My 45-Day Journey - Prelude

Right, so I've not been blogging much lately. Actually, not blogging at all. I shall not explain why. Anyway, I've something new to post.

I've just returned from a 45-day journey last Thu. Why journey and not holiday? Well, it's a kind of solo walk of self-discovery for me. How did I manage to take time off to embark on this? Easy, my former company decided to "restructure". So, it was a good and rare chance for me to get out of my normal life, and try to decide what's next for me.

I've got to admit, one of the places I chose to visit is what's "in fashion" now for Singaporeans: Macau. I saw the new The Venetian Macao on TV, and wow, I was impressed. The other place I wanted to go was Chiangmai, now my favourite destination. I knew I'll be able to stay there long term cheaply and still enjoy myself. I would prove myself right later on as the Chinese cities I went to were more expensive.

So, I planned my trip around these 2 places, and this is the route I ended up with:

Singapore (SG) -> Guangzhou(GZ) -> Guilin(GL) -> Yangshuo(YS) -> Shenzhen(SZ) -> Macau -> Bangkok(BKK) -> Ayuthaya -> Sukhothai -> Chiangmai

Looks like alot of places to cover, even for 45 days! Actually, I covered most of them in 2 weeks as I spent 1 month in Chiangmai. Heheh.

Just a little appetizer first to whet your appetite. Coming up next: the main course.

Earthquake tremors! 6 Mar 2007

In SG! We were on the 6th floor but could still feel the tremors strongly. The 1st tremors were felt at about 11+am and the 2nd at close to 2pm. Both times, we evacuated the building:

And that was after calling and confirming that we have to evacuate. Guess we're all not used to running. :P

Foshan pics

Landing approach. Inside the airport.

Some Szechuan dishes. A BIG restaurant. The server in the center is on roller-blades!

Wong Feihong museum. Shopping street.

Foshan, China. Mar 2007

My 1st trip to mainland China! Was there for some supplier audits. The only time I've heard of Foshan is from those Wong Feihong movies starring Jet Li. Well, they do have 2 (at least) Wong Feihong museums there.

So, where is Foshan? It's a city in Guangdong. We landed in Guangzhou airport (spanking new and huge!) and it was about 1hr drive to Foshan. Well, got to say I was really impressed by how modern the city was. The roads were new, wide and nicely decorated with greenery. Some stretches even look better than SG's roads. There were many crazy and loud drivers though. Lots of condos being built, and boy do they look grand!

There was a nice stretch of road with lots of restaurants. And a "Disneyland" like shopping street. Loved the S$10 foot bath cum massage. For that price, u get a private room with TV, a 45min footbath, back, arms, hands, head, face and foot massage. And fruits and drinks.

Photos to follow...

Some Announcements

I'm back, after a long CNY break. Well, expect a bumper of updates these few days as I start posting again.

First, helping my friend to advertise the massage services:

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ANA Flight Belly Landing

It's funny. News on similar items seem to come together. The past week or so had a few about aircraft incidents. Garuda jet bursts into flames on landing... Dubai airport closed because of an aircraft problem... And today, an ANA plane makes a belly landing after its front landing gear failed to deploy!

Great landing! Kudos to the pilot. Enjoy!

Happy Valentine's Day

Enjoy your roses, chocolates, wines and fine company.
Cheers!