080912 :: CRI visit

Woke up very early today to join the China Radio International office visit. That's quite interesting, especailly that we looked quite like the VIPs during the visit. They organized a brief introduction and a Q&A session in the beginning, and let us around their office and functions room... CRI is indeed an organization started in 1941, broadcasting in English channels about China over the world. It was till 1984 that they launch their domestice service, and financially supported by the goverment by now... I switched to their channel during my return journey to Tsinghua... Their boardcasting style is more interesting then what I expected... Not so much "announcement" yet feel quite like the HK radio channels yet in mandarin.. =)

Did a buffet lunch with classmates at the Internation Student Dorm Canteen... The food taste quite good and cost less than $20 per head!! Afterall I backed my dorm and did a big thing... Which I clicked to the Paralympic website and booked a ticket at the Bird Nest... The official site is not user friendly, which tooks me so much time to manage the booking online. Anyway, I got a $30 ticket watching the Marathon finals on Wed morning (17/9)... I did try to see if I can get a closing ceremony ticket, yet of coz, it's all full... Besides, most of the programs were fulled too. I think the only reason that my Marathon ticket can be book is that the time slot is really not too good... It's started at 730 in the morning... HAHA beg I will take taxi there!!

Was a bit late for the Bloomberg class in the afternoon, as I got lost in the campus... Anyway, was sooooo sleepy and kept "fishing"... Afterall I go to the bicycle shop where I bought my bike yesterday. Indeed, after the long ride I found out that my bike is indeed quite big for me, and my hands are so tired when driving long... erh... the shop keeper helped me to fixed a bit and now it feels much better... I have bought some fruit today, yeah!

Had a tea at the QQ Fastfood, which is recommened by Caf for a try... HA, amazing... You know, everything's inside juz the same as McDonald's... TIC!!! Copy Cat... It has the kind of menu, uniform, packaging and even the LOGO sooo damn similar to McDonald's... GOD!

Since I have dated Ann for dinner, I run straight to her dorm and meet up with her... I passed her a Cap for her mug, and gave her a cup noodle... HAHA... no hand letter brought from HK, and anyway, that's gonna be a nice try for her on Nissin's product! And in exchange, she gave me 3 mini mooncakes... Afterall we go to the ZiJiang Canteen for dinner... Just like last time, we shared some food together, and ate the watermelon... She invited me to join the talk with her at night... So we got to Bldg 5 together... That's a talk for postgraduate student on how to make use of their life at Tsinghua... As we are a bit late, we stood outside the lecture room, and since it's all in Mandarin, I was like daydreaming as I can get only 50% of what the speaker said... MAD!!! DIM SUEN???

Anyway, that's really a nice experience... and I should start to figure out how to learn better Mandarin ASAP...

Went to supermarket with Ann and go back to dorm... quite tired today...