Longest Qing Ming...

Okok... As promised, I'd like to log abt my qing ming trip in Hainan, China

Arrived in KL via plane, got quite a cheap air fare which is only $80 to and fro SIN-KKL, its better than taking bus, waste time (its jus $20 diff)... Bus-d to KL central for LRT ride to meet Yeejie near her Office, near Ampang Park. At the central, got tis girl asking me for donations... to purchase a chair for the old folks, lol? I'll pass the fact that she mistook me as a malay... she speaks mandarin in a super weird accent, with this undulating tone. Got totally irritated and jus rejectd after her 10mins talk. Yeejie treatd me to a hell nice dinner, curry noodles. She said we're lucky to get seats, since we're quite early, arnd 5pm, its super crowded during lunch hours. I buy that story since the noodle's really nice. Got back to 5shu's hse and rest for the dae, had an early nite, 8+.

Out early in the morning to Mid Valley, numpang on 5shu's car to Ampang station, hes off to make my visa then to work. Had the whole day free till 6 wer i'll meet yeejie again for dinner. Window shopping for some time till lunch. Msg came from yeejie... "try out the prawn mee at xxx restaurant..." so, I did go and it was fabulous! I was there at 11.15am (still in preparation), came back at 11.40am, the restaurant was half seated with hungry customers! After lunch went to walk arnd again, wanted to buy tis book from MPH budden its kinda old liao (last copy). Wanted to buy some nice clothings too budden plan to save it for better deals in Hainan. Went to coffee beans to slack, read RD and have tea. The rest of the evening was in the cinema, myself. yup... myself. Too much time till 6pm, i'm not gonna walk anymore nor eat. Askd Leehom and Uu to come watch budden they'r quite busy with school/tuition/project. Yongjie did thought of comin to MV but she said I should go explore myself. Watchd Watchmen since its like 1 of the longest show among the boxoffice and I hvnt watched it. fairly nice, the cinemas' quite comfy and the tixs' onli rm7! End the day at 5shu's hse, dinner cancelled coz dinner was prepared, but yeejie still da bao wanton mee for me. Had an even earlier nite since we've to depart at 6 the next morning.

Cabd in a mercs to LCCT, met up with the other 2 uncles and grandma. Its a freakin long queue at the check in counter 0.0! Many pple goin to Hainan Dao to shao mu i guess... 5shu was like greeting and socialising with 80% of the queue, seems like he got a wide connection of frens, esp hainanese. The plane was freaking packed, I dun even get to sit in my assigned seat. In my impression, it was a rough landing, almost bit my own lips. Surprisingly the weathers great, cloudy, ~23 degc, its like the whole place is airconditiond. Soon, got to realise the 3 main problems of Hainan 1. Smokers everywhere 2. Vehicles horn like free 3. Locals with bad attitude... 1st destination was the kampong near QiongHai town (15mins journey) haha, its an authentic Kampong for heavens! Even the shit smells different and yes... shits' everywer, from animals of course, had to watch wer im stepping. Spend the whole afternoon in this so called Ancestors' hse. For dinner, got a treat from 5shu's frens... damit, duno they lived with such a diet... 1st dish: Zhu jiao 2nd dish: 1 whole steamd chicken 3rd dish: Suckling pig 4th: more meat 5th: finnaly some vegi, seriously oily 6th: some nuts and vegs. Had a bad feeling abt meals in Hainan since that day.

2nd day was rather tiring. Went arnd the 'home town' area to shao mu, total of 14 graves, we finished like 11 in a day, leaving the last 3 for the next day. Great discovery, theres my greatgrandfatheres', then his dad, and his grands'... yes, his greatgrands'. Even went to this really old 1, dating back to 1800s, cant believe they actually found that! Another cool ting is the way pple here shao mu. Its the normal procdrs, re paint, got rid of wild grass, burn incense, burn ppr money then pray. They've this additional ting of lightning fire crackers at the end. Bet u cant find this in SG, its still quite rare even in msia. In china, fire crackers were sold everywer. Got really bothered by the sound, imagine... 14 rolls of it in 2 daes... freakin defeaning! Lunch and Dinner at the Kampong... damn right its more ba ba (foily meat) I had beer for every meal coz i dun tink their water is safe for consumption even though its boild.

Its the 3rd day in china and the actual Qing Ming day. Had bfast i the hotel as usual, set off to kampong for the last part of shao mu. And so, its fire crackers and more cleaning and burning. Just to be more specific, the 2 daes were not as easy as it sounds, we've to walk through the woods, bushes, soil out shoes, pass streams, in a rainy weather, to various graves. Its totally disordered, a grave (some1s) ccould be standing right beside u as u track. Had more meat for lunch. Many relatives came to join us, got back to the hotel in the evening. And damn its raining, cant go shopping. Used the rest of the night to slack at lobby, read bk n mp3 since my roommate tuckd in early.

Apparently, we did went for some sightseeing, well... more off excursion. 5shu was in this hainanese guild in KL so the group happend to organize a trip to this famous temple, forgot wads the name but its the 1 that features the goddess of the sea (Ma zhu), taiwanese pple believe in this alot. Went there to pray and see see, its said that the temple is so called the main temple and there are others all around asia ( from wad i know theres 1 in indonesia and another in taiwan). Before we left, lit 2 flong rnds of fire crackers, 1 last for like 3mins+. The trip there was a torture, 2hrs+ bus ride for 1 way... worsen things, i made the wrong descision of not bringing my ipod! DAMIT! Its freaking boring and waste of time. Sat with this fat reporter and his fat ass is making the whole journey...straining, I've to give him like 1/3 of my seat so that he can stop fidgeting. And those fkin cars horn like no1s business .Does it seem like u socre a point wen u horn at a car u see? They freaking horn as they like, hands rdy at the center of the steering wheel. Curse the drivers, they'll jus die if they ever do that in Sg or Msia. Had a slightly decent dinner at a hotel restaurant. The Qiong Hai Mayor treated all the 'foreign friends' who wer back for qingming.

Its my shopping day, went to kampong in the morning to have the last gathering meal with the relatives. Set out to explore by myself in the afternoon. Its always fun to get lost lol. Ventured through streets and more streets. Full of cars, rside vendors, locals. Once again, damn them for smoking and horning so much. Walk through this market palce, song bo... cheap stuffs up for bargain. Bought few shirts and shorts, a pair of sandals, some sox and a cap. The food was great too, esp the mantou, its omglicious! 3 for 1Yen! At the end of day went to supermarket to get some local snacks and food (gifts for all my dear cousinz, nieces and nephews) Total spendings for the dae=400RMB wich is like less than $100 bah.

Early flight the next dae. Got back to KL and rushed for a transfer to SG. My flight was supposd to be late at nite, arnd 10pm. Somehow, theres another flight scheduled 2 hrs after my arrival from Hainan... so Decided to catch that flight instead (with an additional fee of RM50)
That ends my trip to Hainan, actually still got quite alot of things that i wanna sae, but kinda forgot... and I tink the log is getting kinda long :P

1 Tings for sure, I M NEVER GOING BACK TO HAINAN DAO! NEVER!