Yeah, so now I'm going to finally blog about the trip to china.
Lol!
13th March - 26th March 2009
It was my virgin trip to china - Xi'an & Beijing.
Happy? Excited? Yes yes yes, whatever happy words you could find, yep, that was my initial feelings :D
The weather throughout was simply cooling and cold, when I reached Spore, almost couldnt adapt back to the weather about 1-18 degree! haha.
Valissa was my roomate! :D

There were a total of 20 people going! Plus two teachers, so for the trip that I'm gonna post, it'll just be the happy ones.
As they said, let the bygones be bygones, keep the good memories in your heart :D:D:D:D
Alright, shall spam the pics and wordy words now! :D
But i shan't put captions though, if not it will take years for this post to finish.
In all, for this whole trip, I took 2000++ photos, but not all will be here. I'll try to squeeze them in here, but it may be difficult. Your com may lag, so I'm really really sorry!
I'll post less, pics more, Pictures speaks a thousand words! (:
Anw, I've decided - to skip the pics of Musuem artefacts, schools that I've visited, yep, thats about it. If not, I won't be able to load everything.
However,
Day 1: 13th March '09Had to assemble at terminal 1 0700. The flight was 0930. So headed to the airport to had breakfast with my parents.
It was a whole long day of flying from one place to another.
Once we depart from Spore to Beijing, there was another domestic flight to Xi'an.
Finally we reached Xi'an and it was already late at night.
Checked into the hotel and that's all for Day 1.
& oh man, the hotel was grand I would say, having val as my roomate! :D
2 person to that room was a little big, so we got peiqi&yanling over to sleep with us. :D
It was more fun having 4 person isn't it? :D
But some people just don't understand, it's alright!
The more the merrier, and I assure you we 4 girls had super, uber lots of fun! :D:D:D:D








































Day 2: 14th March '09Breakfast in the hotel was just plain & boring. The food were rather oily though. But it's alright, one shan't complain about the food!
The weather was cool! Early morning and it was alr cold, since we weren't used to the coldness, the clothes we wore were like those during winter time, yes it was that exerggarating. LOL!
And smoke came out of my mouth when I talked and we girls got so high!!! Total madness~ /:
Headed to Qidi Secondary School. They were extremely delighted with us. And we had exchanged program. It was only a short introduction and short exchange between schools.













Don't this guy looked like GUCHENYI? The guy in white.






After that headed to 大唐芙蓉园(Da tang fu rong yuan). Spent the whole afternoon there. Walked around and the place was pretty cool I would say.
Then at night watch a movie which was on water. It was magnificient!
Back to the hotel to rest and it was high time with the 4 girls again!









































































