I left UK on the 8th of December and arrived at Shanghai at 8.05 in da morning!! The morning wind is literally like a knife piercing my cheeks as Daddy and I walked to the car. The coldness compared to UK is astonishingly different! UK’s coldness is bearable but China’s coldness will indeed freeze you to your bones. Haa you guys have to experience it yourself to tell the difference. 4 degrees in China is unbearable compared to -3 degrees in UK. Well I didnt actually sleep in the flight because I was busy talking to this chinese lady haaa and mind you, KLM’s food is awfully disgusting! But despite of my tireness, I wanna embrace this chinese culture and get involved in the chinese ambience almost immediately.

5 hours of waiting in London Heathrow and guess what did I do?

HAHAHA.. watched some old reruns of 5566 on my laptop! OLD SCHOOL.

In Schiphol Airport Amsterdam waiting for my connecting flight to Shanghai

DAY 1 – SHANGHAI

Shanghai is developing very rapidly. I will get suprises every each time I go back.


This is our old house 菊園 and guess what is the english name?

Look at the air pollution! SO FOGGY.

Ooohh.. My durian puff! However, the durian doesnt have a very distinct taste.

Daddy’s dessert taste so much better – Grass jelly with green bean.

DAY 2 – SHANGHAI

STROZZI

Daddy kept drawing my attention to the flowers outside the shop and kept asking if the display is pleasing. Apparantly he was the one who decorated it. = =” okayy GOOD JOB DADDY. The flowers really beautify the place.

Old Shanghai street, Cheng Huang Temple.

Look at me!! Qued for 15 minutes to buy Shanghai Xiao Long Bao!! This shop supposedly to be really famous and the Xiao Long Baos are delicious! Worth the wait.. hehh

16 crab meat xiao long bao cost only 20RMB!! How cheap is that?!!

Hahhaah daddy happily posing with the Xiao Long Baos. It’s like scoring victory in a battle!

Sally, Jason, my brother and I went to Party World to sing KTV! Party World in China is literally like a palace, very grand and really massive! So many rooms!!

Hehh meet my cousin, Jason Tan.

And my bruuudda

Did I mention that if you top up 10 RMB each person you get BUFFET as well?!!

Look at the food! We ate for 2 whole hours man..

This is what happened after Jason is stuffed.

DAY 4 – SHANGHAI

The back alley of our house

Daddy driving us to breakfast.

DIM SUM!! HongKong STYLE~

Daddy said the garden looks dull without any colours therefore we went to the garden to get some flowers back.

Daddy @ work in the garden

Busy busy busy

After gardening, Daddy and I decided to chilax at home eating dessert while watching movie.

Q. Can you guess what movie were we watching?

A. Aliens in the attic!

Bruda came home after work and brought us to this authentic korean restaurant!!

IT’S GOOD.. IT’S SO GOOD!

Korean BBQ!

And korean style fried rice cake! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA ^^v

DAY 5 – ZHOU ZHUANG

Driving to Zhou Zhuang （周莊）a historical ancient town.

This is bean curd. The only difference is that the bean curd is much more smoother and has two different flavour – salty and sweet.

I did one which reads 趙慧俐 on the rice.

Daddy bought dragon beard candy.

Traffic jam at the toll station on our way back home!

We went for dinner at this SiChuan restaurant! THE FOOD – MO TAK DING (cantonese)

Fried chicken with chilli and spices and mo po tofu! It makes my mouth water just by looking at the picture.

DAY 6 – SHANGHAI

The weather is fantastic today and I decided to get a feel of Shanghai’s public transport system.

Walking to the bus stop.

Home address yo!

The trains are amazingly clean.. Comparable to SMRT.

Lunch @ Xiao Shao Xin Restaurant which is renowned for it’s chicken.

Ohh ohhh! We had STEAMBOAT for dinner. Bruda and I went to Carrefour to get all our ingredients and there he is busy chopping up the veggies.

Da legendary Da Zha Xie (大閘蟹）The in season food right now.

Xiao Tai is trying to set up the induction cooker as it was beeping non stop.

Yumm.

EH STOP ACTING CUTE PLS.

Getting ready for dinner.

Haa 趙老師 in da house.

A happy girl after the steamboat!

