Alright, since I dont feel like doing ANYTHING now, I'll post photos of my Shanghai trip

At this place called Cheng-Huang Miao on our first day. Thgt that it was somewhere to go pray when its actually a shopping area!? Lol.

Ok this is what I call cultural difference. =D lol.

This is the shop where we ate the xiao-long bao! Super nice. The filling is not the meat kind, its crab eggs! Shlurp shlurp yum yum!


Okay this is the night view of some small river in suzhou. It looks so much nicer than Clarke Quay. But if you want night views that are better than Clarke Quay, hold on to the later part of this post, you'll be amazed. =)



OUR BOAT RIDE! Haha

The houses along the small river, and this is not some scenic view thing, ppl do stay in them!

The boat behind us.

Im sure some of you heard of this place called Xi-hu. So yeah this is a small little part of the lake. Looks quite nice as a scenic desktop background. Lol.

Alright, the "greedy" fishes at the side lake of Xi-Hu.

Wan-Song-Shu-Yuan (Wan-Song school).Okay its only at there did my tour-guide told us that the story between Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Ying Tai was fake?! I was damn gullible to have believed it for like dunno how many yrs. Argh. Lol. But its once the best sch or smth in Suzhou history.


The "wishes" ppl hang when they visit Wan-Song-Shu-Yuan.

At the top of some bridge that crosses the Chang-Jiang. Said to be the pride of all Chinese in the past when the western powers declined to provide us help to build the bridge.And you're right, its SUPER COLD up there.

This guy, or rather artist, is one of those who sold his work to help raise $ for the bridge. His art-works are quite superb. Drawing inverted images in a sperical ball so as to make the image look right on the outside. Pro but he's quite dao. =P

This is the statue of some lady in the past (oops I forgot her name =P). Had to huddle across a few steep stones to get to tt particular stone in order to take a close-up.So how guys what must you do? hint (*clap clap). Hehe.

At this place called the San-guo-Cheng (Castle of the Three-Kingdoms). This is where CCTV filmed the romance of the 3 kingdoms. Behind me (not sure whether you can see) is Tai-Hu, yeah another lake. The thing is, this lake is like 4 times bigger than S'pore!

This is a formation thing at some temple. It is said if you move around the five bats around the circle and then step onto the blue thing at the centre, you'll have a good marriage for married couples and romance will blossom for singles. =) (I STEPPED =D) Lol.

Ah with mum and dad at the other side of Tai-hu. See the ferris wheel behind? Yeah. looks so like the one we have in Singapore.

This was taken in Madam Tussaud's Shanghai wax museum.It has wax museums over a few countries in the world. Yeah its called "Zhen-ren-la-xiang-guan" in chinese. The wax figures are super real man.See on.

Ronaldo.Actually didnt wanna take with him but no other soccer-stars around alr! So no choice. Haiz, make do with him. =(

Haha, trying on to be like a china gymnastic person but it so hard to lift my legs up =(

Jordon!

I think this is Jerry Yan, isit? Hmmmm....

This is the beginning of the night scenes part. Some are a little unclear so do click on it to get a better colour view. On the ferry travelling along Huang-pu Jiang (Huang-pu river) while taking this. Super nice scenery. Everyone in the tour was in awe of the night view in Shanghai.

The permanent docking dragon restaurant by the river bank.

Dunno what hotel is that with the lotus at the top.Lol.

Dong-Fang-Ming-Zhu-Ta a.k.a The pearl of Shanghai. Super nice structure. And guess what, the middle section is built as president suites.COOL! =D

Some sphere-like building next to the Pearl of Shanghai. Looks so nice and class. So much like a dance hall kinda thing.

Shanghai-Tan! Yeah we always hear of tt old movie and mr keong keeps singing that song on teachers day which just triggers the whole school into laughter. Looks so much like a court house.

Yup,more of the beautiful structues lighted up at night.

A picture from above the Dong-Fang-Ming-Zhu-Ta! 263m above ground and its the position of the middle of the 3 balls. Obviously we cant go to the one at the top because its used for radio frequency transmissions!

Overall night view of Shanghai from above.Nice isn't it! Told you. So much more better than Singapore's

Students doing morning exercise at the school next to my hotel.So organised! To be honest, it looks a little much more organised than zhss's november papa charlie charlie PT. And the organisation is based on the student's own initiative so Im very impressed with it.

View of the city outside my hotel. Can you see the Pearl of Shanghai? Yup, only a little of it cos the rest is covered by fog. And fog is a issue not to be taken lightly there.

Taking a photo with a christmas tree at one of a street called Xing-Tian-Di. Yeah the street name sounds quite kid-ish but the things there are ouch! A cup of coffee is even more expensive than its starbucks equivalent in Singapore.

This is a picture of the small "pond" in a park in Shanghai. And their park is like a whole condo estate kinda land space with like 8 exits?!

Waiting for the bullet-train at the platform and its super COLD!

The bullet-train is here!

Looks like the train in Astro Boy.Lol. Sleek and Cool right! This is currently the world's fastest bullet train, beating the ones in Japan. Highest speed attainable,430km/h! Route distance, 32km, which is like very short and it links only from the train station to the airport.

=( only 301km/h for our trip but still it is quite fast and surprisingly, the trip is very smooth

Okay, last photo of my Shanghai trip! Everyone at the airport checking in.Notice the things sticking down from the roof, yeah that's the design on the airport at the Shanghai Pudong International airport. Unique right! =D

All in all, this is one of my greatest overseas trips.

The tour guide there is very very knowledgable in many aspects such as history,scenic structures and esp. feng-shui.Lol.I love her talks on feng-shui. The outdoor scenes were great and weather was nice too,9-13 degrees celcius.Our tour group was fantastic.Everyone was very punctual and the mood was there. There were a few families who were super funny throughout the whole trip and its tough not to laugh when they crack something up.

Hotels were fine (since its definitely better than the tents in NPCC).Food was at some point a little oily and salty but I super enjoyed the xiao long-bao and dong-po meat.The only disappointment for food was the breakfast which really sucked totally.Camp breakfast was so much better.

Slashing of prices was fun and having the shop-keeper chase you the whole corridor for you to relent in and buy their stuff.

It really made an impact on how I see the world now and its really a big big world out there. What we think over here as nomal is sometimes a luxury to those out there far far away. And we really too have parts to improve on and a long long way to go. Those who wish to go to Shanghai I seriously encourage you to go there with an open mind and immerse yourself in the culture and tradition there. Nothing more than fun can describe it.

And lastly, I would like to thank God for blessing me with a safe and enjoyable trip. =D