Day 7(1st jan 2007)
My bf’s paternal side of the family gathers on new year’s day as a yearly event and it is also a chance to show me to his relatives in a easier way. His parents rushed us in the morning, my bf, his sis n me to go to the restaurant where we will all have lunch but they have a very bad habit of not making reservations even on such public holidays when a lot of people have meal gatherings and we didn’t get a place at the restaurant that we want initially. We went to another restaurant later and the heater wasn’t working very well. I think the only interesting part about the lunch was when his mother ask me to pour wine into the glasses of the “elders” as in my bf’s uncle n aunties n of caz my bf’s parents too. After lunch my bf n I made a move first to go to wang fu jing st which is like the orchard road of Singapore and we had to go back home for dinner as his relatives, including those who were missing during lunch timecaz they had work, will be coming over to his house for dinner. But before we did all that, I spotted a man selling bing tang hu lu, sancha that is coated with sugar and I had my first of this kind of thing. Wang fu jing st was exciting and the shopping centres sell net price items and there are a lot of branded brands there to moderately branded brands there. We got denise a pair of ear rings in one of the shopping centres. We later got ourselves a place in the sight seeing vehicle that drove us to a few slightly more known places around wang fu jing area. Ofter that we took a few photos here n there and we left for home. Then we had the longest taxi ride I had ever had in my entire life. We took about 2 hours to reach home. First the taxi driver heard the place wrongly and drove in the wrong direction for a while. Then as it was about peak hour there was jam, then there was a terrible jam along a whole stretch of road which links 2 zones together. Caz the cab driver was from the town region, we had to change a cab when we were nearing our place. I forgot if I mentioned that I tried a lot of vege out of politeness when it was added to my table in front of his relatives or by his relatives. My bf’s dad had a cold and that was the start of cold virus spreading.

Day 8:
We didn’t do anything much except to go to the public bath n stayed there for a few hours before having dinner w his cousin n family and we had rabbit meat for dinner. Well, to begin with, I think the meat was marinated for too long as tie so it tasted kinda salty. But anyway, rabbit meat taste very meaty, tastes tough, a bite of it makes you feel like u are eating several layers of beef meat that is tightly entwined together. It is so meaty that you cannot have more then a few mouths of it at a go n have to bite something plainer to relieve yourself of the extreme meaty taste.

Day 9:
My bf and I went to Wang Fu Jing Street again. His sis had fallen ill n together with his parents, both his sis n dad went to the hospital to be on the drip. Apparently the people over here likes to go on the drip a lot I think, caz his dad already went there the previous day n they go on the drip everyday. My bf tells me that its because the medicine here is not as effective as the ones that we have there n apparently the medicines are often poorly labeled. This time when we went to wang fui jing st, we bought nearly everything that I think I want to buy as gifts to close ones. We had lunch at the macs there n purposely ordered the burgers that are not found in Singapore n there was this grilled premium chicken thigh that was simply fantastic. Before nightfall, which is 5pm we left the place already as it was pretty windy, making it a little cold. we came home n rest a while before we went out to meet his friends for dinner and then went to play pool. Of caz I didn’t play as usual but to save me from the boredom which I am not too sure whether it was really effective but I had a table to myself and I was playing with myself. But as u all know, I am not good at games that involve aiming skills. That was mainly how the day was spent.

