Day 43 - 6 October 2008
Currently back in Singapore!
Ahh.. 6 weeks = 42 days = 1008 hours = 60480 minutes = 3628800 seconds just flew past us. As mentioned numerous times, TIME FLIES. Will miss all the times we spent in Wuhan with the lovely 19 people and Mr Puah! of course not forgetting the ECE people and Mr Teo!
After shifting all the luggages onto the coach, we said our last goodbyes to our hostel, WUST and the staffs, back alley, 和平大道, 长江二桥, the people, public buses, cabs, left side driving and many more!
As everyone was leaving the place we stayed for the past 6 weeks, we encountered our first problem in leaving Wuhan - total baggage weight overlimit. By how much? 120 kg! In the end, Mr Puah paid for us. RMB 13 per kg. =/
Afterwards, we raised up some money to return Mr Puah. Haiz. Hey people, let's treat it as a lesson learnt.
However, our flight back to Singapore wasn't that smooth. At Guangzhou Airport, due to numerous instructions and disorganisation flying about, everyone was frustrated and only boarded the flight at Last Call.
Before we knew anything, we are BACK in Singapore!
THANKS PEOPLE! for all the memories you have given me for the past 42 days.
Will miss WUHAN. =)
Some last photos taken...
Friday, October 10, 2008
Last Sunday in Wuhan!
Day 42 - 5 October 2008
Time flies. I must say. 42 days just went by us in a flash. =/
Anyway, Geokting, Adelene, Fiza, Amirah, Benjamin and I left hostel in the morning and headed to Computer City again! Yep. This time, Adelene managed to get a hard disk for herself!
Afterwards, we moved on to a shopping centre (similar to SG's Far East), named Tom and Jerry (i think) to do some shopping. Ya. The place where I was given a make over by the girls and Geokting got a A grade imitation Fion handbag for RMB 60!
Afterwards, we took an hour bus ride, covering 21 bus stops, to Walking Street. It is where I realised that Amirah and Fiza don't like Sausages and Salmon respectively. haha.
Moved on to Walmart where Geokting, Benjamin and Adelene bought some local goods like Duck neck, Wuchang fish and other biscuits etc to bring back to Singapore.
Yep. Ended off my day with a visit to the Night Market (FINALLY!!!), where I managed to get some screen protectors for my hp and an A standard imitation LV wallet for S$8! wahaha. =P
Went to back street fast food restaurant, Victor, for one last meal. =P
That's all. gonna continue to pack my luggage! Seeya.
武汉是我家，建设靠大家! =D
enjoy the photos taken today then!
Time flies. I must say. 42 days just went by us in a flash. =/
Anyway, Geokting, Adelene, Fiza, Amirah, Benjamin and I left hostel in the morning and headed to Computer City again! Yep. This time, Adelene managed to get a hard disk for herself!
Afterwards, we moved on to a shopping centre (similar to SG's Far East), named Tom and Jerry (i think) to do some shopping. Ya. The place where I was given a make over by the girls and Geokting got a A grade imitation Fion handbag for RMB 60!
Afterwards, we took an hour bus ride, covering 21 bus stops, to Walking Street. It is where I realised that Amirah and Fiza don't like Sausages and Salmon respectively. haha.
Moved on to Walmart where Geokting, Benjamin and Adelene bought some local goods like Duck neck, Wuchang fish and other biscuits etc to bring back to Singapore.
Yep. Ended off my day with a visit to the Night Market (FINALLY!!!), where I managed to get some screen protectors for my hp and an A standard imitation LV wallet for S$8! wahaha. =P
Went to back street fast food restaurant, Victor, for one last meal. =P
That's all. gonna continue to pack my luggage! Seeya.
武汉是我家，建设靠大家! =D
enjoy the photos taken today then!
Sunday, October 5, 2008
1 Day in Hankou!
Day 41 - 4 October 2008
As the title explains, today is Hankou day!
Supposed to meet up at the corridor by 9.30am latest, obviously, it did not happened. Instead, Geokting, Steffi, Sebas, Julian and I gathered around 10am and left for Hanzheng Street at 10.30am, boarding the Bread Van! i.e. 面包车
Rainy days and traffic jams are never a good way to start a new day. As a result, we arrived at Hanzheng Street at approx. 11.30am to 11.40am. Haha. Soon, it is 12noon and we had to rush for a cab that is willing to send Yuting, Steffi and Sebas to Grand Ocean Shopping Mall for their 1pm Spa appointment.
