Remember I said day 2 of wuhan officially ends with a dinner from the local market and a game of dota?!? yep. Unofficially, the day did not end that simple. At 1200 hours sharp, I remember the door was knocking. At that time, the guys were in chin xiang's room, doing their personal reflection after the game of dota. Upon opening the door, I only saw chin xiang standing outside with a torchlight shining at his face! I was like, erm, please don't act as a ghost and come and scare me pls. Immediately I turned my back and went back to the computer. yep. the surprise came. Everyone started to sing the birthday song and gave me a pillow bash! =.=
Anyway people, thanks for the red date tea and 'apollo' cake! =)
8 hours later, it is time for our first lesson by Mr Puah! The lesson is more of an introduction about Business Process Engineering and settling some administrative stuffs. However, the lesson ended earlier (approx. 11am) because the WUST student services personnel is coming to our rooms to settle the internet connections to our laptops. Hooray! Finally, internet access is enabled after 3 days. Seriously, speaking of this, I got a feeling human beings are heavily relying on technology. Personally, I don't think that is good for human beings because IT (or technology as a whole) are supposed to assist people in their daily lives, not becoming a necessity in human lives. If one day, there isn't any electricity available (i.e. all technological appliances unable to work), how will humans adapt to this kind of lifestyle? hmm...
Anyway, enough of deviation. Approx. 1pm, all of us gathered together (together with our chinese counterparts) and went to Zhongshan Road and Zhongshan Park. The park is something like a combination of Singapore's Botanic Gardens, Escape Theme Park and Sculpture Parks. If I did not remember wrongly, we spent almost 2 hours in the park, spending time on taking photos and playing in the theme park.
Talking about this, I remember something Mr Puah said during the lesson, which I thought is rather true. When Singaporeans leave Singapore for overseas trips, they tend to forget about their image and have the so called "heck care, just do it" attitude. Haha. Maybe the term "heck care, just do it" attitude is rather serious. But currently, I cannot find a more suitable term yet.
For example, everyone can just stop and take 'jump shot' photos, scream etc or do actions that people normally won't do in Singapore streets. Is this singaporeans? Haha. Do Singaporeans are more self-conscious when they are in Singapore? hmm. a good point to ponder about. =D
After the Zhongshan Park tour, we headed for to the shopping malls along Zhongshan Road. Hmm. bought 2 shirts at RMB 55 (buy 1 get 1 free la). Anyway, the clothings in China now are rather cheap (in a sense that promotions are going on) because of the following reasons:
1) Summer is ending. Hence, every retail stores would want to clear as much summer clothings as possible because it would not be advisable to keep till next summer due to possible changes in fashion trends OR business costs etc
2) Post 2008 Beijing Olympics. About the same explanation as point 1. However, the main reason is that products that are producted for Olympics should be sold quickly before the Olympics fever is over (resulting in lost in value of goods)
Dinner at a food court where i found my beloved white fugus desert/shop (which is good for my current BAD sore throat and cough) and went to mei shi jie to do some final supermarket shopping.
Yep. Everyone took taxi back to WUST. Each taxi can seat 4 passengers. I realised that Wuhan taxi and other province taxis are rather different. (based on my experience) Somehow, I feel that Wuhan taxis are more safer as compared to other provinces.
Our taxi journey was rather smooth as compared to others.
Ohya. Thanks again to my friends again. for your YE JIU HUA HONEY and your chocolate blueberry cake (which i din eat actually. =D )
Once again, enjoy the photo montage! And thanks for enduring reading such a long naggy post!
