Friday, June 23, 2006

The Suzhou river (i think)! :)
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The bridge (linking the two campuses of the Suzhou University)... ha... still remember cycling in Suzhou!
~dk

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En-route... i walked from feng-huang-road to Suzhou university...
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Suzhou University... where I visited before a year ago... ha... memories!
~dk

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Had brunch desert with XJ! We met last year in Suzhou... and in Singapore. A really pleasant girl who is always smiling ^_^ yeh!
~dk

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Let me insert some interesting sniplets from my suzhou trip. :) here i am at the train station taking a photo with garfield... Ha... almost wanted to get the balloon (but some kid!)
~dk

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BJ with his dorm buddy. ^_^
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Together with BJ... ^_^ A friend I met in Suzhou last year, through LH introducing. ^_^
~dk

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Onboard the ferry across Huang-Pu-River
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The period of SCO summit... corresponded with better lighting of the buildings in the bund... there were even lasers around... :)
~dk

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bringing CX to the bund... we passed by peace hotel... this is where a famous shanghai old jazz band is actually based in... but i guess the prices are also steep... ha... ok!
~dk

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Ha... at the People's Park... it is quite fun when you try to slow down pace of life... and appreciate things around you.
~dk

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The Shanghai Museum... it's about Chinese history and has symbolism (circular top represents heaven, while the squarish bottom earth).
~dk

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Nanjing Pedestrian Street
~dk

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Anyway... if you are thinking of fetching a friend at the airport. Remember that the waiting time averages to 45min (according to the chaffeurs i talked to at the airport out of desperation and boredom... ha... you probably wouldn't understand until you try it)... i stood for more than an hour there!!! ^_^
~dk

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At Pudong International Airport where I fetched CX...
~dk

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431km/h!
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The tickets for the Maglev is not particularly cheap... hence it's spacious!
~dk

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Me and Maglev (the famed technology which china has in joint project with Germany... it went to super high speeds)... The train runs from loyang station (not the singapore one... but the shanghai pudong one)... to the airport
~dk

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Ha... 1-year old... :) anyway... the b'day candles in China are mostly in number-format.
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Happy birthday WL!
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Blurry photo... ha... WL and I saw the guy shake the camera!
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Anyway... sometimes I would take a slower walk and appreciate the things around me... including the flowers and the interesting birds! :)
~dk

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A supermarket called "Lian Hua"... which is exactly the chinese name of my primary school (LPS)!
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The oolong tea
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INside YiChaYiZhuo... the tea was really exorbitant... and there's supposedly nice ice-kachang... i had oolong
~dk

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Lujiazhui (financial district)
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Behind me is: Pearl of the Orient (which is actually some radio or tv station building)
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The morning assembly!
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The fudan canteen!
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In the midst of some old, some rather chinese architecture we find a roman-styled building!
~dk

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One of the mini-parks (fudan)
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Inside Fudan University... where I met up with ZY (from TCHS, HJC)... and HX (friend of friend ^_^) and Julian (on a course)... the campus was huge and had lots of books (really!)
~dk

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Children... the innocent ones... staring at the elderly... the experienced one... all living together and enjoying the leisure day
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Kites! one of the fav past-time of locals. ANyway, FL rem our kite-day!
~dk

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at the neighborhood park where i took a walk cos i wasn't really feeling well; there was a medical checkup booth for the community (FOC)... interesting and heartwarming (but i'm not too sure if there is no corporate reasons behind it... cos i ask them and they say they are from a company and assigned to be there one).
~dk

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A nice wine place... japanese.
~dk

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Btw, can get Straits Times papers in this restaurant... can you see the kebaya ladies?
~dk

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At crossroads restaurant (a Singaporean style makan place, where the waitress and waiters would dress in kebayas!)having carrot cake...
~dk

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Friday, June 02, 2006

Pulitzer 1994... cruel truth about hunger.
~dk

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