It is confirmed that I won’t be spending Christmas in Singapore this year. Sob… Sob... I am forced to go Harbin, China with my family for holiday and will only be back on the 27^th Dec.

So sad… I was looking forward to spending Christmas Eve in a club and counting down with Baby, William and Isaac who might be able to get to stay out real late. =( Gone… Now I can only look forward to New Year Eve as an alternative but the atmosphere will not be as good as during the Christmas season. =(

I wonder how the atmosphere is like at Harbin for Christmas… It is going to be freezing cold and snowing with ice sculptures within the hotel premises. Ahhh it’s been more than a year since I came back from my Beijing internship and since I set foot on China’s soil. HAHA…

Anyway, just the thought of going back to China led me to dig through my pictures to reminisce my time spent in China. LOL.

So be prepared for a massive upload of pictures!

Oh! Embrace yourself with food pictures because I think that is the only thing that I can remember clearly from my travels in China and also Fatty Wendy because I think I ate so much during my internship period. I was VERY fat. HAHA…

This is the prettiest place that I have been to. But I don’t really fancy the weather. It’s dry with strong wind at times and without wind, scorching…

For people who don’t want to get a tan, you have to put on sunblock and wear long sleeved tops which is torturous during summer! Well, but you won’t want to be there other than summer because you won’t get to see such green pastures during other times of the year.

Ahhh! This is a scrumptious dish!! I remember it vividly and if I am not wrong, the name should be Men Mian. I don’t know how to translate this. It’s for the advance level. LOL

Next stop – Shanghai

Yes! Food again! I didn’t remember much about Shanghai except that disgusting first meal that I had in a small restaurant across the street from a renowned traveller’s motel whose name I couldn’t remember.

However, Nanxiang Restaurant is another story altogether. You can see Michelle slurping happily from her gigantic xiao long bao. Their normal xiao long bao and other exquisite Shanghainese tim sum were superb!! Oh! There are Nanxiang Restaurants is Singapore too! They have one at Bugis Junction and other one near the Key Point mall. I tried the gigantic xiao long bao at the Bugis Junction branch but it isn’t as nice as the authentic one I had in Shanghai. =(

I love our hostel room in Hangzhou! It has a roof window and sometimes, we would see squirrels. Hangzhou is famous for this Dong Po Rou which is essentially stewed pork belly that many loathed including me. But I still tried it as it is Hangzhou’s signature dish and it is really good! It isn’t that gross to munch on fats afterall. HAHA…

Oh! And Michelle has a kind friend who was formerly from SMU but decided to quit and go to the States for his college education. He was very nice to bring us around Hangzhou and even treated us dinner!

As the Chinese name suggests, welcome to Suzhou! It is also a beautiful place and it seemed like I had a ride through time and was back in ancient China. Suzhou still retained much of its traditional architecture and waterways. We were very fortunate to be able to get a room in a traveller’s motel along one of the oldest streets in Suzhou. Don’t ask me for the name of the street! I can’t remember. =(

I can only remember the salty bean curd (Tau Hui) which was delicious! I love it better than the conventional sweetened bean curd we had in Singapore. And there was this fried fish dish which was the best of the lot we had in a renowned restaurant. Not to forget its smelly toufu which I didn’t manage to snap!

I transited in Hong Kong before I went over to Beijing but I didn’t take much picture there. At least I can’t seem to find them. :S

But I transited in Hong Kong again before heading back to Singapore. So here is a map of the Hong Kong MRT and me with my first lunch after I reached. Then Michelle’s friend came to join us. If I remembered correctly, she is borned in Hong Kong but is currently holding a Singapore passport and studying in London. HAHA.. complicated. Oh! Maybe she has already graduated. =)

She brought us to this cats’ café where kittens and cats were left to roam around the café. They could sleep and rest at any spot in the café. I remembered taking pictures of them including one with a little kitten all rolled up in a tiny cubicle of a small table-top shelf. Once again, I couldn’t find it! =(

But I found the café’s menu and notice board!

