Day 29: The Only Birthday Girl in MDE OIP TRIP (:

First up:

Here's To Hui Miang, 
may all your hopes and dreams come true. (:

The first part of today is spent by :

That's right. The earlier-part of today is attending class to celebrate Hui Miang's 18th Birthday. Not everyday, someone turned 18 and we sure can't get the same number again. Hope we made it a little special by being there for her. (: Furthermore, her birthday is the only one that happened to be in this trip, other than someone whose-name-i-could-not-reveal-yet. (:

We listened to Mr Wong's briefing on Assignment 2 and our upcoming test 2 later on and received our test marks. I got a slightly low-average mark even though its open book but Mr Wong said all of us passed and he concluded all of us "did well". Well... haha. I think Randolph got the highest for test 1. Congrats! (:

Some other photos:
a unique birthday candle (:

back alley kitchen view

back alley at about 8pm. The back alley closes at about 11pm whereas other shops near the McDonalds closes earlier, around 930pm or so.

Something happened somewhere between before class finishes onwards. Its the feeling of discomfort and uneasiness which turned to annoyance with myself and the person(s) involved after much pondering are done. I learnt something there though. If only life is not a drama that keeps dividing the people of the community depending on their different emotion and feelings towards one another. If only the world has a bigger place for understanding, forgiveness and perhaps ... a place where communications are not just assumed to be read straight off from the minds but are spoken out in the open; Out front. Well, main thing is I learnt that not only different languages can create communication barrier today. I guess I am better off not talking so much. Dot.

Second  part of the day was spent to do our assignments and project presentation OTOT(own time own target). Assignment 2 discussion wasnt very successful. Maybe its our jam-tired-brain or maybe most of us are thinking too much of other stuffs or maybe just not thinking harder at all. Although we agreed to continue later on, in any case, the afternoon session ended disturbingly. 

I went to tapao some food for dinner with WG and XH to eat in bunk. During the short trip, I was thinking of Satay and it seems like a long time since I've ate any (about 10 days maybe? haha) but Mo Lee wasnt there. There was another stall thats selling the big mutton satay that claims to be providing halal meat but I just have to be more assured than that and decided to not buy even when XH and WG bought 2 each. I was starting to miss the China's mutton (halal) satay alot but I guess the addiction better stop sooner than later eh?

Will be going to Zee Min's room to prepare for tomorrow's presentation at the new campus. 

Day 28 - Back to work? No, please get away from me.

my stomach! omg! Too many ji dan la mian -__-

did not let xinhui in because we were going out.

ahah!

I ordered something from the promoted menu. Guess which one?
my skins around my lips is recovering but its super ugly now. 

wg likes to sit beside me. LOL. nola. -.-
jo1s (:>

Mr Wong discussed with us about our first and second industrial visit during class just now. Should Singapore would want to set up either a steel-manuacturing company or fibre-optics manufacturing company, I would definitely vote for the latter. My reasons:

1) It's not noisy

2) It's air conditioned *raise eyebrows*

3) It's more high-tech, therefore

4) there would be more high-skilled workers needed, and so

5) MORE PAY *jumps*

6) Fibre-optics products are not cheap thus they are more value-added.

7) And it does not have those BAM BOOM BAH sounds. (okay, i'm just emphasising on the noise part)

However, I find the first industrial visit more captivating and also an eye-opener. This is because we got to somehow feel how hot the furnace was, see how the whole steel was compressed and rolled up and most importantly(processes), how loud the machines were when they were at work. I think we are very fortunate to experience and see it live but once is enough. haha.  

The second company looks alot like one of SG companies. I remember there is one industrial visit that we went to when I was year 1... its quite similar in the sense, the company also gave us just a briefing on the processes and lets us see a video of what they did just like the Fibre-optics company, therefore the industrial visit is somehow similar like the one in SG. (Can't recall the name at the moment.) The only difference the other company has is that we are allowed to go around and see and touch the machines instead of watching most of the processes through a glass window where on the other side, there are only limited amount of dust (its very clean) is allowed in.

