Bad Day

Bad day. Damn bad day.

Became a joke of the day I guess.

Regretted? Maybe. But I just had to bear with it to overcome my problem.

I know I look like a kid and can you all please don't repeat it over and over again?!!! It is my business to do so so just leave me peacefully ok? Wanna cry liao.

You think I want to become a kid? It just did not turn out to be what I have expected that's all.

And I cut it due to several reasons but none of them is to become cuter so please do not ask me that k?

Shall not step out of my house if not needed.

Saw something that messed up my mind. Maybe it is me thinking nonsense again.

When can all these crap stop huh?

Pissed at myself. Really pissed.

不肯面对伤口的人总被当成笑话。


-sherril=xuele-

Back to High School Days

OMG you will not believe it.

After keeping my hair long ever since I graduated from high school, I actually gathered my courage and went to have my hair cut short. Very short, just like back in high school days.

I can't believe I actually did that.

And the results?

A very big sigh. When can my hair become long again??

Well, it is not ugly, but not pretty either. Beforehand people had already said that I look like a 18 or 19-year old girl. And now? I look like 15. Sigh. GINA LOOK.

I do not exactly hate my hair since it is now so much lighter and easier to maintain, but sometimes I do care what people think about it.

He will not fall for me again. No way.

Well, I hope my sacrifice will be beneficial as in I can control my extreme dandruff problem. Mom and Kuak said that by cutting my hair short, I can control the annoying problem of mine. I really hope it works this time. So for the time being, the scalp treatment which costs me about 100 over bucks shall be on hold.

I shall NEVER cut my hair short again if my dandruff problem does not persist.

Anyway it is a fresh look for me, a new look.

So people, PLEASE DON'T LAUGH AT ME when you see me in uni ok? Thanks in advance.

No pictures of me for the time being. Now I hate taking pictures of myself because I do not look ok at all in pictures. Like what Chris said, I look like a watermelon. So round.

I will be boarding the 2pm bus back to KL later. I DO NOT WANT TO GO BACK!!!!!!!!


-sherril=xuele-

Beijing - Day 2

NOTE 1: Click the links to read detailed information about that particular place/thing.

NOTE 2: It is a very long post. Sorry if you think I am very long-winded.

Finally after so much of procrastination, here is my 2nd day trip in Beijing. Haha Kae Vin was already saying me being a lazy pig. I hate you Kae Vin!! =)

There are a few things that I love about China - the history, ancient culture and the breathtaking sceneries.

I am embarrassed to say that being a true Chinese who came from Chinese school, I do not really know about the history of China and those famous historical personage. Besides, I am never too keen to read up books and articles about them. But then, I am very much fascinated by the ancient buildings, sculptures, workmanship and ideas. I think I will really consider the option of learning more about its history when I am free.

So for my 2nd day, basically below are the few places that we went to. But first let me introduce my tour guide in Beijing whom we called Xiao Wang.

He thinks he looks handsome. So Hua Loong, what do you think huh? You or him? Haha

1. National Grand Theater of China (中国国家大剧院）

This was our 1st destination.

At far

You must be wondering, why of all shapes, it must be built in a hemisphere shape surrounded by water? WHY??

Work your brains. Relate facts about China, a country that strongly believes in Feng Shui.

It is believed that everything must be in BALANCE (like Yin Yang concept). So, when there is a square, there must a circle too. Same applies to buildings. There is a squarish building facing it (not directly opposite, it's more like North-South or East-West thingy). To balance it, it is built in hemisphere. The water surrounding it will create reflection of the building, making it into a complete round building.

What a brilliant idea, isn't it?

Our 1st family group photo - 11 of them are related.

Then we walked all the way to The Forbidden City (紫禁城/故宫).

On the way I noticed something, something that you will not get to see in Malaysia. The flowers planted on the pavement or beside the main roads were all so colourful and eye catching. The colours were even more vibrant than the colours of the flowers planted in my own garden. LOL

Here's only 1 sample. There are other colours like yellow, orange etc. I think even if this flower can be planted in Malaysia at the pavement, within hours, all you can see is just a dead plant.

However the traffic in Beijing is no different to the traffic here. Jam to the max during peak hours. The only difference is, there is no special lane for cyclists in Malaysia. And we do not see a bunch of cyclists cycling down the road to work.

Some public buses are operated by electricity.

If you say Penang people drive recklessly, then we are no compare to China people. Not only their traffic is jumbled up, they practically do not follow the rules. Do not ever trust the traffic lights when you cross the road, because drivers will still drive on even though it is time for them to stop and let pedestrians to cross the road.

