hey people! here to update on the china trip le! the updates on the trip will be in parts i suppose? if not the entry will be too long ya? here goes!
Day 1.
we had to arrive at the airport at freaking 5am. went to fetch qimei then went to the airport together with her. i was so confident that hoho they all will be much later than us, ended up they reach on time miraculously and we were like the last to arrive.. its like so paiseh when everyone is waiting for you. lol! but ok la.. we were only 8 to 10 minutes late.. nt like half an hour that kinda late! had some free time, the guys went to the toilet, after that we had a hard time searching for each other. finally, niao came to our rescue!! lol! then qimei hoho niao they all hungry, so went to mac and had breakfast. at that time it was already 6.20+am and we were suppose to meet the people at the boarding gate at 6.30am. so they ate at uber fast speed, so fast i'm shocked! haha. then we chiong to the boarding gate. and waited. regret is that we din take pictures with the nice nice christmas trees and all at the departure area.
boarded the plane, changed place with weihong and sat beside zhenhui. not a bad change cause in front of me are all my groupmates. zhenhui too. haha! but the sad thing is he slept the moment he boarded the plane and i was so bored la! omg! haha.. but alright, at that time we still dun really noe each other, so also dunno what to talk about... then, thru out the 4 -- 5 hours ride, i was entertaining myself by reading some boring magazine on the plane. and also by sleeping for about 1 hour. there was also movie la, but i dunno what is it talking about, some china movie i nv heard b4. the food serve was fish with rice. i thought it was ok, but i think hoho they all thought it sucks. see.. they are so picky! lol. finally, we reached chengdu airport.
before stepping out of the plane, many started applying moisturizers and lip balm. think all gt worried cause the weather is dry. not like singapore la.. so humid.. haha! it was quite cold at chengdu, but bearable. think it was 9°c when we reach there. still alright. nt say very cold. chengdu is very diff from singapore, u dun need to be afraid of the sun, u will nv get sun burn there la! the cloud cover is so thick u cannot even see the sun! haha! ok.. and so, we boarded the coach and headed to our first destination called 'wen shu yuan'.
'Wen Shu Yuan', according to gong1 dao3 (our tour guide in chengdu), is a place where many people will go to if they wanna buy books i think. there are also alot of restaurants there, so our main purpose of going there is actually to settle out lunch. went to the restaurant ( i dunno what's the name) and sat with our group. the owners were very nice hosts, they keep asking if we had enough to eat. the sad thing is, the food kinda... hmm.. sucks?? ok.. cannot like that say, we must learn to appreciate. so.. the food.. hmm.. cannot clique with my tastebuds? haha! ok.. i think everyone felt the same as me la. show u all what we ate.
the food were either too spicy or too oily or beef. my group gt lots of buddhists, so cannot eat beef ya? at that moment, i guess most of us were thinking on how to survive for the next few days if the food remains like this. we left the table of food almost untouched ok? ok la.. maybe we ate bout 10 to 20 percent of the food on the table ya? after that we left the place. on the way back to our coach, took pictures once again.
next, we went to a place called 'Wu Hou Ci'.
'Wu Hou Ci' is a place or rather more like a museum with stone tablets and also to remember peoplel like Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei etc. gong dao did introductions and stories on these famous people and of course, IF U LISTEN, u will find it very interesting ya? walked about the place, took photos again.. then we step out of wu hou ci and went to another place call 'Jin Li'.
'Jin Li' is just directly beside 'Wu Hou Ci' and instead of being museum-like, its more like a shopping area for tourists like us! there are lots of exotic food, sweets we wun get to eat here in singapore there! then we decided to try some of the food there! hoho and i decided to try duck heart and qimei and niao was screaming away la. the duck heart is quite spicy but i can tolerate la. very nice la! dunno why niao and qimei scream till like that.. hoho more adventurous then me, decided to try the duck intestine too, it was so spicy it sent hoho into jumping around! haha! so funny la. could nt remember the price of the duck intestine but the duck heart was price at 1rmb for a stick, 3 pieces on a stick. omg! 3 duck hearts for singapore 20cents! so cheap la! saw bazhang(group leader siufai) there and he said he tried the chou4 tou4 fu4 and almost fainted! haha! lucky we din see it, if not i think i wanna try it too and i will faint on the spot! tried DIY cotton candy, saw some candy sculpture? dunno what is that call. u noe.. those kind of use malt candy to draw picture and wait till the picture harden then u can eat it? another one is to blow the candy into shape. ok la, i suck in describing, show u all the picture =)
see pictures le.. now understand already? haha! yup.. then we walk about.. then ate ate ate.. hoho bought something for his sis and time's up! met the rest and went for dinner. at nite, we had steamboat dinner. very nice meal! much better than that in the afternoon!! all of us were glad, but due to the bad experience earlier on, we keep having different people to test each dish before the rest start eating. haha!
