3.04 Cooling

Highlights of the day:

i) IS Lecture on Traditional Chinese Philosophy
ii) Scrumptous at that resturant again (小田园)
iii) KL birthday celebration
iv) Supper at midnight food street
v) Chill in bunk with wine and mates

military troupes gathering/dean's teaching us today


I've learnt quite alot of things today about the history of China during those Warring states & famous philosophers.

{will update soon about the lecture}

after lunch, some of us went to have a haircut at VS

the description is so unknown (noticed by shengkiat/bingrong) *you need to zoom in to see clearly.


Reflections of the day:
Way of doing things in China:

• In a saloon, in order to initiate a haircut, the saloonist must wash your hair first then proceeding. I think it's their system. Furthermore, I think washing hair is covered in the $10 RMB.
  
• Shopping in their supermarkets disallowed customer with bag of about size 15' to enter. However, they provided free locker for customer to deposit their bags in it. Also, once entered, when one wants to leave the mart, one only must leave through the exit. They disallowed customers to leave from the entrance. For what I assumed on why they implement this system is to prevent customers to take unpaid items out. But this is so unflexible when one carried nothing at all. I feel weird after experience this. Anyway, upon exiting the mart, one has to present the receipt to the guard at exit to "mark". Funny thing is that they have a pair of sensor to scan the barcodes already but instead they still do that marking. Again I assumed that maybe one could put rice into one's underpants, no offence in anyway. But I feel that practice they carried out in shopping marts shows that they are very concious in their business processing.

Learnt something about their custom in hair saloons and shopping marts. Apart from this, they have another custom whereby in their mini foodcourts and some department stores, they don't make transactions. But one upon liking the item they want or the food they saw in the menu, the shopkeeper retaine the item and prepares an invoice, then one have to make their way to a common cashier near those shops to make payment first before going back again to get their item/order their food by the cashier's receipt. Although it's a little weird and troublesome, but it's their custom that is unchangeable for now.

jac