DAY 7 -  SHANGHAI TO GUILIN

Shanghai Airlines snack box

DAY 8 – YANG SHUO

Xiao Yang our tour guide gave us a morning call at 6.30am and we got up to have breakfast and left for Guilin harbour at 7.30am. The morning was bitter cold and the wind was howling like crazy. My teeth were clattering all the time. Our first scenic spot in Guilin is LiJiang River. It travels 83 kilometres exactly like a jade ribbon winding among thousands of grotesque peaks. There were spectacular landscapes alongs the river banks. The river winds like a blue silk ribbon while the hills erect like green jade hairpins is best said to describe LiJiang River. Then we went to Yu Long River, West Street and then watched Impression Liu San Jie!

We were supposed to cruise along the river in those boats at the back.

We went to the deck to take pictures. BOY AM I COLD.

Yes yes you can tell I’m chilled to the bone.. I cant even feel my hands and legs.

There’s a water buffalo eating the seaweed in the river.

Speciality on board – LiJiang Fish and locally grown veggie.

The cam whoring continues after lunch.

Here we are in Yang Shuo, after 3 hours of boat ride. This is Yang Shuo harbour.

After the LiJiang River cruise, we went to Yu Long River where we sat in these rafts made of bamboo and enjoy the scenery along the river.

It’s amazing how these bamboo sticks kept me afloat!

The person at the back is not a “HAN”. He is a minority group called the  zhuang zu (狀族). The Zhuangs are relatively darker in skin tone. Their lifestyle is really simple which consist of rowing boats, fishing or working in a farm.

Breath-taking.. Exactly like in the chinese paintings.

I was seriously afraid that this bamboo raft will topple over and I will drop into the icy waters.

Next stop, Yi Long Tan.

Sat in a boat again and tour the ancient caves.

Back to Yang Shuo county. It’s a really small town and relied mainly on tourism to survive. The town is underdeveloped but it is popular with foreign backpackers.

This is West Street where all the pubs and restaurants are.. You will see lots of foreigners especially Amercians loitering here.

Traditional Yang Shuo small eatery.

Lotus root paste.. Look at how gooey the texture is! HEHEHE

West Street in the background.

Part of LiJiang River beside West Street..

We ended that night watching Impression Liu San Jie, a musical on water directed by Zhang Yi Mo.

DAY 9 – YANG SHUO TO GUI LIN

woke up at 8am had breakfast and left the hotel at 9am to 世外桃源, Shangri-La. Then drove and arrived at Gui Lin at 12pm for lunch followed by Elephant Hill Mountain and ended the night Liu San Jie musical.

This is the miao minority (苗族）.

This is Shangri-La, the fairyland of my dream – the forgotten homeland.

We took the river cruise which brought us around Swallow lake for 25 minutes.

peace and serene.

The Miao minority knitting.

This is how they make their clothes. HANDMADE MADE IN CHINA.

would you just look at the harmonious background? I wish i could just build a house beside the lake and stay there forever! Away from earthly matters.

This is elephant Trunk Mountain.

Does that mountain behind me resembles an elephant?

The water is crystal clear!

Lunch @ hotel.

The view  of Gui Lin town from our room.

Liu San Jie musical

This woman is the one who first acted as Liu San Jie around 50 years ago. Now she’s about 60+. Daddy said he’ve watched the show more than 5 times.

DAY 10 GUI LIN

Last day in Gui Lin.. We woke up at 8am had breakfast and went to the town centre called zhong shan zhong road to buy local delicacies. Then Xiao Yang came and brought us to Fu Bo Mountain, Seven Star Park and Lu Di Cave.

Sword-testing stone in Fu Bo Mountain.

Camel hill in Seven Star Park.

This is called 小熊貓..

thousand year old tortise in reed flute cave.

Daddy bought a banana for 10 RMB and asked me to feed the tortise. But I think it’s full.. Didnt eat the banana in the end. :/

This is 小楊 our tour guide. Guess how he call me? = =” 趙妹妹 and I’m supposed to call him 楊哥哥 because he’s older than me by 2 years. omg man this sounds like those chinese dramas!! Luckily he’s cute I tell u!! Hahahahahahahaa )

Daddy and Xiao Yang busy talking about gou tong again. :/

Finally.. Dinner @ Gui Lin airport before heading back to Shanghai.

