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Back! I am actually super tired now, but since the afternoon had been spent dozing off a plenty, i cant get to sleep. hmmm..so the trip. wow i dun even noe where to start. Its really cold at beijing, no snow, but something like -1 to 5 deg. I dun really fancy the weather it made me feel like triple-layered kong bak just wearing everything. Lazy to pee even, so many freaking layers to peel.


I'll upload the pics later. Actually Beijing is rather clean and quite modern, not as modern as Shanghai but ok not bad. Hotel was good, cause it was 5 star lodging. Toilets..ooh..i saw this woman peeing with the door open facing me. That image is utterly gut spilling, and unfortunately hard to forget.


Hahah..ok enough on the negatives. The first day was spent at the Forbidden City after we reached at 6am. 39 people in the tour group. 1 funny old man, Uncle Robert. Even the name is funny enough. He was like my best friend during the first five days of the trip cause he left for Shanghai on the fifth day, and i din go there. Uncle Robert has retired and he used to work in the court, so he is well acquainted with the law-ly terms and his english is fwah! Funny thing about Uncle Robert is that he is like a 20 yr old trapped in a 65 yr old's body. You should hear the way he speaks. He complained to me that his wife has a "one-tracked mind" cause she is a staunch catholic and she didn't wished to step into the chinese temples that we visited there. And the most interesting thing Uncle Robert said was about his wife being jealous if he speaks to the female population. He is damn damn interesting. We actually talked on the phone just a couple of hours ago. Honestly he is my first old friend! Old people are nice to talk to too! Not the grouchy ones though, sad to say, Uncle Robert's wife is a one grouch-ie one.Everything about him, personality, attitude and even the way he speaks totally belies his age, safe except the wrinkles. He said he was pissed off with this wife, for trying to disallow him to enter the temple. He entered in the end, but he told me it was not as though he loved going into so much, but rather he wanted to show his wife that he wasnt about to be pushed about.


Oh ya. Uncle Robert's doesnt understand much chinese, only some random words here and there. So how this friendship started was that we were at the supermart and he was buying Ritz biskuits on the first day. He was asking me to help him ask the salesgirl if the ritz biskuit has cheese in it or was it a plain one. So by the second day, we were complaining about the toilet conditions, not that it was that bad. Honestly i felt that it was okay, maybe not the full moon booty in my face, but as for the other aspects, i can try to appreciate the city's culture. Anyways, complaining, or just plain kao peh can draw people together. His jokes are plain ridiculous. When passing by a lake, he pointed to a funny hump on the water and told me that was the crouching tiger hidden dragon, or wait..or was it the loch ness monster?! Its soooo hard to find someone with this weird sense of humour. Uncle Robert actually believes in horoscope, which i find it amusing to say the least.


Besides him, the was still another family that was pretty chummy with my family. Some people in the tour group really kept to themselves, i dun understand why the need to be so, but well, its their choice.


ok. i am really tired to the point of hallucination.I think i saw a buddha jump over the (great) wall. GREAT.