Day: August 20, 2007

TSD Day 032: 杭州游！- 绍兴！

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The Trip to Shao Xing!
Today things went pretty smoothly! Arrived at Shao Xing at about
9. I think its a pretty good start. Went to visit 鲁迅 ‘s home. He
is a very famous man especially in chinese literature! Bought a
statue of him there! The other thing is, I have also tasted: Smelly
beancurd! 臭豆腐！First time in my life! I heard it originated from there!
hehe! Interesting!  Went around the area after that and then to
East lake! 东湖！ haha! so funny!
 
I personally like East lake better than the West Lake… ITs very nice!
Also manage to know friends from Hei Long Jiang! 黑龙江！Very nice
people! Shall go there when I go HArbin soon! hehe! I think its really
interesting to know them! hehe! They are pretty good friends! haha!
Gave them a pack of 姑嫂饼! very meaningful to them coz it reflects
their relationship.
 
After West lake was Lunch! pretty good! The tour guide brought us to
this restaurant that costs only 20 rmb per pax for lunch! had a super full
and nice lunch! woah! Went to one more location and I bought some
Shao Xing Wine 绍兴花雕酒！ there! hehe… for 20 rmb… after bargaining
of course! After that begin our journey back to a Long jing tea session and
another silk show… haha!
 
TRAIN!
Went to the station after that. Had Dinner in the station. Very lousy food!
After that checked in. I realised that if I paid 5 rmb more, I can
stay at the resting room and have priority queue to board the train! hehe!
sommore got Movie and people serving tea… haha! nice!
 
HOME!
Finally reached shanghai… missed the train… the Taxi queue is crazy…
super long.. went out to the streets instead… finally got back home,
un pack and SLEEP! haha! Damn shang… but extremely happy! hehe!
I am so glad I went on this trip. made me more confident on self trips!

TSD Day 031: 杭州游 – 乌镇！

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The Trip
Woke up at 615am in the morning! hehe! To take the tour bus
to Wu Zhen! Its a water village with a rich history! There was
some misunderstanding and we did not get to the bus till like
about 8+. During the journey there, we also had a free sampling
of the famous tea, not long jing龙井茶, but white chrysanthemum 白菊茶!
Its very refreshing! I like! But did not buy.. haha!
 
Went on to visit Wu Zhen! Very nice place! Abit like Venice. I
would say its the Venice of the east. Went with Fang Yi’s friend:
Wang Jing, who is interning in his company. Visited the house of
famous people like Mao Dun and also went to the temple of
Gui Gu Zi. I bought their famus product: 姑嫂饼！ not bad! haha!
abit like dried 芝麻糊！
 
LUNCH!
Went to one of the restaurants in Wu Zhen for lunch! Not bad!
Had their famous 红烧羊肉！Pretty good actually. Especially when
I am someone that doesn’t really eat lamb. After that we came back to
Hang Zhou for a Silk exhibition and fashion show (included within the tour).
 
Went to Zhang Jie’s office after that. I discovered an AMAZING
product of theirs! its called Bei bei! 备备！IT’s an amazing product
to help backup information of your mobile phone while you are
recharging it! very interesting. uses a hardware to make it happen.
I think there a few aspects that is similar to Tencube’s service.
except one is hardware and the other is software. You guys really
have to checkout www.budiu.com ! I REALLY want to get their product!
super useful. they are in the midst of making my phone a compatible
model in their range of supported models! hehe! Thanks guys!
 
Dinner!
I think I enjoy Dinner the most! With Jennifer (Zhang Jie), Fang Yi
and Kai Lin and their colleagues in their startup! ITs real nice and
fun! Also joined them in the brainstorming session. interesting!
 
WEnt home tired. about 11+. Bathed and slept like a log.
 

TSD Day030: 浙江游- 杭州！

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Journey to Hang Zhou!
Today I begin my visit to Zhejiang via a Bullet Train! hehe! I took Line 3 to 上海南站
station. For your information, Zhejiang is a Province in China and Hang Zhou is one
of the cities within ZheJiang. (Saying it just in case some don’t know, like me!)
The train is cool! Takes only about 1 hr 15mins to get to Hang Zhou! The moment I
arrived, the first thing I looked out for is the ticket counter to get my ticket to get my
ass back to Shanghai by Sunday night. Thank God I got it! hehe! (At 38RMB!) This
bullet train ticket is 50 RMB with another 15RMB for delivery.

On Arrival!
When I got out of the station, the first person I saw was ZHANG JIE! hehe! 真够朋友！
She brought me to their office MR Tech! It’s call 每日科技! Its the holding company for
their successful creations like Xiadan.com and Beibei! (I’ll talk more about beibei in my
later entry!) We went for lunch together! hehe! really thankful for them showing me around
Zhejiang University! ITs a great place! I saw another of Chairman Mao’s Statue. This time
with his arm on up. Went to get the tour packages to Wu Zhen 乌镇 and Shao Xing 绍兴
(This are other cities within Zhe Jiang).

Exploring Hang Zhou!
The first place I went to was 灵隐寺！A very famous Temple in Hang Zhou! I hired a tour
guide (that’s 10 RMB) to eplain to me the praying processes within there. I was told the
methods of prayer and got to know that there are actually 5 halls in the temple housing
different gods and prayer for different purposes (e.g. health, fortune etc). Great place! I
prayed in the 5 temples according to a stated order and got out of the temple. Also bought
an ornament that has my nick on it. Bought one for Dore too. It reads: "智智" and "祺祺".

Went to 岳王庙 after that. Temple in honour of the famous general during the Song Dynasty:
General Yue Fei. It’s ok only.But I finally saw the evil couple (Qin Kuai I think) that plotted
against Yue Fei and eventually his death. The statue of this evil couple is the same as what I
saw in my primary school text book! So happy to see the REAL stuff! hehe! Bought a set of
chinese chess for (10RMB there as well!)

After that I went to the 西湖 (West Lake) area and went to 孤山 as well. Saw many various
attractions and statue. but too bad most are closed as I was too late. Had dinner there as well
Its some pieces of sausage and rice in lotus leave. After dinner, I walked and walked to another
place… finally I went to the musical fountain! hehe! A very interesting place! hehe! FULL of
people and couples along the west lake actually. Only I am alone… haha! But I enjoy touring the
place alone… the tranquility… arrr… along with the wind and the beautiful scenary. =)

HOME! (not mine, theirs, but I am equally excited!)
Went back to the office to meet up with the Zhang Jie’s friends who bought me to Fang Yi’s home
(HE has gladly let me stay in his house! thanks!) Had a few game of chess before calling it a day!
Tired from all the walking, but happy!