Day 27 March 30
This morning I woke up at 6.45am. As usual, I did my laundry, washed up and got myself prepared for morning lesson. Today’s lesson was started at 10am since last night Mr Chua had informed us during the barbeque session. Later I did my homework until 9.30am plus. Then, as I was doing my homework, a local lady was knocked the door so I opened up and she said that she was doing the housekeeping and clearing the rubbish. Not only that’s her job, she was helped us to clean the room as well. After she had done, I thanked her immediately on behalf of my roommates. At about 9.30am plus, most of my group were ready and walked down towards to the classroom. When we were walking along, one of my group member, Shaoming was suggested that whether could take a light breakfast before we went for the class. So we went to the canteen nearby, Canteen 1 for having our breakfast there. After that, we walked out of the canteen and went to the classroom. Today’s lesson was APPG as usual this week was the last week for us to complete this module. It was left few days to be completed and most of our homework had to be completed as soon as possible. I felt that this was much pressure than what I normally have in school during the semester. Then, we were been taught on the new chapter, Chapter 6 Methods, did the tutorial and submitted before we went for our lunch. My lunch for today was much simple. I went to Canteen 3 and bought a packet of food back to have it at the hostel. After buying my lunch, I walked down to the ground level at the canteen to buy a cheap usb mouse. Unfortunately, during the days in China, my current usb wireless mouse was going to be spoilt. And yet it was unexpectedly to be happened during this period. So I asked the shop seller whether they did sell as cheap as possible. Then, the shop seller was introduced me some of the usb mouse. One of them cost about $28-$30 RMB and the other sells at $50 RMB and above. So I picked the one that cost me $28 RMB and bought it. I found that it was quite reasonable to buy a cheap usb mouse here. In Singapore, the lowest price I could find was about $9-$10 SGD as the minimum. So if convert from RMB to SGD, $28 RMB was about $5-$6 SGD. Therefore it considered cheap among the others. Then, I went back to the hostel and continued doing on my homework until 1.30pm plus. As usual, at about 1.30pm, I walked down and went to the classroom with my group together. As we were on our way for the class, my group member, Shaoming and Siew bo were folding paper crane with a $2 SGD note. Then, when we reached the classroom, we were been told to do on lab 6 after our lecturer, Mr Ma had gone through the Chapter 6 completely. However, the lab 6 was the most difficult to do among the previous labs that we done. In the beginning, we were confused on how it worked and got stuck by looking the program format before we could move on. Later, Mr Ma had shown us the program codes and the example but yet it was seem to be very tedious than normally. After that, we were moved on doing lab 6 until 5pm plus before the class ended. At about 5pm plus, we went back to the hostel and immediately started to do the lab 6. Finally, I was managed to complete it after 2 hours duration and then I went down to the same place for having dinner on my own. Later, after had eaten my dinner, I was on the way back to the hostel. I saw my classmates and our lecturers, Mr Ma and Mr Chua were standing outside the clinic room. I told them what happened and i been told that one of my classmates was having food poisoned. After heard this news from them, I was shocked suddenly. I hope that he was alright after he was healed. When I reached the hostel room, I saw some of my classmates were gathered and did their lab 6 together in the living room. And then, I went back to my room and continued doing on my homework. As for today, it was not pretty much to be observed. However I found that the local people love to play sports game such badminton, volleyball and etc. As I was walking outside, most of the time I saw the same local people playing badminton with their friends outside the shop. I was about to take picture of them but the picture looked so dark after had taken it.
