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  cc

  1 year ago

  the places in the pictures reminds me of Malacca in a way... the malacca that i saw 3 years ago... don't know if much has changed since then...
  
  can't wait to see ringha pictures!
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  Michelle

  1 year ago

  America is so far away from Australia.
  
  T_T
  
  Will miss you Pau.
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  Jeff from LA

  1 year ago

  So you don't speak Chinese, Pinkpau? For some reason, I always thought you did. Then do you mainly just use English?
  
  You're also smart to get as much traveling done in Asia while you can, because it will be a lot more expensive to head back when you get out here.
  
  I also think its funny that you're going to be living in a cold place now (Pennsylvania), after having grown up in Malaysia. However, I hear there are a lot of Asians at UPenn, so I'm sure you won't have a problem adjusting.
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  sieutheng

  1 year ago

  ok i din finish reading the post becos i'm late for class (surprise!) but i want to guess wat the red mess is.
  issit pig/duck's coagulated blood!? ppl eat them here in msia :\
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  sha

  1 year ago

  you looked bored at mdg s house. why ah?
  and NYU is awesome cause i heart NYC. malaysian food anytime you want =) but penn isnt too far either so yah...
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  sheon

  1 year ago

  is # 3 pig's blood?......yeerrr.....but yummy......
  
  whats chinese Lee meng?
  
  so martian is the typical guy that buys a 1dollar thing he needs for 2dollar........and you are the one that buys a 2dollar thing that you dun really need at 1dollar?
  
  when you leaving for the states again ah???
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  iamdoryfish

  1 year ago

  is that pig coagulated blood? or dog??? eeewwwwwwwwwwwww
  :(
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  lulu

  1 year ago

  i oredy wanna tell u abt tat pant in the hole thing at picture #4....
  
  actually tats been de practice long long time ago (our parents generation)
  
  its juz so Q, imagine rosy cheek wif a hole at the backside...hehe...i been so wanted to take a picture of it then..but my lousy phone camera juz cant get the effect
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  vvens

  1 year ago

  cherry blossom! you get to see them!! wee. i like picture #6 anyway. hehehe. and and and i've not seen ppl playing snooker outdoor like this before. haha.
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  reallybites

  1 year ago

  pet food haha
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  sheon

  1 year ago

  my theory on the holey pants is this : since that place is sooo chilly...they dont want to risk their rosy-butt cheeks to frost-bite. Lo and behold , the holey-pants idea is derived!! Since the invention, all kunming kids can shit in their cosy pants in peace.
  
  then hor?...what if they forgot to open up the flap before shitting?.. heheheh......
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  nyrac

  1 year ago

  i've always wanted to go travel around like that in china. i guess i'd be a mixture of both you and martian, me wanting to look at all the historical stuff and also me taking a lot of pictures and wanting to eat everything, hehe.
  
  so when are you leaving for the states?
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  cyan

  1 year ago

  I think the red mess is pig or chicken blood.
  Are you sure in the statue the men are holding guns? look more like firemen rather than soldiers. Maybe they are holding flamethrowers with gas tanks?
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  stylomilo

  1 year ago

  damn random question, but i love your bag! where'd you get it from? =)
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  olivia

  1 year ago

  all hail us bananas :S
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  vialentino

  1 year ago

  wah...very nice travel pics....
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  miss p

  1 year ago

  ew that red thingy in #3 must be worms, those thin worms ew ew ew ew ew ew.
  
  kunming looks like a nice place to go! :) might go there someday.
  
  oh and i like your bag.
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  LogicYuan

  1 year ago

  when i went to Kunming, i was brought only to tourist spots..never spectated these scenes of life
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  skyler

  1 year ago

  I have been to kunming =))))))))))))
  
  *not to be outdone wtf
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  entwined

  1 year ago

  #3 - live bloodworms for the fishes?
  
  fave pic #12 :D looks so serene and romantic :D
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  songjun

  1 year ago

  hahaha you've noticed the bottomless pants the kids have :P we were pretty mesmerised by it too, and wanted to take pictures but decided it was too paedophilic to do so especially when they were playing with their parents sometimes :P
  
  i've seen a mom lift a kid and let the kid pee in the middle of a shopping mall on the marble floor before in Yiwu, and another friend saw one taking a dump on the marble floor in the middle of a market/mall like thing. Open air snooker is really weird too o.O
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  ront

  1 year ago

  the red mess? blood from some sort of animal? or is it roe from some kind of fish.......how cold is cold?
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  tom

  1 year ago

  red mess?? some kind of chinese dodol?
  
