Holiday mode
Since I came back last Thursday, I am still in the this-time-last-week-I-was-doing-this-and-this kind of mood. And it sucks being back in office for the first full work day, although I was already at work till 5 pm last Saturday!
And so, last week this time, I was at the Galaxy Bar at Tiantan Hotel having drinks with my colleagues and playing that silly dice game on Shao Nian Te Gong Dui and having a whole lot of fun! Sigh~ Time always passes super fast when you are having fun but never when you are having a dreadful time.
I enjoyed the trip. Finally, I get a chance to visit the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace etc. China is a good place for sightseeing although it was scorching hot at this time of the year. Maybe because we were on a tour package, we ate practically the same food every day. The food didn't taste bad; we just got so sick of it. And there were so much vegetables that I suspect my little bout of diarhoea just before we left for HK was a result of detoxification, not of food poisoning. And their famous Beijing Roast Duck ain't that great either. I have eaten better ones at Imperial Treasure in Singapore. The skin is not crispy, the dough is too thick. Maybe it is just not suited to our palate. The sanitary conditions are not that fantastic. You see women squatted in toilet cubicles with butts facing outwards doing their business. It was quite a culture shock; I didn't expect something like that in Beijing. But well, I didn't place too high expectations in the first place.
This tour definitely made me understand my colleagues (both in the positive and negative way)better. People are just different when they are in a less initimidating environment. Sometimes, you just have to learn to control your emotions and annoyance a little so you would not spoil the atmosphere. And you wish others would do the same too.
We spend the last two and a half days in Hong Kong and I wished we had more days. I love Hong Kong! I can't seem to grow tired of it. I love the culture there! I find myself fitting in well very fast; I just need to brush up on my Cantonese. And having my uncle take us out for dinner and drinks to all the good eating places made me enjoy my very shortlived time there even more.
All of us had been talking about this trip for the longest time and when it finally comes, it passes quickly and ends in a flash before you know it. :(
And so, last week this time, I was at the Galaxy Bar at Tiantan Hotel having drinks with my colleagues and playing that silly dice game on Shao Nian Te Gong Dui and having a whole lot of fun! Sigh~ Time always passes super fast when you are having fun but never when you are having a dreadful time.
I enjoyed the trip. Finally, I get a chance to visit the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace etc. China is a good place for sightseeing although it was scorching hot at this time of the year. Maybe because we were on a tour package, we ate practically the same food every day. The food didn't taste bad; we just got so sick of it. And there were so much vegetables that I suspect my little bout of diarhoea just before we left for HK was a result of detoxification, not of food poisoning. And their famous Beijing Roast Duck ain't that great either. I have eaten better ones at Imperial Treasure in Singapore. The skin is not crispy, the dough is too thick. Maybe it is just not suited to our palate. The sanitary conditions are not that fantastic. You see women squatted in toilet cubicles with butts facing outwards doing their business. It was quite a culture shock; I didn't expect something like that in Beijing. But well, I didn't place too high expectations in the first place.
This tour definitely made me understand my colleagues (both in the positive and negative way)better. People are just different when they are in a less initimidating environment. Sometimes, you just have to learn to control your emotions and annoyance a little so you would not spoil the atmosphere. And you wish others would do the same too.
We spend the last two and a half days in Hong Kong and I wished we had more days. I love Hong Kong! I can't seem to grow tired of it. I love the culture there! I find myself fitting in well very fast; I just need to brush up on my Cantonese. And having my uncle take us out for dinner and drinks to all the good eating places made me enjoy my very shortlived time there even more.
All of us had been talking about this trip for the longest time and when it finally comes, it passes quickly and ends in a flash before you know it. :(
