西塘与西湖

Someone commented yesterday that I shud update my blog more often. Okok..this blog is specially dedicated to you ya!

jus came back from a trip to 西塘 and 西湖 last weekend! Yup..the 古色古香 picture on the left 就是西塘了！ As you can see, it's like taking a trip back in time. The buildings dated back to Qing Dynasty and I stayed in one of them. Though the 客栈 looks ancient on the outside, its interior is well furbished with heater, toilet with flushing system complete with water heater! This is really the ideal place to escape from the hustle and bustle of Shanghai.

The trip wun be complete with travel buddies. The chio bu with me in the picture complete my trip. U might recognise one of them. We were having our dinner by the river. How cool right! Great food, great company, great ambience make up for the not-so-great wine. This is LIFE!

And YEs! That's Tom Cruise you see running along the corridoor of 西塘. Yup, MI3 is filmed right here @ 西塘.

I leave 西塘 with beautiful memories. I will be back! when I feel like taking a breather from my busy city life.

西湖 is not -so-great though. Just not our day I had to say. Kena "locked out" of 西塘 early in the morning! fyi, we had to pay an entrance fee to enter 西塘. While having breakfast, we unknowingly wandered out of the pay zone of 西塘. Further, we were only a few shops away from the so-called entrance. So we had to call our 客栈老板 to smuggle our in AGAIN! Again because we were smuggled in previously as well. =p

I was told that train services in China are seldomly delayed. But thats what happened to me! Damn! We reached 杭州 at 2pm and had to catch our train back to Shanghai at 7! 5 hrs how to see 西湖. So our trip to 西湖 was effectively 走马看花。。。and 西湖 was overcrowded with tourists la..hey, i was supposed to escape from the hustle and bustle. The flowers are beautiful though..are they 桃花 or 樱花? Pls enlighted me! The flowers are the only things worth my time at 西湖 during this trip. BUT I will be back for MORE!

Okay..thats the latest update from Shanghai! My dear frens ...pls leave a msg to let me know u are reading my blog. =)

series of unfortunate events

well, my day started well enough...had more than 7 hours of sleep and woke up feeling refreshed and had a hearty breakfast as well. The plan for the day: to extend my visa and go Fudan for lessons. Simple BUT I done none of the above at the end of the day.
unfortunate event #1 : As I was walking to the immigration building, it suddenly occured to me that I din bring my passport along. I was like thinking of what are the necessary documents to bring along and forgot the most obvious item! But then XY was going back home to take her passport and she can bring along mine as well. Lucky me, I tot. So the plan then, skip my Fudan lessons and do the visa in the afternoon.
unfortunate event #2 : We were queueing at the counter to do our visa. FUCK! I din bring along my pink slip. fyi, the pink slip is a useless looking piece of paper and no one would have tot u need that to extend ur visa. But in fact, this useless looking piece of shit is an essential item! And so I got to go back to the immigration building the next day for my visa with this useless looking piece of shit. WTF! okok,no use crying over spilled milk. Fact is there is nothing i can do now but come back again the next day. Plan then: Go home and have a good rest and watch some episodes of slam dunk maybe.
unfortunate event #3 : As I was about to enter the lift back home..FUCK! I left my keys in my 羽绒服 which i left at home! Decided to go for foot massage after which MR was home to open the door for me. I was finally safely home. Certainly not a good day. The good start and good end to my day and the pizza hut meal in the middle offer some consolation though.

Plan tomorrow: settle visa in the morning , back to work in the afternoon and home for dinner at night. Simple enough and no more screwups!

The Best of 黄山！

My fav pic! The backgounds looks like the setting of a 武林大会！

For the sake of folks in S'pore who miss me already, this is for u! haha

The sunset is brillant and it feels like I am in heaven, seriously! Sadly, I miss the sunrise though...

At 1860m, 光明顶 is the 2nd highest peak @ 黄山。

HuangShan is beautiful...but u gotta conquer these flights of stairs first!

始信峰。Apparently, a poet long time ago dun believe that HuangShan was really that nice until he came to this 始信峰 。Hence the name "start to believe peak"!

同志们，thats all for today..for the full set of 黄山 pics, please be patient. I will upload onto flickr when I am in the mood.