Day 28 March 31
This morning as usual, I woke up at 6.45am to do laundry, wash up and get myself prepared to attend for morning lesson at 9am. At about 8.30am, my group and I went down together and headed to the same canteen, Canteen 1 for having our breakfast. When we reached, we immediately ordered the same food from the same stall and had it after that. As we were eating, I saw a guy was holding 3-4 of empty bottles. I was thinking whether he was going to throw them away in the dustbin. However he was placed inside a container that contained the empty bottles. I believed that he was placing them for reuse the bottles and sell it again. I found that it was a good idea to worth on doing it. Unlike in Singapore, people don’t normally recycle or reuse them and sell them nowadays. In the past, there was happened to do it before but now every drinks was filled in a can instead of a bottle. I also found out that the people here were always following the 3 R’s rules. They were Reuse, Recycle and Reduce. Not only did they reuse the empty bottles, they also charged on some amount for the use of plastic bags. This was to be done for encouraging the local people to reduce the number of using the plastic bag. In Singapore, people don’t really bother much on 3 R’s last time as nowadays government had also encouraged us to do this procedure. From doing this way, we could save the natural resources and the environment. Next, we walked out of the canteen and headed to the classroom together with our classmates. Then on our way, I saw there was a cleaner was cleaning the local public phone. At first, I was thought that she was making her phone call when we were just walked out of the canteen. However it was not in the closer distance. This was my first saw this situation. Normally in Singapore, people just don’t bother on cleaning the public phones or public facilities. I only knew that the cleaners in Singapore were just to clean the areas such as toilets, road, building and etc but I have never seen anyone cleaning the public phone. Maybe I was thinking that she was doing as her part of the work requirement. Then, when we reached the classroom, we were immediately started to be taught by Mr Ma on the new and last chapter, Chapter 7 on Arrays. As he was teaching us this chapter, I found that it was so difficult to understand the procedure of Arrays. However, I have never been learnt it since in ITE or last semester in polytechnic. This chapter was regarded as my first new topic since I have studied the rests during in ITE and polytechnic. As time went by, I slowly began to start understanding on the concept of Array. After had managed to finish the lab work of chapter 7, I had understand how does the array being structured by writing the codes. At about 5pm plus, the lesson was ended. Then, my group and I went to our hostel and got ourselves changed for having dinner at the same place outside the school. By the time when we reached the place, we ordered food and a bowl of round sesame dumpling individually. What I surprised was I didn’t know that there was a stall sells a bowl of round dumpling since I came to Wuhan over the several weeks. Then I gave it a try on this dish, but yet it was much delicious than what I had in Singapore. The cost of one bowl was about $2 RMB and it contained 8 of them per bowl. I found that it was twice as cheaper than in Singapore. In Singapore, the most I could get was 4-5 of them but the price was much expensive than what I ordered in China. After had our dinner, we walked back to the hostel and continued on doing our homework. As for today, it wasn’t much to be observed. However I have tried the local round dumpling, it was really that tasty and worth to eat in China rather than in Singapore. At the same time, I noticed that the transports such as cars, buses that like to horn wherever travelled along the main road. Unlike in Singapore, it would be charged and fined if having this situation but in China, local people just did it without being care. From the lesson that I learnt today was quite confused in the beginning but I had managed slowly to understand the concept by doing more practices.
3.30.2009
Journal on OIP in China - Day 25 & 26
Day 25 March 28
Today, I was happened to wake up at 7.45am instead of 6am. As usual, I quickly did wash up and got myself prepared to meet the rest with our lecturers at the main entrance gate. About 10 minutes later to 8.09am, most of my group and my classmates were ready and walked down together to the main entrance gate. At 8.15am, we reached the gate and waited for the bus and our tour lead to be arrived. As we were waiting, the weather was seem to be very bad and rained lightly since in the morning. It was very freezing when every time the wind blows towards us. At the same time, I also saw some groups of the local students were waiting for their bus to send back to their hometown. And there was a local man who was likely to be waiting for his girlfriend at the gate in front. He was holding a stalk of pink flowers and stood beside the van. After 20 minutes later, he had left from the scene and didn’t want to continue waiting. About to 8.30am, the bus has finally reached and all of us were immediately boarded into the bus. After that, we were set off together with our tour lead, headed to our last destination for today, Hankou. Hankou was one of the three cities combined in Wuhan. It was known of its shopping and trading port as during the past, most of the people were used to go Hankou and had their shopping over there instead of going other two cities. As the bus travelled along, I was watching a variety and comedy show in the bus to release my boredom. At 9.42am, we had reached the Hankou city and dropped off at the Hankou Jiangtan. Then, we were given a short briefing on today’s activities by our tour lead. Next, my group and I went to the other side of shopping mall, Wan Da Grand Shopping mall. The distance