WEEK 6: Day FOURTY-ONE (12th April)
Early in the morning, some of us went to the back alley (FOR THE LASY TIME T.T) to buy tea, tau sar pau T.T, and other favorite food T.T
At 10 plus am, we were all headed towards the airport via bus and it will also be the last ride on Wuhan!! I will miss the bumpy roads and the fast and furious bus drivers they have T.T
We sang and had fun in the bus with other china students (Charlotte, Yepp & Journey).
Upon reaching, we took many photos and some of us were so emotional that they cried. The local students were of great help to us when we were in Wuhan or else we might never knew the happenings and stuffs. I miss you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We took our heavy hearts and boarded the plane towards Guangzhou as well as towards Singapore. We reached Singapore's airport at around 11.15 pm and after around 15 minutes, I am beginning to feel warm and stuffy as it was a sudden changed of temperature from like 10-20 plus degrees to like 30 plus degrees?!?! Everybody were filled with smiles upon seeing our families and all of us definitely miss China and the days spent there will be memories that will forever be etched in our hearts.
After being in Wuhan for 6 weeks, I've learnt to become more independent as I do not have my family members around to take care of me and this trip had been an eye-opener for me. What I experienced here in Wuhan is totally different from Singapore and many of us do learnt things along the way each day. From the different lifestyles to different habits, from different food to different fashion, etc. If there is a chance, I hope Ngee Ann Polytechnic could organize trips to other countries like we've been to Wuhan in order for us students to discover the amazing things that is happening around Mother Earth thus allowing us to learn more as we grow up.
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WEEK 6: Day FOURTY (11th April)
We went to Lao Shu Jie today for shopping and didn't know that there was much things to buy. Regretted when we did not bother to shop there the first time we went there some days ago. Bought quite a few skirts =) Some of us then went to eat steamboat which I think it was quite alright I guess but not as nice as Singapore's one. The steamboat there charged by each dish and not by person so I guess it might be more expensive in this way. Next, some of us went Bu Xing Jie again while some of us went to the nearby COMMA where almost all the factory outlet of the sports brand are located. I went to COMMA and bought myself a shirt for my sleeping wear =)
At 5.45 pm, we rushed back to school by taxi because Mr Chong wanted to treat us for dinner =) THANKS MR CHONG FOR THE DINNER!!!! Kind of feel bad that we did not finished all the dishes because it was really alot and we were all so full.
We then rushed to the shopping mall again to buy Ma Ya Tang goodies and came back with loads of boxes. We went to the back alley to buy some biscuits and say goodbye to the cake shop auntie. Our cakes were bought by her and her husband was the one who bake the cakes. I'll definitely miss her T.T The gui ling gao shop is closed too so we guess we shall eat tomorrow morning before our flight. We headed back to our dorms and started packing our stuffs which almost killed most of us >.<
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WEEK6: Day THIRTY-EIGHT (9th April) & THIRTY-NINE (10th April)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALAN!!!!!
WOW! SO many birthday peeps around!
It was presentation day today and everybody was tired because most of us did not even sleep a wink. I was nervous.
The presentation turn out quite okay but I realized that I spoke very little for my slides.
HOW CAN!?!?!
It was too late by now so thats it.
It's celebration time! NO MORE LESSONS! NO MORE PRESENTATION! NO MORE TESTS!!!!!
We had lunch at the back alley and went back to our dorms to finished up our final report. In the evening, we went to the shopping mall and ate the food at the back ally there. The fried rice is good! We then went to play pool at the V.I.P room and supposedly wanted to give Alan a birthday surprise cake but it then spoilt by the manger as he told alan that he did not want us to dirty the pool table so must be careful.
AH!!!! !@#$%^&*(
In the end, I did dirty the table but NOT ON PURPOSE ONE!!!! I was eating my cake happily until I walked to the side of the table and when I was scooping the cake to my mouth, suddenly a piece of fruit dropped on the table! WITH CREAM!!!! Then everybody scold me T.T But it was cleaned up in no time with tissue and we all acted as if nothing happened. SORRY!!!! And so i scrambled to the sofa and sat there throughout eating my cake.
