A Smoggy Day in Beijing

March 15, 2008 7 Comments

We’ve been in Beijing last weekend and here are a few photos taken there.

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The Forbidden City

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The White Pagoda

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The Nest

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The Bell Tower

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A Park

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A View from The Bell Tower

I cannot remember how many times I’ve been in Beijing but this is by far the worst weather condition I’ve seen there. The sun was shining brightly and the temperature was relatively warm for Spring but boy, it was so smoggy! As you can see in the pictures, the air is much polluted. Everything which is 10 meters away is hazy.

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This picture is taken from a short distance. ;-)

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Easter for Grown Ups

March 11, 2008 Leave a Comment

Easter for Grown Ups is this month’s special offer at RadissonEdwardian.co.uk so if by chance you are travelling London within the next few weeks, alone or with a company, you might want to avail of their great offer which is from 90£ per room per night and a 50% off dinner at your hotel restaurant. This is a great offer from a top luxury London hotel.

What better way to see London other than staying at the very heart of it? With Radisson Edwardian hotels, you can choose from their series of luxury hotels situated in the center of London. If you visit their site, you’ll see that they have a webcam with several views around Leicester Square and an interactive map showing the locations of various London tourist attractions where you might want to visit. So look no more for a London hotel accommodation, visit RadissonEdwardian.co.uk now and choose among their line of elegant hotels. They guarantee you a great stay and high quality of service.

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I'm Back

March 11, 2008 Leave a Comment

I am back from Beijing. The train ride was not that bad. I was still able to sleep. The only uncool thing was that we were not in one cabin. Daniel and Anne had to stay in another cabin with four other strangers and Marcus and I stayed in the cabin next to theirs (to go and to go back). That took away the fun part from going to Beijing by train with your buddies. Nobody in Anne and Daniel’s cabin wanted to exchange tickets with us and it’s the same with the strangers in our cabin (bunch of party poopers). They didn’t want four foreigners to stay in one cabin and have fun. The rest of the trip was okay and I will definitely post some pictures later.

In the meantime, I will bore you with some things like the comment given to me in one of my posts about Getting Married to a Filipina. You may go check it out and leave your thoughts. There’s also a very interesting comment in my post, Sol Latino in Changchun which you might want to read and react as well.

I am thrilled that my blog is being read by some people who are actually interested what I write and in what I say about their situation. Cool. :)

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We’re Leaving on a C-Train

March 6, 2008 1 Comment

We’re leaving for Beijing later in the evening but not without having dinner in our favourite restaurant Sol Latino. Tonight, I’ll get the chance to take photos of the place and perhaps I can thoroughly write about it next time.

Becuase we are unlucky to get hard sleeper tickets instead of soft sleeper tickets, I’ll bring my own sheets so we have something to use in the train. That’s additional weight in my baggage but I would like it more to use our own sheets than what is available in the train. Don’t ask me why.

If Marcus won’t bring his laptop then I will bring mine even if it is 10 times heavier than his laptop. I won’t mind the weight. Better to carry a heavy load to go to Beijing and back than not being able to visit my blogs for days.

By tomorrow, we will be there.

It should be nice.

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Hard Sleeper

March 4, 2008 1 Comment

I went to the train ticket office yesterday to buy some tickets for our upcoming Beijing trip. I was meant to buy four roundtrip soft sleeper train tickets. The idea was Marcus, Daniel, Anne and I will be travelling together in one cabin. That would be fun.

Unfortunately, soft sleeper tickets are sold out so I don’t have any choice but to take the best from what was left and that would be top bunk hard sleeper tickets. I told the awful news to my travelling companions but they said that though they are not eager to sleep on 3-storey bunk beds in an open cabin with strangers, they think they can do it. So we’ll proceed with our tickets. Rescheduling or upgrading to plane tickets is not an option.

The European men assured us that it would be ok and that they are ok with it but I can bet my sexy ass that they will frown and complain more than Anne and I. When I learned that there are no more soft sleeper tickets available, I called them first to confirm if they want to go with hard sleeper tickets because I know that they won’t be comfortable sleeping in the same room with strangers. (I would like to add a lot of adjectives before the word stranger but I might be offending the most populous race so I won’t)

Well, good luck to us. When I am out of this country, I’ll probably say more but right now, I’ll stay quiet.

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I want!

February 29, 2008 4 Comments

I am currently using an old Nokia phone. It is too old I don’t even remember the model anymore. Last Friday when we went out for dinner, we stopped by a cellphone shop and I saw this cellphone.

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And it has been calling my name since.

It is nice looking but the main reason why I want it is because it has a 3g feature. Meaning I can surf the internet anywhere where there is a UMTS network (3G network). For an internet junkie like me, that is very important. They don’t have a 3G network here in China so it’s probably no use for me here but I will surely buy one before we move to Austria (or maybe a cheaper 3G phone).

In other news, our Beijing trip date has been agreed upon and it would be from the 6th to 10th of March. That means my blogs will be very quiet in these days. I don’t know if I can get Marcus to bring his super duper tiny laptop with us so I can blog whenever I get the chance. I hope. I shouldn’t appear too eager to use it so he’ll bring it otherwise, he’ll get the impression that I plan to spend the trip by blogging (blogging = ignoring him).

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In a Few Days and a Few Days Ago

February 26, 2008 2 Comments

In a few days, I might do some MIA act.

It is not like I am going on a big trip anywhere but I will stay quiet in a while. I will busy myself with some other things than blogging like my German Lesson and our bi-monthly visit to Beijing. Yep, we are going to Beijing again but this time, we are going with our hooked up but are now certified couple friends and activity buddies, Daniel and Anne.

Since Marcus, Daniel, and Anne have real jobs and are busy, the task to arrange the trip was awarded to me (thank you). We’ll probably spend three days there which is good. It should be enough time to visit Starbucks and the Foreign Languages Bookstore. Going to the great wall doesn’t appeal to me anymore since I’ve been there twice. Anne is excited to see the wall because it’s her first time to go to Beijing. I am not going there again so maybe we’ll split up for one day so they can go to the wall and Marcus and I can do something like shopping. Haha.

Marcus is having his birthday in a few months and starting today, I am trying to get some ideas about what special things I could do for him on his day. Also, I am already thinking what gift I could give him. Anne said it’s way too early. I say hey, I wasn’t me who gave a surprised congratulation party for my partner who didn’t get the promotion yet.

It’s funny how it was.

A few days ago, Anne organized a surprised party for Daniel. The party is supposed to express our heart-warming congratulations for Daniel’s promotion but then last Saturday, we were the ones surprised by Daniel when he said that he didn’t sign any contract yet and though his boss already gave him the thumb up, they are still negotiating on a few things and if these things weren’t settled for both parties, Daniel might as well forget about the promotion. Haha. Anyway, we still had a blast last Saturday. A few close friends of Anne and I came and we partied and used the karaoke I got from my parents in law. It was fun.

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Simply No Place like Manila

February 22, 2008 2 Comments

I was browsing our pictures taken during our holiday in the Philippines and I saw this.

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It’s taken from our hotel room in Manila.

Makes me wanna sing the song that goes something like…

Manila, Manila
I keep coming back to Manila
Simply no place like Manila
Manila, I’m coming home

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