Choo Choo Hello Beijing

Bye bye Tianjin, see you again next time, in the future! :)

Would love to visit you again, teehee!

After staying in Tianjin for two nights. We went to Beijing by train. Had breakfast then we went back to our hotel rooms to pack! Took cab to Beijing train station. The so called C train moved at the speed of 327km/h, thats why it only took us 30 minutes from Tianjin to Beijing. While if you use other transportation to get there, they all take a much longer time. Like 2 hours? Or something like that. We bought the first class tickets that cost 69RMB, which is around RM35. Quite comfortable but it was just a 30 minutes journey, so it didnt really matter THAT much. I wanted to sleep so badly because i was dead tired, but obviously i had not enough time to do so, so i gave up that idea. Gosh, it was so nice to sleep on the train you know! >=(

Inside the train station. It is so huggeeee!

Lucky the people there were much better, i remember how the locals rushed to the train when i went China last year, terrible i tell you!

Railway.

Me camwhoring on the left HAHA and the train ticket on the right :)

The view outside the train.

After we reached Beijing, we took two cabs to our hotel. It took quite us and the cab drivers quite a long time to find the hotel. Because the hotel was situated in one of the small street near the famous shopping area,  Wangfujing and the drivers never heard of it before. And the worst part was, we didnt know the chinese name of the hotel, we were trying so hard to translate it into Chinese (since you know, they always translate Chinese words directly into English) plus we had difficulty in communicating with the locals too, so that didnt work for us. We were actually going round and round the hotel area just that we didnt know where the hotel was LOL. After asking and more asking, turning and more turning, we finally reached. Phew. Fortunately the cab drivers are quite nice, not the rude ones :O Theres a subway station near our hotel, just 5 minutes walk to get there. It was very easy for us to go to all those tourist attractions.

The very first interesting thing i saw in Beijing.

I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I SAW SNOW! I SCREAMED! Okay no i didnt.

BUT OMG BUT STILL I WAS SO EXCITED YOU KNOW :D :D I am jakun i know shut up.

Yaaaaayyy! :) Pretty.

Had dumplings for lunch. I think so it is quite famous there, since you can see it EVERYWHEREEE. When i say everywhere means every corner of that town! LOL

They call it the MANUAL dumpling by the way HAHA! Automatic ones anyone? :D

We then walked around Wangfujing area, since we were not planning to go anywhere far that day. It was really nice walking outdoor in that cold weather. You wont realize how much you have walked, good exercise eh? x) Unlike Malaysia, can die under the hot sun! We walked to the shopping area. It is located in the Dongcheng District of Beijing, is one of the Chinese capital's most famous shopping streets. Much of the road is off-limits to cars and other motor vehicles, and it is not rare to see the entire street full of people. Wangfujing is now home to around 280 famous brands of Beijing. If only Malaysia has such nice place for us to shop, sigh.

Some old and pretty church!

I have no idea why Kristine wanted a picture with the BOSS logo, all i know is i take better picture than her! The one on the right is obviously nicer right ;)

The street.

And next, Snack Street! The Wangfujing Night Market has a selection of exotic Street food on the Snack Street. Deep fried insects, scorpions, and sea creatures can be found, along with other animals and animal parts not ordinarily consumed as food in the west. I know, ew right? :P But while these exotic snacks can be found, other more common food make up the majority of the food sold on the street.

That is Kristine in black and her mum in red LMAO! XD

They look funny in this picture HAHAHAHA!

Are you feeling hungry now? ;) Or feel like fainting more?

Looking yummy isnt it? I am sure it is. HAHAHAHA! HELL NO.

The crowd around that stalls were all taking pictures and showing the ew faces rather than buying those yucky thing.

Niceeeeeeeeeee.

MOON at 5 'clock in the evening! :D

When i look at the blue sky, i see nothing but that pretty face of yours.

I never felt this way before.

Shine Like A Star

This is a very very very, triple very random post. I am warning you.
Okay right, lets talk about holidays.
Holidays so far, well my answer is always the same, boring and i am dying too. I have been complaining from day till night to those people that i talk to on msn how bored i am, and asking them ideas on what can i do to cure my boredom ( but no one gives me good answer =/ ). If you ask me to do my holiday homework to kill time, no thank you, i am a little bit too lazy HAHA! I finished most of them already actually ;) Except for English, gah i hate writing composition and i am not good at it too, so yea..


