Life

Sunday, June 12, 2005

today was a real sad day yet enjoyable day for me. bitter sweet i guess. the thing is we were so paraniod abt taking the cheap tours tot he great wall and then this morning we got so many calls thru our room phone from various companies. intriguing that we never gave any of them our room numbers. so i couldnt sleep form 6am onwards and so when they got over their paranoia and decided to leave i said i'd join them soon and so i left about 10 minutes after they did. then wehn i went ot the station, i got confused as to which line i should take. i knew it was the one ont the right but when the train onthe left came, i asked a guy abt whether i cld take the train the said yes so i hopped on and i realised that the train was going one big round and then having to interchange , i made like about 9 stops versus 2 stops. and i got really scared cos o had to be at wahfujing by 8am. and i was running really late.. i felt so scared to be honest. the guy still assured me that the train was going there. and yes1 of course it was! just that i took a million years to reach it.so then i got the calls and they said that the bus was leaving to tianamen and i was one stop away from it but they said that the place was so ulu and that i wouldnt make it in time.. well, they kept telling me the chinese name and i coulkdnt ge tit properly but i really tried my best to make the best out of what they were saying. and then i ran here and there and then by God grace, i found the counter of the company and took syuch a long time to explain that iw as trying to find their bus and tada! they understood my broken chinese and this man ran with me to where the bus was, it was about 800m away. and i ran and ran and finally saw the bus , bought a ticket and got up. now this is where i felt really unhappy. i really know who my true friends really are. the moment i got up, hazel was like ,'' this is the last time...'' and i told her that i was taken thw wring way and from there i didnt bother explaining myself cos i didnt think it matters to her. so i couldnt hold back my tears and tried hard to cover my eyes. u see, now what makes the difference is theres a nother girl named vivian who actualy said she was so glad i made it safe and sound and on time. now thats what i call a true friend who bothers abotu your safety rather than someone who just gives u that black face and doesnt care what happened as long as you are late. so i was crying the whole journey thinking about what happened.. anddidnt feel like talking till we reached the great wall or rather at lunch maybe. elt better when i made myself think of happy things.. viv is just so nice. she just keeps telling me its ok and all right and as long as akk if us are there together. anyway, the bus ride to the ming tombs was about and hour and then went there but was quite boring cos a lot of history and we didnt have an english guide. but its ok.. then they had all these superstitions about not taking pics of the tombs int he fear that we will bring the spirits abck with us but i didnt care so i still took pics.. china is too full of superstitions and it just makes life so complicated. well, thereafter we went to some jade market which bored me.. and the lunch which sucked. then we went to the great wall adnd my spirits were high.. it was so fun.. there was basically this thing known as the pulley. we climbed 4 meters then took a pulley up and then stopepd and climbed to 888 m high. yeah it was really sweet!and then we got down and then the tour ended and we went to bei hai to meet andy's friends who are candians workin in beijing and had a huge hearty meal treated by andy . shiok! and then met philips singaporean frinends whoa re in cvhina for some reason or another and guess what i feel singaporean again man!yeah they were nice// like about 10 of us.. then we prioceeded to hou hai and thats the night life for the chinese.. and theb w e took a rickshaw and the uncle keeps turnigna rd to say i'm beautiful. gosh.. this happena everywher ein chian cos i think they've not seen indians. welll well. then we sat in a lunge and chilled till we got back and i finally saw phoebe and sophia! yipee ! one last day in beijing and off we got to inner mongolia!