Merry Christmas!

I´ve been so busy with the jobs and other stuff, so sad i cannot update this constantly... Just stoped by to wish you all the joy of the season, have a peaceful and warm Christmas for this year and always remember why are we celebrating this special moment.

My very 1st time in Disney (Magic Kingdom)

There are many kids that dream all day long of being near to Mickey and Minnie, visiting their kingdom and dress up like a princess. I was one of them when i was young, but not anymore until i finally have the opportunity to visit them.   After 2 month in Panama my mom asked me if i wanted to go with my cousin daughter to Disneyland, and i accepted!
The first impression i had when i walked through the first park it was the magnificent figure of the castle. They really sold me the idea of being a princess crossing the bridge and entering to her own kingdom, the only problem is that i wasn't dressed up like a princess and others girls were! Gosh! but its ok, still i was a princess, but the modern one, with her own fashion style.. hahahaha!
It was brilliant, even though the attraction was directed for kids, i really enjoyed that, and really had a good time... an unforgettable one...

Turkey LEG! i tried a little bit and it was crunchy and tasty! Oh my god, i would really like to eat turkey now!
Thanksgiving is near, at home we don´t celebrate it, but to anyone who does...i wish you a Happy Thanksgiving and lets get ready for BLACK FRIDAY!

Xi'an and the Terracota Warrior

I was trying to make a pause writing about my travels, because this is gonna be the last travel and post with the amazing friendship i made in Guangzhou, Nooooooo!!!

we arrived at the evening to Guangzhou, from Kuala Lumpur, tired and hungry.  So we took a train to Xi'an the next day; something i'll never forget is that we were about to murder Jana, we were supposed to be on the train station half hour before the train leave and i still don't remember HOW we manage to get there 15min before, just imagine a crowded station in China can be, there were no line, no order, and 4 girls pushing and trying to get in, anyway it was a great experience!
Too bad we couldn´t capture that time of our life, it was so stressing and funny.

 

squatting around @ Mouling Tomb

Xi'an picture from the bell tower

Thanks vivis for this picture i really loved it, even though i look fat

 

If you are planning to visit this place in the future, please don´t miss this, rent a bike and ride around the city walls, you should also climb the Hua Shan mountain, its really famous there, too bad i couldnt because of the time and weather problem. Sorry i´m not inspired anymore... i miss them so bad...

Is really nostalgic to knew that this was going to be the end, but of course i'm sure our friendship would last forever, no matter how distances we are, deep in my heart i would keep their spaces...  Ok, i'm not gonna cry because i already cried a lot of time before this happened! I'm so grateful for all this, i'll never regret that this happened to me. Just Hope to see you once again.

Ok, i just realized that i should made an album in my post, this is so sad i cannot share much picture with you, i´m gonna improve this as soon as possible. 
Please don´t miss the video, i never realized this happened until i visit this place.

Special Thanks!

I did have a great Birthday, special thanks to all those who posted on my facebook wall and also thanks to facebook who helped reminding my birthday, thanks for all those friends who called me on my day and for the ones who made a little time for me on their busy schedule, I´m really grateful! My biggest wish for this year was to make my friends happy so the day before my birthday i made cake pops for the fisrt time.

Sorry about the quality of the  pictures, sometimes special moment doesn´t need quality pictures. I just got new lenses for my birthday, but still havent use it. got to share next time.

Cheers to the Chinese National Day! (Oct 1st)

You'll think that im late to post this, yeah... i should've posted 4 days ago... but people in China are still celebrating this important day, they normally take the week off!!! SOoooo... Happy Chinese National Day for all my friends who's still in China, for all those who just leave China, for those who are proud to be Chinese, and for the ones who feels Chinese! 祝大家国庆节快乐！

 

Back to KL for our Flight!

We took the night train from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, we got 2 bed and 2 seat ticket, there were no choice.  So we split everything, because the train normally takes around 8 hour to KL, so 4 hours 2 person slept on the bed and the seats and the others 4 hours we switched.
I don't remember exactly at what time we arrived, but it was quit early for our flight, so we went to another mc donald for breakfast and then we leave our bags on lockers and went for a walk looking for something we haven't seen, the KL lake garden, which is really famous for the variaty of birds, well we couldn't see that, we went walking around the garden looking for a peaceful place to rest because of the lack of energy and money. at least we were there!

this was the first place we found, but it wasn't enough for us.

Yay! this is better! good choice Christina!

