Well...i am finally back from China...

Coming home feels really good...I miss Singapore!

Well, I must say that the trip was not bad...I got to visit Tiananmen Square and The Forbidden City ( I still have not found out what exactly is forbidden there!) I had Peking duck at a very atas Chinese restaurant in the Grand Hyatt...Of course, there was the "pick-pocket" incident at the Wangfujing Mcdonald's which ruined an otherwise perfect day. The subsequent visits to some dinghy, dark and damp police stations were not exactly high points either.

HaouHai was not as happening as I had presumed it would be...The resident DJs played a bizarre mix of techno and Chinese Top 40s that I found quite indigestible...I had fun laughing at the names of some of the clubs though..." SEX IN THE CITY", " SACRED FRUIT" and "PEACH GROVE DISCO & NIGHTCLUB"...Really brought me back to the 80s- a decade where OTT-ness was celebrated and embraced. Today, however, such tackiness and cheesiness would be considered "bad taste"

The weather has horrible. I felt like I was a Peking duck being roasted by the heat of the unforgiving sun...Thank God I did not come down with heat stroke! I suffered from some inexplicable hot flushes and some kind of mysterious heat rash...which caused my skin to peel off like POLAR's curry puff pastry crust...

The heat really affected my mood...I was twice as volatile and temperamental then usual...I felt really cantankerous...Good thing there was nobody around me to snap at...

Went to my aunt's house during my time in B.j....Was introduced to her 21 year old housemate...a sad and forlorn Caucasian lady who reminded me of Moaning Myrtle from Harry Porter...Put two of us in a photograph and you would never believe that the two of us are of the same age. I look young enough to be her nephew...

In conclusion, it was a nice holiday...except for the horrid weather.

Very sleepy now...shall take a nap.