I have class pretty much every day from 1-4.40pm. In a lot of ways that restricts what I’m able to do during the day. But I decided since I live pretty close by that on Tuesday, 8th March, I was going to get up early and go and check out one of the two Summer Palaces. Also the weather for the past couple of weeks has been absolutely beautiful and I felt like I needed to take advantage of it.
I went to the (new) Summer Palace (颐和园)when I came to Beijing for a language course in the summer of 2007. The weather left a lot to be desired.
The Summer Palace in July 2007 (apparently I was very shit at editing colours back then)
So I am now back in HK. Back to a cooler temperature and fewer mosquitoes.
Chinese New Year was lovely, especially since I haven’t been in KL for the holiday in a really long time. But the whole experience was pretty far removed from the Chinese New Year celebrations I remember. The death of my grandfather a few years ago means that it’s now no longer as necessary for family members to gather. So on the first day of Chinese New Year, when I’m used to having to deal with a group of 13 people all [...]
Heres the video that I made of the trip. Sadly at the time I didn’t have a high speed HD card so my camera would lag out on me when the videos went over 9 seconds. So I didn’t take as many videos as I would have liked, and at the end of the day there weren’t that many usable ones.
Note to self and to others: if you’re going to go over the 15kg check in and carry on limit, don’t fly Spring Airways. Or if you are going to fly Spring, don’t show up at the airport without any cash on the (perhaps naive?) assumption that they’ll take Visa. I mean, who actually uses Visa these days? Surely not high tech fucking airline companies. I was clearly so stupid.
So due to being 15kg overweight (they weighed my carry on which was full of books), I was told [...]
6 months later, it’s time to say goodbye to both the cat and the mainland. It’s been stressful, boring, filthy, crazy-fun and enlightening, can’t say I’d do it again any time soon. Kim is off to HK this Sunday and I’m to leave a week later. There are still a few museums left to visit but I can safely say I’ve had my fair share of yellow fever.
Never again, slow internet/butt slits/growling men. Though I will always have a place in my heart for Dan’s cafe and how they kicked someone out to give me a table, you just don’t get [...]
Both Kim and Anne will be spending roughly a month in Shanghai A belated post about Kim’s trip to Tokyo Anne will be spending Chinese New Year in Hong Kong, Kim in Kuala Lumpur Kim will see Janet Jackson perform live Kim will move to Beijing to start her second semester Kim (finger’s crossed) will be heading to Shanghai in April for the Shanghai Grand Prix Anne will be heading to France, with a possible visit to Spain and Italy, before the summer Kim turns 21 [Unknown plans] for the summer holidays Anne and Kim will both be [...]
A little travel vlog from the dusty city of Beijing.
Currently in HK and will be back in Shanghai on the 3rd of January next year! HK seems to get increasingly packed with people every time I come back. Trying their best to participate in Christmas merriment my family decided to go to the carolling service at St. John’s Cathedral last night. My sister started crying when the donation bag wasn’t passed to her and my Dad dripped wax all over the seat in front of him (which some poor man later sat in). In all, enjoyable holiday [...]
Okay, so tonight I’ll be flying back to Hong Kong to renew my Home Return Permit and HKID. I’ve made an appointment at 9am tomorrow at the Hong Kong Immigration Bureau to get a new HKID and as soon as I’ve got my temporary HKID in hand I’m meant to run to the CTS to apply for a new Home Return Permit.
