china - hainan trip (day1)
with all the anticipation, packing and excitement...we embarked on this family trip to hainan for visiting and touring, with my cousins from my mum's side and my grandmother on 2nd june! whoots!
mei and i in changi airport's toilet. see how short she cut her hair for this trip?
with my dear cousins (pearlyn & serene) at the budget terminal.
one last shot before we leave! i think spore's budget terminal rocks! very brightly lit and spacious. (:
arrival at the best hotel i've ever seen! ((: Meahood Hi-Thai Hotel, 美华荷泰酒店. it provides free internet connection and a computer in each room. The aircon's good, the room's really clean! do rem to stay there if you guys are ever going to hainan, haikou.strongly recommended.
my uncle is the one in pink shirt with his wife on the extreme right! he's the CEO of hainan steel company! his photo is among other top 10 entrepreneurs of hainan at the international airport of hainan!!! he's the one sponsoring this entire hainan trip for ALL OF US!
see! he was at some meeting giving a speech! super cool.((:
source:http://www.hainan.gov.cn/data/news/2007/04/30180/
my cousin's (uncle's daughter)house! looks cosy right??
can't believe that china has such beautiful interior designs? i was pleasantly surprised too!
ah huh! HERE COMES THE SURPRISE THEY HAD IN STORE FOR US! A KING'S FEAST FOR DINNER!
GUESS the table's diameter? it's 3m!!! gosh.
see how elated my sisters are??
the happiness hasn't died down! ((:
perfect!
my grandma and uncle. My grandma remitted money back to china often even though she was struggling to raise a family. that amount of money allowed my uncle to further his education. till today, he's still very grateful to her and sponsored this trip as his way of repaying her kindness. very touched by my grandma's generosity. we, the next generation, reaped what she sowed half a century ago.
high class fish soup! the soup was tasty and the fish meat was ultra fresh. ((:
a nutty affair..but nice!
papaya milk
beef steak. was only for picture-sake, i didn't eat it because i can't consume beef.
wheat bun. although it doesn't look appealing to the senses, it's nice eaten hot. very fluffy and soft. i can easily finish 5 of that!
traditional chinese food: corn and sweet potato. by that time, i was so full from the feast akin to a king's, so i didn't touch them.
ended the night with a good rest in the comfy hotel room. a shot with my mei before heading to slumber land. ignore my messy mop of hair!
dajie and mei. the lighting's just so right for a good sleep!
day1 ended!
whoosh.it's so good to feel free, even for awhile. I managed to get past this stressy week. oh well, it wasn't that smooth-sailing, with my poor stomach plagued with gastric pains almost everyday. it nearly killed me today after my c lit paper 1. luckily i had great friends who helped me to get hold of gastric pills and i recovered just in time before paper 2 commenced.thanks to chun,yingxian,xianyong and shenghua.((:
called home to whine about my pain and my auntie answered. told her how I felt and she talked to me for awhile. called my dad's hp while he was at the polyclinic to tell him too.when i reached home, a bowl of hot steaming watery porridge and gastric pills were waiting for me, from my auntie and dad respectively. felt so <3. ((:
oh wells. it's over. i know roughly how i fared. hist will be one of the dreaded papers to receive.
just so glad that we have something called the "enrichment week" to rest. i'm so gonna recharge and enjoy myself for the next week before getting down to serious work. so many things that i want to complete and do with all my dears!!! ahhh.so little time. i'll try my best then! ((:
yea. my da jie has 3 tickets for NDP preview for sat night! ((: quite excited to see the new waterfront!
my china trip was a total blast! photos will be up soon! promise!
i want to beat the last day before GST!