Oh yarhh I will also be heading to Chengde and Tianjin, different cities, by China's new Bullet Train!

The bullet train service just started this year before the Olympics. Cool looks just like the Japan one..

This is how fast a bullet train travels.

And btw, my relatives, cousin Frank and Rachel with their mom is on SIA right now flying to Beijing too! LOL too bad we didn't book together..they'll be going for 5 days tour and 3 days free&easy..they have 3 days to shop a lot!....=X Mine's an 8 day tour, but disadvantage is not being able to move around THAT freely compared to them..nvm I will love the bullet train for sure. They'll not be taking as they'll only be in Beijing..anyway they had taken the Japan's bullet train before last year..hahah!!

1st of all I'm gonna get a winter jacket bcoz I reckon there'll be snow and my dad dosen't have a proper one so I'm passing him my jacket..it was snowing the last time I went there. And heads-up for my relatives..once they reach there it might snow on Thursday, basing on weather forecast updates, but then again it's November.

And the 2nd thing I'm getting are caps and hats!

"All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go" - excerpt from a classic song

Well..actually, not really packed..it's almost empty inside..I'll do the same like what I did for other trips, last minute packing hahahah..FIne i'll try to pack soon..leave space for China products!

I actually have a 2nd bag packed into my luggage..So I have 2 hand-carry bags and a luggage..preparing for the items I'll be buying lol..

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Day 1: Singapore to Beijing by SIA - Tiananmen Square/Forbidden City/Beihai Park/Pub Street at ShiShaHai/Wangfujing Acrobatic Show and also Wang Fu Jing's famous shopping street!

Day 2: Summer Palace/*Cruise on Lake of Kunming (depending on whether the lake is frozen lmao)/Hall of Tea Arts/Zhonghua Millennium Memorial(should be quite boring)/Olympic Stadium & Cubic Swimming Hall!!!

Day 3: Great Wall of China/Ming Tomb/Tian Long Yuan Hot Spring Resort

Day 4: Beijing Underground City/Trishaw Ride in Hutong and Courtyard/Happy Valley Theme Park (hehehehe too bad I don't take rides except for the cable car and ferris wheel)/Show of the Golden Face

Day 5: Beijing to Tianjin and back to Beijing again by Bullet Train! - Cultural Street/Food Street/Zhang Clay Figurines (and at night I'll be back in Beijing)

Day 6: Beijing's Front Gate aka Da Qian Men/ Proceed to Chengde (reaching around afternoon, will be exploring the city itself and staying in one of Chengde's hotels)

Day 7: Chengde to Beijing/ Summer Resort/Small Potala/Xiu Shui Plaza (Fashion Wholesale Market) *here I come lol

Day 8: Free and easy in Beijing (arrangments can be made with local China's tourguide for transport to more shopping places) Will be taking a night flight back to Singapore.

Day 9: Will be reaching Changi Airport in the wee morning. (Don't think I can make it for my vocal class, will be sleepy like a hamster, YES, like a hamster)

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And this will be my 1st time wearing thermal pants since years ago when I was in South Korea (10 years old)..I'm gonna skip the thermal shirt because I have extra body fats which I can't wait to burn them off when I lose heat to the surroundings..Minus 5 degree celcius! woohoo!