BEIJING DAY 3 - FORBIDDEN CITY PART 2

With still a few more photos of the Forbidden City still in store, it would be a waste not to share them with you. Sorry I could not write to describe more as I myself was not that sure - there were too many buildings around but the awesome view was more than enough for words to describe. I was imagining myself in one of the Chinese fighting or Shaolin movies except there were no warriors flying in the air or jumping from roof to roof.

inside the princess' bedroom

the exit gate

"A traveller without observation
is a bird without wings"
~ Moslih Eddin Saidi ~

BEIJING DAY 3 - FORBIDDEN CITY PART 1

The Forbidden City was the next stop which is actually located opposite of Tiananmen Square. Again, there were hundreds of people swarming the place as it the was some sort of
celebration going on. The difficult thing to do was to stop and take pictures then was left behind and separated from the group. The place was a large area where you could see the majestic Chinese architecture. According to the tourist guide, only 30% of the place was opened to tourists and that already might have made some people get exhausted of walking. I wish I could spend more time here, sometimes I felt like I was in the "Amazing Race".

Please read more about this interesting heritage site by clicking HERE.

MOVIE REVIEW - "BREAKING DAWN - PART ONE"

... and the saga of the love between a human being and a vampire continues, after "Twilight", "New Moon" and "Eclipse". I can't believe it, I have been an avid follower.

In short, the storyline goes something like this: (1) Edward and Bella got married. (2) They went for a honeymoon trip and surprise, surprise... Bella got pregnant which should not have happened. (3) Jacob got very sad because the baby vampire should be a threat to the human as well as to the wolf community. (4) The werewolves had to get the baby but because of Jacob's true love to Bella (stupid wolf) he would protect her, even by risking his own life. (5) Bella got very sick because the baby was eating her up from inside and one way to get Bella feel better was by drinking human blood from a paper cup complete with a cover and a straw (euwwww...) (6) THIS PART IS CENSORED IN OUR MALAYSIAN CINEMA: Bella was about to give birth and she had to go through a very painful moment and would die after all. Edward had to kill her, most probably to ease her pain and to save the baby. (7) The beautiful baby was saved though and Bella was declared dead, sad isn't it? (8) Jacob had to kill the baby and as he was about to do that, he saw the look on the baby's face that reminded him of Bella and this melted his heart, so couldn't do it after all. (8) Suddenly, something happened, Bella who was lying dead opened her eyes which were now red so she was now confirmed a vampire, just like Edward. And to be continued in Part 2 which will be in 2012. Dang! Now I have to wait. Can't they just compress everything into a 3-hour movie?

BOYS' NIGHT OUT

This is something not related to the long episodes of my trip to China. Unfortunately I had to attend a meeting, representing my Principal at Pusat Islam Johor Bahru. The problems were it was held on a Saturday AND it lasted from 8:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. [originally it should end at 5:00 p.m. thank God for that].

Nevertheless, there was always a brighter side of life. Zulazeze was here in town so a meeting up session was planned. Despite the very heavy rain in the evening, the programme was still executed to get the famous Yong Tau Fu at Kampung Melayu. We could not stay too long because someone had to go back home to his wife and baby [I told you so!] but the rest adjourned to our next itinerary.


Initially we wanted to watch "Puss in Boots" but we were a bit late and did not want to wait for the 11:00 p.m. show. In the end, (to my delight), we chose "Breaking Dawn" instead. So do expect a movie review after this.

puss not in boots at the eating place

Thanks a lot to Hazizul, Zulazeze and Shah Erhan for the fun time. P.S. I still have a lot of time to kill before the school reopens.