greetings travelynn-ers!

First and foremost, if you are *not* new to alaskie's blog then i guess you better not read this.

HOWEVER, if you are a newbie to me and my life. YES YES, please go ahead. For females/people/travelynn-ers (i made up this word, just coz i like it) alike, I hope this may benefit you and be part of your traveling "research" should you decide to take on China for that matter. You could leave me any qns/discussions/thoughts/wad-so-ever that you may have on my comments, am sure to get back to you since i blog quite often (with internet connect available of coz). I do not appreciate spam. THANK YOU.

alrightey. the only reason why i started this blog was to record all the painstaking plans i made and will be making for my short stint to China. figured it would be a good learning experience for me and the *future* me. so this is me alaskie (aka Alaska Ng); your personal online guide to the places in China; GuangZhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Yunnan, Kunming, Dali, Xiang Yun, Xiang Bi and perhaps Macau. *these are just the few places i'm planning to go, meaning i MAY or MAY NOT go. those places which are highlighted in red are places ive been to before * ima broke student so hafta make do with the money ive got working in DUCKTours (Spore) and other savings.

Ricky Tang from OSL (will address him as Ricky from now on) mentioned some sort of funding from ABF: Asian Business Funding for youths/exchange students/pple like me to go abroad and explore the the business opportunities of other countries. well, the ABF sounds really good and im definitely going for it! I NEED ALL SORTS of funding!

Mr Phua, VP of Kaifa (the co. i will be interning for) & Colibri, confirmed the date of arrival at Shenzhen (SZ). the BIG date is 11 May, hence i will be flying off on the night of 11 May. good thing that i will still be able to catch the last YOGA session with my mum a day before. how nice ^-^v. he got me really excited when he mentioned "you may like to bring you bed linen" !!!!!! ahhhh!!!!!, an orientation on Saturaday ard the vincinity of SZ and PLUS a FOC transfer from the airport to our apartments! HEY! this is really grrrrreeeaaaaaat! *i sound estatic* then again, i wonder how challenging our intern is gonna be. *chews her lower lips*

While in school earlier (9pm), gave Gloria a call in Hong Kong to tell her about my plans. As I confirmed my wonderful free stay in her apartment after my intern, I could start planning my flight details. Visa will come next. (will be planning for this after my exams. and YES you NEED VISAs to go into CHINA for long periods eg; > 15 days. Not sure whether im gonna talk about this later on. But for keen readers, you've got to go the the Chinese Embassy in Spore to get it done. you need to pay a fee for it. have forgotten the amt. and yes, rem to bring a photo of yourself) finally, ive got to get insurance. got excited again because I missed Gloria TOTALLY~ another reason is that id be spending my 2*rd birthday in HK with her! how brilliant!

Reached home and attempted to do some finance101 problems; got stuck and gave up (will try again tml... i promise) this time, i searched for Jetstar and Tiger for cheaper tickets. thinking about when and where i should depart from. could choose Macau, SZ or Hongkong. honestly. HK would be the best choice at the moment becoz its really near and i need not worry about the safety of my luaggages. this sucks. tiger still provides the cheapest airfare la~ but it departs from SZ!!!! URGH~~~

stay tuned. be sharing my routes to china in my next entries. g'day.