our dinner! looks nice rite? its nice la. the soup base is some balck chicken herbal soup. haha! ate quite alot, then off we went to our hotel! zi wei hotel, located in chunxi road which is the city centre of chengdu. that means beside our hotel, they are all shoppign malls. after putting down our things at the hotel, we went to walk around.. things there are cheap, but not very special, so we did not buy anything.. instead, hoho me qimei and niao decided to go on a mei shi da san tong.. eat till siao.. of course we din eat alot, the food like nt very nice. some are nice though, from a shop call you1 zhi1 liang2 pin3. the yam milkshake is nice!!! wahahaha! we love it man! i din eat the glutinous chicken rice they eat. but they say it was very nice la! haha.. ya.. but i keep picking on the texture of the fishballs there, super different from singapore. haha! china's fishball gt more meat and dun have the boing boing feeling when u chew them.
din take any pictures there cause we din bring our camera along. but its just normal city night life. haha! not bad la.. saw pirated DVDs selling at SGD$1 la! din buy any though.. haha! after that wanted go mac, but dunno why in the end nv.. went back to hotel.. slack.. play.. 1+ back to bed! =) finally! end of DAY 1!!
Day 2.
woke up early in the morning, ate breakfast at the hotel and off we went to....
TADAH!!
PANDA RESEARCH CENTRE LEH! that morning was super cold even though we were in chengdu. it was drizzling too, but we cannot feel the rain at all cause the raindrops were simply too fine! haha! very funny la! its like u are wet and u dunno it.
Saw this flowers when we walk in. nice? these flowers are called 'fu2 rong2 hua1'. you noe.. like vanda miss joaquim represent singapore, the 'fu2 rong2 hua1' represents the chengdu city. it is a very special flower that changes colours THRICE a day la! white to pink to red! nice rite? just nice i took the picture at a time when it was a mixture of pale pink to red. haha! after that, we boarded a tramp? a buggey? a ??? i could nt remember the name.. you noe, the vehicle u take to travel around in the zoo.. it was already cold, on that vehicle, it was worst ok? the winds were so strong.. and i went crazy asking the driver to go faster. i think the rest on board wanted to kill me! lol! haha! after that reach the panda nursery, too bad photos weren't allowed. after looking at the toddler pandas for a while, we headed to the enclosures of the other pandas.
2 pandas eating.. nice? gt alot of pictures on pandas, but i guess i will only post this one.. haha! u can see panda on the internet. haha! initially i thought like most other zoos or parks, u get to carry the animal and take a photo with them. like last time in perth, we were given a chance to carry the wombat and take photos with it. in the panda research centre, i think also the same la, but i dunno how much it cost to take a photo with the pandas. however, just to touch it cost u 400rmb ---> SGD$80!!! siao la.. though national treasure also need so expensive meh?? touch the singapore-hongkong mix panda hoyin also dun need to pay leh!! LOL!
see??? so cute rite? dun need to pay leh! haha! see!! its because of this cute pose of hoho that gt him the name of xiong mao didi! haha!! Now, everyone, u can call him hoho holy hoyin 30 gig and XIONG MAO DIDI! =D
this is another kind of panda called 'Red Panda'. unlike the normal pandas u see, these pandas are not endangered. you still can find a large number of red pandas compared to the black white pandas.
After that, due to lack of time as we need to catch a flight, we simply just chiong out of the research centre after watching some documentary of pandas. i din wanna watch it in the theatre cause i wanna look at the souvenirs at the shop outside the theatre, so i din went in, end up qimei hoho and niao also din go in. ps. there were alot of shops selling all the soft toys of pandas, but we din get the chance to go cause we need to chiong to the airport. we settled our lunch in the bus on the way to the airport. the teachers bought macdonalds for us. haha. china's macdonalds also quite nice. haha! reached chengdu airport, and off to Xi'an le!!
this is a long post. look out for part 2 soon ya? haha!
miracleshappenx
2:09 AM
