Yun Ting Villa Zhouzhuang Kunshan

... is a virtue...the table clapping game.....Raymond and Calum made THE most awesome FA ROLL CALL!! OMG I LOVE IT!! So excited lah! Have to teach it to the FA directors back home and we can show it off at AutCo!! =D After dinner we went home and Calum Raymond and I did the Father Abraham roll call. Michael recorded and everyone cracked up laughing. Aiya.....lol

So overall dinner was awesome! =)

Going to meet up with them again today! YAY!

... courses of food can be passed to one another by transforming rotational potential energy to kinetic energy by simply applying a small torque at the outer rim of said circle. unnecessary GLAAAAAVIN!!! the dishes are hard to describe, really. i mean, we've all had Chinese food. it just tastes better here. there are things that you can get here that you probably won't see on a menu in the U.S. For instance, sea cucumber. What the hell is that? It ...

... which order to do things in to get what we needed accomplished. It was lucky for us that everyone spoke English (Hong Kong was a British colony up until very recently and is still very English and very Western) or we never would have gotten anywhere. After that we went looking for food, and that was an excursion in itself since everything had closed. By this time it was 3:00 and all of the restaurants were closed. All of them. Except McDonald¡¦s and there¡¦s no way we were going in ...

... a little, although I can't remember much of what he said. We did a bit of shopping too, and they dropped us off in the tourist market part of town. It was the same old kiosks and sales people, only this was in the high-end rent district and everything was slightly better quality and more than slightly higher priced. I did find my majong set, though! It's bamboo and cow bone and supposedly hand-carved (I'm not sure whether it is or not but I'm going to say that it ...

... Mao is actually the first thing you see when you come in the main entrance. Crazy! I bought 3 seasons of Lost on DVD for $2. And they work. So people are getting addicted to it. Woops! It's great though, we go pretty hard so it's something nice to enjoy during down time. Today we planned a lot for traveling after the China program is over. It's looking like we are going to fly to the ...

Shanghai, "The City of Lights on the other side of the Globe", or that's at least the way I look at it. By day it is tours packed with foreign and Chinese tourists. By night it's a Las Vegas with all the lights. Anyway, we started our adventure trying to figure out the metro to our hostel. Luckily we met a university student who helped us find our way. His name was Lucky! We droped off our bags and headed for the Bund. The Bund is a ...

... the local custom. So, I appeased her with some weak attempts. It was a good time. Last weekend, I noticed that a new TravelPod member, fatduck, had stumbled into Shanghai, so I checked out his blog and sent him a message. Neither of us had anything to do, so we met at a metro stop on Monday and checked out Old Town together. He turned out to be a pretty cool guy, and we had a great time. Unrelatedly, I sold all my IBM stock last week when the ...

... an Anglo-Indian term meaning 'muddy embankment' or something like that. It has some really impressive architecture of a complete variety of styles and some beautiful imposing buildings which are mostly banks and hotels. On one of the days we went on a river cruise, which gave us some good views of the Bund and the newer tower block buildings. There's so much evidence of the pace of development which is going on all over the riverfront, both with all of the sites ...

Arrived in Kunshan to the best accommodation so far, the Traders Hotel which is a new building that sits in the middle of rice fields and not much else. The facilities are excellent but the staff seem to be still in training, not up to scratch and very little english. Luckily Emily who is travelling with us speaks chinese. We spent the day visiting a seaside village which is surrounded by canals. A little bit touristy but OK.

... company were already resolved to move on to, wait for it... a karaoke bar. Ok we thought, we'll be seeing you on Boxing day. But of course we went along and jumped into a taxi. The taxi pulled up, the place looked like a plush hotel, and as we walked up the winding staircase David advised us that we had our own private room. This was going to be hideous. We sat down in this room with a wraparound leather sofa facing a big tv and next to it a control panel for selection ...