Commune by the Great Wall Kempinski
Just an hour's drive from downtown Beijing, you will find 42 villas with a total of 236 rooms and suites spread over eitght kilometres of hilly terrain adjoining the Great Wall. The Commune is an architecture museum, luxury resort and natural spectacle all in one - a popular location for corporate retreats, meetings, and conferences for up to 500 guests.
Directions: Badaling Highway, exit at Shuiguan
Website: Commune by the Great Wall Kempinski
Fuchun Resort
Forty kilometres from Hangzhou and 250 from Shanghai, this resort has 70 rooms and suites plus 17 villas nestled among the hills above the scenic Fuchun River. Enjoy some tempting East-West fusion cuisine at the award-winning T8 restraunt without worrying about extra pounds. These can easily work off again anyway on the 18 golf course on in the spa gym.
Directions: Fuyang Section, Hangfu Yangjiang Road, Hangzhou
Website: Fuchun Resort
Hotel of Modern Art
Who would have thought it? The Guilin region of South China boasts more than just a spectacular natural scenery. It also has a stylish design hotel, HoMA, set in a private park containing sculptures by artists from every corner of the earth. You are welcome to take a peek over the artists' shoulder as they work - or even take up a hammer and chisel yourself!
Directions: Yuzi-Paradise, Dubu Town, Yanshan District, Guilin
Website: Hotel of Modern Art
Banyan Tree Lijiang
Not far from Lijiang (whose old town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997), the Banyan Tree from Singapore comprises 55 villas decorated in the traditional Naxi style and has plenty of opportunities for guests to relax: in the private garden or the pool, at one of the hotel restraunts or luxuriating in the spa. The panoramic views of nearby 5,600-meter Jade Dragon Snow Mountain are thrilling and soothing at the same time.
Directions: Lijiang, Yunnan Province
Website: Banyan Tree
Jia Shanghai
Jia Shanghai offers style-conscious guests a wonderful home away from home ("jia" means home). The hotel's Italian restraunt and its rooftop bar and lounge are design to attract the chic set from Shanghai.
Directions: 931 West Nanjing Road. , Shanghai, Tel. +8621 62179000
Website: Jia Shanghai
i just got myself a sticker. its 45 cm big on my right shoulder blade
opera face. think its guan gong. but he dun look fierce.
then on his crown.. supposely requested for a butterfly wings.. but they look like lettuce leaves
and my shoulder above those butterfly wings not to be
a stone buddha. who look really sad without some curly hair
its a nice tattoo over all, 300 sgd. done up in lijiang by a manchurian art student studying in the north, residing in lijiang for 8 months annually.
this guy very interested.. done up his like some bob marley fan. really tall.. look too gothic to belong in thiong kok. he is religious.. believing in that tibetian buddhism or something. as he cuts through my skin, injecting black oozzing stuffs, he kept singing songs in that monotonous tone, as if to milden down the pain i am feeling.
now and then, the lyrics gets into my nerves...as he sings in mandrin "miracle's gonna happen soon!", "no one will know the pain u and i is going through...", " i wanna go back to my homeland.."
zzz...
it took 8 hours to get the face up...ending the 1st day of my sticket session, leaving a look alike jouney-to-the-west look-a-like sand monk
the 2nd day lasted 3 hours... filling up the crown with delicious looking grapes... paintin up the leaves that should belong to covering the penis of mr adam, (sigh), and a little buddha head that has many cracks.
at the end of it all.. i wanted the pain to continue badly... its really pretty addictive...
so whats with this ahbeng sticker?
u ask urself. u ask many. why all go make totems..
i am in china now.. the best tattoo i can think of is something that belong to the country.. with a sense of nationalism in it... as a chinese.. why not have a opera face? my only worries now is will it affect me insecuring a job in a decent museum in the future.. perhaps.. this is the risk i have to take, perhaps not.
i always wanted to get a tattoo done up since poly time, but its always the money issue and facing the anger from my 2 folks.
now, with a little more stable pocket money, i just give a dun give a kookus and rocket for it. and for my folks, i dun even get to roam changi airport, aiyuh.. dun care first la.. at most i tell them china now got very good sticker... 2 months later it will drop off...
the tatoo was suppose to be an indulgence as well.. i'd always been looking for things for people. people who meant a lot. i just want something that its for me now. and stop looking for sheep toys and starbucks coffee mugs for once.
but knn la.. the lettuce suppose to be butterfly wings... if i know.. earlier.. i dun even put them liao.. put more grapes... put durian spikes even more attractive.. zzz
