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    Sunday, June 04, 2006
    Title : China ROCKS
    Time : 2:40 am

    Earworm: We Will ROCK you~~Queen

    For those of you to lazy to read the entire post, here's a summary:
    The Good: Caves,Cruise,Shopping(however little opportunity)
    The Bad: Oily,fat food,ROCKS,public toilets
    The Ugly: Hacking spitland,inconsiderate smokers,speed demon horn happy bus drivers

    what's with the rocks? scroll down and you'd understand.
    oh and public toilets didnt make it to the ugly category coz i was lucky. they all had doors and proper flushes. only once stopped by countryside petrol station was a gutter in the ground. let the stench lead u there, the same can be said about msian toilets.

    27 may

    KLIA..supposed to be artistic shot
    2.20am>>Flight to chongqing,china
    in no way can southern china airlines compare to MAS. No inflight entertainment except for tiny screens showing mr bean. Only one aisle so it gets pretty clogged up with human traffic. the food sucks. the space is minimal, like even for me with the short legs wei! i feel for my fellow passengers. and the stewardess were not courteous at all. not even pretty. shout like in market only.

    6.30am>>Arrival at airport, *yawns*
    9.00am>>went for second breakfast. warm orange juice yikes.
    i found this sign so the cute


    visited the shopping district

    this photo belies the fact that this place is heeuge! i think it easily has 100 malls and a thousand small shops. after all, chongqing's population of 30million beats the whole of malaysia. and it has 37 universities in the city. wow! im so fascinated with this place. the traffic is neverending but rather smooth flowing still, they have around 30 bridges leading out of the city and more to come, the bridges are magnificent structures high above the yang tze river and jialing jiang.

    after that, a connecting flight to changsha.

    visited this museum with the best preserved mummy the chinese empress which i actually knew about coz i watched it on discovery. im so proud of myself. apparently when they found her corpse, it was not at rigor mortis yet, still can bend the arm, and her internal organs were still intact. even found melon seeds in her stomach!

    after dinner and a hazardous drive up the mountain road--driver hurtling around corners at probably 100km/h while smoking/talking on handphone without hands free, reached kaitian international hotel..


    28 may


    these peaks at the zhangjiajie national park are fondly referred to as ROCKS


    yay rocks!


    and some more..


    and can u see thats supposed to be some woman carrying a child or whatever? or its jupakkai with a pot belly or a medicinal man... don't bother


    my sis' smile is beginning to wane...


    yawns.. more rocks?


    why do we look so photoshopped?


    what a nice picture of the rocks. if only it wasnt summer. but lucky not trudging around in miserable cold.


    supposed to act cute/feign enthusiasm


    eee...creepy crawlies make my skin crawl.. this is really maumauchong. seen quite a lot of live/squashed ones along the steps


    took a break from the rocks and went to scald feet in boiling herb water instead. and i don't get a foot massage =( apparently people still at puberty stage (including in 20s) cant be massaged coz organs not fully developed. or something like that.



    what is wrong with this picture?
    chinaman: why are the people so small?
    me: (all philosophical)because humans are miniscule compared to the vastness of nature
    chinaman: parents should be the biggest in one's heart, unfilial daughter!
    me: shall not even dignify him with a reply




    at the self proclaimed world's first natural bridge, where lovers and people carve their wishes on locks and fasten them onto the railings as well as trees

    we already missed the last bus to the cable car station...nooo i don't wanna be stuck in this horrible place!and our legs are exhausted! luckily our guide pulled enough weight for a bus to fetch us.

    29 may

    more rocks! this time at a ten mile picture gallery.


    three sisters!


    highlight of changsha--the cave!



    my sister the dragon



    my mum is so proud of this picture



    the cave was very well lit, and spacious.




    my transformation to a she-hulk



    i have no idea what a fraiding means


    on the way to the jetty, stopped by at a restaurant with roti canai. but it was damn oily, as with all chinese food. but nice and crispy.

