The historical city - Beijing

It was much more chiller than your freezer ... Okay, first thing i realise, is the air smells ... secondly, the sky is in GREY color ... GREY ... I didn't believe it until I see it with my own eyes ..

After checking in @ Motel 268, we start our journey to the famous Forbidden City ... We walked from the motel till the city ... I kept WoW'ing all the way and re-calling all the TVB scence that I used to watch from the emperor emperor drama/Movies.



This is my first time knowing that PuYi was the last emperor of China! and all the concubines got their food distributed according to their level!!! You will get more food if you are a Gui Fei ... and girls were selected as a concubine since age of 13-17!! and from the picture, they looks much younger than 13 =.='' they looks like 8 years old girl ...



We walked from noon till they closing time ... it is very tiring ... cut the story short, the following are the selected pictures ... one more thing before I end this entry, we was STUCKED during the way out ... the army troop have to take down the China flag from opposite of the road back to the forbidden city ... so the way out was blocked ... :-( It was freezing cold out there n we have to stand till the ceremony is over ... :-(

For dinner we went to Qian Men for the famous Peking Duck ... that place is a nice place to take photos but it was too cold and my hands dont want to come out from my pocket .. keke ..
The whole dinner is only duck duck duck ... and a cold dish ... My feedback? it is so OILY~~~~ OILY ~~~ i dont want to take Chinese food anymore ..... it's like I've drank the whole tank of oil ... bwleeeeek ....

Pictures comes later ....

First impression ...

The weather is cold and windy ... one thing i realise, Shanghai folks do not wash their cars!! It's like they didn't wash it for 2 years!! all covered in dust... secondly the air condition is much worse than my trip to HK ... nevertherless, we still walk on the street like any other people ... breathing in dust !!

So the first thing I ever wanna do is to dine in @ CoCo Ichibanya!!! My all time fav curry rice back in Japan... they have outlets here in Shanghai... but their menu has been cut into half ... The spicy level is only half compared to Japan, they originally have spicy level up to 10!! Well, my last attempt in Japan was up till level 6 ... but now the max we have in Shanghai is only 5 :-( However, I still enjoyed it ... it's yummmmmy ~~~

Next, we walked towards Shanghai Tharn ...the view is awesome... AWESOME~~~ BUT that place smells horrrible, especially when you are around the plants area ~~ That place is not the same Shanghai Tharn that we saw from TVB old movies ... haha ... Then we bought tix to take the underground train to the next island to visit the Pearl Tower .. RMB 40 for one way train trip and RMB100 for the tower visit ... RMB 40 is very worth where the you can experience the lighting effects while you travels in the tunnnel ... very creative way to entertain you during the 8 mins journey to the opposite island... here's some shot ... it's a waste i didn't bring tripod ... ended up with this lousy shakey photos (T__T)'' or some photos taken with iPhone (-,-)

Civic Gen 8

Captured with my Sony Alpha. Picture not edited. Just resized.

The Historical City

Went to Melaka for a photo snaping session.... Super hot that day and I got sun burnt T___T... Im still learning how to use this camera ~~~ too many functions that I do not know how to use .... Uploaded more pix on my FaceBook ...

New Sony Alpha

Bought another new toy named --> Sony Alpha <--- It's so heavy and bulky .... well it's good to have a new toy to play with and there's new things for me to learn !! YAY !! The pic beside is the first pict that I captured using Alpha.... hope it's not too ugly to post it up here .... there is much more that i need to learn on how to use this new gadget .... Asides from the new camera, i do love the Picture Motion Brower too... it's a very powerfull tool, it organizes all the photo automatically, plus with the new GPS tracker system, i can view back that particular pict was took from which exact location.. there's some cons about the GPS tracker thou ... i think that Sony will improve the tracker sometime soon, it's not really user friendly enough ... hehe ... im a quite lazy user (^_^)v