>KIAHUI: Yeah!! Everyday there's loads of activities and fun over here. Oh ya, the weather is also a thing here, it changes from hot to cold unpredictably through the day. How about in SG? You yourself, working?
>aziz: Hey pal!!! Yeah..... but more on missed SG delicacies actually.. heh.. haha! so did u went out during these period? Used up the starbucks coupons with farz already? Oh ya, days ago I just went to starbucks in downtown. It's quite cheap you know! Alright, I gotta cruise during the weekends, heh! I'll be looking forward in catching up with u real soon! Please tag me your blog. ^^ yeah, looking forward to spam your burs. on food when I'm back! you watch out...
>matt: ..... eh? haha.. I think you must be too bored and hooked up too much on your assignment already eh? haha! anyway hope your assignment is going well! when I'm back, we shall work on the flash together, yeah "flasher"? heh.. Oh ya, all the best for your MSP interview! I believe you'll pass it through! whoo, all the way! ^^
>ivan_arsenal footballer: hahaha! ok lah.. in fact there's some as many come from different states of China.. So, you can see alot of variety of Chinese over here.. just like the different flavours of coffee. haha! ^^ do you want to know one? I might be able to help you! hahahaha... hey, arseNAL s***s by the way! haha.. catch up soon buddy...
>cyn: hahaha, that's so embarassed u know. ......... what's so funny eh? I'll be bringing back that 草鞋 and challenge with your spartan's sandles! haha! yeah, actually I'm taking in and learning some chinese words when conversing with the locals. wah seh, it's not easy to understand sometimes.. but anyway, I managed! ^^ oh yeah, this weekend which starts from tomorrow, I'll be heading off to cruise at the largest dam in the world! so excited.
Take care people!
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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:
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
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
3.03 Smoked
Today is an exciting day as there will be alot of activities going on throughout the day. Especially in the evening when we'll be having BBQ with the locals in the National Village where we had out Outbound activities there.
After I had my PM lesson, got feedbacks from teacher for our assignments, I went back and prepare to go 家乐福 "Carrefour" to buy ingredients for tonight's BBQ!
bus (camera & screen guide)/congested!
It was my first time boarding a bus in China. Actually it was quite fast and we took about 30mins to the shopping centre. The bus fare system is very different from Singapore. When you board the bus, there'll be a attendant inside walking (maybe squeezing in that situation), holding a plate of prices' ticket, collecting from everyone in the bus. I thought they had some coin/note system where the bus driver operates it, like the one in Singapore.
Anyway, we went to shop around and get the ingredients we wanted. Then yj and me went to the electronics/books department to get something while the rest took back the bbq ingredients first. I went back to get the earpiece that ct and zw wants. Upon meeting with the shopkeepers, interestingly is that they still remember my face and they gave me further discount and provides me with good customer service.
We didn't managed to catch the night lights of "Lu Xiang". It was about 6+ and we went back to BBQ!
Here we are! 3-4 mini bbq pits with about 40-50+ ppl around the vast area.
jia liang/asri/da ming (shaved head!)/what they did for us (the hotdogs)
yj snatched my food share away!/i got some../enjoying the food!
the sausages in China is very different from Singapore.
yj with xiaoQ*scary eyes/owner & dog (looks like it)
The fire went off at 9+pm where the leftovers are distributed to the people who wants it, especially the 4-5 big round watermelons. The rest of the vegetables are then given to the opposite "Midnight Food Street" shops. Meanwhile, we had supper there and catch up more with the others.
Reflections of the day:
Main issue of the day would be in the electronics department at the shopping center. I'd noticed that the shopkeepers in Wuhan are very friendly and warm-hearted. They offer good customer service to customer, especially a few days ago, when the HDD "硬盘" we bought had run out of stock and they provided us with delivery. The shopkeeper personally came down to WUST and passed us the HDD. I felt that they're really at the upper hands of doing business when they're really towards customer-oriented, not grumbling if inconvenience crops up, but making sure that their customers, us, are satisfy with their service. And the best part is that we only paid for the product itself. Provided that they didn't know that the HDD are out of stock and upon know that, they initiated a delivery without hesitation. This is something I admire about their shopkeepers.