Day 3: 15th March '09Alright! Today we didn't had to go to school for exchanged programme! :D
Headed to 汉阳陵(Han Yang Ling) Spent our whole morning there, looking at some artefacts and the place where they were buried!
Lunched at some place. Then went to a bookstore like that. Wasn't that appealing though, they only had chinese books there & I bought 2 for CSC. One thing good was that their books were pretty cheap. I bought them for only 95 rmb, which was 19 Sing dollars. I bet this would cost me only one book at $19 each if I were to buy them here /:
Then, headed off to Museum again. Not that much, just artefacts too.
Dinner at some fine place, but smoking was allowed there. Air pollution! ALmost couldn't enjoy my meal happily! =x
It's back to the hotel again.!
Had a fun time laughing crazyily & madly with the girls.!
Day 4: 16th March '09Early in the morning had immersion programe! Went to a prominent and well known school in Xi'an, 交大二附中(Jiao da er fu zhong). Whole day had lessons there. Oh boy, it was terribly boring! The teacher went thru China history, you know, those tang dynasty?!
I couldn't take it and I fell asleep. yes, I know I shouldn't do that, but I couldn't take it.
Our lessons were not those type whereby we went in to sit with the China students.
It was us, 20 of us being given a room and the teacher went in to teach us. The lesson time was long too, each period was approximate an hour continously. Totally can't take it.
But what i like was the half an hour exercise where everyone had to gather together and do a warm-up exercise. & the lines they queued were straight, Whoa, impressive was the only word to describe! Too bad, I couldn't upload the video here, get it from me, it's in my phone though! :D
Only dinner was good, we had the chance to eat Peking duck :D:D:D:D
Nice nice nice! Superb :P
Day 5: 17th March '09It's coundown 10 days to my birthday! xD
headed to the same school again for immersion. -.-
Bored! D:
Had history again!! Alll the way, total waste of my time when I'm not even taking this subj, I pity those sci stream students who were with us there too/:
Alright, for general knowledge, adapt to the lessons~
I'm like deceiving myself!
It was until about evening and then went over for dinner. We went to a halal place to eat dumplings! The food was heavenly!!! :D:D:D:D
Then was given about an hour or so for some light shopping :D
Back to our hotel and it was high time! haha.!
Day 6: 18th March '09yes! Last day of the immersion programme there! Had a mini lesson only! :D
It was good!
Bade goodbye and headed off to tourist attraction.
Yanling fell sick! She couldn't join us for that whole day! D:
Headed to 西安明城墙(Xi'an ming cheng qiang). Yep, there spent about few hours there.
Ride bicycle with Peiqi since val couldn't really ride and I wasn't that confident if I could ferry her.
Me & peiqi were the last to go back -.-
Took about 1 and half hours to ride the whole wall, but at least we completed it, we perservered it! :D
Great achievement! ANd had a great and fun time screaming & shouting.
Only bad thing was the scorching sun was shining on us terribly. Worse, we were wearing thick clothing you know!
Thick clothing + cycling continuous for one and half hour + bright & scorching sun + lack of water = Fun, fun & fun.
But I think it was because of this that I started to fall sick sooN! :(
Then headed off to a museum to look at artefacts again.
At night, went off for dinner to thank the teachers at jiao da for their efforts.
Our table was very high because one teacher sat with us, and to them, the teacher was cute. LOL
Yanling join us for dinner though :D
At night went back to the hotel room.
I think because we slept together, yan passed the virus to me?
I was feeling terribly sick.
And one funny thing was, since yan was sick, the vp came, and it was girls room and he was abit ps hesitating wanting to come in anot.
& we girls made hell loads of noise and our room was terribly messy!
4 girls you know, hhaha!
So we were laughing like mad!!! Can you imagine when crazy girls coming together, LOL!
Day 7: 19th March '09Headed to Arts school, where a very famous artist drew. :D

















































That whole day was terrible for me! D:
After the mini test, I couldn't take it anymore.
fever shot up to 39 degrees high, and I had to skip the whole itenary for that day, 大雁塔广场( Da yan ta guang chang). Many said it wasn't that interesting.



















































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I went back to the hotel room to sleep soundly the whole day.
Until the vp came -.-
Terribly embarrassed /:
& what's worse was I insisted on not going to the hospital! You know, errr I don;t really trust their medical facilities there as compared to Spore /:
So survive on my dosage of panadols which I brought there!
Day 8: 20th march '09Countdown 7 days to my 17th big day! 8D
Wasn't feeling that well, but still persisted. Worse was my panadols have fnished, It was super embarrassing to get them from the vp. Whoa, face throw until don't know where can?!
He knows my name! =.=
Embarrass to the max!
We went to visit 兵马俑(terra cotta)
Oh the view was spectacular.
Alright, a picture speaks a thousand words.
Lunched was alright, then I wasn't feeling well, so I went to rest in the bus, then moved on to 华清池, you know the place where that girl bathe? Yep, thats it.
At night, had steamboat. Couldn't ate much. But the food was still alright though.
Then it was back to the hotel.
Day 9: 21st March '09It was retail therapy! :D:D:D:D
Shopped with the 4 girls.
Lunched there too and was shopping all the way. How cool can that be?!?! 8D
Bused around to look at some night scenery, wow, it was nice! :D
Went back to the hotel to pack our luggage since we were heading to beijing the next morning.
Our last day at the hotel! D:
Last day with the tour guides there, the tour guide were pretty, cute, lovely ladies! :D
Day 10: 22nd March '095 days to my big day!
Morning call was super early!
Breakfast was provided by them and we ate in the bus. Transfer our flight to Beijing. When we reached Beijing, it was another 2 hours or so bus ride to the most western side of Beijing, mengtougou. It was terribly cold! Cold to the coldest!!!! Brrrrrrr~
We had to wear long john for the whole few days stay in Beijing. The temp dropped drastically!
I wore almost like 4 clothings + 2 jeans. Can you imagine how cold it was? But it was fun :D
Heh.




















