Category: China

  • Wuxi 无锡 Industrial Visit :: Day 2

    Day broke, not as quickly as I would have liked it … This morning’s itinerary was the Tang Dynasty Village 唐城, where history supposedly came to life?! They had filming here as well … Kind of similar to the Tang Village in Spore, but on a larger scale. Here’s a bunch of people play acting…

  • Wuxi 无锡 Industrial Visit :: Day 1

    The Wuxi Industrial Visit was organized by the 2nd batch of NOC Shanghai students (formerly known also as SHEN 2) and it was meant to be an educational experience and a bonding session between the 2 batches, 2nd and 3rd. The visit, as I remembered it, was awful. Not to say that Wuxi was not…

  • Hang Zhou 杭州 (CNY) : Day 3

    The last day of our trip was spent waking up lazily, checking out, going for lunch, having last minute shopping and sitting around at a coffee house 上岛咖啡. My leather boots was spoilt on the last day. Sobs! The sole came off. Oh well! Thus, ends a simple trip over the Spring break in Shanghai.

  • Hang Zhou 杭州 (CNY) : Day 2

    Sight Seeing began quite early. First stop, went to 霖隐寺 and 飞来峰 which was a little further from the city. It was the 3rd day of the Lunar New Year that morning and at the temple, there were large number of people. They were all there to pray. It was insanely packed! After meandering through…

  • Hang Zhou 杭州 (CNY) : Day 1

    It’s off to Hang Zhou for the Spring break here in China. Did not manage to plan a further trip, due to lack of time and experience, so we (a whole bunch of us) were headed to the near by city of Hang Zhou to R&R. Here’s all of us at the Shanghai Train Station…