Weekend in Beijing

Had to start a new post to get away from the last. Hahhaa!! (",)

Meetings start tomorrow morning but I flew in yesterday, a day earlier and spent most of this weekend with CTLK. She brought me to all the nice shopping & eating places, and to a very lovely massage that costs honestly quite little @ RMB 97/hr (SGD20). A comparable one in Singapore would have costs 10 times as much.

The last time I was here must have been in .... 2002? Between then and now, the city has changed soooooooo much! There are now not many short buildings left! Used to think the city is massive because it had so much space but with so many tall buildings around, your sight just goes from block to block and it's really hard to get a feel of the space or even try to imagine it when all you see is blocks.

CTLK told me that some buildings (and she pointed to one really really tall one) take only 4 months to build. I went, "Oh, so no need to wait for the cement to dry?" So happened that her friend is working for a property developer was with us and she went, "Oh, you don't have to wait for the cement to dry nowadays! Nowadays, we use pre-cast. It's like lego, you just stack them up. The most time-consuimg part is the part where you have to bolt them together."

Well well well, we live and learn everyday don't we?