Beijing 1 Day Trip

This is sooo overdue update since the start of my 6 month overseas internship attachment in Tianjin, China. Anyway, on last Saturday 6/7/2013 me and my junkie buddy, Serene went to Beijing, China for an 1 day trip. It was a very last minute planned trip so we purchased our to and fro tickets at Tianjin train station on Friday and start our 1 day trip on the next day, Saturday. We then start out research on how to get to the places when we came back from the train station. Of course, our mobile wifi was perfectly doing its job, allowing only one of us to connect the internet, which make things even better. However, that doesn't stop us from getting the information that we need, boo yeah!!

When we reached Beijing subway station, crowded with human!

On the way out from subway exit, it's Summer! Umbrella's up!

Reached Tian An Men 天安门!!

Proceed to buy the entrance ticket to forbidden palace.

My junkie buddy busy taking videos, no time entertain me, so the reverse camera comes in handy! :x Long Stone Carving by the way, with dragon.

I wasn't kidding about the heat! And yes, that's my umbrella.. :)

Fine i admit, i didn't read whatever that's on that board, they are everywhere! And it's really hot out there, halfway through i already wanted to get out of the palace already.

Wood window.

Dragon carving

I was sick of getting pushed and getting some sparta tourist sweat all over me and getting my neck dragged by aunty just to take pictures of the inner palace, so i go for the not so popular ones, the outer "wall" of the building.
  

My lunch! Microwave instant meal, 梅菜扣肉饭, freaking expensive for this "7-11" food.

Peach ice cream in summer? Perfect!

Went to the jade museum that was supposedly be the concubineS room 东六宫.

Jade artwork display.

连理树, the two tree that grows together into one.

The tree has smoother skin than i do! >.<

And of course, the royal garden 御花园 :)

Roof with dragon patterns ~~

The middle thingy is the place where everybody throws a coin into it, believing it will bring good luck to you, but .... refer to the next picture!

The signboard says, do not throw coins into it, i only saw this sign board when my bedmate told me to turn around  after I threw my coin :x what.... I didnt know what, and the board is like... blocked by all the human!!

And yes, yours truly with peace! my first thought was, my goodness I'm finally outta this place! HAHAHHA :P 

Next stop, jing shan park 景山公园!!

That's the way for eating watermelon and honeydew on-the-go!  Was very tempted to buy them actually, but was very  bloated with the bottleS of water that we downed in the forbidden palace earlier, so we passed.

Since we have extra time on hand, we decided to hog at this cafe with WIFI!! :D And of course, just to keep us occupied since we are too tired to talk, we ordered.

Cheese cake and Pancake with syrup, butter & jam! Yummmmy... <3 br="" nbsp="">

Right outside the forbidden palace, on the way to the Jing Shan Park, vendors selling souveniers to  scam  the tourist!

On the way up to the mountain, vendors again. They are just so good at this whole selling a bottle of water in triple of the market price thingy!

Fun fact : Just so you know, Jing Shan Park is an artificial mountain. And yes, I did saw the tree where the emperor hanged himself for the country. 

Finally, reached the highest pavillion. View of the Forbidden Palace, I know, it's hazey, but it looks great still! :) Was cheated a few times just because they have a few pavillion and they all have a great view of the Forbidden Palace.

Went back to the exit of the Forbidden Palace, its just directly opposite of the exit of Jing Shan Park. It was very late that time! Have to take cab and rush to the train station. So guys, if you ever wanted to go during evening hoping to see day and night view, and you need to rush for 8.30pm train to go back Tianjin just for public transport, good luck!

And that's the night view of TianAnMen from cab.

Okay, need to continue doing my work already. Tian An Men, Forbidden Palace, Jing Shan Park? Checked! :) 

YEAR 2 UT not-so ON!

Gonna have the first UT of year 2 on next Tues. But really, i'm not prepared at all. Got back from the 2 weeks vacation and come back straight away for exam, unprepared. Have to struggle really hard for the daily grades that i aimed for, the faciS aren't liking me this time round. So anyway, things got a little bit better already but here comes another shocking news. The IG advisor said I quitted RP. Like really?! Where did you get that from? He didn't even verify it with me and announce it to the MC team. And now i ended up getting replaced by some other people. This is soooooo.... arghhhhhh. Next, have to adjust with the "new surrounding" in house. The place is actually really nice and i can actually adapt the differences. Thing is, can she really stop sticking her butt in the kitchen every morning when i have to get prepared for school? The place is already crowded, and since you've got nothing much to do in the kitchen as well, can you pleaseeee not cramped the place even more? Especially i have to go in and out of the place frequently. Sooner or later, i swear i'm gonna explode already. On the other hand, if you think i should be bothered by your opinion, then you're not-so right this time. I really appreciate your effort but i really don't need these additional stress at home after all day long in school. I came back home to have some break, not to tensed up myself and make myself on guard 24hrs everyday. The pressure on me with the other people in the house is enough for me to manage already, more than that? Sorry to say but i really cannot take it, because whatever i do, it seems to be so wrong in your eyes. Even if i choose not to do anything, it is still wrong. I don't know what to do anymore. So please forgive me for occasionally showing faces, i didn't really mean it. Alright, better start doing my revision already. It's a mission impossible for me to do so after everyone's home sweet home. Ciao..

incoming war every day and night. you just have to keep fighting and move on. :}

p/s : 未來美在還是未來.