See? He is stuck.

And they can make U-turns at nearly anywhere whenever they like. 1 word to describe - Geng!

"Zheng Yang Men" (正阳门）. Will talk about this in upcoming posts.

Cute huh?

Full of bicycles.


Their version of trishaw.


Most of the roadside shops are about this size.

2. Forbidden City (紫禁城/ 故宫）

I am sure many of you have heard about this place. So I will not talk more about it but instead let the pictures do their job alright? *getting lazy lol*

Bro, Me, Mei Lee and Shyuan

Behind us is Gate of Heavenly Peace - "Tian'anmen" (天安门).

Who is more handsome? My brother or Mao Zedong?

From far, the portrait looked like a high-resolution photo. It is said that the portrait is very special in a sense that no matter from where you look at the drawing, Chairman Mao's eyes will always look right into your eyes. Well out of curiosity I tried to look at his eyes from various directions and came to a conclusion, which is - Bullshit. All those crap was just human's psychological reactions (心理作用）.

Anyway I am quite amazed with the painter of this portrait. You know, the portrait is 6 meters high. To draw such a hell big portrait and make it looks soooo real is really not easy. Salute!! And 1 more thing, they need to change the portrait annually. I wonder if it is the same painter who draws a new portrait of Chairman Mao every year? If so, then his life is devoted to drawing this portrait LOL.

Heading into the 'city'.

The main gate is so huge and heavy. Wonder how those ancient people could open or close the door in such a short time?

So many...

Imperial roof decoration of highest status.

Bottom: Hall of Preserving Harmony (保和殿)

As we were not allowed to enter the hall, maybe because tourists might spoil the historic items, so all we could do was to squeeze with others just to have a look and to snap a few shots. Seriously I hate this kind of situation.

Part of the city

Even on normal working days, many of the tourists were China people from various parts of China. Don't they need to work?

1 of the halls

Wall design



Notice the colour difference between the dragon's head and body?

You know why the head is so shining and is in its original colour? Haha Chinese are always superstitious. They believe that by rubbing the dragon's head it will bring you good luck. Well no harm trying anyway.

A human-look tree.

A huge piece of Burmese Jade (if I am not mistaken)

Gilded lion - “Pi Xiu" (貔貅）

Quite a nice garden.

As we exit..

I would say, the 'city' is really really huge. Well actually everything is huge in China because what they have is SPACE. But won't it be tiring and time consuming to walk from 1 Court to another Court? If I were to live in that century inside the palace, I think I will be very slim with all the walkings =)

3. Fangshan Restaurant (仿膳饭庄)

As the name says, it is a restaurant which serves imitation of imperial court cuisine that the royals used to eat. Wow, sounds cool huh?

Undoubtedly the food was quite nice, but undeniably, there were dishes that we found quite weird. Anyway this was not the best meal I had in Beijing. Will talk about the best meal I had in the later posts.

This Fangshan Restaurant is situated inside Beihai Park (北海公园).

Inside the park,



we felt very relaxed.



Mainly because there were lots of trees (very green),

and it was breezy.

Actually we were very hungry but we still need to walk along such a long hallway to reach the entrance of the restaurant.

Then, we were greeted by waiters and waitresses dressed in "Gege"(格格) and "Taijian" (太监) uniform.

My beloved grandmother was of course offered the seat (should be throne) of the Empress. Sitting beside her were my dad and uncle, who at that time looked more like her maid.

Tour guide became our waiter voluntarily because he was thirsty.

Appetizers

Main dishes

4. Temple of Heaven - "Tiantan" (天坛)

We spent our entire afternoon in "Tiantan". Personally I quite like this place, mainly because of the uniqueness of the structure.

Basically it comprises of 3 main sections:

1. Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (祈年殿)
2. Imperial Vault of Heaven (皇穹宇)
3. Circular Mound Altar (圆丘坛)

(I) Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests

I wonder why such a big building must be built for the Emperor to pray for good harvest?

Anyway, this building has some stunning architecture facts:

1. 32 meters high with a diameter of 30 meters
2. only 28 pillars are used to solely support the whole structure
3. there are no beams no nails

1. inner 12 pillars represent 12 months of a year - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
2. outer 12 pillars represent the divisions of day and night
   
   
   

(II) Imperial Vault of Heaven


It is a place used to keep wooden tablets for worships. This structure also has a few interesting facts:

1. 19.5 meters high and has a diameter of 15.6 meters
   
2. built entirely from wood
3. supported by 8 pillars
4. the roof has no beams but has brackets entwined within each other (dynamics principles)
5. the wall around the structure is called the Echo Wall (回音壁）
6. the center marble pathway is known as Triple-sound Stone (三音石） [I do not have a pic]
   

Is the bride pretty?

