Day 18 - Shopping at Han Zheng Jie

i think this was pretty cool.

Stress during test. Too many things to write and not sufficient time or maybe its just me who dont know what to write,thus just writing down what I think is appropriate, when some are not? Okay, enough about tests and that includes results!

B.A.S decided to go shopping today right after test instead of following Mr Wong to see the sakura(s). Sorry Mr Wong, hope you were'nt too lonely. lOl(;

Shopping at HAN ZHENG JIE:

1) CHEAP!

2) WE ARRIVED JUST INFRONT OF THE 'SHOE-CITY' AND thought there are only shoes in that street. HAHA.

3) SPENT MORE THAN 400 RMB?

4)  !!!!

Its so much fun shopping with friends especially when you are allowed to spend a little bit more than average and able to bargain your fill. ((: I dont normally get these shopping opportunities and freedom like this (shopping from 3pm to 9pm? can you believe it? =)) Arriving at the Shoe City first causes some confusion but once it sorted out, I began to relax walking down the street w my classmates. Although there are some times I checked behind my shoulder to see if XY was following but of course, that was just me getting too used to someone who was once always there? lOl. Xy, what happen to you eh?

Shop till almost all of the shops closes down. Hash bought her last item(SHOES!) before we went for dinner. Mr Chen (refer to picture below) was the shoestall-co-owner. When he heard we planned to hail a taxi to go to walmart from there, he volunteered to show us a short-cut. Took us about 20 mins (10 mins if he walk alone) to reach there. Thank him profusely. ((:

DINNER AT KFC!! YUM YUM SLURP SLURP. okay. hee (: I had my first egg-tart ever. custardly feeling, damn nice. Why am i always talking about food? Mr Wong will continuously disturb me about the foods I ate if he know. -__- oh. i know why. Coz its nice and he jealous :P LOL

FOur of us bought flowers for Ice Sea (previously mentioned as ICY) and caught the bus (588) back. Main motive was just to give Ice Sea the flowers since she had kindly invited me (as claimed by Peijie) to go ktv to celebrate her birthday. However, Cherry and Benedict instead brought us to their ktv lounge. Though tired we are and packing, we have not, we stayed. I couldnt contribute much in singing chinese songs (hurhur). Had suggested and picked afew english songs but we agreed to leave for home not long after.

Reached the gate around 11++ and I panicked when the big gate was close. Zzzz/ Since I'm here blogging, I did not get locked out laaaa...... Okay, here's some uploaded pictures:

Shoe City
Pulling Carts
Lonely grandpa. Can you see him?

O-kay.........
walk2
small lanes of HAN ZHENG JIE
smoke 

FIRE BRIGADES!
THICK SMOKE
Not sure whether he is a cleaner or a broom -seller (probably the latter)
a motor-trishaw
ice-cream by the street

HAN ZHENG JIE
HAN ZHENG JIE
HAN ZHENG JIE

a fire brokeout
fire extinguisher problems?

night-life (near wal-mart)

damn pack like "pasar malam" in SG
crossing the road
no pavement or small road rules.
closed at 430pm
the dog that wallops something similar-looking to shit right after this picture is taken.

Tom's World Staircase Entrance (ARCADE!)

wont get to see more than 7 basketball hoops in SG right?

ooohh money2
something like Para-para?

happy shopper.
one of the nicest toilet w stylish flush function. step on the pedal to flush. but theres still a wastebin on the left side though. hurhur.
like blue shooting stars to me.
FOUND YOU ATLAST!

Mr Chen
I ate half of the burger then remembered about taking picture. 

LOL

sit on them and they go BOINK BOINK not POP!

happily shopping =D

"best thing about tonight is we're not fighting

could it be that we have been this way before.."

(from Fall for you by Second Serenade to sum up my random thoughts)

Day 17 - Last Day of IS

The paper-plane made during break time (first).

flying.
My paperplane notes.

shirt that i bought for 40RMB
No Idea why there's strips of newpaper on the inside of it.