  Snooker table by the back alley! What!???
  We have to freaking pay to play... why we don't have that here..
  wait.. our back alley too small i guess..
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  huiting

  1 year ago

  I thought you say the country was damn damn damn damn cold?? And you're wearing like short skirt?? hahahaha I thought it's like snowing and all!! :P
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  natalie

  1 year ago

  hey..may i ask what camera u're using? the pictures are really clear!
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  cyan

  1 year ago

  sorry another thing,
  “#16 DUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *HAPPY”
  i thought they are geese?
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  clem

  1 year ago

  i really want to go to kunming and guilin in the future. those are really nice pics.. which made me reaffirm my stand for that city
  
  of all the places in china, for some reason i only want to go to these two. :P
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  cindymee

  1 year ago

  its pig's blood, chinese ppl like it very much
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  hui wen

  1 year ago

  Is it pork liver! 'Cause everyone said coagulated pig blood, I want to be unconventional, heh. And why you want to buy beetle/hamster! How to bring back on the plane!
  
  I have those old school sewing machine in my house! My grandma still goes tak-tak-tak to alter/mend our clothes. :))))
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  Tricia

  1 year ago

  wow...the fruits look so so delicious and sweet ..especially the mangoes!!! yummy!
  
  The red mess in pic #3 seems like billions of worms that ppl buy to feed their fish..lol..
  
  Can't wait for Ringha pics!!
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  pinkpau

  1 year ago

  cc : malacca! really! :D in what way?
  
  michelle : i will see you in the winterrrrrrrr and we shall go have a nice dinnerrrrrrr
  
  jeff from la : my chinese is SO bad. like really really bad. yup mostly english for me, but i can get by with a smattering of mandarin and cantonese :) i can deal with the cold, i think, so that's no problem. i just need a nice warm reliable heater :P yup there a lot of malaysians in upenn too.
  
  sieutheng : wrong-o! yes my own mother eats that stuff =(
  
  sha : hahahahaha no lahhhh i wasnt bored :P i was replying some urgent texts. malaysian food anytime? really??? but issit nice? and not tooooo expensive?
  
  sheon : nope it's not pig's blood. they are worms :) chinese lee meng is chinese 'chap fan'. haha i have this friend lee meng who seems to think he's 'chap fan'. strange guy, yes :P i'm leaving in august.
  
  iamdoryfish : fortunately not!!!!! i would freak out if it were dog's blood :\
  
  lulu : haha i know what you mean! i tried taking a picture but it didnt come out too well
  
  vvens : very weird wan... all their snooker tables are outside. haha
  
  reallybites : quite close :D it's those small little thin worms.. like a whole LEGION of them
  
  sheon : there is no flap my friend :P just the HOLE. hahaha
  
  nyrac : *protests* i like the historical stuff too!!! sometimes....... but i just like the food and culture more. hahaha. am leaving in august
  
  cyan : nope not blood :) twas worms.
  
  stylomilo : coach!
  
  olivia : why!!! hahaha it's so DIFFICULT not being able to speak chinese in msia, let alone CHINA! :P
  
  vialentino : thankewww
  
  miss p : hey you're the first one to get it right :D i owe you 1 buck. yes kunming is lovely :) definitely worth a visit
  
  logicyuan : were you in a tour group?
  
  skyler : and i will soon be going to amerikahhhh
  
  entwined : yes correct!! yeah that park is really pretty :)
  
  songjun : hahaha too bad you're not a girly girl like me who can get away with taking pictures like that just by cooing 'ooooh so cute!!!' :P so are u having fun tracing your roots!
  
  ront : they are lots and lots and lots of worms :) kunming isnt too cold. ringha is the place that's like FREAKING COLD
  
  tom : haha it's a good investment isnt it ! buy a table and you never have to pay by the hour or by the round again :)
  
  huiting : different places! this is kunming which has nice weather :) ringha is the place up in the mountains where it's SOOOOOOO cold
  
  natalie : the canon ixus 75 :)
  
  cyan : very sharp :P martian and i had a disagreement about them birds... he said they were geese and i said they were ducks. yah yah as always i turned out to be wrong T_____T
  
  clem : not even shanghai??
  
