PAM in Chongqing Day #1

PAM goes to Chongqing 

flew by West Air @ $671 each... we only found out that it was a budget airline a few days before departure... 😂😂😂

left Singapore at 4.40am, I slept like a pig and we arrived in Chongqing at 9.35am... 

airport was EMPTY, clearance was FAST

by the time we freshened up, layered on, we were the last 3 to clear custom check... 😅😅😅

the iconic yellow cab of Chongqing but didi was our main mode of transport 

stayed 4 nights @ Nuanyu Riverview Homestay (重庆暖余江景民宿) @ $175 each... they managed multiple units in this building, next to 东和湾 

and our unit was just 2 units next to their 'office'?!?!?!?  on the 20th floor... 

the corridor looked unassuming, our unit was acceptable-ly decorated, 3 rooms, 1 toilet and shower 

great balcony view where the Yangtze and Jialing River meet and where the Glamorous Chongqing Drone Light Show is shown every Saturday night!!! and our first day in Chongqing was a Saturday... 😍😍😍

our first place of visit - Guanyinqiao (观音桥) for street food 

we had 生煎包 (very nice), gyozas (nice), 黄金芙蓉虾 (not nice),  双拼肉卷 (very very nice), 重庆烤串 (nice), 杨梅 mochi dessert (meh)

Happy bind box shopping!!! shakey shakey shake shake shake

dinner @ 海底捞 then 东 shop shop, 西 shop shop @ Chongqing's Raffles City

my 战利品s

then a quick walk in the rain and cold back to the apartment before 8.30pm to catch the drone show

only to find out that it was cancelled because of the rain... 😭😭😭... 

what a waste!!! 

Appreciating February

28th Feb (Sat)

putting back the calories burnt from our 2nd weekly walk walk @ Punggol Park... let's make this a regular though i'm the one who cant make it for the next 5 sats... 😅😅😅

27th Feb (Fri)

an hour plus of dance after dance for the experienced ones while the newbiest me could only join in for 5 this round...

 enjoyed my last lou hei of the year with plenty of fruits and homemade goodies that every one brought... heng, i also brought along a 'gong' of fried crabstick that 蔡 mummy made... 

gifted a pack of festive fruits and allowed to bring home this balloon that was put up as dance room deco...  

26th Feb (Thur)

Lou Hei & dinner @ Yao Yao... 😍😍😍

25th Feb (Wed)

My first blind box is from TwoHerbs... new stock arrived just before i made payment for my 3rd package with them...yes, they are that effective & value for money that catty me is willing to stay on their package scheme since May 2024... 

 and how lucky am I when dozens left empty handed before me... now, what do i do with this?!?!?1 😂😂😂

22nd Feb (Sun)

finally went home to 跟蔡妈咪拜年... gave her a huat huat huat since she's the sole receiver of my ang bao this year... 😍😍😍

21st Feb (Sat)

steamboat & a very grand lou hei that came with a 圣旨 @ Claire's... hope to see everyone real soon on the Monday oh... Huat ah!!! 

20th Feb (Fri)

Jas's hatchday meal @ Koji... Ms Li is a after-take-off pilot!!! heng, there are 3 of us, else 早把你逐出我朋...😠

then we met up 10 hours after (21st Feb) for a 4.8km walk walk @ Punggol Park just so i could pass her the red 發 box of cookies that i forgot to bring along... hee

thanks mdm cheng for throwing in so many samplers as/& freebies 

17th Feb (Tue)

all i did was stayed home the whole 初一 & 初二... 😅 

16th Feb (Mon)

chuas reunion dinner @ Siam Kitchen, Khatib

马年有 '马马' 的爱 from cherandy, boss, MJ, AR, HS, Tim, Jolie, Julia, Alysia, CY, SWB and YL's, JQ's & QT's adults... 😍😍😍

12th Feb (Thur)

coincidentally signed up for the same network session @ SOTA with my favourite mini boss so off to tea @ Tsui Wah, The Cathay we went after that.. 😍😍😍

6th Feb (Fri)

with the help from cy, managed to chiong into JB after work with the chuas bro to get hair-ready for CNY at a salon where boss was too fierce for my liking but has 2 cute cats !!! 

Happy Shopping @ KSL!!!

3rd Feb (Tues)

yummy yummy @ daydream cafe after a long day at work...  

I can Understand Korean (in progress)

the title is my Goal, not my current status 😭😭😭

been korean duolingo-ing for 2 years liao but 惭愧地说, "no where near conversational"...maybe and only maybe can pick up a vocab here & there occasionally if the speaker speaks super duper slowly and keeps the sentences short & basic...  

expanding my learning with videos this holiday cos duolingo refused to let me practice more unless i pay... nopx, i'm not paying... =S

hopefully i will have more motivation and more determination and a lot more hardworking-ness so that i will be able to understand more Korean by our Korea trip in June 2026...   

 

'collating' all the videos here for easy retrieval for repeated listening... 

this series of short stories remind me of the Peter & Jane books that I had in primary school... i need the repetitions... 😅😅😅

my first korean song from Kdrama Full House 20 years ago... 😂😂😂