Went class in the morning and ate at the jidan lamian shop after finding out Julian's (from the previous oip trip) recommended fake kfc at the 2nd level of a building in the back alley is not halal. I bought a soccer ball, second-hand for rmb10 for my brother. -.- Dad laughed at me. Was it really, really silly? It weighs almost nothing to me...  Anyways went out to dinner again and ended up buying jeans, shoes and a skirt-overall. RMB150 kiss goodbye.

Day 27 - Free & Easy

fried beef rice with egg (: my luncner? (lunch cum dinner)

cooking something similar to Naan. Maybe it is Naan? but of a different name? The name was in chinese, something xiao ping? not sure. just eat, lol. no meat, so safe. (:

Its not until recently that I learnt its called Naan, and what Naan really is; Basically its a flat, yeasted, bread made from wheat flour. Traditionally its from Northern India but it can be found almost in every part of the country and it has become synonymous with Punjabi food (or with curryyyy:)).

wrapping up the Naan

Naan is also cooked in a clay oven, "tandoor". The temperature of the oven can reached 500 degrees celsius and the naan will be wet on one side and will be slapped to the sides of the tandoor to be cooked. Alternatively, it can be cooked on a cast iron griddle on the stove top. 

I'm not sure if I've tasted Naan in SG before but the bread above sure looks like Naan. haha. I like the salty Naan better than the sweet one btw (:

gou-gou in baby's cloth. The owner owns a KTV nearby and she was, as you can see, very friendly and even encouraged us to take a proper picture of her cute dog. ((:
gou-gou!!

they are what i call Grandfather dogs! see their furs? Like Qu Yuan's moustache! (no offense, just trying to describe grandpapa's beard look-alike)
army training? or similar like NCC?
a dog was going around the long stretch of trees, pee-ing. 

(marking his territory-its male, saw the balls)

butt-crack pants; This boy damn cute, i tell you, he smiled at us when we walk pass him also (:

butt-crack pants. One of the little boys at our favourite backalley muslim foodstall (;

he was eating apple and spitting it out. Hash concluded he just wants the juice. Most probably, she's right. (: Anyway, some of the locals told us that their babies have butt-crack pants because its for their own babies' convenience sake as they might not be able to hold their bladder.

The grls and I stayed in our room almost half of the day. This is because:

1) Its free and Easy

2) No one asked us out

3) Too lazy to go out

4) We wanted to try to tackle assignment 2.

All 3 of us slept in late and didnt bother to bathe until afternoon. LOL. We tried to do the second assignment but it was abit too confusing. We end up completing a design matrix halfway and agreed to asked Mr Wong the next day. 

We finally went out around 4pm to just walk around and see-see and have our dinner afterwards. Took afew photos and bought afew things for some of our classmates and some more souveniors to bring home and went to eat at the favourite muslim food stall around 8.45. 

Head back home soon after and bumped into Weiguang and the rest who went to homestay. They look well. Zeemin was telling us about her Disney-brand shopping when we reached our door. Thats all for today. (:

Today's research on Naan is based on http://mydiversekitchen.blogspot.com/2008/02/naan.html 

Day 26 - Day Tour is Equal to Day to Shop

i love their strawberry ice cream
our tourguide: Xiao Qin

(I finally know his name!)
mommy, there's a big hole on the roof.

sweet potato, orange on the insides are sweeter (:
BABI is pork in malay.
Jackfruit. I've always bought the ready-made ones O_O
skill~ lol.
In the shopping centres, we saw quite afew of the cleaners carrying broom-mop to "sweep" and keep the shopping centres clean of the sandy particles, dirt, hair etc. If you can see, the blue pail is almost filled with sandy particles.
Admit it, he's cute.

Look at the wedding cars!!

There are quite afew wedding cars. All of them got married on this day?
haha. Mr Loh.
It was raining quite heavily.

The wind was seeping through our jackets and the cold sticks to us like glue. It was almost as bad as our first day, immatures on winter weather. brr~

It was suppose to be a tour today and we were supposed to stopby two places. Due to the wet weather, we were brought to the Bu Xing Jie (shopping street) almost right after we reached the first location (which is something close to the Beach), "So cold already you still want us to go to beach, Siao ah?" LOL. That was the expression most of us had, actually. Haha.