  cindymee : oh no :) they're lots and lots of worms. if you look at them closely you can see them all wriggling and stuff
  
  hui wen : have you not read how kenny sia brought back hamsters from bangkok by stuffing them into his pockets at the airport? champion i tell you :P
  
  tricia : yes! they are worms :) ringha pics sooooooon, i hope!
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  LiYing

  1 year ago

  heyy su ann! finally the pics from your china trip--its definitely somewhere a lot more unconventional and its so interesting to learn the culture of those places etc if i may say so! =D
  
  oh btw a very late felicitations about your american uni acceptance! i do still hope that you'd be swimming across the pond to the uk this summer?
  
  let me know if you do okays! =D
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  pinkpau

  1 year ago

  liying : haha more pics to come soon :) this was only kunming where we spent a day. we spent another four more in ringha. yes, hopefully london this summer if all goes well!!
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  sheon

  1 year ago

  right...worms for pets.........i used to buy that for my fishy-fishy also....in malaysia here they sell it frozen one.... so back then, in my fridge i had tubs of icecream, sausages, crabsticks, mixed veges, and frozen worms......appetizing huh?
  
  august?....ooh..still a long way to go. let me buy you a cuppa before you leave, will ya?
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  nyrac

  1 year ago

  hehe if you ever decide that you wanna go china again, and martian is not free to come along, i can always volunteer to be your chinese-speaking guide ;)
  
  my dad went to the stone forest years and years ago, and the pics he took made me want to go soooooo much, until he told me about the toilets there. are they still as horrifying as they used to be?
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  Michelle

  1 year ago

  Yay!
  
  *flashes ear to ear grin*
  
  When are you coming over? Make sure it's not when I'm back in Malaysia.
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  sha

  1 year ago

  malaysian food ALOT . and not expensive at all (considering that its NYC afterall) . cheap ones bout $5 per plate? to name some, nyonya, sentosa, penang, curry leaves, and many more =) quite nice. ofcourse cant be compared to those at home but good enough and seriously ull be thankful that you have Malaysian food. I feel bad for my friends in Montana, Pittsburgh etc... ofcourse unless you cook!
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  songjun

  1 year ago

  pinkpau : haha it is an eye opening experience and shocking one too, cause u have academics that tag along explaining deeper things and history, culture, politics, economics etc that brings everything you look at into perspective.
  
  you feel like you're chinese but had no idea that the chinese were something else yet.. similar. To quote my lecturer
  
  "same same but different, a very asian saying"
  
  hehe
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  Random Surfer

  1 year ago

  #13 It's not a knapsack (knapsack is just a synonym for regular backpacks.)
  
  What you're thinking of is a bindle. See here:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindle
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  eunice

  1 year ago

  look at those stockinged legs! haha, oh i LOVE tulips *jealous jealous jealous* haha..........i love picture 11, so cool!
  
  i'm glad you had fun :)
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  foreverjas

  1 year ago

  really really nice photos! esp the sakura !!! yeesh. admire your life. all the best! when r u goin to america? dun stop blogging k! i need ur blog to stay alive =)
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  Jun

  1 year ago

  i had the same thought as sheon for #3 (and #18). they sure din look wormy ;p
  
  as for #28 i'm reminded of the time when i visited my distant relatives in guangzhou 10 yrs ago, where i saw the boys decked in the same "holey pants". guess this is the one fashion trend that remains "classic" as ever *LOL*
  
  btw did u end up buying the roses and the strawberries?
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  iamdoryfish

  1 year ago

  They were worms? :P...???
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  *dAwN

  1 year ago

  Wow.. what a nice trip! *envies* ;) I want to visit China one day... and also to this one island across the strait -__-
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  michellesy

  1 year ago

  'Beh tahan" hahhah - at least he tried, and very very hard too at getting his point across. He could have tried to make hand gestures (universal sign language hehe), but seeing as how the nature of the emergency was rather delicate, it could have turned out fairly.....risque? =P
  
  Yunnan is so beautiful and in some ways, so disjointedly different from China isn't it? And the tea they produce is the unbelievable. Martian likes pu er eh? He has good taste, that man (alien?) =D It's the king of teas, with a price tag to match, really.
  
