China Doll
Friday, August 29, 2008
30th aug (Saturday)
Today is shopping day! Initially we plan to go Carrefour or explore Wuhan, but so happen that Frederick has a student here (Yu xuan) . So he brought us to Han Kuo! Excited siol! There is a night market there which is around 1.5km. WAHHAHAH. There is also many side stores ,shopping mall and a food paradise! So many young people too! unlike wuhan! All ah peh n auntie!
Bought quite a number of stuff! And eat a lot of junk food! Cheap cheap nia! Hahaha. Spend around 400 RMB ONLY! Xia jia xia dao siao! Hhahaha.
Da jie, tell mum not to worry la, I will xia jia de la! Hahaha. I’M GERALDINA LEHX. Xing xu de , bus hi luan kai de wor!
Shop until 9.45pm then head back to hostel.
OPPS. On cab, I accidentally keep mentioning SINGAPORE! I think han xian wanna kill me liao.
31st aug (Sunday)
Today is grocery day! We have no food, no drinks, no untensil ,no fruits and no tibits! So we head down to Carrefour to whack! LOL. Spend about 200 RMB. Finally we got everything. Joon wei cooking to siol! Pasta lehx! My favorite! =DDDD
Siao, yuan lai , other people also know how to cook! Not fair, my stove not working! So sad! We head back at around 4 plus. Unpack our stuff and clean the house! The floor so sticky and dusty.
Woots! Now sparkling clean siol! Sense of achievement . hahahhaa.
We went over to Maurice place, to see is there any thing we can help joon wei. 21 ppl’s dinner lehx. I helped him chop the garlic and sausages . clean and wash the utensil . ai seh only, chao dao some of the liao drop on the floor! I gotta mop and wipe! He abuse me okay! Help him clean still scold me! KNN. In the end, food not enough. Wa kao, I gan hungry can! But I also no mood to eat liao. Had a few bite of the pasta and egg. Maurice cook meegie for us! Gan spicy can! For them la, for me, okay nia! Average nia! Joon wei refuse to eat, so I went to ka jiao him, to make him eat! LOL. He’s a guy like speak like ah nei nei.
I somehow fought with han xian! He la keep on ka jiao me! Buay tahan. LOL!
Fun day yo! We should more .
1st sep( Monday)
Lesson start at 8.15am! Woke up at 6am! tired !
Lesson as fun! The lecture can speak English! She had been to London for 2 week. She pronounces my name until a bit funny! Can’t blame her. Her name is SHI DING LE! Their toilet got neither flushing system nor door! It is just a long hole across the 3 cubicles for people to squat and urine/shit. It means that when you urine/ shit, it will stay there until u wash with water or remove it manually
She gave us some insights which I have never noticed before. Such as the Chinese culture’s core is one of a collective cluster. In efforts to maintain this, group identities are created. It is best to go with the flow. In a class, students are encouraged to not raise any questions. ‘个人主义’与‘团体主义 ’(individualism vs collectivism).
Collective cluster is labeled as good while individual clusters are labeled as bad. We also learnt about the taboo terms in Wuhan. Such as when quoting prices, ‘二百五’(250) is a taboo no. as it means dumb. By quoting this price, you are directly calling the seller dumb!
****taken from felicia*******
this is my shit
teacher's day present
lunch
China Doll
Thursday, August 28, 2008
28 august 2008
咱们就在海上渡过了一天。每天都在下雨啊！！！！！好烦啊！
Whole night never sleep, stay up to talk!
Today we have to do a lot of walking, we are going to the white temple to see the replica of the 三国演义 people like 张飞，曹操 and 刘备 . lika nice only!
The place was real big! Many historical things to see.
After that, we board a smaller boat a.k.a sampan. The sampan looks like it was going to give way anytime. Scary! Big boats can’t go into the valley so only small boat. The water was icy cold and clean! The ride on the sampan was a enjoyable one and also a great experience! The scenery in san xia was really beautiful, it was like a painting/majestic. After that alighting the small boat, and went for a small shopping spree. This time round I never buy anything much.
Back to our journey to tour san xia. See the entire mountain. Forget the names. To me, all mountains look the same. As mention, it was raining; the peak of the mountain was cover by the mist! =( boohoo
There was an interesting mountain, when coffins were place on top! Only rich ancient people do that! The richer you are, the higher your coffin will be place.
At night, they’re going to have D&D event, xiao wu told us our group was the biggest so we have to sing a song. Shock man! But hack, just sing lo, sing an english song together with Ivy n Fel. The song title was when you say nothing at all by Ronan Keating. After that all the cheena mama sang those cheena song, can’t really take it. I went n took control of the control room! It was our show time! Momo at 1st shy shy, act not only all, most guy were shy and dare not to sing, after that, all went crazy and sing. Fel, ivy n i no chance to! Seeing them sing, was funny! Even bing quan sing! lika zai! =D
Went to tour the water dam (三峡大bang). No shelter, got to walk without shelter. It was freaking cold! Cause the dam was at the top of the mountain. A lot of them bought the rock of the 12 zodiac animal each for 20 元got cheated. Only after they purchase, the tour guide then say that one cost about 3元..We ate at the same place, we got extra 1 dish , cause our table have 11 people instead of 10. Not much changes to the dishes.
Before we head back, we went to visit a place, I think is the Jin Cheng if I’m not wrong
Went back hostel, and all rush for dinner!
China Doll
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
27 august 2008
like what i said, 咱们去了三峡。。。。。。。
Exciting! Cruise yo! 1st time!
