Sucky Train!

Day 1 - 29/4/2010

We went to Shanghai South Railway Station around 3pm and only realised that there were actually 2 railway stations in Shanghai, and we got to the wrong one. WTH. :(((

Lol. So we couldn't get to another station in time, we had to get new tickets instead. T.T
And the worse thing????
It would depart at 7.15pm, which was like 4 hours later than our actual planned time.


Still, the worst thing was the train delayed for an hour and there were no seats for us since we bought the tickets too late! LOL.
And we had to sit on our luggages. Hahaha.
Anyway it was still pretty fun! ^^ The only annoying thing was we had to stand up and ducked here and there when ppl wanted to get pass. =.='''

Pictures of us when we were waiting to board the train at KFC!
Eating burgers while listening to songs from my lappy.

Me & my Ish-So-Hak-Zai look. XDDD

We reached Su Zhou around 9.40pm, Thank God. XDD
And slept early!!! ^^




Day 2 - 30/4/2010


We went out straight after breakfast, just the both of us. XDDD
The first stop was Hu Qiu!
The most well-known place in Su Zhou for the abundance of gown shops there.
Due to the intense competition, we could get super gorgeous gowns with awfully reasonable prices!

I got a very cute, simple and short strapless white gown plus another really pretty long one!
It was a very very very light greenish blue in colour with beads on the straps. :DDD

No pictures though, foz photography was strictly prohibited in the shops. I'll take the pictures of them when I have events to wear them to! XD

We took pics with the statue outside my uncle's apartment.
There were a lot more, but we were kinda rushy to get on with our plan, so.. yea. XD

After Hu Qiu, we stopped by The Walking Street in Su Zhou! ^^
It was a super long street fulled of shops, malls, and restaurants.
You could shop until you drop or walk until you fall. XD
We walked until our legs ached. :D

A pic taken at the main entrance of the street.
Me with the array of flowers! :D

Our last stop is the Nike and Adidas shop. XD

In Adidas. ^^

I got a simple white jacket from Nike. ^^ ♥ it.
It was tiring yet satisfying. XDDDD
I definitely need to work to earn back the money I have used. :X

Watched the opening ceremony of the World Expo Shanghai 2010 Live on TV!
It was awesome!!!
The fireworks were absolutely breath-taking, though I had to say I was glad I came to Su Zhou, coz it would be deafening to stay in my room in Shanghai. XDD
My friends said the sky changed from red to blue, and blue to white all the time yesterday night! And it sounded like thunder. XD


I can't wait to go to the Expo but going there in May's definitely a very very bad idea. It is too overly crowded now. I'll go in June perhaps, or MAYBE next week.
See if my friends get free tickets for me. Ehehehe.. For being the translator. XD

Today'll be exclusively for snapping pics!!!!

BYEEE!

Translator Of The Day.

Lol. My translating ability had been used to the max since I came to Shanghai.
Being a translator for master classes for 3 times, and also help those foreigners coming to the conservatory to convey their messages to the school department.

I went to the conservatory this afternoon to watch Xing Zhu in her act. :DDDD
The character she would be playing was an eccentric teacher majoring in the Relationship Problems.
LOL. She would give a lot of weird advices to the couples regarding their relationship problems. She showed me a few parts of her act and I laughed like crazy. XDDDDDDDD

So when we were sitting on the benches, chatting happily, suddenly a foreigner came up to us and asked if any of us understand English.
Turned out that he was a musician from the World Expo and he wanted to look for some musicians to play with him in the concerts during the Expo.

That was pretty cool. :) So yea I brought him around the school area, going from this department to that and finally settled everything. :)


I got back to my room right after the translating business, and immediately started to practise my Bach over and over again, getting nervous about the performance tonight.
The thing was, my teacher rang me an hour ago, telling me to perform after 2 weeks coz today something came up and he couldn't make it. :DDD

Wheeeeeeee, I dunno I should be happy or disappointed. XD
I guess a little bit of both.
I do want to just go on stage and play it out and get it done with ASAP.
I want to move on to my Bruch's Concerto and the Chinese piece!

Me, edited fake lashes! Hahaha...
Just to match my whole outfit. :D

Gotta pack my luggage tomorrow morning! (Or maybe 2nite.) ^^
Owh it feels sooo good to be on holidays!!!
Jiun Hui & I gonna explore Su Zhou on our own since my uncle and my aunt are busy. ^^
Wheee wheee!!! Can't wait! ^^
I've always love exploring places on my own. ^^

I'm hungry now. Have to get dinner~ Byeee~

Marina Bychkova's Enchanted Dolls ♥

My newly-found treasure : Marina Bychkova's Enchanted Dolls!!!
:D
It's a Must-Share! :DDDDD

Here's Marina Bychkova.
The mother and the creator for the breath-takingly beautiful dolls.