Day 10:
Confirmed the air ticket back home. We had cup noodle for lunch as his sis has left for school already and his parents are out to the hospital again. I woke rather earlier than usual and on my own caz I was waken by all the noise when the mum woke the sis up n the sis was packing her stuff n arguing w her bf on the phone. The sis won’t be returning tonight n tomorrow nite and I must say that I was kinda looking forward to it. It’s not that the sis is not nice, actually we can get along quite well but I light-sleep most of the night when I sleep with her. Once I was kicked and other times just somehow jolted by her awake n I will usually have a hard time trying to fall asleep again and even if I do it’s a light-sleep. Went to the Beijing tcm uni to take a look and boy is it difficult. To begin with, my bf is often not in Beijing and know very little about public transport, we tried the web but there isn’t a effective street directory that we could comprehend. In the end his friend, the one we go play pool with drove us there n we used the map. The schl is quite a dist from my bf’s home but we went the direct way which cabs wont caz they want to make $ and took about half an hour. The campus was moderately new. The buildings are mostly individual buildings about 4 or 5 storey high mainly and the class room look okay? Caz it was really cold today so we merely took a look at the canteen which was not appealing at all and a classroom.. after that the 3 of us went to some newly opened Korean restaurant n eat to out fill. Then there was nothing much after that except to come home and me to blog while they watch tv outside…..which is what is happening when I am writing this.


to be continued...................will add the pics when i get back to singapore, the loading time here is crazy!!!

Day 5
Opps, forgot to mention that I had a long chat with his sister abt how Singapore is this n that and her sis like the part that we are less traditional then their family here….
My bf was suppose to have cooking lessons in the afternoon so I went out with his sis in the after to xi dan again to buy 1 more sweater, proper flat shoes so we can go to the great wall of china one of these days and some other little stuff. We went n spent the whole day in the 2nd shopping centre my bf brought me to the other day n went to the higher levels where u can bargain like at bugis village. We bought a pair of shoes that was super furry on the inside n outside, a black sweater for me, a pair of long dangling ear rings n a naval ring for me there while his sis bought a red sweater. Then we went to the Disney store again n we bought 3 handbags altogether, I bought 2 n his sis bought 1. one of the bags that I bought was made of real leather, cow’s skin. I like the 2 handbag equally, feel like keeping both but think I will be giving one of them away just that I dun noe which yet. We then had dinner with the family n his uncle n aunty n another cousin, had lamb meat for dinner as the main course, onion lamb meat, if u translate it literally will be how they call the whole course of the dinner. When to bath at the public bath after that.

Day 6:
Didn’t do much, watched dvd in the after, death note n silent hill a little then visited his aunt n went to the Korean restaurant w his mum n sis n my bf before the 2 of us went home for the departed n waited for the sis to continue silent hill. Although it was 31 dec we didn’t go anywhere n I dun even know what I was doing exactly when it striked midnite! First time that I am not at some countdown event what so ever but just at home doing nothing impt.


to be continue....ps: pardon my typo if any...in a hurry

Heezzz….had a hard time coming up w the money n convincing my parents to let me go but as u can see it is done. Well, my mother was worried abt the cost of it while my dad abt the safety issue. But yet again, I haven’t left the country in the past 6 years n it’s the first time I m goin so far a place all by myself. Well, I am a little worried n scared myself but I think I am a big gal n know which are the official signage to follow.

Well, in change airport everything went smoothly. The air china plane that I took was pretty noisy, I hardly slept much on the plane even though I have both the window seats to myself. I will fall asleep for a while n then awaken by the noise again. I wasn’t scared of the take off or landing but found it rather interesting. There was nothing to do on the plane. No magazines, tv or anything at all. When the plane arrive at the Beijing airport, as all the other passenger “ports” are full, it stopped near the airport n we had to take a shuttle bus to the terminal. It was pretty cold as I was hardly wearing anything suitable for winter as my bf would bring it to the airport when he fetch me.