Lazing Around In the Morning

These few days, don't know why keep updating the blog. Am i being too carefree? I think i am, because i am suppose to go for my test later and yet, i'm typing this post. Really don't know how to use my time wisely even though it is last minute revision. What to do? Open book mah, but seriously, there won't be time for me to ''open book'' though. Well, i admit waking up early in the morning because i know that i haven't finish glancing through the 6P's. I just can't bring myself to study them. Especially there's someone sleeping right in front of me. Actually the test starts at 2p.m. but since i am staying like, so freaking far and the "school bus" is not available during school holiday, i gotto advance 2 hours earlier, going to school at 12p.m. That's ridiculous. Even earlier then my usual school hours. Last night, was talking about all the schooling memories, the most exciting part was copying homework from each other. Right, 4 more days and i'm done with my freshmen year. After that, will be having a short break. Let's start to think about what to do during the holiday. Work? I don't know about that, i mean, it seems to be a waste of my sem break. If i really want to work, i might as well stay here and work right? At least the currency will be higher. I miss my gaygayz alot!

look at him! sooo freaking cute. tat's my boy :)

p/s : mystery shopper and branded goods buyer.

Lotus Seed

I'm having my study week right now. Yea, no school, no waking up 6am in the morning, but whole lots of revision. So it's actually something like lotus seed. There's sweetness, yet there's bitterness. Oh well, something that cheer me up is to have lunch with he and she. Had a really good time ever since, don't know how long ago already. Oh and, not to mention those really thoughtful brownies. I actually recall about an old tv series that i would really love to have it as my collection. I saw them on taobao website selling, but i don't know if it's real or not, summore the delivery is only available within China.

4 types of different brownie.

super flavourful cendol. rare to find these over here.

p/s : 苦心莲.

A Cold Valentines Day

Well, the title said it already. It's valentines / forever alone day today. It's very hot here, but two of my beloved (under one roof) is actually having cold war, and I, so happened to be the middle person, also known as 和事姥（姥instead of 佬because i'm ah gal :D ) Anyway, it's kinda ackward but thats okay, things gonna soothe out real soon, I promise. Met my aunt to have dinner outside just now before we headed home. My valentine date this year. Hehehe. She said that she's my substitute of my guy. Hah looks like i will be dating her for some time since all my darling, sweetheart, qing ai de, babe is not with me. That's okay, at least i'm not the only one.

but still, celebrations are still on!

Texting MunWai now while doing my revision. Nah, i'm distracted, that's why i'm here. Hmm, UT coming soon already and i'm so not prepared for it. What to do? Last minute mah, is like this geh lar. Sigh, still need to bring my s2pid laptop to repair when my UT end, i don't even know how to go to the service centre loh. Going there alone, again. Bo lang free to accompany me ah. S2pid warranty gonna expired soon as well. Shyt, i havent even buy the bus ticket also, cant really decide on which date to go back because i dunnoe how long its gonna take the laptop to be ready.

p/s : Playing wicked songs.

3 Cs

Since the beginning of semester one, i keep on staying back for all sort of nonsence talk and submitting all the crap RJs. All my effort finally paid off. Yea, i know it's not a big deal of clearing CE points, but it's something to me alright? In fact, i have got extra points summore. True mah, i clear them all within my year 1 studies when i'm given 3 yrs time. Hah! At least i don't have to worry much about it anymore, and i can afford CE deduction okay. Anyway, came back home early today compared to my usual days. Faci release the class 30 minutes earlier. The CNY mood had been around the places, but i'm still not feeling it. Every year, Shandy is a must for CNY. It contain super duper hyper extremely low alcohol percentage but, i take it as a part of my CNY tradition already. Goes the best with YuShang. Hmm, gotten a beats earpiece, fake one though. But the sound and all is very nice. I love it. Oh yea, recently kinda obssess with Crabtree and Evelyn.

p/s : some topic are meant to be sealed.

New Year, not at Ipoh Garden.

In just a blink of an eye, it's already 2012 and I'm still in the midst of UT period, at Singapore. Speaking about UT, kinda regret for not getting myself MC for UT2 today. But oh well, on the bright side, at least I faced it instead of avoiding it, right? I mean, whatever grade that I get, I think I really deserved it and I should be proud of it, because I did not get that grade by sneaking my way out. And hey, it takes whole lots of courage to not back out from a guaranteed A okay? Hmm, I’m still on with all my UTs, my IGs, my work, and project A. Well, about my previous project, it didn’t really worked out so now, I named it project A, which obviously is my initial. Project A is still at its development phase but I am working on it, all I need is the right time and the right place. Felt so restless nowadays, and I actually slept at 10pm last night, the day before my UT2. I am really tired and I lost to my sleepiness. Oh well, better skype now, she’s online. Hehes.

p/s : Extravagant challenge & Material queen.