A SINGAPOREAN CORPORATION

Wrong. In a Singapore corporation, one cow eat grass the other eat Peanuts!!!

David

Ask Yoda say,"Remember him I do." What he's doing now? BTW, good luck on your job search Down Under lunarsurfer. Never any question of you passing. How's your sister doing

Eating???

Guys, why is the only pics of u 2 is when u are eating??? Good pics, seem that u guys went to a lot of places

Beijing pictures up online

Here are the photos:
http://zookeeper.clubsnap.org/gallery/albums/beijing2005/

Yup Roy, we have to plan early if multiple parties are involved coz we'll need to coordinate the schedule a bit. Was hoping we could visit Ian together - should be fun travelling as a party! If not, Thomas and I will probably plan for someplace else, since we have been to Aussie just last year. :)

U CRAZY

Zen, u crazy or what. Just come back think of going overseas again. Where u wantto go this time

Pix from the Great Wall

We went to the Jinshanling/Simatai stretch, which receives far fewer tourists than their popular counterparts, Badaling and Mutianyu. For good reason too - this section is has not be reconstructed at all, and the paths are old, uneven and crumbly.At certain portions, the wall has actually disintegrated, and we had to sidetrack and walk on the mountain itself.

During our entire 4-hour trek, we saw only a few local villagers. It's so deserted that the infamous hawkers hawking Great Wall memorabilia did not find it viable to set up stall along this stretch - we saw none!As I was saying, the trek/climb was perilous, so much so that for most part of the trek, we chose to not to struggle further with the camera. Nevertheless, here are some pictures we did manage to take. A picture speaks a thousand words, so here goes:

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The crumbling Jinshanling-Simatai part of the Great Wall. This particular portion is EASY, nowhere as steep or narrow as other parts we had to tackle.

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Do you see the width of the steps at the bottom right-hand corner of this pix?
At certain portions of the wall, that is ALL the "steps" we had, to set our foot upon. We had to walk very carefully and steadily to avoid plunging down to the valleys below.

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Safe within a watchtower, we could whip out the camera again. One feature of the Jinshanling-Simatai stretch is the many watchtowers, placed according to strategic importance, in the military sense. Count the watchtowers atop each "hill", we crossed 30 of these watchtowers in our 4-hour trek. Go figure!

Holy Moo Moo

Holy cow...the experience @Jinshanling/Simatai Great Wall is something I will remember for a long time to come! Given my mortal fear of heights, I was crazy to have even attempted the climb! At the peak of the climb, when steps were only 15cm wide, and on either side you could see the mountains plunge down at a 70 degree angle...it took all I could to force my legs from turning to jelly, lest I lose my footing and my 小命!

Oh boy...itz a wonder I completed the climb, alive!