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BACK FROM BEIJING! :D

Man, what a crazy trip. It has been so terribly tiring. Visited all the requisite places - Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Summer Palace, and of course the insanely long Great Wall of China (of which we trekked ten bloody long kilometres over the unrestored part - steps, steps, uphill, uphill, steps, uphill). My Nike Dunks were surprisingly uncomfy; they’d served me fantastically on my Israel trip so I have no idea why they suddenly hurt so much. Now have painful swollen feet :( We walked almost everywhere in Beijing and the estates were huge; we’d walk for five hours in each attraction and still not be able to cover everything. Plus with all the multi-level pagodas we were climbing stairs all the time. Sob, feet hurt. But I needed the exercise, because…

I ate like a starving pig for eight days and have put on much too much weight (I don’t dare to weigh myself to find out just how much) and am sorely missing eating the most delicious 小笼包 and 饺子 for breakfast at only about 30 cents per person. Also delicious 米线 and my all-time favorite 西红柿炒蛋, which only tastes good in China because of their amazingly sweet tomatoes. Sigh.

I also have many random funny China signs, including their very inventive and creative “Keep Off The Grass” signs like the one that said “小草微微笑，请你旁边绕”. Hehehe. So cute lah :D

Okay photos when I’ve uploaded :) I’m gonna be super busy these few days with moving out of hall, redoing room at home, and settling into post-graduation life. MOE is already sending all sorts of letters and stuff and I’m feeling the heat feeling the heat!

Off to bed now - I need to get some good sleep. Didn’t sleep well in China all week because we were always scrambling up at 8am to make full use of our days, plus for some reason I just never could get to sleep well over there; always waking up throughout the night and having odd dreams and thinking too much.

I need to recover from my holiday :/

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