Recalling my Xiamen Trip

Here I am, Xiamen. My flight was delayed and I reached at the hotel at 5 pm. This was my first time travel alone. Mixture of feeling, sort of nervous and excited. Xiamen is a quite developed city.

Everyday I go to the office by shutter and usually I am the only gal in the shutter. I do feel lucky being so young that I can travel to China under company expense. I guess anyone of them in the shutter should be older than me. Of course I work hard everyday when I am here. There were times that I was required to work till 6 am. My project delays due to some critical issue. Most of the pictures are taken without me in it because I am traveling alone. :-)

~My room in Crowne Plaza Hotel~

~View from the hotel windows~

When come to ordering food in the restuarant, it is always an advantage to be able to read Chinese because most of the menus available in the restaurant are written in Chinese.

Dinner at the Loong Yuen Restaurant in the hotel
~Appetizer~

~Steak~
Italian Food – T-bone lamb

~Seafood with soup~

~Bird Nest~
~Tempura at Sakura Restaurant~

~Teppanyaki - Small abalone~
~Teppanyaki – Scallop~
~Sushi Rolls ~
~Grill Eel~

~sushi~
~Chef is preparing the lobster~

~Lobster~
~Teppanyaki - ice cream on fire~

My advice, if you would like to go to this island try to go on weekdays, it is really crowded during weekend. You will be sweating getting the tickets for the sight seeing ferry tour.

~Gulangyu Island view from Xiamen. ~

~In front of the church in Gulangyu~


Gulangyu is just a small island. I can easily walk around to get to those places that I want.
No cars are allowed in this island to prevent pollution and only electric cars are allowed here.


~Cute tourist guide center at gulangyu~

~In the ferry, on the way back to Xiamen~

~Nanputou temple – front view~

~The lake in front of the temple~

Zhong San Road- Shopping Street
This road will be closed at night. You can shop all you want from clothes to food.

Zhong San Park – 15 minutes walk from Crowne Plaza

~Lake in Zhong San Park~

~Celebrating quietly in the hotel room~

~Birthday Cake~

2-September-06

What is so special of 2-sept?

This is the day I was supposed to fly back to Malaysia, unfortunately I couldn’t make it. My trip has been extended.

Today is my birthday. I spent almost whole day in the hotel room. And, I put a “DND” sign at the door knob until the hotel housekeeper had to call me to check what time that are convenient for me to let them to do the housekeeping. So, finally I let them have the room at 4.30 pm. I went for a walk at the Zhong San Park. Well, all parks are almost the same, so nothing really special about this park, but I can see that a lots of local people here spending time chit-chatting and playing Chinese chess. :)

This is the 1st time that I am celebrating my birthday oversea. It is so happened that I read this week horoscope in a magazine during dinner at the Japanese Restaurant, it says that Virgo will have dream comes true if she or he planned long enough. I don’t really get it and usually I will only read this for fun.

Celebrating birthday oversea has been a dream, I always wanna go to somewhere else on this day and coincidentally I am in China now. I wonder is that my dream comes true as what being stated in the horoscope prediction. *_^ If I have only one wish to make today, I really don’t know what to wish for.. maybe I should just wish for happiness and healthy life. I guess the longer the life journey I walked I begin to realize that nothing is more important than being happy.

When I walked passed the cakes shop after my dinner, I asked myself “today is my birthday, and do I want to buy myself a piece of cake?” Finally, I made a decision not to buy because I was very full, just caught a glimpse of those cakes displayed and walked to the elevator.

In the room, the table is usually full of my facial & hair cream, hair spray, snacks, mobile charger, laptop adapter, ..haha.. I used this table as my working table too. Suddenly, I saw a birthday cake! Haha.. I never thought that the hotel management knows that today is my birthday! Nice cake but I am full. Perhaps, leave that for supper or ..

Finally, that’s how my birthday ended.