My Journey to Beijing 2007 - 7/12/07

After procrastinating for so long, i decided to post some pictures up here, since i think my visitors rate are dropping as low as it can go. *ahem ahem* or maybe nobody visits it at all! T.T

i'll be erm, story-telling about my trip to Beijing. i'm not a good story teller and neither can i really remember all the things that the tour guide said. but we got a really really great tour guide. he was like a walking book of China history knowledge, he was so full of details, gwad, and i like the way he talks, the Beijing Mandarin slang, so cool. =P but as you all know, i have short term memory problem, so i can't really explain everything in detail unless it comes popping out in my mind like a light bulb.

First and foremost, the weather was damn freaking cold, it was like 5 degrees Celsius everyday, and sometimes it just goes lower than that and even below 0 degree Celcius. i totally can't stand the cold. -_-" don't laugh at me okay. haha.

we made our way (by bus, of course!) to

1. Tian An Men Square - 天安门广场

.photographed this while walking.
vehicles are not allowed to park their cars on the road beside Tian An Men Square, because this area is like the political district of Beijing. well, if you did that, be prepared to get surrounded by police.

.the entrance to the Forbidden Palace.

.the building with Mao Ze Dong's portrait.

.The Great Hall Of The People.

.we're standing on Tian An Men Square right now.

2. Forbidden Palace - 故宫

.took this while walking backwards. some kind of hallway.
my camera not shake resistant -lah. haha.

.see that big building. it's a gate actually. it's called Wu Men - 午门 (Meridian Gate).
it's the largest gate leading into the Forbidden Palace.

.huge, olden door.
legend said if you touch a row of that round, protuding golden thingy continuously, you'll be prosperous. lol.

.inside the Forbidden Palace.
before walking to that Hall (picture below) there were 5 bridges. the very middle was for the Emperor to cross. the 2 bridges beside the middle bridge were for the royal blood to cross, and the last 2 bridges were for the ministers.

.The Hall Of Supreme Harmony - 太和殿.
it was on renovation for the Beijing Olympic 2008. see all those staircases there that lead to the hall, there are these several big bowl-like thing at each level to light something, so that white smoke (which looks like fog) would surround the whole Hall to make it look heavenly, like the Halls in heaven. and it was built high up to indicate that the Emperor is high above everybody. that square is where all the ministers would stand. and from the Hall, the Emperor could actually view everybody.

.i can't remember what gate is this. -_-"

.the hallways of the many rooms in the palace.
there are 9999 1/2 rooms in the Forbidden Palace, so just imagine how huge and gargantuan the whole place is. the Emperor decided to built 9999 1/2 rooms because in Heaven, there are supposedly 10000 rooms. that 1/2 room is only a staircase or something lidat.

.the Emperor's throne.
there are actually 3 main Halls, the 1st one was The Hall Of Supreme Harmony, the 2nd one is The Hall Of Complete Harmony and the 3rd, The Hall Of Preserving Harmony.

3. Summer Palace - 颐和园

.this picture not taken by me. haha. obviously.
the Summer Palace is a place for the Emperor to avoid the summer heat. i just don't really understand why people from olden days love to waste money to build this kind of thing. imagine using how many people to build this palace, and there were no machines or whatsover to help them.

.the garden in the Summer Palace.
those are fake rocks, man-made.

.i can't remember what is this tree called. -_-"

but ain't it unique, look at the branches, all twisted and drooping.

.this is the pagoda where the Empress Dowager Ci Xi and the Emperor pray.

.this is a very very long hallway, with an abundance of paintings.

.outside the Forbidden Palace.
that mountain behind is actually a garden. and if you look at it from above the sky, it is actually shaped like a laughing Buddha.

.the entrance to the Summer Palace.

.this is a 300 year old Qi Lin.

.this is the Hall where the Emperor/Emperor Dowager Ci Xi's throne is located.

.the pagoda again.

.took this picture, despite it was quite foggy, but love it anyway.

