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Adventures @ China (Con’t!)
Jun 30th
Inside Australia Pavilion!
The short clip they showed us was full of movements here and there. The circular platform in the middle is the main stage, and surrounding the circle stage it was made up of 5-6 boards of LED screens that complimented with the scenes in the centre of the platform.
All the LED screens were retracted.
These were the LED screens.
This is one of the LED screens (thats what I meant) and they move up and down.
The effect was gorgeous. I hope you got what I meant. HAHA!
On another faithful day, we went to this villa (別墅) which was previously owned by some big shot. Perhaps a highly ranked government servant or a really rich fella.
This was the place!
- I think I got the school girl look. Especially with my backpack. HAHA!
- F and I! *act dramatic only*
- We got to take a ’sampan’ out..
:)
It took him 3 shots to take a PROPER photo with me.
- Then on another night, we went to this wax museum.. It was located where the Shanghai Pearl Tower was.
- See the little girl in the tub-like thingy? Thats how they used to keep their children while at work, to prevent them from running around. So cute!
- Busy at work, with I-don’t-know-what.
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- I think the buildings are really well done it looks sooo real.
- Niceeeee right? (:
- A little explanation about this street. I hope you can see the words!
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- I LOVEEEE this!
From the outside, it looked like a mini little wax museum but after we started it seemed never ending! We walked till our legs were reallyreally sore, and tummies were growling because we haven’t had our dinner despite it being like 10ish soon.
Another night, we went to this Times Square. I really have no idea which part of China were we at, my apologies. But they had the longest LED panels, I think. Look at the photos in the first row of the collage. It was all along the whole mall. Really a pretty and hi-tech mall eh!
And I hugged Hai Bao.. haha! SO CUTEEEEEE.
This was at the night market of Yi Wu, another city in China.. THIS WAS WHERE I SAW THE LITTLE POMERANIAN DOGGIE!!
From an artist’s impression..
That was Mummy and I with some of their ’stalls’. I really wonder how they do the business they have like less than 30 pieces of tops..
I bought my plastic glasses there HAHAH! Removed the lenssssss! :D
This is the baby pom, if you’ve forgotten. HAHA.
YESSS, this is the place I mentioned, Yi Wu! :))
Basically a wholesale market for everything you need, under the sun. BUT, you need to buy your goods in extreme bulk. like at least in hundreds, or thousands.
All over the wholesale market they have many many ladies walking around with a tool kit and they help to clean those leather shoes!! HAHA. Mad cute! Daddy and Felix got their shoes cleaned!!!!
Some self-loving at night in the hotel room..
I love my glasses I wanna make a pair of real ones! But they always turn out horrendous once the lenses are inserted.
Hehe, my falsies!
lalala~
This was one of the place we dined at in Yi Wu, its like Chup Chai Beng but they have like maybe a hundred types of dishes for us to choose? Maybe a little exaggerating but there’s really ALOT! The place is called CMK, haha! And that day we ordered like 18 different dishes!!!
Raindrops Cafe was the other place we dropped by for dinner @ Yi Wu! And I REALLY loveeeeeee this cafe! Because there were like 10 of us, they gave us a special room and yes, what you see above was in the special room! An automatic MAHJONG table!!! and also a computer (which I didn’t feature in any of the photos, but anyway there was one.). Awesome isn’t it! :D But of course it comes with a price too, it was really of cafe standard! HAHA!
I think there’s an overload of photos already. I’ll continue on my next entry! :D
HAPPY FAMILYYYYYYY!
Adventures @ China!
Jun 30th
I AM BACK AGAIN! :D
This post will be mad full with photos, from China! Butbut, they are not in any chronological order because by now I’ve forgotten all the littlest details. Like which place did we travel first, and later, etc.
The tourist attraction we went!!
I have to say, this is one of the best attraction we went to. Not purely because I’m a Buddhist, but because it was really worth your time, worth your sweat climbing nearer to the Buddha’s statue. And not forgetting, I’m so proud to be a Buddhist! The following photos will tell.
The name of the Buddha♥
This is the magnificent Buddha statue, standing at 180m tall, if I'm not wrong!
The steps I mentioned, worth your sweat and perspiration. (:
A close up photo!
You see tiny little humans slightly above the lotus? Thats the closest we could go – to touch the Buddha’s feets. Like the Chinese saying goes “凌时抱佛脚”. haaa!
In order to enter the world's most magnificent(!!!) temple..
Yessss, they had to protect the temple, so we had to wear protective shoe covers!!! BUT IT WAS WORTH IT AS WELL. Because I’ve never seen a temple more magnificent, more luxurious, more majestic, more impressive, and I could go on and on.. I’ve always visited churches which are outstanding, nice and all, but not temples, and this is my FIRST. It beats all the temples I’ve visited hands down.