I find myself lucky to know this place, it was really peaceful and clean, we slept there for hours (sorry i don't remember exactly the time). i never though there were such a beauty place like this, i can said that we ended the travel in Malaysia happy and satisfied.
I recommend those who´s planning to visit singapore and malaysia, you better get your train ticket before and pay for the bed ticket is the best choice you can make!
Speciall thanks for Diana and Christina for the pictures, i was so lazy and tired using my camera...
Xi'An is the next stop, we meet other friends there and the end of mine and dianita's travel. 

 

OH! i wanted to share this picture with you, is not the best quality and the best picture, because it was taken with my phone but the light of the background and the student chatting there look great, i can imagine this picture with a professional camera or a digital one...  This was the last picture i took before going to the train station in Singapore.

From Malaysia to Singapore

The first thing that came to my mind thinking about Singapore was food in a tiny expensive city.  Here we go, we arrived to Singapore from Malaysia, Melaka by bus, i'm not sure if it take us 6 hours to get there or less. I fall deeply asleep the whole way, so i don't remember. When we where passing the border i was so nervous, i was afraid that they'll asked me about a visa to get in (at that time i wasn't trusting the internet, why if they changed something and didn't updated on the internet at the last moment?) Well actually the guy who was checking my passport were also afraid not to find Panama in the list, it was a funny and stressed moment.
When we got in we were a little bit lost, hungry and without Singapore Dollars, how can we take a cap or a bus to our hostal without SGD, poor girls in a rich city!! well that never stop us, we were still alive and together so we walk around to find a bank and get some cash, after the bank we expected to take a taxi, but then this taxi driver told us that the hostal was around 15mins walking, really near!!! in China we walk more than that so that was nothing for us, but of course we got tired because we needed food at that moment.

can you imagine a Mercedez Benz as a taxi in Panama or any other Latin country?

Nice view from the highest pool in Singapore ¨Marina Bay Sands resort¨

Smart Singaporean kid

As you see is a really clean city

We booked a reasonable cheap hostal i mean not the cheapest one but the one that is up to the cheapest one.  well, it was the worst hostal i had ever been, really bad service.
We sleep in a 8 bed mixed room and we were 4 girls in the room, it was really weird to sleep with stranger, specially when they were guys and smelly and snoring. well this wasn't the bad service part it was just an experience, i´ll keep the bad service for myself, sorry.
Oh! i missed the universal studio in Singapore, anyway it wasn't a big deal for me to see that, i just wanted to hang around the city, anyway everything was really expensive for us, and compared to China and other countries, Singapore is one of the richest and cleanest City's in the world.
Fun fact: you cannot chew bubble gum around or smoke. (this is something i heard from someone else, i'm not sure if is true)

Next: back to Malaysia

Malaysia, Melaka

This was my 2nd stop with my amazing friends in Malaysia. We got there by bus from Kuala Lumpur Bus terminal. Before getting into the bus we were already surprise with the Bus Terminal, it was so Beautiful, that much that makes you feel like in the airport, well no... even better!
So, when we got into the bus it was another fairy tale, i mean, the bus was so comfortable, specially the seat, this was better than the first class seat of an airplane!  ok, i know im exaggerating but compare to other long distances bus this was fabulous, even though the distance from Kuala Lumpur to Melaka was just 4 hours.

The best thing here was our host, she gave us a momi aura, i was just missing my mom. She was so nice, explaining how or what we should do on our trip in Melaka, like: be careful with your cameras and your wallet, don´t take so much money out, don´t take your credit card, take care of each other, don´t go around with value stuff, lock it in your room, etc. etc.. She was so nice!  and she also gave us a warm welcome with a delicious Lichi Drink! I´m gonna miss that...

We were looking for food / Walking around the China Town. Fun Fact about the 

China Town in Melaka, they open at 11:00a.m. and close at 5:00p.m. 

i heard that this is the laziest China Town in the World.

Restaurant: Jonker 88 / Delicius traditional Melakan food,  

nyonya laksa (spicy noodle soup) and the famous dessert, i forgot the name.

Melaka flower & music Taxi: is really famous in this town, 

we didn´t ride one because walking was also exiting!

 

This was also one of the funniest thing that happened in Melaka, We paid for our cartoon drawing next to the river in melaka, this guy told us that he was going to deliver our drawing to the hostel by 11:00p.m. yeah we got it but not at time, around 3:00a.m. the host knot on our doors and we received this surprise!   I wasn´t wearing hot pants and showing my belly! so when i got back to the campus in Guangzhou i add something that look like my dress so i can show it to my family and friends!

Next Stop: Singapore!

Malaysia, KUALA LUMPUR

(please check the THE TIBET PLAN... FAIL before starting to read this one) At the beginning i was unsure, South East Asia never attracted me. The first thing that came to my mind was:"im going to find a lot a nature life and beaches, something i got back in Panama". Of course i was so wrong and ignorant.

