darling received her first pay check and she treated me dinner! today's dinner was at 4 season taiwanese cuisine, located at 456 joo chiat road. we ordered lots of food!
in my opinion this is the best taiwan food i tasted so far in sg. better than xin wang. better than lailai.
after dinner we went to marina barrage. our first time there! interesting place. must go there again during daytime.
and then we went to temasek club to watch argentina vs germany. germany thrash argentina 4 - 0 but i only watch until 3 - 0 because it was raining and the projector was down. quite an exciting match, and i hoped that argentina will win, but in the end germany was the better team.
brazil and argentina are already out. netherlands will meet uruguay in the semi final. germany will most likely meet spain in the other semi final. i predict a netherlands vs germany final! wat do you all think?
woo hoo! the 中国民俗文化村 is one of the most important reasons why we want to go shenzhen. (going to 罗湖村 and looking for mistresses are definitely NOT the most important reasons)
anyway the cultural village has 9 tribes, and each of the tribe will showcase their own tribal performance. besides the tribal performances, there are also major performances which are really worth watching.
so these are some of the tribes that we visited:
fen said that the dark-skinned lady look like the nuscd jiawen. hahahahaha.
(i got called on stage to perform. i had performed in mauritius, turkey and shenzhen! i am an overseas performing artiste!)
we also watched this fantastic horseriding performance in front of a castle. the riders will perform crazy stunts on the horses and even fight with each other which you can only see them on television dramas like 三国演义. its amazing to see these stunts LIVE with my own eyes.
another cool performance that we watched is called 东方霓裳, which is inside an air conditioned theatre. the dancers were fabulous. the costumes were beautfiul. but most importantly, the stage effects are exaggerating to the max. they got conveyor belts. they got rotatory stages. they got water sprinkles. they got amazing props which even sg indoor stadium also wun have. the ticket cost around seven sing dollars. really worth the money.
the finale performance for the night is called 龙凤舞中华. only fen and nzj watched that. hw and i went back to our hotel to watch world cup. when fen and nzj came back to the hotel, they told us their seats were very good, and the whole performance was fantastic, and even better than the 东方霓裳! omg! i was already so wowed by 东方霓裳, and the night performance is even more fantastic?! nvm fen bought the dvd for that performance so i can borrow from him to watch. haha.
ok here are some of the many other photos that we took:
yup that's about it! later i am going to temasek club to watch argentina vs germany with darling and my jc friends!
ok let's carry on with the trip updates.
huizhi joined us for the whole day because it was a public holiday for hong kong. we went to shenzhen's 东门步行街. to them it is their orchard road. but to me it is just a bigger pasar malam at bedok interchange.
inside their mrt. 东门 station is just a few stops away from 罗湖 station.
so we shopped and shopped and shopped, until around five pm. huizhi left us because she has to go to hong kong airport to pick her parents. and we were quite hungry so we went for dinner at this place:
this place sells very delicious and very cheap italian food. got this restaurant at sg too, but nzj said that it sux. haha.
the delicious food that we ordered:
starting from the top left hand corner, in clockwise direction:
seafood risotto, sausages with potato wedges, minced garlic chicken chop, baked cheese scallops, escargot and pizza!
the happy eaters:
the whole meal cost us around 32 sing. 8 sing per pax! very worth it rite? :)
before we go back to our hotel, we went to the supermarket to stock up some groceries.
fen always go for the potato chips.
i always go for the cup noodles.
to end this post, i present to you my shopping achievements!
not alot of things lah. hahaha.
and the best buy:
first, i received an email from my sci hod, saying that i have to set the final year paper for sec 3 combined chem.
second, my DM came up to me and say,"welcome into the discipline comm."
third, i was juggling a soccer ball at the indoor sports hall, i kicked the ball high up and it got stuck in the ceiling. and the ball was newly bought by my colleague one hour ago, which cost 39 dollars.
4th, there was a soccer match against the teachers from anderson sec. i played badly, got offside as many times as filipo inzaghi (an italian soccer player famous for getting offsides), i received a yellow card, and i had cramps all over my legs which i had to skip dance practise.