One part of the ceiling.
Colourful little Buddha statue.
I’m still in the midst of figuring out how to show you the temple because I took an overall video of the inside. It’d be too exhausting to capture every area of the temple using photos! I’d need hundreds of photos to show you them all. HEHE.
The outside of the temple!
My lovely parents & I!
A better view of the whole area
The birth of Buddha!!
This is the lotus that depicts how Buddha was born!
Buddha is born!
see how the lotus opens up?
*My apologies I have 0 intentions to publicise my religion on my blog but I have to show you what I find really impressive. I hope its an eye-opener to you too! The temple was only completed in the recent years because the last time I was here, it wasn’t existent yet.*
I did a jump shot infront of Buddha's palm. lol!
How the palm looks like!
Some really random photos up next!
If only I could bring it back...
Its a Hello Kitty storage box! They have HK all overrrr, I want!!!
JUMBO XXL WANGWANGs.
Then our first day @ the Shanghai World Expo 2010!!!
Australia Pavilion, like what it reads.
Singapore Pavilion!
I’m still pissed at myself for forgetting to give this pavilion a visit! Now I wonder whats inside…
Malaysia Pavilion! Really got the 'feeeel'.
And yes, we visited this pavilion because we didn’t need to queue!!! *flashes Malaysia passport*
Guess what?
YESS, China!
None other than the formidable China Pavilion!!
A better one!
WE WERE HAPPY.
Because we thought we could omit all the queuing as we were told we managed to ‘reserve/book’ to visit this China Pavilion. Express lane hor, see no queue behind one.
Turns out that, there's another queue inside!
Look at the crazy crowd. So apparently after you manage to ‘reserve’ a timing to visit this pavilion, you only omit the primary queue. There’s a secondary one waiting for you inside. And it took us nearly two hours to get in.
Lots of time to camwhore.
This is ME, cous, and cous-in-law. (:
A group photo (((((((:
After we came out!
A last glance @ China Pavilion!
If you’re wondering, I’d say China Pavilion was worth the 2-hours-queue. It was awe-inspiring inside, they showed the world what China could do. Thumbs up!! Its the best pavilion we visited. And also because we didn’t visit that many in the first place. HAHA. But I assure you, if the queue is only two hours, its worth the wait.
That rabbit: Macau Pavilion!
And beside = Hong Kong Pavilion! Didn’t manage to visit both.
India Pavilion and something else.
I really liked the aerial design on the India Pavilion. The crowd was overwhelming as well so we didn’t visit it too.
ice-cream endorsed by Luo Zhi Xiang and Angela Zhang!
Tried this ice-cream just because of lzx. It wasn’t awful but not nice either.
Notices at the start of the queue for Germany Pavilion
It warns: Queuing time for the Germany Pavilion is 5 hours. F-I-V-E. No kidding.
Korea Pavilion!
Again in closer up shot!
I love how the Korea Pavilion looks. Colourful and all!
One last photo!
It was crowded like this everywhere. Wherever there is a need to QUEUE.
It turns us off! We’ll never win the locals when it comes to queuing. Zzz. Packed like sardines!
SMILEEEEEEEEEEEEE :D
My favourite!
This photo reminds me that I’ve yet to try these biscuits! :)) And I realise alot of the local brand products are endorsed by artistes!
&& One last photo..
The famous Shanghai Pearl Tower..
G’night!!!! I took afew hours to complete this entry! Mad exhausted!
Holidays are bliss!
Jun 29th
It feels like its been quite awhile since I last blogged. I feel lost, like detached to my blog. And I don’t know what to blog.
I’m glad some of you still visits anna.my! Because I’m back to my daily updates, as often as possible, as much as I can manage! :D so visit me whenever you’re on alright!
That aside, I’m gonna write about my much procrastinated China trip earlier this month! Hehe, finally, before June comes to an end.
This was the mode of transport we took when we were at the airport. Its something like our MRT train but this particular type of train travels via magnetic forces.. LOOK AT THE SPEED.
Its called the “MagLev” Train, so basically it travels by magnetic levitation and thus there is hardly any friction between the train and the rails, thus the SPEED. :D Thats what I understand about it, correct me if I’m wrong!
Presenting to you.. The Shanghai World Expo 2010 Mascot! Its called 海宝!! Such a cute name right, in direct translation, it means “Water Baby”. I totally adore it, though I agree with my brothers there’s absolutely nothing very captivating about this blue thing over here.
But anyway throughout my 9 days over @ China, I see this mascot EVERYWHERE I go, no joke, everywhere. I’d still crazily and excitedly tell someone about it but my younger brother never fails to dim me shut and ask me to stop rambling about this stupid-blue-thing. HAHA. He hates it to the core.
