Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Hmm so ive been in china for like more than a week now. shall try to recall the past events...
Sat night-
At the airport waiting for plane, used free comp there. My sis thought the webcam on my screen cld not be shown by other ppl. Who knew? Tiff saw it and my sis freaked out. serious comedy scene.
Sun-
took plane, nvr sleep. customs was a serious bore. The two gangster looking brothers from the plane i feaared ar first sight was in our grp. i tot it sucked. Went to Cheng Huang Miao, super crowded. went to eat some super famous xiao long bao and i didnt like it for its strong taste. so had to wait like 2 hrs for the next part of pur tour mates coz they cldnt catch the SQ flight with us...boring day.
mon-
Super cold and surprisingly alot colder than the -13degrees in korea when its 5 degrees here. went to hangzhou where its said to be alot of beauties. Theres a saying, " 1st grade beauties are married overseas. 2nd grade beauties go big cities. 3rd grade beauties go home and cook rice." So we will nvr see real beauties. then at night the gangster boys asked us to play poker with them. Some how i agreed and played. Found out they werent that gangly. and our tour guide had to do 26 push-ups coz he lost in poker, Funny, he came up with the idea, played the china way, and he lost big. ohya bought some stupid top grade HangZhou xihu Long Jing Cha from the plantation. suppose to be cheap? wrong! it cost like 200+ sing dollars for a kg of Huang Shang quality.
Tue-
went to Mt Huangshan. the trip was okay. It wasnt cold, the catch, we climbed up the mountain to go up as it is kinda dilapitated. so it was freaking cold on my exposed skin and burning warm inside.i climbed like 3000+ stairs up, 500+ stairs to the hotel.
Wed -
went 200+ stairs up to see a non-existing sunrise ( due to cloud cover). and 200+ stairs back down. after breakfast, we walked abt 3000+ stairs down the mountain. In an overview, we climbed abt 7000+- stairs to see clouds -covered scenery.
Thur-
went to see the dunno what tea pot. the teapot very funny. a few has got ABS( automatic braking system) meaning the creator made this hole, if u cover it, no water will flow out. so its kinda fun. The special one has got this cup which brim is 1mm above the brim and has an "up" meniscus. it cost like $100. Imagine. Its all made from a TOP material only available in ONE mountain and its gonna be extinct soon. The master made abt only 11 pieces and sort of died. 11 pieces in the world, super precious.and sold it for $100. With no marking what so ever to indicate the serial number. Furthermore, they requests personal details of immediate family to be given so they can check next time. WOW SO REAL! played pool on billards table. The gang brothers ( keith and zi xiang) seemed alot nicer and improved my game, retaught me pool.
Fri-
Went to Su Zhou. Another beauty place. and boring too. went to this pearl shop...still v bored. Basically su zhou is super bored.
Sat-
went to shanghai. seriously. this side of shanghai is so much better nice ladies everywhere u turn this shop that shop on the bike in the car. Everywhere!
Sun-
went to my cuzzin's hse. Here's a brief hist. this company brought my uncle to shanghai. Dunno what happen, the company brought his whole family over. 1 wife 2 kids. Thats not all, they gave him a Bungalow/villa which is super huge with other villas, in the richest district in shanghai. its like fully furnished, with garden, balcony, backyard. And they provided him a car and a chauffeur to fetch him and his family arnd. PLUS a salary v huge and an allowance for the family to use. The children all got allocated to american international school. Is that crazy or what? So played smtg called BB guns with Brandon quite fun.
The rest of the days was quite okay. MOstly its mad buying for the ladies, and torture waiting for the males. ohya, bought like 2 adidas shoes and 2 nike shirts coz its like super cheap... whoo so happy for myself and its not fake either. and its like the happiest shopping ive ever been to and the most.