Day 1.
okay, i'm blogging about day 1 AFTER all my other days, weird =) cause nothing much really happened in Day1. so anyway, started off with FLYING to Canton in Guangzhou, China for transition to Hubei, China. Flight was pretty normal, comparing with budget airliners. our transition time was 5 hours before our next flight to Hubei, China.We spent our time waiting for teachers to settle our check-in luggage, followed by having lunch at a restaurant in the airport. The price there is quite average compared to Singapore, the quality of food (black pepper beef rice) is very good! tasty and the spice is just right.
After landing in Hubei, China, we took a bus ride to a hotel to have our dinner! that hotel really made us seem like we're in Europe! it's very grand and beautiful! We had CHAO TOU FU (smelly beancurd) there with many other dishes and desserts (their desserts are really nice too!) yeah, so all in all, that hotel's really nice and grand, not to mention its price is decent too, not too expensive, not cheap either. and, we headed to the university! Carried our luggage up to the 5th storey (the highest floor compared to the others where my apartment is) and wua lah!
my apartment is better than what i expected. With air conditioners in every room (including the living room) two beds, tables, wardrobe. Two toilets are also included in the apartment. This is really better than what i've expected. As i have lived in conditions where there are no fans and air-conditioners without blankets, exposed to mosquitoes and other insects in OBS Sabah, rust flowed together with water coming out from shower heads and taps. While in Wuhan, there's no rust no mosquitoes, just insects and spiders that only needed to be exterminated once and we have comforters (those thick blankets)! So yeah, unpacked, showered and went to sleep.
Singapore's Airport, Terminal One.
In Canton, during our transition period.
The "european" hotel we had our dinner at.
Inside of the hotel (notice there are people welcoming us at the main door?)
Tuesday, August 26 2008
Day 2.
We started off with a morning assembly downstairs (of our dorms). Once gathered, we took a stroll to the canteen to have our BREAKFAST! Excited, we went on to queue up. SHOCKING! One bowl of noodles cost THIRTY CENTS (Singapore dollars). Oh my, being all so generous as usual,
I said: okay all dry noodles on me!
So the six of us ordered dry noodles and happily trot to an empty table, went to get 5 bottles of fanta orange! And again, they cost 25cents (again Singapore currency) EACH! Oh my. Lifted my chopsticks and took my first bite! (and stayed that way for a few seconds) and finish the noodles already in my mouth. HORRENDOUS! INEDIBLE! Okay I’m not really exaggerating but, it really tasted like crap. Finished my fanta orange (oh by the way, their straws are really small) and placed my chopsticks down. No breakfast for me today (that day).
Stood outside the canteen and whine all about it hahaha! Waited for god-knows-who (cause I don’t, probably other people who has not finish their breakfast) weather in china’s really bad! Really really HOT and their sky is just plain bright yellow. No blue no clouds (or their skies is covered by clouds all the time)
Went for campus orientation around the place, I must say their buildings, structures and sceneries are quite good looking from the outside, especially the School of Literature and Law, their sports stadium and beyond and the School of Foreign Language (where we study).
Went back to the canteen for LUNCH! This time, we went upstairs for muslim food. Much more expensive, but much nicer in taste too. Nicholas went on to queue up for us, and guess what! The year3s stole our food. There was a queue, we ordered and,
A year3 said: Here also can order your food!
And thus, our food got stolen as the year3s ordered, and told the auntie that it’s theirs. (I’m sure they didn’t know we ordered cause they just came in) oh well, what luck. We went back downstairs to buy coke and super oily sausages instead.
Gathered, went outside to buy our food card (which took a really long time due to some complications such as registering), and a supermarket. SPEAKING OF WHICH, my brilliant nose started bleeding profusely. Ripped a toilet roll and spammed it on my poor little nose. Blood blood blood EVERYWHERE! From the floor to my friend’s shirt to my shirt. Our trip leader, Mr. Lee was quite concerned and I really appreciate it, thanks! Carried twelve 1.5L of bottled water all the back from the supermarket to the university dorm, TO THE FIFTH LEVEL. Sorry, the internet’s down so I can’t blog. What I did was blog on Microsoft word.
So anyway, rest, and was watching Street Kings halfway, till we wanted to start on cleaning the whole apartment. PEST CONTROL! I spammed the pesticide at every corner of my room (Death count, >7) Spiders, cockroach nymph, beetles? 2nd phase was sweeping at every spot possible multiple times, and to our horror, we’re very confident that the apartment wasn’t cleaned at all, even after construction. There was saw dust, spider webs, dust balls, like a bird’s eye view of a desert. We took really really long to clean the room, thoroughly. We swept the room, moved furniture and swept again. And Nicholas did the same for moping. AND IT’S FREE AND EASY TILL 8am. Doing my work here at night before going to sleep.
monday, MY FIRST PAPER. it's strength of materials paper today.
