Visit to Steel Making Company! (Day 5)

~Mr Puah getting all his sheep on the bus~ =)


~On our way to the Steel Making Company~ =)


~Still on the way.... (rain... rain... rain...)~


~Something interesting i saw~ (don't know what they are doing???)


~Reaching the Company~


~Inside the industrial park~ (All the pipes looks scary)


~The rail way runs in the industrial park~


~A stop sign~ =)


~The company's bus~


~At the end of the tour~


~My Group with the steel roll sheets~ =)


~The end of the tour~


~End of the tour 2~


~A quick shot before going up the bus~ =)


~Think this one is our singaporean's, look left look right look left again then cross~ =X

~We found a muslim restaurant!~ Our malay friends have been surviving on other food before that! thank God! =)

~This is the 牛肉拉面~ taste great! but i accidentally added too much chili =X

~Our meal with our drinks!~ =)

29 Aug 2008

Today we went to the Steel Making Factory to tour the making of steel; it was a ‘warm’ and heavy visit that I had ever since the last time I went to the garbage incinerator plant in Singapore. Thankfully, it is an eye opener to most of us as we all have no idea how a blast furnace looks like in reality, as we only saw pictures in text books about them! It was quite exciting to see the burning and shiny steel melt flowing out of the furnace! Everyone was amazed by the furnace when we were just standing a few hundred meters away from it! (so sad we couldn't take any picture inside the factory) =(

Today was rather a short day, as we didn’t go out to tour around on our own. So we took this chance to have a rest and do some laundry. We also went to do some work out! I finally had a chance to use the table tennis racket that I bought from the school’s provision shop aka mama shop or co-op. It is really a very different feeling to play table tennis in an outdoor area where the tables are all stone tables! But thankfully there are table tennis net set up to let us play, although it was raining as I play with my friends, but still it was a fun experience and I also could see many residents around the school also came in to use the facilities in the school, which I think is quite an interesting way to make full use of the facilities in school!

Tomorrow will be an interesting day as we are all going for a city tour! Can’t wait to go!!! Well stay tune people for more great stuff!! =)

First IS lesson (Day 4)

~Look at the number of slides~ =X


~The famous person who wrote the book of Tea Apprication~ =)


~Look at my brother Teck Yi, his eyes look so tired~ =X


~The different rivers of China~ =)


~Andy's internet access point has problem~ (The person fixing is the school IT expert 杨老师）=) so nice of him!


~The Vegetable Dinner with my roommates!~ looks and taste great! =P


~Me and the Dinner we cooked~ =)


~see.. we so poor thing... have to wash bowls at beside the toilet bowl~ =X

28 Aug 2008

Today was the first day of our IS module, thankfully we weren’t late for our lesson the first time! We slept late the night before and we couldn’t wake up when our alarm sounded, all thanks to Mr Puah our guardian and temp father to wake us up!

During the lesson, we had an overview and detailed study on the history, culture, tourism and stories of Wuhan in Hubei province. The lesson lasted for 4 hours, many of us weren’t able to pull through the long period of lesson and they knocked out on the lecture table. But I really thank God that I knew quite a few things about China’s history, like the romance of the three kingdoms, Qu Yuan, the 4 beauty of China and many others. I was quite surprise that many historical events happened in Hubei and in Wuhan, like the famous strategist Zhuge Liang aka Kong Ming was from Hubei! And the famous poet Qu Yuan was also from Hubei. Some of the local festivals we celebrate in Singapore are also celebrated here in Wuhan, like the moon cake festival and dragon boat festival.

Today was a rest day for me, as I was really tired out by the 3 days before today. Thankfully I was able to get used to the environment here quite fast, thank God I didn’t have any stomach ache or anything of such! For my room today, we tried to cook dinner on our own dinner in our hostel! It was quite funny as my roommates has little experience in cooking, and I am the oldest among them as I am 21 years old this year, I guess I would need to take up the role of taking care of these little brothers in my room! We manage to cook a pot of vegetable soup, rice, and some boiled vegetables with tomatoes. It was really a delicious dinner we had, as it is not as oily, salty and big serving as what we can buy outside.

