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[Travel] Assalamualaikum Beijing

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Assalamualaikum Beijing :)

Bukan bukan, ini bukan judul film yang itu kok. Saya belum nonton filmnya apalagi baca bukunya.

Terakhir saya menginjakkan kaki di ibukota China ini sekitar tahun 2007-2008. Dan alhamdulillah, mengawali tahun 2015 ini saya berkesempatan berkunjung kembali ke sini. Well, bukan berkunjung sih tepatnya karena ini bagian dari urusan kantor bertemu dengan kolega dari China Unicom dan China Mobile.

Saya pasti mati kutu kalo ke China. Pertama saya buta aksara, pengetahuan mengenai bahasa Mandarin juga minus (selain angka, beberapa kalimat standar percakapan dan pesan makanan di restoran fasfood, i know nothing). Walaupun saya gemar banget mempelajari sejarah kuno China. Tapi ya butuh teman ngobrol bahasa Inggris jadinya. Paling ga, itu topik yang sangat nyambung buat memulai percakapan dan biasanya merambat kemana-mana :)

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Red Lanterns

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If you see the red lanterns, first thing that will come up in your mind probably is China.
According to Wikipedia, The Lantern Festival in China is a festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year in the lunar calendar marking the last day of the lunar New Year celebration. In Indonesia, the festival is well known as Cap Go Meh.

These pictures I took a week ago (after 3 days bedrest) in Living World, Alam Sutra not far from my house. They create what they called as ‘Kampung Pecinan’ (Chinatown) in the roof top. It’s already passed Cap Go Meh I think. No wonder there’s no event like the Lion / Barongsai Dance.

Well, I went there to buy some bread not intentionally for hunting red lanterns :P

The Red Lantern

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Follow Me

Cross Road

Red Lanterns

The Floating Trio

Red Lanterns

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Follow The Lead

So, those all I’ve got ^_^

Hope you like it :P

Beijing

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Leaving Nanjing this afternoon. Arrive at Beijing, -2 celcius outside the airport. Well still OK.
Go straight to A Fun Ti for dinner and watching show from Xinjiang people. It’s Friday, traffic jam is everywhere. No much different with Jakarta :P
Lucky got table in the restaurant and order some Xinjiang food. It’s crowded inside. Maybe because it’s Friday night, weekend. So ppl choose to spent the night in restaurant or other similar places along with their friends.
The food was so good, the show also. Start from traditional music, kungfu and very very pretty dancers :P Lucky me, i brought Decy’s handycam with me so i could take some shoots :P One of the pretty dancer try to put a big snake in my shoulder. HUaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I hate any kind of reptils. Please.
So an old mand win the prize, going to the stage with the pretty snake dancer and got Xinjiang hat + tshirt :P
Went to hotel around 10pm. one hour later i went outside with Yuan Chen, Hu Sin and Aang for a walk. Getting colder and windy in the street … brrrrrrr, -6 in a sudden. Huaaaaaa, forgot to bring scarf but thanks to my ‘astronout’ jacket for keeping me alive :P
Brrrrr…..