After pool, we went to the KTV there and sang till morning. The system there is abit different as normally in Singapore, we just have to press the remote control towards the screen for selection of words but over here, there's this small system whereby u have to select songs from there which is quite a hazard.
After KTV, we dragged our tired bodies towards the nearby Macdonalds for breakfast and then headed back to our dorms to sleep for about 2 hours.
At 9am, we were awoke by Ian's loud banging on our door and we were all so reluctant to wake up. We had to get going for shopping because we only left 2 more days before we had to go back Singapore.
We first headed to Shi Men Kou(a new place we have not been before) and discovered new food there! Like Gong Po Bing, their own fried banana (Singapore's Goreng Pisah is much nicer lah), etc..
We then headed to Bu Xing Jie where some of us want to get the chopsticks there.
In the evening, we headed back school where we will have a farewell party with the MDE and China students. It was Rocco's birthday as well =) (a local student) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
We ate cakes, tibits, and chatted with each other. It was then we had KTV session in the classroom! To end off, we had a wild party and most of the LSCT peeps were dancing away!!!!!
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WEEK 6: Day THIRTY-SEVEN (8th April)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WEEEE!!!!! I'm 18 already!!!!! One year nearer to death T.T
Had a not surprising "surprised" cake early in the morning at 12am practically (have not sleep yet though) with the peeps here. THANKS GUYS =DDDD
Was wondering whether will I get another cake later in the night like Jin Quan and Jasper's birthday. haha.
Slept till morning 9plus am where we had an hour tutorial lesson and Mr Chong led out the surprised party =.= Probably he thought I knew lah but I did guessed by the way. And the rest blamed him for letting out this surprise though haha!
Did our project for the WHOLE AFTERNOON. (What a birthday day) With the companion of mahjong to keep us awake while doing project halfway.
After which, at 7pm, we had to go to the English Speaking Corner at one of the classrooms where we had to interact with other local students in English. They performed hip hop dance which I initially thought that the locals do not dance because I have not seen hip hoppers around in school. And they proved me wrong! Perhaps it's a minority of people who dance. Guitarists strumming their guitars with all of us singing along. Interaction with the locals then began and they were fascinated with the English and Chinese we spoke. And some of them said that I'm from Guang Dong =.= I AM SINGAPOREAN!!!!!!!!!!!! Made a few friends and they are so willing to play mahjong with us =D They are nice people but too bad we did not know them earlier and we only left with around 3 to 4 days left =( They introduced us more places for shopping nearby WUST which the other local students that we knew earlier did not mention it to us.
It was 9pm already and our stomachs are pushing us to get out of the room and we then proceed to the back alley to eat dinner. I brought my own birthday cake back to the dormitory and started celebrating my birthday with the peeps. They surprised me with a lotus that could opened by itself after being lighted and a bouquet of flowers! It's my first time receiving flowers so I'm quite touched. (Although not given by guys lah, but I still appreciate it even though it was given by my friends of both girls and guys.) I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! MUACKS!!!!
It was then we had to continue with our project until quite late...
It may be a simple birthday with no activity, but I still appreciate the people who had been there eating my cake which makes me happy =DDDDDDD
*****
WEEK 6: Day THIRTY-SIX (7th April)
A bonding get-together session of high elements with the MDE and the ECE group at a school far away from WUST which took us an hour's ride. I'm not so looking forward to this activity as I AM SO DAMN TIRED due to the Lulin tour and the moment we reached our dormitory, we had to blog for a few days' post and end up sleeping very late. Not only that, we had a project to catch up and it can be quite a rush for all of us.
But the moment we got there, everything changes especially my mood. All of us were form into 4 groups and firstly, we had to give a name as well as design a flag for ourselves. On top of that, we had to give a cheer or a song probably. End up, we changed the lyrics of the "two tigers song" to "two panda and two lion". Quite cute though =pPp
We then had to play a strategy game which everybody had to work together. The game is that we were given newspapers and had to connect all these papers together and form a circle that could fit all of us inside. Just like the shape of a wheel with people inside and we had to imagine walking inside that wheel. We were not given any other materials and just newspapers. Sadly, my team lost but all of us were happy enough as we were all enjoying ourselves and helping one another although we may just got to know each other.