The 1st day:
His 2 cousins accompany him to fetch me from the airport n the feeling of being in Beijing was quite interesting. From a place that has everything in English to a place where everything is in Chinese; the trees shed their leaves n bare themselves in the winter cold. we had lunch at his house, then I watch him play pool with his friend, had dinner with his 2nd aunt n uncle then went to the public bath. The more memorable thing was the eating part. Their vege selection was diff from ours and I just had to eat it. His mother kept asking my bf to take food for me during lunch and his aunt did the same during dinner. I thought it was just polite n right that I finish anything that has been added to my plate. During dinner esp, I was having a hard time picking out the bones of the fish and when I was almost done with the fish, my bf would add more fish to my plate!!! Luckily his aunt recalled that western idea of eating out links courtesy and not being wasteful with eating your plate clean but over here in china, the people dun care about finishing the food, in fact we ordered abt 10 dishes when there was 5 of us only n at most each plate was half eaten, we did packet a thing or 2 home tho. It was then that I was saved and had a taste of the more authentic Beijing roasted duck.. the sauna was also interesting. There is a male and female section to it where u can bath, have message etc but only the guys have a giant pool inside to soak themselves in. well, the weird part about it was that all the pple who go there to bath will just bare themselves all the time until they change into clothes to leave the place or go upstairs to the entertainment cum rest lounge to wait for your hair to dry. Beside average entertainment on stage, they also have foot massage service which I had too….hehehehe….slept in the sister’s room

Day 2:
Hehehe….first time and it was a nice feeling to have my bf show me n help me mix the water in the kitchen for me to use to wash up in the kitchen, squatting above a plastic basin. Well, the main highlight of the day was to go to 1 of the town, xi dan, where u can find more of the small little stuff here and there in the shopping centre. On the side line, I also realized that it was pretty troublesome going to the toilet in public caz there are many layers that u need to take off. The jacket, the jeans, the cotton pants n the tights n nearly 99% of the time the toilets outside are the squat type w no toilet paper. There was nothing to see w regards to the clothes caz it was all winter wear and the part where u can bargain we didn’t patronize the area but just to walk pass it caz we are both not good at bargaining. Bought a mickey bag tho, schl side carry bag. Well, as for net prie places, the international brands things are priced the same or slightly more then in Singapore but I bought the mickey bag as it was a diff distributor and had a lot of things to choose from, much better than just clothes in Singapore. Had dinner at kfc that also had some egg tarts n other burger selection before we went to another place to buy quite a no. of pirated dvd to watch during the evenings for the next few days.

Day 3:
Watched dvd for the first half of the day. Btw, I forgot to mention that the sun sets at 5 and it is dark after 5pm here in winter n the sun rises the usual time of about 8 or 9 in the morning. After that we went have Korean bbq for dinner n the nice part abt it was that u can get the person to bbq it for you which was just perfect for both of us who dun really know how to bbq n is quite lazy abt it. Well, we ordered quite a lot for just the 2 of us and we were really bloated full that we had to tok for abt 1 hr to ease the feeling a little. We finished about 60% of the food only. After that we went to the sauna again n this time I was starting to get used to be naked around other gals in the gals section of the room.. well, caz my bf says that in winter clothes dun get dirty much caz we wear several layers n they are under the big jacket so its ok to just bath once in 2 days and wear the clothes for a few days before washing. All the while I was hoping for the snow as it was really cold.

Day 4:
Finally we went to the imperial palace to walk walk and we woke earlier to leave promptly after lunch. My bf has never been to the imperial palace himself either. Well, it was a day of photo taking and video of the imperial palace and tian an men. My bf kept saying that I only take the place without me in the pic but I argued that at least we are the photographers of the pic n video. We went into a lot of the small palaces but missed the bigger ones. Quite a no. of the small ones had a lot of artifacts displayed and the weather was really cold that day n my bf was complaining of being hungry as we were in there for a few hours n we were quite deep in already. The sad part was that there was quite a no. of buildings that was closed to outsiders n a few others were close for renovation. We finally decided to make do w instant noodles n whatever a small tore in wan qing yuan section had to offer to eat and boy must I say Chinese instant noodle is way better than the ones we find in Singapore caz they use real sauce n meat in it. But it was rather expensive according to my bf as this type of store is more of a trying to rip off the foreigners or visitors to the place. During winter the place closes early, at abt 430 and we left the palace just in time. But I must say that the common road or tiles from a palace to another can get quite rough at certain places. When we were leaving place, we pass by the part at that side, btn the imperial palace and tian an men, there was this place where u can change into the royals clothes n take photos. The winter was cold and after taking we waited a long time for the photos of which 1 out of 2 came out right. The one that came out right had me only. On our way home, I could swear that my toes were so frozen they were numb n the nail of the small toe was cutting the side of the other toe but there was nothing I could do about it caz it was too frozen to move much. My hands were also so cold that they were red n felt like millions of needles was poking them. We walked a log dist to try to get a cab but there wasn’t any luck, the one opposite direction had plentiful but on our side there was none. In the end we took bus back to a kfc to buy some kfc n change to a cab there. Nothing much happened after we reached home tho I must say we had a little argument btn the 2 of us here n there but it was fine.

