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The day started with the chilling temperature of 13 degree celcius. Before we boarded the bus, there's smoke emitting from our mouth which is super cool.
Here we are at Cheng Fang's Residence. It's houses the first overseas scholar from China. It's not really the scholar studying abroad but more of a political agenda to demonstrate good chinese ties with other countries.
Enough said. Initially I thought the place was rather boring.
But as I walked, I've discovered this place actually creates tonnes of good photos opportunities!
We also have 2 other wonderful photographers which is my cousins hui yi and por yee!
As we explore more parts of the residence
More photos are taken
The back alley
And we got brought to a cultural show. This show where the artiste rapidly change the face mask amazes some of the audience present. Somehow I caught the trick each time he wants to change his mask, he would lift his head in a quick motion and the mask will flip in to the top of the helmet. Perhaps I'd seen it wrongly but it seems this way.
I happened to chance upon a quite corner beside the stage where the elegant staircase stood.
Ah gong
Gu gu on stage
and so we continued the phototakings
And as we exited the residence, I heard a loud boom sound! It's the sound of a cannon
Good thing about China is u can play with firearms. Lax laws compared to sg in terms of firearms. haha.
I always missed!
I SUPER LOVE THIS PICTURE! it shows a fun side of our family.
To be continued...
Talking about seafood. Pearl River is famous for its MASS AMOUNT OF SEAFOOD. Because it's beside the sea. Lame but logical reason.
So we were brought to this place called the Seafood street. Where a row of seafood restaurants can be found.
We were given a VIP room which is totally cool! We usually don't do tt in Singapore.
The restaurant maintains good hygiene of it's plates & utensils. We can see from the plastic wrappings of it.
This is called "Man Yu" It's something like crispy prawn but a fish taste.
And so the Seafood were the stars of the dinner. We have Fresh Abalone
And abundance of scallops
with some "Da Zha Xie" Crabbies
During our dinner, there was a girl who served us. Like someone whose in charge of serving our room. So she was abit hyper and stuff and when she saw no one touch the crabbies.
She went hyperventilating and saying its such a waste. And then she did smth that appalled me.
She demonstrated to us how to eat the crab and she started feeding some of our family members. I'm like err wait a minute, just so u noe, they are married men. It's not very nice etc.
But then when I heard she's 18. I'm like hmmm okay maybe she's still young so she sees nth wrg. oh well.
After the dinner ended, went to stroll around the seafood street. Just some short walk and the seafood are all alive.
Next is shopping at nu ren jie "Women Street"
Most of us bought some shoes. And I enjoyed bargaining! it's fun when the vendor actually lower the price which they should of course, as they marked up so high!
Taiwanese Food Stall
Mummy buying shoe. She always buy shoe because her foot is painful. quite waste money coz i noe sometimes its because of the beauty of the shoe but the most important question is whether it's comfortable. Tts what shoes are for. Designs are second.
And we headed back to the hotel. It's a 3 star hotel. We got a suprise for Gugu, my uncle coz it's his birthday on 25th december!
Gathering all forces
The "Cake"
The anticipation
And we say Happy Birthday! haha
Gugu is suprised!
next, Chen Fang's Residence
An almost 2 hour trip from the city. This Resort was built by the government for their people to seek leisure and recreation. The amount spent was $300milion RMB!
But it's so far from the city. When our group arrived, it's like a ghost town. Not much crowd there. I supposed our family was the biggest group there?
All I can say is compared to Hong Kong Disneyland, this is nothing. There's nothing to be excited about, really.
The good thing is, there's no crowd, no crowd means No queue!
Preparing for photoshoot of ah gong and his daughters
In Zhu Hai's Zebra crossing, car don't stop for pedestrian. The only time where car stopped is when a REAL zebra is crossing. I noe it sounds lame bt this is not from me bt from the tour guide named Xiao Pan.
As we exit the theme park to the coach which is a lost investment i guess! coz there's no ppl!
We came across some arabic inspired structures. I felt the building and river gives me a feeling of calmness and elegance. Don't know why bt this is how I felt on the spot.
The day is getting dark so is our faces in the photo.
Jetty for a romantic boat ride and it's sure cheaper than those at Clarke Quay.