HAIZ!!!
fen must be very happy because he have so many friends celebrating with him, got 3 ladies dancing for him, and got so many presents.
the dancing was entertaining. got the sleazy one, followed by the 狂野 one, and lastly the animal one. hahahahahaha.
oh we also got a special guest "crashing" into the party:
presenting to you, huizhi from hongkong! the wonders of today's technology. haha.
and lastly, the group pics:
if u have realised, the theme of the party is: GLITTERY AND FEATHERY
birthday lunch was at mariott hotel. cos my mum work there, and so she got staff discount if she go to the buffet restaurant on her birthday. the food was great! i having high cholesterol because i ate countless lobsters, crayfish, scallops, prawns, crabs and salmon. hahaha.
darling went back home together with me, and we tried our academic gowns!
haiz time flies. darling graduated from nus. i graduated from nie. and tomorrow is my first day of work. i am excited! cant wait to see my students, and also get to know my new form class better! :)
the singapore handball challenge cup 2010 has concluded. i am both happy and proud to announce that i am voted the best male goalkeeper in the tournament. :)
thanks to those who voted for me!
today went back to sch for staff meeting, and also took staff photos. i got a new laptop, really brand new, the casing of the laptop is shiny, even the plastic wrapping of the mouse haven remove yet. woo hoo!
some of my colleagues (including the chinese teachers from china) asked me how was shanghai, and i told them everything that i had experienced, and they all laughed, agreeing with me totally. one of them told me,"其实上海的文明人是不会去世博会的。他们根本不会想要去跟别人挤。"
ok let me continue blogging about my trip. so i am finished with shanghai. actually we also went to other places in shanghai lah, but there is nothing much to blog about. we went to this touristy shopping place, which has a famous xiao long bao restaurant, which the _______ is very very long (the word in the blank starts with the letter Q). we also went to another shopping district, which has a few buildings selling clothes at a very cheap price, but i din get anything from there, even fen the shopping king only got one tshirt. we also went to 新天地, which is a very popular night spot, with all the pubs and discos. jiepei treated us drinks at one of the pubs, and hw likes this particular manager who is quite pretty. hahahaha.
now let's go on to shenzhen. on the 15th we left our hotel at 0645 because our internal flight to shenzhen is at 0830. but once we reach there, we check in our luggage, went inside the departure transit area, reach our boarding gate, we were then told the flight is postponed to 1030 am. WASSUP!!! we could have slept more hours lor. sian one half. one more bad incident to remember. :(
ok i am going to introduce my hotel at shenzhen, which is called days hotel luohu. very convenient location because is walking distance to mrt, and also near shopping centres, spas and RED LIGHT DISTRICT. honestly we did go to the red light district for a walk, because in the first place we din noe that was the red light district. in fact the place is called 罗湖村. then hw says he want to go there walk walk so we ok lor we go walk together. then at the entrance one aunty came up to us and ask,"要不要叫小妹啊?"
siao liao lor confirm is red light district. true enough, as we walk, we saw many prostitutes sitting outside the "shops". and out of 20 prostitutes, only 1 is can make it, the rest is cannot make it. and then as we walk, the aunty keep following us. very very persistent, very very irritating.
sorry i got too carried away with the red light district. let's carry on with the hotel room. here's the room:
it looks quite big, cos is superior deluxe.
and here's the toilet:
how come there are 2 shower heads inside the cubicle?
scroll down for the ans:
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(honestly i hope my colleagues and my students wun come across my blog)
ok the last pic of all... our bathroom door is TRANSLUCENT!
GUESS WHO IS THE PERSON AND WHAT IS HE DOING! hahahaha~
after much complaints about the world expo, let us take a break from these complaints by showing the nice food that we ate at shanghai.
dinner at a hk cafe after leaving the dreaded world expo. we were all tired, hungry and lethargic. we have orh chehs around our body, because the locals love to push pple away using their elbows. if you want to try that i can demo it to you. i thought sg was jia lat but shanghai is gam phua jia lat. in sg pple at most try to squeeze their way through into crowded trains. locals squeeze through with their elbows hitting left and right at any person who block their way. same case for travelling on escalators. BETTER CITY BETTER LIFE??!!
ok sorry i got carried away. let's continue with the food. anyway the hk cafe is the most atas hk cafe i have ever been to. here's the food that we ate:
deep fried cod fish filet
mayonise prawns
actually we got order other food such as tofu, porridge and vege, but din take pics.
the desserts:
forgot their names. hahahahaha.
next, dinner at this restaurant called 我家餐厅. very nice food with very strong flavours. strong flavours mean food that are meant to be salty are very salty, oily is really very oily.
我家沙拉
我家鸡翅
糖醋黄鱼
走油肉
brunch on our second last day at shanghai, in another hongkong cafe which is located near our hotel.
finally, our last night at shanghai, we wanted to end the night with a bang by having an awesome dinner. so we went to 上海老站. class restaurant, exquisite food, but horrendous service. :(
all right that's about it.
hope that these food make amends for the unpleasant experiences i had at shanghai.