Since my internship was in Beijing, how could I leave out my pictures there?

These were my colleagues who flown in from the Singapore Headquarters for our event. And my first time walking through the alleys in the less developed parts of Beijing.

These were my colleagues who I worked with throughout my internship period. Some of them are permanent staff and others are fellow interns from Beijing universities.

The top right hand picture is my first lunch at my workplace in Beijing. They ordered in lunch but subsequently, we were left to get our own. I quite like the food there especially the small steamboat that they called Shuai Shuai Guo at the bottom of the collage.

These are the pictures we took with our foreign exhibitors. The one on the left is a Korean and the one on the right is a good-natured and humorous Syrian.

Catch Michelle with the Olympics 2008’s mascots!

How can I leave out all the unforgettable delectable food! Miss the mutton satay barbequed in Xinjiang style plus beer the most!

I don’t know why I wanted to include Taiwan in this post. Please do not be mistaken, people who anti the merging of Taiwan and China. I am not supporting nor against the merger – neutral to be exact. Just like to post up some pictures from my Taiwan trip last year end.

Yes! Beer! So mesmerized by the humongous can of Heineken I found in one of the 24/7 convenience stores.

That’s my mum by the way! If you are wondering if it’s me since a lot of people commented that I looked like my mum. HAHA…

I am not sure you can see the Christmas tree clearly but it was a lucky Christmas tree to be decorated with Tiffany & Co’s boxes and ornaments. It was located outside the tallest building in Taipei – 101.

Okay! Now I kind of pep talk myself and I feel a lot better and positive about spending Christmas in Harbin. HAHA… Hope my trip will be interesting!

Oh! Probably, you will catch a FATTY WENDY after I come back. It’s always the case. I tend to grow fat during my overseas trip and be on a diarrhea marathon once I am back in Singapore. HAHA…

P.S.// I just realized that I forgot to state that the first place mentioned in my post is Inner Mongolia. LOL.

amor,esperanza y fe 11:41 AM.

It is confirmed that I won’t be spending Christmas in Singapore this year. Sob… Sob... I am forced to go Harbin, China with my family for holiday and will only be back on the 27^th Dec.

So sad… I was looking forward to spending Christmas Eve in a club and counting down with Baby, William and Isaac who might be able to get to stay out real late. =( Gone… Now I can only look forward to New Year Eve as an alternative but the atmosphere will not be as good as during the Christmas season. =(

I wonder how the atmosphere is like at Harbin for Christmas… It is going to be freezing cold and snowing with ice sculptures within the hotel premises. Ahhh it’s been more than a year since I came back from my Beijing internship and since I set foot on China’s soil. HAHA…

Anyway, just the thought of going back to China led me to dig through my pictures to reminisce my time spent in China. LOL.

So be prepared for a massive upload of pictures!

Oh! Embrace yourself with food pictures because I think that is the only thing that I can remember clearly from my travels in China and also Fatty Wendy because I think I ate so much during my internship period. I was VERY fat. HAHA…

This is the prettiest place that I have been to. But I don’t really fancy the weather. It’s dry with strong wind at times and without wind, scorching…

For people who don’t want to get a tan, you have to put on sunblock and wear long sleeved tops which is torturous during summer! Well, but you won’t want to be there other than summer because you won’t get to see such green pastures during other times of the year.

Ahhh! This is a scrumptious dish!! I remember it vividly and if I am not wrong, the name should be Men Mian. I don’t know how to translate this. It’s for the advance level. LOL

Next stop – Shanghai

Yes! Food again! I didn’t remember much about Shanghai except that disgusting first meal that I had in a small restaurant across the street from a renowned traveller’s motel whose name I couldn’t remember.

