First Post From China!

Hi readers! It was exactly a month ago since the last time I posted something on this blog! I'm surprised it was not longer, it feels like forever ago now that I'm overseas. So yeah PSA (public service announcement) first: I am currently in Suzhou, China! (Actually you would have known already from the title but yeah) So I am here early for a summer programme in Suzhou, which will span for almost 3 weeks. There will be industrial visits to some companies such as Asus, Alibaba (the ones I'm interested in) and some other less renowned companies (the ones I'm not interested in), as well as cultural visits to various places around Suzhou such as Tiger Hill, Humble Administrator's Garden, and some traditional streets like 平江路 and 山塘街. I have been keeping a diary of each day's events, especially if something really urged me to pour the things inside my mind. It is going to be an interesting post (at least parts of it) so stay tuned! Most probably I will post it at the end of the summer programme which is somewhere end of August. Expect the write up to be up around that timing! (End August to early Septemeber).

Anyway, I have been rather worried about my actual exchange this semester. One of my module mapping just got rejected which left me with only 2 modules with no description in Tsinghua's list of English modules, and only 1 confirmed module. But I hope everything will work out eventually (it always did, so I really count on my good karma this time).

So I shall end my post here for now, I am really tired even though it was just 10.30pm. Maybe the trip has been too intense (I was never the kind that do a lot of things in such a short period of time, much less travel!). So yeah, enjoy the rest of your day!

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