A few hours left 'til the sun's gonna rise
Tomorrow will come and we’ll soon realize
It’s time to savour, our final ovation.
Just one last dance,
Before we say goodbye.
Monday, October 20, 2008 { 5:54 AM }
20 nov.

Last breakfast at the hotel and I had melamine again. :D

2-hour bus ride to 天津, May 姐 said the bullet train would only take around 25 minutes. We went to 古文化街 first.

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Suspicious behaviour. -.-

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I SWEAR THE TOYS IN THE FIRST PICTURE WERE HILARIOUS. This is the video:



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And yes, it was also there that I SAW MY DARLING BATCHMATE CHAN SHU HUI!! x3

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

食品街

Where we had our lunch, bought some 小吃s, and Chinese books which cost 5 RMB each – that’s S$1 LMAO. I bought like 6-7 of them cause it was so worth it!

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Freaky.

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SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOUR.

And then lunch sucked like seriously sucked. Probably worse than Chengde food?! Lol I had a cheeseburger instead...
Firstly the dining room they brought us to was like, unused for dontknowhowmanyyears. There was literally a layer of dust on top of the table, the plates, etc. And the tissue we used to wipe the plates and chopsticks turned BLACK. We did the most sensible thing of course – request a change of table.

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Book YC borrowed from the library. See we came prepared. :D

天雅 & 秀水街

AND THEN IT WAS FINALLY TIME FOR SHOPPING HAHAHA WHAT ME AND WAN TING HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. YAY!!!!!!!

天雅

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秀水街

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All in all I bought:
- A (fake) Ferragamo wallet, 220RMB to 50
- A (fake) D&G bag, 650 to 80
- A (fake) Abercrombie hoodie, 320 to 65
- 3 (fake) Billabong shirts, 160 to 27.5 each
- Keychains, my dad bargained till it was 10 for 50
- 5 silver earrings, 28 to 14 each
- 2 plastic earrings, 10 to 5 each
- 2 毛泽东语录, 45 to 12.5 each

So I was squealing really hyperly while bouncing out of秀水街 (I got most of the stuff there), although the bargaining still has to be worked on. Oh and we sure met many despo pull-your-arm-when-you-leave salesgirls, and there was even one fierce bitch who shouted for me to come back. Another seriously followed my 大姨 around the place LOL. And you realize they keep using the same excuses, what make no profit and yada – well infact one almost cried (I don’t know it’s real).

Anyway it was a good experience. Bargaining is the love. x3

After spending so much time in秀水街 we finally went for dinner, and were like an hour late. We thought it didn’t really matter cause the whole tour group only consisted of our family members, but then it turned out that China people have their dinners REALLY EARLY so we were the last group at the restaurant, and there was no one else there. The waiters and waitresses were like. All watching us eat zomg.

And they didn’t give 臭脸s!! I swear the restaurant service is DAMN GOOD, the food was DAMN GOOD TOO, the people were super 亲切 and on task, and guess what, the performance team that was due an hour ago stayed back to perform for US (yes specially us).

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Like zomg see the emptiness.

Lol and then we had some tea lesson there, scam money again lah. Teach teach teach, teach finish already do commercial work. But at least we got to try the tea. :D

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ANYWAY THE PRICE IS SUPER INFLATED. One box of Pu’er tea is like S$900+, but my parents were too smart to get scammed, despite them trying to sell their product for an entire hour (that’s not inclusive of the lesson).

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On our way back we saw the night view of 鸟巢! Pretty.
Reached the hotel pretty late, 10+ or 11+. Finished “Saddle the Wind” and started a little on Low Kay Hwa’s “Journey”, fell asleep at 1+.