One thing I learn from my recent travel. Never go for sight seeing when it’s a public holiday. When I was in China earlier this month, it was actually a public holiday in their country. Imagine, all this people rushing and pushing you, just to be ahead to see the sight. The photo above is taken at Huaqing hot spring. The hot spring is located at the foothill of Lishan, about 35 kilometers east of the city Xi'an. Huaqing hot spring is famed for both its dainty spring scenery and the romantic love story of Emperor Xuanzong (685-762) and his concubine Yang Guifei. Above everyone cramp into the room just too see some old and dry hot spring.
When the tourist attraction is full with people, it’s not easy and almost impossible to take a nice photo. Above photo, you can see a statue of Yang Gufei (which is not accurate). Yang Gufei is actually slightly overweight, a much sought-after quality at the time. Other than the emperor hot spring, the hot spring is also popular with patron like Chiang Kai-shek.
The Qin Terracotta Army Museum (also crowded with these terracotta army).
I think I can't get satisfaction from this Xi'an trip. There's just too many places that the tour didn't cover. Imagine coming over to this pagoda, Big Wild Goose Pagoda is also a highlight of the tour. I'm expecting museum, cycling around the city wall, cultural show and many more.
Well, I guess I can always come back to Xi'an again. But there's just too many places to go other than Xi'an.
When I was in Bangkok few days ago, I came across this thing called “Elle Peep Room”. Guess what?
I peep through and I saw this! The model even do a few sexy pose for me. I was hoping the model would change her clothes but that didn’t happen. By the way, I’m not sure if the model is a she or he/she (you know what I mean?).
Took a trip to Penang recently. Upon arrive, we went to sister fried kuey teow for breakfast. According to Ms Huan, this white color kueh is the best in town. I'm more interested in the ads on the tabletop.
There's a fire in Campbell St recently, and I was told that someone actually die up there ... spooky?
This is one of my favorite photo for the trip. A nice view of the morning market with Komtar behind. Guess which section is Jeff Ooi's office?
After going up north, maybe planning to go south soon. I'm still thinking whether to go watch Cats or not??
It's a fast trip this time. Within a few days, we manage to finish almost everything we plan to do here. But I still didn't get to go to the Emperor tomb and the museum. Unlike Su Ling, who bought a lot of unnecessary things, nothing on the shopping street seem to be attractive to me this time. Today is the 5th day in China and I'm already bored with the food! Almost every other day, we will be having supper such as those bbq or fried stuff. Today, we had those bbq oyster and prawns (for snack) before dinner.
Anyway, I had minor stomach discomfort just now, and I just went to the toilet ... well, I think I will start eating vegetable when I go back to KL. Su as usual start telling me about diet when we are back, but like the last trip here ... the diet somehow never seem to materialise when we are back. In fact, we became even more fat after that ...
It's a fast trip this time. Within a few days, we manage to finish almost everything we plan to do here. But I still didn't get to go to the Emperor tomb and the museum. Unlike Su Ling, who bought a lot of unnecessary things, nothing on the shopping street seem to be attractive to me this time. Today is the 5th day in China and I'm already bored with the food! Almost every other day, we will be having supper such as those bbq or fried stuff. Today, we had those bbq oyster and prawns (for snack) before dinner.
Anyway, I had minor stomach discomfort just now, and I just went to the toilet ... well, I think I will start eating vegetable when I go back to KL. Su as usual start telling me about diet when we are back, but like the last trip here ... the diet somehow never seem to materialise when we are back. In fact, we became even more fat after that ...
During the previous Raya holiday, me and Ah Su drove off to Muar to buy some otak-otak. The small town (also PG's hometown) is famous for otak-otak, claim to be made from mackerel fish paste. Somehow I don't really believe it's made from mackerel ... afterall it's not easy to catch a mackerel these day. When I was eating the otak-otak that day in Muar, my mind could only imagine the otak-otak was made from some commercial fresh water fish such as catfish. Apart from otak-otak, we also had some pork satay at that street. We didn't eat much as we need to rush back to Malacca for dinner. Yeah, nice dinner awaiting us in Malacca. Back in Malacca, we had steamed cod fish, suckling pig, deep fried calamari, etc. In short, expensive dinner but I was a little to full to fully enjoy it.
