My Expression, My Story

5th Sept - Saturday morning.. Dragging my lazy body, back to our "War room" for another day.. Although the fire fighting is over after 2 weeks of hard work, we thought it was just natural to go back to work on weekends..

Let me describe our work place in Weifang.. We don't hav an office here, thus we had converted one of the hotel room into our working place.. Every morning, I just need to take a lift 8 levels down to our "so called office".. Cool huh !

After working for half an hour, our teamlead came in his usual red shirt:“不用做了，全部回去休息吧！”(Go back and take a rest).. As "hardworking employees" like us :p , we were reluctant to leave until 老赵 (our teamlead) suggested an appreciation lunch in “开心就好”(Just be Happy Restaurant)..

Located not far from our hotel..

It is consider one of the high class restaurant in Weifang..

I guess 老赵 had ordered more than 15 dishes but there were only 9 of us.. This is not the first time we been here.. The last time we ordered 12 dishes and there were still a lot of left over when we left..

Curiously, I ask my local colleague, is it common to order so many dishes although we know we can't finish them. She replied, if the guest manage to finish all the dishes that are being served, that means the host has not ordered enough food for his guest. So usually the host will order more..

"Ohh I see".. 原来如此~ No wonder I had gained 4kg extra for the past 2 weeks after trying to finish the left over :( .. Baka~

Among the highlights:

Raw prawns..

Seafood Soup..

Clams..

Donkey meat.. (not monkey meat :p ) .. Yam Yam.. taste like beef..

And Abalone with rice.. yam yam yam ~

Of course fine dishes accompanied with 烟台啤酒 (Yantai Beer)

We had been 乾杯，乾杯 (ganbei ganbei) for the whole afternoon, finishing over 30 bottles of Yantai beer.. some colleagues can't even walk straight at the end :p

Last word from 老赵 : 大家辛苦了！

“感谢赵总，乾杯！！”

19 Aug - Arriving at Beijing office at 8.00 in the morning, what a relief seeing a similar office in oversea. I was supposed to get a ticket from the staff to get to Dezhou via bullet train, however, the day is still early and no one has arrive yet.

Was checking my mail while waiting the staff to arrive, and found out that the project team had landed a "surprise" mail to me, my itinerary to Dezhou is cancelled, and I have to get to Weifang on the same day. It was such a last minute change.

Due to the only flight from Beijing to Weifang on that day was 7.30am in the morning, I had already missed the flight and thus they had arranged my flight to Qingdao departing at 7.30 evening on the same day, and then there will be a dedicated driver taking me from Qingdao to Weifang for another 2 hour journey.

Disaster starts here..

Went back to Beijing Capital International Airport for the 2nd time on the same day, this place is as crowded like a weekend shopping mall, flooded with locals and it took me quite a while in the queue before manage to check in my luggage and get my boarding pass.

Waited at the terminal... at 7.30pm, I received my 2nd surprise of the day, the flight was delayed from 7.30pm to 8.40pm due to lightning storm over in Qingdao airport -_- ... Well, China Air is generous enough to provide free dinner and drinks to affected passengers and the locals flock to the counter to grab their food as though they are catching a running bus @_@ .. Welcome to China..

So we waited,

waited..................... gazing at the sunset

and waited................. counting the airplane landing one by one..

At 8.30pm a 3rd surprise came in, the flight is further delayed to 10.40pm @_@.. Man.. whatever.. And the waiting continues ... I got dozed off for a while because I didn't manage to sleep well during my last night flight from KL to Beijing..

Finally we took off at 11pm.... and the story doesn't ends here...

After an hour flight, we finally reaching Qingdao's "air space"... yay.. my 4th surprise of the day.. the captain announced that due to the heavy storm in Qingdao airport, we have to fly back to Beijing again and hopefully we can get back to Qingdao when the weather is clear -_- ..

WHATEVER Lah..... and so.. I had landed on Beijing airport again for the 2nd time at 1 am in the morning and waited (actually I had already dozed off) before the next announcement..

Finally... finally.. after waiting for 1 and half hour in the plane, we took off AGAIN at 2.30am from Beijing to Qingdao..... This time, we REALLY made the landing at 3.30am.. Dragging my lazy + exhausted body (not to mention my luggages) out from the terminal..

Reaching Weifang Hotel at 6.30 morning after a 2 and half hour ride from Qingdao airport.. A nice bath and bed is just like paradise...

What a 1st trip.. camping on flight twice, and landed on the same place twice.. Yay.. lets do it again.... X-p

16 Aug - 6.30am, arriving at the entrance, I was surprised to see the amount of cars parking along the road and we were forced to park a couple of hundred meters away. Although this is my 4th trip to Broga hill, this is the first time I see such huge crowd hiking up the hill. No more uncles and aunties that I used to see, but a crowd of youngsters who are late teens or early 20s.

Dawn time

Beautiful Twilight

Painters ready to draw the sunrise

Upon Sun rise.. that is when things start to be aLive~

Jocelyn and Julienna

Choo..

Passionate Graduates

A new day has come :)