic

He thinks subway is his home, can simply sit on the floor, ignoring the fact that he is creating so much trouble for passengers, to jump over him to reach the door for exit. Do you call this stupid or selfish?
During a quiet hour on a street in the heart of the city Shanghai, I sometimes could mistake this is in a western country - no spitting, no quarreling... Just tall financial buildings all around.

ah-hemmm...

They love to hang clothes on the electrical wire between house. So creative.

I am looking for chances to go back to that particular street -- where the women loves to spread their panties and bra-bra, on short-trees along road side. The "scenary" is very cheena feel.

Will update soon ;)

Nice Matter Award

Purple Mushroom gave me Nice Matters Award. I don't know what is it, so, as usual, anything I don't know, I go "google" about it.

Apparently, it is meant for "those that are just nice people, good blog friends, and those that inspire good feelings and inspiration! Those that care about others, that are there to lend supports, or those that are just positive influence in our blogging world!".

Hmm.. I am flattered:) Thanks Purple Mushroom. But I think sometimes I have huge negative influence whenever I am complaining about china. Hahaha...

I want to give this award back to Purple Mushroom. Hey purple mushroom, now you have 2!:) kekekee...

yum yum

Come back already but mind still in KL whenever I feel hungry in Shanghai - kept thinking about zhu yuk yuen fen (pork-ball meehoon), and ban mee.

Why no restaurant here sell these 2 things one? eeee....

童言无忌，有怪莫怪

最近中国股市暴跌，一跌再跌。通货膨胀也越来越凶，上一个月的通货膨胀已高达7.1%, 买包青菜以前5块有得找，现在，没有7块你想都不用想。猪肉也涨了58%，一小包肉碎要20块钱。外面的餐馆都普遍乘机涨价，不涨白不涨，有钱赚，不跟着大势走，傻的么？

心里有一点暗爽。中国的没规则的股市，不知道造就了多少爆发富，外表穿金戴银住豪宅，里面却素质低，“臭”得要死！这一次的教训，让他们知道，风水是轮流转的。

听说老板的老婆买了很多很贵的股票，现在抱着不能进（没钱？）也不能出（亏死咯现在出！），鬼么，股市跌得最大幅度的就是这一些贵股，搞得她本来要买mini-cooper的，现在只能买几万块的轿车。不知道老板最近在公司的脸色那么差，是不是因为这个呢？？？你们一定问，人家老婆的事你又懂？大佬阿，他老婆时常一有机会就‘铺头’参与我们的公司活动，怕死老公被下属钩去，你说能不知道吗？她还告诉我们她觉得她老公（即我们老板）很lengzhai, 是她的梦中情人，听得我们毛骨悚然，只能说“哦...”。真死北够力。老板命真好，有这样崇拜他的老婆。但是随便就跟我们这一帮人将这种肉麻的话，不知道意图在哪儿？

Anyway, 我想说，希望中国通货膨胀能到达一种境界-- 让所有烟鬼都买不起香烟，那才爽！哈哈！会有这么一天吗？

sibeh - 这篇文章如果给老板老婆看到，我肯定不用捞了。

Stupid!

I always get pissed whenever someone just stand in the middle of the elevator, not right not left, just simply in the middle, and blocking the whole passage way.

Can the government spend some effort in educating these people? If you want to stand, please stand at the right side. Keep the left side clean so people can walk up when they are in a rush.

STUPID LAH U ALL.

Winter is over..

My mind is at holiday again. I was complaing to my hubby life is without purpose after CNY, until another long holiday in October. So, I have 7 months of purposeless-life, that's so torturing. Then, hubby told me something to excite me -- we are going somewhere in April. kekekkeke:)

Can't wait. I love tropical season places. Yay~~~~~~ Hope he meant it.

I love my bui bui! :)

Oh btw, winter is over. Today marks the end of winter, and more rain to come (today TV news said one). I am so grateful I am saying "bye bye" to my winter jacket. yay~~

Lousy lah u!

I want to say, whoever designs the Enrich webpage inside the MAS, you deserved to be sacked!


The webpate design is so lousy, log-on page for members are so difficult to be located, and so difficult to find the redeemption page and calculating the miles!!!!!


You! can you go learn up the user-friendly end-user design from Nokia???!!!

After spending half an hour on the lousy page, I am left with zero info on the info I want to search. @#$%!

Relationship

If you are observant, you should notice I haven't complaint about my assistant for very long time already.

You see, there's some chemical reaction between me and her since December. Not sure what's the real reason, she started to respect me more. And I am the kind of person, if you respect me 10%, I respect you 20%. If you respect me 50% more, I will respect you 100% more. So, the chemical process is getting better and better. Purple Mushroom said maybe she knows I was going to be promoted, but my promotion only came late last month wor. Our relationship was improved in late December already.