4. Indoor ice carvings

.Sun Wu Kong. =P

.the Olympic Mascots, from left, Bei Bei (blue), Jing Jing (panda), Huan Huan (fire), Ying Ying, Ni Ni.

.Huan Huan and Ying Ying.

not me and my bro -ah -_-"

for dinner, we ate Peking duck. i still think that the Peking duck i ate in Malaysia is way nicer than the one i ate in Beijing. hahahaha. that was the 1st whole day of our trip. i loved the 1st 5-star hotel we stayed in. the room was really nice and good and all. haha. and guess what, i think i kinda sprained my leg in the hotel. oh well, this is not good for the next day trip. hahahaah. i'll blog about it real soon! =P

it's not over

i am so (x100) relieved!

despite my rantings and worries and solemn, deep, dark thoughts

now i am full with vigour and vitality

i hope it would last though -_-"

got my results and am really very satisfied with it

hehe

i got 3A's and 1B

B for Thinking Skills

gwad, im so like *wipes sweat*

can't really believe it, i always got D for Thinking Skills, because i couldn't be bothered by it, and didn't care. yeah, i know it's bad attitude. don't follow my footsteps guys. but i think during the TKS exams, i really lashed out and drained my brain, think, think, think. such a miracle though. would not be so greedy to ask for A -lah, since i did a SO not enough practice for it. im definitely happy that i did not get a Donkey. LOL.

and i thought i totally screwed up my Chemistry practical. phew! to tell the truth, PMR, SPM and this AS exam, i didn't really do my best and study like mad though. i have to say Lady Luck is on my side, it's not that i'm smart or anything but luck is a part of it, maybe not during that SPM History exam -lah. but still, i always feel surprised to get such results. not that i didn't work hard for it, i did study and work "half" hard, i didn't study 100% but during the exam i gave my 100%. so maybe that's why huh. *scratches head* shouldn't justify so much.

still, i am so glad and delighted and happy. teehee.

how i feel

HELP! im going to blow up

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i can't stand it anymore

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im going to have a heart attack

please God just kill me

my heart is palpitating and it feels like it's going to jump out of my throat and i can't swallow it
back

im feel like dying

bye peeps

haiz

It Ends Tonight

Finally, things are getting way better with my friend again. it started from yesterday, both of us and a few friends talked damn lot during Biology lab. thus, i regained my lucidity and my passion plus interest. partly it was because of my friend that i lost all that, but another part was, i totally felt no fire and excitement on the 1st day of college, im like a vampire without a soul, roaming around lifeless. sigh.

i feel from now on, i could do something to change the wrongdoings that i've done last year, not working hard enough, etc etc. the most stupid thing was working "half" hard for my studies. haiz. even if i want to follow up, i have to give extra THREE times harder. maybe i shoud sleep at 3 a.m. everyday, but that's not a good idea. besides, my timetable now is much more relaxing than the past 2 semesters. thus, i have more time to push myself to the limits. but sometimes, eventhough i kinda think that i have actually worked hard last year, things don't really turn out like what you would have expected. sometimes, the exam would be harder than past years, sllyabus change, you fall sick during the exam blah blah blah.

next Monday would be totally my doomsday. receiving results for my AS exams. sigh. now only i feel regret and remorseful. but i still really want to get over it, cry, cry, cry, face the music for dunno how many trillion times, then move on with my life. you can't change the past. the problem is obviously my parents. sigh, sometimes i really feel im the most useless person on earth, why am i sooo stupid. but maybe i get to save their money for not studying medicine after all. choose another cheaper course. the older i get, the more lazier i got. too much temptation that can't be resisted. although it can be overcomed, but it seems like my soul is so weak.

i still could save the situation, that's if, i work THREE times harder than before. they say it's really hard to get A for A2 exams, especially for Chemistry. but whatever i want, i can really achieve, if my laziness doesn't get in my way. i even want to aim to get the Best in Msia for Biology, haha, yeah, laugh at me for my naiveness, quite impossible though, but no harm trying. feeling a little embarrased for saying that in my blog. lol.