Shopping at the Bu Xing Jie wasnt as fun as shopping at Han Zheng Jie. Maybe because, all around we turn are expensive stuffs, "So expensive, might as well buy in Singapore." However, the three of us recognised one of the buildings and we agreed we've been there before. Remember Mr Chen? and the Kfc near the wal-mart? yeah. btw, we had lunched there with Vivian and Mr Wong. 

Poor Mr Wong had to keep going out and in of KFC because he brought in outside foods. -_-

They say Bu Xing Jie is quite known for pickpockets. Unfortunately, I think some of us had fallen prey to it. We have to mind our belongings more carefully and be more alert of our surrondings, just like how Mr Choon Boo and some of the lecturers had asked us to before we came.

an 'okay' day

Day 25 - Second Industrial Visit and the Nearer Wal-Mart

Hello. Lets start off this post with some random stuff:

1. An email from Mr Wong

Click picture below to see what Mr Wong thinks of my picture:

-.-" 

sighs. heartpain. 

Jidanglamian=my face. new trademark. -___-

2. Accident 

All other vehicles cramped to the other lane.

3. The Blood Donation Center

Their blood donation center is just a small (what do you call it?) clinic by the roadside and very near to the Wal-mart.

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The Industrial Visit

I think the whole lot of us who went to the Industrial Visit today are very fortunate. I say this because Yangtze Optic Fibre and Cable Company Ltd. (YOFC), is not just any international company, YOFC is also the 2nd largest fibre manufacturer and the 5th largest cable manufacturer in the world! They are also ranked No.1 in China because of their excellent sales for 15 consecutive years! I think its amazing. There's this saying that means we have to learn from those who are successful and more knowledgeable, "Learn from the wise", and although the tour was less than an hour and most of the processes are not shown due to the company's secret, I think all of us had benefitted and learnt how the optic fibre is made.

optic fibres (the ones shaped like bangles) and cables

Raw materials to make the optical fibre
Mr Wong told us all something sad about BPQE. Even though its logical and I think its true, I'm still sad to know that whatever I've learnt all this time will be redundant and since they've taken out the engineering modules, I guess the more useless my diploma will be. =/ I actually felt discouraged and less motivated to do well at this point of time, which sucks big time cause I'm already not doing that well. If I keep this up, I'll get 2 or less for my g.p.a next 2 semesters.

I'm sorry.

The main point was Quality is already a must in companies and whatever I've learnt now will be provided for everyone who is working later on. So you know, the diploma fees are... ya, okay. Its too late to think of changing course.
brief history
in the 2nd largest optic fibre company in the WORLD!

The largest optic fibre company is in America.

Glass rods are the main raw material and the fibres are, as thin as your hair, extracted from them and are rolled up like sewing threads (above). Should the fibre was broken halfway, they are rejected due to quality reasons. 

These fibres would undergo some coating and other (not revealed to us) processes that are able to give them colour and etc.
there are no seats there, actually.

"the translator" is in front of Ben and Randolph
The guide is the one in orange jacket.

its not that I dont want smile as big as them, its because of limited lip movement.

first picture with Mengzhen

ehem, asst. and grp leader again ((:
urm, yeah. I wasn't exaggerating.

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On the way home, the bus dropby most of the LSCT students to collect their Sakura Tickets (to see the Sakura flower) while most of the MDE students (or was it all?) chosed to go to the nearby Wal-mart to have their lunch (and shop).

TUNNEL!

tortoise, anyone?...
... for soup?
Live frogs!
at RMB5.90 per 500g.

*gulp*

pizza hut have PORK.

=(
perfume testing, cool huh?
something I am not allowed to get~

Manicure. =/

double decker bus O.O
B.A.S/123 girls
double decker bus O.O

(notice the diff in China and SG buses?)
happy roommates

(the bus was bumpy)
double decker bus' stairs O.O

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We reached home (dorm) around 4 plus and went out to buy and eat dinner at Mr Loh's apartment. I had fun watching the TV (you won't hear that from me if I'm still in SG). More pictures below, that's pretty much how the 25th day was.

slacking at Mr Loh's apartment

preparing Green Bean Soup which Clive likes to eat with SPOONFULS of sugar. *shudders*
ehem, both asst. and grp leader cleaning up, together ^^

they say China people are very hardworking
now i know why.

DAY TOUR TOMORROW!!