After I had my PM lesson, got feedbacks from teacher for our assignments, I went back and prepare to go 家乐福 "Carrefour" to buy ingredients for tonight's BBQ!
bus (camera & screen guide)/congested!
It was my first time boarding a bus in China. Actually it was quite fast and we took about 30mins to the shopping centre. The bus fare system is very different from Singapore. When you board the bus, there'll be a attendant inside walking (maybe squeezing in that situation), holding a plate of prices' ticket, collecting from everyone in the bus. I thought they had some coin/note system where the bus driver operates it, like the one in Singapore.
Anyway, we went to shop around and get the ingredients we wanted. Then yj and me went to the electronics/books department to get something while the rest took back the bbq ingredients first. I went back to get the earpiece that ct and zw wants. Upon meeting with the shopkeepers, interestingly is that they still remember my face and they gave me further discount and provides me with good customer service.
We didn't managed to catch the night lights of "Lu Xiang". It was about 6+ and we went back to BBQ!
Here we are! 3-4 mini bbq pits with about 40-50+ ppl around the vast area.
jia liang/asri/da ming (shaved head!)/what they did for us (the hotdogs)
yj snatched my food share away!/i got some../enjoying the food!
the sausages in China is very different from Singapore.
yj with xiaoQ*scary eyes/owner & dog (looks like it)
The fire went off at 9+pm where the leftovers are distributed to the people who wants it, especially the 4-5 big round watermelons. The rest of the vegetables are then given to the opposite "Midnight Food Street" shops. Meanwhile, we had supper there and catch up more with the others.
Reflections of the day:
Main issue of the day would be in the electronics department at the shopping center. I'd noticed that the shopkeepers in Wuhan are very friendly and warm-hearted. They offer good customer service to customer, especially a few days ago, when the HDD "硬盘" we bought had run out of stock and they provided us with delivery. The shopkeeper personally came down to WUST and passed us the HDD. I felt that they're really at the upper hands of doing business when they're really towards customer-oriented, not grumbling if inconvenience crops up, but making sure that their customers, us, are satisfy with their service. And the best part is that we only paid for the product itself. Provided that they didn't know that the HDD are out of stock and upon know that, they initiated a delivery without hesitation. This is something I admire about their shopkeepers.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
3.02 Outbound sup!?
Outbound activities day! Today morning we met at 715am to get out of school to one of their area in under WUST. To my surprise, I didn't know that they have such facilities which is just beside their school! The area we walked in displays a series of challenging obstacles or maybe I call it a playground. It consists of a Man-made rock climbing activity, balancing on a long stretch of bar, climb-over-wall, etc. In Singapore, in order to enjoy these facilities, I think we've to head down to another area at some other parts of Singapore. One area I think I went before is the Singapore Scout Association Sarimbun Camp Campsite, during one of the camps in secondary school.
Other than us joining in the activities, there are other group of local students under a different trainer to bring them around. I think they are the grade 1 students where it is compulsory for them to go through uniform group training. The scenario of the entire event was some sort of a camp + icebreaking activity. There's some military commands as well: at first they shouted using chinese and most of us was stunned as we don't understand what's it about. But after awhile, we got the hang of the words used.
We then get splitted into groups, gathered a cheer & song, accompanied with a team name "武科星", and played alot of the ice breaking games. Until afternoon, we only managed to finish rock climbing.
our flag "武科星"/the challenging rock
We're only supposed to climb the center one. But unexpectedly, I didn't manage to complete it! There are 2 ropes down for two to climb up simultaneously and I did the one more to the left one in the center partition. At last, only one of them managed to get to the top: 冠滨 Guan Bin the champion. Anyway, it was fun and challenging though.
After lunch, while on our way back to our dorm to take a rest from the humid and annoying weather that makes one go crazy, sk noticed an area near our dorm. provides driving training/test for local student I think.
some beams guiding the car to park
During the break from 1130 to 230, we rested and get ready for the next few rounds of outbound activities. Today is certainly a tired day but for me, it is a fulfilling day as well. Here are the highlights:
1) Blindfolded-walk
- We're blind folded and travel around the area.
