Went for a 1 day trip to wuxi over the wkend. Was a throughly enjoyable experience i muz say. Thou i said b4 tat im not for package tours, this one went at a slow enough pace tat im not gg to complain abt, plus the trip is cheaper than if we went on our own. This trip we went w Ben's colleague, WanJian n his gf. They were realli friendly n fun pple n we had tons of gp pics once again.
Jus learnt tat there r 4 diff types of passenger classes in China. 特快(bullet train), than got the sleepin type, 软坐(上n下 types) n lastly 硬坐. Than cant realli remember wat he said but the cabins are color coded accordin to the types of sittin u got. The worst is the green cabin (oldest used ones) than got the newest types are the white ones which we got (heng ah...they r the airplane style types tat u c in the previous post). B4 the trip, i was constantly mistaken the place as Wuhan which was actually further away (2hrs by plane instead of the 1hr train rite; bopian since my chinese level not tat upz yet). Haha so there my colleagues were sayin cannot b cause it was so far away. Yeah now i know better.
U know y WuXi called WuXi? The tour guide told us n i understand tat durin a certain Han dynasty they ran out of Xi (tin) so there came the name. Aft that he started talkin abt the 3 famous attractions of which we visited 2. Than the famous pple frm the province (got lost in translation here...haha).
Maybe most of u wld remember this place better as the place plagued by the algae problem in its freshwater lake tat is 4times of Spore (one times jialat jialat headache for the govt!!!). So its impossiblity hard to clear the water. 10 days a yr in the past, the pple had a hard time cause the water cannot b used for showerin even!!! Accordin to the tour guide even ur 汗臭 was not as bad as the algae so think pple took powder baths ba (dont qoute me on this, jus my guess). But things haf improved to a stage where tourists durin tat 10days can now still stay in Wuxi n resturants need not closed cause even cookin of rice durin those 10days could not use the tap water but distilled water. Will upload the pics another time when i get the load of it...
Other updates : Huangshan is up this wkend (3day trip). HB is down w a porously leakin nose plus me n my 1mth old cough (gettin better liao). Havin healthy wholemeal bread for dinners w sardine n tuna to supplement my fishless diet here. Ya no more carbo laden diet w no fish anymore. Walks to carrefour (3.2K away takes 20mins) shall b a weekly affair now i guess. Since no one like to walk there i do it alone; which is gd anw, lets u haf tat time to clear ur head n think abt stuffs. Yea 7wks gone n 15 more to come..time really flies by here...alls good n fun here, hope its the same back home for u all...missing all totally (",)
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