You know, I always refrain from clicking and opening that file BiTC-China in my harddisk because I know I will be missing that experience so much! Honestly, I do not know if Beijing is really that nice a place (*it’s definitely a nice place but is me missing that place because it’s really nice?*) or is it because of the company there!
Sighs, whatever is it, I really miss that experience. It’s like a dream now and I re-watched the DVD I bought from 圆明园, Old Summer Palace. It’s such a magnificent place and I really would want to see it in it’s glory days! Why did they have to burn them down! While watching, I kept thinking, what would it be like to live in that period of time. How did the concubines, maid, emperor live. China architecture has it’s beauty and so does Western architecture and imagine a fusion of both. Sighs. Now, what we see is not even half of what the Old Summer Palace is back then! I saw the graphical display of what would have been that western fountain that French (*or a Dutch?*) designed. Oh yes, we took a group picture there and it’s my favourite picture. Imagine what it would have been like!
And I remember this maze like thing there! We were playing there! Although it’s low, it’s pretty tricky!
Yes, the fountain. Oh, remember me talking about this french or dutch guy that designed the fountain? Oh, it turned out that he is neither french nor dutch. He is an italian! He is Giuseppe Castiglione or better known as Lang Shining 郎世宁 in China. =D He must be a genius or something! He died in Beijing. But I guess, he must be darn sad seeing those beautiful places he designed burned to ground. =( I think, this saddness reminds me of the tour guide that brought us around. I could actually feel that heartache from him! 
This is the maze I was talking about. Pretty amazing I would say. The king/emperor had so much money to spent!
I really want to continue, but I guess I won’t sign off from here because I will be continuing from tomorrow. I want to enjoy these pictures first. =D
… To be Continued..