DAY 11 – SHANGHAI

Today Daddy brought me to do groceries shopping and I’ve bought LOTS OF FOOD back!! Hahahah we then enjoy a relaxing evening watching hong kong dramas at home with Jason while eating KFC!

DAY 12 – HANGZHOU

Daddy drove us to Hangzhou early in the morning. We then met up with Ah Bing and he brought us around Ling Yin Temple and West Lake. Later that night we went to Ah Bing’s house to visit his parents..

Five spice bean curd.

The sun is setting while we took this picture. Daddy wanted to capture this moment so this is what happened..

Can you even find the sun? = =”!

Hangzhou local delicacies~ Tang Bao, Chicken feet, Sweeten lotus root stuffed with glutinous rice and red bean paste.

DAY 13 – SHANGHAI TO LONDON

The snow in Europe is terrible!! Many flights are therefore delayed because of the weather and my poor induction cooker is left stranded in Amsterdam. KLM better sent it over ASAP!! Grrr.. I was forced to wait in Heathrow from 1am until 7.15am before I took the coach to Bristol. The weather in UK is ridiculous but the sight of snow is comforting. What a tiring day! Now that I’ve finally finished blogging, I CAN FINALLY GET SOME SLEEP. GOOD NIGHT EARTHLINGS I’m going to bed now and dream about 一個比傳説跟美的地方~ <3

Daddy rented a car (which I drove all the way down from London to Bristol). Thank you to the B R I L L I A N T invention of the iPhone’s GPS map system, and thank my lucky stars I didnt get us lost!! Hahahahha I’m so darn proud of myself.. Not only did I drove from London to Bristol but around Bristol and to Exeter, Exmouth and Sidmouth and then back to London.. Wooo hooooo!! ^^v

and a BIG BEAR HUG to Cheryl Fernandez for allowing us to bunk in when we were in London!! Thank you bitchhh love you to bits!! <3.. I seriously missed the fun times we had; dancing to mtv songs till dawn, wrestling each other on the bed, walking to tesco at 2 in the morning, sitting around doing nothing watching disney channel, smacking TP whenever I like and whipping up delicious food for me etc.. we’ve done so many things in so little time.. i really love u girll.. THANK YOUU! )

there she is.. chopping up da chickenn.. aww dont she make a good housewife? ANY TAKERS?

I’m trying to help and she holler at me asking me to get out of the kitchen :/

Da Master of the Kitchen!

Sambal prawns, pepper chicken, dark soya sauce mushroom, cabbage and salad.. YUM!! INDIAN STYLE..

my scrumptious dinner ))))

Relaxing one corner eh?

I was so happy having to visit Greenwich again! It was just like I was there only yesterday.. I’ve brought them around Greenwich town, Greenwich Park, Greenwich Market, Bellerbys College and last but not least, had lunch in Saigon

EH! WHERE ARE U LOOKING? DA CAMERA’S HERE!! hahahahha

Oooohh.. Canary Wharf.. hehee

EH GRANDMA SINGAPORE INC.

GRANDMA SINGAPORE STRIKES AGAIN.

AND AGAIN HAHAHAHA!!

Yepp, daddy drove them both to Cardiff and they stayed there for 2 days.. and while they were there, these were the only pictures they took  = =”.. 1.

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6… WTH?! 6 PICTURES NIAHHHHH. HAAaaaa.. HELLOOO.. CAMERA DONT RUN ON FILMS NOW.

Oh oh our hotel room in lovely Exmouth, Cavendish Hotel..

Da view outside our window. HOMELY~

enjoying the seaview..

Mommy was complaining she was feeling cold and needed a hat.. This was captured after I gave her my hat!! LOOK HOW HAPPY SHE IS!

The weather’s a little rough.. and the wind is insane.. INSANE I TELL U!

Hee.. HI DOGGIE!

I’m the KING OF THE WORLD!

I cant get my hair off my face.. ZZ

our hotel room in Sidmouth!!..

..in a quaint old house converted into a B and B.

Thank you KR 09 ZJN for bringing us around for the past 9 days!

This is the garden behind our room!

