- a transfer from our Singapore bank account to our account in China of the same bank has taken more than a week to effect. The reason? The transfer form listed only 1 of the account holders as beneficiary. Hellooo? does anyone in China know what a JOINT account means?
- a friend booked both the BBQ areas in our condo for a big party one friday. On the day itself, it was discovered that 1 of the areas had been mistakenly double-booked. This came as no surprise because the management office's booking system was crap. Bookings were all manually written on a piece of paper based on when the booking was made rather than when the booking was for.
- to be kind to the landlord, instead of banging a couple of nails into the walls to hang our pictures, we used 3M's wall hangers which can be removed without removing the paint as well. Well, not so sure if we did any good because when we cleaned the wall with an alcohol swab to rid it from minute particles, we cleaned off a good layer of paint as well! :D so much for Chinese paint....
- paying for items in departmental stores entail taking a bar-coded tag to the cashier, paying for it, then taking the receipt with the tag back to the sales lady where your item is located Before she would hand over your purchase. It's such a Soviet style convoluted process.
- DH was playing ball with minibeanie one evening when he bounced the ball in our living room. No biggie except that the bounce managed to implode the sealant between the floor tiles. There's now a 3cm long gap between the tiles. Chinese quality.
- there's only ONE model of baby gate in the whole of China. I kid you not.
minibeanie is 10 months, 4 weeks & 1 day old
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