Checked in and we immediately went to a school where they did their pottery.
Tried out the pottery and my end product was horrible /:
Checked in at the hotel and this hotel was horrible compared to the one in Xi'an. Though there was a bathtub, it was small. And the security there was horrible -.-
Day 11: 23rd March '094 days to my big day!
Breakfast at there was -.-
The food was totally not my taste. It was salty, spicy, oily!
headed to some school where our principal mr koh gave talks to all the teachers there.
The people who invited us made us look like we were some big stars.
Cameras videos etc etc all shined on us.
LOL!
Had some exchanged programme with the young kids there.
They performed during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Damn cool right?! To be able to participate at such a young age. (:
Had dinner, dinner wasn't that good though.
Our last night at that horrible place! yayness :D
Day 12: 24th March '093 days to my big big day! :D
Woke up, checked out from that horrible place! :D
Took another few hours of bus ride back to bejing.
Immediately headed to Beijing University, wow the place was super big and cool!
It wasn't an easy place to get in, neither was it an easy place to just enter because there were guards stationed there.
So, I was really lucky that I could visit the place :D




























The guy who was studying there helped us around the place, he was cute xD
yep, then had lunch there, yeah, lunch at bejing suited my taste more, mentougou's food wasn't that suitable for me. I think because it was too oily & salty /:
Went to the Bird's nest, stayed there for quite a while.
Headed to some shopping malls and bookstore. 王府井+书城
Dinner and then it was checked in to a new hotel.
Alright, it wasn't that bad :D
Re-united with Pei&yan! Haha!
Day 13: 25th March '092 days to my big day!
Woke up, had breakfast. Breakfast was getting worse and worse each day ever since we stepped into Beijing.
I think Xi'an was better!
After breakfast! Yes tourist attraction! Headed to the great wall of china! And I was so weak. Only managed to complete one tiny section. Haha. But at least I climbed :D



















Then headed to the 十三陵(shi san ling), 13 tomb where the emperors were buried. The view was nice. :D
After dinner, it was shopping time! At 秀水街(Xiu shui jie). The thing there were very very cheap! Bargain like mad and caught quite a no. of deals. Satisfaction there! :D:D:D:D
Back to the hotel.
Day 14: 26th March '09Tmr is my big big big big birthday! :D:D:D:D
Checked out, breakfast was speechless. All the eggs cooked in different forms, steam, boiled, scrambled~
Headed to tiananmen square first.
And then to gu gong.














































The view was great too. Love the place there! :D
After touring the place, set off to the airport and it was home sweet home!
Touched down in Spore at around 2200plus. :D






























Alright, some reflections:D
Felt that Xi'an suited me more in terms of the food, accomodation lodging.
Attitude about the China people was bad. I would rate 0/10. But this post was meant for a happy one, so all the bad behavious about them shall be kept in my heart. Yeap, but the overall trip was fun, with val, pei & yan. :D
Small Glimpse of the food there!
The food directly in front is deer's meat if I'm not wrong. Tried the taste and it was cold and weird.

We had sumptous meal of more than 10 dishes a day.



This is one of the mass conference that we had. The food was so tasty that
everyone tried the food and wasn't listening! haha!





Now what about a BIG AND MESSY glimpse of our hotel roomstay with the crazy 4 girls? Haha!
Hotel at mentougou: Not that class though /:



Even though there was a bath tub, I checked out the rate and it was
relatively cheap for a night's stay.





This was the classy style of hotel room in Xi'an.




















But I realised all the pics are the messy messy side of us. For a 4 ppl staying in that room, the room was quite messy isn't it?! Esp the bathroom and the small tables! xD
Alright, so apart from the bad attitude,service, oily food etc from those china people living there, the rest was great.
Scenery wise, omgodness, it was magnificent, the view was totally spectucular. From all the way to different part of the places, I really enjoyed myself with the rest of the people :D
Also, the weather, which was suppsedly to be cooling but ended up too cold due to global warming, was a new experience for me. Haha! :D
Really enjoyed myself that much! 8D
So Yep, that's all. I hope you enjoy these pics :D
PS: I'm sure this pic are enough to last you until I'm back! :D
PPS: So sry, after don't know how many days of uploading, still didn't managed t upload some other sections, will upload when I'm back.
meanwhile, tkcare everyone :D
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