The fall of a Star

During my pre university and university time I knew a group of friends all from different background. While we go college and eventually went to same university after all. After graduate everyone heading to their desire industry and our relationship still intact after years we keep in touch and even some we work in the same company.

Time flies our relationship has been close to a decade. We are just like brothers and sisters and shared most of our sorrow and happiness together. Today, I hardly can see most of you (mostly in overseas) as I know everyone has a different destination and ambition in careers and future.

Bad news arrived yesterday when I received a phone call about one of the buddy father in serious illness and admitted to the hospital under ICU for immediate rescue but god likes to fool us. My friend - LAW has been all the way from China take the express route to fly back to Malaysia immediately after he knew the bad news about his illness. He managed to spend not more than 48 hours with his illed father lying in the hospital and pass away yesterday night. All of us received this message and I feel powerless to give him a helping hand as I can give him when we are in uni or during work.

I delivered this message to friends in singapore and malaysia about his father deceased. Ah Law, we are hoping to see you stand strong and my deepest condolence to you and your family members. The fall of a Star and I'm looking you to shine again in the near future.

You know me as a talkative person but at this point of time I also don't know what to tell you and I know your feeling and mood at this time and place isn't good either. One word as I always mentioned to you my friend. We will always stand allign with you whenever or whatever you do. So as this time. Take good care of yourself.

From: Pauline, Yin Kee, Joyce, Peng Leong, Kay Peng, Ai Lim, Chia Chih, Ashley, Kara, Grace, Kang Han, Leslee, Tay, Darrell, Mindy and Me.

3 LIONS

3 English Premier League teams in the 1st Leg of UEFA Champions League semi final. Will there be a all England final display?

After I watched the replay of yesterday game Manchester United edged AC Milan (3-2)and I believe Mancheser United has the quality to send the Italian packing on the second leg. Tonight, Chelsea vs Liverpool will put up another good show for audience who stays late in Asia to watch this 2 power house clashed against each other 2 years ago in the semi final again. Supporters are advise to smoke less during the game and beers are welcome!!!

Enjoy watching football fans!!!

Tour of ShangHai, China

After visited a few cities around Shanghai (HangZhou and SuZhou) on my previous blog I return my trip to Shanghai. This busy city has one in common in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Traffic Jam!!!
Ohhh I hate it most.

Due to the density of the city the development out of the business district is very rapid. Along the highway I noticed a lot of high rise apartments are under construction to cater the huge demand. About 2 hours plus journey from NanJing to ShangHai I arrived in the city again, check in hotel and get a shower. The 5th day in China the temperature drop from 24 Celsius to 8 Celsius. What a cold spring in China.

Later in the evening, I go for dinner at XinTianDi located in the ShangHai city, the place has been the urbant tourists attractions that holds the legacies of the city. The entire place of XinTianDi is unique because of the fashionable ShiKuMen and modern architecture style. You can see a lot of foregein Tourists around the area and the place is popular for western food, pubs and shoppings.

After dinner I travelled down to the most crowded premier shopping street the NanJing Road in Shanghai. The entire street about 3.4 miles long and starts from the bund in the east and end in the west at the Jingan temple. A trackless train can be found on the street for the convenient of tourists and there are many interesting and countless famous brand for shopacholics. Women's favourite... I recommend.

Tour of NanJing, China

NanJing was one of the 4 great ancient capital of China (BeiJing, NanJing, Xi'an and LoYang). The city of NanJing also served as a capital of China for few dynasty and the last dynasty held the capital in NanJing was under the Ming dynasty. Today, NanJing is the second largest city after Shanghai at the East China region.

According to the locals when you arrived in NanJing you can find historical left over about 600 years ago still remained in this city rich of history. At first I don't really believe until I visited the City Wall of NanJing build by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty (Zhu YanZhang), the City Wall of NanJing is recorded as the longest surviving city wall in the world. To resolve my curiousity I climbed up the wall and I was impressed what my naked eye sees the beauty of this City Wal, most of the part of the wall was destroyed during the Japanese army invaded and occupied NanJing but the left over wall is as long as 30km. You are unable to finish by walking from one end to another end either. After this one of the local friend bring me to the NanJing Massacre Memorial where this memorial is build to remember the history of NanJing people, where there were more than 300,000 people were killed in 6 weeks time during the Japanese occupied period.