Charming English Gardens..

The seafront of Sidmouth which is also a part of the Jurassic Coast.

Haaaa, mommy invented the backwards walk when climbing up a steep slope. She said it’s easier to climb. Not so tedious! I cant stop laughing at her

random picture of a man and a dog.. Man’s best friend.. Really?

>< poor thing.. Mommy fell down yesterday when she was talking and not noticing where she is walking in Exmouth.. Now she’s rubbing her knees. Sayang~

Life’s a climb..

but the view is great!

the view is magnificant!!

the OH SO FAMOUS west devonshire ice cream!

Daddy requested to have a picture of him taken with him having a cow on his hands.. Which he later exclaimed that that cow is TOO SMALL AND HE WANTS IT ZOOMED IN.. :/

There? Much better?? hahahaha

Hee we went to visit the Donkey Sanctuary.

I had never really seen a DONKEY that upclose in my life.

Now that i did,

i think i prefer ponies..

Look at the chickens flocking to me!! THINK I GOT FOOD AHHHH.. ><!

That very well concludes the 10 days in UK.. Haaa hope y’ll enjoyed yourselfff and thank you for all the dried provisions which I think I can survive solely on that for AN ENTIRE YEAR.. My kitchen cabinet is SO FULL that it could BURST OPEN any moment.. Hahahha thank youu thankk youu.. )

WELCOME TO BRISTOL PPL.. the city where I’m gonna spend my next 3 years of my life in. I’m totally loving the vibrant city life although sometimes it’s quite annoying to climb a hill to get my ass to classes in the morning.

We did it again.. Taking silly pictures and had a great laugh after that..

I’m tryingg to climb a treee!!

Yuck! What’s wrong with your tongue!! Keep it in~

Stop trying to kiss me i tell uuu!!

Aww.. look at that little boy drawing..

Patrick insisted on taking this picture as the building behind reads BROADCASTING HOUSE BRISTOL by BBC.

YOU DID IT AGAIN.. Stop making idiotic poses.. hahahah he’s trying to show off his new nail polish he got from my room @”@

Second time = =”

CAUGHT YA!! Dont think we dont know u love taking sneak peeps into mirror when we weren’t looking.

Mr Malaysia Next Top Model.. haaaaa. ALWAYS struting for new poise.

While waiting for Xiao Tian’s laptop to load.. guess what we decided to do?

Yess.. Cam Whoree!

Look!!

There’s a whole series of them!

And btw.. Xiao Tian Tian.. your room smells of BANANA.

The wind was so strong that it blew Peilin’s umbrella into the pond!! Quickk get it up before she sees it.

Edwin : ‘uh-oh, better make sure everything’s alright if not i’ll get hell out of her!’ :/

this is my FAVOURITE picture.. The sun, the place, the peopleee.. awww ((:

I believe i can fly~

Lil doggie came out of nowhere!

OOPS HE DID IT AGAIN!

HAAAAA. this is DA BOMB man!

unpredictable lunch @ some random Fish & Chips shop!

My left overs. But it was pretty good though.

Weekends always passes in a blink of an eye when you are having fun. Now that monday is approaching, it’s time for all of us to get down to some serious studying! Tata~ Later y’ll. (:

Patrick brought us to a club the first night we got to Cardiff. = =”

Edwin and I drank a SIP of the alcohol and look how red our faces has become.

Lovely people y’all!

Cam-whoring in Patrick’s room.

Pardon me if I’m wrong.. this is the main school building of Cardiff University.

Uh-ohh we got ourselves LOST and the guys are asking a friendly neighbour police for directions!

Posing while they continue asking for directions

O.o how did my pictures got stuck together..

Castell COCH is pronounced as KOCKK.. hahahaha

Ohhh we did speed boating in Cardiff bay. OKAYY I KNOW I’ve forgotten the name of this activity.. sorry :/

Hahhahaa this is what happened when it’s 7pm and the SHOPS WERE CLOSED..

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Passerbys were seriously STARING at us man while we carry on our nonsensical act in public.

OHH! I have to COMMENT. The chinese takeaway is delicious EXCEPT FOR THE MEE EDWIN ORDERED.

Yess. Ha Ha. Can you see from our facial expressions?