"die die also must get A" - haha, learned that from my friend.

therefore, i must work really super hard.

haunted

while waiting for blogger to open my dashboard, a stupid thought popped out of my mind. wouldn't it be good if we have some kind of bionic eyes once in a while that can see through people's heart before making friends with them. but on the other hand, i thought, there would be no excitement anymore, trying to know that person even better, the rush of adrenaline would vanish, as from the start, we could already see the person's true colours.

suddenly things just go out of hand, that when you're trying to grab it back, the other party doesn't seem to care anymore, and just go on with their life, trying to as if forget and wipe the memories away, see you as an invisible person and go on being ignorant.

i rant because i still think my friend is mad at me. yeah, i know i sound quite pathetic or desperate and i shouldn't care, but i can't seem to get it out of my mind. well, when im busy with something, the matter goes off. but once im all free and staring at the computer screen waiting for my download to finish, it just floats into my mind, and makes me frustrated and stuff and wondering what did i do wrong, while i didn't. haiz. despite of such a small matter, it actually took a 360 degrees turn to our friendship. once we were so close, and now, we are like from 2 different planet, she from Mars, me from Pluto. blah.

did i mention that she said, " i need to calm down 1st..." but i really don't understand why does she need to calm down and get all angry and mad at me because of a stupid small matter. maybe she doesn't appreciate friendship? maybe she's being too emotional and sensitive? why can't she be more considerate of my difficulties instead of only thinking of her privileges and her troubles. sigh. and now, her driver could even take her to college already. i don't know what is the big fuss about. haiz.

this is the 4th day, she's giving me the cold shoulder. although she did talk to me during Chemistry lab time, maybe because i was sitting opposite her. yeah, i think that would be the reason. but for the whole day, and other days too, she didn't even turn around to talk to me, like she always do. and when she did, she talks to my friend sitting on my right as if im not there or something. like im invisible. like im a ghost or something. and she didn't even follow us for lunch.

later that day, my friend sitting on my left asked me whether we fought or something. so, i just told her the reason. and no, i did tell her that i did no wrong. well, just leave it to her to judge anyway. sigh. it must be really obvious. sigh.

what is there actually to be mad about? this is totally a stupid problem.

the reason

i am a very stubborn person, indeed. as stubborn as a mule. not that i like to being compared to a mule, but it is there, contained in my many double helices of DNA, or maybe in the thick skull of mine. sometimes im proud to be stubborn (weird huh) but in other times, i get into trouble because of my stubborness. well, nevermind about that just yet.

having this stupid problem that revolves around me and my friend. one fine day, she nicely asked me if my mother could fetch her to college. well, knowing that my family is having some little problems, i told her that it might not be possible for my mother to fetch her to college. and then she just said, you just ask, if cannot really nevermind.

"okayyyyy then", i was thinking. so whatever, went back home, and asked my mother. but because of several reasons, my mother told me that she could not fetch her as well. reasons are listed as below.

1. because sometimes my mother needs to go off early.
2. because sometimes my mother needs to fetch my brother as well and needs to go off early.
3. because my mother is always very busy.
4. because it is not convenient for my mother to go to my friend's house to fetch her in the morning.
5. because we have no maid, and it is quite troublesome for my mother too.

sigh. so i told my friend the reasons, and she just replied me "ok, nvm." then you know what, the next dat, she just totally ignored me. she gave me the cold shoulder. like didn't talk to me the whole day at all. i was really pissed and could not think of a reason why is she mad at me. i did no wrong. it is not even my mom's job to fetch her.

so, being a person who cannot stand having troubles with friends, i decided to sms her. and her reason was "well, then you don't know me well. sorry, i am not used to people rejecting me." i was actually quite stunned with her reply, and thought "takkan im the 1st person who ever rejected her..." sigh. i guess i should not bother much.

but please do tell me, is she correct for being mad at me? or should she be mad at me?