How I "respect" her? I started to accept that nobody is perfect. She might be strong in some area, and weak in other area. So, I gave her more task in her strong area. Her weak area, I took up the task and do it myself (e.g. excel spreadsheet, she damn week).

And this morning, I came to work, saw this on my table. It's actually from her! Wow.. I was flattered. Although I am not a chocolate fans, her sum-yi makes me feel very sweet loh. There's a mandarin orange too, but I ate it before I able to take the photo. Haha..

That's not all. Today, I have a tel-conference call from 11am. Needless to say, it went over lunch hour til late. She knocked on the door at 12.30pm, asking if I need to dabao. I said it's fine. But she insisted. So I said ok, anything will do. Then she dabao KFC. Again, even though I am not a fans of KFC, and she forgotten to change the fries with the salad (I dont like salad, I want fries), I still feel touched. hehehe...

人和人之间的互动，真的很微妙！

My Feb 2 - 14

I am back, with nose-block, occational dizzy. Thanks to cold, cold, cold Shanghai weather.

I wanted to blog about how our flight got delayed due to bad weather condition, but I don't have the semangat that I have had on that day. Hahaha... but I want to say, MAS treat us not bad, gave us a Ramada Hotel to stay in while waiting for the midnight flight. The most cartoon part is, when we are all gathered at lobby waiting to depart to airport again at 2am, the officer told us (she is local lah) she didn't arrange 3 big bus to pick us up. But cool, at the end, they arranged more than 50 cab to send us to airport, and the fees can claim straight away from MAS counter. Yay. The scene was magnificent. Imagine at a black black street, got 50 cabs lining up to pick us up to airport, booked by the hotel. Haha. Anyway, it was as if they want to make up to us (poor us, wasted 1 day), the whole journey from Shanghai to KL, departing at 6am, was quite pleasant. It was unusually quiet in the cabin even with a lot of kids (so many family brought their kids back to KL), everybody was busy catching some sleep. And, I have the smoothest landing ever at KLIA, the plane didn't even shake a bit while it landed. Good job done!

Pudong Airport sucks in managing this kinda situation though. The flight cancelled, never announced through their hiao-hiao broadcaster. It was just merely appeared on the screen for few minutes. I went toilet and key poh check on the screen only know the flight was cancelled. Can u believe it?

It was quite depressing to see most flights got delayed or cancelled on the big screen at Pudong Airport. Only 3 planes took off from 8am-2pm on that day, all china eastern airlines. Priviledge treatment eh?

This is Pudong Airport at 4am. Damn chai-leong feeling..

Anyway, home sweet home. Time flies when u enjoy the moment the most. I met up with some friends (they still look the same, no fat no thin. hehe), went to bui's hometown, play with his brother's sons. They use thier chocolate sticky mouth to kiss me, I almost fainted. Why kids are so careless one?? I don't want kids at the moment after kena this. eeee...

Then, we also went to Pavillion and The Garden. I still prefer the old Midvalley. Again, this is a sign of aging - don't like changes or surprise. hahaha... We had a luxurious movie watching experience at The Garden, each ticket costs us 60 bucks, comes with free drinks, and a magic chair. hahaa... bui bui enjoys the chair very much! He quickly took off his shoes and slipped into the blanket and make himself so comfy for the movie watching.

This is my highschool frens: YL, SW, SH, LZ, and TH. One more fren TY, he came late, so not in pic. They still look good! So happy to see them again.

Rush Rush Rush, Eat Eat Eat, there finish my 10 days trip at KL. It was indeed a very yum-gong feeling to return my mom's sim card and resume my china sim card. Btw, this trip, I didn't get to eat CRAB!!!!!!! All crab catchers go CNY liao, no crab in restaurant. :( But it is still good to have few lou-sang in KL, once was with the Shanghai gang. hahahha... see each other so often in Shanghai still want to lou-sang togehter in KL! That's us!:P

And, Yesterday was my happiest day in many many years (the last happiest day I remember is the first V day with bui bui). He arranged something, but it didn't turn up well. At the end, he told me the whole truth, and I was laughing until cannot stop, and then we went to the shop to pick "him" up. ("he" was supposed to be delivered to our doorstep in the morning before I wake up, but the store owner screw it up. we not angry lah, it's china)

Some how, I think "his" eyebrow looks like bui bui's ones. Hahhaa...

Bui bui also gave me a card, it was the sweetest moment, and I screw it up, I cried. I don't know why I cried also, coz the card he wrote very funny one. I am touched by his arrangement:) I didn't get him anything this year though, in fact, I never wrote him any card after the one I sent to him got lost in the Malaysia Pos. I some more kiss on the cards with full lipstick, and perfume some more ok. It got me sick whenever I think of a Postman kept my card and smelling the perfume. YUCKS~~~~~~

Anyway, that's my past 12 days. Happy Valentine's Day to all of you!!!:) And, Gong Xi Fat Chai!!