Little China in Kuching!!

Hehe...we dropped by the newly opened Friendship Garden at Jalan Song yesterday nite...it was jst opened on new year's day and since Red Sponge laughed at me for not knowing that it has been opened even tho i'm staying so near to the garden...i was kiasu abit and insisted tat we go there first b4 her...WAHAHAHAA...

apart from that...i oso wanto quickly pay the garden a visit cos i wanto c the garden in all its splendour........................b4 it gets vandalised...heehee....

to be frank...i was really quite amazed and impressed by the garden. its really cool..it has a nice ambience and nice stuff to look at ... or was i impressed bcos everything is still new,the benches...the stuffs there .. the pond...YUP! theres a pond inside bo!... i have been passing the garden every morning when i go to work and i never even realised that theres quite a huge pond init!!

i was only able to see the GIANT ...yup its really a GIGANTIC statue of Laksamana Cheng Ho on a ship or more correctly called a 'tong kang' i gez...however, the size of the statue of Cheng Ho and the ship is not proportionate. Laksamana Cheng Ho (Admiral Cheng Ho) would have sunk if he sailed to Malaysia on that tiny ship...wahaahahha.

the cement ship was in the pond...quite nice really..and you can watch the moonlit pond if you stand at one end of the ship...its like titanic u kno?? u kno the part where Rose and Jack stood at the hull of the titanic with arms widespread and all the IM FLYING thingy??? ya...tats the part...hahahaah. i was telling aidy tat we shud go there and re-enact the IM FLYING part so tat i could put the photo in frenster..but apparently he wasnt too keen... :p

OH YA!..and theres even a two storey chinese style tea house in the garden!!! nice!! ... the whole architecture of the tea house is like erm...if you've watch God of Cookery you would know wat i mean... u kno the building in which Stephen Chow had his final stages of the cooking competition??? with the chinese style roof and the steps...hmm i dono how to describe it...pls refer to pics...hehe...oh an another analogy i could use is erm the old old tea house that they normally show in ancient china movies...where some hero would be drinking tea and eating man tou in there and suddenly jumping in from the window theres the villain with a sword trying to break every table and chairs in the tea house...yup! thats how the tea house looks like...hahah..

i really like the garden la...will go back for sure!! and i wanna try out the tea house ..! its a really cool idea...i heard that it was jointly built by the government of china and DBKU or sth..im not sure :P

oh ! and one more word of warning...there should b no hanky panky around there since theres a 24 hour CCTV installed!...hahaha...

The friendship globe....

Admiral Cheng Ho saying hi on his undersized ship...wahahaha

Jack,Rose and children reminiscing the old-titanic-days on the ship of Cheng Ho.

The front view of the tea house

Some kind of chinese style gateway...with dono wat writings at the top...pls save this pic and zoom in if you wanto know wat does it read ... hee

The side view of the tea house overlooking the pond! NICE!

then we were both walking around lo....THEN!!!! omg!!! gez who did i meet???? why its 13thPanda and Red Sponge...!!!!

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oH look!!! RedSponge and 13thPanda holding up a piece of marble for me to sit on..AWWWW HOW SWEEET!! 'x' i gez...the panda symbolizes china whereas the monkey/babboon/gorrila? symbolizes malaysia! -_-" r they trying to call us malaysians MONKEYS?!

Cute 13thPanda...i dint wanto take the pic of the monkey cos its ugly 'x'