Thursday, August 24, 2006
Slightly More Than Midpoint.Hey guys, I just realised that I'll be back in about ten days time!! It's really really fast!! But thank God for this wonderful experience! I believe that God grows up in difficult times, and in them we learn to trust in Him even more.
Anyways I finally collected the suit that I tailored!! It's cool!! I like it! And it's quite different too. Made a Mao suit, something a little different from the conventional western suit. What do you think?
Quite nice right? Perhaps can wear it for MSSA next year!
We went to Hangzhou over the first weekend. It's quite a pity that we didn't leave earlier - there's so much to see there and we didn't have the time to fully explore the place. We went to the famous Xihu to walk around in the nice cool evening breeze. It was still very hot then, but at least it was evening, it could had been worse!
What you'd see in the old chinese kunfu shows.
Oh yes a nice picture of the girls by the Xihu. =) I like this one!! What do you think Rach? Is it a nice picture?? It's pretty similar to the one you have on your display board in your room!
Thank you Lord for beautiful scenery.
We went to Ningbo last week. It was nice of Susian's uncle and aunty to host us!! They are such nice people!!! Really went out of the way to make us feel comfortable. Okay confession - I drank way too much then. I couldn't get away from their famous "Yang Mei" jiu!! So nice so nice!!
You know how the chinese are at meals right? So was toasting all the way!! And the others who were with us were all from the Navy!! So it was slightly easier for me to talk to them. Just slightly lahh. =)
Wu Xiao Zhang and Wu Tai Tai - The husband's a principal!
After dinner on Saturday, we took a stroll by the beach. It was very nice!! The air was fresh! (YES, surprisingly!) And it was good after such a heavy dinner. My head was spinning a little from the excessive wine in my system! There was this makeshift karaoke thingy in the middle of the beach. It was just a screen with a projector and speakers. Then they laid some benches for people to sit. Cool concept! Very chill!!
The Navy Commander who took us round everywhere!
Okay this guy is a very powerful man. On the last day when we left the island for Ningbo, he did something so incredible!! Only in China!! Don't try this back home. Well this is what happened. We were going to drive to the harbour to get the vehicle onto the ferry and back to Nongbo. But the queue to get onto the ferry was so long it stretched for about 5km! Imagine 5km worth of cars trying to get onto a ferry that comes once every half hour. Not funny.
So right, the commander got the driver to do a U-Turn within the lanes to get out of the jam. So now we're driving against traffic. Then we U-Turned onto the opposite lane. We arer STILL driving against traffic. We did that for about a km and realised that it was quite dangerous. (AH DUH!) We then went onto the side road meant for bicycles and carried on driving on. My goodness!!
To cut the long story short, we got there in 5mins and even at the harbour, we overtook all the vehicles. I later found out that we were in a navy vehicle and the car plate number started with the word "HAI". All other car plates start with the chinese character depicting where they're from! His came from the sea!!
How mad is that?! So because he was military, all the people knew and were okay with the vehicle doing all those stunts!
But thanks to him we got back in time to catch our bus back to Shanghai. =) It was a tiring but nice weekend getaway!
Okay last picture - At a beach with sandcastles and a LOT MORE!! Check it out!!
Okay okay will post again soon!!
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