My trip to Shanghai begins on 9th dec 06 to 16th dec 06. The overall trip was fun. Actually, the 8-day trip does not only covers Shanghai, but oso some other places like Hang Zhou, Wuxi, Nanjing and Su Zhou. Actually, the whole trip's known as Nan Jiang nad Shanghai Shopping Spree. Yeah,Shopping Spree!!
Before going dere, I heard from my relatives that the toilets dere have got no doors.. so it was like no 'privacy' and security!! But my first trip to the toilet gave me enough 'security'. Most of the toilets dere has got doors, except for afew [less than 5]. In fact, most of the toilets dere is much cleaner than Malaysia's.
At dere, the ppl called toilets: 'Karaoke', and they replaces 'xiao bian' or 'da bian' to 'chang ge' [sing songs].. Dere's a LONG story behind this.. Besides the different terms used for toilet stuff, they oso had different terms for buses and bus drivers. They called buses: 'ba che' and bus drivers 'shi fu'. So at China, bus drivers sounds very class.
At dere, ppl usually addressed me as 'gu niang' or 'xiao jie'. And for the tour guides dere, they will addressed themselves as 'xiao, followed by their sir-names'. So for me, i'll be called 'xiao yang'. haha =D sounds like a sheep.
Anyways, our overall tour guide dere is xiao li, but ppl called him 'lao li' cuz he's kinda old. At dere, we had 'di pei', which is tour guides for every particular places. Our whole group is made up of about 28 ppl. Of which, 13 is from my family. =D so we kinda have lots of rights !!
Btw, just to let ya noe, the time dere is the same as Singapore. Except that the sun sets earlier dere. The sky is already dark at bout 5pm. So we had our dinner at bout 5pm too.. and the weather dere is really dry, and needless to say, it's quite cold. [bout 5degrees] Its so dry that i had to apply lip gloss and lotion many many times a day!! and wad's more?! i wore up to 5 layers of clothings!!
Now, i shall go to further details on my trip..
9th.dec.06* SATURDAY
The 5hrs spent on the SQ plane was ok. It took bout half an hour for the plane to take off and stable in the sky. So after that half an hour, as usual, the air stewardess will start giving out the head set. And i'll start exploring the KrisWorld. So i decided to watch MOnster House [a movie in which i had missed]. It was nice and at some parts, thrilling.. It was only after that 1hr plus, when i was really tired, that i realised they oso showed Step up. I decided to watched it, but half way through, i fell asleep. I slept for bout 1hr, den my mum woke me up for that EXTRA early breakfast at bout 4o'clock!! The brea1kfast was not very nice, but i still had my share, cuz mom said that the next meal we'll be having is gonna be 9hrs later!! 'Soon', we arrived at Shanghai Airport. It was not as bad as i tot, but still not as good as Singapore's. Anyways, of all the countries that i've visited, none of the airport is as good as Singapore's.
1. After our arrival at the Airport, we walked a distance b4 reaching the Maglev Train Station!! Oh my!! It was the Maglev train which we had learnt in Science!! I couldn't even believed that China had such High Technology!! We took the 1st ride of the day and it's speed was 301km/h. Actually, its max. speed is 431km/h. If only we had took the next ride, den could we experienced the speed!! cuz the train's still warming up!! The train was nice and very comfortable. It has sits similar to the plane's, and of course, it's air-conditioned!!
Anyways, After that 8mins ride to the next station, we alighted and walked a few distance and boarded our coach. We took a 2hrs-ride to Hang Zhou. In the coach, i could spot Ikea, a stadium that's similar to Singapore's and many new buildings and many old houses.. So it's kinda contradicting.
2. Our HangZhou tour guide is 'xiao wang' [a very sweet little 'gu niang']. and Our 1st stop in Hang Zhou was WuZhen Water Town, one of the ancient water towns in the south of Yangtze River [Chang Jiang]. This place is famous for its manty old buildings and houses. At dere, i can experience how the olden days life is. The place was like a MAZE. we curls here and dere, idf not for the guide, we'r sure to be lost!! We had our lunch dere, it was not too bad. The food were tasty but very oily and saltish.
3. We soon left and headed for West Lake. All over the world, dere are several west lakes. bUt this is the original west lake that 'produces' nice scenery.The lake is really really big. You need more than a hundred chung Cheng Lakes to form it! We took a EDUCATIONAL boat ride on it. The whole ride is bout 45mins. And a gu niang will tell you abouit many things related to the West Lake and its history...
4.Near the West Lake, there's a park known as HuaGang Park. There are many beautiful and colourful flowers dere. And there's oso many trees that had got leaves shaped like Maple leaves.
After many shots of the beautiful scenery, we left and to have our dinner at a quite deserted place. However, the food was nicer than afternoon's and not so oily and salty. Oh ya, just to let ya noe, our lunch and dinner for the 8days are mostly the same. Anyways, a unfortunate thing happened. I spilled a cup of coke cuz my coat was so thick that i cant feel a thing, but luckily for me, the coke didnt splashed on me, but onb my cousin Regina!! haha, so 'heng'!!
After dinner, we went back to our hotel. For the whole trip, we only go to our hotel at the end of the day at bout 8pm to 9plus daily. The hotel was really modern and unique!! I dunno how to describe it.. But it's just very EXTRAORDINARY!!
10.dec.06* SUNDAY
Today, it wasnt that cold le.. bout 8*C. But the breakfast really really sux like hell !! The food was so damn OILY, so i just had a few spoons of century egg porridge, and luckily, my mum made the 3-in-1 milo for me=D.
1. Right after breakfast, we went to MeiJiaWu Tea Culture Village, where its 'long jing' tea was really nice and famous. But guess you guys haven heard of it.. At dere, the tea 'professor' showed us a green tea experiment to show us the goodness of green tea. There are 4 grades of green tea [B, A, AA and AAA] The AAA green tea leaves are really precious. Cuz dere's only one day in a year that can produce this AAA green tea leaves. So it
to be continued.. [due to lack of time]
Labels: 2006; The Past
