{"id":57,"date":"2006-09-17T04:23:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T09:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2006-09-17T04:23:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T09:23:16","slug":"beijing-visit-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Visit 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was Malaysia’s real<\/span> national day, well, at least one that I wished we could have celebrated together with Singapore citizens. Kinda regret that this is one of the few national day season that I haven’t done anything fun nor significant. Impianku<\/a> is still running but I haven’t seen any new posts – maybe it’s time to add new features and encourage more activities. Hardly have time or mood on Recom<\/a> as well, and even PhilWind<\/a>s’ website enhancements are also too slow. Don’t think it’s the best thing to work on Malaysia Forum<\/a> yet too. Sigh – what a national day 2006 is.<\/p>\n

On the bright side, I’ve already put down my booking fee for the car<\/span>. Won’t tell you what I got until I get the car as it will take a month or two to get the COE and shipment. Told Weyn<\/a> that he can use this as the same day to mark his last day at Microsoft Office<\/a> before moving to work in London.<\/p>\n

Well the real reason I’m writing this was to jot down some memories I had in Beijing (19 to 26 Aug). Funny how it took me 3 weeks to write. First week was a scramble week to catchup and complete all my handoff activities so that I can quickly transition, second week was an extremely mentally exhaustive week attending TechEd SEA<\/a> in KL, and 3rd week was attending a Grid<\/a> Architect course by Oracle<\/a>\/SMU<\/a>, a week too interesting to do other stuff…<\/p>\n

Ok, here’s the promised short writeup on Beijing:<\/p>\n

\nBeijing 2006 (\u5317\u4eac)<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, my first trip to China after traveling to like every other city in US and Europe. And a good start for my conquest for Asia too, just as my first landing spot in US is New York, this is <\/span>Beijing<\/a> (and not <\/span>Chengdu<\/a> which I was scheduled to go within a month’s time but got postponed), and thus the first impression of China, its people and its possibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although it was organized by one of those extremely cheap tour agency that my father chose and regret, it wasn’t that bad once you think of how much they are supposed to be making. It cost RM700 excluding the flight (I took <\/span>Garuda<\/a> from <\/span>Changi<\/a> while my parents took the full package with SQ from <\/span>KLIA<\/a> via Changi), which translate to around 1500RMB, for 7 nights. A quick survey on the list price for food and board shows that:<\/span>
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