my weekend in nanjing

yes it was a very short holiday. my holidays are always short. save money whatttt!

anyway starting from the beginning:
left on friday early morning. the taxi fare to get from my house to changi airport is fricking $15.20!!! plus additional booking fee, it took us $20.20! daylight robbery! (although technically it was still dark when we reached the airport) anw. we took sq there. me in economy and my dad in business :( haha watched quite a few movies there and back. the only good show was KISS KISS BANG BANG. omg it was sooooo funny. robert downey jr is very likeable, michelle monaghan is so hot and val kilmer. omg haha. val kilmer looks way different from his batman days (i.e. now he is fat and quite ugly) but he is incredibly funny as gay perry. i really couldn't stop laughing. plus the plot was relatively intelligent. you can watch the trailer here and read let's review on the movie here! the food on the plane wasn't nice. i only liked the cornetto ice-cream. anyway since business class was empty the stewardesses let me sit with my dad just before landing. oooh business class is so nice. silk pillow covers, suede arm rests, tons of leg room and gigantic seats! haha i'm so suaku.

so then we arrived! our hotel was the 名人城市酒店 (celebrity city hotel). it was so niceeeee.

that afternoon we visited the 南京大屠杀纪念馆 (nanjing massacre museum). at first our guide told us we were going to the "nanjing massack" then my dad and i were like "huh??" haha the weather on friday was like shit as you can see. luckily the museum is indoors. most of the displays had english and chinese placards but the english translation was quite bad. the problem with my poor chinese is i take so damn long to read everything! :(

there was a grand banquet that night! my dad got to sit at the head table so i got to sit there too :D i even had a little namecard that said 王小姐. quite funny right! the food was sooo yummy. a lot of lake food (cos they have a gigantic lake in nanjing) and a lot of poultry. i was quite scared to eat all the duck etc cos of the bird flu but a lot of the food items were nanjing specialties like 盐水鸭 (brine soaked duck) and it would have been very rude if i didn't eat them. ooh in nanjing they eat their 豆花 savoury with soy sauce and pickles. quite yummy although i still prefer it sweet. what is 豆花 in english ah? the hotel put it down as borled beancurd which i'm pretty sure isn't right. heck china is the place where signs like this exist:

so the next day i went sightseeing! my dad was at the meeting so this china guy took me out for the day. he's from harbin, surname is zhang and plays basketball... doesn't that sound familiar? he even looks like haoming! so scary. we went to 紫金山 (i think that's how it's written) where you're supposed to see the whole of nanjing when you reach the top. but all i saw was....
fog :( shitty weather lar...

later we also went 中山陵（sun yat sen's memorial) look at the steps we had to climb!
finally at the top!

at night we went to 秦淮河 for dinner. that place 真有气氛. there were like a million people there! neon signs and the smell of 臭豆腐 or exceedingly smelly people filled the air. we took a river cruise (highly touristy i know) and the guide was speaking mandarin so fast i could barely follow. i did recognise at least one poem though. you know the one 清明时节雨纷纷？ugh i hope that's right :S oh and can someone tell me what is the story of 猴子捞月? i don't remember it at all.

next day was more sightseeing. i've left out a lot cos i realise it's quite boring. aiyah actually i had a lot of thoughts on this trip but now i can't be bothered to type them out so that's all. oh wait! before i forget: everyone said my chinese is very good! :D :D :D :D