to be continued....................

will add the pic when i get back to Singapore

Heeezzzz…I think its been a long time since I last blog…will do a quick update of the past before I reveal the exciting now…..

Will, the exams suck quite a lot n now that I have gottn back my results I think even more so…..anyway after the last paper, microbio, I went out w my class n we saw a big watermelon busted woman wearing a super low cut v shagpe top that ended below the diaphrage position….

After that I went out a lot w my bf caz he was goin to leave for home soon. We went a bbq session in the wee hours of the night at ECP n I was dressed to my least…..a pink super short top n a hot shorts……then the following night we went to the ktv at cineleisure to sing n play until I was a little high n my bf actually threw up in the toilet. After that we went to our usual hang out place. Following that night, we went to watch casino royale in town. Then after that night again, I sent him off at the airport n I was pretty glad that I had denise to be there with me….

Toking abt denise…we had a little hipcup when we were goin over the old topic of expanding the wardrobe but as usual she resisted.

Days without my bf was boring….when I am at home I will just daze the day away. Went out to catch up w my last sem elective friend shiqi at bugis area. Went to priyanka’s house to play cooking lesson once. Met priyanka a few more other times to chit chat. Went to a Christmas thingy at my uni c;assmate’s church thingy which was moderately fun caz we get to chit chat again.

Besides the above, there was once my bf’s ex-college called his hp line which I was carrying n asked me out to join the group of them at the tiger live experience official launch at st james power station. It was kinda boring caz they bring up thru the history of tiger, tho a lot of effort has been put in but it doesn’t create any interest in you to want to know. That part of the night was a little irritating caz there was this part where the guy who asked us all out(he’s working in mediacorp so there’s extra invites) intro to a few strangers that me and the Beijing gal was his cousins when a few men wanted to get to know us n ask us to the other pubs to play n he actually just said take them with u n take gd care of them, all said without our consent. Then after midnite we all leaft for ktv cineleisure n then I realize that it was only fun coming out w them if my bf is around caz I will always be having the attention of my bf, not that I dun like to play w his colleagues but u know what I mean. Then when our room was “time’s up”, we went to another room which one of us knew the big boss of the room who was celebrating his bday. But by the time we got over the room was mostly empty. The irritating part in this section was that there was this guy who wanted to know me n get my no. in a not very smart way…….

He asked my name n then offered to cheers but as I did not have a drink w me then he mixed some liquor with coke n it smelled a little like the Chinese medicine for sprains. He then asked to sing a duet with me which I said ok n got a song which I don’t know (I did tell him that) and was singing right into my ear thru-out the whole gal part of the song. Then asked me to learn the song so that we can sing the song together next time. Then he asked my no. which I just said to ask that middle friend out n we will all come out to play n then he said he didn’t want to trouble him n wish that we can come out ourselves but I said that it would be more fun to come out as a whole. He got the idea n then left me alone for a while. Later on, when I was seating one the cushion chair, he came n seat beside me n I pretended that I didn’t realized. He later asked me to show him my hands which I did n then he put them together n then bring them to touch his forehead and then kissed my hand the western style. N asked for my no. I said u gota ask the middle person first which he did n of caz my friend did not give……

After all of that n a lot of boring days, days missing my bf ….my bf finally told his parents abt us n then it was a busy fluster to come over to Beijing……

I m in Beijing now but I think I wrote enuf for 1 entry…will say more in the next. Hopefully tml