xiamen island

nice, nice, nice!! great to be back. called my good old fren (literally 'old', but still very young at heart), mr.bon, to inform him of the arrival, and *snap* all has been arranged, from sleeping arrangment, dinner, lunch, meeting up with friends, etc. that is just wonderful. heeh..
xiamen has developed much after i left. though the last time i was here i wasn't spending much time on the island, but i could still tell that lots of development in terms of building, traffic system, etc. the air is alright, (compare to the rest of china, it's considered as clean here) weather's just like malaysia, so i predict going up north will b much colder.
the first night i stayed at laikwan's old place - mandy, sufern, naseem, we all hav stayed in that good ol' wan shou bin guan. tonight, i moved to bon's house which is near xiamen university, and the big wide window is facing the island-ring road, and of course, the beach as well. we could see some couples smooching away down at the beach from here, *remember i was telling about how couples are just EVERYWHERE in china?*
really pigged out at a sichuan restaurant, eating my favourite dish when i last came - shui zhu yu. it's basically spicy, pepperish fish cooked in tonnes of oil! yummmyyy... definitely not the healthiest, but i took chinese tea to cool my body down after. cheap cheap great food, love it. aight, that's sichuan for dinner, and for lunch we had hu nan food.
oh, wat was interesting.. is that bon has arranged a class to be taught to a bunch of 4-star hotel staffs here. the usual english teacher is away to do his visa so needed a replacement. aah...so we did english corner and english classes. and i made some pocket money! wuah haha..
nways, lovely ones back home, i'm all set for a good sunrise tmr morning here by the beach, and mayb hav some lovely lunch cooked by some lovely chinese friends, n some lovely cycling around the area, and some lovely... yeah, i'm bragging it all. *love my holiday! and it's just the beginning*

till then.

(pics uploaded 20102005)
That's Bon! and my lovely fish swimming in pepper and oil... yummy...
That's connie. bon brought us to some cool club to swim in the pool, just next to the beach which we took this pic.
that's the view out from Bon's house! the road on the bridge is a ring-road, it goes around the island.