First day @ Beijing

Dear Bloggy,

There are so much to write about today as it is my first day here in Beijing. I am in the motel typing up the blog but I am tired so I better keep it short.

I arrived BJ at around 2pm as it took about 3 hrs to fly here. Took a taxi to go to the motel directly from the airport. On the way the driver spoke to me about the road system and different landmarks here. The most interesting one has to be the "bird nest" which is build for the Olympic games. I saw that on picture before but it is way bigger than I thought. It certainly is one of the most amazing building I have ever seen as it looks totally different than any other buildings I saw before, be them in America, Asia or Europe. Interesting.

The weather and air quality here is not as bad as I thought. It is 28C here and very dry. So it doesn't feel as bad as HK for its humidity. I bought a sim card (oh and my new phone number in China is 13717841431 (so loooooooog!) I walked around the area and it is actually very nice. The place is very concentrated and there are not only big stores like Starbucks, KFC, big super markets but also have many nice little coffee shops and boutiques there. I went to the Google office building, which is at the Science Park, to meet up with ZhongQui's friend. The park area certainly look impressive and I think I will have fun working there. :) HuiMin treated me Peking Duck in a nice restaurant (don't remember the name, will fine out) and it tastes sooooooo good!!! Some parts of the duck skin is like M&M which melts the moment you put them into your mouth! But those parts are very few and the majority of them are good too but only on the level which you can get in HK. But that particular few pieces of duck skins taste certainly amazing.

Since I have no luck finding an apartment today I need to catch up tmw. Need to sleep now... very tired...