If not mistaken, the wall behind her should be the Echo Wall. We tried and we succeeded hearing the voice of the men on the opposite side of wall.

As for the Triple-sound Stone, we failed to get the desired results because the place was rather noisy.

I am very amazed at the cleverness of these builders. Really marvelous.

(III) Circular Mound Altar

This platform was where the Emperor used to pray for favorable weather.

See the circular thing that my mom stood on? It is the highest terrace and it has interesting acoustic effect. Your voice can be magnified (resonant and sonorous) magically, if you stand on it and speak out.

I failed to magnify my voice at the beginning. But then I managed to find out how to do it. Your voice must not be sharp but must be low and firm, like an Uncle's voice. I am not sure why but at least it worked for me and the rest of people.

But anyway, acoustic effect was because of the echo of our voice. The balustrades around the platform send our voice back to us when we speak.

Very colourful background

I wish I could lie down on the grass and sleep. So comfy.

5. Beijing Red Theater (红剧场）

To end the day before dinner, we were brought to Beijing Red Theater to watch Kung Fu performance.

Frankly, I did not really enjoy the performance. In fact it was quite boring and some of us actually dozed off a while.

Kung Fu performance should be very lively, full of energy.

But this performance was like a short play about "The Legend of Kung Fu". I personally feel that they danced more than they performed kung fu LOL. If I get to choose, I would rather go and watch "Bian Lian" -- Face-changing. But since I have watched that before during my previous trip Jiu Zai Gou, I should just take this as a change.

6. Wangfujing Street (王府井大街）

After dinner we headed to Wangfujing Street. Vehicles were not allowed along the street so it was packed with people.

The shops ranges from discounted shops to high-end shops.

There was a shopping mall too.

I totally heart this Nike shop!!!

If you are someone who loves to read books and at the same time buy them, it is a MUST to visit Wangfujing Bookstore, which is 1 of the largest bookstores in Beijing. A group mate who made research before joining this tour said that the books were sold at a quite fair price. Too bad I did not do my homework before going to China so missed out the opportunity to visit it =(

Traffic lights specially for cyclists.

So, the trip for 2nd day officially ended after cruising around the city for a while to look at the night scenery. Everyone was exhausted because we walked extremely a lot on this day.

-sherril=xuele-

Brief update

Finally I am back here blogging. Wooh! Having the time to blog means I have time to laze around =)

So what exactly have I been up to lately? Below is the list of my recent activities:

* FEStival
* Closed accounts and settle statements for Arts & Crafts Society.
* AGMs for Traveler's Den and Arts & Crafts Society. Finally we have 'retired'!
* Watched Transformer twice. Once in Cineleisure (5 people) once in Pavilion (23 people).
* Dined in Full House, a place that I have always wanted to go.
* Interviewed new members for 'Xia Xiang' (下乡) in 2 interview sessions. Once in FAS once in FES.
* Soo Yee came over to overnight together with Mei Fern for pillow talking.
* Visited Yee's hostel. Looks similiar to MC room.
* I actually drove Andrew's car around KL and back to PJ because Yee did not know her way back.
* Stayed up late to complete Engineer In Society assignment. Do not ask me what subject is that because I do not know. All I know it is boring and did not listen since the 1st class.
* Watched a Korean movie without subtitle until midnight. Guess we were quite clever to know roughly what was happening throughout the movie. "Good" idea of HL's LOL.
* Overnighted at Chian's place. As usual we pillow talked and caught up with each other's recent happenings.
* I actually did some revision yesterday. Hard to believe!
* Thinking of things that should not be thought.

Well basically that was how I spent my last 2 weeks. Did not really have enough sleep until last night. Skipped a number of classes and slept in some of them and I really felt a bit of guilty. Yeah, a bit bit. But I guess from now on I will be more 'semangat' =)

Though I might be emo once a while, the thought of going back to Penang this Thursday really cheers me up. I even asked my mum to cook my favourite soup ready so that I can drink it once I reach!

I will go back on Thursday, right after my lab session. And I will be skipping the rest of the classes. No choice, since I have promised Yee babe that I will be back for her glamorous 21st birthday on Friday. Girl, see how good am I to you?