The traffic Muar is fine but coming back to KL was quite a nightmare. The traffic was extremely heavy even when it was still second day of Raya. It was a back to back drive, and at times I was only driving at about not more than 80kmph. Then next day, some business associate treated us lunch at some chinese restaurant in Jaya 33. Su think the lunch this time is better than the one we had in Oriental the last time. But anyhow, I'm quite bored with these kind of chinese lunch and food. In fact, I told her that I was not keen to join them for lunch, but alas, I still need to socialise and do some biz networking. These day, I been label by Su as an anti-social guy. I think it's because I mix too much with Mr Don! Mr Don is not really a friendly dog. He don't mix with the neighbor's cats and dogs. Mr Don only mix with pretty girls (human) and sometimes with me (afterall, I'm the one who always bring him out for joyride in the city). 
Okay, I will need to go back to work. Not exactly work, but more to compiling my holiday/business itinerary. I'm going off for a deep sea fishing this weekend, and next weekend, I will be off to ...
1) Going for afternoon dimsum and dinner at Sunday Chiu Chow King (三岛潮皇粤菜酒楼).
2) Going for my tangyuen desert.
Finally had the chance to post some of the photos I took when I was attending the cabaret show in Calypso. I find it more entertaining than the puppet show I had the night before. Most of the pretty chicks you see in the show used to be a guy like me. If you are visiting Bangkok, you should not miss this show!
There's Japanese dance and song in the show (and also Korean, Bangkok, Chinese, Arab, etc).
Strip show as well ....
Interesting Cabaret show and of course some drama (like you see in the photos below).
Okay, that's all for now. If I didn't had lunch with Jeremy this afternoon, most probably I think I will still be too busy to write anything. Alot of things change in Sg Buloh. Even William is no longer around. I was told that he had now migrated to Batu Pahat for work and life. What happen to people like Ah Heng (aka Ah Tee), Stanley, Kelvin, Dillian, etc? William used to be my bak kut teh's kaki(s) too ... but I guess now I will need to find someone else. Jeremy don't really fancy Bak Kut Teh, I think. Today, the first thing he mention when I ask what to eat ... he instantly shout "Fish Head!".
Well, the fish head is good, tasty too...
Extremely lazy to write anything this weekend. Maybe too lazy when I was in SL's house (due to the hot weather).
After coming back from Sungai Petani last weekend. It's about time to use my passport again. As my previous trip to China is not really a vacation (too much walking and sort of business related). I'm going to take this opportunity to have as fun as possible in Bangkok before our business peak period in the next 2 month. Bangkok is something me and Su Ling are looking forward to. Pork Burger! Something that we didn't eat when we were in China. China McD only offer us some spicy chicken burger ... sigh.
McD's Pork Burger! Even the thoughts of it make me hungry now!
I been to Bangkok before, and this time, I plan to skip all the silly sightseeing. My plan is to see either the popular Calypso Cabaret show or Joe Louis Puppet show. Other than the 2 show, I only intend to use most of my time in "The Mother of All Market".
Chatuchak Weekend Market - The mother of all market in Bangkok. Over there, you get to see Cowboys performing (maybe you will even get to see me performing if I need some spare change). Hidden somewhere in the market is a delicious blue mountain coffee stall. It's so good that even Black Canyon is no match. Okay, maybe I over exaggerate ... too much of BC ice coffee. Anyway, I'm very sure my crazy girlfriend will be buying tons and tons of stuff there. The last time she went with See Mun, she bought many boxes of @#*~!&@ ...
