30 hours delay

My god.... finally reached AMS after a whopping 30 hours delay and a 22 hour duty period with 4 hours hotel stay in between... multiple engine defects plus apu and brakes problem. Never had an aircraft with so many critical problems.

I think i will be quiting soon if every flight is like this....grrr....

Delay in publication

Wow, time really flies so fast that i had no time to catch my breathe. Before I know it, I had been in Sin for 4 days liao and i am going back 2 days time. Thought I can document Carissa 1 month in SIN, but looks like gotta work in the blind back in PVG, but then again I might be spending long lost time playing with Carissa.

Back to SIN, since I got back, there is a frantic preparation to look for someone to do a makeover for our parents' place... searching for raw materials to going to design houses. There is just so much to be done in such little time. Quotaion will have to be viewed and finally choose by this weekend so that work could proceed and be completed before CNY.

Guess friday gotta spend the whole day packing up my stuffs into boxes first...... coz will not be around when they finally start shifting out for the renovations !!! Oh my god is really such a mess .....

Can I have some PA to help me out ??? Haha.... well ..... gotta go zzz... tomorrow gotta go and visit some projects under the contractor to view their workmanship.

See ya soon

My wine is sour :(

I just filtered the hock chew red rice wine which i had done earlier in the month. As i was filtering the wine, i was looking at the color. Damm nice... red colour, guess the wine should be alright. But when i tasted, it was sour....

now gotta do it all over again.... grrr...

Battle is lost .......

The battle against the dust is a long and bitter one. We gathered all our gears and resources, from mops, brooms, finally upgraded to vacuum cleaner, to employing part time maid....

every week the whole unit needs to be cleaned a min 3 times to be bearable. The problem is Shanghai is a very dusty city, to make matter worse, my living room balcony faces a coal collection point which is abt 1 km away but full visual range. So when the wind blows,all the fine coal dust will start settling on the balcony and floor.

Since 3 mths since we moved in, finally we surrendered.... we will still do all the cleaning when we had time, but slippers need to be on once u are home, coz if not feet will become black black.. something that takes some getting used to ....

The other solution will be to keep all the doors and window closed. But we like the natural breeze that comes thru once in awhile, especially now when the weather is getting cooler .. rather than couping up in air-con all the time....

So if u are coming remember to put on slippers once in the house ;-)

Wow... All on the same day .....

Guess what...1st year anniversary= birthday=中秋节(mid autumn festival)=not at home working... haha... gonna get screwed neh... well trying hard to change flights and see how it goes.

wish me luck baby...

hugs

Update Address

Wa say ..thats another thing you need to do when you finally settle down. You are supposed to update the information with the police station. And to do that you need to get a tempry resident permit from the condo you staying then you need to produce the permit together with passport, lease, and photocopy of owners' id at a designated police station or risk a fine...

si bay lay che.... i will try to get it done when i go back this time....

Birth Permit APPROVED !!!

After we first settled in, the first thing we did was to look for a hospital where our little Ong will first see the world. We ran thru quite a few hospitals and finally we settled on one that is not too far away. We set a date and happily we went to register for pre-natal check.

To our horror, we were asked to produce birth permit (准生证）si mi lay eh ???!!! Wa pianz... give birth also must have permit... f#$#$ need to get permit or not ??!!! As we move to other hospitals we were asked for the same thing. Finally we realised the implication of the matter after a kind nurse explained it to us. Without the permit, there will be no pre-natal checks, and after child birth, birth certificate will not be issued... he would be something like a wanderer without identity. Singapore embassy needs birth certificate to register for citizenship.

So as we moved around asking around how to get it done. We got one recommendation. Go back to Juan's hometown and apply from there. Should be the easiest way . So at the first possible moment we went to her hometown at the same time paid her family a visit. Hitting 2 birds with one stone. Happily we went back and went to their town council.

We went to the Birth Planing department where we were asked a few questions. Are you married ? Is your husband from here ? Well... we did not made thru the second question. Oh since you are married away, you should apply from your husband side. ??!! Husband from Singapore nay.. and singapore dun issue birth permit ??!! Well.. it is out of our jurdistiction. And we were sent away. What now ??

We stayed for a few more days before making our way back to shanghai and Juan starting to call all of her friends whom had gave birth in Shanghai before to ask them for clues. And finally we landed one important lead. There is this Non Shanghainese Birth Planning Department in Shanghai and we should make enquiries there. We found that before we can proceed further, we must apply for tempory resident permit for Juan, and to do that we must produce documents that justify her pressence in Shanghai. Once you get that approval, there is this big registration centre where your application is approved and an "ID card" will be issued to you. With that ID Card, we made our way to the Birth Planning Department.

There we got our Birth Permit approved after filling in several forms and answering several questions. We were then issued with a permit and a Pre-natal health check book. The book had to be initialised with an initial medical checkup at an authorised hospital. Purpose is that, armed with the book you can now go to any hospital of our choice for prenatal checks and with the permit, we are authorised legally to give birth and a birth certificate will be issued for the birth.

It had been a time consuming process trying to go thru all this legal web try to get all the documents in place. It feels like playing dungeon and dragon real life, getting all the clues to get the items and finally achieving the mission objective.

Glad all this is over. Now we look forward to a healthy pregnancy and child birth.

p.s. at the Shanghai Birth Control Department, we had a surprised after we went thru the main gate. There is this MIG21(if i am correct) on display. Maybe they are encouraging pple to join the air force ?? hehe...