China: HangZhou & Shanghai - Random

Me likey todai picy!

I know, a 25 year old lady act like 15 make you all sick, so am i.

I don't know why la! I feel like typing this way, so i did.

Oh yea and that is fact, i like photos today.

More accurate should be i like the way of uploading photos today, because i don't need to arrange! I just post all the shit up without recalling which is first and which is later!

Because below are photos taken by Mickey, so you can find lots of vain photo of mine, excited?

Yea right! Excited right?!

Ok guess what, i got some complain (ok i admit that is not complain, but wonder) that why i have so little photos of mine in my blog.

Because i'm ugly. Happy with the answer?

Neh just because i hate self-capture with Xiao P, he is not light at all, and i used to travel alone, no one can help for taking.

Ask someone pass by to help la!

Hey dude, if you ever seen some stupid tourist / backpacker's camera got stolen / ROB! because they handed it to them, you will never take the idea. Thank you.

I did take photo, only with Mickey. So the series of photos today all taken by Mickey (i know i repeated, be patient la!), i was trying to categories but too troublesome to do that, i decided upload all without choosing.

So for the one who complain / wonder why i have no own photos in the journey, you can have it all now.

Stupid fringe / Fringe makes me look stupid

Best! Mickey sometime did surprise me.

First sign i though it was mushroom. But that is actually a pair of boat.

One fine morning, after snowing for 3 days.

I looked pale because i felt cool all the time

in Starbuck HangZhou

Themeless

Damn i looked like ah lian la! Stupid beanie. Hahahahaha

On the street, while snowing.

Pedestrian overpass of the street.

Nice old chinese deco

HangZhou is even developed than KL, that's the reason why i dislike.

WTF Big head hahahahahahahah

When i have no spoon to stir my hot drink, Gary passed me this, and i used it WTF hahahaha. By the way the cake beside is nice and cheap!

If you already feel sick, don't complaint again!

Once be Mickey wallpaper

Sunset nearby XiHu, not snowing yet.

Now i missed the uni hostel room

I was a bear losing her way in the HangZhou city.

I remember that is the morning after snow storm, i walked out for breakfast. I passed by the little breakfast stall that Gary and I used to got our Chai Bao (vege bun), i just cant help to keep walking, but i had no destination.

So Gary was waiting for the Bao / me the whole morning, while i was losing myself in the city, and i reached a park with full of local. I sat down and had my Chai Bao (I had it all), trying to listen what people were talking about, although i cant understand it all (If only you know Chinese Mandarin accent is different), then a little kid came by and pat my lap, i looking at the red puffy face and feel like pinching him / her, then mummy came by and apologize for that. She was talking to me, asked me if i staying nearby or i'm new move here. She told me another Chai Bao stalls is nice and cheap, just around the corner.

I was smiling and not answering much, because i afraid she will finally realized i'm a foreigner, and not talking to me as what she did.

Sometime, travel doesn't mean how many places or attraction you've been, but get to know the local people and listen to their life or story, to make yourself have an unforgettable memory of the land.

That's what travel meant for me.

Well i guess i done all the China trip, next will be Night in Mallaca, not Night in the Museum. By the way i just got back from weekend runaway trip, post will followed after Mallaca and Singapore.

Meanwhile i was thinking for next short trip, Batam Indonesia should nice eh?

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Rach in so tan mood

China: ShangHai - Walkie with Monkey

I love winter, if winter is not cold.

Ok i'm bullshit, I know winter = cold, but i hate because that made me took too little photos!

I'm not trying to say this is the fault of winter, I JUST BLAMING!

Is that clear enough to warn that this gonna be photos-less (not photoless!) blog?

Ok, ShangHai.

I was staying in HangZhou in past 2 weeks, got a cheap accommodation in a university of ZheJiang.

P/S: You won't believe this, i made non china friend but bruncha friends from worldwide, just because i was staying in this international student hostel of the uni.

I was staying in ground floor, moved to 2nd floor later, finally moved to the top aka Korean floor.

One fine morning, snow.

So i sleep for a while more to wait the snow stop, but snow was falling for 3 days, continuously!

Heck this is not main thing, the main thing is i got a cheap accomandations, i don't bother to stay in ShangHai!

From HangZhou to ShangHai is like 1hour plus away, of course with the high speed train, was like 82RMB one way per person.

