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A Freelance model, also interested in dancing, acting, events and broadcasting.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Nicole goes to China!


Arrived in Hongkong during the late arvo on sunday
headed to where we were gonna live for the week,
Ocean Pointe

its an apartment and we live on the freaking 52nd floor!
so dammm high up!
its a really pretty place owned by my uncle

Living with my relatives in tt small cosy apartment
so me, my cousins and grandma are bunking in the hall with the big screen TV

we went for dinner together that night
and strolled the lovely hongkong streets near our place

its very nice peaceful and the weather is very cooling where we live
a good break from the busy city life

had waffles and even more desert after dinner
im getting so fat



the apartment is next to the sea!

saw a giant dog along the way!
this area is so dog friendly I love it!
nearly everyone has cute dogs
and pamper them with pretty clothes
unlike china =x


yummy waffles


the next morning we headed to Shen Zhen, China!


mad high buildings in hongkong

we took a train over to hk-china boarder and we walked across !
I was still mad tired frm all the sg madness and was falling sleep standing up in the train
the last time I really fell asleep in the train was after zouk out LOL


theres vip line for the train LOL

at customs!


we were only suppose to spend 1 day in Shen Zhen
but the shopping was too damm awesome that we extended our trip 1 more day
to make sure we finish buying all we needed to buy!

the food in Shen Zhen was yummy
BUT me and my whole family are all chinese noobs
I can speak but reading and writing is quite a chore
and their accent is hard to understand somtimes

epic fail!
we look like such fail asians LOL
had to depend on my younger cousin who goes to a chinese sch in KL to help us

we totally dunno how to order food and shit
we had to ask bu mouth about what they have etc.

I think we drove the shop ladies a lil crazy LOL

say what? LOL
my yummy food I managed to order myself LOL
after much hastle we all got what we wanted LOL

mad alot of people!
gugu , me and mum on the streets of shen zhen
this ride is freaking aesome!
I sat it with bro and cousins
4D simulator experiance LOL
a good break after a long day of shopping

continue shopping!

every thing there is damm cheapp
night lights!

soon it was dinner time!
and we some how managed to order yummy dishes again
but it some embarassing things happen
so people! learn your chinese! it will really benefit u in the long run!
I love chinese even tho my chinese has always kinda sucked
so 3 things happend
my dad was trying to order, and he depended on pictures to place the orders
I asked my dad to order friend rice as I was craving it
half way through dinner when we realised the fried rice wasnt there
my dad tod us he thinks maybe he now knows why the fried rice didnt come
this was what happend..
Dad *points to what looks like fried rice : " yi ge chao fan " (I want fried rice)
Waitress : " ni shi shou niu rou?" ( u mean beef )
Dad : "dui chao fan" (yes friend rice)
Waitress: "zhe ge shi ...... something something niu rou" (this is (something) beef)
Dad : " dui niu rou chao fan" (yes beef friend rice)
Waitress *gives up
fried eel!
the so called beef that looks like fried rice LOL

the best!
a few other things happend during dinner which was mad funny but its all a "had to be there" moment
a funny stupid thing i did was
we got this voucher looking things
and my cousin said that he thinks its a voucher for the nxt time we come back
and so all of us trusted him since he has p5 standard of chinese
so they asked me to ask the waiter what theses vouchers were for
Me : " xian shen, zhe ge shi zhe me yang yong de?" (how to use these)
Him : " ni shi she me yi si" (what do u mean)
Me : " shi ke yi yong qu guang jie de hai shi chi de hai shi .. " (can it be used for shopping or eating or?)
him : " zhe ge shi fa piao" (these are fa piao)
Me " shen me shi fa piao? " (what is fa piano)
LOLOL at this point my cousins were going "ohhhhhhhh"
and I was still pretty lost
but pretty much, those were like reciepts kinda things
that looked like vouchers wth
FML hahaha

on the up side shopping was awesome.
look at the amount of shoes my family bought
we can open a shoe shop
my 3 pairs

breaky day 2!

the animal crualty here is disgusting
we saw people selling puppys by the streets the previous nights
frm puppy mills
they were hell rough with them
and also after someone bought the puppy, they put it in like a plastic bag kinda thing
treating them like items!
makes me so angryyy!!!
Im quite selfish and self centered when it comes to humans
but I have a soft spot for animals esp dogs
and this makes me soo sick
esp since those puppys they sell are WAY TOO YOUNG
to be away from their mother and her milk
like seriously, they r tiny and not fit to be on the streets being mistreated and sold
the pet shops are no better, freaking over crowded
all u can hear are all the puppys whining
and the palce is so dirty
and I saw how they showered the dog
dry with powder thats it
and hold them by the legs upside down to comb the powder out
wth!
puppys soo younggg
they dyed this poodle
tape their ears
seee sooo cuteee this huskyy

this place is so damm cute!
and I must say, this place has better toilets then real toilets
the toilets in china are gross


vip shower room!






milk tea in urinals! LOL










I think eating at modern toilet was one of the highlights of my trip!
over all I kinda enjoyed the trip!
i hate the toilets
hate that it is gross and ppl dont know how to use it
and that they never have tissue paper

TIPS TO SURVIVE CHINA
- bargin bargin bargin in shopping
-if ppl are rude to you, be rude them them back
- bring tissue wherever u go
- learn chinese
- there are no bins u gonna have to just throw your rubbish on the floor (made me mad uncomfortable i keep thinking im in sg and gonna get fined)
- the taxi drivers and all drivers drive like crazy and no one gives way to pedestrians and cyclist, buthe trick is to pretend u are a car and just walk, they will have no choice but to stop for u, its how the chinese roll LOL
I kept thinking I was gonna die

but yup! thats china for you!
survival of the fittest!

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