Lessons from the activity:
To our surprise, I thought it's some another blind folded game I played in camps, but it's entirely different. I thought we're going to travel along flat terrain with some huddles only, but in fact, we had climb up and down from a series of the playground unbalanced planks, high heights of the ground level into a small building and out of it. One word to describe these, challenging! For that, we really learnt something when we've to trust each other, especially the people infront of me and being confident is also very important as it gives an assurance to the people behind you and not causing them to feel uncertain, and cause the entire troupe to slow down and broke up.
2) bridge making communication
- We're splitted into 2 different groups and further broken down into smaller sub groups of 2.
- Then materials are given to 2 different main groups with 2 sub groups each.
- Objective is to build a bridge which able to withstand a weight of a 500ml mineral bottle.
- 40 mins to build it, tactics on own team decision.
- 2 time of 3mins discussion between the subgroups are given during intervals.
- End of the entire 40mins, both subgroups meet and combind what they have
Lessons from the activity:
I've learnt that communication is very important especially when the communication duration is very limited. Communication plays a crucial role in all sorts of situation. Each moment lost means alot to the other party as it might cause a life as well if we take it to serious terms.
3) conquer your height
- Climb up to about 1 & half story high and leap from one end to another about 150 cm away.
Lessons from the activity:
This activity is one of the unique and never-try-before experience I had! Also, it's one where I felt that it gave me a breakthrough personally, in terms stretching my guts and courage.
I feel that WUSTZNB is a very good school. Not only they provide a typical studying environment for every student, but also values impartation of what I've gone through today. I believed that every students in their grade 1, whom had went through these outbound activities, certainly would reap loads of good values and principles of life. Not only they come to school to study and make friends but they could bring back home something else if one puts heart at work during the activities. Furthermore, I believe by working together as a team, they are able to meet some good friends and, thus forming a strong bond of friendships with the never-forgetting experiences during the event.
Reflections of the day:
In the afternoon, while we're in a resturant having our lunch, my friends and myself witness an eating habit of the Chinese in Wuhan. They spit on the floor (inside the resturant) while eating. To some of my friends and even myself, we felt so awkward as it is very unhygienic. At first, I knew that China has this habit of spitting but I didn't know that they do it indoors, even in the resturant eating halfway! Somehow, we got very "urk" by that action with the sound of "gurping" of their phlegm.
Other than us joining in the activities, there are other group of local students under a different trainer to bring them around. I think they are the grade 1 students where it is compulsory for them to go through uniform group training. The scenario of the entire event was some sort of a camp + icebreaking activity. There's some military commands as well: at first they shouted using chinese and most of us was stunned as we don't understand what's it about. But after awhile, we got the hang of the words used.
We then get splitted into groups, gathered a cheer & song, accompanied with a team name "武科星", and played alot of the ice breaking games. Until afternoon, we only managed to finish rock climbing.
our flag "武科星"/the challenging rock
We're only supposed to climb the center one. But unexpectedly, I didn't manage to complete it! There are 2 ropes down for two to climb up simultaneously and I did the one more to the left one in the center partition. At last, only one of them managed to get to the top: 冠滨 Guan Bin the champion. Anyway, it was fun and challenging though.
After lunch, while on our way back to our dorm to take a rest from the humid and annoying weather that makes one go crazy, sk noticed an area near our dorm. provides driving training/test for local student I think.
some beams guiding the car to park
During the break from 1130 to 230, we rested and get ready for the next few rounds of outbound activities. Today is certainly a tired day but for me, it is a fulfilling day as well. Here are the highlights:
1) Blindfolded-walk
- We're blind folded and travel around the area.
Lessons from the activity:
To our surprise, I thought it's some another blind folded game I played in camps, but it's entirely different. I thought we're going to travel along flat terrain with some huddles only, but in fact, we had climb up and down from a series of the playground unbalanced planks, high heights of the ground level into a small building and out of it. One word to describe these, challenging! For that, we really learnt something when we've to trust each other, especially the people infront of me and being confident is also very important as it gives an assurance to the people behind you and not causing them to feel uncertain, and cause the entire troupe to slow down and broke up.
2) bridge making communication
- We're splitted into 2 different groups and further broken down into smaller sub groups of 2.
