Family in town!

couldn't finish uploading photos last week...
finally blogger is less "blocked" this week (already 19apr!)


Family in town! =)
Dad, mum & Ying came up to Beijing over the Singapore Easter weekend. =)

an update on spring~ a different view of 未名湖

yuan lai it's so difficult to play tourguide! heh~ but i think they liked the 早市 morning market best =) although mum already horrendously bought so many things tt she could only look longingly at the many goodies in the morning market she couldnt bring back. she bought a carton of books back! and that was only cos she ran out of money and luggage space le... ha!

this is the roof of tongrentang 同仁堂. even the roof of the palace 故宫is not entirely gold!
it's this medical hall that were the imperial physicians during the qing dynasties. and because they are proud that they 治未病, 不治已病, of course everyone has something to buy at tongrentang!! horrendous prices~

back to the touristy places...

good weather =)
from my last trip to china in 1999, i remem china= mountains. but this time we've been in beijing city for far too long, finally caught a good sight of mountains!

get your "certificate for climbing up the great wall" here! this is at about 1/4 of the way though. chairman mao wrote: 不到长城非好汉, not 不爬长城非好汉~

climb far look far! 爬得高看得远!

exchange students don't blog this part abt their sem~

or mayb beida's the only uni that has mid-terms...

we guai guai stayed in our rooms trying to finish up our paper in prep for jiangnan trip~ not everyday on exchange is travel/photo-happy day :P

bleh! i can't express my opinion in chinese!!!

i thought could come here to improve chinese.. but from a 25-75 chinese-english expression in singapore, i'm prob gg up to a 50-50 chinglish ba...