Day 05 - Lhasa / Chengdu CIty / 9:46 pm

Tibetan Army Camp

Entrance to go to National Expressway 318. Though the speed limit is at 40km/h (??!!), most vehicles go more than 90km/h....u often see swvering of vehicles, honking here and there...

Look at the amount of baggage on the roof of the long-distance bus...

Entrance of the 2.4km tunnel that cuts through the Tibetan peaks, cutting short the distance to airport by 1h!

Departure Waiting Area

Air China Flight CA 4404 on A319

Shortly after I settled down on the seats, the announcement came to say all flights to Chengdu will be delayed due to late plane arrival caused by foggy weather. The announcer list all the flights that will be affected (it was indeed a long list)...and for mine..CA 4402 flight was changed to 1100h, then 1200h, and finally adjusted back to 1130h. Meanwhile, most of the Chengdu-bound passengers just sat around watching the plasma tv that was showing sports channel. ahh..thats how modern it has became. Halfway through the show, there was this particular China Eastern flight to Zhongdian Kunming seemed to have forgotten something as the pilot lowered the window and the ground crew threw up a string of headphones and the pilot was pulling up the headphones into the aircraft. Lol.

Flight CA 4401 arrived late at 1100h. Suddenly all rush to Gate 3 awaiting to be boarded. Many tourists exited out of the plane and started taking loads of pictures from the moment they stepped onto the airport. It was like deja vu...the day I stepped foot on Tibetan soil. The other Chengdu flights have arrived as well...one particular airline had their boarding gate changed at the 11th hour, causing passengers to scramble and run towards the new gate. Goodness! Such kiasuism cant even be found in our homeland!

Flight CA 4402; Airbus 330-300

It was really a squeeze and jostle boarding Flight CA 4402 at 1130h. The cutting-queue scene is rather bad. Pax who get booted out of CA 4404 gets blue-labelled tix while the original CA 4402 pax gets the green tix and sit behind all of the 4404 guys. Departed LXA gate 3 at 1147h. The plane move towards the end of the runway, started the turbo-jet engines, and before you know, the plane rotated 360degrees and zoom off the runway at 1155h. The LCD screen showed a spectacular overview of Lhasa the moment it departed....More & more snowcapped mountain ranges.

Himalaya Mountain Ranges of 5000-700m high

Namche Barwa (7756m)

Note that the plane is on average at 9000m high, hence the closeup view of the Himalayas.

Lunch was pretty simple and is considered a very complete full set by domestic standards.

Main Course: Minced meat mixed veg with rice

Side Dish: Mini Tomatoes / Salted veg / Sichuan Mala Sauce

Beverage: Choice of the usual drinks + Tibetan Yak Butter Tea (eeeks...)

The inflight entertainment was rather weird, it started off with a Aust documentary about the science & the lives of Kangaroos (seriously, there was many fascinating facts about these marsupials) and then the Garfield Movie again...

Upon exiting the Tibetan plateaus, there was a sudden fog and massive amounts of clouds causing low visibility; as the atm pressure changed, Flight CA 4402 had to went through several strong turbulances, rather impactful as I saw one of the airstewardess squatting down at the galley.

1337h - Flight CA 4402 arrives Chengdu Xuangliu Airport after delayed landing due to poor visibility.

Changing Rooms next to the baggage belt area (note the English =p)

Welcome to Chengdu Walled Gate

Lunch was at the same area as the 1st day (next to the stadium). The dishes were reduced to 8 as requested. As it is the weekend today, the traffic is even more clogged than ever. Checked into 4* Water Hotel Room 1622. After which, we explored the vicinity around our area.

The whole street is dedicated in selling handphones and those individuals along the road are buying 2nd hand handphones

China Postal Service (Chengdu)

Travelled to Jinsha District to have dinner at this herbal restaurant. Extravagrant as always, we were greeted by a lady playing the guzheng at the atrium.

Every single dish was presented with a speech of the health benefits that will bring you. Dishes (Clockwise): Steamed cucumber, Spicy Fried Shrimps with colored crackers, slices of dried meat (?), Herbal Vegetable Soup, Fried Chicken in oatmeal, Steamed Egg with Luncheon Meat, Braised Chicken in Herbal Sauce, Another Herbal Soup (Can't remember). Actually, every dish has a unique special name, but I didnt take down, otherwise the names would be very appetising. =p

The toilet sink...it was more like for deco purposes. Too irresistable not to get a pic taken.

Went to Tianfu Square again which is infront of Sichuan Science & Technology with a giant Mao Statue ahead. A daily music & light fountain show is displayed here and i assure you that this is defintely the most spectacular fountain show I've ever seen. We window-shopped around the area, which has developed more like Shanghai and headed back to hotel to watch King Kong on HBO. =p

write about yourself here like how you lived through a crisis like the morrocian crisis. erps, have you studied about that before and about your test, how easy it is and how much confidence you have to pass and get all A1s for all subjects, add in your own wish here, and what you would do if target is not reached, like slash your wrist, eat many many painkiller pills at one shot and die. lol it's suicidal thoughts. stay away from that. but you need to enter a reality, everyone's doing that- it's the trend, so why not follow it. unless you want to be an odd one out. cause slashing wrist is soo common in girls school not in boys school. boys suicide, just like die gracefully from 30th storey, just look on the bright side, maybe you have lived in a lie too long and so you have found out the turth now, just think. optimist wins. you have entered into a world of reality



