Monday, February 05, 2007

Long and last weekend here in Beijing!

This weekend started early with friday as the first day. Friday, we wake up very early at abt 5am. We left hostel at abt 5.40am to take bus to the train station to transfer to a train there to Badaling Great wall of China. But we reach the place abt 8am and saw a lot of people quening up for the train and decided to change to take a bus to great wall instead. So we went back to the bus interchange to look for a suitable bus to take us to Bus 919 which is to Great wall of china. And this took us quite a while to figure out and in the end we check the map and walk out to find bus 618 to transfer to bus 919. And when we reach Great wall which is a long trip for bus 919, we reach the place at abt 11.30am. Can you imagine almost 6hours to reach Great wall, we took a lot of time, mostly due to poor planning! Anyway, we climb the great wall to the highest peak which is 888.8m above sea level, ok the view is great. On our way down, kelly lost one glove and we help to look by going up and down again. In the end not finding the lost glove, my guess it has flown off. Anyway, we were so tired that day. We came down and out of the great wall at abt 3pm. Walk around the souveirs shop there, and i bought a few there. Took the bus back at abt 3.30pm and reach city area abt 5.30pm before heading to look for hotel for us to stay. That's actually the plan for that day. Look around at hotels near 919 bus interchange but couldn't find a hotel nearby so took bus 27 to Xizhimen and look for hotel again. Couldn't find a hotel within our budget, so sadly went back home and had our dinner at xiangshan, where again the girls went to have dian xin for dinner and the guys went to eat a proper meal. The guys reach home later as the girls finish their meal first in another shop different from the guys. When the guys reach home, only kelly was awake as the other girls sleep earlier. So the guys went back to their room to slack lol and Zhen wei say he want to go lab fill our flask so he went back and i was left alone in the room without entertainment as i left my handphone charger in the girls' room and the china plug also so cannot watch tv or listen to music as my handphone is in low batt. So i lay on my bed in the hostel and don't know why i slept so early that day, maybe i am just plain bored ba! Ok, that's friday, great wall day!!
Coming to saturday now, the girls say they want to sleep longer on friday nite before the guys came down so we went up to the girls room at abt 9.40am. And while we prepare to set off, it is decided that we have breakfast first while kelly says she go her lab to check abt the hotels. So the 5 of us set off, and the 4 of us went to have late breakfast and after that went back to find kelly in her lab. So we search for the hotels using the map while we were there and didn't find the ones kelly found in the internet. So we look again on the internet, so wasted quite a lot of time and left kelly's lab at abt 1pm. So in the end, we took 2 buses to Wangfujing to look for the hotels there. We reach the place at abt 2.30pm before searching around the place for a decent hotel. Found a hotel nearby and cheap, guys one room----260, girls one room---------388, stay for a nite. The feeling is great lol, once we went in the rooms, the girls say they are bathing immediately so the guys also bathe and we went out to do last min shopping and to have our dinner and in the end,we had our dinner from street food. We return to the hotel at abt 11pm and we return to our rooms where i watch soccer till abt 1am. Zhen wei slept in the middle of it, anyway i bathe during halftime and continue to watch the match. I slept at abt 1.30am that night.
At lastly it is sunday, the last day of this long and last weekend. I woke up at abt 7am, don't know why, maybe haven adapt yet! Actually we decided to try the hotel's breakfast and kelly told the guys to go check the breakfast there at basement 1 and after we check we call the girls room using phone to tell them the breakfast is not so good and they wouldn't like it so they decided to continue sleeping after that. Anyway after that, i decided to have breakfast in macdonald's. The time is already 9.20am .So the guys left the hotel at abt 9.40am to eat breakfast and after that zhen wei say he wanted to buy cds. So in the end, Zhen wei and i return to the hotel at abt 11am, we bathe again before the girls and us check out the hotel at abt 12.30pm. After checking out of the hotel, we continued doing our last minute shopping going to the area nearby and xi dan before going back and reach our hostel back again at abt 7pm. After that, Zhen wei and i waited for dinner as the girls cook spagetti. After that , we all sat down on watch harry potter while having dinner till abt 10pm. Before we head on to sleeping as this long weekend is very tiring.
Ok, long weekend huh, so tiring but now don't know will my lugguage be overweight with so many souveirs to bring back. Aiyah, anyway let's take a day at a time ba.

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