so i woke up, went to school early to meet lynn so she could clear up some doubts i have on SOM. As i stood anxiously outside the exam hall waiting for the door to open, my classmates were discussing about past year papers and stuff. man! went through formulae in my head with em while waiting. received a reply from mary ng with 'more good luck!' hahaha thanks mary. went in, armed heavily with tissue paper and medicine tucked away in my black windbreaker. paper came! was happily doing until.... question 3 (there are 7 questions) MENTAL BLOCK! WHAT THE HELL! of all times, it has to be now, during the exam. sigh. made stupid mistakes. REAL STUPID ONES. cause i wasn't sure (and it's the basics) oh well. hope i didn't lose much there. same thing for question 6 (didn't see properly =X) alamak. i'm so careless.
after exam, i gave tan jy a call to see if he's at JE library, well he was and so i headed there in a 52. sat beside this hua chong girl (i thought jy knows her o.o) i think i was quite noisy. cause of my nose (yeah i'm still sick) haha she has this damn cool pencil case. A SNEAKER! and with shoelaces to boot! hahaha. studied ASAS (killer paper. most difficult one of all) i think i'l get a B or a B+ tml =( so anyway, my mum called me asking if i wanted dinner, and if i wanted her to fetch me back =D so yeah left the library at 9pm. back home, and blogging!
something totally unrelated, SKC Official Dog Event on the 24th of August (Sunday). has 3 competitions such as agility and obedience. i'm super interested! can learn more about dogs there and sourcing for reputable breeders! (yeah i'm getting a dog soon!)
Five for Fighting - Superman
I cant stand to fly
Im not that naive
Im just out to find
The better part of me
Im more than a bird...
Im more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
Its not easy to be me
Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home Ill never see
It may sound absurd...but dont be naive
Even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed...but wont you concede
Even heroes have the right to dream
Its not easy to be me
Up, up and away...away from me
Its all right...you can all sleep sound tonight
Im not crazy...or anything...
I cant stand to fly
Im not that naive
Men werent meant to ride
With clouds between their knees
Im only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
Inside of me
Inside me
Yeah, inside me
Inside of me
Im only a man
In a funny red sheet
Im only a man
Looking for a dream
Im only a man
In a funny red sheet
And its not easy, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm...
Its not easy to be me.
hahaha sorry sometimes in the night i like to sing to myself =) surprising right. i do sing, just alone. i'm shy O_O
at this moment, life sucks. but i don't know who to talk to. doesn't seem like i have anyone that's very close to me in this moment of life. was just whining and nonsensing to martha ng through smses during lesson hours today.
hmm i dont get it. lets say you have this scheduled thing where you work together with 24 people with different roles to achieve the same goal. why don't you read up so that you'l deliver the best performance possible? why would people not prepare for scheduled events but expect to do well? i mean, if you're not prepared u can't really expect to do well right? i'm probably just hardcore and some people are just casual, oh well, live with it.
hahaha sorry im whining again, quite an extremist. oh well i'm sorry.
lets talk about life..hmm playing the game of World of Warcraft, what do you really aim for?
do you play the game so that you can have the best virtual items? playing to burn time? playing for progression, downing bosses?
loots in wow are just like worldly possessions, money, property, cars. progression's about being successful in life, in terms of family friends, comfort of living, happiness of yourself and the people around you. playing to burn time, no objective? just live through life and take the way nature brings you all the time. which would it be?
priorities. well you see, there are some things you choose to sacrifice, somethings that are prioritised over another. take for instance, passing a loot to someone else. giving gold for a friend to get some equipments.
in raids, how are you going to contribute to your guild, to your raid? by understanding and learning your assigned roles? doing the best you can, delivering quality performance improving each time you try. easier said than done. but, are you really trying?
okay i'm so objective. anyway thats a metaphor =) just a random thought and something to fill in my blog. purpose of life, found mine years ago, told tiffy a little bit abt that! cheers. and peace.
31/7
haha boring and interesting day. started off with school as usual.. went to bukit timah plaza to do nothing at pizza hut when my classmates had their lunch (saving money). raced with my classmates back to class for VIVA for a design project. ended early at 4+ went to IMM to pick up surveys, met ah siew han on the bus with her bf. lol, it's quite funny actually. and i used my watch to spy on them behind me hahaha, although i think it's kind of obvious. who looks at their watch for minutes anyway? so.. i went into the office AND GUESS WHAT! it's some yun nam, london and new york hair skin and weight treatment office! oh man and the survey is damn lengthy. so much for 5mins, more like 15mins! oh well. went around jurong visiting people and asking surveys, went to my cousin's house and jy's house too! lol short catchup with jy and his parents, man, they're pretty friendly. didn't get to go xy's house cause it was too late AND i forgot to ask her beforehand. oops. reached home, showered and stuff. blog and SLEEP. exhausted really. short post. really tired.
guess i shall go around visiting friends hahaaha.