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Year End Trip 2005 (Day 2):: Yunnan 云å—
Dali, I have arrived! After a long and tedious ride on the sleeper bus, we arrived in Dali at around 4 am in the morning. We continued to sleep in the bus until 6 am and headed off from there. As usual, our plan was not to stay at Dali for too long. Get to…
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Year End Trip 2005 (Day 1):: Yunnan 云å—
This trip marks the successful completion of the 1 year internship in Shanghai as part of the NUS Overseas Colleges Program. I travelled with very cool buddies, namely Huijing and Min Chuan. For the entire trip, minimal planning was involved. This was also the first time that all of us had went on a backpacking…
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Beijing Industrial and Educational Visit 北京考察团 (18 – 20 Nov 2005) Part 3
Back to Shanghai Whiling away time at the airport I was sick! I felt naseas! The flight back to Shanghai was still bearable and I still managed to do a whole lot of stuff that night such as head down to DJD for tailoring of some costume as well as watch Harry Potter at Xu…
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Beijing Industrial and Educational Visit 北京考察团 (18 – 20 Nov 2005) Part 2
Peking University åŒ—äº¬å¤§å¦ A whole bunch of the guys woke up really early to go to Tsing Hua University to look around so that they could take off immediately after the Peking University 北大 Visit to visit the tourist attractions, such as the Summer Palaces. 5 of us went to Peking University as planned. Once…
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Beijing Industrial and Educational Visit 北京考察团 (18 – 20 Nov 2005) Part 1
Departing from Shanghai Left Shanghai Train Station at 1928 hours and headed towards the Capital of China – Beijing. My first time on the train in the Soft Bed Cabin. I was quite an exciting experience for me. The train was very nice and beautiful. The cabins for the soft bed slept 4 to a…
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Hang Zhou Day Trip
This day trip was made a day after SHEN’s Panel Discussion, “Doing it the China way!”, and was to bring Sarah and Angel (NOC Staff) to the neighbouring Hang Zhou to see the beautiful West Lake. We took the train (hard seats) to Hang Zhou and decided that it was not advisable to sit hard…
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Tong Li One Day Trip åŒé‡Œä¸€æ—¥æ¸¸
Early morning Woke up early in the morning to go to the Shanghai Tourist Center (上海旅游集散ä¸å¿ƒ) at Shanghai Sports Stadium (上海体育馆). It was highly amusing. We were supposed to wait for Fionna at the Zhong Shan Train Station, but we left on our own, because I wasn’t sure if we were meeting her and she…
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Suzhou One Day Trip è‹å·žä¸€æ—¥æ¸¸
Arriving in Suzhou 到达è‹å·ž We left from Shanghai Train Station at 9 am and arrived in Suzhou Train Station at 10.05 am. The train station was like any other, but possibly smaller than Shanghai’s. There were loads of people as usual. There were also loads of people vying for a piece of the tourism pie.…
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October Holidays å一国庆节 :: Chengdu æˆéƒ½ :: Day 6
The final day in CD. mc, yv and hx went to meet their boss for breakfast. Even while on holiday, they cannot escape their boss’s clutches … sad sad! The rest of us – ck, hj, yx and i – went back to Jin Li because I wanted to find that guy who wrote calligraphy.…
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October Holidays å一国庆节 :: Chengdu æˆéƒ½ :: Day 5
The trip back to Chengdu. That morning on the way to CD, our tour guide wanted to bring us to another medicine factory so that he and the driver could both earn RMB 25. Ok ok ok … whatever you want, just do not “niao” us. Also went to a cow comb factory, where I…