Johann Low

金曜日, 2月 17, 2006

[Beijing Trip 2006]

Kinda hard to believe, everything ended in a jiffy. Everything was relatively oke except for some bumps with some colleagues. I love Beijing's weather!!! It was abit chilly when I first came out of the airport. It was so chilly that I could see vapour coming outta my mouth and nostrils when I talked. haha. Quite an experience. When my plane was abt to land in Beijing, here's how it looked like, beautiful right?

Here is the hotel that I was staying, supposedly a 5 star hotel. JingGuan New World Hotel

Lobby :

We had a sumptous dinner thanks to our counterparts in the Beijing's office : We had bullfrogs,catfishes and some 'liang cai'. The catfishes and bullfrogs were cooked/braised and cooked in a electric pot with a specially blended sauce. I can assure u, they tasted absolutely great. Here are the pics, e sweet looking gal (Yanzi as in swallow) is a friend of the Beijing couterparts. She's gorgeous, tall, sweet, well endowed :X BUT she is getting married in Nov.

Then we went ard shopping :

Gucci :

LV :

Dior :

Fendi :

Watson with things going at 1 RMB which is like SGD$0.20!! :

We also went to Tian An Men or some of the historical places ard that area

Next day, we had dinner @ Pizza Hut. The whole place is done up nicely like a restaurant.

Wang Fu Jin street, famous for its eateries

Like making prata:

Dinner was the best @ our last night stay there,we had Peking duck at the authetic Peking duck restaurant. This is the restaurant which made the 1st world famous Peking Duck in 1864.

The sauce for dipping the duck :

There were other dishes as well, such as fried beef which was so tender and nicely cooked, I thought it was pork. There are some veg dishes ard. We also had a thick savour milky duck soup at the end. On Wed dinner, we dined at some simply restaurant. The Chinese boss was also there and luckily I was not sitting at their tables cos he made the guys to drink Gao Liang Wine 56% alcohol. So in e end, some of them were drunk.

My room was initially shared with my other male colleague. Then on Sun then we knew there was another new colleague who would be sharing the room with us. He is e Russian as the ang moh in one or two of the above pics. He does not know how to turn on the shower and I helped him to turn on twice. Anyway he acted as if he hardly knew anything. He took a long time to bathe too. His extra bed was not fixed up even to the point when we checked in. Only then I realised it got something to do with the costs and I almost need to slp on the floor. I made my pt that if I were asked to slp on the floor, I will buy my own ticket and fly back to SG. He is Russian, so does that mean I have to give up my bed to him? Russian big fuck?

Another thing was the 1st breakfast on Monday morning. We were supposed to go in a grp with one of my female colleague who was supposed to the leader. She woke up late, in the end, we had to settle our breakfast ourselves. READ: our rooms do not come with ABF. Running short of time, thanks to waiting for this 'leader' we had no choice but to settle at the 7th floor where breakfast is served for all. Costed us $431++ RMB which is ard SGD$80+. I knew it is abit high and of cos this leader once she knew this began to make some noise. I was so pissed that I told her off in front of the manager, that if she thinks the RMB431++ breakfast is too exp, I can jolly well pay for everything MYSELF because I CAN AFFORD to.

Besides having this 'leader' who kept dragging and wasting our time. The weather is icy cooling. haha..bt the air is quite heavily polluted. Imagine there is a constant arid smell of charred wood or burning smell in the air. It was alil hazy most of the time and layers of soot settled on unmelted patches of snow making them gray. Also ur pisai is gray also oke! haha.

The traffic there is horrendous, if u seen how they drive, u will appreciate how orderly SG roads and traffic is. Oh I also got myself a G2000 jacket @ ard SGD50. 60% off. Good quality.

Oh yeah, SQ planes has a wholesome collection of movies. I watched Nana, The Incredibles, Tom Yam Gong and other blockbusters on the to and return flights. I will fly SQ anytime. Just that SIA is not the top airline anymore, taken over by Cathay Pacific. Now it is the 4th!

elow at 12:38 午前 |

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