- Then materials are given to 2 different main groups with 2 sub groups each.
- Objective is to build a bridge which able to withstand a weight of a 500ml mineral bottle.
- 40 mins to build it, tactics on own team decision.
- 2 time of 3mins discussion between the subgroups are given during intervals.
- End of the entire 40mins, both subgroups meet and combind what they have
Lessons from the activity:
I've learnt that communication is very important especially when the communication duration is very limited. Communication plays a crucial role in all sorts of situation. Each moment lost means alot to the other party as it might cause a life as well if we take it to serious terms.
3) conquer your height
- Climb up to about 1 & half story high and leap from one end to another about 150 cm away.
Lessons from the activity:
This activity is one of the unique and never-try-before experience I had! Also, it's one where I felt that it gave me a breakthrough personally, in terms stretching my guts and courage.
I feel that WUSTZNB is a very good school. Not only they provide a typical studying environment for every student, but also values impartation of what I've gone through today. I believed that every students in their grade 1, whom had went through these outbound activities, certainly would reap loads of good values and principles of life. Not only they come to school to study and make friends but they could bring back home something else if one puts heart at work during the activities. Furthermore, I believe by working together as a team, they are able to meet some good friends and, thus forming a strong bond of friendships with the never-forgetting experiences during the event.
Reflections of the day:
In the afternoon, while we're in a resturant having our lunch, my friends and myself witness an eating habit of the Chinese in Wuhan. They spit on the floor (inside the resturant) while eating. To some of my friends and even myself, we felt so awkward as it is very unhygienic. At first, I knew that China has this habit of spitting but I didn't know that they do it indoors, even in the resturant eating halfway! Somehow, we got very "urk" by that action with the sound of "gurping" of their phlegm.
Monday, September 8, 2008
3.01 Freeday!
Today was free and easy as we don't have any lessons during PM. Currently, we're under the assignment period and my teamate ah bing and myself wrapped up most of it during the morning until 11am. After then, some of us went out 鲁巷的大洋百货 (Lu Xiang) for shopping. Based on what yj told me, it's the downtown of 武昌。
fashion/electronics departments {overall it looks like plaza singapura}
Upon reaching there, we ate quite alot as we didn't really had breakfast. Every main dish, we ordered an extra side dish to accompany it.
wanton,doupi,chicken sticks (like satay), main dishes
We spent almost 6 hours at there. The prices of the products sold there are rather the same with those in Singapore, thus I didn't buy much. Best buy of the day would be a pair Giordano berms which cost about 20 SGD.
Interestingly, they have starbucks too! Prices are cheaper by a little.
Reflections of the day:
Today when we're hogged at one of the electronics shop, selling memory sticks, my friends and I was quite shocked about the prices they sold the Sony Memory Stick PRO duo (4GB) about $150. Thus, I tried to bargain for a 3 times cheaper rate ($60), as at the other shop it cost about only $90. In the end, I got ticked off by the shopkeeper! She said I asked for too much! In the end, my friend went back to the other shop and got the $90 one which differs from the $150 one, as the cheaper one is a low speed memory stick while the other is a fast speed one! Thinking back, I think I embarassed myself with the shopkeeper. That was something stupid I did today, I supposed.
Another thing I noticed about the shops is that they are rather open for customers, really open, in terms of the counter is rather free to pass through. It's very different from those in Singapore where counter area are mostly prohibited from customers. As in, it's not really that customer could go and press the cashier or play around the counter area, just that they have products which is in the inner part of the counter, and they don't mind customers walked in to view their products.
jac
fashion/electronics departments {overall it looks like plaza singapura}
Upon reaching there, we ate quite alot as we didn't really had breakfast. Every main dish, we ordered an extra side dish to accompany it.
wanton,doupi,chicken sticks (like satay), main dishes
We spent almost 6 hours at there. The prices of the products sold there are rather the same with those in Singapore, thus I didn't buy much. Best buy of the day would be a pair Giordano berms which cost about 20 SGD.
Interestingly, they have starbucks too! Prices are cheaper by a little.