we have to walk there was about 2-3 km away from us. It would probably take 5-10 minutes to reach the destination. So, we went together with our tour lead. However, the weather seems to be very bad and it was rained lightly but yet so cold until all of us had to walk even faster. Normally the temperature wasn’t constant every day. It would change its temperature daily whenever there’s rained. According to what Mr Chua told us from the briefing last night, he said that Wuhan was the in-land state. Whenever there’s rain on that day, it will drop its temperature low to 8-9 degree after the next two days. Unlike in Singapore, the temperature wouldn’t be affected so much after rained as compared to Wuhan. Fortunately the rain wasn’t so heavily, else we might have the difficult for the activity today. After 10-15 minutes passed, we finally reached the destination, and we also had walked passed along the street. The street name was called “Hankou Bu Xing Jie”. As we were walking, we had seen a building mall located just in front of us. Then, we went inside and shopped around for our necessary accessories such as clothes etc. The size of the mall was about doubled as big as IMM in Singapore. It had a lot of shops that can be worth to visit. The inside of the mall consisted many areas such as food, arcade and fashion. After had shopped inside the mall, we met with other students from different division of Ngee Ann and a local student of WUST with her boyfriend. Later, we walked out of the mall and crossed over to another building. The name of the building was Mei Shi Jie Fan. It was the place where most of the local food could be found here. The price of them wasn’t expensive but it still treated as normal price in other places. Then, we walked to the arcade and went inside to see whether there’s any difference from Singapore. As we were walking around the arcade, I saw there were two technicians who were fixing the arcade machine. Later, we went to Macdonald’s where beside the arcade for buying burger to have some bites. When we were inside the Macdonald’s, I saw there was quite number of set meals. One of them I came across was their pork burger. This type of burger might not easily to be found in Singapore. Normally the set menu in Singapore consist either fish fillet or chicken spicy. However to my surprise, I found that there was included a pork burger as well. However, the cost of set meal was much cheaper than in Singapore. A Macdonald’s set meal would probably cost about $9-$12 in SGD while in China, it would cost less the given amount. After that, we went out of the building and walked around to the area. Then, we crossed the road to another building. As usual, we were shopped around for our things that we wanted in the building. At about 11.40am, we walked across the street and went to a shop for buying some clothes at Wen Zhou Chen. And then, we had taken a picture together with the shop-owner and the staffs. Next, we went to the street nearby and there was selling fake shoes instead of original. The minimum cost for a pair of these shoes was lower as $20-$30 RMB. However, the brand was similar to Converse but it was not original About 2.30pm, we started to walk back to the meeting point but in our half way, we were suddenly felt so hungry and immediately dropped off at the Macdonald’s to have our late lunch. At about 2.45pm, we had eaten finished and quickly ran back to the meeting point as soon as we could. As we were along the street, we had also taken some pictures with the statues in the Hankou city. About 10 minutes later, we finally made it on time and reached the place. However, we were going to the zoo in the afternoon. Despite of the bad weather, the activity for the zoo was cancelled and then headed back to our school after boarding the bus at 3.10pm. As we were travelling around in the bus, some of my classmates were suggested whether we wanted to go for another shopping at Yellow Crane Tower nearby. So majority of us had decided and told our tour lead that 20 of us were going that place. Then, our tour lead informed the bus driver that we were going to drop off at that area instead at the school outside. About 4.02pm, we reached the place and dropped off at the nearby area. Next, most of us had given our goodbye greeting to our tour lead and his friend before we left. As we were walking along the street, I saw there was an event held at the outside of restaurant building. There was involved some dancers but I couldn’t manage to see their dance moves as it was surrounded by the audiences there. Later, we had reached at the outside of the building, and it was called ATM ATM market. However it wasn’t like those wet markets that sell raw meats or fish. It was the place that sells fashion accessories, clothes and etc. There were 4 levels in that building, but I was not sure whether there was 5th or 6th level as most of us went to forth level and went down to ground level after buying our stuffs. At about 7.10pm, we had bought our stuffs and headed to the nearby place for having our dinner. And we had reached this small town where sell foods in a row along the street. From there, we were having our dinner until 8.30pm before we took a cab back to our hostel for 9.30pm briefing. As today’s activity, I was quite excited to go one of the three cities in Wuhan, Hankou. In the beginning, I wanted to find time visit there however I didn’t manage to. From there, I had learnt about the history of this city and learnt their cultures over there. According to what our tour lead told us in the bus, the people in Wuhan especially women were acting differently from others. An example given by our tour lead, the way they speak was not the same between in Hankou and Wuchang. The women in Hankou were very furious as the way they talked was almost like quarrelling but it was not. And the women in Wuchang, was quite sensitive in their surrounding and not really that active as others.