So Gary and I decided to do day trip, because we don't wanna waste the rent of the HangZhou, and we think we can do it in one day.

Also, i didn't have good impression of ShangHai, day trip sound good.

We missed the first train but manage to get the next train, if not mistaken we arrived by 10 something in the morning, very first thing when we stepped on the land was, EAT!

Tea time: Red bean something something, yum!

Xiao Long Bao

Juicy yummy!

You won't want to see what i had for the rest, that is subway.

No kidding, the subway you could found in UK, NZ, Singapore or Malaysia. Gary wants his tuna sandwich and i want my steak. So why not subway? I already had my famous Shanghai Xiao Long Bao!

By the way don't ask me to location of that Xiao Long Bao, i just remember somewhere in the lane, and tiny little shop only serve local. I don't know how the heck he knows that place but that is the best Xiao Long Bao i even had in China, or everywhere else.

We had no plan in Shanghai, all we know is Xiao Long Bao and Shanghai Bund.

So next, Shanghai Bund and Shanghai Pearl Tower

From the bund

Along the bund

On the ferry

Great tone, good job Xiao P

UK?

London?

This photo mean something for me

Street to the bund

I don't understand why must deep pink! WHY!

Golf ball :D

I like Shanghai Bund, in fact i like all the way to Shanghai Bund, i love the classic England street, made me confuse for a while if i was in UK or ShangHai (but soon you will found in ShangHai, because Chinese are surrounding).

The weather is chill, i hate to took out Xiao P for photograph, froze my finger in second! How horrible!

We took ferry to cross the river, although there are MRT or shit like this but always ferry is always better than train, for me.

Spent most of the time in lost ourselves in the city and walk, good enough to spend a day like this.

The best photo of the trip

I found a couple of picture in Hang Zhou, will upload in the next post.

Just be patient and wait!

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Rach in so afraid to go to work mood.

China: HangZhou - The beauty of XiHu

Xihu (west lake) is the main attraction of HangZhou, this damn hell huge lake is surrounding whole province, you can see part of the lake every where here.

As i mentioned earlier, i didn't plan well for this trip, i just wanna escape from Malaysia, so i don't bother to do research on this trip, all i know is Xihu.

Throughout the weeks i only went out to get chai bao (vege bun, yum! but i forgot to take a pic.), stay in room for writing (i done half of my book there), hanging around in the town, get myself missing and etc.

I don't feel like travelling, but living in this city, this somehow make me feel so good, feel peace tho.

I been Xihu almost everyday, just i cant get this lake away from my whole trip (damn its just everywhere!), but this lake is beautiful, especially in winter.

I mean i saw some picture of this lake before i been there, and everyone was saying autumn or spring is the best season to visit HangZhou, but i choose winter wtf.

Ok i like winter, but i'm not dying to see snow, God loves me so much, He lets HangZhou to be snowed for 3 days. 3 WHOLE DAYS!

Most of the pic taken in the day after snow storm, i don't know why i felt upset but heck this is the scene that i don't think you can see from other dumbass backpacker's blog like me, the winter Xihu.

I know i talk a lot, now scroll down and have some pic.

Ok, last sentence, i promise. I love Xiao P performance in the series of photos, just nice!

See the bike? That's electronic and rent in everywhere!

Lake side

This lake is as huge as a sea, damn

LengFeng Tower

Swinging my leg

So i got warned XD

a bridge

Flooding house. Weeeii!! ok a house-ship

On the bridge

Trust me, this is not bank, it is a bridge

As big as a street

This is my current wallpaper

Taking pic in the middle of the road always please me

Ok i confirm i take this before snow storm.

Sun set

Good to spend a nice evening here

A park surrounding the lake, so this is part of the park XD

I love the tone!

Nice sun set

That's Bing Tang Hu Lu, fresh strawberry covered by crunchy candy. Yum!

Obviously there is a bridge, ok i forget the bridge name, not even the Chinese, something like broken something something (hey that's old Chinese ok!), but that's a story about this bridge, something like a white snake, and green snake, and a... man... and... meeting point... hmmmm... errr...

Yea, something like this.

Ok you may allow to say the F word to me.

Next post will be Shanghai, not much photo but yea i got some nice one thought.

Stay tuned!

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Rach in booking air ticket again mood.