Reflections of the day:
Today when we're hogged at one of the electronics shop, selling memory sticks, my friends and I was quite shocked about the prices they sold the Sony Memory Stick PRO duo (4GB) about $150. Thus, I tried to bargain for a 3 times cheaper rate ($60), as at the other shop it cost about only $90. In the end, I got ticked off by the shopkeeper! She said I asked for too much! In the end, my friend went back to the other shop and got the $90 one which differs from the $150 one, as the cheaper one is a low speed memory stick while the other is a fast speed one! Thinking back, I think I embarassed myself with the shopkeeper. That was something stupid I did today, I supposed.
Another thing I noticed about the shops is that they are rather open for customers, really open, in terms of the counter is rather free to pass through. It's very different from those in Singapore where counter area are mostly prohibited from customers. As in, it's not really that customer could go and press the cashier or play around the counter area, just that they have products which is in the inner part of the counter, and they don't mind customers walked in to view their products.
jac
Sunday, September 7, 2008
2.06 & 2.07 Fulfilling weekends!
On saturday & sunday, I had a very fun and unique adventure out of WUST, that I can't find it in Singapore. We stayed in the resort near there. The resort is part consists of 3 scenic sites: The ancient Lülin camp (绿林寨), Mandarin Duck Stream (鸳鸯溪), Beauty Valley (美人谷), and Kongshan Cave (空山洞), covers an area of 115 km2.
Highlights of the weekend:
small pond/small houses along the roads
isn't the agricultural terraces nice..
the busy small street after a couple of houses
cultivated crops outside their houses
scenic terraces
narrow road path up to resort (starting point of rafting)
After 3 hours of busride, just before we nearly get to get onto the raft, we had a lunch.
10 dishes/favourite dish (I wonder what is it, texture taste like "chai po")
Overall the local dishes was moderate, not really suit to our taste, thus we left over quite alot. Anyway, the lunch kept us going and didn't disappoint our stomachs! Too bad for the water-rafting, I didn't bring along my camera. It was very fun and thrilling especially when there's a very steep slope down, putting hands up and whooo, bumped our bums on the rock at some parts though. Overall, it was a very thrilling and unique ride across the cooling, natural, uncertain lake! And the water is very cool and refreshing when I got in to save my stucked paddle! In the end, we got in second position! hehe..
After a short break @ the end point, we got up the bus and get on to our next activity to Beauty Valley (美人谷) on a bamboo raft. And yes, they have steam peanuts and they call it 山东花生. It is very nice as it taste almost like the one we had in "Pasa Malam".
start point of the bamboo raft/me,zhengwei,bingrong,shengkiat,chengteck,aishah,guoyuan
the rafting uncle driving 10 of us! *fit/ducklings swimming across the river
then.. we're on our own.. nature outburst!
waterfall/beauty valley's fall
the kampong kias (guoyuan & me)
me & mr. tan/walkthrough of the lakes/ponds & waterfalls
me with the waterfalls (the breeze very cooling & the water as well)
scenic waterfall
bingrong,me,guoyuan,zhengwei/me and my rafting partner (not bad we got 2nd, he's in d.boat before!)
It's about 6pm already when we finish trailing the waterfall areas. And we went back to our resort to have our dinner.
fireworks display at resort area! (someone bought it, nearly SGD 100 I think)
picture of the day: my grass sandles (it feels very comfortable *carpet)
7th September 2008 九月七日两千八年
BWAH! a good start for the day...
breakfast (the best meal in this resort)/bridge from resort to somewhere
Highlights of today: We went to visit the relics of an ancient campsite.
starting point with an portraits array of generals
13th general that became the emperor
Reflections for my weekends:
When I look out to the natural scenery, I feel very relax and would like to try living a life in the outdoors. Studying how the people live there, they looks very carefree and seems to be happy with their life. Cultivation of crops, growing agriculture for the family, it looks like kampong-style and the enjoyment comes when a few plays with the nature. I don't think in Singapore we could experience this kind of life. If there's a chance, I would really want to explore deeper into their rural culture. That makes me think that in every situation whenever one is in, there's always the high side and the low side of it; in other words it means something one likes & dislikes. Furthermore, there isn't any education center over there, from what I see along the road.
Living a life with the science & technology or nature?