Leon (the greek from Aus) will be in town this weekend. Last time they took him to Penang. Well, this time I heard it will be some Island. Arrr .. if I don't have this Bangkok trip, I would rather go fishing in some island ...
This is one of the many variety of tang yuen I had when I was in Guangzhou. Not much stuff to blog these day. Still trying to get more rest from moving around too much. A week or two after I came back from China, I actually made a trip up north to Sungai Petani. Alot of things change since I was there 10 years ago. This guy I know now run the hotel as chairman and unfortunately I didn't see or meet anyone I know. Anyway, I was only there for a while. To my surprise, there's even a Starbuck in SP now. Most likely I will be going there again for fishing someday soon.
A paronoma of Miniature Forbidden City in Shenzhen. We took train to Shenzhen from Guangzhou.
Train Station at Luohu District. In Shenzhen, our trip is all about eating and shopping. Apart from East Gate Shopping Center, the only exotic things we did was going for a leg massage. 
Some miniature building inside Splendid China. The weather in Shenzhen is extremely hot compare to Guangzhou. Not a good weather for sight seeing. Next time, I think I will just drop by Shenzhen for a while (for eating only). This restaurant that I went serve one of the best Dim Sum I ever eat. They even serve fried rice that I think is one of the best I had eaten so far in my life! Exactly like what I saw in Cooking Master Boy (the anime).
Shenzhen is pretty developed compare to the place I came from. They have sophisticated public transport, wide road, many highrise and lot of people! Lot of fake money as well. My girlfriend almost got con with a fake note.
Tsingtao is pretty cheap in China, but I think the level of alcohol is quite low. No kick after drinking it.
Luckily I didn't bring any summer clothing for this trip, as it turn out to be raining almost everyday in Guangzhou! It was raining season and with an average temperature of 18-26°C everyday. Taking photos is almost impossible as it's almost raining or cloudy each day. Apart from the lack of sunshine, the street is wet and muddy.
The first thing we did was to visit Bei Jing Lu (Beijing Road). It was madness as there's so many shops there. A shopping paradise for some people, but nightmare for me. After exploring almost a quarter of the shop there, I found something interesting in the middle of the road. There's an ancient road from Ming and Song Dynasty underneath Beijing Road. 
I ask Su Ling to pose in front of the ancient road but unfortunately the photo turn out bad (due to cloudy and dark sky). The ancient road is actually underneath the glass panel.
Apart from Beijing Road, we also went to Shang Xia Jiu Pedestrian Street. It's a shopping place like Beijing Road, but in a much smaller scale. of course other than Beijing Road, I had also visited the other places such as Comic City, Jade Market, Antique Market, etc. I even took this opportunity to eat their local McDonald's meal. The set meal is a grill chicken burger dipped in spicy sauce (Sichuan pepper) and milk tea (not coke). Quite spicy if you ask me. The food in Guangzhou is amazing! We had tang yuen almost every other day, street food, sichuan food and of course cantonese food.
Another interesting thing is I get to watch the latest TVB series on their TV. Their TV network is showing D.I.E. at the moment. Unfortunately, I don't have much time watching TV there as I need to spend all my time on business related matter, and sight seeing the city. I even saw a pickpocket incident while walking on the street. It's not only muddy and wet on the street, but also dangerous and dirty. Maybe the city is just too big, over populated, and the people are just desperate. Luckily we are not the victim (but what they say about beware of pickpocket and bag snatcher is true).
After coming back, I did a research on this building, and I found out it's actually call Jinlun Guild Hall. It's actually 300 years old. Well, I think I was walking along the jade or craft market, and suddenly I found this old building. At least it's a bonus as I didn't get to go to "The Western Han Museum of the Nanyue King Mausoleum". 
To compensate for that, I actually went to eat dim sum at one of the oldest restaurant in Guangzhou, Tao Tao Ju. But it's a short dim sum session, as we need to rush off to Shenzhen. Coming up next ... Shenzhen.