The best thing is, this time I will be flying back! Haha.... no need to take the 4 hours bus journey back. But the cost is to pay extra more for a shorter time. 1st time trying Air Asia, hope it does not suck like how some people told me.

People have been telling me, "Sherril, do not dwell in the past anymore. We must look forward."

I have been trying not to dwell anymore. Seriously, I have tried people. But things do not just go as you wish you see. Guess I just need to try a bit harder.

I will not break my promise to you. A friend huh? I guess I did well in turning myself into that role....

Maybe I am sharing the same fate as my cousin. Sigh.


-sherril=xuele-

H1N1 flu case in Wangsa Maju

*Update: I heard from a TARC friend that 3 students from there kena H1N1. 2 from SBS and 1 from SSH. OMG..... please do not come and attack UTAR students. Praying hard.....

So people, pls be extra careful!!! *



Finally, it is said that a H1N1 flu case has been detected in Wangsa Maju.

And now everyone is shouting, "CLOSE UTAR!!!!"

Haha... I would like that too. But to think that we have to replace all those lectures and tutorials make me think twice.

Anyway, heard that this case was not reported to the public. Not until someone stumbled upon Wee Choo Keong's (MP for Wangsa Maju) blog post dated June 20 2009. You can read more in this post or here.

So people, especially students of TARC and UTAR, be more careful la. Maybe soon we have to wear mask, which I really hate to.

Ok la, quite a short update only to warn you all. Will not blog so often as I am very busy lately. I really hate closing accounts!!!

p/s: Sorry the Beijing post will be up soon I promise!

-sherril=xuele-

Bukit Tabur

Yea! Finally I have conquered Bukit Tabur! Wohoo!!!!!

It was an awesome and challenging experience. Those of you who haven't been there before and love adventurous trips should definitely try this place out.

There were 7 of us, 4 guys and 2 girls. 3 hiked before this hill and 4 including me were newbies. We started hiking around 7am and reached downhill at about 11am. We were slow because we were busy snapping pictures and I was the one who dragged their time as I was slow.

I love this type of challenge but I really have no confidence in myself when it comes to this kind of hiking/jungle trekking because of my height. My legs and hands are short, and this makes me think that I cannot bypass those huge gaps or climb up steep places. But every time after some tough hikings, they will boost up my confidence more and more. Same goes to this time. I am sure I can be better next time!

Though SOME people said that this hill discriminates shorties, but being a truly shortie, I successfully completed the whole journey! So I am sure the rest of you can make it too!

The weather today was so nice, cloudy and breezy. We thought it would rain before we managed to reach donwhill but thank god, it did not and we reached downhill safely =)

We were in time to see sunrise. One of my all-this-while-wish was finally completed. Yahoo! Too bad it did not go on like I planned to with him. =(

Beautiful view of Klang Gates Dam with sunrise.

Watching sunrise.

Another side of view.

It was adventurous because there were no staircases or whatsoever to help you up hill and downhill, except some ropes at some steep areas and of course tha natural ROCKS available there. Haha.

There were no railings as well, so one wrong step could really grab your life away. It is really DANGEROUS. No doubt there were many cases whereby hikers went missing or their bodies found dead after their slips and falls. There were even warnings along the pathway to warn us about nasty incidents that have happened before. I did not dare to read any of them in case they made me feel discouraged.

This is just the starting.

More challenging parts ahead.

Eh Shyuan, what's so special about your water bottle huh??

Some people camp-fired there. I wonder if they really overnighted there??!

Noone gave up in this hiking. Hooray teammates! I am glad we made a good team who were willing to help each other. Below are some of the dangerous and tough moments:

Damn high and steep.

See my 'kin chiong' face? LOL so ugly my god.

This is the place where I was stuck.
1 slip and Sherril Leow will be gone. *choi*!!

I was supposed to climb up the rock that I placed my hands against to. But the gap between this rock and the rock I was standing on was slightly huge. Furthermore those so-called holes/steps for you to step on the rock seemed so far, which seemed to be beyond my reach!

Clinging hard to the rock.

When I successfully crossed over, I was practically hugging this rock, not wanting to let go at all. Because I was scared that my foot could not reach the place it was supposed to be and I would slip! But then, haha I made my way up anyway with a bit of help =) Now nothing can stop me anymore!

1,2,3 Jump!!!! Haha.

Wah, 90° loh!

Nah, it is actually like this =)

I am getting better and braver.

Finally I can go solo!!

