Well if you've been to China, you'll realise that the people there are very rude. When they bang you, they dont say sorry, and they'll do anything just to get ahead of you. They always say if you cant beat them, fight them (haha), so thats what i did.
I f*cked an old man who cut my queue. Why? Because i was queueing a whole hour for some famous xiao long bao in Shanghai and i wasnt going to let him get ahead of me after queueing for so long.
I also quarelled with a lady who apparently scolded me in some dialect that i dont understand. So there we were happily standing at a designated spot for taxis and this lady just cut in front of us and went for the cab. I was like, WTF?!? So i went over there, told her not to cut my queue and blocked her way to the door of the cab. Thats when she started scolding me, but i really dont give a damn. My parents were laughing all the way in the cab.
I covered Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing and also Wuxi. Shanghai, famous for the amount of people. Suzhou, once famous for their pretty fair(nice) skinned ladies, until all left for greener pastures. Hangzhou, the story of Liang San Po & Zhu Ying Tai and premium grade long jing tea. Nanjing, for the ChangJiang bridge, and Wuxi, for their fresh water pearls.
One point to take note of, if you go to China, is that they talk so well in chinese that more often than not, before you realise, you're smoked into adding to the GDP of China. So we went to the(jacked-up prices) jade factory, pearl factory, long jing tea plantation, silk factory, where lots of people parted with their monies, mine included. But the worse is where we went for a feng shui talk. This guy, Chen, was so convincing that he convinced 4 familes to part about S$12K for a few stone pi xiu. Now pi xiu is this animal which is supposed to bring good fortune, and the highest price paid was by this NIE prof in our grp, for 3 stone pi xiu about 15cm in length at most, S$7200. What a rip off! I bet he's cursing and swearing right now, because you can get those pi xiu on the road for 1/100 of the price.
So beware!
But of course, i love the exchange rate.
The average wage is 800 RMB, which is s$160. Way too low! Quite pity them, because they have to slog so hard for S$160, but of course, their standard of living is different.
Some pictures..
Its so amazing that you get to do things with your family while on a holiday that you havent done at all in your life in s'pore. And of course, a big thank you to my parents, firstly for financing this trip, and for the many happy memories in China.
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