A frustrating experience as no cab want to send the girls there. Simple reason - Traffic Jam
Anyway, our motives of going to Hanzheng Street are:
1) Getting several good quality but cheap umbrellas for my family
2) To bring Julian around that stretch of Hanzheng street as he never go there before
3) To grant Yuting's wish of tasting that roadside hamburger one more time before leaving Wuhan
4) Walk walk and shop if there is any
Nevertheless, the above objectives were fulfilled with the girls getting on time for their Spa appointment!
Afterwards, Julian and I window shopped all the way to Walking Street as to pick up the girls from their spa appointments. Did some shopping before dinner at AIJISEN! (again)
Met Chin Xiang, Vivien and SS and headed for the Night Market. Rather disappointing as one small portion of the shops are opened. Rest closed due to RAIN. =(
Nevermind. There is always tomorrow! hahahahaha =P
Enjoy the photos then!
Just 2 more days before we are back in Singapore. Haiz. =/
As the title explains, today is Hankou day!
Supposed to meet up at the corridor by 9.30am latest, obviously, it did not happened. Instead, Geokting, Steffi, Sebas, Julian and I gathered around 10am and left for Hanzheng Street at 10.30am, boarding the Bread Van! i.e. 面包车
Rainy days and traffic jams are never a good way to start a new day. As a result, we arrived at Hanzheng Street at approx. 11.30am to 11.40am. Haha. Soon, it is 12noon and we had to rush for a cab that is willing to send Yuting, Steffi and Sebas to Grand Ocean Shopping Mall for their 1pm Spa appointment.
A frustrating experience as no cab want to send the girls there. Simple reason - Traffic Jam
Anyway, our motives of going to Hanzheng Street are:
1) Getting several good quality but cheap umbrellas for my family
2) To bring Julian around that stretch of Hanzheng street as he never go there before
3) To grant Yuting's wish of tasting that roadside hamburger one more time before leaving Wuhan
4) Walk walk and shop if there is any
Nevertheless, the above objectives were fulfilled with the girls getting on time for their Spa appointment!
Afterwards, Julian and I window shopped all the way to Walking Street as to pick up the girls from their spa appointments. Did some shopping before dinner at AIJISEN! (again)
Met Chin Xiang, Vivien and SS and headed for the Night Market. Rather disappointing as one small portion of the shops are opened. Rest closed due to RAIN. =(
Nevermind. There is always tomorrow! hahahahaha =P
Enjoy the photos then!
Just 2 more days before we are back in Singapore. Haiz. =/
Friday, October 3, 2008
发源地!!!
Day 40 - 3 October 2008
Understand the 3 Chinese words above? Wahaha. If you don't know, that is the name of the Hair Salon we went today! =) 发源地
Understand the 3 Chinese words above? Wahaha. If you don't know, that is the name of the Hair Salon we went today! =) 发源地
Waking up late , Andy, Teckyi, Julian, Samantha, Clarissa, Yining, Karen, Steffi, Sebas, Weiling and myself went to 发源地, either for Hair Treatment, Hair Dye or Highlight or for a simple haircut! Yuting joined us later as she was busy sleeping.Let photos do the work for this trip to the hair salon!
fyi. there isn't much difference for me. Just went to have hair treatment for the experience and merely tidied up my hair so that when my hair grows longer, it will not look as messy as before. =P
Before hair cut!
Hair Treatment under process 
That's my hair!
Teck Yi with his new dyed hair!
Our new hairstyles!
Deputy Store Manager! The Hair Stylist for Yuting, Teckyi, Julian, Weiling, Karen and Myself!
By the time everyone has finished getting their hair done, it is about 3pm. Hence, Teckyi, Andy, Julian, Yuting and I went to the place where we bought tea leaves yesterday to buy more! This time, we bought 人参乌龙 tea leaves instead. This time, we bought even more. About 2 jin worth of tea leaves. In return, the store owner gave us discounts and also 2 mini 紫砂茶壶.
By the time we went back to hostel, it was about dinner time, where Mr Puah cooked his trademark porridge for 1 last time! Seriously, THANKS MR PUAH FOR ALL THE TIMES YOU COOKED FOR US. THANK YOU!
Here's the end product of the washing of toilet and me in action! haha. Great sense of satisfaction =D
That's all for the day! Good night people
2 days worth of blogging
Day 38 - 1 October 2008
To all Chinese Nationals - A VERY HAPPY NATIONAL DAY! 1st October 2008 is People's Republic of China's 59th Birthday!
As for Group D, we woke up early in the morning, 8am, so that we are able to go to the back alley to take some photos and grab some breakfast! Out of 5 of us, probably Fiza and Amirah enjoyed the most. Because this is their FIRST BREAKFAST since don't know how long ago!
