Wednesday, July 29, 2009
the rest is still unwritten
I returned to Singapore on 23 July from a 5 days trip to Hangzhou and Shanghai.
4 days were spent in Hangzhou where the choir competition, Orientale Concentus II was held and 1 day was spent shopping in Shanghai.
I have to say that although it was the most tiring and emotionally draining 5 days i have ever spent abroad, i had loads of fun with the Wild Empire people.
Day 1 (19 July): Shanghai/Hangzhou
My 5 stars hotel room, with a very nice bathroom (but no pics of the bathroom)
Beautiful, clean and green Hangzhou with many skyscrapers
Our daily 10 course meal with similar dishes
Day 2 (20 July): Hangzhou
This was the most tiring day. It was practice day. I woke up at 6.15am, showered, had breakfast, had my makeup done, had my roomie's make up done, and warmed up by 8.40am.
My roomie, Shijia and I
Day 3 (21 July): Hangzhou
Competition day!
I woke up at 5 plus, rushed like crazy doing all the things i did the day before, including hair styling this time and met the others at the lobby at 8am.
My choir, Wild Empire, got a Gold C which i am not one bit disappointed about. Im sure that we will work harder to achieve better in the future!
The Vocal Consort, which my choir and some nus people collaborated with, got a Gold A :)
Waiting to have our temperatures checked
Wild Empire during competition
Alto section!
Phototaking after prize presentation
Wild Empire (in Batik) and the Vocal Consort (in black)
After competition outing
Day 4 (22 July): Solar eclipse and Hangzhou tour
We watched the solar eclipse from our hotel breakfast area. The view was very good! Too bad my camera couldnt capture the niceness of the eclipse. I had to grab them from my friend.
We visited the famous Mei Jia Wu Village and got persuaded to buy some very expensive tea. I bought one bottle each for my dad and grandma.
We went walking around some garden and sat a boat ride around the West Lake.
At night, a few of us went to watch the Songcheng Show. I guess it was supposed to be some dance/acrobat show about the history of Hangzhou but turned out to be some multi-cultural themed show. Although the plot was lacking, the lighting, water effects and props were superb!
Beautiful backgrounds!
Sexy dancers
Real horses
Waterfall and real rain!
After the show, we went on to explore the Songcheng city and ended up at "Weird Street".
We look bigger sitting on the left. Optical illusion due to some perception glass (or smth)
Day 5 (23 July): Hangzhou/Shanghai
We spent a few hours in Shanghai at the "Old Shanghai Street". That's where i did most of my shopping for souvenirs and tried the infamous "smelly tofu".
It was time to leave Shanghai and China. I was damn tired but i watched 2 movies in the plane and slept for only 15mins! The rest of the time was spent disturbing my friends and drinking Baileys haha.
I would like to thank those ppl whom i had grabbed photos from. I hope u all dont mind :) To Kevin, Darryl, Juat, Xuelian, M Chong, Fangqi. THANKIEW :)
posted by: kelly @ 3:04 pm
+ + +
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home