Just came back from China about two weeks ago. And just came back from Melaka yesterday. Been doing a lot of travelling. Just to inform those who has been asking, I won't be graduating this year but next. I'm extending my final year project (FYP), so I won't be graduating so soon.
Like I said, I went to China, Beijing, Chengde and Tian Jin. Very nice trip. It was the summer, so it was not too hot or too cold. Weather is just nice. And I realized one thing, China people are really into FengShui!! I mean everything is FengShui... including where to place your aquarium!! The imperial palace, the Forbidden City, is practically structured on FengShui itself. Not only that the FengShui master we met even talk about our very own Petronas Twin Towers that carries several characteristics of FengShui which makes it a very good and erm... fortunate(???) building! I never wanna hear anything about FengShui anymore.
This China trip I went has been nothing but seeing palaces, and more palaces and more palaces. I mean, true, they have enough lands to build more palaces, but honestly, do they even use all those palaces?? Got summer palace and winter palace... vacation palace... whatever palace. They really enjoyed life, don't they.
Anyway, enough nonsense. Feast your eyes on the photos I took!
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More structures in the summer palace
A… ‘fengshui’ stone in the summer palace itself, apparently taking a picture with a person in it that person will fall into bad luck… ‘nuff said
A layout of the imperial palace… and gate no.1 and no.2, said to be used to forewarn the palace of incoming attacks by lighting lanterns.
(1) The humongous square between gates no.1 and no.2 and the imperial palace, (2) the entrance, with a brand new Mao Zhe Tong’s face.. er, picture, (3) Look at the amount of roofs in the palace, and I’m only halfway through the palace and that’s only from one tiny angle.
Check out the door!! We estimated it to be around 20 to 25 feet tall. Large stone carving, located in the imperial palace… where else?? DUH…
Jade collections anyone?
Yup! Not only did we visit the palaces, we went to their tombs as well….
(1) Entrance to the tombs, just for clarification, I did enter the tomb where the bodies were buried… deep underground. The stuffs there were fake though, the bodies and relics were already taken out, (2) Trees growing out of the wall in the tomb’s ground, (3) See the inscriptions on the stone? It’s the name of the person who made the stone, so that the emperor can easily identified the person who made an unacceptable stone and thus punish him (or rather, have him sentenced to death).
At last the main attraction!! The Great Wall of China!! Proofs that we climb the wall… notice the uneven steps? Makes one wonder how those soldiers of the olden days guard the wall... Oh, and those are my sisters playing dress-up.
Satay… China style. No joke, these are really cooked satay-style, only different… er… ingredients than us. (1) Lobsters and the ones on right are worms, (2) Starfish, and those curly things on the stick? Worms too… at least the one below happened to be just squids, (3) More worms, red meat… and those thin, greyish things on the tray? They’re centipedes… yuck! (4) Sea urchin anyone? And ya, didn’t managed to take a nice picture of it, but there are scorpions as well… and I just had my dinner before heading there…
Talk about fully utilizing the parking lots…
The five cute mascots of the 2008 Olympics Games… no idea what kind of creatures they are (though we’re pretty sure the black one is a panda), but I do know their names!! From left, Huanhuan (red), Yingying (yellow), Nini (green), Beibei (blue) and finally Jingjing (black).
A new trend in the hotels of China I bet, large glass window replacing the wall separating the bedroom and the bathroom. To get privacy? Well, shut the blinds of course!
(1) A very common sign in China…, (2) A road sign which none of us has any idea of… though the popular one happens to be ‘No burning of cars’.
2008 attraction… The Olympics stadium of course! They call it the bird’s nest.
And finally, a China trip is not a China trip without a panda bear.
Well, that’s all the pictures. Anyone wanna see more come find me. Hehehe… until next time!
