2/9 China via Hong Kong via Macau Detatchment /// 11:54 AM
Hi friends,
Just want to share with all of you our 20day journey to macau, Hongkong and China itself. Some things might not be easy to understand but please feel free to give your comments or ask questions..Thank you....
Sorry but Macau And Hong Kong pictures were not posted because I really don't know how to operate well in blogs. If you really want them, just tell me.
happy viewing!!!
Merry Christmas to all...
Our Plane....Tiger Airways A320...Registration 9V-TAC
Flight TR806
Depart SIN for MAC at 2100hrs and will arrive at MAC at 0045hrs.
All smiles before take off... Kanesh don't seem to be happy...
Entering the Runway... those green lines are not electricity waves but lights due to the camera not stable....
We took off at Runway 02C... at 2125hrs
What the?!... Cruise altitude is only 36,000 feet and our dear old Twisties is so bloated... Al the potato chips we brought aboard became like that... I think it's due to the pressure...
In flight no only do we eat but play our laptop as well...very enjoying...
On the 16th Night, we took a coach from Macau to China, my house. The bus got no seats but beds, double-decked. Terrible experience not because driver no good but because it's a 12hrs journey and its so boring and we cannot do anything on board. Sian..........
Bus ticket costs around RMB280=SGD$56 per trip from Macau-Fujian or Vice Versa or Fujian-Hong Kong
My Uncle's tea shop... Sells all kinds of tea of good grades. Can be costly. Cheapest is RMB300 = SGD$60
All Chinese have an ancesteral temple. Ancestors of surname Tan, Chan and Chen are from "An-Xi"
this photo shows the ancestor temple of Dings. It is located with the old houses. All the buildings are 100 over years old but still look nice.
This is one of the very old houses destroyed by nature.In the past, chinese of the same surname lived together in a town and the place where i lived remains the same just that i don't live in such house. The town which i live in is called Tan's town. but the people there bears surname Ding.Their ancestors are muslims but they adopted chinese philosophy.
My mother has the same surname. It s easier to understand when we use words and not letters.
I went to visit one of my cousin....(Please Don't ask which one because I got many cousins) and this is her house..Very big...I think can put quite a few cars then become exhibition. the whole 10 storey building belonged to her and there's elevator as well. Her parents-in-law lives on the 8th storey... Just her toilet is bigger than our school toilet...
My Uncle is a member of the JinJiang Youth Table Tennis Club so on most of the nights, we go to the training house to polish our table tennis skills...
With the state of art facilities as well as professional trainers our Table Tennis Skills is a OK...
On the peak of MT.Qing Yuan,
You can see the whole of Quan Zhou city... On the background of Kailun's picture is Quan Zhou city
Behind Kanesh is the TV station...
It's very cold here in China due Winter but never snows at this part of china.
KFC!!!!, everyone's facourite... Why must I buy KFC in China but not in SIngapore??? Because it's Cheap...
This family feast costs RMB$59 which is = to SIN$11.80
KFC in China is better than Singapore because they got creativity, they got new things which Singapore don't have. I remember that i ordered a fried prawn... Can you find that in Singapore???NO NO NO
What's more is they give gloves when you are eating chicken or something that requires hand to hold..
Good Right???
My cousin's daughter... Always speaks hokkien, very amusing... Likes to eat candies and whatever that is sweet. 3 years old...
Calls me Uncle Sam and Calls Kanesh Uncle as well.
We became older by a gerneration (=_=")
Leisure Activities .............
Must relax when come to China, on the left, Kailun was playing with his pigeon, trying to establish another BirdPark, but most probably will fail because everyday feed them until so fat then cannot fly.
5 cents per snooker game outdoors, in the high class(indoors) ones, it costs around RMB48 for 1.5hrs with 2 cans of Coke and 1 bottle of Green Tea.
(RMB IS CHINA's Currency)
(RMB48= SIN $9.6)
One of the days, my uncle and cousin drove us to the China's Tea Captial, the biggest tea trading area of the whole china. It is located at "An-Xi" where my ancestors used to be however, I live with my mother's relatives side at "Chen-Dai"(Tan's area).No idea why they name it in this funny way.
China's Tea Capital is located somewhere further south-east of china, I think near Xiamen where Silkair lands.
These ladies are removing the dirts from the tea
This is how crowded the Trading Hall is with various activities.
On of the very important places in CHINA's TEA CAPITAL, The Trading Hall. This is the place where many
My cousin drove us to one of the tea shops that sells trading of tea take place.
tea packaging and he bought boxes of containers and
tea packages for my uncle's tea shop.
There was one night where Kanesh and I spent in a 4 star hotel. It was so so cosy and nice. I spent 2 hours in the bath tub that night and the whole night we used their internet to watch online movie. Very excellent service and nice
On one occassion, we went to a shoe factory to see how shoe is made. And on our way, we saw these "Roman-like" buildings. These are not famous buildings nor are they important buildings. This is a shopping centre ----->
and furniture house.
<--- Not very sure what this is but it can either be a factory or for residential uses.
<-- Shoes are made in an assembly line. They are made in sequence. The factory which we went to was 5 stories tall and the size is bigger and longer than the building which class 2/9 was in...
I have quite a number of personal photos and if you want to take a look, contact me either via e-mail, MSN, SMS etc.
Thanks
Samuel Tan
All smiles before take off... Kanesh don't seem to be happy...
On the 16th Night, we took a coach from Macau to China, my house. The bus got no seats but beds, double-decked. Terrible experience not because driver no good but because it's a 12hrs journey and its so boring and we cannot do anything on board. Sian..........
This is one of the very old houses destroyed by nature.In the past, chinese of the same surname lived together in a town and the place where i lived remains the same just that i don't live in such house. The town which i live in is called Tan's town. but the people there bears surname Ding.Their ancestors are muslims but they adopted chinese philosophy.
On the peak of MT.Qing Yuan,
Leisure Activities .............
Must relax when come to China, on the left, Kailun was playing with his pigeon, trying to establish another BirdPark, but most probably will fail because everyday feed them until so fat then cannot fly.
There was one night where Kanesh and I spent in a 4 star hotel. It was so so cosy and nice. I spent 2 hours in the bath tub that night and the whole night we used their internet to watch online movie. Very excellent service and nice
<-- Shoes are made in an assembly line. They are made in sequence. The factory which we went to was 5 stories tall and the size is bigger and longer than the building which class 2/9 was in...
I have quite a number of personal photos and if you want to take a look, contact me either via e-mail, MSN, SMS etc.