Day 17 in Beijing

'Pinch and a Punch, for the first day of the month'

This is a nursery rhyme that I learned when I was little. Yeah, today is the first day of the month, the 1st of December 2009. This is my 17th day in Beijing, China.

Today is the happiest day for me for many many years. Why? I met my best friend that I have not seen for so many years! Her name is Francisca, and we call her Francy. Basically there are six of us (six girls) that grew up together. We were in the same college, spending countless days and lunchtimes together. And as college comes to an end, the six of us started to shift all around the world. Ming, Cherry, Angle and myself stayed in Auckland for the University of Auckland; Francisca went to USA for San Francisco University; and Dianna went to Canada for Toronto University. I have never seen Francy since she left 5 years ago!!


We planned to meet at Wangfujin in front of the Sasa store. When we finally met, she ran down from the stairs and both of us are just screaming!!! OMG!!! I miss her so much!!! It's just sooooo good to finally see her again!!! We gave each other a big BIG BIG hug and just couldn't stop laughing. OMG, it's so nice to see her again.

We then had dinner at this very pretty restaurant inside the APN mall at Wangfujin. It's called Cha Ma Gu Dao (Tea Horse Old Tracks), the style of food is Yunan. The funny thing that made us laugh is the size of the noodle bowl (look at the massive white round bowl in the photo!). It's so massive and we just don't know how to tackel it!! Haha. Eventually we found out that it was for the waitress to serve us the noodles by putting them into smaller bowls, LOL.

The whole night we talked about the things in the past few years. Our universities, our career, what we're doing in Beijing (she's originally from Beijing), our life, funny and sad things, and most importantly, thinking about the past and relive our memories. We really wish that all of us can meet up again, to finally see each other and have lunch like the old times. Wouldn't it be nice? But we all laughed and said that the next time we'll be able to all meet up will probably be when one of us is getting married, LOL.

After dinner we took the bus ride home together. Can you believe this?! It was this coincidental! That we just live across the street from each other! That we actually take the same bus in the morning and in the afternoon for work! Lol, this is soooo cool, to be back with some old girl-friends. I really enjoyed this night with Francy =)

Now I'm going to plan how to meet Dianna!!!! She's in Shanghai atm, omg, can't wait to see her too!!