I finally got to watch New Moon on the Thursday, 3rd of December together with Mun Keat, Bow, Salim, Tzer Chyuan, Chris, Jon and Naomi at 1U :) I already wanted to watch that movie so badly before i went China! Went to school early in the morning to get books and uniform then met up with some of them there.
Had a great time with them eventhough i went back so much earlier, geeeeez. Met Raymond See for the first time as well :O Had lunch in a Thai Restaurant and played pool! I find it so fun, can we go again? HAHAHA! XD


I have no idea why most of them people said the moive New Moon sucks so so badly, i find it quite okay. Well, not very good, but good enough. It is just that i dont think the main actors are THAT hot and sexy HAHA XD I think Jasper and Emmet are hotter instead :O
Ohmaigod i tell you, watching movie with a bunch of monkeys was no fun but they made Naomi and i laughed so much, they were making so much noise during the movie LOL *shakes head* They laughed at every single thing, i-dont-know-what.
Anyway, i dont really like the ending of the movie, everyone went : 'HUH? Thats the end of it?'
But if you read all the four books of Twilight SAGA you definitely will know what is going to happen next, isnt it? And of course, books are always the best compared to movies. Did you know that i saw people selling chinese versin of Breaking Dawn along China's streets at night? hahahaha :) I just watched Twilight not too long ago for the second time too! The first time i watched it was on my computer and the quality sucked like shit. Thats why i told myself i MUST go to the cinema and watch New Moon this time.. and tadaa i did!

New Moon! :D

Random pictures on the second last day of school. I dont miss school, not at all! But i miss my friends :(

Food and us. This picture is so us LOL FOOD :D

This picture was supposed to be a very colourful one, but thanks so much to that stupid green thing at the back, we all look like shrek and fiona now. -_____-

Qalif! :)

I have no idea at all what the hell was i doing at the side there, i didnt know they were going to take a picture HAHAHAHAH! XD Nvm i am cute lol wtfak.

Posers.

Favourite picture. Stairs picturessss are pretty :]

Happy - Leona Lewis

someone once told me that you have to choose

what you win or lose you cant have everything
dont you take chances you might feel the pain
dont you love in vain cause love wont set you free
i could stand by the side and watch this life pass me by
so unhappy but safe as could be

so what if it hurts me
so what if i break down
so what if this world just throws me off the edge
my feet run out of ground

i gotta find my place i wanna hear my sound
dont care about other pain infront of me
cause im just tryna be happy, yea
just wanna be happy, yea
holding on tightly just cant let it go
just tryna play my roll slowly disappear, oooh
but all these days they feel like they're the same
just different faces, different names get me outta here
well i can stand by the side
and watch this life pass me by
pass me by

so what if it hurts me
so what if i break down
so what if this world just throws me off the edge
my feet run out of ground

i gotta find my place
i wanna hear my sound
dont care about other pain infront of me
cause im just tryna be happy
just wanna be happy
oooh

so any turns that i cant see
i'll count a stranger on this road
but don’t say victim
dont say anythng

so what if it hurts me
so what if i break down
so what if this world just throws me off the edge
my feet run out of ground

i gotta find my place
i wanna hear my sound
dont care about all the pain infront of me
cause im just tryna be happy
just wanna be happy

I am already half dead like the rose above.

Trying hard to survive in this hard life but i guess the situation just dont allow me to do so.

 
Because i have experienced the same thing once in my life before, maybe that is why this time, it doesnt feel like reality to me. I cant differentiate between reality and dreams, anymore.
Things that i hope will happen, are actually dreams; while some other things that i try so hard to avoid, happen in my life. Can somebody just tell me when am i dreaming and when am i not?
I am sick of wasting my time and thinking too much about this useless matter over and over again, and that always ruin my mood and day.
Can i just sleep forever? Because every morning seems like the beginning of a new nightmare for me. I cant stand and take all these anymore. I am tired. I need a big space for me to shout my heart and lungs out..

Life Is Like A Ferris Wheel

Hmm, Eye on Malaysia?

HAH NO! Tianjin Eye suckers :)

Negative four degree celcius for that day. As i said in my previous post, after we went to the Temple of Great Compasion, we shopped a little in a shopping mall and had our lunch at a street full of food. Lol i have no idea what is the name of the street, but the the food there was scrumptious! Continue shopping after that, there were so many cheap stuffs in Tianjin to buy, oh heaven hahaha! But we didnt have enough time, oh well.. And do you know how hard was it to try on the clothes you want to buy with 3, 4 layers of clothes on you -____- and it was very troublesome to put them back all over again, too..

Food foooood fooooooooooooooooood :D

Tianjin Eye after that! :D Tianjin Eye is a 120m-tall, (110m-diameter) ferris wheel built on the Chihai Bridge over the Hai River in Tianjin, China. It is the world's only and tallest built ferris wheel over a bridge, 6th tallest in height. The electric-powered ferris wheel has 48 capsules, each with a capacity of 8 passengers, (ours only had six that day :D) and takes 30 minutes to complete a rotation, giving a capacity of 768 passengers per hour. We saw the pretty night view of Tianjin city :)

Frozen lake due to the freezing cold weather.

Some guy's writing on the floor using water, i think.

The ticket with Lee Hom on it! :O

Tianjin Eye :)

Night and day time, beautiful isnt it?

Poser Kristine, looks tall here, but actually not ;D

The lake or river or whatever i dont know and the bridge.

Kristine and I :)

Pretty sun :)

Because we wanted to see the night view of Tianjin city, so we shopped till 5 something just to wait for the sky to turn dark :) The sky turned dark so much earlier then our country, by 4 or 5 something you can already see the moon shining at you.

The capsule.

