After a six hour flight, I finally reached Beijing at 7.20am! It was a tiring six hour flight as I could not sleep comfortably at all. SQ is nice but when you're taking a long flight in the economy class, it just ain't that good especially if its a midnight flight... Anyway, Beijing Airport is big and spacious just like Changi Airport but of course not as impressive lah. Upon touchdown, Brenda and I felt so cold! We were imagining how cold it would be in Shenyang since Shenyang should be colder than Beijing.
Anyway, we went to collect our luggage and had to go through immigration before taking the domestic flight to Shenyang. At the immigration counter, I discovered that people dun queue! They just squeezed as long as there was some space! All I know is that I need to queue so I ended up with quite a few men jumping into my queue! Hmph!
Due to a delay for whatsoever reason, my flight only took of at 11am instead of 9am. For the two hours that I was stranded in Beijing Airport, I fell asleep due to the lack of sleep the previous night, absolutely no image as I slept there! No choice! I am tired! Anyway, by the time I reached Shenyang, it was already 1pm. It was indeed freezing cold! I took a half hour ride to the Intercontinental Hotel and finally checked in. However, by the time I left the hotel, it was already 3pm and it was too late to go any scenic spot as tourist attractions in China closed at 5pm. Thus, Brenda, she and I went to the city square. Over there, we saw Chairman Mao's statue and we went towards the shopping district after that. We went to try the local snacks and had Starbucks. The hot chocolate was too milky but the local snacks were nice. I tried their "satay" which consisted of either beef or mutton and was seasoned with chilli powder and sesame seeds and it was yummy! After that, we went to Xinhua Bookshop which consisted of 5 storeys! The books were real cheap...
She was ok...
