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

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)

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!

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!

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!