Beijing Day 10

Early morning we woke up. Cora and I did an interview with the I cable. We were worried that the HK media is going into the restricted zones. Then the responsibility will be completely ours. Luckily, they were unable to enter the village anyways.

After the interview, we changed and walked around the village. Took lots of pictures, especially at the flags. The weather was so nice today and you can actually see the blue sky above.

We walked outside and found a dumpling store. Haven't had dumplings in ages. We had mutton and port. I love how we ate all 30 dumplings altogether. Then we went to the water cube and the Nest, took lots of pictures.

Gone CraZy!!!

Beijing Day 9

Another uneventful day.

We had our first McDonald's meal today at the village. It was consisted of 6 items, a chicken burger, a double cheese burger, McNuggets, French Fries and a cup of corn, some includes apple pie as well. These are some really heavy junk....



Possible press interview tomorrow. Scary.

Beijing Day 8

Unhappy mood

Lied in bed for the whole day

Watched so many soaps

Cora rescued me from my bed at night. We went out for Japanese food, and a Blizzard from Dairy Queen. Can't remember how long I haven't had Blizzard from DQ. Green tea is delicious!

Oh! I bought a wonderful visor today. Love it so much.

Well rested. I am up for challenge again.

Beijing Day 7

What a disappointing day!

She kept talking and talking in Mandarin.

I shut down, didn't notice she said pain in between sentences.

>_<

Better not mess with me now....

Beijing Day 6

After battling with the long queuing line, we finally got tickets for the handball game, after 3 big hours. We are gonna watch China vs Norway, Germany vs Brazil. It's a big day on August 9th!!

Did nothing for the afternoon, had a 4 hour nap. Had some spicy cold noodle for dinner. It was so delicious although my lips were burning.

Felt like I did nothing today. Sleep tight and do a good job tomorrow. Yeah@!!

Beijing Day 5

Finally, the clinic is serving someone who can actually speak English. A Swiss man came in today and I had a chance to chat with him. He talked about how much he loves to travel but never takes any pictures. I wonder why. Doesn't he want to remember the places that he visited? He said the eyes are his camera and the pictures are in his mind. He usually smells the atmosphere of the place and feel it. If he really wants to keep a picture of the place, he buys postcards.

Well I guess that's somebody who truly knows the way to enjoy traveling, enjoy the world. This remind me to feel when you visit a new place, feel the city, feel the atmosphere, feel the people.

Then I said, hm..... no pictures.... it works until you get Alzheimers .... hehe .. shouldn't have said that...

The working environment is not as peaceful as I thought. There are always somebody who are more aggressive than myself. It makes me very grumpy sometimes. The Putonghua language is kinda driving me nuts. It's very tiring to listen and understand a language that you are supposed to know but not indeed. Cora described me as a completely shut down system. Man.. i don't know how I am going to stand this for another month. Hopefully more foreigners come when the village is officially opened.

Mom called today. Very excited. She was gonna have her CPR exam in half an hour. But she still knew nothing about the procedure. Funny that she wasn't worried at all.

We went to a place called HauHai tonight. It was a very decent place with some bars around. Facing a lake with nightlight around, the atmosphere was fabulous. Feels so good :)

Beijing Day 4

After laundry, I am already too exhausted to write.

This is my first day off today. We went down to the forbidden city. OMG, that palace was huge. I can't imagine how those ppl in the past actually transfer messages from the entrance to the king. Also, when one of the wives wanted to visit the other, they actually need to plan and made a "trip" to another room. Despite the overwhelmingly big in area, it was a very nice place to visit.

Then we went down to Wangfujing street again. The bookstore there was a heaven for me. Bought some CDs with the cheapest price ever. Hopefully they are relaxing enough to calm myself down when I am going crazy. We spent around 3 hours in the bookstore and I personally had a great time.

After enjoying the scent of books, we went down to the snack street of Wangfujing. Love the BBQ lamb and beef!! This downtown of BJ provided great food, probably gonna visit this place again.

I am happy today. Did a great job in enjoying life!!

Beijing Day 3

Day 3 starts slowly with a McDonald's $9 breakfast. The coffee and McMuffin were just right there but my tray was still empty. They finally left me 10 minutes to finish it.

It wasn't busy at all in the morning.

The lunch was not as enjoyable as the other day. Chicken salad looked really good but it was super dry. Pork chop was double super dry. The chinese mushroom was rock hard. The only joyful compartment of the meal was the minute maid orange juice. We went shopping in the olympic village today, had a good time.

Other than the olympic village, I once again visited the supermarket with Cora. Love to shop at the supermarket. Cora and I stay in the same room for this trip and funny we found a lot of similiarities between us.

We had a conversation about Vic today on our trip to supermarket. To settle in a new city was not an easy task. People could get frustrated with the people and environment if they are completely different from home. I believe both Vic and I had gone through some difficult times around a year or 2 years ago. That reminded me how moody Vic got on some school days, and things I had gone through last year.

anyways, gonna enjoy the forbidden city tomorrow.