Mr Ma is holding an umbrella...
Smart action...
Another smart action taken...
Waiting for girlfriend?
Cinema in Hankou...
Fixing machine in the arcade.
Fixing process occurred in the arcade..
Pork burger in Macdonalds.
Delicious...
Egg & Ham Pie
Looks it is going to rain soon..
Looks familiar.... Is the penguin which represents China's messenger, QQ?
What's he doing? Fixing?
Mailbox
Taken a photo with the local entrepreneurs in the shop
20% Discount shop
Rubbish on floor
Late lunch at Macdonalds
One smell, million years...
Looks normal? Made of rice and it's a pancake
Day 26 March 29
Today, I woke up at about 10.45am to continue doing my homework from what I left last night. It was quite a lot of things to be done during these 2 weeks before we leave to Singapore on April 14. Then, about 3pm plus, my group member, Jeremy went to help buying the necessary stuffs with some of my classmates and the local students. About 5pm plus, I left from the hostel and walked down to the barbeque area. It was quite a long distance to reach within 10 minutes approximately. By the time I reached, I saw my classmates were helping up with the local students at the guide house nearby. They were getting the stuffs to bring over the gathering area. I was about to help but there was number of people helping. Next, as I walked towards the area, I saw some of my classmates were helping up to carry those grilling materials over there. After had settled the place, we were begun to start on lighting the fire. However, most of us had difficulties when lighting the fire as there wasn’t any flammable accessories such as kerosene, fire heater and etc. Then, most of my classmates were started to think how to light up. At first, they found dry grass to light up with the fire and placed beside the charcoal. However the success rate of heating was quite low as most of the woods and grass were not really dry after had rained since yesterday. And some of the local students were decided to heat up with the plastic materials. But we told them not to burn those plastic materials. It would cause to have toxic gas as the result. About 20-30 minutes later, we managed to heat up the charcoals with the fire. And it was so red in color and quite suitable for barbequing. Then, we begun to start eating after grilled the food. As we were eating, my classmate and I started to have conversation with the local students. We talked about what we do during the week and also talked other stuffs as well. Most of them were quite friendly and really took initiative than us for grilling the food and let us to have it. In return, I had grilled some foods such as mutton sticks, chicken wing for them to eat. Although it was so dark and couldn’t see whether the food had been heated up and used our sense to make our decision. We were also encountered some difficulties on grilling the food without having any light. At about 9.30pm, we were started to pack up and cleaned the area before we went back to our hostel. From there, we said our good bye to the local students and walked back to our hostel. As for today’s activity, I had learnt to be more initiative than what I am currently. I found that the local students were quite friendly and they were almost treated us as their close friends. In Singapore, there were some people who not really like the way as they did. At the same time, I had improved on my communication skill and begun to communicate more with them rather than just sit there and grilled quietly.
