Seop 2014. Anshan The highest point in Qian Shan is 708 meters. It has 999 peaks looking like lotuses looking up to the skies and thus the name Qian which means thousand peaks and shan means mountain. The tallest hill in Singapore where I was born was Bukit Timah which is 163m high (bukit is... Continue Reading →
2014 Sep. Anshan I have no idea what got misinterpreted in my hotel's address. Amusingly, China is the fourth largest country in the world, by some counts, after Russia, Antartica and Canada. The Chinese really try to incorporate English into their daily lives. Roads, public transport, hospitals, government buildings and hotels are also in English.... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Anshan Over the years, I became familiar with the key town features of China. They always have a large open space for people to gather in downtown and also in large suburbs. A large concreted space or a tiled ground with some sort of a large centre piece. People gather here both in... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Anshan This was one of those days when I took a random train to a random town. Just to see what life throws at you when you don't make any plans. I know that for some people that's the entire philosophy in life. But I am Singaporean. I can work with that idea... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Anshan Almost every time when I was staying in a hotel for any holidays, there will be at least one wedding taking place. I have actually never been to a wedding in China and therefore I was always curious about the local wedding customs. In Dongshan Hotel in Anshan, they had set-up a... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Anshan Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a highly respected practice in both Singapore and Australia with government approved doctors and hospitals offering an alternative health care and therapy. Needless to say, in China, traditional Chinese medicine is highly popular and you can find many pharmacies and doctors in every neighbourhood. Here in a... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Anshan I am not very sure what's the idea here. It looks like this building is out of bounds and they have stacked up bricks to form a temporary wall. I have not seen anything like this before. I can only imagine the amount of work that must have gone into stacking up... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Anshan I think these workers are applying a coat of cement or some other material onto a previously tiled building and are probably going to paint over it later. I certainly think that they are truly master tradesmen with a lot of experience and expertise but they are quite precariously perched here. They... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Anshan I have lived and worked in China for ten years from 2009 to 2018. Shanghai five years, Shenyang four years and one year in Beijing. And I have also travelled a bit in China. Overall, the Chinese are very friendly people. Initially they may be shy to speak to a foreigner but... Continue Reading →
Sep 2014. Anshan The truth is that there are a lot of people in China who have left the farms and rural areas and have moved to towns and cities to find a better future, very much like how my dad left his hometown in India and came to work in Singapore in the 1950s.... Continue Reading →