Apexture Photography » Travel http://www.apexturephotography.com Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:35:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Interesting faces from China trip http://www.apexturephotography.com/interesting-faces-from-china-trip/ http://www.apexturephotography.com/interesting-faces-from-china-trip/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:22:31 +0000 Han Beng http://www.apexturephotography.com/?p=86 #update: Some readers have reported back strange color cast on the photos (yellowish). I checked and found that the problem only occurs in IE and google chrome. If possible, please view this page in Firefox.

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When you spend 9 days staying in the same hotel, traveling in the same bus and visiting the same tourist spots, together, you make new friends.

And that’s what happened during my recent trip to China. I get to know some interesting people.

With all 19 other tour members’ age go anyway between 40-year-old and 80-year-old, you add in another chap at half their age and you get an interesting combination. Did I mention 16 out of 20 of them are women?

Well, I had a wonderful time. Thank goodness. Now I’m contemplating tours with kids half my age. :mrgreen:

While the tour guide at front was explaining the advantages of silk as bedding, and the guy next to you started to talk about heat conductivity and properties of different materials, you knew right away the guy has to be knowledgeable in physics. In fact, Mr. Yap is a retired physics teacher.

Mr. Yap, here looking serious and showing authority.
Mr. Yap

Mr. Teh is our tour guide from Malaysia. With 101 other tour guides using similar little flags to lead thousands of tourists, he bought himself a colorful toy wind turbine instead for our beacon. Brilliant.
Mr. teh

Pretty ladies.
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Yours truly’s mom
mom

A model in silk dress. She is not our tour member. :smile:
model in silk

Han Beng

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The crowd, were having a good time.
the crowd

More images after the jump..

The talented performers, all giving their best.
singers
guitarist and bassist

And finally.. my cousin, Paul.
Paul, the guitarist
paul, the guitarist

Charming, isn’t he? ;) If any of you single ladies want his contact number, please drop a mail to apexture@gmail.com. I won’t make public your name, I promise. :D

Han Beng

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