long dated post...

can't really remember when was the last time i posted, nor can i remember what i posted about...

but ya... lots of things have happened.

1. Facebook!

Started uploading my pics on facebook. too many pics to upload one by one here on blog.

I think the link is http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=599260499

go check it out and add me

2. Wuxi

Wangjian brought the whole lot of us to wuxi for a day trip. Clarence, Hanbin, Carmen, Yanwen, Jianqing, Yingsin, Jason, Eileen, Jianyou, me, Beibei (wangjian's gf) and Wangjian himself = 12 ppl.

Nv knew there was such a place known as a place as wuxi but when i went there... WOAH... damn cool. At first when we reached, wangjian found us a tour agent and i could see everyone's faces turn for the worst because of the experience they had in hangzhou.

But... the tour guide was damn zai. not only did he know what he was doing, he was damn friendly too and always offered to help us take grp pics.

we went to 三国城 first where we rushed in to catch this show. at first i was like... "let's just catch the first show and just skip the next one... sure damn boring one" man... was i wrong. Imagine the chinese shows where they have wars with the generals on horses riding around and fighting... well... got to see that in real life there. damn cool!!! they did stunts and loads of stuff on the horses ya... had a lot of mud splashed on me.

without even considering, we went to the next place to wait for the next show. and it was even better! heck the lousy singapore wushu performances. this one was much better. hanbin took a video of the whole show. how to describe it... in terms of gymnastics, if i could do juz half of what they could do, its better den most of the cheerleading gymnastics i've seen so far. in terms of the wushu, it's their living, of course its damn zai. if u have a place to go to... u have to go here.

and thats not the end, all the chinese serials where they have the royal palace and all... this is the place where u can find all this buildings... we even managed to catch a filming in progress.

played with swords, played with the weird obstacles, took a million pics... and that's only half the day...

next up was this 湖... i think its called 太平湖. cant really remember... but should be correct... its 5 times bigger den singapore. in the 湖, there's an island... and in the island... there's another 湖, which from the short of the 湖, it looks like an ocean. really beautiful place... just add me on facebook and see for yourself.

3. Family gathering

my parents came over to shanghai for a visit. brought them to the place behind my house, 龙汇路 for dinner on the first night. the first restaurant we went to, we sat down and they served us some soybean drink which i drank almost immediately... only to find out they din have what i wanted, 小龙虾. so we left. the next restaurant we had an overdose of 小龙虾, buy one get one free. lol... though the meat is very little... but its still nice. well... if any of you come shanghai to visit, this is one of the restaurants i will bring u to.

the next day my dad went hangzhou for some business and ah chuan (my cousin) took a half day off and bought my mum out to shop... my mum bought a luggage to filled it up with her shopping... madness... well... we went to 南京西路 at 吴街路 for dinner. one of the best places in shanghai to get food.

on friday, brought my parents to 上海科技馆 to do even more shopping. brought them to the A&F shop and many other places to get loads of stuff... but at the end of it... i din get anything at all. lol...

when my parents came... really felt like i missed them a lot... thank God they came. even if it's only for a while.

4. Huangshan

if you been to china and haven't been to 黄山, you have never and i mean NEVER been to china. It is the most beautiful place i've seen in like a damn long time. because it's autumn, the weather was damn good.

The scenery... oh man... it was breath-taking, awe-inspiring, captivating... i can just keep going on... and it's like no matter how many pictures i take, i can't seem to do justice to the sights i see there.

The first day we reached, we reached quite early and there wasn't a queue to go up the mountain. we got onto a cable car to get about halfway up the mountain... on the way... i fell in love with the view. wait... i fell in love with the place even before that... on the bus to 黄山, i was already in love with the place for it's beauty. anyway... back to the point. after the cable car... it was like another wow... it was another trigger happy photo taking session.

we were about to climb up 天都风, the 3rd highest peak but due to the eminent thunder, we couldn't do so... at least not that day itself... the tour guide said he would check the weather out the next day at 4am and let us know if it clears up and we catch the sunrise which was to be at 5.44am and climb the peak... kill 2 birds with 1 stone...

i woke up at 4.43am... i was like "we are going to miss sunrise! and miss the chance to climb the peak!" changed up and immediately woke some of them up, yanwen quickly changed and went up with me to go look for the tour guide... his reason? (Translated to english) "I thought you all didn't want to climb the peak." i was like... wth!!!! went back down the room and rushed everyone out and by 5.12am, we were at the front door of the hotel. not even properly equipped with a torchlight or even a raincoat (it rains at least 202 days out of 365 days in 黄山), we rushed out of the hotel. what took us like 1hour to get to the start of 天都风 the first time round, we took less den 10 mins to get there that morning... that started the climb...

think of vm... times 2... maybe 3... i think times 3... and a bit more... thin air, cold, wet, bad stairs, not much support, not much safety, at least 1000m above sea level... but the thought of the sunrise kept me going...

when you thought u were reaching the top, you just see another flight... and another after that... it happened to me more than 4 times i think... damn demoralizing... but by the time i reached the top... man... the feeling was amazing.

Reached at 5.45am. but it was too cloudy to see the sunrise. quite disappointed. waited for the rest of them to climb up, hanbin... den yanwen... den carmen...

we took a few pictures and took a break there. we really couldn't see anything at all and all nearly gave up until... we saw a slight glimpse of a peak of a mountain in the distance. we were damn excited. we waited... i prayed even more (had already started praying before that), and boom... there it was... the breath-taking, the awe... you know what i mean, view.

we stayed up there for another hour plus taking pictures... "天都风" The 3rd highest peak, the most difficult to climb and the steepest. At 1810m, we reached the peak.

There were other places like 非崔谷(at least i think it's written like this). It's a valley with small water falls and crystal clear blue water. another amazing place. a must see when at 黄山.

There were other places we saw like this shop that sold 蛇毒酒. one small cup of it cured clarence's one mth old cough (at least for that day). bought a lot tea, tasted the world's best 黑芝麻 at the 老街. saw some olden houses...

overall... i rate 黄山 as my most unforgettable trip as of now.

5. OT

Last but not least... like to say... started OT-ing. only chance to get things done in office. lol... but ya... it's fun with free dinners like subway, KFC or jap food.

OTs are always quite enjoyable. lol...


Remember to add me on facebook to see my pics... will be uploading 黄山 soon