After that, it was mostly finishing up all our videos for the whole day while the rest of the people went out to shop. Purpose - National Day Sale! lol
I must say, Kudos to Group C for finishing up the videos! Although everyone was a bit frustrated working with Windows Movie Maker, I would say, we overcame it with determination and teamwork. Once again, WELL DONE! =)
That's all for Day 38. Quite short right? haha. Actually is not, for me at least.. Vomited at the middle of the night (3am) in the toilet. Suspected food poisoning. Anyway, thanks steffi and sebas for your help last night! =D Fine now.
moving on to Day 39 - 2 October 2008 , which is today...
While majority of the people were busy compiling all the videos before proceeding to Li Xuan house at night for dinner, Yuting and I decided to go to the famous tea house located at Taipei Road, Hankou, Wuhan -- DaHeng XiaoZhuan Tea house -- to get some tea leaves.
On the way out of hostel, Elaine told us that there are 2 shops selling tea leaves just nearby our hostel. As such, we visited them and bought 6 liang of Biluochun tea leaves. =)
Afterwards, we wanted to board a public bus to Hankou before changing to taxi to that tea house, thinking it will be cheaper. HAHA. it will actually, but we made a mistake by alighting at the wrong bus stop. Ended up walking along the coastal main road that will bring us to Walking Street. ahh. Imagine 2 hungry Singaporeans walking, trying to find bus 563 (reputed that will bring us to Taipei Road) and looking for food that is not expensive. =(
Yep. these are the photos captured while walking, before we found a restaurant, famous for soyabean milk and doughsticks which serves set lunch!
Inclusive in this slideshow are photos which were captured behind our hostel, while walking to buy tea leaves.
To all Chinese Nationals - A VERY HAPPY NATIONAL DAY! 1st October 2008 is People's Republic of China's 59th Birthday!
As for Group D, we woke up early in the morning, 8am, so that we are able to go to the back alley to take some photos and grab some breakfast! Out of 5 of us, probably Fiza and Amirah enjoyed the most. Because this is their FIRST BREAKFAST since don't know how long ago!
After that, it was mostly finishing up all our videos for the whole day while the rest of the people went out to shop. Purpose - National Day Sale! lol
I must say, Kudos to Group C for finishing up the videos! Although everyone was a bit frustrated working with Windows Movie Maker, I would say, we overcame it with determination and teamwork. Once again, WELL DONE! =)
That's all for Day 38. Quite short right? haha. Actually is not, for me at least.. Vomited at the middle of the night (3am) in the toilet. Suspected food poisoning. Anyway, thanks steffi and sebas for your help last night! =D Fine now.
moving on to Day 39 - 2 October 2008 , which is today...
While majority of the people were busy compiling all the videos before proceeding to Li Xuan house at night for dinner, Yuting and I decided to go to the famous tea house located at Taipei Road, Hankou, Wuhan -- DaHeng XiaoZhuan Tea house -- to get some tea leaves.
On the way out of hostel, Elaine told us that there are 2 shops selling tea leaves just nearby our hostel. As such, we visited them and bought 6 liang of Biluochun tea leaves. =)
Afterwards, we wanted to board a public bus to Hankou before changing to taxi to that tea house, thinking it will be cheaper. HAHA. it will actually, but we made a mistake by alighting at the wrong bus stop. Ended up walking along the coastal main road that will bring us to Walking Street. ahh. Imagine 2 hungry Singaporeans walking, trying to find bus 563 (reputed that will bring us to Taipei Road) and looking for food that is not expensive. =(
Yep. these are the photos captured while walking, before we found a restaurant, famous for soyabean milk and doughsticks which serves set lunch!
Inclusive in this slideshow are photos which were captured behind our hostel, while walking to buy tea leaves.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
It supposed to be Project Day...
Day 37 - 30 September 2008
ahh.. it supposed to be project day today. However, we have yet to start our group video! hmmm... What we do today was only consolidating all photos in relation to food and went out!
Anyway, our group (5 of us) together with Adelene went to Computer city boarding a private taxi van. Adelene got to get a hard disk while the rest of us are going there to take more photos of Wuhan food!
That's the van we boarded.. And photos of some food we tried!
ahh.. it supposed to be project day today. However, we have yet to start our group video! hmmm... What we do today was only consolidating all photos in relation to food and went out!
Anyway, our group (5 of us) together with Adelene went to Computer city boarding a private taxi van. Adelene got to get a hard disk while the rest of us are going there to take more photos of Wuhan food!
