Day 40 : Last Night

All 3 of us woke up kind of early today to enjoy our last full day and night here. With a few hundreds still in our purse and a few more souvenirs to buy, we had a planned. It's the salon, nearest Wal-mart, then off to buy the sugar-coated candy in the shopping centre near school, dinner and the back-alley! 

Watch out, full day ahead!! HAHA

Last minute change of plans: I decided to start packing my closet full of stuff while they went for a make over. Dint take the photo of the cupboard though but here's most of the stuff after half unpacking.

Oh My 

Oh My God

Oh My Freaking God

I was so horrified by the number of plastic bags that I had, I actually considered postponing the whole packing to at night. @_@ However, the fear of not able to complete it on time, push me to do it. 

My four new pairs of shoes is packed in 1 shoe bag, new clothes are zipped in 2 big Ziploc bags and 1 big ziploc from Hashanah (thanks yaw! :) .The rest which weigh almost nothing are slot in empty spaces to make my luggage more compact. I recalled ESIA method while packing. aha. Remember elimination? I tried to eliminate what's not in use and integrate those cleaner clothes and new clothes together. ha ha. Its a good thing I started packing that late morning, early afternoon, as it made me realised I need another luggage bag for my stuffs.

I took almost 2 hours to really complete what I had targeted to pack. It was a huge relief once I'm done with it!

Whew!

Their salon-makeover took almost three and a half hours. Just when I was getting the spooks, they came back looking more confident and smiling smugly. Ha ha, too bad they refuse to let me take pictures of them yet as they won't ready to fashion it out. but just a side notice, even though their looks need some getting use to, I think they still look nice in a different way (: *thumbs up*

In the midst of waiting, I took this out from my luggage;

Love letters.

From my youngest sister.

from Jaws.

While reading their letters from the start of the journey, something sentimental strike me and I guess I sort of come up with this:

With God's Will

tomorrow at about this time I'll be on a flight to home

to awaiting friends, family, mom and dad

With God's Will

tomorrow I'll be saying goodbye

to a land once foreign with strangers that turned to home with friends 

and although there's dirty corners at times, nothings perfect 

and it was beautiful all the same

& here's to all, especially those who've 

shared vomit and tears, laughter and panic

here's smiling at you,

thanks for the memories, those happy faces and your joined efforts to make this journey so successful

and here's to you again, Bon voyage and have a safe journey home.

'I'll miss you' is a definite.

(i can feel it already)

Dinner at our usual Muslim food stall:

Dinner: 5RMb for 25 Dumplings

Instead of Ji dan la mian, the 123 girls decided to buy dumplings. I think we can only taste halal dumplings here but too bad for XH, cause the dumplings consisted of beef and mutton mixed and she can't eat beef. BTW, I think I ate the most. 

One of my Favourite Boys(:

Neoprint- China Style, can see the difference?

where our last few of Wuhan-night moments are captured

notice the string attached to fan? It's just like the one in the previous post.

I was able to purchase my sugar-coated peanut candy! 2.5kg for 51RMb. Hope its enough to be distributed and be kept in my store! (: 

I think I was emotionally unstable today but I want everyone to remember smiles not tears. (: The lady boss at our usual stall let us stay there for quite some time to play and take pictures with the children and herself. (pictures in the stall are in xh's and zee min's camera:)

I'm going to miss their Ji Dan La mian and the satay. Satay and hot soya bean more, I think. FYI, Muslim satay here is more spicy than SG's. I don't think I had enough of their satay or the freedom and sense of peacefulness here. Or the company. Or the class. Or Mr Wong. 

ROFL

I'd better get some rest for tomorrow.

long day ahead

Day 39 - The Gathering that lasts till 1030

Sun is out, Summer is almost here.

(& so is Summer Collection)

On the way to COMA Shopping Center
A japanese-anime I used to watch, is it Gackt?

(can't recall the name)
"Its a torture to cross the street", said Hashanah.

An innovative way to be rid of flies and bugs while showcasing just-cooked/cooked food by the street

WG writing in his Notebook Of Finance

Look how happy Rocco is

(it's his 20Th birthday:))
and he has his friends, us and 5 birthday cakes to cut (one of them is a 3- layer cake)
5 cakes in total.