This was first on our itinerary immediately after lunch. I think we were at Hang Zhou. We took a little cruise along the 西湖 “west lake”, I think. Apparently I learnt that it was an artifical man-made lake that was dug long long ago..
Afterwhich, it was to this pagoda-like building. The middle photo is the name of this pagoda.
The middle pictures at both sides are the sculptures found inside. They are really impressively nicely carved, to the finest details.
Afterwhich we also visited this 西湖。新天地 place. A really westernised tourist attraction. And why do I say westernized? They have Starbucks, Haagen-Dazs, Costa Coffee, etc.
Its situated along a lake..a PLUS point :D
From what I can remember, thats our day one. Super tiring one because it was a mid-night flight, meaning when we reached, it was time to travel around! Its those times that I really loved going back to the hotel, drop dead on bed and slack for abit before bathing and sleeping early. BLISSS♥♥♥.
If you needed a reason to love yourself.. I’d give you aplenty to! :D
& I hope this brightens up your day. Because all these sweet little photos did brighten up mine! ♥
(I’d continue with the rest of the days! Now that I’ve gotten the full collection of photos, I pretty much don’t know where to start..because, I simply have toooo many photos!)
A short update!
Jun 15th
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I really like the largest photo in this collage. Also obvious why I chose it to be the biggest! It looks like he’s staring at my tongue! HEHEHE. My brother is ♥. Even though he rejects me a million times when I asked him to take a photo with me, he’d still comply with my requests as and when.
you gotta love me, don't you?
Love this collage soo much! Brothers looked so cute! I love my false lashes. ♥♥♥
I have more photos with regards to my trip and I’ll update soon! Have yet to get photos from my brother’s cameras so please be patient! Its pretty hard to blog with just my photos alone because there are some missing photos here and there and I can’t complete my ’story’.
till then!, xoxo.
My Favourite Photos in China!
Jun 13th
I’m back I’m back I’m back!
Finally I can continue my habit of embracing my Blackberry (BB!).
You wouldn’t understand how much I missed my BB during the 9days trip.
My trip was awesome, fulfilling (with shopping!) but as usual, tiring! I loved the time spent with my family. The 5 of us haven’t traveled together since early this year where our destination was Vietnam for the New Year. Trips like this are excellent bonding times for all of us and I really cherish the 9 days. Though my heart was screaming all out for my BB, for Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Its been 2-3 years since my last trip to China. And I’m immensely impressed with the changes I see. I wasn’t disappointed with what I’d expected to see. Vast improvements were made, for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, as well as for the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
Of course, I was really disturbed by some of the acts of the Chinese. I believe that what I see are Chinese people from small suburbs, according to what I was told by our Tour guide. Citizens from the big cities like Shanghai are definitely more civilized. Some of the acts includes spitting on the floor (after clearing their bloody throat loudly), speaking extremely loudly across to their friends even though they are miles apart, rushing like they are catching the last boat, pushing people infront of them while queuing!!
Nevertheless, the traffic conditions had improved much in Shanghai, but in small towns, they can get quite bad. Because the laws are more enforced in big cities i believe. For instance, the zebra crossing for pedestrians in smaller cities were of no use. The cars never stopped even when the green man lights up, we had to pluck up our guts to cross and force them to stop them instead.
In one of the small towns, we actually took a ride on their motor-powered-tricycle (like tuk-tuks in Thailand) back to the hotel from somewhere, and holy, these tricycles could even take the roads in the opposite direction because our hotel was at the other side of the road where we traveled from. I actually took a thrilling video while I was on board, show you guys soon. It was scary for the first time, as we could see cars coming OUR way, but it was thrilling for the second time! Something you definitely wouldn’t experience back in Singapore!
AND AND. The highlight of my trip was.. I GOT TO CUDDLE A POMERANIAN DOGGIE!!! I gotta show you my favourite photo of the trip……….
MY FAVOURITE.
This little thing caught my eye even though it was real dark, because we were at a night market. AWESOMELY FURRY, the touch of it feels like cotton candy. *my parents are not convinced yet* If only it costed what it was in China, it’d be an easier deal for us! I WISH I COULD BRING THIS PUP BACK! I am smittened. SO HAPPY. Was grinning from ear to ear and you can’t even really see my eyes! Photo was taken using my bro’s camera, so I took a picture of it on his screen, I’ll post the original again!
Wished I wasn’t in my nerdy specs lah, to look my bestest in this picca!
HEHEHE.
WITH THE BROTHER!
HIM AGAIN!
Spent some time.. being narcissistic.
Love thyself.
:D
I’ll be back with more photos. MORE MORE! :]