When I saw what Da yi and mummy were wearing. All those winter clothing stuff. It struck to me that winter season is good! coz u get to wear more nice clothes and boot shoes. Mix and match, it's endless!
off to dinner...
I didn't spend my Christmas Eve, Christmas in Singapore. I spent it in "Zhu Hai" a.k.a. Pearl Sea in english.
Our family of 15 members went for the trip except my sis coz she gt to work. Our trip is an annual kind of thing? Every year, we the family, will sit down and discuss where to go for holidays etc. Which is good coz I love travelling.
The day started at 4am for everyone to assemble in the airport terminal. It's too early and I'm not as excited as the previous year, where we went to Hong Kong. Don't know why either. So we did all the check ins, body checks and boarding the plane.
The flight is super long, close to 4 hours. I don't really fancy long flights because you can't stretch or walk around plus theres nothing to do on the plane, except sleeping.
And there was the seating problems. Sometimes the agency juz randomly put a group of people in different rows. Then there was the hassle of requesting for a change of seat to the person sitting on it. This will cause some chaos.
Since its a morning flight, we got to see the sun rise. It's really beautiful! From a dark sky to a bright orange sky.
We arrived around 2pm local time, Macau.
Afterwhich took a coach to cross the custom from Macau and then to Pearl Sea, China. 
The moment we stood out of the Chinese Custom, a pickpocket was caught in front of our eyes! The thing is, the police was so near the act of crime and yet the pickpocket have the audacity to steal!
We didn't head straight to the hotel which I wish we did coz I'm exhausted from the long haul of flight. The temperature was around 18 degree celcius. Cold but not extreme.
Went for lunch at a restaurant. The design is really classy and elegant, I liked!
The food was not bad but the prawns were really small.
Next we went to the Sea of the Pearl Goddess. Legend has it that because Pearl Sea has frequent storms therefore the Goddess would use a powerful Pearl to ward off the Storms hence the ppl construct a statue to show their admiration for her.
To be continued...
Check out this cool place. It's Fishspa! This is not for the faint hearted. HAHA just kidding! For me, it was ultra ticklish. But for eunice she can take it coz her skin is thick. LOL! I'll bet she will kill me when she sees this. *peace eunice*
Preparing for the dip. Fish Spa is beneficial as it
1.Exfoliates one's dead skin
2.Ticklish sensation relieves stress through LOLing
there's more but these are all I can remember
And down we go.
Look at those hungry "Doctor Fishes" that's what they called it. Eunice is more tolerant in the fish nibbling. I'm practically shouting and banging the table when those fishes nibble on my toes and ankle. It was SO TICKLISH!
Anyway, the ambience is rather good. There's even internet for you to surf while the "Doctor Fish" serves you.
There's a 1 for 1 promo so it's 2 person for $30. Located at 313 somerset. tts all.
Previously, I said I was gonna put a hiatus to the postings on Vietnam. Now I'm back. Perhaps I have nothing to blog about at this moment but this.
This is a Vietnamese Chinese Temple. I Wasn't following the tour guide hence I do not know this temple belongs to which god. Was just busy taking shots of the temple.
A wall of Blessings
Curly Joss Stick
Offerings
Bronze Furnace
All I can say is it's a complete chinese temple without vietnamese influence. Pure oriental.
Group Shot
After the visit to the temple, we went to a mosque. It's a rare place to find I guess. I'm not really sure of the religion of vietnamese but there aren't many malays around. I'm glad that the government still recognise the minorities.
The bus then took us to a Vietnamese Market. I felt that it looks abit like Bras Basah or People's Park Complex with its greying paint.
One can practically find anything. Ranging from Helmets to which jeremiah and I nearly bought but didnt, coz we didn't gt the price we wanted.
Furthermore, it's a distributor's market. This means distributor will not entertain one piece or two piece sale.
And we were lucky to meet the guy who helped us to take the photo back at the chinese temple. Probably swedish from his accent. 
Oh and I came across bags of colored rice. I thought there's only white rice and brown rice. Who noes there's orange rice. Haha the world is much bizzare than we think.
Did I mention the weather was freaking hot at that point of time? We walked to a roadside stall and found this super cooling drink! it's so cooling that I ordered another one. It's something like grass jelly but not jelly. Wished Singapore had that too.