She's pretty much a doll herself. :DDD

Here's the Swan Princess.
Everything is handmade, and every single doll carries a story of her own.
It is depicted through her eyes mostly.
You'll understand when you scroll down. :)

Penelope. :)
I dunno wat's her story.
Let's guess.

The Famous-Amos Alice who gets herself into Wonderland. :D

Exploratum.
I love the freckles on her cheek.

The Shape Shifter.
A witch. (Mammalius Kinesis)

Necrophilia - An irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies.
The doll depicts Snow White.
Remember Snow White died after eating the poisoned apple?
And the prince came by and couldn't resist himself from kissing the dead Snow White on the lips.

Hmm.. now they make the sweet romantic story into something freaky. O.o

Empress Ci Xi. (慈禧太后）
Super delicate embellishments.

The Banshee,
(Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death

Such beauty. :)

Wheee!! Short-haired doll finally!
The theme is Illumination.

Artificial Intelligence.

This should be the Snow Queen I supposed?

Agnetha - The Other Woman
Remember the story of the Little Mermaid?
The prince chose another princess as his bride in the end and Little Mermard changed into bubbles the next morning coz she couldn't kill the Prince to redeem her identity as a mermaid.

So the doll below is the nameless princess the prince married.
She's beautiful but in the story, her name isn't mentioned, so she's called The Other Woman.

Kia - The Water Nymph

The Famous-Amos Scheherazade!!! :DDDD

A lolita girl in a very not-lolita outfit.
Haha.

Be enchanted. :)
This is Cinderella.

Venetian. ♥

Imperial Concubine.

Aisha.

Makhdot - The Moon's Child.

:))))))
These few days were just tiring and hectic.
2mr'll be the performance night!
Wish me luck!!!

Will go Su Zhou for holidays on 29th April until 2nd May! ^^

Good night ppl~

Yoshinoya~

Went out with Xing Zhu to get something today. :DDD
Got our dinner at Yoshinoya since Xing Zhu insisted me to try out the Beef Rice there. :D

She was totally right, it was too tasty to be true!!!
Okay so Yoshinoya's Beef Rice is now on my where-to-eat list. :D

Did some shopping and tried out some hot dresses today. :D
There were a lot of Spring and Summer clothes coming out and I really adored a jeans dress but I guess I would just wait a month later to buy it, since I couldn't wear so little yet in this chilly weather. Haha.


Pictures at Yoshinoya!

The ceiling is just like a mirror. ^^

The wall's a mirror as well. ^^

Looking tired? XD

I SEE YOU! :D

I TOUCH YOU! :DDD
Lol this sound so wrong.

A very office-lady Xing Zhu. :D
She's trying to imitate the Chili we bought for Kevin.

Hahaha..

This is totally random. XD
She just asked me to look up and tadaa. :D

Wink!

Owh no I'm getting hungry again. XDD
Good night!

Happy Valley! ♥

Okay finally recharged my energy and ready to blog about the totally fantastic day at Happy Valley!!!


I woke up around 6 in the morning, feeling totally drowsy and giddy coz I slept really late the night before.
My head was throbbing and I was like "owh no, I hope the fatique-ness won't spoil the day!"

A fresh bath helped me to clear my head. :)
Xing Zhu came to get me and we gathered at the school gate, departing in Feng's new red car. :DD

On the way in the car taking pics with the dog with a tongue.
(Haha... I'm trying to make a poem out of it)

This dog had such a silly look I just keep torturing it and used it as my pillow throughout the whole journey in the car. XD

The weather was lovely. About 18 degree and it was super sunny and cheery. :DDDD
When we got there, I could see swarms of ppl queueing up for tickets. OMG.

Haha.. My back view blocked by Kevin. :DD

Anyway we managed to get in after 10 minutes coz we bought the tickets from some random ticket sellers outside, had discount summore. Whee~~~

Pics at the entrance..
Us in couple tee~~

And they're in couple tees too!!! Ahahaha..
Xing Zhu got the tees for them! XD

Happy Valley is a city, YES, A CITY.
It was fulled of little shops selling incredibly cute and interesting things and a lot of crazily exciting and amusing equipments.
There were 4 or 5 sections with different themes.
It was so big we couldn't finish everything in a day!

It was Spring! And there were seeds of dandelion floating in the air, just like snowflakes or tiny feathers.
Fascinating......
And there were kids blowing bubbles too, and I could see rainbow colours through them. :DD

A deco train. :D
I ♥ this pic. ^^

Feng wore this shades that could be used as a mirror. Haha..
So Xing Zhu took a picture of herself using it. XD

Hehe.. We wore couple tees and caps! :D
Owh yea, I'm wearing her shades! ^^

And there's a wedding chapel in Happy Valley! :DDD
It was really pretty, all white and EMPTY.
I guess it's just for deco? Lol...

