China Tour - Finale ~ Bye Bye Shanghai

Okay, this should concludes the whole China Tour posting. There are some really nice pictures of Shanghai I would love to share.

I think if i would have to choose between Shanghai and Singapore, i will still prefer Singapore. The memories i had of Shanghai, is purely crowds, traffics and dust! But i got to admit, that some of the places and scenes are nice.

1) Night Scenes of Shanghai! Its quite a nice ride thru the Shanghai river to catch all it's glimmering night scenes. There was fireworks on display that night we took a ride on the cruise.



Despite the cold weather, i was out on the deck half of the time.




2) The Landscape of Shanghai is nice!
Be it day or night, you can capture a nice landscape of Shanghai! Something that Singapore don't really have.
Shanghai's tallest Building, the place we are going to to catch a glimpse of the whole Shanghai!




What i see at the top of the world!






The lift we took to the top of the building...it doesnt show the floor..but instead the height..how many feet etc...


3) The old streets of Shanghai..

Everywhere is heritage structures, buildings, roads...Shanghai has it all.






Mum actually asked for this picture herself.


4) Railways...
I took this on the day i left Shanghai..
The station was just beside the Hotel we stayed but i have to make a detour before i reach the top of the bridge to capture these pictures.









I won't be going back to Shanghai in near future. My next update of the next travel trip will be Taiwan!

Bad RUn!

Fionis asked me for Supper last night and i was having Roti Prata at this Prata Shop middle of the night before i felt my tummy started groaning!
Oh yah...i was about to blame her "See, i told you i didn't wanted Supper!!!", when i realized i was dreaming!!
I was on my bed tossing and turning before i woke up and rush to the toilet...Yucks...
And all this actually came true when i bid Lainey farewell yesterday at the mall telling her that over the night, i will shed off that 1KG of food that we swallowed over dinner! Well it came true!

Early in the morning, mum woke me up so early to get her breakfast. I was abit reluctant until i saw the morning Sun! Wow...its really so warmth and the feeling of China came back. Grabbed my camera and i started taking some shots!





And since i have decided to revisit the Jalan Besar this round armed with my DSLR, i left home early...I was so weak even after having Prawn Noodles in the morning and a can of Fuji Apple..That was when i realized i shouldn't have tried to be funny when i was still in the recovering stage..none-the-less, Photography once again proved the ability to boost one's mentality and morale(MINE) to overcome all these weakness.

I started back-tracing my "yesterday" steps after collecting films and the smena 8M camera from weihsuan.

Okay...initially when i wrote this entry before i took a nap(simply exhausted), i really wanted to show some pictures of the place. Ermm...but something happened and i decided to only show this....



YES! A Rooster!!!


Don't belittle this little fellow, it's his territory here.




Don't ask me why i'm posting a whole entry for this "Rooster"
Check out this Picture!!!The answer Is here!


Enough Hint!! There are more numbers in the above following pictures...Good Luck everyone! There is still a tomorrow to place your bet!

Lost and FOUND!

I left office in search of the Eva Air ticketing Office and its really a bad day for me..
I cannot imagine myself circling the same few blocks and not noticing that the office is just infront of me. I must be Blind!

Anyway, because of this, i found this place that really attracts me alot. Too bad, i didn't take down the name of the street. Carrying only my XA2, i decided to explore and finish up the film before heading down to Triple D for developing.

It was raining by the time i finished the film. Quite a terrible day actually.

Some of the pictures of tat street i mentioned. The XA2 was indeed cool but then the light leak issue on it is indeed disturbing, out of 39 shots, at least 10 were hit by light leaks.(Oh did i say 39 pictures? YES!!! XA2 allow me to shoot a total of 39 pictures out of the original 36 pictures!)

This Rooster owns the place!!!! haha






Very bad light leaks!




This is a very special building which i felt the windows are left opened symmetrically.


I seriously think this is a good lomography camera. The inbuilt metering is so good at controlling exposure!
Some of the Other shots i took using this roll of film!






This is the nicest i felt...very lomo...i think its along Little India


I shot this with the inbuilt flash!

The New Year 2010

Yes finally, we say goodbye to Year 2009 and welcome the New Year 2010!
I was initially planning to buy new clothes, new bags, new shoes in anticipation for this New Year! But somehow because of my Post China trip and my Pre Taiwan trip, i have decided to tighten my wallet and pretend not to see the many "Sales" signboard hanging around the almost all shops.

Well, at the minimum, i convinced myself to at least get a new phone...AN IPHONE!

Spend 20 mins on the phone with M1 Customer service hotline asking for an exemption to allow me to re-contract at 18months free and only after several heated argument, did i realized that there was a promotion, $100 waiver, for Iphone renewal! At least i get another $50 rebate off my handphone bills. lol..

And thanks to my sis who drove me down to paragon to get my Iphone!

So here is my IPHONE finally!





I'm finally an IPhonetic and joined the Apple club!


Oh yah, before i forget, when i was back from China, everyone asked me if i managed to see any 美女 in Suzhou..since its always in the books that Suzhou 出美女..
like for example Carina Lau...

Ermm apparently all the 美女 has left or rather exported out of this place and what was left was considered their 4th grade beauties.

These are the models at the Silk factory, consider Suzhou's best models in town!
We are lucky to catch a glimpse of them.

Good things must share with you guys...
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When she first step out, i thought she was the designer or the Emcee for the show.
But i was wrong...I couldn't help giggling non stop at the side when each of them start walking out..they look professional!


When those model wearing the silk pyjamas walked out, i really thought they just woke up from bed...

And here we have the top 5 models in line..
From the left,
1) Madam Butterfly, she forgot to bring her "strapless bra" today for the show...and i thought i found her familiar, until i visited the toilet after the show and saw a look alike cleaner auntie cleaning the urinal....

2)Sadako...i think she idolised the lead actress Sadako after watching "The Ring", from her puffy eyes, she might have caught episode 1-3 last night before hurrying down for the cat walk.



3)She looked the most normal here, and apparently a little "sad" on the stage, i supposed that she got "Tua" to join this group for the catwalk...the rest decided to pull out without informing her.

4)I believed she is one of the silk factory worker that does the silk extraction, there is one of them missing at the station when we toured around the area. Nice fringe that she set, bet she spend a long time to get it right!

5 & 6)Obviously they are related, Mother and daughter both trying to earn some extra income for the family. The Mother looked more experience with her pose.
From my super detailed analysis based on my years of experience, from the picture, No.6 should be a friend of Sadako and both caught the episode 1-3 together last night before Sadako introduced her for this catwalk where due to insufficient models on stage, pulled her mother in as well.

Don't say i didn't bring anything back from China for you guys, i have gotten all their contacts, just let me know which one you are interested, and i will happily pass them to you.

Saying bye to Hangzhou

We bid farewell to hangzhou after a lunch at Shan wai Shan..a very famous restaurant in Xihu and some people say that if you have not visit this restaurant, the trip is considered incomplete.
The Dong Po meat is really nice here





Here's the last pic i told...love the glare....handsome rite? lol