Heyyo,

Roommates and I went for class at 1pm after doing our usual stuff (chatting online, bathe, eat etc) as class was cancelled (yeap, hip hip hooray!). All 3 of us slept pretty late the day before to finish up our overdued assignments and were all feeling groggy and kind-of, low-spirited.

I thought Xiao Lin Lao Shi class was getting interesting the day before. Today, Ms Sally talked about ethics and the chinese customs (and cultures) that are still practiced in their daily lives. I was a little more attentive than usual as that was one of the things that I have tried to get to know and has recorded down in my learning plan before I came. 

Unfortunately, I couldnt bring myself to stay long enough after 3pm that day. I tried to get some sleep during the second break but the area I was sitting was not too quiet (as it was break time and it seems like everyone was talking). I decided to went back to bunk the moment I taste bile in my throat. Initially wanted to take panadols but changed my mind and sleep instead.

I felt bad leaving IS class halfway when I woke up to let my roommates in. I hope I wasnt marked down too harshly. Concerned friends/lecturers reading, I dint throw up afterall, please do not worry. 

Something I have to share though: MsXiao Lin Lao Shi actually gave me handouts on the "Muslims in China" and some Chinese Superstitions that I asked for yesterday. I'm very touched and moved that she remembers. Turns out, the whole lot of the others took photos with Xiao Lin Lao Shi and had thanked her personally. Can't believe I had totally forgotten it was the last day. @_@

I'm gonna show her that I've learnt something in her class but for now, nobody needs to know.

Day 16 - First Presentation and the Sixteenth Day

Pretty,pretty, blooming, blooming

Being alone does not mean Lonely kayyyyyyyyyyyyyy (:

Room 220 (Seok's group) presented second.

Room 123 presented third.

Room 116 (Vivian's)

Room 222 (XY) 
The view from the toilet. hahah!

be amazed the cubicles are low
and there's no lock or latch
the act-cute face of wei guang

the slept-at-3am faces
i only now then noticed the pretty lights of the lecture hall. O_O

Whoo~ *Pats stomach*

tall, talented basketball girls at practice

Hello!

10am presentation so the 123 girls woke up around the range of 730 to 8am to touch up and run-through our slides. Almost marked (or maybe already marked) as late though since we got carried away in the midst of our preparation.

Good news: All three managed to get our points across.

Bad news: two of us had to be probed for answers, that shows we did not explain it rather thoroughly right?

Good news: ITS OVER!

Its a ratio of 2:1, that should be a call to celebrate, isnt it? Haaa -___-

I had maggi for breakfast and lunch, maybe maggi for breakfast tomorrow also? (OMG, dear hair, please dont take offense with the plenty intake of MSG and continue growing like normal, okay? I love you~)

Xiao Lin Laoshi starts off the lecture on Queue (the long men's hairstyle) and also the feet binding history. That sets me wide awake. heh.

It was when the Manchus managed to conquer China and they made all of the men (the Han Chinese exactly) to do the queue hairstyle as a sign of submission. The men were'nt happy (although, I think most of them were more unhappy towards the new hairstyle rather than being conquered). 

Infact, I dont think anyone likes to be conquered, thus relating to the NE message: 5. We must ourselves defend Singapore.  No one else is responsible for our own security and well-being.

Makes me miss my little hometown now... 

Just look at the crushed toes. only the big toe was untouched. other than that every other bone in the feet are crushed eversince they are 3 years old! *#&*@ 3-inches feet are considered golden lilies feet. 4 inches-Silver lilies. iron lilies-5 inches. If its gold and silver and iron, how come never show it off?

grr.

It started off from the dancers that were asked by the emperor to dance on a golden lily platform with their feet bounded. Logically, our feet should be big and long enough and of the appropriate shape to withstand our weight. I can only imagine them hobbling around with feets spoilt and cramped. I guess thats precisely why they were'nt It was done to show your a woman of high class. The smaller your feets are the most desirable you are. ouch! imagine someone wanting you because of the size of your feet? Its like wanting you just for the size of your tits. 

