Day 9 of BJT07

Day 9, 26/11/07, Monday

I’m starting to love Beijing, all the things and places are just too wonderful! We went to Temple Of Heaven, a.k.a. Tian tan, a really huge garden with lotsa trees and… old peeps! ya, which park dun see old peeps at all, well its kinda different here, coz like its like the whole park made for them la, 90% of the humans in there are oldies excluding the staff n cleaners inside. Coz hor, old people can pay like a yearly fee to get unlimited access to the park then for us young folks, pay per entry. There were all sorts of activities for the elders, the space seem very big for any physical activity to be conducted, i think can even have few baseball games going on at the same time inside. The things inside, trees and pavilions, kinda like man made forest, probably can hunt animals inside, then if play treasure hunt, mayb will find till become like those oldies. There were group taiji sessions (can feel the qi when passing them), chinese dance grps, groups playing games like ‘jian zhi’ and the ‘taiji tennis’.

The coolest thing is the choir formed by the senior citizens. It is an optional and self initiated activity; the whole choir was very enthusiastic and they sang awfully very well,lol, coz its like propaganda song budden consider if i dun understand the lyrics, its perfect. There was a huge crowd gathered around the choir and some have song sheets with them. They do impress me with the harmonious voices, then they also position themselves according to STAB, quite nice. Never can one see this spirit in other countries, especially from old people! Those in SG and Msia, sian sian de, in kopi shop, slack, gossip and stare at us young peeps -.-.

The places of attraction in Beijing really amazed me one after another, underground city was nex. At first I was thinking that it was just another town just that its built underground. What surprised me was that the entrance to this city was so insignificant that it’s located in a residential area, through a door between shop houses, wth la, its like suddenly i discover under my bed got this trap door lead to the core of the earth. Then, another shocking matter was that the place is actually a bomb shelter, narrow and damp deep down the ground, not the town I imagined. The bomb shelter was built like a network of tunnels covering a large area. It was another impressive structure and it just add to the few reasons that I think Mao was a smart n cheeky person. However, the stupid thing was that later on, we arrived at a small hall where they are actually selling silk blankets! That kind of beat the purpose of the visit to the underground city because I was expecting things like souvenirs sold. Then the 1st thing is like, cheh... wanna sell things thats y make this place an attraction, The stupid link is that these silk blanket, the material used as bullet proof vest in the past, wth... china people smart in making random links, wanna sell then sae la, no need hide underground and set this fake mood. I was thinking mayb is fake lo, if the bullet proof vest so geng then wont so many people die liao, they can just mass produce it like they did for everything else then just owne any country.

The next destination was the military museum which was nothing much, to be honest I think the Chinese just want to show off its might and standard of its military sector to other countries, indirectly, the tourist, us la. However, the exhibition on the civil war more interesting than the weaponry displays, weapons all look the same to me la, mayb diff is how strong the firepower, whether can kill some1 with 2 inch fats or 5 inch fats. Of course, inside every corner can feel the propgd aura, cannot avoid de, I think toilet oso hav some pics.

After lunch was a revisit to Xidan, to shop of course. All I do there was eat again and stroll around the area to the other side of Xidan, which is like a classier place. Me n Kahkian went to revisit the roadside stalls, get to taste the Oishii food again, yan shu chicken, milk tea, etc. I think this is call traveling lo, eat everywer u go, damn shiok, duno y those losers only wanna shop, oso not filling, then later tio scammed of fake shyt then complain n cry, or else if chi kui for like 20 cents than angry. So is better to buy food, serve the stomach n taste buds!

There was Kung Fu performance at night, nothing impressive, I think maybe because the acrobatics were much better and Kung Fu is nothing new to me. They perform by some crap story la, some jackass called Kong or smth, then he become monk, then fell in love, so mundane. I think if i would write the story i would write like the Kong should just go terrorize with Kun Fu in new york city then gain some fame, then later just get bounted for few million, after that go into some mortal kombat tournament n get owned.

Last nite le, every1 busy packing, i tink my luggage was okok la, got some space left, most weight contributed by food. This nite, we plan not to have some happy hour at nite de. 1st we me n Zhilun just went to Jes n khaiting de room go finish all the food so no need to bring back, like cup noodles. Jus watched Tv and crap lo. Later went to the 4th floor to join all the non-arts class peeps, with apple and Zhudan. Then again, shift to Ahboi they all de room to play cards, talk kok and stuffs. I wanna see ahboi de way she tio kiap by the bed la budden she not willing to demo, dissapointed. In the end, reaching 4am le, most people half KO'ed. me n Zhixiang jus left Zhilun to sleep in the girls' room :P coz he sleeping quite soundly. Then we oso went back for some slp, prepare to go back to SG the next day!!! ( and sae byebye to the flousy and fugly hotel)