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next moment we're out.

Its been about 3 months since the last entry. Lots have happened since....
Lester and I have moved into our new apartment, i've now been working for 3 months, and we've made more friends and explored more of Shanghai. Also made it through our first trip to Suzhou/Hangzhou during the May 1st hols...

Here are some pictures from the trip.

Suzhou
Lester's colleague Shirley invited us to Suzhou for her wedding. It was our first Chinese wedding! 20 course dinner... It was a huge party. Rowdy and every bit chinese.

It's customary for the Bride's boss to give a speech. So tht meant Les had to give a speech in mandarin! Of course Les didn't write it himself, another colleague helped him. I think she purposely included a lot of chinese proverbs just for the heck of it, so poor les had to practice quite a bit, his script was practically in chinese pinyin! it was so funny and endearing, he did a great job... I'm proud of him.

You know how Singaporeans like to sabotage the bride/bridegroom on the wedding day. Well the Chinese top the game. They stuck 8 cigs into an empty plastic bottle, and the groom had to light all of them by sucking through the mouthpiece. Its nasty but SO FUN...

The next morning, we took a quick tour round suzhou on a trishaw. Went to a garden with a lake. Suzhou is apparently the Venice of China.


This woman must have been at least 80. She's still strong as an ox, she's the boat rower (whatever you call it).

Hangzhou(West Lake)

We took a bus to Hangzhou. It was rather adventurous given tht we've never done this before and had no idea what the condition of the bus was like. But it turned out okay i guess.

We stayed at the Sofitel Xanadu Resort in Hangzhou. Absolutely beautiful... Its really far from the West Lake but there's a regular shuttle bus that brings us there. But who needs the westlake when the hotel has their own private lake! This is us posing in front of the hotel lake! We definitely recommend staying at the Sofitel Xanadu. Its not expensive too!

Check out the GORGEOUS cloudless sky... i didn't enhance the colour of this photograph. I haven't seen a sky like this since i left Singapore.

This is us at the West Lake. We took an 80RMB boat ride... Its very nice and romantic cos it was sunset... And its also nice to break away from the chinese crowd around the westlake for a moment, and truly enjoy the gorgeous scenery.

Gotta love the sunset....