Last Weekend @ Beijing

The last weekend (14th,15th Jan) in Beijing was the besssssssst

Went shopping with "Harvey" and "Maggi"
Maggi works in PR for Intel, i have never seen an awesome bargainer like her ever !
Thankfully her english was good since she had worked for 2 years in Singapore, i could finally have a decent conversation in English!
She saved me sooooo much money :-)

First stop was Zhong Guan Cun (often "Zhongguancun") known as the Silicon Valley of China.
Our office is close to this place.
Shopped for some electronics here , it has huge elecronic malls .

Next we headed straight to the Xiu Shui Market also popularly known as the "Silk Street"

Its a tourist paradise,very good quality "export" goods here .
Shopped and bargained like crazy!

After having spicy ( hottttt) dinner at a Sichuan Chinese Restaurant (Sichuan is China's spiciest province :-) ), I decided to treat "Harvey" and "Maggi" at the Hard Rock Cafe especially since she was such a sweetheart and had saved me a lot of moolah :-d and also because both of them were rockers !

So we headed to the Hard Rock Cafe .
It was a relief to see 90% foreigners in the Hard Rock Cafe .:-)
I immediately liked the place ...the ambience ... got a hard rock tee from the Rock Shop there.
Some Filipino band was playin there ... all english songs but the music was kinda poppish for my taste ... but since i was seated just next to the stage ,i was concentrating on the guitarist :-d

Here's the guitarist giving a super pose for me :-d



It was fun :-)


On Sunday "Jane" took me out to the Tiananmen Square
The square is 880 metres south to north and 500 metres east to west, making it the largest open-urban square in the world.
It is very symbolic for China , known for the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Student protestors claim that over 7,000 were killed during that protests in 1989 .

Thats me at the square , behind me is the Great Hall of the People, seen on Chinese currency ,Renminbi notes.




We also visited the Forbidden City, close to the square.



Went to the local market , the chinese eat scorpions and sea horses too , they claim it makes a man stronger :-P



and those were alive!