One week in Beijing

OMG. Why is my blogger control panel in CHINESE now?? The top of my blogger now looks like this:









Someone help me get back my english blogger!! They never even asked me what language i want lor...

Yes, I'm in Beijing for a week already. The week had been tiring with all the house-hunting chores. It was tough finding a place to rent since the rental prices have started to sky-rocket and are now hovering at almost London prices! These people are keeping their houses for the Olympics period as the 1-month olympics is equivalent to 2-year normal rental. So when you want to rent a place now, the prices are based on whether you include the olympics period or not. I almost wanted to give up looking for a 2-room place since they're now way beyond budget and settle for a normal 1-room. But knowing that i've got a waiting list of people planning to visit me in beijing, I decided to stick to my guns. By a stroke of luck, I managed to get a 3-bedroom place at a very decent price. And it even comes with 3 toilets!! This is rare since most places only have 1 toilet even though they have many bedrooms given that china people shower only once a week. Yes, you can smell them from afar. I hope I won't degenerate to their level of hygiene.

Last weekend, I went with Leng to climb the great wall. Guess what? After an hour's drive, we got near there and the police told us the whole place is sealed. Apparently, they were having some cycling competition (involving 18 countries) for the olympics and have closed the area to public till evening! Why do they need to cycle at the great wall?? Stupid people. So up till now, I haven't climbed the great wall. Great.

Today's my 3rd day at work. I'm like doing every other thing except work. I've got so many things on my mind that I want to settle, like getting my credit card, planning my holidays, scolding the HR, etc. The only good thing about joining EY is that they're given me an IBM laptop instead of the stupid Dell!

I'm moving in to my new place this weekend if all goes well. Paying bills here is so troublesome. I just hope I remember to pay all my bills, including that mobile phone bill. Oh did I say I got myself a china mobile number? And I'll be fixing my computer by next weekend or so. I'm so excited...