After which was lunch time and we went to the nearby restaurant for their famous fishballs. It's nice but it's just TOO SOFT until I feel that if i eat more, I will puke. Probably i prefer Singapore's fishball which is not that soft but very bouncy and have the Q Q-ness.
After lunch, we went back again and begin our activities.
First stop for my group is where each of us had to fall backwards and the people below will have to catch you. This game is about the trust that you've got in your teammates. With encouragement and faith everyone had with each other, we all had successfully completed it. Next we had to climb the high element where there are two board at the top and we had to jump from one board to another. After which, we had to fall off the board as if we are like committing suicide. I have no problem with the climbing part and the jumping part because I've done many high elements when I was in my secondary school but the jumping part wasn't as pleasant as I thought. I felt as if I was really going to take my life but it was fun! ( I don't know whether am I trying to contradict myself though =Z )
The last event was the rock climbing. I did not go up because practically I am lazy =pPp And I'm wearing my jeans which is tight and uncomfortable for climbing as well as I did it before during my secondary school days too. BUT! Me and other friends were cheering in encouragement for other friends who are climbing up.
Thus, these activities already took up the whole day which made us so tired until we had a very good sleep in the bus. Although we may not really know most of the students there, but we had preserved good attitude to help and encourage one other which made a team works with spirit.
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WEEK 5: Day THIRTY-FOUR (5th April) &WEEK6 :Day THIRTY-FIVE(6th April)
It's our trip to LuLin Resort today and had to wake up as early as 7am.
As usual we sleep in the bus and the road is super bumpy! All of us at the back were having so much fun and soon fell asleep. Upon reaching there around 12 plus pm, we had lunch at the restaurant there and after that, we were brought to our rooms and although it may not be as nice as the one we had at WuDang Mountain, it still had very good facilities.
We then went to see Mei Ren Gu. It's beautiful and it's really not to be missed as Singapore lacks of this kind of attraction. Too bad for our Jin Quan, he fell sick yesterday and had a fever today so he missed this attraction by staying in the hotel room sleeping all alone.
After which, we went to another place where we had to cross the bridge to the other side to see the village life of the locals there.
There were pigs (Mr Chong very scared of that big fat pig that we saw on the way!), chickens, cats, etc. The villagers planted many mushrooms too probably depending on that to earn money. We then came to a lake where many of us started throwing stones into it as if we hadn't thrown stones in the water before. After which, we headed back for dinner.
Although the villagers lived in such a dirty environment, they lead a simple life where they do not yearn for more things because they are already contented with what they have. With their agricultural practices like the mushrooms, they could earn enough to lead their own simple and peaceful life.
After dinner, we dragged Jin Quan out and headed to the nearby campfire where the activities there kept us alive. We started off dancing round the campfire for a warmup. After that, performance of this man from don't know where started to behave abnormally by daring himself with knifes,glass and hot plate. One thing that I think this man is behaving normally is when he performed a song by blowing through a piece of leaf. We then had cha cha dances and lastly, KTV session on the stage. Yi Sheng was sabo by us to sing a song "Yong Qi" by Liang Jing Ru and more and more students started going up the stage to sing. After like 45 minutes, we were asked to stopped as the organizers there wanted to end their day of work. This led us to sing one last song together "Peng You" and then scrambled back to our rooms.
This activity does bond us together although it's just a sing-a-long session but the feeling of the come-together does makes us feel as if we were all together as one. All of us had enjoyed ourselves today =)
The very next day, we were awoken by the banging of door by a teacher and had to dragged our body out at 7am for breakfast. After which, we were brought to climb a mountain. But this mountain was not as tiring as the one we climbed Wudand Mountain.
Saw many interesting things on the way like the jade rocks from like hundreds of years ago, the area which the soldiers had training or something during the Han dynasty, the formation of the camel head rock, etc.
Jade rocks, the camel formation rock.
We then went back to the same place for lunch and headed to the cave.