BBQ gathering
Today, I was happened to wake up at 7.45am instead of 6am. As usual, I quickly did wash up and got myself prepared to meet the rest with our lecturers at the main entrance gate. About 10 minutes later to 8.09am, most of my group and my classmates were ready and walked down together to the main entrance gate. At 8.15am, we reached the gate and waited for the bus and our tour lead to be arrived. As we were waiting, the weather was seem to be very bad and rained lightly since in the morning. It was very freezing when every time the wind blows towards us. At the same time, I also saw some groups of the local students were waiting for their bus to send back to their hometown. And there was a local man who was likely to be waiting for his girlfriend at the gate in front. He was holding a stalk of pink flowers and stood beside the van. After 20 minutes later, he had left from the scene and didn’t want to continue waiting. About to 8.30am, the bus has finally reached and all of us were immediately boarded into the bus. After that, we were set off together with our tour lead, headed to our last destination for today, Hankou. Hankou was one of the three cities combined in Wuhan. It was known of its shopping and trading port as during the past, most of the people were used to go Hankou and had their shopping over there instead of going other two cities. As the bus travelled along, I was watching a variety and comedy show in the bus to release my boredom. At 9.42am, we had reached the Hankou city and dropped off at the Hankou Jiangtan. Then, we were given a short briefing on today’s activities by our tour lead. Next, my group and I went to the other side of shopping mall, Wan Da Grand Shopping mall. The distance we have to walk there was about 2-3 km away from us. It would probably take 5-10 minutes to reach the destination. So, we went together with our tour lead. However, the weather seems to be very bad and it was rained lightly but yet so cold until all of us had to walk even faster. Normally the temperature wasn’t constant every day. It would change its temperature daily whenever there’s rained. According to what Mr Chua told us from the briefing last night, he said that Wuhan was the in-land state. Whenever there’s rain on that day, it will drop its temperature low to 8-9 degree after the next two days. Unlike in Singapore, the temperature wouldn’t be affected so much after rained as compared to Wuhan. Fortunately the rain wasn’t so heavily, else we might have the difficult for the activity today. After 10-15 minutes passed, we finally reached the destination, and we also had walked passed along the street. The street name was called “Hankou Bu Xing Jie”. As we were walking, we had seen a building mall located just in front of us. Then, we went inside and shopped around for our necessary accessories such as clothes etc. The size of the mall was about doubled as big as IMM in Singapore. It had a lot of shops that can be worth to visit. The inside of the mall consisted many areas such as food, arcade and fashion. After had shopped inside the mall, we met with other students from different division of Ngee Ann and a local student of WUST with her boyfriend. Later, we walked out of the mall and crossed over to another building. The name of the building was Mei Shi Jie Fan. It was the place where most of the local food could be found here. The price of them wasn’t expensive but it still treated as normal price in other places. Then, we walked to the arcade and went inside to see whether there’s any difference from Singapore. As we were walking around the arcade, I saw there were two technicians who were fixing the arcade machine. Later, we went to Macdonald’s where beside the arcade for buying burger to have some bites. When we were inside the Macdonald’s, I saw there was quite number of set meals. One of them I came across was their pork burger. This type of burger might not easily to be found in Singapore. Normally the set menu in Singapore consist either fish fillet or chicken spicy. However to my surprise, I found that there was included a pork burger as well. However, the cost of set meal was much cheaper than in Singapore. A Macdonald’s set meal would probably cost about $9-$12 in SGD while in China, it would cost less the given amount. After that, we went out of the building and walked around to the area. Then, we crossed the road to another building. As usual, we were shopped around for our things that we wanted in the building. At about 11.40am, we walked across the street and went to a shop for buying some clothes at Wen Zhou Chen. And then, we had taken a picture together with the shop-owner and the staffs. Next, we went to the street nearby and there was selling fake shoes instead of original. The minimum cost for a pair of these shoes was lower as $20-$30 RMB. However, the brand was similar to Converse but it was not original About 2.30pm, we started to walk back to the meeting point but in our half way, we were suddenly felt so hungry and immediately dropped off at the Macdonald’s to have our late lunch. At about 2.45pm, we had eaten finished and quickly ran back to the meeting point as soon as we could. As we were along the street, we had also taken some pictures with the statues in the Hankou city. About 10 minutes later, we finally made it on time and reached the place. However, we were going to the zoo in the afternoon. Despite of the bad weather, the activity for the zoo was cancelled and then headed back to our school after boarding the bus at 3.10pm. As we were travelling around in the bus, some of my classmates were