We were six in the Tibet travel plan, well actually seven, but one didn't make it at the end.  Jana, Christina, Diana, Vivis and Alvaro's, were the one's who was going to make the travel, including me.
We were all upset, but there was no choice, just make another plan. So the next plan was Malaysia and Singapore, but then alvaro tried to sell them all the idea of visiting Japan, the round trip flight was so cheap that really attracted me, I was convince for one or two day's, but something was wrong there and of course everyone knew it, the radiation problem. Since what happened at the beginning of this year everyone's were worried about the food and being there, so it was better not to take the risk.

We had problem booking the flight for Malaysia, it was stressing, especially for all the other girls.
The first thing in my mind was "i think im gonna stay doing nothing until my flight back to panama, and its gonna be boring and nostalgic". Thanks God everything happened at the right time with the right peoples, i had a lot of fun and this is one of the Travel i´ll never ever forget!

 

We arrived at the morning and it was raining, we were suppose to eat some traditional Malay breakfast, but the easiest and cheapest thing was Mc Donald´s.

 And then the Sun came: we went out for our city trip! 

First stop: China Town 

I think this was something traditional, i forgot the name but it was so delicious!

Is like pancake with peanut and cooked sugar. 

 THE PETRONAS TOWER

I don´t have word to describe this, it was amazing! People where kind, we asked for direction several times and there was no one who refused to tell us where we were and how to get somewhere. The best thing was everyone´s speak perfect English and the FOOD was wonderful, this is a really good place to travel! our next stop was Melaka.

THE TIBET PLAN... FAIL

Jana, is one of the happiest, crazy, intelligent, sexy and disgusting friend i ever had. She's 50%german 50% Asian, why? simple, she got a really advance chineses speaking and a LOT of asian knowledge! that makes me feel bad sometimes. now shes learning korean, and she's good, it wont surprise me if one day she start to learn Hakka (my family dialect).
This girl have been traveling around Europe and Asia, im sure that one day she'll make it to Australia, Africa and America. She's really adventurous like a scout child! i wonder how she was at the elementary school...
Ok, lets make this shorter, Jana was one the good friend i meet during my year in China, Guangzhou. She was always planning something, it didn't matter if there were school days or holidays she was always up to something. The Tibet plan was her idea, and i start to like it when one of my Chinese teacher showed to the classroom picture of the places he had been in China, one of his favorite place was Tibet, the picture and his speech amazed me. After that i started make my own research about Tibet in www.baidu.com (is the chinese google).
Diana is  also a really good from GZ, she's an Italian born Chinese (IBC) and one of her dreams was travel to TIBET! the day she told me that, i started to convince myself, but my economic situation was bad, i was just a normal foreign student who's 80% of the financial support was from 3 hard working years. I was really sad, when my friends started to plan the whole travel, it was hard for me.
Thanks to GOD, i got a job before the whole travel thing and the end of the semester. i was a translator then.
But then my instinct started to betray me, at the beginning of the semester i join a Chinese instrument Class and i was really into it, that much that i wanted to get the instrument and sent back to Panama, so i can keep playing the chinese melodies, but it was sooo.. expensive to get a god one for beginner. so i was between the travel or the instrument, it was a hard desicion, but then i was just thinking, travel to tibet with 5 really good friends from school would be better now, so i choose Tibet, 3 days before my friends make the reservation i told them to include me. I WAS SO HAPPY! you cannot imagine!

But then, something terrible happened...  everyone's knows that Tibet and China never have had good relationship, our travel agent tried to get the pass for us to Tibet, but it didn't work, im not sure about what happened at the time, but i really wanted to kill someone!  NO TRAVEL TO TIBET, WHAT? and the holidays was in two weeks and there was a month left for me to stay in CHINA! NOooooo...
I didn't wanted to cry, i wanted to fight with my Tae kwondo coach, Nasser. He is black belt in everything and i just got the yellow one. and what about the others? same same... so we had time problems. we had to change our whole plan, planning something in 2 week with all our problems (sending the stuff, books and clothes back home).  Well, i was so confused. I could had keep working getting more chin chin.. or do nothing, why because Most of the places in Asia is kind of restricted for Panamenian, Yes we need a visa for almost everywhere.....
Jana has this wonderful idea, traveling to Malaysia and Singapore and maybe Indonesia, but there where not time for me if i wanted to get a visa for an country in Asia, sometimes takes 1 weeks and it depend...  I was about to give up... Then i found out that Panamenian doesnt need a visa for malaysia and Singapore, so a said YES!

this are some pictures from tibet i found on the internet, is really cool to see everything there, get to know the culture and best view i the world.  well this is my personal opinion.  wait for next post!