Friday, October 3, 2008

6.03







cinema in one of the shopping mall/percussion freaks (she's skillful)

along the street at Simen Kou (one of the narrow alley)





Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Shout backs

>Br: haha.. sad to say too, your blog is infamous la! or maybe too blue already, people come in and go out straight away. loupok blog of yours.. haha.. I think it should be laopok? fart face!

>KIAHUI: I think I saw your results in your blog.. haha. not bad la, it's moderate eh! I think you can do better one next semester! Anyway, I'm coming home this Oct. 6th... :)

>cyn: yeah yeah.. for once, I thought there's some professional who admire my taste.. in the end, pure shame for him.. haha!

>J Liang: feeling sad that you're flying back to sg soon? haha. anyway tmr we'll be having shopping.. let's have a good time before we go back to our homie.

6.02 Counting Down

Today's Agenda:
  • Test in the morning (930-11am)
  • Shopping
me wearing sk's new jacket, I think it's kinda child-like {I look kinda tired, after test}

riding on the bread van (面包车) and off we go to 群成 Chicony again!

pizza hut again for Brunch {Baked 牛肉饭}/end of the Brunch, I won $20RMB!


Afternoon:
she is a lift attendant

interestingly is that when the lift reached at a level, she would get out and announced the level to customers.

At Night:
making 麦芽糖 of various design!/dinner at this food court: place looks so nice.... food?

look at zw's face, shocked of his life: food {looks alot in menu, actual fact isn't it}

kfc before going back to our school


Reflections:
China's quality of development is a little poor where there isn't any good control over it after developing the areas. Such as the traffic roads that I've noticed today while waiting for our seats in Pizza Hut.

the far middleman blowing a whistler

  • Traffic Guard using whistlers to control the flow of traffic to the parking lots
  • Taxi and other vehicles are very flexible in their driving technics where they could overtake other vehicles if they want to (but safe to do so), by all means even to cross to the other lane (incoming traffic)
  • The road conditions are not well established an maintained as cars could cut up to the pesdestrian's pavement and followed on by going to another route. There is a hard point of differentiating whether the pavement allows vehicles to stopover.
  • Pesdestrian's crossing isn't fully pesdestrian-oriented but one has to cut through the cars when there is a peak period involved in the traffic.
Apart from the traffic, I've also noticed the transperancy of shops in China where they disclosed their hiring details clearly, stating the positions and the hierachy of the positions in the shop. It is uncommon to me as when I compare this situation with Singapore, Singapore only would placed an information details on who they are looking for and the brief salary of the interview. However, in China, it is made known to everyone.

this is the employing list {Pizza Hut}


Oh yes, this is something interesting. Today when we bill for our dishes in Pizza Hut, this hardworking and caring employee (whom memorized our individual dishes), splitted and calculated our individual orders when we asked for making individual payment method. Because of that, she take up some time and patience to sum up our orders, without any troublesome looking face. This is something special today.

she is the warm-hearted waitress


Also, I've also noticed that their sequence of delivering the dishes to our table is awfully wrong if one doesn't inform them about the detailed sequence. To that, some of our fellow friends got the ice cream for their first dish and so on. From these situations in Pizza Hut, I assumed that when one is in China's food shop or restaurants, one should inform the waiter/waitress of the appropriate details.

6.01 Final Week

Today is a long and tiring day with the books and thoughts. Some sweetness and craziness in the night, some spiciness in the afternoon's food. Somehow, it's a little here and there today.

my worn-off shoe (for 2 years already)

pre-test craziness


Reflections:

Today I had a day, studying and preparing for the test for tomorrow. Somehow, I had a 'down' feeling that can't be described somehow. It is a final week that we're going to be in China, then back to the busy-ness in Singapore again. In fact, I'm quite looking forward in going back to Singapore, but at the same time, I'm somehow can't bear to leave Wuhan as it's a nice place with loads of story behind it, left unexplored.


jac

Monday, September 29, 2008

5.07

Today's Agenda:
  1. Shopping at 群光 along 珞喻路 (like orchard road in Singapore)
in the taxi, here we goo...

sir yes sir, here we go up to clean the panels... =x

along the busy street/shopping complex


inside the pizza hut/free flow of appetizers

the fantastic four whacking on a 3-persons meal + additional sides...

美味赢家, 到底是谁能?Who will be the champion of the delicious act?



I think YJ's one is the *act cute* and most funniest one. [haha =x]

here goes: //fresh juicy escargot BAKED!

closer view of it/brownie


After lunch: shopping spree with fullest energy!

a shopping mall (singapore's far east plaza)/s*x shop


a different and fresh us! cool eh?

in the end, we got chased out.. :S

Br playing a kind of DDR in arcade {damn hard coordinating hands and legs}


the night
lights of the road

school beside a shopping center/a street of shopping that doesn't allow bargains


Reflections:
According to my ILP, I stated that I want to know more about the culture in China. One part of it is finding out the various races in China. The day was well spent today and I found out one of the minority race in Wuhan.

Today, some of us went to a shopping district where most of the buildings are shopping center and universities. I saw a group of minority race having a similar culture's quality with a Muslim, along the street and learnt that they are from tibet, which is that they respect the quality of not consuming/using any pork's element item.



Another area relating to China's culture, but in a shopping point-of-view. About today's bargaining along the shopping streets, I thought that the items in shops are able to be bargained at a higher rate, but it isn't so. In fact, the shops in the shopping center (similar to queensway), are better to bargained than those along the streets (Sell more expensive). In the end, I got a firm reply from the shopkeeper when they told me that they don't accept bargains. Somehow, I've learnt that we shouldn't assume that the condition of the shops are meant for items that allows people to bargain. End of the day, it is the experience from one about the district to figure out, whether the items in shops "bargainable".

"bargainable"/"unbargainable"



jac