Think Kumar looks cool here (:

Mr Wong loves the cake's box here

(it's his stylish hat)
XH don't like this photo but I do.

after a full day out.

Shopping again today right after lunch. This time we heed Ms Sally's suggestion and decided to go and shop at a shopping center called COMA (initially, we pronounced it as Ku-mar because of the Chinese slang, i think.) The shopping centre selling standard prices and after buying a few stuff there, we decided to shop by the streets instead. Personally, shopping outside shopping centres can give you a much better deal. The price is much lower and you can still bargain if its not selling at fixed price.

We headed back at ard 6.45pm for the 'farewell-gathering' and managed to reach there on time. Although we did show up a tad late, we got involved in all (i think) of the activities, including the cleaning up, -.-, aha. The open dancefloor, last part was fun.

Sad to think of going, happy to think of returning: its all a tumble of emotions. One day left to shop and do last minute things.

P.S. Kumar, if you're reading this, feel free to grab your picture and Sorry to keep disturbing you about the racist joke. No hard feelings alright, peace (^^.\/)

P.P.S. To everyone else, those who got cream wiped at their faces please take it in good humour and since no one got hurt (except for XH's feet), I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.

P.P.P.S. Shaoming from ECE group told me they are going to have Fireworks display tomorrow at their campus around 7.30 or 8pm. Those interested please tell Zee Min to confirm the exact location and to let the ECE group know how many are going.

many thanks for reading (:

Day 38 - Kid, Kidd, Kiddy, not kidding.

Look at XY, He's trying to get a good picture by tilting here and there and zooming almost everywhere. ha ha.

Kidd!

boys' room
5 boys in this room for 6 months. 
O.O

View from inside the room.

3rd storey Corridor~

Cleaning up the mess with a mop-like broom.

Manicure in processDone.
A shoulder to lean on.

new haircut? Style 2.

Style 1 is much nicer though, no? (:

Carousel for Beginners. aha

Our last ticket was --> Haunted house!
the kid in me.
the kid in them
kiddy roller coaster
a kid in her.

3D-Simulation. There's always a First Time.
Yay, in we go with our tickets and shopping bag! haa

45RMB for 5 kinds of Ride= Less than S$3 per Ride

Us.

The day started out with our last presentation for our stay here. Almost everyone showed up (to give their support?) in the end. Listen attentively to Mr Wong's briefing of the final OIP group and individual's assignment and Xiang Yu informed us that the farewell gathering will be held tomorrow night at 7.30pm and there'll be KTV. Honestly, I don't think KTV is very interactive. Perhaps, it is to many of them. Something like a prom night would be better for me, drinks and foods aside, open dance-floor, but I'm just a voice of the minority whose idea will always be kept in the storage. haha

Anyway, as a form of celebration and savouring our last days of freedom in Wuhan, B.A.S decided to go out and shop after lunch. Since WG was going to buy kites first, we agreed to meet him later on at Wal-Mart.

Right after we got on the lift, we bumped into Kidd, his hair was cut. i think longer look nicer but it'll grow back, so no worries there. He offered to show us his dorm, maybe he was just being polite since he was going there to put his stuff but we pounce on the idea like how cats would pounce on mouse. ROFL. Definitely an eye opener. We, Singaporeans, take a lot of things for granted isn't it.

Said our thanks, bid farewell to Kidd and ate Ji dan lamian before taking bus 702 to wal-mart, just us girls. Yay, we made it!

Shopped around and accompany Xh for a manicure, but I felt asleep while waiting =/

Whwn Weiguang arrived, Hash and me brought him around to the earrings stalls while Xh go get a pedicure as well. One of the jewellery store owner told us to go up to level 5 and whoa, its like Bugis street there! Must buy, buy, buy, bargain, bargain, bargain!

Play arcade after that. initially just wanted to play the basketball hoops only, since the promotion ride is cheaper and the majority wants to go to the haunted house, all four of us bought the 45yuan ticket for a carousel ride, kiddy roller coaster, 3D Simulation, Bumper Car and Haunted House. 