However, Nanxiang Restaurant is another story altogether. You can see Michelle slurping happily from her gigantic xiao long bao. Their normal xiao long bao and other exquisite Shanghainese tim sum were superb!! Oh! There are Nanxiang Restaurants is Singapore too! They have one at Bugis Junction and other one near the Key Point mall. I tried the gigantic xiao long bao at the Bugis Junction branch but it isn’t as nice as the authentic one I had in Shanghai. =(

I love our hostel room in Hangzhou! It has a roof window and sometimes, we would see squirrels. Hangzhou is famous for this Dong Po Rou which is essentially stewed pork belly that many loathed including me. But I still tried it as it is Hangzhou’s signature dish and it is really good! It isn’t that gross to munch on fats afterall. HAHA…

Oh! And Michelle has a kind friend who was formerly from SMU but decided to quit and go to the States for his college education. He was very nice to bring us around Hangzhou and even treated us dinner!

As the Chinese name suggests, welcome to Suzhou! It is also a beautiful place and it seemed like I had a ride through time and was back in ancient China. Suzhou still retained much of its traditional architecture and waterways. We were very fortunate to be able to get a room in a traveller’s motel along one of the oldest streets in Suzhou. Don’t ask me for the name of the street! I can’t remember. =(

I can only remember the salty bean curd (Tau Hui) which was delicious! I love it better than the conventional sweetened bean curd we had in Singapore. And there was this fried fish dish which was the best of the lot we had in a renowned restaurant. Not to forget its smelly toufu which I didn’t manage to snap!

I transited in Hong Kong before I went over to Beijing but I didn’t take much picture there. At least I can’t seem to find them. :S

But I transited in Hong Kong again before heading back to Singapore. So here is a map of the Hong Kong MRT and me with my first lunch after I reached. Then Michelle’s friend came to join us. If I remembered correctly, she is borned in Hong Kong but is currently holding a Singapore passport and studying in London. HAHA.. complicated. Oh! Maybe she has already graduated. =)

She brought us to this cats’ café where kittens and cats were left to roam around the café. They could sleep and rest at any spot in the café. I remembered taking pictures of them including one with a little kitten all rolled up in a tiny cubicle of a small table-top shelf. Once again, I couldn’t find it! =(

But I found the café’s menu and notice board!

Since my internship was in Beijing, how could I leave out my pictures there?

These were my colleagues who flown in from the Singapore Headquarters for our event. And my first time walking through the alleys in the less developed parts of Beijing.

These were my colleagues who I worked with throughout my internship period. Some of them are permanent staff and others are fellow interns from Beijing universities.

The top right hand picture is my first lunch at my workplace in Beijing. They ordered in lunch but subsequently, we were left to get our own. I quite like the food there especially the small steamboat that they called Shuai Shuai Guo at the bottom of the collage.

These are the pictures we took with our foreign exhibitors. The one on the left is a Korean and the one on the right is a good-natured and humorous Syrian.

Catch Michelle with the Olympics 2008’s mascots!

How can I leave out all the unforgettable delectable food! Miss the mutton satay barbequed in Xinjiang style plus beer the most!

I don’t know why I wanted to include Taiwan in this post. Please do not be mistaken, people who anti the merging of Taiwan and China. I am not supporting nor against the merger – neutral to be exact. Just like to post up some pictures from my Taiwan trip last year end.

Yes! Beer! So mesmerized by the humongous can of Heineken I found in one of the 24/7 convenience stores.

That’s my mum by the way! If you are wondering if it’s me since a lot of people commented that I looked like my mum. HAHA…

I am not sure you can see the Christmas tree clearly but it was a lucky Christmas tree to be decorated with Tiffany & Co’s boxes and ornaments. It was located outside the tallest building in Taipei – 101.

Okay! Now I kind of pep talk myself and I feel a lot better and positive about spending Christmas in Harbin. HAHA… Hope my trip will be interesting!

Oh! Probably, you will catch a FATTY WENDY after I come back. It’s always the case. I tend to grow fat during my overseas trip and be on a diarrhea marathon once I am back in Singapore. HAHA…

P.S.// I just realized that I forgot to state that the first place mentioned in my post is Inner Mongolia. LOL.