Day 10: of Tiananmen Square & the Forbidden City
February 16, 2010 | Filed Under Siri Kembara | Leave a Comment
From our hostel to the Forbidden City, we passed the Tiananmen Square. It placed few historical monuments. The area was quite heavy guarded by the military officers wearing green jacket and red star on their shoulder. I wanted to take picture of them but most of them refused (either they turn their head away or they said ‘no!’)
Staying for a few days in Beijing, i realised that winter is not the best time to visit Beijing though you can buy most of ticket to tourist sites in a low rate. Y40 for low season price for the Forbidden City (they labelled it as ‘The Palace Museum’).
It took almost half of the day to tour around the Palace. Walked from end to end took me almost 1 1/2 hours (plus taking pictures etc). Looking at the size of the Palace itself reflects how powerful was the Emperor.
Spent the rest of the day taking pictures around the Tiananmen Square, the National Grand Theatre and along the Qianmen Street offer few good pictures to look at. I`ll share it when i`m back to Seoul.
Day 8: The Great Wall for a great man
February 13, 2010 | Filed Under Siri Kembara | 2 Comments
There is a Chinese idiom said: ‘ One who never climb The Great Wall is not a true man’.
After experienced it, climbing up the Badaling Great Wall for about 3 hours, i`m quite tag along with the idiom. No wonder this very big-long and great Great Wall listed on the seventh wonders of the world. You can imagine how billions of bricks being carried up the mountain just to make these defensive wall. Only a true man can do that alone (i mean man and woman here..no exception!)
while writing this post, i can hear firecrackers here and there and past midnight, i`m going to the square to see big fireworks show. For sure, Spring Festival is quite different from what i experienced back in Malaysia.
ps: yesterday, had steamboat. today, some satay. tomorrow?? maybe some rice cakes and dumpling??
Jokes on Bird Nest`s trip
February 13, 2010 | Filed Under Siri Kembara | Leave a Comment
Joke 1
i called my sister and said
AM: Lang, patut la kami cari kedai jual sup sarang burung tak jumpa. habis dah semua.
K Lang: Pasai pa lak? Bukan banyak ke?
AM: Semua depa dah amik buat Stadium Bird Nest tu :P
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Joke 2
Napi: Lawa jugak Ice Cube ni malam-malam. Tapi satu color je, biru je dari awal. tak tukar2 pun.
Ghani: Water Cube la. Bukan Ice Cube.
Napi: Yela. dah winter jadi ice la. masa olimpik summer tu je water ~~
Day 7: Thousand years old community
February 13, 2010 | Filed Under Siri Kembara | Leave a Comment
On day seventh in China really taught me a lot. As most of the day today, we spent half of the day for Solat Jumaat and mingles with local Chinese Muslim.
From what i saw, although only 1-2% of China total population are Muslim but they have a very strong bond between them.
They have their own supermarket; not just a market but a very big one!. They have their a block of ‘rumah kedai’, restaurant, hotel and also an elementary school (Hui Min Elementary School), and also their own food processing factory. It just 1-2% only!
Niujie Mosque was built on 1014M. so, Islam must be arrived earlier than that.
A thousand years old community really made them very strong, i guess.
Day 5: Foodhunting on Nanjing
February 10, 2010 | Filed Under Siri Kembara | Leave a Comment
after visited the Shanghai Science & Technology Museum (SSTM); kind of Petrosains + Planetarium Negara; i had a great time hunting for food at Nanjing Road while my friends on their way to Changde.
had chances to eat halal mutton dumpling, asam, pau, ni hae shu and some other stuffs really made the day. i had 5 egg tarts; it is really a Shanghai egg tart! 4 for 1,400won..who cares how much you eat.
Shanghai Snacks
Day 3: Hard life in Pudong
February 9, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
if you walk around Namdaemun in Seoul, you can see hardworking Korean everywhere. In Pudong, you can see these Chinese try to live in this big city by completing mega project using barehands (i mean no machines!)
But on my surprise, they can complete an interior just in one night!놀랏네….