When: 2 September 2011 Where: Beijing Posted: December 21, 2011 Woke up to see such splendid views of the outdoors. Thank God we decided to stay here! Perhaps one of the few things I thank Him for is giving me opportunities to relax and have better accommodation when I am away from home. For this Beijing trip, Tsinghua Unis Center was our choice, and a good choice by the way. For this day, we toured Beijing to shop for electronics, eat great spicy food as recommended by our dear friend. Eating and walking was our day activities. I’ll let the photos do the talking since I barely remember everything from few month’s back. Being such a lazy blogger, late posts are usually just a bombardment of photos—less words. Another landscape feature while we were traversing the Beijing streets. When: September, 2011 Where: NAIA 3 and Beijing Capital International Airport Posted: November 11, 2011 Last September, the masters class and the professors from the college flew to China for the annual IUSAM. It was my first time to attend and present my paper abroad and I was all giddy with this new milestone in my life, I just had to buy that pink travel bag. A "what's in my bag" photo above showing what I brought to China. Although we were all sleepy and were all rushing all our work stuff, we managed to have our butts working to meet the check-in sched. Thank you SBC for the food (not sponsored though, but we had good food before we had our naps on board). Although I do believe NAIA3 is the best (in the Phil) when it comes to food and all that jazz (you'll never get bored while waiting), I can also say that their waiting areas had the comfiest seats, so far. I wished that the food joints were designed closer to some of the waiting areas. The long walk can be a bore. The views of China and the Philippines and of course, my ipod kept me sane. The long plane ride challenged my EQ, plus it made me doze off. Arrived @ Beijing Capital International Airport past midnight. Very sleepy @ 1am! Imagine the detest when I saw the unknown Chinese characters on almost every signage. Hello, China! For a positive note, Capital International Airport made sure there were translation for very important areas.
We rode a van that brought us to our particular hotels (no photo, too busy walking and talking/transating the conversation while my brain was too drained understanding what was going on. HAHA!). 50RMB/pax was way over what we expected since we had online research on how a cab will cost us. Plus longer hours of explaining (sign-language style!) of where we were staying etc. The language barrier can be a big challenge. We ended the challenging first day travel with language barrier and eyebags. |
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