Whoaa~~! Already in the mid of Jan, sigh, I left the blog like so long already. Well...it's a good start to the new year knowing that I get my allowance for my overtime~!!!! That's like the best news after hearing my boss sending me some praises. No bonus though, but getting the money is good enough. Another thing to keep quiet about, hmm...I think need to start to learn to keep quiet bout lots of stuff.
SO,let's talk bout CHINA. Don't think one blog could cover all, in fact, this blog will be mainly words. All the pics are in my laptop and currently not planning to touch my laptop till I recover my lost files.
Dec 18th 2005:
In time to bid farewell to my niece, she got home in time to see me leave~! Reached KLIA at about 6am. Waited a while before meeting up with colleagues, then checked in and stuff like that. About 7.50, we got on the plane. Excited and window seat. Nice view of the wing nothing much. :P Quite a small plane (737). it's like a bus with a lot of tourists heading to Shenzhen.Noisy and not comfortable to sleep in. Thank goodness it was only a 3 and 1/2 hr flight. Food was rice with chicken, salad, fruit, bread and a drink. Din taste that bad, but one of my colleagues, KY, was so sick of the plane food that he din touch it. Anyway, reached Shenzhen bout 12 something....got a taxi and off we go to our hotel. Oh...the temperature was 14 degrees. Nice, sunny but cool. The taxi, left-hand drive...not so shocking till the fella got on the high way. Honking here and there, emergency break, cutting left n right. Culture shock. It was still ok in the end of the day. We reached our hotel bout an hr later. Nice hotel....nice room...nice place. Checked in, dropped our bags and off we go to look for place to go. Still was new to the place, so we took another cab to Dong Men, a shopping place. That's where another eye-opener came in. The people. Their culture of marking their product prices real high and letting people bargain for anything and everything. Ohh...before that, need to elaborate more on the driving culture there. Horrifying~! Imagine....they can reverse and make 3-point turn in the middle of the road...it's 2-lane and there's so many cars coming from the opposite direction...they dun step on their brakes unless it's necessary only and that is very seldom, they like their vehicles to be moving ALL the time.
Funny experience on the first day was the porridge. We were at a dimsum restaurant, thought bout our typical porridge where each of us will only get a small portion. So each of us ordered one bowl. We were a little surprised when one of the waitress came back and asked us again whether we were serious bout ordering 4 bowls. With a determined voice, my colleague, Raymond said yes. To our surprise, they served us 4 BIG bowls of porridge. Those big bowls as in those u find when u order noodles back here. Not big u might say, but it's VERY big to us considering we had dimsum before that porridge came. It was cheap...3.80 yuan(RM1.90) per plate of dimsum. We ordered a few.
Anyway, shopping on the first day...only got myself another winter jacket, cost bout 100 yuan, that's bout RM50. Thot it was cheap, but then I was told I could get it for way cheaper. And bought another sweater for 40 yuan(RM20). Didn't buy already after that. Wanted to buy boots, but came to think of it, very seldom that I could wear that back home. Got back to hotel bout evening to meet up with another colleague,Kong, who took a flight that landed in HK. Then it was dinner. Our first dinner. This was another thing to remember for the rest of our lives. "Xiang Chai" (Local Dish....not sure bout the translation :P) . It was HOT~! And it was basically chili, chili and more chilii~~!! oh ya..and pepper too. Got scared of it already. We got back to our hotels after that. It gets cold once it gets dark. And night time there starts bout 6.30pm. So got back to my hotel, opened up my suitcase and arranged my stuff. Got ready for the next day....It was a good sleep with a comfortable bed.
To be continued....
