One Night in Beijing

Ice Skating ... on 未名湖！

Last Friday, we went to 北大 for our first instalment of the weekly lessons we are scheduled to attend until end of June. 北大 is beautiful! It looks like a beautiful old town instead of a world class university.My 'matric card' from 北大. It's basically a little red book ... a legacy of the communist past I guess.

After the half-day introductory lessons on Friday, we went to take a look at the campus' lake, 未名湖. It is still frozen! Of coz we didn't give up the chance to go ice skate on the frozen lake. It's quite cheap anyway, 10RMB for a pair of skates until you are satisfied with it. And it is fun!
Alex, me and Cheryl. Alex never ever pose properly in all of his pictures.


Me wearing the skates.

Someone caught me looking like a penguin.

Then on saturday, after lessons, 北大 brought us to 天安门 and 故宫. There was a guide for all of us but it seems that most of us are more concerned about taking pictures instead of listening to him.


Fortunately for me, I finally had a decent shot of myself with Mr Mao at 天安门.


故宫is beautiful and sinfully large. It's a great damn pity the 太和殿 is under renovation. I thought of finding the 钟粹宫 as depicted in the show 金枝玉孽 but didn't want to sound stupid in front of all the NTU people as well as the local tourists there. I also wanted to see the long long corridor with tall red walls on the sides but didn't get to see or walk through them.

Din take much photos inside ... so so so so many people inside. And it's already considered some what off peak period.

It was also much colder than usual these few days despite the weatherman saying otherwise. Chek said that it was because of the wind that blew from Siberia.

posted by taxi taker @ 9:16 PM