This is Mei Fern, with short legs like me haha.

So in the end, we did it! Haha the feeling after this hiking is soo good!

Shyuan and Fern so steady.

Wah finally no more 'kin chiong' face =)

Baby Ong said I act cute. WTH?

This time I can cling to the rock and posed for the camera!

When we reached the top part (1 stop before the most top point), it was of course our resting time. Guess what? Zhou Chong brought a watermelon up and it was watermelon feasting and photo shooting time!

Zhou Chong cutting watermelon. (not sure how to spell his name)

Wong Hon Sern aka 'Hansen'. Fern said he looked like a monkey in this pic haha.

Shyuan with her usual pose for promoting food.

My 1st attempt for a jumping pose shot.

I totally suck in jumping, with my legs so short and heavy weight. LOL. So after numerous tryouts.....

This is my BEST shot! (but I know still kns)

Yay!!!!

The 3 musketeers.

The must-take group photo!

Going downhill was far more easier than going up hill. So basically there was no problem with that. There was an uncle who claimed that this usual route to go downhill was not challenging enough so he patah balik the way he came up, which was also the way we came up. He was really adventurous huh? Going downhill through that route is soooo damn dangerous!

The safer route.

Don't know what flower.

Some scatches are necessary =)

All on tree!

There was an orchard on the way downhill. We counted already, there were at least 7 different fruits: Nangka, Cempedak, Durian, Rambutan, Mangosteen, Starfruit, and another one I do not know the name.

Mei Fern was scared of this scarecrow. She said it looked like "those things".

Bye bye Bukit Tabur!

Now let me introduce you - the couple of the year!! Mei Fern and her Kenny.

They really make me envy la. Sigh.







Then now for the heroes of the day!

Zhou Chong, damn pro!

'Key Chain', solo somemore! This is his 1st hiking experience.

Saw the man there? We actually came all the way from there.

The hill behind is where we hiked.

Looking back, we realized that we have hiked a hill that seems almost impossible to hike. That is why, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!

I totally love this trip. Next trip to Broga!!


-sherril=xuele-

1st Attempt

My 1st attempt and this is the result of it!



I have severely bruised my hands!!!



I hate volleyball!!!!

Haha no la, not really hate. In fact, I have started to like it a bit. JUST A BIT.

Not really my 1st attempt, but it was the 1st time I played this game for so long. Last time if I played, I would give up within minutes. I never had the heart and patience to learn because I cannot bear the pain.

Thanks to my classmates Zhi Ling and Ah Fang, who are pros of volleyball, they taught me and Shyuan the correct way to play. Though I think I made them a bit frustrated because I always made mistakes and whacked the ball into the drain with some contaminated water for uncountable times =_=''

Wondering why there was drain in the court? Because we did not use proper venue, we played at Sri Pelangi carpark. Cars that were parked over there were being hit a few times but I swear there were no scratches made =)

Well, a nice attempt I would say. At least I have the courage to hit the ball already!

Maybe you will like to try playing volleyball sometime too?


-sherril=xuele-

Beijing - Day 1

Hehe finally I am here to blog about my Beijing trip. Like I said it was awesome! Hmm I have no talent like Kae Vin to describe his Cambodia trip in such a creative way. Really love the way he wrote about it. So I will just do it in a simple way and let the pictures do most of the job.

For your information, we went under Forever Travel tour agency. My family's 1st trip under them. Before hand we always went under Lye Peng tour agency. Well my rating for this agency - 4 out of 5. I love my tour leader. She is so pretty!

So, our tour group consists of 16 participants with 1 pretty leader (tour guide). Out of 16 people, 12 of them are my family members. The rest are a pair of mum and daughter from Singapore (working there) and a pair of husband and wife from Aussie (migrated from M'sia).

Basically for the 1st day, we spent most of the time in airports and airplanes. From Penang International Airport, we flew with Cathay Pacific and stopped at KLIA and waited for passengers from there to board. Then we continued our journey to Hong Kong International Ariport for transit. Then finally we flew with Dragonair to Beijing Capital Airport.

I think the whole journey took about 12 hours, maybe a bit less. Stuck quite long in KLIA and on the track of Hong Kong International Airport. The airport was sooo busy that more than 10 airplanes needed to queue up just for taking off! Can you imagine that?

As usual during long hours flight, what you can do are just to eat, sleep, watch movies, listen to music or go to toilet. That is why I became fatter after coming back from China. Input more than output... Damn!

1 of the meals.

Wrapped myself in blanket like I was so cold.