Another landmark of NanJing is the ChangJiang Bridge which separated the North and South of China by the YangTze River. During the Sun Yat Sen period this bridge was suppose to build to link the North (BeiJing) and South (ShangHai) as to smooth the transportation and increase the viability to connect the people between two main cities for business and political reason. However, the project of building this bridge was not completed at the time of Sun Yat Sen and Chiang Kai Shek because the American advised this was a mission impossible to build a bridge over the rapid downstream of YangZe River without having high technology and specialists to assist. However, Mao ZeDong believed this bridge is too important for them to link both North and South cities to increase the traffic and prosperity of the region therefore, during the Communist time Mao ZeDong had this bridge build and there are many sacrfices behind this great involvement by the citizen and followers of Mao ZeDong. Today, this bridge is one of the modern landmark of NanJing because of the architeture and design that vehicles and trains are using this bridge daily across the fully occupy YangZe River of China.

Later in the evening, I was accompanied to the ancient red light district - the FuZi Miao. This place was so popular during the ancient time because most of the high rank government's officer and wealthy businessman gathered in this place for drink and women even the emperor will visit once in a blue month. FuZi Miao is along the QinHui River where tourists or visitors can take a boat ride. In fact, as the modernisation and development of the city FuZi Miao's prositution was banned by the centre government and today it is a famous place for restaurant, pubs, night markets for tourists.

Tour of SuZhou, China

After the tour of HangZhou, I was travelling down to SuZhou on a 3 hours journey from HangZhou to visit this ancient city - Venice of the East. SuZhou is one of the preserved World's Cultural Heritages site in China and SuZhou is ranked 3rd behind Beijing and Xi'an for its historical and cultural significant.

The ancient city is no longer in poor shape in fact, the city now has join with Singapore government to develop a modern industrial park in the east of SuZhou. No wonder when I first reached this place I noticed the apartment design and architeture just alike what it has in Singapore. Despite all this SuZhou famous of Silk production has leap forward another milestone that the world must not overlook.

At night I went to "Kuan Qian Jie" to get some local food and the place is far more crowded compare to our Petaling Street. Along the street you can get food, souvenir, local confectionary, painting and etc all this store is located strategically in the shop therefore, you will find the place is crowded but neat. A nice place to shop!!

Tour of Hang Zhou, China

Hang Zhou located south east of China under the province of ZheChiang. The city is full of history and cultural heritages. The weather at HangZhou is so soothing and suit me as I born in a tropical country in Malaysia and only see Sun and Rain throughout the 365 days. However, HangZhou

When I reached HangZhou and my observation tells me that the residence's lifestyle is not as fast and pressure as those works in Shanghai. They are more concerned about quality and value of life. A few "scenery" that really impressed me in HangZhou first of all, I reached the famous sightseeing spot in HangZhou the West Lake also known as the Oriental Pearl of southeast. During the old time the emperor likes to visit HangZhou (also known as JiangNam) because of the beautiful sightseeing scenery of West Lake.

Second "scenery" I noticed is HangZhou really doesn't have any over-weight people on the street. My friend even bet with me that if I could find a single over-weight fellow on the street she will buy me a decent dinner for my trip. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one on the street after few hours in the city to search for my free dinner. Sigh. Well do you feel surprise? Any magic behind HangZhou people's lifestyle? Indeed, there is a secret behind it. At HangZhou you hardly can look for a place to buy a cup of coffee and spend your day for some reading at the cafe. However, there are plenty of places to drink tea (The Dragon Well green tea) the fact that from the local "a cup of tea a day, can keep your fat away and stay more healthier". The rural area around HangZhou is famous for its high productive of agricultural products especially tea.

At night I was accompany by a few local to watch a cultural show in the city. The most intersting part of the entire show was the last performance of Thousand Hands Kuan Yin that wins alot of applause from the floor.

I've fully occupy my time in HangZhou and enjoy the lifestyle of HangZhou people slow, relax and quality life.