One Night in Beijing

Valentine's Day - 14 Feb 2006

Beijing today is quite warm for a winter day, maybe because of the feeling of love in the city.

Today is the 2nd day of work and thankfully I got decent stuff to do besides trying to stay awake. Managed to move my PC from level 8 to my cubicle on 7th floor and got the internet up. After lunch, Alex and I had to read data sheets and some ISO standards stuff for our work. Apparently they already know that it would take us a long time ... so they planned our training to be on next week =P The rest of the week, we would have to 'digest' the files they gave us to read.

My neighbouring colleague was called '妖姬' because she was the winner of the most-flowers-and-gifts-received girl in the office (she got 2 bouquets and 2 boxes of chocs) . Her cubicle section is their favourite gossipping corner anyway. I just grin at their news and jokes from a short distance. They manage to find out that the special purple roses lined with shiny studs in her bigger and more exquisite bouquet of flowers at 100RMB per stalk today ... together with the surrounding pink roses (going at about 20RMB, they say) and baby breathe etc etc. I estimate the bunch smelly smelly to be about 1000RMB, for the flowers alone. Furthurmore, the flowers didn't come from Beijing, it was from Guangzhou! A colleague said, it was better off single than married.

Temperature today:
-4C to 7C
(signs that the weather man is probably not very accurate ... Kenny remarked that it in fact hit 12C in the noon.)

posted by taxi taker @ 10:06 PM