This cave had been here for a thousand of years and as the tour guide introduced us about the cave as we walked inside, we started to feel as if everything was ridiculous. With just a structure of any rocks inside, they can just say like a "Tortoise love the toad" where a shape of the tortoise head was formed at the top looking now at the shape of the toad formed from below@.@ It was as if like the Singapore's Monkey Tree where they discovered 2 years ago just outside my school and many people flocked the whole area just to pray to this Monkey Tree. Till today, nobody even bothered to go see that tree anymore.
But then, many people come to this cave to see because this place is an attraction location where everything is all preserved still as nicely as before.
After which, we then headed back to school and thats the end of our Lulin tour
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what we could have been, 7:18 AM.
WEEK4: Day TWENTY-SEVEN (29th March)
Everybody woke up late today because there are no plans for us.
Thus leaving everybody to STUDY STUDY and more STUDY until evening time where some of us went to eat the fastfood restaurant located nearby our school.
Took a taxi to the shopping mall again where the guys played pool and we girls went to buy DVDs.
And tata!!! Went back at around 11pm and went to the back alley to collect a birthday cake to celebrate a friend's birthday via webcam =pPp
Too bad, he's not in china but we are good-hearted people, we celebrate via webcam but the cake we eat lah =DDDDDDD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHENG SIONG!!!
*p.s: Not an eventful day today except for the birthday part*
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WEEK4: Day TWENTY-SIX (28th March)
It's a raining today that made the weather so damn cold.
Initially we were told to go to the Yangtze riverside for a walk, but then the wind and the rain is so strong that we had to postpone to a later time.
We then went shopping at Han Kou.
Saw quite a few clothes that I wanted to buy but was lazy to take off my clothes because of the coldness. BUT fret not! We will be coming again during the last week when the weather is better with the sun and also not that cold =)
But the guys seems to be having so much fun shopping due to the cold weather and they bought some clothes!!!!!
We finally get to eat LAO PO BING at some random cake shop !!!!!!!!!
Somehow we got separated with the guys and ended up waiting for them near the Riverside being blown by the wind.
While waiting, Mr Chong was kind-hearted enough to buy us hot potato to share due to the cold weather.
THANKS MR CHONG!!!!!
Mr Chong is so cute lah!
Kept showing his chopsticks and doremon stuffs to everybody =)
But many of us wanted to buy chopsticks when we go back there again =)
When everybody arrived, we then went to the riverside for a walk.
At around 3pm, we were then brought back to our dormitory to rest for the day...
IMPORTANT LESSON LEARNT:
REALLY MUST WEAR MORE CLOTHES DUE TO THE COLD WEATHER.
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WEEK 4: Day TWENTY-FIVE (27th March)
NO lessons today =)
But still had to wake up early to go for a trip to the optic fiber factory.
This optic fiber is used in wires which is a better quality than the normal cheap copper wire.
Upon reaching there, we were then welcome by the person in charge if the company and he explained to us about the process of making the optic fibers.
After which, LSCT headed to a street market nearby the main Wuhan University for lunch. AND AND! This time round the soya bean we drank is drinkable!!!!!!! The reason is because the soya bean we drank taste like cigarette smell due to the old traditional method they used to make it but today the ones we drank have the Singapore taste!!!!!!!!!
OMG!!!!!
FINALLY!!!!!
We then headed to the university to look at the Cherry Blossoms.
Got a discount instead, pay 8.80RMB instead of 10RMB because due to our large numbers as well as the trees are blading soon.
Due to the falling season of the Cherry Blossoms, many flowers had already drop on the ground but it falls so damn beautifully while the wind rustle.
It's good to see Cherry Blossoms just once in your life rather than seeing pictures on the internet.
After staying such a long time at the university, we all then headed to the SHOPPING MALL again at around 5pm. Some went for KTV, some went for a game of pool, and the rest (Ian, Jerald, Liying and me) went for shopping. We had economic rice for dinner.
