Not really love actually. At least it's so different from always stayin in sg. Let's see...it's been about slightly more than 5 weeks since i first touched down. Since then, it's being eat and eat and eat and eat everyday. Not bad i think i'm still quite thin. Recently started tryin out the roadside stalls. Surprisingly my weak stomach could take it without any problem at all. Maybe they're actually much cleaner than what we thought, at least for BJ.
Since the ski trip, we've done lots of other things around other than still eating like a piglet. School in Tsinghua started on 27 feb. Talkin to the tour guide that brought u around, i realised that the genius sch has lots of ppl committing suicide every year. Compared to tsinghua, what's NTU's duo incidents man...
Ppl from all over china aim to go tsinghua or beijing uni. Only the top very small percent in each city can get in. They're the talents in their cities. But what happens when all the talents meet? Smart ppl versus smart ppl, some ppl will end up being stupid. They take the bottom ranks in sch and kill themselves every year. Thats talent sch. Work so hard and die for such thing.. Kinda saddening.
Our classroom
Lessons are still quite interesting, learning about the things such as old chinese words and history of many things. A bit of linguistics stuff too, talkin about links of chinese with japanese and korean.
In tsinghua, bicycles are super common. Everyone cycles cos between lessons they only have 5min interval to reach their classrooms which are further than NTU's north to south spine. And they'll rather not go than be even a minute late for class, unlike sg ppl who'd rather be very late than dun go for class...or maybe will end up not going in the end.
Lessons are still quite interesting, learning about the things such as old chinese words and history of many things. A bit of linguistics stuff too, talkin about links of chinese with japanese and korean.
In tsinghua, bicycles are super common. Everyone cycles cos between lessons they only have 5min interval to reach their classrooms which are further than NTU's north to south spine. And they'll rather not go than be even a minute late for class, unlike sg ppl who'd rather be very late than dun go for class...or maybe will end up not going in the end.
A road in Tsinghua
A canal in tsinghua with workers breaking super thick ice
A pretty lake in tsinghua which has a long history
Went to the 13 Ling Imperial tombs, whereby 13 of the kings of Ming dynasty are buried. Before reaching there, we were approached by two uncles who offered to drive us around at 5rmb per person to get money to buy cigarettes.
First place we went to was the wax museum which shows the different scenes of the story of the Ming dynasty. It was really incredible, with really nice was figures and backgrounds. Even madame tussauds museum can't be compared with it i feel.
First place we went to was the wax museum which shows the different scenes of the story of the Ming dynasty. It was really incredible, with really nice was figures and backgrounds. Even madame tussauds museum can't be compared with it i feel.
BJ Wax museum for the Ming dynasty emperors
Headed to Lao Beijing after the museum as it was along the way. Saw lots of olden time buildings. Many scenes in Huan Zhu Ge Ge was filmed in that place. Even saw the bed which Ziwei consumated with her husband (er kang?) It was quite rundown and empty though. Probably only tourists will go there and they'll go as a tour group.
Entrance of Lao Beijing
Brothel in Lao Beijing
Bed in the brothel whereby Ziwei and Er kang consumated
Went over to the 13 Ling after that. However, only one of the tombs was excavated. It was a really disappointing trip we felt. There was hardly anything there other than the beautiful castle walls. The coffins all those were all fakes as the original ones were all decayed. Didn't really spend much time there in the end. Luckily we went to the wax museum beforehand as recommended by the driving uncles. It was the only thing worth going.
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