According to Mr.Low, it should be a 5 star cruise! But this in china, so don’t expects much! Just hope for the best. The journey from our hostel to the jetty takes at least 5 hour. Slept on bus but the road in china all very bumpy! So can’t really get some sleep, so watch video lo. That piece of DVD consist of ONLY Jackie Chan past movie. Since the road was bumpy, the video was shut half way through and every 30-45 minutes, it changes the story.
Stop by at some place for lunch after travel for 2 hour. 10 course meal. All the food similar, oily and salty. There were only 2 meat dish n 8 veggie dishes. We were all hungry, so we just start digging in like a beast.
By the time we reach the jetty, it was already 8pm! The outer look of the cruise looks average. Compare to Singapore one, it is just peanuts. Quickly gather and head for the rooms. We 3, fel,ivy n i, squeeze in one room. Cause I don’t want to sleep with the tour guide. Feel unsafe and uneasy. The room was acceptable, quite standard, BUT the beds were damn dirty and the air con is not cold de lo.
Throw our stuff in the room n went to tour the cruise! No swimming pool! There was those standard facilities like mahjong room, KTV, massage. xiao wu (our tour guide) said best not to go for the massage will 吃钱的。。The mahjong table they use are automatic. POWER POWER POWER! Feel so mountain turtle , as when we saw the automated mahjong table, we were so excited!
We went to sing KTV since there is nothing to do, the whole KTV was ours!
*end of the day*
China Doll
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
26 august 2008
Woke up for breakfast at 8am. Had breakfast with the rest. Went to their canteen! To my shock, their canteen was dirty, oily, smelly and the food wasn’t really very fantastic however, the yoghurt drink was yummy.
After breakfast, Peter (one of the teacher) brought us around the school, tour the school. The school was like 4 times bigger than NP. After that, we proceed on to our class room, which is at the other part of the school. The school was separated into north, south, east and west school. Hostel located at the east and class located at the south. We have to travel for like 15 minutes before we can reach our classroom! After that, we still have to walk up a flight of stairs as our class was located at the 7 storey. There was no lift , not all room was air-condition and the toilet has no door.
After touring for like an hour or so by our legs, we headed to Carrefour to get our daily necessities. The things and stuffs sold in our Singapore Carrefour and China Carrefour was different. Products sold was completely different. Spent for an hour there, we rushed back to school for our welcoming ceremony.
The room was spacious and grand. Had our names all place on the table with food and drink. Their opening speech was very Chinese, as expected, we are in china, and their standard of Chinese language was very fluent. Though, Mr. Low chinese language was not as fantastic as them, it was still understandable. Ivy was our representative , was totally impress by her fluent Chinese.
After the ceremony, Peter continued our school tour, and it was extended out of our school. Places which we have to purchase the internet cable and photocopy services. Our tour finally ended.
We then headed for dinner, opposite our school. It was like those roadside stall. Though the condition was not very good (there was food everywhere on the floor/table/seats, and it was quite dirty),but whoc cares. We were all very hungry, so we just headed into a stall and eat. Smell of the food was great and taste was also great however, it was slightly salty. The rest headed back to the hostel after dinner, but the journey of hunting food doesn’t end for us (momo,fel,ivy n i).
Went for dinner at the road side steal, lazy to walk far! The roadside stall food smells damn UP! Freaking up, or maybe I’m just too hungry! Hahaha. We ji tao just whack into my stall n mass order. Oh man, the food was damn good .though the environment was not that good. But hack, just eat only. Damn cheap also. Spend 10元. Hahaha, cheap cheap wor. The rest decide to head back to rest. BUT momo, ivy ,fel n I decide to go for a food hunt! lOl.
买东西吃东西。太爽了！！！
明天咱们要去三峡！！！！！！！！！！！！
*photos on the way
China Doll
Monday, August 25, 2008
25 august 2008
Board the plane at 8am sharp, wanted to catch some sleep but they serve the breakfast immediately! Didn’t have breakfast in the morning, so have to eat! If you have the choice, never take CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES, the food wasn’t really nice and their attitude was rude. I only eat the beef, full stop!
Alight at Guangzhou to change flight. Have to wait for another 3 hour for the next flight, so we go eat something light 1st since the food on flight cannot make it and we were still hungry! Spend 48RMB for a set meal, cannot make it too! It was tasteless; we are left with no choice but to eat as we were all too hungry. We saw guardian a.k.a MANNING in china.
the next flight was only an hour or 2, so SLEEP! hahaha. Finally reach WUHAN at 5.30pm. The custom check was freaking slow not as efficient as in Singapore! omg la, can they like speed up abit. Their attitude sucks too.
Collect our bag n board the "BIG" bus! Shock to the max! No air condition and it were small! (Cannot fit all of us cum the luggage) by the time, we load the luggage; I felt water droplets running down my face. The bus was hot and stuffy!!!!!! ARGH!!! Not a really good starts yO!
Damn it, the bus uncle got lost! Got a free tour in the city! 8 plus pm and we have yet to reach? No dinner, any air condition, no water, bad air quality! OH MY MAMA! The uncle still has to ask the police for direction. BUT it was in vein!
Reach hostel at around 11pm. Throughout the whole journey, i think i was very high, cause everyone was somehow K.O. Cheer them up! =DDD
They packed dinner for us! But it was so late already that we had no mood to eat. We even have to carry our luggage until the 4th level! No lift! Luckily, we got man power! The hostel was good!
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the roads was horrible, terrible, !!!!!!
the stove no gas de!!! sian!!!!