  Yunnan looks lovely from your pictures. And the food. And the parks (and ducks!). And those kids. And those flowers *swoons*, love flowers (can't whinge about the price either) and those blooms looked to be in tip-top condition and enormous to boot!
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  Just Another Girl

  1 year ago

  Hi Su Ann, I came across your blog while blog hopping and yeah, I've been silently stalking your blog for some time now.. I guess I'm not so silent now! Haha anyway, just wanna comment to say that u have a great blog going! =) And congrats on getting admissions. :)
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  Charlie

  1 year ago

  Oh man Kunming is awesome!! Have you tried the Over the Bridge noodles. Forgot what it's really called but I'm sure there's Bridge in the name somewhere hahaha.
  
  Eh by the way, congrats on those amazing uni offers!! They weren't stupid enough to turn someone like you down : ) I knew you could do it!!
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  Sze

  1 year ago

  i know what you mean about the flowers. i always had fresh flowers in my flat in kunming, and the lillies lasted almost 2 weeks!
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  pinkpau

  1 year ago

  sheon : FROZEN WORMS??? and you put them next to your meat in the freezer?!?!?!?! zomg no definitely not hanging out with you for a cuppa now :P
  
  nyrac : eh you mean you will travel to china with me?? :D ahhhhh the toilets. i made it a point to describe to Martian every single public toilet i went to :) they were a whole new facet of the China experiences, those toilets were.. :)
  
  michelle : let's coordinate our dates over msn :)
  
  sha : now why does everyone keep selling me on NYC =( doesnt anyone want me to go to UPenn =(
  
  songjun : that saying is THAI !!!! i have a tshirt that proves it!
  
  random surfer : ooh. haha thank you for the education! bindle... i didnt even know that word existed
  
  eunice : yes, look at those stockinged legs. damn skinny right!!! i dunno how they walk :\
  
  foreverjas : leaving in august. dont be silly, of course you dont need my blog to stay alive!!
  
  jun : hahaha i cant believe that fashion trend has survived all this time. i wonder if they had it wayyyy back in the early chinese dynasties. TVB doesnt show it :P noooo i didnt buy the strawberries regretfully :(
  
  iamdoryfish : yes! to feed dory fish like you!
  
  dawn : visit ME!!!
  
  michellesy : HAHAHHAA since u like tea!!!! give you 1 buck if you can guess what 'royalty tea' is :P it was all over the menus in china and i was wondering what the heck it was. haha it hit me a little bit too late. dont say Martian got good taste :( later he force me to drink that tea again :(
  
  just another girl : thank you for reading !! :) and yes dont stay silent anymore :P
  
  charlie : yessss i loved those noodles!! we had that like 3 times in kunming i think.
  
  sze : sigh if only flowers in KL were that cheap. we have camerons wat!! :(
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  sha

  1 year ago

  no no. i honestly dont like nyu campus also. no campus life. go to upenn! find out which sch is better for your major. if you might go into buss, go to u penn ( no question!) anyway really, upenn isnt too far from nyc =)
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  Simon Seow

  1 year ago

  Kunming, lol. Reminds me of Martial Arts novel like those written by Louis Cha.
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  sheon

  1 year ago

  hey..not fair! that was back in uni days when i was staying out campus lar.....no worms now...no worms now......hahahaha
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  mIcheLLe

  1 year ago

  I just saw the chinese lee meng HAHAHAHAHHAH WHAT THE HELL HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA I tell him!!!!!!
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  Jenny

  1 year ago

  I am really curious about this, does Martian pay for your trips to travel abroad?
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  ront

  1 year ago

  speaking of worms...it has been raining here...and this morning on the sidewalk there's a fishy and salt water smell.....then i realized the ground is covered with earthworms...all crawled out to flee from drowning....
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  ap

  1 year ago

  1st comment here.....Yunnan seems like a path to an escapist's dreamland, can't wait to hear more of it. btw, i just finished reading On Chesil Beach, and only recently discovered someone who like Ian McEwan and Neil Gaiman as I do plus the lot of musical commonground O.O
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  michellesy

  1 year ago

  Royalty Tea? What the heck hahaah! Royal Tea is it wtf. Have no clue babe - tell me tell me lah =D
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