PEK 2-5NOV

Ok.. SOHO is demanding! 

gave me 3 days notice before the trip. lucky enough my visa was for a year.

was in PEK all by myself earlier this month and to sum up what i did..

day1- sunday 

11pm arrived PEK

day2-monday

9am soho chaowai office (ha! i got in their office just on time, and had no trouble getting the cabbie to drive me to chaowai woohoo)

915am soho beijing residence site visit (they showed me all the flaws mamamia its their fault! v poor craftmanship has proven soho cheapo-ness. oh well.. this is part of the reason mr seah is not interested to go huh!)

10.30am settled soho san li tun (pick ugly stones! sigh just make do with some not so bad looking ones. mr seah will shake his head and say 'nevermind' i think!)

12noon lunch w 5 uncles (ye nan cuisine) 3rd level chaowai

1pm ok its soho zgc's turn (pick materials. selections are not so bad. anyway zgc's colour scheme is red white black. all primary colour. easy!)

1.30pm zgc site (45min long trip to get there!) yucks the site is v ugly! 

4pm more zgc and run landscape design w Genevieve

6pm they let me go. and i ran into this jap guy running soho san li tun from kkaa(kuma). and gosh all the japs in soho office is colourless. pale. no sleep. work too hard?

6.30pm im at birdnest! omg should've gone at day time. the lighting at night looks tacky.

7.30pm san li tun. uniqlo! then to the market + solo dinner. also bought GG + samantha who pirated dvds haha

10pm beijing taiyue heights apartment. sleep.

day3-tuesday

9am soho chao wai. slt for a bit.

11am they let me go?! gila

11.15am the place. the mall was literally empty.

12noon i went t0 798. an artist hub. i think it was on 3rd ring road. apporx 30min from city centre. lunch sendiri!

230pm wangfujing. window shopping

330pm walked from wangfujing to tiananmen. exhausting but felt v liberated. tiananmen was exactly like 3-4 yrs ago when i was there. full of tourist from overseas and china itself. gate to gate is a long walk. i went from all black to all grey after walking. sigh.

5pm back in chaowai. more material picking

8pm peking duck dinner with the client

10pm back in the hotel. packing 

day4-wednesday

6am still dark. took a cab

8.45am left for SIN

6pm @mod trengganu office

 

*some quick random shots from the trip

1/ it really looks like UFO. v alien to the context. just diagonally across from tiananmen!

2/ i snapped this pic of Zaha Hadid's model for SOHO ChaoYangMen

3/ tiananmen sq

4/ all grey me. beijing was 5degree celcius

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