We were famished but still insisted on taking this picture.

why is there a tongue in my pictureee!!

There, the National Museum!

Haaa peilin is trying to mimic a dog..

Mr Santa Dog! ^-^

Artistic..

Even BETTA!

Looooookk at how RED the leaves are.

Hehhe they stuck this stem in my hair = =”

Oh com’on.. is that the best you can think of? More creativity pleaseee.

I really had alot of fun during that 2 days in Cardiff but I hated the weather though.. THE WIND THERE IS CRRAZZEEEE i telll uuuu!! Nearly gotten myself blew off~ hahaaa. but THANK YOU PATRICK STEPHEN for letting us SQUEEZE in your roommm.. hahahaha in case you are wondering.. yepp 4 of us slept in his room!! What a squeeze but at least it’s free. Muahahahahaa

Don’t we look more like rock stars? Especially Peilin.. J ROCK!! Hahahhaa

Edwin in his vampire teeth.. you aint scaring anyone though~

Twilight the series?

Trying to act cool

I wondered what was I looking at? Hmmm..


 

i likee thiss! Da Master of the house.

Haaa.. look at edwin dance..

Oh, this.. we were trying out individual poses.

as usual, the supermodel pose.

i wonder what pose is he trying to mimic.

Peilin you seriously look like NANA.

WEE O WEET!! SEXY EH?! Hairy though

OOOHH. their behind ^^

Da puppet master..

Poor edwin freezing his guts off..

Come~ lemme warm u up a little.. LOL!

The start of our cam-whoring!!.. We were trying to take as many pictures as we could before Peilin’s camera run out of batt.

Oops doubled. Whatever~

Getting rdy for new poses

Peilin insisted on 2 sec of self timer hence the picture!! She didnt have time to run to the place where she’s supposed to be.

Hmm, what should we call our new rock band?

Hehh..

Huuullloo, Mr Patrick.. act in accordance with us please.

Im standing in water.

They are balancing on water!!

HAHHAHAA. he got himself all wet after this pose.

Heart Halloween <3

Po~

Twinkie winkie, dipsy, lala, po.. POOOO~ Teletubby, teletubbiessss.. say hellooo.. EH OH~!!!

With this happy picture concludes that the party that night was SUPERB!! <3

love this song!!

in Peilin’s room getting ready for MSSA dinner!

Bored, and cant help it.. Cam-whoring

My Xiao Tian Tian.. looook so sweet. HAHAHaa

we

take

and take

and take..

Okay, peilin wanted me to see how I look dressing up like that. = =

HARHARHAR.. Xiaoo Tiann..

and she made me wear that.. I look ridiculous dont I?

haa. we were trying to think of some stupid poses

there, finally got ourselves balanced on each other’s foot.

someone’s acting cool. Yo Yo.. Hip hop girl.. Xiao Tian in da house. YO!

normal pose

act cute pose

normal pose 2

act cute pose 2

it’s a normal day for Steven Krisman, sitting there quietly reading his brochure.

until we came along and decided to use him as an exhibit!

yes ppl, he can still read under all the havoc we were creating.

until he cant take it so he decided to play along with us.

comon krisman! dont act cool! Charlotte’s trying darn hard to make him laugh.

there there, this is more like it

ugly pose!!

Hahahahah steven wasnt very keen on taking this picture.

Ohh, WHO WAS THE ONE WHO TOLD ME CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE IS VERY BEAUTIFUL AT NIGHT?! This is what I saw. What a let down  But I reckon it’s prettier in the morning.. Where you can actually see the view. ;)

Look! 2 Vampires glowing in the dark.

Now it’s left with one. Gosh Steven, you’re really fair!

Hail Queen Charlotte!

The Queen and the J POP PRINCE. Har har harrr… :]

Finally she took a picture right outside her block!

Then Emily and I joined in the picture.

Xiao Tian took this picture for us and since then she had been complimenting her camera skills!

Oops sorry my bad. :/

There, all better

Ahhh.. COOL, REFRESHING BRISTOL AIR.

trying to be extra there.

Hahahhah Xiao Tian took this when Peilin wasnt noticing hence the posture.

whoa, im trying to kick the camera girl

what a beautiful afternoon