Moon, and one of the building with reflection of Tianjin Eye on it!

View of the city.

I have no idea why, but all the pictures taken inside there looked like painting, i likey!

Mom and I.

That is the end of it :) Ahh i want to go back there for one more time!

After having dinner, we went to Heping Street to shop somemore. That street is more to branded stuffs, but the prices were almost the same as Malaysia's, so no point buying them there..

The street.

Are you bored? Spot the difference. :D HAHAHA!

The church we passed by that night :]

When the tides of life turn against you and the current upsets your boat,

don't waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float.

Leaving My Footprints In Tianjin

Here comes the story of Loo Yi Han conquering the land of China.

*drums roll*

On 19th on November, second last day of school, i went to LCCT around 10pm at night to meet up with my relatives there . We flew off to Tianjin, China at 12.40am. Slept in the plane that night. Air Asia X is actually not bad (Y). Or was it because we had air asia 'business' class seats? haha! The seats were really comfortable, so much better than MAS economy ones. I slept very well that midnight (well that was what my mum told me, i dont remember about me sleeping) in the plane it didnt feel like we were in the plane at all, nice nice :) But one thing, they do not provide food for us, every little thing in the plane talks about money..

The plane.

The seats, looks big and comfortable isnt it? :)

View of Kuala Lumpur in the midnight from the plane.

Dawn :)

The flight took 8 hours long. We reached Tianjin at 7am the second morning. When we first reached the airport *frozen* we felt the cold air immediately HAHA! The weather for that morning was considered pretty alright, temperature was negative one degree celcius if i am not mistaken, couldnt really stand it at first after one year of not experiencing such cold weather.
After collecting our luggage and all, we took two cabs and went to our hotel to check in. ZOMG i almost had a heart attack and died on the spot i tell you, the traffic in China, was so so horrible like vegetable, they can just simply turn here and there without any signal :O You can see cars coming from every single direction, anywhere you can or cant think of! There were honking everywhere, they honk at every single thing even if you are thousands km from there or even the ant is crossing the road, okay that is too much but i am serious. They wont give way to those who are walking either, yes they ARE like that. Mean people *shakes head* Now i learnt a lesson, i think it is better to close your eyes when you are on the road in China just in case you die of heart attack. Fwooah, exciting first day huh?

The sky in Tianjin was really blue and pretty, it had no clouds, i guess that is why..
We had breakfast around our hotel area, the breakfast there was quite good, at least can be accepted! And guess what, the yau char guai there was still very the nice, big and cheap! (If you remember my posts on China last year i talked about it too.. *yums and drools*) Food there was so much cheaper compared to Malaysia's. After breakfast, we headed to our very first destination there!

The street where we had our breakfast. The red colour one.

The really nice pau there, it is called Gou Bu Li so if i translate it to English, it means dogs dont care.

Traffic.. *shakes head* *heart jumps out*

Some funny street name i saw there.

Yes, it was too malu that i didnt get to see its face. Sad huh?

First destination, Tianjin Gulou Street Drum Tower, i have no idea what that is, but yeah, just a tourist attraction that didnt attract me at all LOL! We walked there, and on the way there was horrible, too. The wind was so strong that there was a dust storm LOL, sand in our eyes, can see dust flying around, even papers and plastic bags were dancing happily in the sky too! See how bad it was :O It was very hard to walk as we were cold and feeling uncomfortable too but there was no where for us to hide in the middle on the road so we had to continue walking. Nothing to see inside the Drum Tower, just a bell or was it a drum, whatever i dont know XD

Entrance of the Gulou street and along the street.

The Drum Tower.

View from the top there.

The bell, or something like that.

Some really old church we passed by that day.

Missed my face? LOL Here is a picture of me camwhoring with the pretty trees at the back :)

Next, we walked to Ancient Culture Street (Guwenhua Jie). A street selling all those cultural stuffs and cute little things :) I wanted to get a keychain with my name on it actually but the people there couldnt find my name! Watafak, i know my name is special but that thing was so freaking cute *sighs :(* We kept walking in those random shops to hide from the freezing cold weather HAHA we pro we pro xD Even with three layers of clothes, scarf, coat, gloves and everything else on, still far not enough for us man..

The entrance of Ancient Culture Street.

Mum and I on the left and pretty sky and street on the right.

That was all for the first day!

Second morning, had breakfast at some roadside stall. It was quite sucky i must say, sorry :O Then, we took cab to the Temple of Great Compassion, it is a Zen Buddhist Temple. It was built during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty (1643-1661), which carries more than 370 years of history. It only cost 4RMB per person. Prayed there, and walked around for awhile before we left that place.

Weird salty tau foo far for breakfast.

Mosque in China! Nicer than ours LOL wtf

The ticket counter, ignore Kristine's face please HAHAHA! ;D

Inside the temple.

Tianjin Eye on the left. I think Kristine and I look damn cute in the picture HAHAHA! Dont we ;)

Bird nest!

One of the temple.

Tianjin Eye will be next! :)

"Yesterday was a history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift.

That is why it is called the present."