Frost Baby

Everyone...I am back!!! Miss me? Hahas...

I have a great time in China...although there were no snow coming down from the sky...snow were basically everywhere...roof...Geography Time...roof were slanted to prevent the accumulating heavy snow from making the roof collapsed...hahas...see learning geography is useful...so ya I am talking about snow being everywhere...roof...floor...trees...grass and even on the bamboo stick plants which were bent onto the ground by the snow...snow...snow...snow everywhere...I am so happy!!! Finally can cancelled the 'see real snow' dream...

This vacation is great...but I just don't like some things about it...Firstly, the breakfast...this is probably the worst breakfast I have eaten for all of my 5 days in China compared to all of my last vacations...the service is slow...have to wait for like 15 min before the empty jar of orange juice is replenished and then another 5 min to get a clean spoon and fork...the food is cold...especially in that kind of weather...Secondly, the food...especially the vegetable...had a funny taste with it...most of the food either taste very sweet or very salty or else like the vegetable...had a funny taste with it...Just like what Julianne had mentioned...most of the dishes for the meals repeated themselves so many times till I can simply memorise and predict all the dishes for the next meal...the chilli taste weird and they do not provide sliced chilli placed in light soya sauce...why? Because it would not have taste nice at all as their chilli taste sweet...ya sweet not spicy at all...Thirdly, the toilet...luckily, I do not have the chance to 'try it out' in the outdoor and all of the toilets I had visited have doors and is quite clean except one...which smelled so revoking...till I almost puke...yuck...then another one which have door but I think they were just useless as when I stand up...the height of the cubicle wall and door is just around my chest area...so I can easily look over...I go in the toilet first...I don't even dare to do my business and was just standing there...hesitating about whether I should do it or not...when my cousin stepped in...saw me and screamed...hahas...I had the laugh of my life man...Because the front door of the toilet is wide open and anyone walked past could just look in and over the cubicle wall...so we decided to close it and do our business...Luckily, nobody opened the door...I had the most uneasy time doing my business in my entire life...Could not imagine the horror if I had to do it in the open...Then, of course is the shower time...another reason why I do not like the toilet...every shower time for me is like punishment...had to endure the horrible cold when I take off my clothes and the time after you turn off the water and put on your clothes...I shivered like mad man...I showered everyday because I could not stand being not washed after a day...so I had to go through this for 4 days...Plus, one of the hotel I stayed in do not have a heater...maybe it did but I could not feel the heat at all and the temperature in the room is like 16 degree celsius...Fourthly, useless shops...well at least for me...had to go visit jewellary, jade, silk, tea leaves shops and at the beginning...there will always be a lesson where someone will be there to talk to you about the products...sian...but the most bizarre of all is this jewellary shop where at first, a guy will be there...telling you about their products then he will suddenly asked you where are you all from then after knowing that we came from Singapore...he will suddenly tells us how good our country is...blah blah blah...he will completely switch to another topic...then he suddenly introduced us the son of the boss who told us he is from thailand...and that he had just came here like 3 days ago and told us that his company is coming to Singapore...and that we do not need to buy anything...he just wanted to make friends and if we did he will help us get a refund...then he told us that his daughter just came to Singapore to study...and he hated this place...blah blah...nothing is mentioned about the products...then we came out of the room and he said he just wanna teach us how to identify real diamond and again stated that we do not have to buy anything...then someone started to show interest in something which he decided to give her a big discount...how big...take my father for an example...he was looking at a blue diamond ring which cost like thousand of dollars in yuan...that guy thought my father was interested and told him that since fate brought them together...they can be friends and he will sold this ring to my father for $100 yuan...come on man...that was a huge discount lor...too huge...he then proceeded to tell us secrets like the basic cost for some jewelley and how much profit he will make...so on and forth...this make the salegirls unhappy as he was revealing 商业机密...so weird lor...I feel really uncomfortable the moment...he stepped in...when I came back to Singapore...I found out from my aunt who also went on the same trip like us last year...that she met the same guy who said the same thing...de...so much about the just came to china part...luckily...we only spend 100 yuan...Spend a lot of time in this weird places and not enough time for shopping...which is the fifth point...plus too cold to spend long hours out in the open...so we would usually hide in a shop...so in the end I only bought a hat and little key chains...must apologised to Charlene and Julianne...do not have time to help them buy their things...sorry...hahas...really cold in China lor...no matter how much you wear...it is just not enough...the wind...the coldness can just seep through your clothes...into your bone...the cold really just pierce into your skin...must thanks Julianne for lending me the gloves and jacket...it really helps and the jacket...because it is in a bright colour green...it makes me very recognisable...not easy to get lost among the sea of black and brown jackets!!! Hahas...exercise a lot during this time...as while we were supposed to stay on one spot to listen to the tour guide...I am jogging on the spot...when moving from one location to another...I am running...hahas...good training...too cold to just not move about!!! My skin is those very sensitive type so in the end my lips did not crack but my face is like peeling all over...super painful...Overall...I really had a great time with my aunt family and my family...plus really like the TV programs in China...over hundreds of channels man...had a great time flipping through the channels which took me like 15 min...hahas...something that cannot be done in Singapore...and of course the beautiful snow...makes everywhere look so magical...next stop...KOREA...hahas...

~ First night in Shanghai...one word...COLD!!!

~ Red Pearl tower...nice...

~ Cold!!! I had two gloves on but still my hands became numb...

~ Snow!!!

~ This old man sang to us while rowing the boat...I had the urge to ask him to sing Jiang Nan lor!!!

~ Outside looks so 古老 ...inside there is a Coca Cola machine...how contradicting...the effect of modernisation... 

~ My first snowball fight!!! The ice on the ground is really slippery...an old man in my tour group slipped and fell one night and knocked himself on his head...luckily it was nothing too serious...

~ Saw JJ every meals...hahas...cos his photo was on the bottle of sprite which was available at every meals...actually I expected to see him everywhere cos he is supposed to be popular in China but in the end I keep seeing Jay Chou lor...irritating...

~ Waiting to be check in in the China airport...

Really glad that I had a successful safe trip...and had many first times in China...first trip to China...first winter trip...first snow...first foot massage...first time setting off fire crackers and fireworks yup fireworks...it is legal...first time eating 冰糖胡卢 ...I ate a modern version one which consist of fruits...it taste great till I saw a worm......and so on...perhaps the only regret I had is did not have the chance to take a group photo...Mmm...long entry today...hope you all had fun reading it...Below...is a bunch of photos and videos...Enjoy!!!