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Dear Dear I'm finally back! haha N u noe i'm definitely gonna write on my trip to GuangZhou... haha ok so here it goes..

Went for a week and it's a nice relaxing trip thou i went sightseeing and shopped and ate alot! The weather was damn cold thou it was spring! It was cool on e 1st 3 days... Dun even need to wear long sleeve... was ard 10 odd degrees... But on e 4th day e weather turned bitter! drop to ard 7 or lower...and it rained so heavily with e strong gust of wind blowing we were freezing! we weren't prepared for such bitter weather but we managed to shop haha nx few days was ard 5-7 degrees.. *Brrr* Well to add, everyone in guangzhou speaks cantonese, since it's so near to HK. ple in guangzhou like to go HK over e wkend thou they hv so much of shopping themselves! So i try to converse in cantonese when i go shopping haha. k la stil can handle lol. But they do speak mandarin as their second lang so they hv no prob understding u. i kpt on blabbbering in my broken cantonese to my dad. haha he was so annoyed and amused! Every morn we wake up not too early... den out we go til dinner time 7 or 8pm n we'll hv dinner n back to e hotel, it was drinking n enjoying music at e lounge haha.

It's been sometime since i took e early noon flight... cant rem when was e last time i took a noon flight, i can rem e dawn n night flights better haha. so this time rd, in e plane can c e clouds again... Beautiful view. Oh n i managed to catch e movie Ray on e plane!! Save my money on e movie haha They were showing Sideways too so i decided to watch on e return trip. But arghhh e return plane doesnt show Sideways! Heng my bro bot e dvd der haha. Watched Bridget Jones II, a movie I had wanted to catch but didn't... So my aunt came to fetch us with her hotel mini van when we arrived. the reason we choose to go Guangzhou instead of Shanghai was cos e latter was more ex and was colder! N anyways my parents had been to Shanghai with my cousin n in law. They left us for shanghai for 2 entire wks! And well oso cos my aunt was working at e hotel. So e hotel expenses wud be cheaper. We knew she was holding a rather high post for she had been working at the Holiday Inn hotels in diff parts of China for e past 10 yrs... But we din noe she was such a BIG shot! ermz not until we saw her designation at e hotel lobby... Marilyn Tay, Director of Finance and Business Associates. So every thing we spent in e hotel was at a 50% rate. And she call e shots. Food not nice, add extra bed bring more pillows etc etc e services were immediate haha. Enuf said.

So on e very 1st day we reached ard late noon and my aunt asked her secretary to bring us to shop a lil... din buy much except for a pair of shades.. 1st day mah... haven got e momentum yet haha but i did try a bowl of those pig internals fr e rdside stall... damn nice! sizzling hot! haha yah i'm not afraid to try stalls at e rdside in fact i think der food taste great! lol So after tt we went for dinner at this jap restaurant. Damn ex 200+ bucks but tt's wat jap food usu cost...

Ok so 2nd n 3rd day we went sight seeing. U'll c e pix i post in my blog... went to some temples, bai yun shan n visit this buddha structure at e top of a mountain too and also to Fo Shan. Yah tt's where Huang Fei Hong lives fyi. Arghh i'm disappointed! From his sculpture and drawing, he's botak, big sized and ermz dun look good... how can he be agile with this size? A far cry fr e yandao actors who in his movies... lol mayb Zhao wen zhuo left too deep an impression.... Oh and all e temples r indeed vvvv big! Looks small fr e outside, but it's so big inside i dun think we ever covered e whole temple...There were so many beggars along e streets outside these plcs of interest, with some scribbles of how pitiful they r on the floor... Some of them even left their toddlers along e streets to beg, out in this cold weather... I bet the parent must be hiding somewhere, just making use of their children to gain sympathy. Many also had deformed bone structures, amputated arms n feets. Heard fr my aunt tt these ple r mostly fr some syndicates whereby they were kidnapped when young n was abused or tortured to become handicapped and made beggars. Once u gave to e first beggar on e street, e rest will noe somehow and as u walk past they'll come up to u to beg...

Day 4 and 5 was shopping shopping shopping!!! haha like i've said it was damn cold! so I bot a thick jacket once i reached. They hv like a huge plc with all shops along a few stretches and u jus shop from e 1st to e last shop!! N e stuff der r quite nice, trendy. Dun think cheena ple all ah lao lah... e ple der dress til quite hip and hehe der r quite a few cute funky guys haha. Oh e stuff r soooo cheap!! esp e shoes!! like oni 10 sing dollars per pair! So i bot 3 pairs! haha too lil rite? but almost couldnt fit my lugguage... My bro bot 4! e rest bot at least one or 2 pairs. they sell lotsa boots too cos it's cold. N there's so many pepsi stuff ard, a pavillon made of pepsi cans with e artistes face on dem and pepsi stalls and they even hv pepsi sports selling sportswear!!! There r so many diff clothes label like those of S&K pattern endorsed by many different artistes like Jay, Vaness etc etc. These labels u nv c in s'pore...and there r many HK actors who endorse e labels oni sold in e shopping malls.... Realli alot! Oh e CDs and DVDs r soooo cheap! I bot Leehom and Kenji's cd, tension's vcd and my bro n cousin bot alot of albums n DVDs too!! including Sideways(e one i missed on e plane) Million dollar baby n more! haha So i'll tell u my zhan li pin... From head to bottom(for myself oni)... I bot a pair of shades, a mascara, a jacket, a top from Meteor/Bonwe(endorse by Jay), a belt, 2 pairs of bottoms and 3 pairs of shoes... Dun sound alot lah actuali... nx time mus bring bigger lugguage or extra baggage liaoz...I'm gonna go da cai gou in summer! hahaha

Yup and on e last nite, I was dragged on stage to sing at e lounge by e singers haha my bro had performed before me and i jus came down fr my bath in my room. haha sang 2 chinese songs the Fillipino singer chose for me.

So on e last day we din hv much time e flight's at 320pm.. so we did some last min shoppin near e hotel, buy foodstuff for relatives/frens... I kinda miss my aunt... after all she's my fav koh koh(tt's gu gu in teochew) and i dun spend much time w her... this is e 1st time i spend almost one wk w her... she's so farnie! haha thx for taking 2 days off to entertain us! Like u said, we entertained u too! haha

Did I mention i went for foot reflexology? This one isn't painful...My mum says e one at Batam is e one tt will make u yell... But my feet feels very smooth! haha
And I forgot to add that we ate alot!! Every meal at e restaurants... quite cheap considering so many ple, 100 plus only some were even cheaper but we ate alot of gd food haha n i think i put on some weight... BUt i oso tried e Mac der(in between meals haha) they hv diff types of burgers just like mac in diff parts of e world offer diff burgers... and i tried those stalls which sells like sotong, maize drumsticks etc etc on satay sticks... much like e pasah malam in s'pore... Hmm these food makes me think of Taiwan!!! I wanna go TW!! and yah somehow e streets of Guangzhou reminds me of Japan.... I swear I'm gonna visit Japan again!! I miss Japan!!

wow tt's quite alot from me...took me almost an hr to write this post... Will add wateva i miss haha i'll post some pix on my blog but for more pix pls visit my photo album! e link's provided on e right...