Shanghai -上海, one of the more populated and modern area of China, 18 million people or so i was told. I can really felt the 18 million people when i was trying to get off the subway on my way back to the hotel during the after work period, the squeezing and pushing, i mean jeez ! the train can ONLY fit that many people but man. I now know that a train carriage that suppose to carry 75 people can fit at least 200 -.-

Beside Shanghai, we also went to different province of China. We stayed 2 nights in Hangzhou, 1 night in Putuo shan which we had to take a boat ride of 2 hours to reach there in the South China Sea. PuTuo Shan is mainly just an island full of different temples, filled with plenty of monks and nuns and is a famous place in Chinese Buddhism. On the island also house a 33m GuanYin Statue.


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For more pictures of China trip.
http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/clement1987/Blog/China%20Trip/



Beside Shanghai, this month trip back to Singapore also included a weekend at Genting Highlands in Malaysia.
Its been a while, almost a decade since i visited Genting Highlands so i was excited about going there again, however the 7 hours drive i was not :(
Woke up early at 5am, we set out towards Malaysia in 3 cars, kids in one, the talkative adults in another and the just wanna sleep people in the third. I was in the third car :D
Well we stopped and went and stopped for plenty of toilet trips -.- and in the end we reached and man ! was it foggy :P Clouds everywhere but licking the air gains nothing .___.
Adults pretty much went to the Casino, while the kids went to the theme park ! and they also have a heated pool and wow it was so nice to go into a pool of hot not warm but HOT water.

Only a few pics taken cause we dun have time for photos pffft :P





Singapore has not changed, the place is still at 30C every day, hot as hell.
But the technology continues to improve, a year ago when i entered Singapore, i had to queue up and let a officer check my passport before entry into Singapore, all this will take up to 3 - 5 mins. But now, no more ! All i had to do, is go up to a machine, slide my biometric passport in, wait a few seconds and then put my thumb on the thumbscan, few seconds and im through to Singapore. Quick and painless, less than a minute.

The Food never fails to please me. Delicious mee pok and Chicken Rice, you can't get it in Australia.
The tv shows never fails to please me as well :P Channel 8 now showing The Golden Path with an all star casts and man was it good ~! Li NanXing still got it :P

Visited all my relatives as well but didnt get to see some of my cousins (mum side) this time round but plenty of chance in the future anyway so its okay !
Had a sorta bbq gathering at my small aunt nice condo, swimming pool and squash.
En hui and his sister growing up so fast (The 2 sitting near a fountain) :P so sad though the sister don't remember me but En Hui does though ! w00t.






AND that concludes my trip back to Singapore from 1/12/07 to 5/1/08
Until Then. Toots ~