Really looking forward to the days to come whereby we can go visit the three gorges! And thank God we are the lucky ones that can catch the last view of the three gorges, as the IS teacher said that the project dam will be completing in 2009 and some parts of the three gorges will be submerged in water. What a pity… =(

Lesson Starts! & Shopping & Fun!!! (Day 3)

~In our class room~ =)


~Me studying hard!!!~


~Our Dearest Mr Puah~ =)

~Our School Main Gate~

~Waiting for bus to go to HanKou~ =)

~On the bus~ ( there is air con on bus, and there is voice recorder telling you which stop it is)

~The Bus Uncle~ =P (The buses are all manuel)

~At 中山公园~ =)

~Me Completing the motion~ =P

~Me pointing at the roller coaster on top of the building!~ =X

~This is the fishing game that you can find in theme parks!~ =)

~A very beautiful 凉亭~ =)

~This words are writen by 孙中山先生~

~The 5566~ =P (The only 6 guys out of 20 students from MDE!)

~Crumpler Gang!!~ =)

~I hope that boy can ta han my weight!~ =X

~Super man!!!!~ =X

~The birthday boy! Willis~ =)

~Trying to run along~ =P

~Nora and I~ =)

~The deer must be in pain~ =P

~One of the buildings that i like in the Park~

~Mr Puah so cool!!!~ =P

~The girls walking the underpass to the shopping mall~ =)

~Inside the shopping mall~

~Directly translate to english it means, "Get your finger stuck, Carefully"~ =X

~The food court that looks like singapore's Kopitiam~ =P

~This desert is Water Melon Ice!~ (It taste great!) =)

~One angle shot in the food court~

~Me eating the Water Melon Ice~ =)

~Me and Astro Boy!!~ =)

27 Aug 2008

Today is the first day of lesson proper, all thanks to the people in the campus that has made our living space so nice and comfortable to live in that we can have a good rest at night and feel refreshed in the morning!

Having lesson in a completely new and unfamiliar place is a challenge to many people I guess… but fortunately for me I was actually energised by the fact that I am no longer studying in Singapore but in another foreign country! I enjoyed myself during the lesson on Business Process Engineering conducted by our dear Mr Puah. He gave us a very interesting and practical over view of this module that we will be studying for during this stay.

After the lessons we decided to go to ‘Zhong Shan Gong Yuan’ which is so called the orchard road of Wuhan. As all the 20 of us wanted to go to this place, we decided to take a bus together as taking taxi is going to expensive for all of us. Thanks to our IS teacher Xiao Ling Lao Shi, she helped us to find out what bus to take and where are the fun places around Zhong Shan Lu.
When we reached the Zhong Shan Gong Yuan, we didn’t expect it to be a theme park where there are rides like the Viking, roller coaster and many more others. Some of us decided to try the roller coaster and test out their guts! For me I decided to be the audience to watch them scream their lungs out, but thankfully that everyone enjoyed themselves with that ride and no one is hurt or feeling unwell after the ride. After which when we approach the Viking ship ride, I decided to pick up the courage to try it out and thank God It was not as scary as I thought it would be!

I guess Chinese people in China are not as backwater as I once thought; they do have the thought of having fun and enjoy themselves. I think I am have always been influence by the television programmes that I watched in Singapore and things I read on the internet about Chinese in China, now as I am living in their community I felt that we are not that different after all. I hope for the rest of my stay in China Wuhan, I will be able to understand and find out the culture of Wuhan Chinese in China and thus truly understand what their culture is really like and how different is it different from us Singaporeans!

Thanks for the guide and fun time we had today to our two new found friends in China, Li Xuan and friend! Thanks! =)