    30 may
    got onto the cruise ship at a crazy hour of 1.30am


    our room. so cozy



    endless hours of walking and stewing on buses breed funky smelling socks.


    the dam was a bit of a bore actually, the local guide rattling on about statistics, width, height, weight...blablabla..


    or maybe im just shallow and don't appreciate the magnitude and depth of the three gorges project.



    i even slept thru the ship rising thru the dam, all three hours of it! which i feel a teensy twinge of regret.



    we're supposed to be flexing, but doesnt it look like my sis peeing against the wall and me pulling the flush? acting like idiots only



    my mum looks so cute la



    what a lovely sunset. i just realised the brevity of one... and also realised i hardly sat thru any of them and appreciate the sheer beauty of it.
    after dinner was the crew performance, they were so hilarious..



    and im forced to go cha cha with my dad. *shy* and all my steps forgotten in the wild blinking disco lights. set up for embarassment only



    my sister is obsessed with X3

    31 May
    we transferred onto a smaller boat for the 'lesser 3 gorges' tour and later the 'least 3 gorges'. the guide's english translation is just so funny. i think he meant 'minor' and 'mini'

    i love this pic i took. somehow i have a thing for having boats in scenery pictures



    as u can tell, it's very windy on deck. and mum just loves this candid shot of us.



    trying to act cool but the smile gave the game away..

    2nd try..


    ever since my sister knew the word camwhore...








    the scenery, needless to say, was beautiful and it's a pity the dam has flooded the three gorges and we can't see the shore line anymore, and the current is not rapid enough for us to float downstream on rubber floats like former tourists used to.



    we were entertained with a fair share of mountain songs and sang along too.


    on the ride back we were quite bored and there was no more commentary since it was repeating scenery so we did the only thing on hand to entertain ourselves.--CAMWHORE
    but i shall spare u the pain of it and instead present this adorable, sisterly picture. =p



    i think the sun has fried our brain a bit.. me and sis doing our improvised version of cut the watermelon taichi



    go fly kite! ours kept getting tangled with another girls'. 3 times! i think later she fed up already and left us her kite



    making jiao zi.. reminded me of the event in hostel which no one except orang perancis took part in..



    good enough to eat
    after dinner there was games to win prizes and me and my sis participated in this dumb one where we had to shift the balloon from back to front without using hands and burst it. somehow we were the only team unable to burst the balloon. malu!




    dad using chopsticks to transfer guli.. a game i've stayed far away from since the days of hari kantin.



    mum with her fair share of balloon bursting
    well, we went back empty handed but had fun otherwise

    1 Jun
    In the morning there was some real taichi lessons


    which mum seem quite gung ho about

    later it was a trip to the ghost city. why is it that macabre things attract me so much? i found myself drawn to the little figurines which depict the tortures in hell, body sawn into two, dipped into scalding water, eyes gouged out..



    ooh a group picture


    there's these group of 'ghost statues'


    we're the mischievious ghosts



    mum's the drunken ghost lol


    didnt do much after, had captain's farewell dinner, and then karaoke competition which saw the usual suspects wailing their lungs out.one of our tour members practically shouted the lyrics to stef sun's green light right next to my exploding eardrums

    2 Jun



    aw, this is wendy, the waitress who served us throughout the trip


    we docked at chongqing, and visited the ancient city, more for shopping purposes than anything else. but shame it was raining and wet.


    singing in the rain!




    dad loves this fried stuff. but see the lady behind holding her nose coz the garbage cart is approaching from the left



    mum bought a lot of instant beef noodle. the addict!


    at the last standing gate, a stronghold against invading enemies




    Two Towers: China




    we went for a show sans parents since they've watched a similar one before





    i remember it was short more than anything. after all, they were just performing to about 40 of us tour members. some dancing, juggling and impressive er hu playing. not to mention a skit between a henpecking wife and her effeminate husband. and the highlight was supposed to be face changing but my sis argued she's seen better at her previous china trip.




    last dinner in china..ma la huo guo. which translates into numbingly spicy steamboat. didnt dare try much, apparently it'll make your whole mouth numb till u can't taste anything.


    thru the customs, an officer looked at my sister's inhaler suspiciously and asked her to test it out. like it was poison or something, i mentioned while my sis was demonstrating and she just choked with laughter. that must have raised his suspicions even more. if only she just keeled over and convulsed haha
    flight delayed to 1020pm.. argh back to that cramped space
    home sweet home at 3am