That's the van we boarded.. And photos of some food we tried!
Afterwards, as today was the last day of Fiza and Amirah fasting, both of them and myself went back to hostel first as they got to prepare food for everyone.
So yep. THANKS FIZA AND AMIRAH FOR YOUR TREAT! =)
After dinner, Yuting and I went to 建设七路 aka 7th street, in bid to get some stuffs. There, we managed to taste more local roadside food! For example, Riceflour Pancake, Corn? and of course, I played the Matt Candy game. According to Xiaoling 老师, it is a local art. Pay money, turn the pointer like wheel of fortune, from there, the uncle will make the matt candy according to the shape pointed.
Cool right? I got a flower pot! haha
Here are some photos
Yep. Home-d after that and now, preparing to sleep and get ready for tommorrow video charge! =)
P.S. Sleeping at room 221 now. lol.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
No Monday Blues!
Day 36 - 29 September 2008
Day 36. Today is Monday. In 7 days more, we are going back to Singapore! AHH.. Time really flies. That's why we decided to spend our each day to the fullest and explore Wuhan as much as possible! =P
Today, Steffi, Geok Ting and I left for Hanzheng Street first, with the intention to meet up with the rest who are going to Walking Street later in the evening. Yuting got to change her bag at a store near Hanzheng Street as she bought the wrong bag. That explains why we got to leave hostel earlier than the rest.
Upon reaching Hanzheng Street using Wuhan's public transport, we decided to shop Hanzheng street again, where we ate at the roadside stores again! wahaha. Seriously, I think those roadside food store owners know me already because I am their regular customers! lol
After that, we walked to Walking street, where we will find the shop where yuting bought her bag yesterday. In the process, we stumbled onto this commercial street, 民众坊. Another mini-back alley where nice clothing and imitation shirts can be found. Afterwards, guess what we found?
AIJISEN! haha. Obviously, everyone was excited about it as we managed to find one of the 4 Aijisen Ramaen shops in the big big Wuhan! Yep. Had dinner there and trust me, the food there is nice (although tastes a bit different from what you can find in Singapore) and cheaper!
Window shopping at the Aijisen Shopping mall (i.e. Grand Ocean Shopping Mall) where numerous brand shops that are familiar to Singaporeans (such as Mango, Hang Ten etc) can be found. Ohya, probably the main highlight of the night was accidental spotting of 1 Spa shop. Yep. the girls were crazy about it. =P Booked an appointment on Thursday afternoon, 2pm.
Cabbed home and that's all!
Tomorrow is Project day!
Photo Montage of today's trip
Day 36. Today is Monday. In 7 days more, we are going back to Singapore! AHH.. Time really flies. That's why we decided to spend our each day to the fullest and explore Wuhan as much as possible! =P
Today, Steffi, Geok Ting and I left for Hanzheng Street first, with the intention to meet up with the rest who are going to Walking Street later in the evening. Yuting got to change her bag at a store near Hanzheng Street as she bought the wrong bag. That explains why we got to leave hostel earlier than the rest.
Upon reaching Hanzheng Street using Wuhan's public transport, we decided to shop Hanzheng street again, where we ate at the roadside stores again! wahaha. Seriously, I think those roadside food store owners know me already because I am their regular customers! lol
After that, we walked to Walking street, where we will find the shop where yuting bought her bag yesterday. In the process, we stumbled onto this commercial street, 民众坊. Another mini-back alley where nice clothing and imitation shirts can be found. Afterwards, guess what we found?
AIJISEN! haha. Obviously, everyone was excited about it as we managed to find one of the 4 Aijisen Ramaen shops in the big big Wuhan! Yep. Had dinner there and trust me, the food there is nice (although tastes a bit different from what you can find in Singapore) and cheaper!
Window shopping at the Aijisen Shopping mall (i.e. Grand Ocean Shopping Mall) where numerous brand shops that are familiar to Singaporeans (such as Mango, Hang Ten etc) can be found. Ohya, probably the main highlight of the night was accidental spotting of 1 Spa shop. Yep. the girls were crazy about it. =P Booked an appointment on Thursday afternoon, 2pm.
Cabbed home and that's all!
Tomorrow is Project day!
Photo Montage of today's trip
Monday, September 29, 2008
Wholesale Market!
Day 35 - 28 September 2008
Today is a Sunday. Sunday = Family Outing, as what our government always says. Am I right? Haha.
So yeap. We had a family outing to Hanzheng Street (汉正街). This is our family (no in order)
Today is a Sunday. Sunday = Family Outing, as what our government always says. Am I right? Haha.
