our 1st trip out of shanghai is to SUZHOU! the train ticket is cheap man! RMB 26 only! anyway, my manicure is nice right.. haha! 1st time doing it.. so cheap here! only RMB15 leh! bu try bai bu try!
the focus of this photo is not liwen k.. its the seats.. hahaha! looks comfy rite.. so worthwhile!
this is xueyun, she must be busy sms-ing her dear dear..
traveling at 200km/hr
all prepared with tibits (since we are from the monster club),
finally, we reached SuZhou in 2hrs time!
this is the kind of trees and river we see in suzhou.. looks eerie with the green lighting, but it actually looks very nice!
walked around aimlessly, bought a crepe, took photo with the young boss..
until around 12midnite, we head for our "hotel" and.... tadaa~~ this is our room..
our "beds" for the night..
the setting looks familiar right.. yup, its a KTV! hahaha in order to save money from staying in hotel and also to try out the ktv in suzhou, we planned to sing the whole night.. hahaha i noe it sounds crazy, but c'mon! it's so freaking cheap! only cost us less than RMB40 per person (S$8) inclusive of a bottle of drink each and chips too! we sang til 6am if i remember correctly.. gd deal right..xueyun fell asleep at 3am+ while liwen and i chiong all the way.. obviously, we were seh-ed.. it was stil so early that there was hardly any cars on the streets..
we decided that we needed a bed to sleep on badly so we took a cab to a nearby youth hostel but it's in the middle of a looooooooong stretch of pathway which the cab couldnt drive in so we walked in.. superb scenery! this is exactly wad i like.. jus like Venice, but the eastern version.. as the saying goes, "bo he heh ma hou" (no fish, prawns also not bad).. no money go europe tour.. so see see the eastern version oso not bad.. haha
sorry coco, i will try to slim down abit.. by the way, coco is liwen cos her name is koh liwen, machiam coco li wen.. even thou their figure differ by a lot..
after a very loooooong walk, we reached the hostel and realised it's full! @#$!!@$!$@!# what to do, who ask us to act hero and sing ktv the whole nite.. it's so earli in the morning (around 6am+) that all shops were stil closed...
so we jus sat outside the shop and fell asleep til 8am..
then we saw a coffee house opening its door.. and it has superly kooshy sofa shouting at us to sit on them! so we went and asked whether it's opened.. the waiter told us they would be opening in 30min time but still he was nice enough to allow us in.. so we happily settle down and fell aslp!! slept all the way from 8am to 10am+.. WITHOUT ordering any food! hahaha and we overheard the boss telling off the waiter who let us in.. so paiseh.. hahhaa so we had breakfast there even though its not very cheap.. cant possibly leave without ordering any food..
then we proceed on to visit the places of interest in suzhou!
one of the gardens.. i cant remember what's the name.. haha procrastinated too long to blog this entry.. hahaa liwen trying to act ZEN.. this photo looks awkward right.. cant figure out where.. let me tell u.. u seldom see her sitting with both legs closed up right.. well, there's a reason for that.. go ask her urself.. haha! if i say here, she will han tam me..
we were so bored we stole the auntie's broom to take photo with.. hahaha
this is a pagoda that has 8 floors..
we climbed all the way up..
didnt really visit alot of places cux we werent well prepared for it because of SOMEBODY.. haha no la its not easy to plan also.. n anyway, alot of the scenic places look the same to us.. so we went ahead for the must-try "ya ba shen jian"!reasons for the name:
1) a taxi driver told us it is named ya ba shen jian cos last time the guy who invented this delicious shen jian is a mute
2) another cab driver told us its because the shen jian simply taste so nice that you will "wordless" after u try it..
up to u, which one u wanna believe..
this is really yummy! nicer than xiao yang shen jian! cos the skin is thinner and crispier.. and it's a lil sweeter.. cux suzhou food are almost sweet..