It's now or never.

Cheh. Title sounds so important. I find myself so good at giving titles I should get an award for it.
Anyway, what I really meant was my many months ago trip in China. Gonna write it off once and for all.

Give you 10 bucks if you can guess what we're sipping.

Can't guess? Give up?

It's diluted chrysanthemum tea! (yuck) Too late. I told you the answer so the 10 bucks reward is gone.

The itinerary after that horrible tasting tea session was much much better. We travelled to a place called the XiTang water village which was indeed an eye-opener for urban people.

See what I mean? How often do you see a red, three-wheeled vehicle here?

My momma can also pose okay. Can yo momma pose like that?

I love the fact that we never fail to take a family picture almost everywhere we went.

The grandfather at the background was fishing for rubbish with the net. Yes, those are vegetables at the corner.

Even with the help of the 'ah pak' to keep the river rubbish-free, it's still not really clean though. Let me rephrase that. It's dirty, yet the villagers wash their clothes there. I kid you not.

Tom Cruise was here before for the shooting of MI3! OMG!!! *bimbo tone*

An upclose photo of the motorized bicycle I was talking about previously. I think I can now conclude that red is the all time favourite colour of the people of China.

We bought this sticky thing made out of maltose, I think. It's extremely sweet. You'll love it if you have a sweet tooth.

China's Venice? Lol. Whatever. The man is staring as if he hasn't seen leng luis syok sendiri-ing before. Hahaha.

A random China toddler who is so cute can die.

Just to show how narrow the lane is.

This is how they make that maltose thing. Super elastic! I think this requires quite a lot of energy man. Cos that dude sure looked like he was using a lot of strength.

The labrador (or is it a golden retriever?) is there to welcome people to rent the room his master is renting out. I'm not joking.

I see many Fiona's.

Up next was lunch.
The highlight of the meal was supposedly the hairy crab we had. The tour guide kept promoting non-stop saying how we should try it because they cook the crab in a really mouth-watering style.

The turn out? Nothing to shout about.
Worse still, we got conned. Because my dad paid 60 freakin Yuan for this crab. That's almost equivalent to Rm30. Don't let the picture fool you, the crab is probably only the size of my palm. I think we paid just to see how hairy it is lor seriously.

After the meal, we travelled back to where our journey began, Shanghai. On the way back, we captured this picture of the ferris wheel which is surprisingly kinda huge! It looks and definitely is larger than the Eye On Malaysia. And the Eye On Malaysia doesn't even belong to us. Pfft.

After that, we went to one of the Soong's sister's burial ground. There are 3 Soong sisters altogether and all of them made a mark in the history of China just by marrying some famous dude. The one we visited was the second in the family if I'm not mistaken. She's the wife of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. She requested to be buried alongside her parents before she died because apparently she disobeyed her father when her dad forbidded her to marry Sun Yat Sen so this was her way to pay her respects. Reason being the famous historian was a very close friend to her father. When the tour guide explained this to us, I still cannot imagine how could she have fallen in love with a man who's about the same age as your father.

Imagine your father introducing you to his friend and then you get all flirty and start sending winks and flicking your hair. Eeew. Surely there are many other better looking man around right! Even MY masseur is much better looking. Muahahah.

The flirtatious one in the family.

So after listening to the promiscuous story, night arrived and it was time for dinner.

Dined on a floating restaurant. =) The exterior looked good. Interior wasn't that bad also.

Then, we went back to Shanghai Bund once AGAIN. Waste of time? Well, not really.
Cos you get to see all the mushy couples snogging each other
Cos this time we went on the gigantic ship which looked so much like the China's Titanic version. Okay, maybe a little exaggerated but you get the drift.

It was seriously very cold that particular night. The coldest night while we were there. I definitely wasn't being a wimp okay because the tour guide herself was shivering throughout the entire night.
The Oriental Pearl Tower looks so so so good at night. <3>

That happening spot only got me interested just because there were so many ang mohs there. Me likey.

Yes, that's S.H.E right above our heads.

Beautiful litted Christmas tree..but it got ruined by the girl in the picture.

So happening. Got pub some more with music blaring in the background. As predictable as it may be, yup, we didn't enter. And no, I'm not complaining.

So that whole happening visit didn't turn out to be as happening as I made it sound. So yeah. Heheh.

Passed by this stage which was solely set up for the countdown to usher in the New Year. We left a day before the New Year so we missed out on this. Or else we would be there ushering in 2008 with the Chinese going 'San..Er...Yi...Xing Nian Kuai Le!!!' Wo hui jiang hua yi okay. Bu yao wan-wan.

After that, it was back to the hotel. We only got to shut our eyes for 2 hours or so then it was time to get to the airport.

HAHAH. I can't believe I FINALLY managed to finish blogging about this trip. It seemed like a never-ending story.

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