This economic rice is different from Singapore's one. Over here, we are supposed to pick dish that we wanted by ourselves and they charged us by the weight of our dishes. While in Singapore, the price is fixed due to the number of meat or vegetables we ordered. Somehow, this weighing method is quite a good idea because if you take alot of meat, you may pay lesser over here rather than pay alot for just a few pieces of meat in Singapore.
Oh I finally bought something for myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (usually i buy things for my family members) Anyway it's just a hairband lah >.<
And Li Ying also finally bought something for herself too!!!!! Which is a rubberband >.<
After that, we went for manicure!
Ian and Jerald had to wait for us though, WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
It's 100 over RMB which is like cheaper than doing manicure in Singapore.
Actually it's due to out BLING BLING that makes it so expensive =)
Well, it's my first manicure done by other people afterall and from what i've observed from the way they do our nails, it's simple and easy so it's like I am also learning on how to improve on my own D.I.Y nails the next time I do.
Definitely, I like their great service which is that they are super nice and they gave a fast service due to the time constraint we had.
We then met up with the rest at 7pm and then went to WALL MART which is their supermarket and bought some items back to our dormitory.
Oh, supposedly should study but I guess it's too late now.
*YAWNS*
Got another one day outing tomorrow.
GOODNIGHTS!!!
*****
WEEK4: Day TWENTY-FOUR(26th March)
Almost everybody was tensed up today before the presentation.
Had lessons in the morning as well as after lunch.
At 3pm, We then head to WEST 5(3) to get ready for our presentation before the students, lecturers and deans come at 4pm. We then thought of a song to sing after our presentation together with the MDE students and just then we all suddenly thought of singing the song "SINGAPORE TOWN".
HAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!
I remembered singing this song during my secondary school days with one of my good friend during class.
My group was the first to present and suddenly my hands were filled with cold sweat. I wasn't sure if I could present well because I'm known to say those ja-pa-lang things which are not supposed to be said during a presentation as well as my stammering.
Thus, after my presentation on Singapore's places of interest, I heaved a sight of relieve. It's OVER.
I did stammer abit, I don't know how bad I did but I knew that there were some things unsaid during the presentation which i thought of saying before it.
And there were some words I pronounced wrongly, like the word "BEACHES" and my friends said they heard "BITCHES".
During the presentation, there were sudden flashes of light that made me like go: "LOL" (laugh out loud). The reason is because nobody took pictures of me from all my life until now when I'm presenting and now many students and teachers with super expensive cameras kept taking photos of us. This made me more pressurized. I've got to really go improve on my speaking. Until now I still think I haven't improved by abit.
The rest of the LSCT students were great. As well as the MDE's presentations.
MDE then sang the song "Ra Sa Sa Yang" and followed by our "SINGAPORE TOWN" to liven up the whole atmosphere =)
Thus ended off smoothly with a bow =)
I hope the China students would look even more forward in coming to Singapore soon =)
Had dinner at the restaurant we went 2 days ago and it wasn't a pleasant one for me. But cheap cheap 12 RMB.
Nahs, not going to study today shall start tomorrow =pPp
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WEEK4: Day TWENTY-THREE (25th March)
OH!!!!!
Mr Chong showed us the next half of Red Cliff 1 as well as the full of Red Cliff 2.
It's a nice show =)
Zhu-ge liang may be knowledgeable in many things, but he's always seems to be missing when the war between both sides started. @.@
But one thing about this show that disturbed me is that the bloodshed in this movie IS SO FAKE!!!!!!!! Looks like some tomato sauce that is mixed with water and with just one cut, this FAKE blood is like gushing out from nowhere funnily. And the thing is, when the soldiers are injuried by the arrow or spear, they would just drop dead and die BUT! the main characters of the show did not even die when they are injuried by the weapons. FUNNY RIGHT?
But still is nice lah =)
After the show, I've decided to go back to my dormitory and refused to go out for dinner because the weather is cold and I've yet to finish my slides for tomorrow. Another reason is because they wanted to go to the restaurant to eat but I just don't like eating at resturants lah. Save money better. So the rest left for dinner accept jeremy who also want to save money. He then went down to the back alley with alan and Jonathan to da bao some food while I stayed in the room eating instant noodles. The 3 guys then brought some food back and we had a small party =) until i totally forgot that I've yet to finish my slides T.T
Ok lah, finally I've finish everything and tomorrow will be a nervous day for me as I have to present with my group mates about Places in Singapore to a Lecture Hall full of people? OMG. Die already sia me.