- Farming on big hectares of land or Handling a bunch of employees in the office...
- Playing with the animals or Playing with your latest game in computer...
- Working out by running along the uneven roads/hills in the nature or Working out in the gym...
Thoughts for you to decide...
Highlights of the weekend:
- Whitewater rafting at Mandarin Duck Stream
- Visitation of ancient army camp at Lülin
- Travel to Beauty Valley (美人谷) by Bamboo raft to watch the scenic waterfalls
The Mandarin Duck Stream originates from the Bailongchi pool (白龙池) of Dahongshan Mountain (大洪山), and ends at the Guanyin pool (观音潭) at Lülinji town (绿林集镇).
Lülin (Green Forest, 绿林) Resort locates at the Jingshan County, it is the site of an ancient agrarian rebellion movements during the Han Dynasty, which is about 2000 years ago.
6th September 2008 九月六日两千八年
The journey to the resort takes about 3 hrs in bus. Although the bus ride is long and bored, but I managed to get alot of glimpses of how the state of the places and the people living in un-development areas.
agricultural areas/some haystacks (I wondered what is it for)
small pond/small houses along the roads
isn't the agricultural terraces nice..
the busy small street after a couple of houses
cultivated crops outside their houses
scenic terraces
narrow road path up to resort (starting point of rafting)
After 3 hours of busride, just before we nearly get to get onto the raft, we had a lunch.
10 dishes/favourite dish (I wonder what is it, texture taste like "chai po")
Overall the local dishes was moderate, not really suit to our taste, thus we left over quite alot. Anyway, the lunch kept us going and didn't disappoint our stomachs! Too bad for the water-rafting, I didn't bring along my camera. It was very fun and thrilling especially when there's a very steep slope down, putting hands up and whooo, bumped our bums on the rock at some parts though. Overall, it was a very thrilling and unique ride across the cooling, natural, uncertain lake! And the water is very cool and refreshing when I got in to save my stucked paddle! In the end, we got in second position! hehe..
After a short break @ the end point, we got up the bus and get on to our next activity to Beauty Valley (美人谷) on a bamboo raft. And yes, they have steam peanuts and they call it 山东花生. It is very nice as it taste almost like the one we had in "Pasa Malam".
start point of the bamboo raft/me,zhengwei,bingrong,shengkiat,chengteck,aishah,guoyuan
the rafting uncle driving 10 of us! *fit/ducklings swimming across the river
then.. we're on our own.. nature outburst!
waterfall/beauty valley's fall
the kampong kias (guoyuan & me)
me & mr. tan/walkthrough of the lakes/ponds & waterfalls
me with the waterfalls (the breeze very cooling & the water as well)
scenic waterfall
bingrong,me,guoyuan,zhengwei/me and my rafting partner (not bad we got 2nd, he's in d.boat before!)
It's about 6pm already when we finish trailing the waterfall areas. And we went back to our resort to have our dinner.
fireworks display at resort area! (someone bought it, nearly SGD 100 I think)
picture of the day: my grass sandles (it feels very comfortable *carpet)
7th September 2008 九月七日两千八年
BWAH! a good start for the day...
breakfast (the best meal in this resort)/bridge from resort to somewhere
Highlights of today: We went to visit the relics of an ancient campsite.
starting point with an portraits array of generals
13th general that became the emperor
Reflections for my weekends:
When I look out to the natural scenery, I feel very relax and would like to try living a life in the outdoors. Studying how the people live there, they looks very carefree and seems to be happy with their life. Cultivation of crops, growing agriculture for the family, it looks like kampong-style and the enjoyment comes when a few plays with the nature. I don't think in Singapore we could experience this kind of life. If there's a chance, I would really want to explore deeper into their rural culture. That makes me think that in every situation whenever one is in, there's always the high side and the low side of it; in other words it means something one likes & dislikes. Furthermore, there isn't any education center over there, from what I see along the road.
Living a life with the science & technology or nature?
- Farming on big hectares of land or Handling a bunch of employees in the office...
- Playing with the animals or Playing with your latest game in computer...
- Working out by running along the uneven roads/hills in the nature or Working out in the gym...
Thoughts for you to decide...
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