*taking deep breaths*

thats my view.

Since in olden days women are known to be more obedient and respectful of authority (esp. towards their parents), I guess they would have no choice and when it determines your future.... sighs. 

-__________________-

IS teacher also covered on the politics (different parties like those PAP in SG) in China... FYI, students involve in communists parties are not as favourable as those who are not in any parties for international students . It reminded me of Nancy, my classmate. I think she's not associated?will ask.

Religion about Taoism and Buddhism were also covered. Do you know Buddhism orginated from India? i thought it was from China. hurhur.

After class, I asked teacher to cover more on the chinese beliefs that they applied in their daily life now, as that is one of the things I had looked forward to. She told me she will look into it and asked me to help her write down about the Muslims in China as well so she wont forget. I think mr Wong gave her that suggestion.

by the way, mr wong can be a very good Phua Chu kang, dont you agree? LOL. OIP grp has been assigned to do a presentation things on Made in Sg. So far, XY have not delegated any tasks but I guess we can auto- do our research already since its next thursday and we're going away again this weekend. to WUDANG O_O known for their wushu-as said by Hajar. LOL

Highlights for today:

Told ya, I have pretty roommates. 

(They even sleep, prettily)

Hee.

Fridayyyyytessssssssttttttt! 

ARGH

Day 15 - First Industrial Visit

HSM-2 was the exit. HSM-1 was the entrance.
Random. 

What does that sign mean?

They were trying to make a smiley face w the leftover strips of food.
Nothing to do, huh.

If I remembered correctly, Vivian said it reads, "Since the grass is beautiful, please do not step on them". Please feel free to correct me. LOL.
Group E. With do-I-really-need-to-say-who's-that-sandwiched-between-XY-and-Seok? hahaha

The train (probably carrying cargo?) that held us up for about 15-20 minutes maybe?
the administrative building
Opposite the administrative building/looked at hash's tired face.

tsk. 
xh, want fight is it? Haiyak!

haa, about 7AM: we were all just waiting to board the bus.

waiting to board the bus.
still waiting to board the bus. about 7 plus plus AM.

Woots~

Woke up early to catch the arranged-bus to Wugang(Wuhan Steel Mill Industry). That's our 1st industrial visit during our OIP stay. We get to wear those orange construction workers safety helmet and see how steel is being processed from a hot block of stuff to a roll of steel.

The factory produces real loud sounds like BOOM BOOM BAM! You can either be deaf or die of heart attack if you're not used to it. Curiously and also almost quite disturbingly, the workers working in there were not wearing any ear protection at all. I am concern for their health.

Besides the noise, the heat was almost unbearable when the hot block of iron was moved along the conveyor right in front of us. 2000+ degrees celsius beb, you tell me is it hot or not... LOL We were standing at the top but with some distance from the "Oven" and the Line of production but you can still practically feel the hot iron ore tanning your face. 

Its was so hot that we can even still see the heatwaves of the iron ore at its final stage which is when we are ALREADY OUT of the processing area! Phew~

Lunched with JO1s, XY, Vivian, Pei Jie and Zee Min. Xh, weiguang, hash and Vivian shared 4 dishes while the rest of us shared another four. Miraculously (or not?) our side seems to finish eating much much faster than usual that it seems a big deal to comment "That was fast." haha!

just jking.

The whole eight of us went for lecture around 1pm. After which, both roommates and I start to really panicked and become stressed up about the project that we were all on the verge of not wanting to go out to get dinner. We went anyway since I cant seem to stop pestering them about my hunger.

It was short though and since we went out abit earlier than usual, we didnt expect Mo Lee to open his stall already but he had. Even told us, in his strong Hui accent, he was there eversince 2pm.

Its because of these friendly stall owners that China is slowly being imprinted in this closet of mine.

... Finding it hard to deal with leaving and its not even near the time yet.