宋家皇朝。。。

watched the soong sisters on tv last sat nite..though i had watched at the movie theatre before...that was many years back and i remembered i watched it with lifang...and i also remembered i teared at some scenes...it was a good movie...that's y i decided to stay up to watch it again...usually i would fall asleep halfway while watching tv....but amazingly i managed to stay up til 1.30am without missing any part....the movie gave me a good recap of the history of china after qing dynasty was overthrown....about the revolution...and how the nationalist and communist parties came about...the touching scenes are that of the kinship between the sisters and between the sisters and their parents....still brought me to tears....i dun mind watching it again and again....

still have a lot of dvds and vcds about the historical events like korean war, vietnam war, WWII, cultural revolution....all china import which i haf yet to haf time to watch....been hearing so much about the cultural revolution in china too...hope i can have time to watch the cultural revolution vcd soon....may be 2 years later???

during my lower sec history class...i was never so interested in history...but now i m very keen to know wat had happened in the past to shape wat is happening todae and wat is going to happen tmlo....

when i was in harbin last winter, i visited one historial site despite the cold...it was -12 degrees at least and i braved the cold to go find the historical site...is called 731部队。。。at 平房。。。about 45mins bus ride from harbin...i almost froze during the bus ride...my feet was numb while on the bus cos there was an opening and cold wind was blowing at my feet....managed to find the place after some directions from the locals and walking around in the cold....i went there alone but luckily there was a chinese group who was already there and i followed the group and the guide which gave explanations of the exhibits....else it could be quite a scary experience viewing the exhibits alone....the place is actuallie a germ warfare research centre which the japanese set up during WWII and they used life humans as research samples...it was really cruel....many chinese had suffered and died in the that place unnaturally.....hearing about the cruelty and being at the place where the cruel acts were being carried out really made my hair stands....luckily i had the company of the chinese group....after the visit the whole chinese group boarded the same tour bus except me....think then they realized i was not part of their group...but i appreciate their company...after that i went back to harbin alone the cold...there wasn't anything much to explore in 平房。。。but i was glad to see a school nearby and i stood there watching the children learning how to ice skate though it was freezing cold....i took a bus back to harbin soon after cos the sky would turn dark at 4.30pm...