I drank Mocha Shake with oreo topping at Dairy Queen for the first time. Tastes like Chocalate Ice blended Bubble Tea, only less sweeter and abit more bitter. Nice~ but I got diarrhoea approximately 2 hours later. -.-

In case, you can't tell, apart from that, I had a really nice day (:

Thanks, JO1s (:

P.S. An unfortunate thing happened to _____, hope you get better asap.

Day 37 - All out for Assignment 3

assignment 3 PowerPoint slides
something similar like donation box
waiting for my order to be delivered.

We stayed in our bunk for, almost, the whole day to devote ourselves to assignment 3. ha ha. Since yesterday was so exciting, my teammates knocked out early without intending to. Luckily, Mr Wong is flexible in the time slots and has an available slot for us on Thursday.

I tend to learn more when I'm working in a team rather than doing things individually. Sometimes my teammates and I would come up with the same idea(s) and we laugh ourselves' silly over little things that happened. I don't think Flexsim is that hard anymore (: Thanks to the Flexsim Test Revisions and also to this team's support and brain-wrecking together. 

Shall tune in early for tomorrow's 9.30a.m. presentation.

On a not-so-bright-note, our toilet bowl is choke =x

Day 36 - One day Adventure "Camp"

Instructor(s)/ Activity Coordinator(s)
On the way to the ECE students' dorm
making a tank wheel

trying out the wheel
making of the wheel

the 'perm' head/ fancy pants is the orange guy. 

ROFL

During games:

the surrendered
the fierce war aha

trust-fall

High elements; 8m off the ground 
to go or not to go
to go.

i told myself i wont be afraid 

but i still held on for dear life. ha ha

while waiting for turns to try the rock-climbing, picnic in the shade with ice cream and potato chips ((:
Sunset and friends (:

ECE WUST area.

with new friends, Ya Lun, Siew Bo, Shao Ming of ECE 
JO1s with three of the LSCT OIP members.

new friends from ECE and LSCT!

Sasi, Satish, Kumar ((;

Scenic spots, said Mr Wong.
We're in the same Afro team.
Because Afro ROCKS!

Rised up early again to go for the one-day leadership/adventure camp. We were only told about it like three or four days before yesterday's 2-day-1-night trip. So I guess it is abit of a last minute plan but it was so much fun!

First off, we were grouped into four. Students from LSCT, ECE and MDE get to mingle about and befriend one another. I am still partially amazed at how well we could get along. 

The activities that we went through were as follow:

1) Interaction between members in the respective groups to come up with a group name/ logo/ cheer/ slogan and flag decoration.

- A really simple activity: It's either my groupmates are very supporting or they are very supporting (heheh) to enable us to bring up a good performance. *thumbs up* (:

2) Wheel of a Tank using newspapers ONLY

- Time management, Coorperation and Teamwork plays a big role here. We came in second! Second means *Two thumbs-up* aha (:

3) Lunch with ECE students as hosts

- They rearranged the table like nobody's business so that we can eat together. Hurhur (; The food there is not bad at all. Too bad didn't have time to try the dumplings. There's four menu for the muslims there but some of the dishes (especially the ones with chicken) are not available.

4) Apartment Visiting

- Their Dorm is shared 8 people in each "apartment" and their beds are like hotel beds and they have two toilet! One is with a proper, seat-toilet bowl, which could not be used often because it chokes up easily (; I prefer our bunk though, its small, and maybe squeezy and have thin mattress but its cozy. (:

(and we can shop easily here. wahhaha)

5) Games

- That is honestly, the first time I carry a guy who is not of any blood relation. Usually people carry me one. haha!

6) Trust-Fall

- You have to fall straight backwards into the arms of your teammates. Pretty scary especially if you find it hard to trust.

7) High-Element Jump

- The jump is scary, too! It's all in the head though.

8) Rock-climbing!

- Manage to get to the top but no photos to prove yet. 

9) Scenic View Photo-Taking

10) Dinner and Assignment 3

Quite a day we had. 

Mixing around with the other students outline some of our differences more clearly, be it in terms of personality, culture and even races but this differences that we encounter should be set aside so that we could achieve better results when facing problem(s). In other words, to be a united team despite our differences just like the 2nd NE Message: We must preserve racial and religious harmony. We value our diversity and are determined to stay a united people. 

Will wake my teammates later to continue on assignment 3.

P.S. Thank you Siew Bo for the photos, as well! (: