My Wuhan Wonderland

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Day 20 - The Climb

Han Xuan: Our Tour Guide and my cable car partner

Cable Car View from the Peak

ARH!

with another one of our Tour Guide

Saying Goodbye...

Cable Car View

High up... see the locks at the right foreground of the pictures? They are shaped like hearts or even two hearts combined and are said that lovers who locked each other names will stay together. Should they want to go their seperate ways, it was said they have to go and unlock those locks.

Cable Car View

The Golden Peak

Cable Car View

Resting near the peak

It was said they Rub the Bars for Good Luck...

and believers placed coins in between the bars as well.

Approximately 1,612 m from sea level yaw!

It was cold, cold, cold....

The Golden Peak from below...

As we climbed, there are others who worked to help you get there

So strong...

The narrow steps

Hashanah Jiayou!

At the Peak. ((:

Alot of the temples have roofs shaped like that.

I think thats a trademark for temple?

Some of us saw how the man carried the door. It looked downright heavy and the man was skinny. Its hard to live, isnt it? We take our good life in Singapore for granted most times.

The Climb to the golden peak was a refreshing exercise. There were alot of steps; Most of them are steep and narrow. The golden peak itself was full of people. Since the Wudang Mountain was believed to be one of the holy mountain for the Taoists, there were alot of people praying and wishing for forever love (locking their name and their partners' in lock) and people rubbing the bars of the "Heaven Palace" Temple and leaving coins in between those bars so that their wish could be granted.

Personally seeing what Taoists believers believe in, helped me to recall the things I'm being taught in my religion. I think I am more able to make better comparisons with my beliefs and theirs. Maybe one of these days, I shall accompany PeiJie on Sunday to Church so that I am able to learn more about the Christians.

2. NE Message: We must preserve racial and religious harmony.
We value our diversity and are determined to stay a united people.

I like the cable car ride, even though at some point of the time its abit too steep and scary; its a new experience to ride a cable car. Ms Han Xuan was afraid of height. She keep saying something like "Wa pa"(I'm scared). So I try to calm her by patting her knee and trying to take her mind off the ride by talking but there's a communication barrier. I tried to guess what she's trying to say with sign language and try to reply in broken chinese while she tried to reply me by sign language and broken english. Almost half of the time we tried to communicate we end up laughing at ourselves as we cant understand what each other is saying. Its another new experience. I found out she is 26 and has a brother of 20 years old and I told her about my 2 sisters and brother's age and then we reached our stop... hahaha. Took us 20 mins to just get that through. LOL

Besides that, we also get to see some more of the local attractions and bought afew more souveniors there. The road high up the mountain have quite a few sharp turns. I think the bus rides to and fro from a destination at the mountain to the next itself is an adventure.

The bus ride home however was exhausting and Ms Han Xuan is really nice. She apologised for rushing us (although we know thats necessary) and she likes us and see us as her little Titi and Meimei. I have a chinese older sister yaw! (;

Day 19 - Wudang Mountain; Climb Cancelled

MDE wushu group shot

looks abit like a scene in horror movies

rub the pot and the higher the water rises up, the better your luck.

Mr Wong disturbing XH? oops

(heheheh)

Little workers: It was said that there were ordinary Humans who wished to be Higher thanthe Taoist "God" without doing anything. Thus, the Taoist God granted their wishes by tying them on the roof his statue is resting so that they will always be "physically" placed higher than him as a form of punishment.

Wushu Group Shot

Dropped petals

. . .

Fireworks!

Stairs @_@

Solo Wushu Shot?

Climbing Stairs T_T

Uneven Steps

Prince Temple ahead.

The Prince Hall...

Local Attraction

Lunch (after);

Lunch Before

The day started real early. Around 6am for me and the grls in Room 123. Met the rest at the foyer* and went off to meet Mr Wong and the other students from the other division.

We were suppose to climb till the peak today but since it rain... The climb was postponed to the next day. We spent the day by visiting the local attractions located near the Wudang Mountain. There were alot of temples and halls that contains different kinds of Taoist God(s). I had some difficulty in absorbing the fact that they (taoist believers) has alot of God during IS lesson. When I saw the statues, I am able to understand more. However, I do think its alittle confusing but I shall keep my opinion(s) to myself as religion is a sensitive issue.

The first highlights for the day was the Wushu practice we saw. Most of us were inspired to copy some of the moves. We took a group shot and MDE shot with Mr Wong as the 'Shifu'.

Wushu practice

Wushu Practice

The second highlights was the HOTEL WE SLEPT IN! Whoohoo!

LUXURIOUS!!!

(luxurious until all 3 woke up late-.-)

grls 123 at room 3302

The beds are much bigger than the hotels in Malaysia. Papa, if we ever go China as a Family, we book a room of two single beds and it will be enough for all six of us. I'm not kidding! Yes sir, we slept leisurely. Arms spread, legs wide, I think I look like a starfish when I slept. The 123 girls shared a room again and boy, we laughed ourselves silly trying to cramp our faces together in a picture. (:

*foyer is actually our dormitory corridor near the staircase.

Friday, March 20, 2009

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: