One Night in Beijing

First Day of work

Finally went to work today, in a totally overdressed mode for the technical department. Although we already know that we need not wear shirt and pants, we wore it just to impress on our first day.

Wore the trenchcoat-like jacket bought at 雅秀 to go with the shirt and pants and sort of regretted. Coz it wasn't adequate against the Beijing weather, and I didn't wear my snow cap or ear muffs becoz they don't match the 'look'. As a result, I got a throbbing headache at the end of the day because of the congestion in my nasal passageways. Thankfully, we caught a cab back home from office and not walk 20 over minutes in the cold to the train station, jostle for standing space in the MRT for another 30 mintues, and walk another 10 minutes withstanding the elements back to our home.

What we did at work today, was simply to keep awake. Most people are just back at work for the first time since the CNY celebrations started. So Alex and I did whatever we could to stay awake .. like reading 2003 Chinese technical publications found inside my drawers, talked about our courses in NTU, photography and theory of TCP/IP .. etc. Still ... we both paid Uncle Chow a visit.

Temperature today:
-1C to 8C

and it was super foggy

posted by taxi taker @ 9:56 PM