Singapore, HK & China

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm back in sydney now after a 7 week holiday, but asia is so hetic i think that i need a holiday from my holiday. thanks for all your emails and stuff, and i'm sorry that i couldnt get back to most of you guys but its was just really hard getting hold of a computer.

 

I spent the first week of my holidays in singapore, we stayed at this really nice hotel with the maddest swimming pool. Singapore is really humid leaving u feeling sticky and very uncomfortable most of the time, besides that it is generally a nice place. The best was probably the night safari where you travel around in this safari car thingy at around 9pm to see the animal's nite life.

 

I also got to take a picture with a oranatang, though the smell wasnt all that great :P~~ the biggest problem now is working out which is the monkey and which is me in the picture. I didnt end up buying anything in singapore, the price of things were almost the same as Australia's and i didnt want to carry it all around.

 

After a very tiring week in singapore we left for Hong Kong, my home away from home! the flight was 8 hrs but having your own tv screen made the flight go by a lot quicker. Hong Kong was great! I got to see dad and all my relos again. The shopping was EXCELLENT!! if only I could carry everything back!!

 

I was very fortunate this time because heaps of my friends from Australia went back to HK too and they taught me where to shop and stuff. I met up with wendy while in hk and she fully went mad buying everything in site ehheeehe. The best thing was that I got to see my grandmother, she's very old and fragile but very yound at heart. She lives at the hospital because her lungs have basically collasped and she relies on a machine to breathe. 

 

I visted her almost everyday and those times were very memorable. I also went to china for about 2 weeks cos my relos all have holiday houses there or they run businesses there. My uncle lives at this resort type place where he runs a steakhouse, I could order anything I wanted unlimted...and free!! food on demand, what more could I want? ehhehe :P there was also a swimming pool but i didnt swim cos it was winter i spent my time playing tennis or ping pong with sophia but even that got really boring cos sophia cant play for shit.

 

Shopping is good but gets very annoying cos you have to bargin for EVERYTHING you always expect to pay half of the price they set cos if you dont then your'e getting ripped off e.g. a pair of shoes is 120 expect to pay 60. but sumtimes if you go too low they fully skitz at you and end up being really pissed off hehehe it fully stresses me out!

 

I guess these were the better things about China but its also a very dangerous place, you have to be careful of your bags cos theft is very common. There has also been instances where buses
have been stopped and the passengers robbed. But luckily i didn’t encounter any of that. the worse thing that happened while I was there was this dude got killed, I was coming out of a restaurant at night when a guy riding a bike got hit by a mini van from behind, he was thrown metres and his head got cracked and everything.

 

When the police finally came they didn’t even attempt to save him they just sealed off the rd and took pictures. He was probably ead but they didn't even cover him up he was just left on the rd where everyone could come have a gawk. It was a VERY disturbing experience. The rds in china are very dangerous a two lane rd turns into 6 and people drive everywhere the place is just too crowded. I’m so scared  that I cant cross the rd by myself I always need someone to hold my arm cos I’m absolutely terrified!!
 
I also had a really bad experience with my hairdresser there, I thought I’d be brave and do something different to my hair for a change so I thought I’d dye my hair red.....however something went terribly wrong and my hair ended up turning blonde!!! I was soooooooo shocked I was going to cry! But I wasn’t about to let them touch my hair again!! no way! So for the rest of my trip in China I had blonde hair I looked like a freak!! and my dad wouldn’t stop cracking jokes about my hair...drove me nuts!! As soon as I got back to HK I bought one of those do it yourself hair dyes and dyed it back to black with bits of red.

Anyway i cant think of anything else to write hmm.....
so i'll send out my individual hellos ehhehe
 
ivi & Kat: hey guys thanks for your email, you guys back from Queensland? it was good wasn’t it?? heheh I loved it at surfers I want to go back there again Sometime soon where did you stay? Anyway write back or call me to tell me all about it.
 
Sam: you're sooo lucky!! man I wish I got to go America! Why didn’t u take me along? Hows the shopping and stuff?

Lex: so hows Russia? Remember you have to bring me back some snow, I don’t think I could stand the cold. So now that you've been back which do u call 'home' VN, Russia or Australia?
 
Betty & Lisa: what did you guys do all holiday? Keep me
updated :P

 

Love Em