Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts

Sunday, April 26, 2009

A Pea And The Cock

A woman like me has never come across a peacock (its a pea-cock, right?) "opening" its tail... Tail?? oh dear, correct me ... what is that called...

Anyway, whatever it is called, for the first time, I managed to see her/him opening the fan-like thing and parading itself right and left in front of all of us tourists... My friend told me that it has been trained to do so.... I don't believe her...she was pulling my leg, right?


two steps to the right...


two steps to the left...
and
turn around...tap, tap, tap...


and bow....

(chey, sounds like folk dancing...
anyway, this p-cock was very beautiful
and smart too!)

Friday, April 24, 2009

HengDian - ChinaWood (As In Hollywood)

Among all the places in this Shanghai trip, I like HengDian best of all... maybe it was because the movies/ancient chinese series were filmed in this place that made it attractive to me. Sort of a Universal Studio, sort of la, of course nothing compared to Hollywood....this is a small Chinawood...

THE ENTRANCE...


THE HENGDIAN TOUR GUIDE

THE MOVIES THAT WERE FILMED HERE...

THE 99 STEPS...






FROM THE VIEW ON TOP






I REMEMBER THIS PLACE IN ONE OF THE MOVIES...

OH-OH, SOMETHING WRONG OVER HERE..
HOW COME THIS LADY IS NOT IN ANCIENT CLOTHINGS?
hai....SHE IS ONE OF THOSE K-LE-FEHss...(Extras)

Thursday, April 23, 2009

A Creepy Night In Nanjing

Friends asked me about the accomodation while I was touring in Shanghai. I told them for the seven nights we were there, we slept in seven different hotels. Of all the hotels we slept in, only the Nanjing one was a bit "uneasy".... (yam yam cham cham)...

Maybe it was due to my own imagination cos during the day tour in Nanjing, we were taken to the place where the Massacre took place in the World War Two and many thousands of chinese were killed in that place where we visited earlier. When we entered the hall, it was quite dim, some of the skeleons (real ones) were numbered and the details were shown on the exhibits, the gender and the cause of death. And the environment inside the hall was very "sad and quite eerie", perhaps with the sad music looming around the hall added to the eeriness....

Okay, coming back to my hotel room, I sensed some discomfort upon entering, on one side near the dressing table, the light was whitish and quite dim, not like our florescent type of lamp. Above our single beds, there were another 2 sets of warm light,(yellowish), very dim too... so imagine white and yellow lights, they didnt blend very well and made the room even creepier...

Well, that night I didn't tell my room mate for fear of scaring her too... hahaha.. but when she chose the bed next to the wall nearer to the toilet, I know she felt something too... Anyway, to cut the story short, there were 2 big arm chairs facing my bed and I felt like there were someone "big" sitting there and looking at me throughout the night.....(sei mei) .. That was my imagination during that time.. I don't know why I felt that way... before I slept, I turned the other way...

Next day, upon checking out, both of us "checked" our notes and our feelings about the room with my other 2 friends.. Well, they were smarter, so it seems.. my fren hung her "panty" on the door... she said can shun "unwanted visitors" off... hehehehe....

Well, as for the other nights, the hotels were "okay".... once or was it twice, I cannot remember, we left one bed vacant... both of us squeezed into the single bed.... it was more comforting than sleeping alone in the single bed in an alien hotel...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Refugee Boat?

This is Wuxi... another place which was quite unique in its own way.... When we entered this sort of "kingdom" we were taken on a ride round the lake on the "train" and by boat on the lake...

the entrance to the "kingdom"




the choo choo train....


the lake...


at first I tot this was a refugee boat..

no...it was a tourist boat...
scary or not.. so crowded?


but I was not on this boat...


I was on another different one..
not so over crowded one :)

Monday, April 20, 2009

Candid Pictures

While walking along a park in WuXi, this mother and son caught my attention. Don't call me 8, I could not resist not taking their pictures ...

The boy looked no more than five years of age... at first, his mother (i think she is the mom) took a pic of him sitting on the rock and he gave such a cute smile and "V" sign to his mom...



after that, it was his mum's turn to be the chee kok...
I heard some instructions and scoldings from the mum
or perhaps it was her normal tone
of speaking to the boy ..(i dont know)

... and....after a few takes and some reprimands,
he finally got it right!!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

At Night In Nanjing

Along the brightly lit up streets in Nanjing at night... we were given an hour to stroll along the shops, some complained one hour was too long... as for me, one hour is like 15 minutes... where got enough time to browse man... so eventually, I ended up not buying anything... (sorry, Eugene, no souveniors from Nanjing for u la... blame my handsome tour guide)

But... I ended up tasting some steamed corns and some spicy squids.... oh, forgotten to take those pics...

Anyway, here are a few pictures I snapped as I walked along the streets....


Mcdonald in chinesey style leh...

blur a bit la..
maybe my hands were shaking that time...
cold ma...

this was unique...
a wishing tree... it was very brightly lit..
very nice... but I wonder what their wishes were...
all written on red stripes of paper...

Suzhou Fashion Show

While we were at the silk factory in Suzhou, we were treated to a fashion show .... they displayed their silk clothings on sale and I believe the "models" were the employees working there... Anyway, it was just a short ten minutes modelling and for the first time in history, we were the audience sitting ON THE FRONT ROW...

Friday, April 17, 2009

Pampered And Then Butchered...

After showing all the yummy food, perhaps this will give an adverse effect...

Yucks!! Whose chu kwok are those??
(should be called pai kwat kwok-Fleshless)


soaking our beautiful legs in hot boiling water..

We were taken to this medicine factory and were given special treatment before they "butchered" us with their products....

Firstly, we were given herbal hot boiling water to soak our poor legs... then each of us were pampered with a half hour "legs massage".....

Lastly, we were almost Pestered to buy their products....ahhhhh... yeah, right, I ended up buying some packets of herbal medicine to soak my poor legs in my own home... Cost me RM75 for 20 sachets...
(yes, bet many of u are calling me STUP____.... soh soh tei)

Nanjing Tour And The Guide

In Nanjing, we visited the Memorial Hall of Nanjing Massacre, it was quite a sombre place, no photos were allowed so I didnt take any... we were taken into the hall where they exhibited the place where 10,000 people were killed during the WW2.... We were not allowed to laugh or make noise, out of respect for the dead... it was quite an eerie feeling when I was inside....


this is the Nanjing bridge
where a lot of people died
when it was built during Mao Si Tung's time




my empat sekawan...


the thorn among the roses...


this is the Nanjing tour guide..
handsome hor?


City Wall of Nanjing




lunchie time ....
simple dishes and yet appetising...







we were always fed with eggs and more eggs daily... perhaps the reason is to give us more protein so that we have the energy and strength to walk and walk......

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