Shyuan reading my CLEO, pretending to be interested.

What made this day interesting was, something funny happened when we arrived Beijing Capital Airport. I am really amazed at how cautious and concerned the China government is regarding the H1NI cases. Compared to them, Malaysia is lousy.

Once we landed, we were not allowed to leave the aircraft. Paramedics were sent onto the plane to check each and every passenger's body temperature. That means if one of the passengers did not pass this checking, then all passengers might be asked to be quarantined, just in case he/she was the carrier of swine flu.

I nearly thought I was not going to pass the checking and everyone has to be quarantined.

They checked my temperature for 3 times! 3 times! Everyone 1 time but I was checked for 3 times!!! I was worried like hell!

After the 1st time, that girl checked another time for confirmation. Guess something was wrong with my temperature or maybe the device was not functioning well. Then after the 2nd checking, she walked away but turned back to look at my seat number. At that moment, I was already terrified. Why the hell did she need to check on my seat number?!

Then she even asked the other paramedic to check my temperature for the 3rd time! My god! Luckily this time my temperature did not exceed 27°C 37°C. Phew! Thank god I did not make anyone stay in hospital haha.

Shyuan's dad wearing mask for FUN not for prevention haha.

Once we got down from the plane, 1 of my uncles started laughing at me for being checked 3 times. He was teasing and joking about this incident. He even told us confidently that he would be able the pass the checking easily but maybe his wife would not because she was sick before this trip. So all the way he was the 1 laughing and talking the most.

Then came this scenario. We passed by a counter with devices set up like this:


See those 2 cameras and 2 screens? In front of each screen there was seated 1 officer. Everyone was required to walk pass the 2 lanes. Once you walk into the range of screening (where the bars are placed), your image with heat and temperature will be shown in the screen like this:



This device is very sensitive, trust me, and also very accurate. No matter you walk to the left, to the right or maybe you want to jump or squat, your temperature will always be on your head, following you all the way. This makes the officer's job easy to spot those passengers with high temperature (more than 27°C 37°C). If your temperature exceeds 27°C 37°C, there is a high possibility that you are having fever - 1 of the H1N1 symptoms.

Then this image popped up and everyone was excited.


This guy with 37.2°C is that laughing uncle of mine.

He was stopped by the officer in-charge and was ushered into a special 'room' like this, somewhere beside the counter to carry on the necessary procedures to check whether he was really having fever or not.


I wonder how he managed to smile for the camera when he was god damn tension that time. Haha he was the one laughing at people but he was the 1 ended up this room.

It took him ages to come out from that room after being confirmed that his temperature has dropped back to normal. We knew he would be fine since he was not sick, but quite worried that the officer might send him off to be quarantined. As you know, SARS affected China a lot and they have learnt from that lesson.

Everyone in our group applauded when he came out and he was laughing damn hard away. He did not know that there was another checking awaiting him ahead. By that time his temperature rose again because of the laughings =_=''. At the last counter, he was specially asked by the officer in-charge to enter another 'special room', again!

This time, we were really laughing uncontrollably and wondered why he was so unfortunate?

LOL, we were not being mean for laughing at him, we were worried too. But if you were there, you would know why we laughed that hard.

The last checking took him more than 15 minutes (felt like half an hour or more). Luckily this time his temperature dropped again to normal. So this whole journey from airplane to this counter took us more than half an hour and we had not even collected our luggage!!

This is what we did while waiting for him - taking photos!

The airport is soooo huge!

When we reached the luggage collection area, there was no one already. Our luggages were the ones left on the spinning machine. Wonder how many rounds has it spun?

You cannot imagine how big the airport is! We even needed to take a train from the last counter to the luggage collection area! Maybe 10 times of the area of Penang International Airport?!



Well, we were of course late for dinner since the whole checking out process consumed so much time. But this incident also reflected how efficient and cautious the China government is. Our temperatures were checked 3 times at 3 different places! (though mine was checked 5 times) They really want to minimize the number of H1N1 cases. Thumbs up for them!

Maybe Malaysian government should learn from them. There was so much difference when I reached Penang International Aiport from Beijing. No one checked on us... No one! No wonder the number of confirmed cases are increasing. LOL

To call it a day, we checked in Holiday Inn Express where we stayed for 3 nights. The rooms were nice, but the management was damn lousy. They should really improve in that.

My room with Shyuan.

Well, so that is all for day 1. Will not write so long for the next few entries. I am getting more and more long-winded. Sigh.


-sherril=xuele-