We know life's hard, truth is hard, lies are hard, they are all hard to accept when they have been found out, and i'm rushing history homework on the Abyissian Crisis about Italy and Abyssia going into war and that the League Of Nations cannot stop this from happening, and beacuse they are formed by means to stop war and peace-keep the countries together, they have thus failed to achieve that. I think i tend to hold a class for history instead of telling you about me, i'm basically a what subject-realted lover (humanities) and thus I am more analytical and critical about things, and likes to study about dead people, haha. lol. it's history what can you expect and also geography, it amazes me. I really like it alot, so what have you? Again to find this answer you need to enter into your own reality and reflect




it's amazing. amzing how people change the way of things, like how I used to hate outdoors in Band felt it was a complete waste of time, i've acquired to like it more, i guess people change, their thereotical means and applications in life just goes on into a new direction, and see things in another perspective, i guess- it's all in the mind. It really amazes me how these comes into action, from someone so pessimistic has changed his own view of things, and thus my friend is scoring much better, being more optimisitc and not think of his old way of suicidal thoughts, which are pretty daunting. and thus we need to see things, in another light, another perspective and another new way, to enable us to open up our minds, and make more new things, the new way it is. done with the old back with the new

i've hiatus-ed.

Day 05 - Lhasa / Chengdu CIty / 9:46 pm

Tibetan Army Camp

Entrance to go to National Expressway 318. Though the speed limit is at 40km/h (??!!), most vehicles go more than 90km/h....u often see swvering of vehicles, honking here and there...

Look at the amount of baggage on the roof of the long-distance bus...

Entrance of the 2.4km tunnel that cuts through the Tibetan peaks, cutting short the distance to airport by 1h!

Departure Waiting Area

Air China Flight CA 4404 on A319

Shortly after I settled down on the seats, the announcement came to say all flights to Chengdu will be delayed due to late plane arrival caused by foggy weather. The announcer list all the flights that will be affected (it was indeed a long list)...and for mine..CA 4402 flight was changed to 1100h, then 1200h, and finally adjusted back to 1130h. Meanwhile, most of the Chengdu-bound passengers just sat around watching the plasma tv that was showing sports channel. ahh..thats how modern it has became. Halfway through the show, there was this particular China Eastern flight to Zhongdian Kunming seemed to have forgotten something as the pilot lowered the window and the ground crew threw up a string of headphones and the pilot was pulling up the headphones into the aircraft. Lol.

Flight CA 4401 arrived late at 1100h. Suddenly all rush to Gate 3 awaiting to be boarded. Many tourists exited out of the plane and started taking loads of pictures from the moment they stepped onto the airport. It was like deja vu...the day I stepped foot on Tibetan soil. The other Chengdu flights have arrived as well...one particular airline had their boarding gate changed at the 11th hour, causing passengers to scramble and run towards the new gate. Goodness! Such kiasuism cant even be found in our homeland!

Flight CA 4402; Airbus 330-300

It was really a squeeze and jostle boarding Flight CA 4402 at 1130h. The cutting-queue scene is rather bad. Pax who get booted out of CA 4404 gets blue-labelled tix while the original CA 4402 pax gets the green tix and sit behind all of the 4404 guys. Departed LXA gate 3 at 1147h. The plane move towards the end of the runway, started the turbo-jet engines, and before you know, the plane rotated 360degrees and zoom off the runway at 1155h. The LCD screen showed a spectacular overview of Lhasa the moment it departed....More & more snowcapped mountain ranges.

Himalaya Mountain Ranges of 5000-700m high

Namche Barwa (7756m)

Note that the plane is on average at 9000m high, hence the closeup view of the Himalayas.

Lunch was pretty simple and is considered a very complete full set by domestic standards.

Main Course: Minced meat mixed veg with rice

Side Dish: Mini Tomatoes / Salted veg / Sichuan Mala Sauce

Beverage: Choice of the usual drinks + Tibetan Yak Butter Tea (eeeks...)

The inflight entertainment was rather weird, it started off with a Aust documentary about the science & the lives of Kangaroos (seriously, there was many fascinating facts about these marsupials) and then the Garfield Movie again...

Upon exiting the Tibetan plateaus, there was a sudden fog and massive amounts of clouds causing low visibility; as the atm pressure changed, Flight CA 4402 had to went through several strong turbulances, rather impactful as I saw one of the airstewardess squatting down at the galley.

1337h - Flight CA 4402 arrives Chengdu Xuangliu Airport after delayed landing due to poor visibility.

Changing Rooms next to the baggage belt area (note the English =p)

Welcome to Chengdu Walled Gate

Lunch was at the same area as the 1st day (next to the stadium). The dishes were reduced to 8 as requested. As it is the weekend today, the traffic is even more clogged than ever. Checked into 4* Water Hotel Room 1622. After which, we explored the vicinity around our area.

The whole street is dedicated in selling handphones and those individuals along the road are buying 2nd hand handphones

China Postal Service (Chengdu)

Travelled to Jinsha District to have dinner at this herbal restaurant. Extravagrant as always, we were greeted by a lady playing the guzheng at the atrium.

Every single dish was presented with a speech of the health benefits that will bring you. Dishes (Clockwise): Steamed cucumber, Spicy Fried Shrimps with colored crackers, slices of dried meat (?), Herbal Vegetable Soup, Fried Chicken in oatmeal, Steamed Egg with Luncheon Meat, Braised Chicken in Herbal Sauce, Another Herbal Soup (Can't remember). Actually, every dish has a unique special name, but I didnt take down, otherwise the names would be very appetising. =p

The toilet sink...it was more like for deco purposes. Too irresistable not to get a pic taken.

Went to Tianfu Square again which is infront of Sichuan Science & Technology with a giant Mao Statue ahead. A daily music & light fountain show is displayed here and i assure you that this is defintely the most spectacular fountain show I've ever seen. We window-shopped around the area, which has developed more like Shanghai and headed back to hotel to watch King Kong on HBO. =p