suggested whether we wanted to go for another shopping at Yellow Crane Tower nearby. So majority of us had decided and told our tour lead that 20 of us were going that place. Then, our tour lead informed the bus driver that we were going to drop off at that area instead at the school outside. About 4.02pm, we reached the place and dropped off at the nearby area. Next, most of us had given our goodbye greeting to our tour lead and his friend before we left. As we were walking along the street, I saw there was an event held at the outside of restaurant building. There was involved some dancers but I couldn’t manage to see their dance moves as it was surrounded by the audiences there. Later, we had reached at the outside of the building, and it was called ATM ATM market. However it wasn’t like those wet markets that sell raw meats or fish. It was the place that sells fashion accessories, clothes and etc. There were 4 levels in that building, but I was not sure whether there was 5th or 6th level as most of us went to forth level and went down to ground level after buying our stuffs. At about 7.10pm, we had bought our stuffs and headed to the nearby place for having our dinner. And we had reached this small town where sell foods in a row along the street. From there, we were having our dinner until 8.30pm before we took a cab back to our hostel for 9.30pm briefing. As today’s activity, I was quite excited to go one of the three cities in Wuhan, Hankou. In the beginning, I wanted to find time visit there however I didn’t manage to. From there, I had learnt about the history of this city and learnt their cultures over there. According to what our tour lead told us in the bus, the people in Wuhan especially women were acting differently from others. An example given by our tour lead, the way they speak was not the same between in Hankou and Wuchang. The women in Hankou were very furious as the way they talked was almost like quarrelling but it was not. And the women in Wuchang, was quite sensitive in their surrounding and not really that active as others.
Mr Ma is holding an umbrella...
Smart action...
Another smart action taken...
Waiting for girlfriend?
Cinema in Hankou...
Fixing machine in the arcade.
Fixing process occurred in the arcade..
Pork burger in Macdonalds.
Delicious...
Egg & Ham Pie
Looks it is going to rain soon..
Looks familiar.... Is the penguin which represents China's messenger, QQ?
What's he doing? Fixing?
Mailbox
Taken a photo with the local entrepreneurs in the shop
20% Discount shop
Rubbish on floor
Late lunch at Macdonalds
One smell, million years...
Looks normal? Made of rice and it's a pancake
Day 26 March 29
Today, I woke up at about 10.45am to continue doing my homework from what I left last night. It was quite a lot of things to be done during these 2 weeks before we leave to Singapore on April 14. Then, about 3pm plus, my group member, Jeremy went to help buying the necessary stuffs with some of my classmates and the local students. About 5pm plus, I left from the hostel and walked down to the barbeque area. It was quite a long distance to reach within 10 minutes approximately. By the time I reached, I saw my classmates were helping up with the local students at the guide house nearby. They were getting the stuffs to bring over the gathering area. I was about to help but there was number of people helping. Next, as I walked towards the area, I saw some of my classmates were helping up to carry those grilling materials over there. After had settled the place, we were begun to start on lighting the fire. However, most of us had difficulties when lighting the fire as there wasn’t any flammable accessories such as kerosene, fire heater and etc. Then, most of my classmates were started to think how to light up. At first, they found dry grass to light up with the fire and placed beside the charcoal. However the success rate of heating was quite low as most of the woods and grass were not really dry after had rained since yesterday. And some of the local students were decided to heat up with the plastic materials. But we told them not to burn those plastic materials. It would cause to have toxic gas as the result. About 20-30 minutes later, we managed to heat up the charcoals with the fire. And it was so red in color and quite suitable for barbequing. Then, we begun to start eating after grilled the food. As we were eating, my classmate and I started to have conversation with the local students. We talked about what we do during the week and also talked other stuffs as well. Most of them were quite friendly and really took initiative than us for grilling the food and let us to have it. In return, I had grilled some foods such as mutton sticks, chicken wing for them to eat. Although it was so dark and couldn’t see whether the food had been heated up and used our sense to make our decision. We were also encountered some difficulties on grilling the food without having any light. At about 9.30pm, we were started to pack up and cleaned the area before we went back to our hostel. From there, we said our good bye to the local students and walked back to our hostel. As for today’s activity, I had learnt to be more initiative than what I am currently. I found that the local students were quite friendly and they were almost treated us as their close friends. In Singapore, there were some people who not really like the way as they did. At the same time, I had improved on my communication skill and begun to communicate more with them rather than just sit there and grilled quietly.
BBQ gathering
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