GOOD LUCK!!!!
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WEEK 4: Day TWENTY-TWO (24th March)
As usual, we had lessons in the afternoon at 1pm. So we bought our lunch at the back alley and munch on them on our way back to class.
After lessons, Mr Chong showed us the movie Red Cliff 1.
I've never watched this movie before and always thought that this movie is boring because i absolutely don't even know what's all about it. But after I had history lesson with Xiao Ling, I suddenly felt more eager to watch this show. Of cuz, without the English subtitles, I think I still catch no ball because their chinese too cheam already @.@
So far we had watched half of it already, and so by tomorrow we will continue the next half and I'm so looking forward to it =)
After lessons, we went to THE SHOPPING MALL via bus and ate KFC there.
Compared to Singapore's KFC, Singapore's one is nicer.
China KFC's chicken is SO DAMN SMALL!!!!!
And their chicken taste like the after taste of a cooked chicken that was put into the water. YUCKS!!!
Their mashed potato is like really potato and taste very weird.
Singapore's chicken may be small too, but at least it does not have that after taste of cooked chicken that was put into water?!
Although Singapore's mashed potato is not made from real potato, it doesn't taste weird and it's still flickin' licking good!
I'm never gonna eat China's KFC again.
We then headed inside the mall for a walk and on our way up the escalator, we saw this father carrying his small kid right infront of a dustbin and guess what the kid was doing?
HE'S TRYING TO SHIT IN THE DUSTBIN!!!!
!@#$%^&*
OMG.
In a sort of high class mall?
I don't think this mall is lack of toilets right?
And where's the sense of responsibility of this father?
In the middle of nowhere suddenly there's this guy trying to let his child shit inside a dustbin where everybody is like walking past.
I do not know what's the government of China is doing lah but I am pretty sure if anybody does that in Singapore, they will have a penalty and definitely get kicked out of the mall.
Not to even say this, I GUESS nobody in Singapore does that. Unless some alien really trying to attract the attention of passerbys and get fined and appear in the newspapers and become famous overnight.
After seeing this disgusting act, we headed to Watsons to buy some stuff before heading to the other shops for window shopping. And thus ended our day with going back to the back alley behind school for Gui Ling Gao again and back to our comfy dormitories =)
Got to finish up my powerpoint slides already.
ZOOMZ..
CIAOS!!!!
*****
WEEK 4: Day TWENTYONE ( 23rd March)
We had lessons with Mr Chong today at 1pm =) So we can sleep longer due to the trip to Wudang Shang 2 days back. And to our amazement, our legs were not pain at all!!!!!( Although my legs were kind of cramped during the bus journey back school that time)
We had lunch at the halal canteen and quickly headed for our lessons because the weather suddenly turned cold and it was raining =(
After lessons, we headed to a nearby restaurant for dinner and to our surprised, we were given the V.I.P room!!!! AND THERE's NO EXTRA CHARGES!!!!!
This V.I.P room includes a private toilet, television(damn big), sofa, and a big table enough to squeeze in 17 people.
But the food was just alright lah, it's acceptable and the dishes were not that oily as we usually eat.
I still prefer the back alley food.
Not only that it's nice, appealing and filling, it's cheap too(Less than 10RMB can eat alot already)
Not like this meal where we had to pay 22RMB and i ate only a little.
But true to say, we only pay like around $5 SDG and we won't get to eat such a cheap lavish meal in Singapore.
With a private V.I.P room in Singapore's restaurant, the charges here and there could make you vomit blood more than you could afford it.
After dinner we headed to the supermarket and bought some stuff before we head back to our warm and cosy dormitories =)
I shall say today's not an eventful day for us, just a usual normal day with lessons and just out for our meals.
GOODNIGHTS =)
*****
Labels: WEEK 4
what we could have been, 8:50 PM.