So yeap. We had a family outing to Hanzheng Street (汉正街). This is our family (no in order)
SS (i.e. wife), Suelyn (i.e. Eldest Daughter), Vivien (2nd Daughter), Andy (Youngest son), Sebas (i.e. wife sister) and Chin Xiang (i.e. MAID).
Anyway, Hanzheng Street is not just a street. It is a name for 1 whole AREA comprising of numerious streets where uncountable distributors are located. According to the locals, it is so big that 1 week is not enough to shop every store, every item!
Haha. Of course, everyone managed to purchase what they want before we proceed on to Walking Street to meet up with the rest of the group for dinner.
Ohya, while at Hanzheng Street, we also managed to try several roadside stores. Mind you, the food are really unique and tasty!
After dinner, we wrapped our shopping day at Walking Street visiting the underground shopping mall (that underground bugis market) before heading home early. For what?
WAHAHA. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADELENE! =)
Seriously, I heard that she was rather sad because she was alone at the hostel for the whole day. =( Nevertheless, I hope that she enjoyed the surprise birthday bash we had prepared for her (quite last minute) and yeap, Happy Birthday once again! =D
Photo Montage of our Outing!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Back to Nature!
Day 34 - 27 September 2008
Last Excursion organised by the school - Visit to Wuhan's Botanic Gardens and East Lake (东湖).
Nothing much about the Botanic Gardens, just went there to take a look, walk around and enjoying Mother Nature. Just like Singapore's Botanic Gardens, except there is a greenhouse full of exotic and sub-tropical flowers and the area is big (and a bit porly maintained, in certain areas)
Afterwards, we went to East Lake. Part 1 of East Lake was visit to the Moshan area of East Lake. fyi, East Lake is divided into several tourist areas, and we are going to visit 2 of it.
At Moshan, we went to several tourist sites and took numerous photos. Probably the main highlights of the day were:
1) Visiting the Chu Market where everyone spent RMB10 to wear ancient clothing
2) Finding a spot to picnic
3) Visiting 楚天台 (highest point at East Lake) where we experienced the music performance using the bells replica (rmb the set that was found in the museum?) and enjoyed 东湖 scenery!
Yep. After enjoying all the fun, we moved on to another part of East Lake where 10 of us shared a tourist site-seeing vehicle to move around the park. Visited 屈原memorial hall etc.
That's all for our last excursion in Wuhan, with our day ending with dinner take-aways from the local market found at the back alley =)
P.S. Autumn is coming (FINALLY). Meaning? Temperature is dropping drastically. Therefore, COOL!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Presentation, Sale, Dinner
Day 33 - 26 September 2008
As the clock strikes 1am, everyone headed to room 219 when we wished SS a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! =)
That's you. WAHAHA.
Yeap. Hope you have a wonderful birthday celebration with the durian, lemon, flowers etc!
Woke up early in the morning (7am) and headed to ss room to finish up the ppt slides. In 2 hours time, everyone from MDE and ECE were sitting there with all kinds of feeling, awaiting for their turn to present their hard work. I would say, well done everyone! =)
It was a pity that Xiaoling 老师 was not available to see us presenting as she had to go for invigilation for another examinations. I know that she would like to see how we do our presentation. Never mind, she had a photographer who stayed throughout the presentation to film us presenting!
Presentation ended at approx. 3pm when some of us headed to the nearby shopping centre (which was having their anniversary sales, remember?) while the rest headed to Walmart to get food for tomorrow's excursion picnic.
Photos of presentation!
That's my group! Same attire, if you had noticed.
The guy who has been filming for the whole day
CX group presenting..
Vivien's script. But she did not use it in the end. LOL
Rather disappointed with the anniversary sale. Firstly, I wasn't able to get the belt and pants I wanted because there are limited stocks, which were sold out within the first 30 mins of its opening (i.e. morning when we had presentation la!)
Secondly, the vouchers we had can be only used if we spend a minimum amount! ahh.. Somehow felt like being scammed. Nevermind. I managed to get a pair of earrings I saw for my friend. =P
Time flies and it was dinner time! Today's dinner was FOC! wahaha. All thanks to Mr Puah! For treating us dinner at the restuarant again. However, as there wasn't enough tables, we had to spilt into 2 groups at 2 different rooms at 2 different timings. LOL. Dinner was nice, but too much =P A total of 13 or 14 dishes? Too many until I cannot remember! =.=
Yep. thats all for the day. Tomorrow excursion again! =)
Enjoy some photos Mr Puah's treat!
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