Lol.. I wore another glasses of Xing Zhu! :DD
This one has no prescriptions and no lenses!
I like it though! Hahaha.. Nice.

I was being impolite, interrupting their date. XD

Owh yea.. Here's one of the scariest equipments in Happy Valley.
It slopes down 90 degree as you can see in this pic.
=.='''''''
We didn't try it out that day though, coz there were a lot more things we hadn't try on.
And subconciously, nobody actually feel like trying THAT out. Lol.
Too scary.


Ahaha.. that's the rabbit hairband I bought on my head. ^^

Kevin and Feng played the dart-throwing thing.
And there came a lil boy trying it out too. Lol.
He was soooo adorable and chubby!!
Xing Zhu took a pic with him before he fled to get his mum. XD

We were lining up to try out the Waves Machine.
Took pics while waiting. ^^

.......... I'm speechless ............

Xing Zhu asked me to turn around and SNAP! :D

OMG this pic sooooo GAY! XD
We always say they are gays though.
Coz they love each other very much.
Hahahaha..
Yiiii, I still feel goosebumps crawling up my skin everytime I see this pic. XD

Hahaa.. Kiss! ^^

Look at our couple tee! ^^
Same design, different colours. Hehehe.

Some freaky equipments we tried out.

This looked like an octopus transformer.
It just kept spinning and spinning and sometime with your head facing downwards.
CRAZY.

This one was the one I had tried out last time in People's Garden, but this one in Happy Valley is much more scarier, bigger and stronger.
T.T

Haha! Finally something about water!!
This was pretty fun, We just kept spinning down the stream and got splashed by some hidden water gun and got wet.

Rain coats! :D
A must-have when you want to play this game. XD

We strayed on to the next section.
Took pic with the stone mountain as the background.

Wheee whee!!! I found horse-riding place and I MUST TRY IT OUT! XD
I had always wanted to ride a horse since I was 5 yrs old.
I like how they decorate it, look super Mongolian. ^^

Me on the horse.
The "Mongolian guy" at the back brought me and my horse for a walk around.
He made the horse galloped and I had to gasp for breath, man so damn scary! T.T
Luckily he did slowed down afterwards and asked me questions like where I was from.
And when he knew I was studying music in the conservatory, he asked for my number so that he could call me when there was some violin works available.

Hehe.. I told him to get Kevin's number instead. XDDD

....... SPEECHLESS AGAIN........

KABOOMMM! This one I really have nothing to comment about. =.='''
LOL.

Pics of the 4 of us!!!

^^ We walked on and got to Kingdom Ants.
Most of the equipments there were designed for kids.
Slower and sweeter, not dat much excitements or frights.

LOL. There were some buffalo statues and we climbed up to take pictures.
This pose of Feng is just too classy. XD

Here's the little girl who inspired us on how to climb the buffalo!!
All of us was trying hard to climb but totally in vain, and then this little girl just came up and stepped onto the buffalo's tail and UP SHE WENT!

=.=''' Lol.. We were such fools. T.T

^^ She was soooo cute.

Threesome disrupting the perfect date. XD

Xing Zhu....... What are you doing? XD

They were trying to act like they nvr want to talk to each other again. LOL.

A picture with Feng.
The sunlight was too bright so I borrowed Xing Zhu's shades. :D

I have to say the shades is only suitable for girls.
Proven in the pic below..... =.='''''
Hahaha..

Wheee whee~~

The sun was setting~~

My fav pic of the day! :DDDDD
Ahaha..
Credits to Xing Zhu the photographer! XD

Catching the light.

Sugar-coated fruits!!
Strawberry on the top! My fav!!

I didn't try this out too.. T.T
I will try it out next time I come. :D

And this one as well. T.T
This one super scary!!

And these!!! Didn't try out as well! T.T
Lol. You can know how scary it is by judging the height of the "twin tower" equipment. T.T
I think I'll get a heart attack trying it out.

I wanna try out the amazingly built roller coaster!!! T.T
Omg I didn't try out a lot of things. T.T sobsob..
Not enough time to. :(

It was so dark so I had to use backlight to edit the pic. XDD

Feng's red car with Xing Zhu as the model. XD

Last pic, took with Kevin's new bought giraffe balloon! ^^

It was a freakily exciting day.
I was absolutely dehydrated, drained, getting-feebly-in-my-knees and got stronger everytime I tried out something new and scarier.

Owh yea! And we went to watch 4D cinema there too!!!
It was sooooo cool man! Haha..
We watched spongebob, and if something burst or someone spit in the movie, there would be water sprinkled onto our faces.
Felt damn disgusting whehhh. XDDD but it's sooooo fun!!!!!
We just screamed everytime something in the movie poked at us or throw things at us. Hahahaha..


Happy Valley is a must-go place if you come to Shanghai!!! :D