My Wuhan Experience.

Day 28 Normal Day

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

7:53 AM

Woke up at 8am lesson start at 9pm. Today APPG lesson our teacher taught us the last charter 7 of the book. When Mr Ma go thought the charter 7 I through was easy because there only one new statement in this charter. But once he finish teaching and go through the tutorial question omg I don’t understand how teacher does the question for the tutorial and next week is the final exam, most of the question came from this charter. During the next APPG lesson encounter a lot of difficultly in my programming. So waited for answer, but once Mr Ma show the answer oh no so chin I think this coming final exam I wouldn’t do well. Haiz..

Day 27

Monday, March 30, 2009

7:22 AM

Woke up at 8am need to do some clean up for yesterday BBQ. Went to bath heard my dorm mate said cleaning cancel lesson start at 10pm. Went to canteen 1 for breakfast. Had a heavy breakfast, ate 8 bao and dumplings. The bao was good because there a lot of meat inside. Today lesson we started on our topic 6 and by this week we need to finish the whole APPG. Need to finish our lab 6 by today. Went back dorm after eating dinner to finish lab6. Haiz work work work…

Day 26 BBQ

Sunday, March 29, 2009

7:50 AM

Woke up at 11.30am don’t know what to do and where to go but later at 5pm got interact BBQ event. Dorm mate ask us want to join them go computer world and Luxing shopping. I rejected them because a bit lazy to go so far so I and Marc went canteen 3 for breakfast plus lunch settle in a meal. After meal went back dorm to do our miniproject till 5pm. Went over to culture village is somewhere near school where the event was held. We had a hard time setting up the BBA pit. They don’t have a thing call fire started so we had to use dry glass, paper, tissue and wooded chopstick to start fire. Saw some of them using plastic to start fire luckily some of our student stop them because burning plastic is very poisonous. And the way they BBQ the food is very unhygienic. But still I eat the food taste nice I think is because of their sauce they marinate on the food. Went over the street to eat a probable meal. Try their fishball, their fishball are very different from Singapore. Their fishball was soft but the taste is same as our country. The best thing of this meal egg fried with seaweed.

Assignment 1

Saturday, March 28, 2009

9:03 PM

To begin, the purpose I join this Overseas Immersion Program is to learn to be independent, experience of the trip and learn their culture and history. This is the first time I go so far from my home and I want to experience how it’s to be alone with no help of my family. They some so other reason that catch my attention are their culture and the different between Singapore and China. I hope I can know more about their famous history and visit their beautiful scenery. Also the main purpose is to study for my Application Programming (APPG) and IS.

As you know China are well known places are The Great Wall of China, Wudang Mountain, Hankou and Hanyang. As for food they are well known in China are their duck neck, dumpling, steam buns, Gan Mian, Chinese tea and etc. As for their famous history are the History of the Dynasty of Shang and Zhou.

There is much more thing to learns, visit, dishes, business strategy and student life in their school from this trip. The main things I want to learn from this trip are their cultures for example their everyday life style, festival and their costume. They are a lot of places that I like to visit in this trip are their famous places in Wuhan and experience the real life of these place and scene. Eating is my most favorite part of this trip because I like to try different kind of food from different parts of the place. Business strategy in Wuhan is I want to learn how they bargain in street market and counter them in order to get the lower prices. Before I came to Wuhan, my friend told me that student study in university stay in the school hostess because most of the students stay very far away from school. This is what I want to know how student live in campus, what they do during free time, what their famous stuff or sport and etc.

What motivates me to learn are their culture and how they started up a business? In this world they are many different type of races in different part of country. They live in a very different life style and many kind of festivals, foods, costumes, dance, history and etc. As you know China is a very huge country, to set up a business in such a huge country is a very difficult.

The skill that I learn and experience in this trip will help me in my future life. I hope this learning trip will gain me more knowledge of their culture. Besides the culture experience and exposure, I also want to attain some basic life skills, like for example, self development, emotional and physical independence. For instance, making the best out of the money my parents have provided, bargaining would be the one technique I would like to attain or being street smart in choosing the most cash worthy goods to buy. Hope this trip will be enjoyable.

Day 25 Han Kou

9:11 AM

Woke up at 7am was very tired because last night sleep late just to play game with my dorm mate. This weekend the place we visiting are Han Kou. It was raining outside and the bus drive was late so we had to stay at a small shelter to wait and was freezing. Han Kou is a place when there are a lot of stall to shop around. Spend 4 hours over there walking from stall to shopping mall. Wanted to buy shoe at “Sanfu” some local shirts and shoes stall but don’t have the size. I realize that the size of their shoes had limited size of the largest is size 43. If you want to buy gift for friends it’s better to choose their local bands because pricing is much cheaper than international bands. Meeting the group at 3pm. Went to some shopping mall near “Yellow Crane Tower “. Saw this Vans shoes that I like so I ask the price and its 180rmb = S$40.30 so I try to bargain with it but in the end haha 100rmb = S$22.40. Have our dinner at street stall near the shopping mall. Trying their food while we move along. Eat this bun was very special because of the gravy inside make the meat remain its hot temperature. Went back dorm found out that I had sore throat.

Day 24

Friday, March 27, 2009

10:38 AM

Woke up at 9.30am and we suppose to meet at 9.50am at the school entrain, going to fibre and cable optical factory. Board the bus thought the ride will be long so I take a nab but the ride was about 30min. Once we reach the factory, the people in charge of there brief us about what we will be doing in the factory. We stand outside the factory for a very long time. We are also not allowed to take pictures in the factory. Therefore, I took pictures only at the exhibition hall which showcase some of the important procedures in the making of fibre and cable. Before we go in, we also take a group picture. There are certain checkpoints in the factory whereby we can watch short videos of the processes in fibre and cable making. The video is so boring plus I feel that it is too short and I don’t really understand the processes. There is a total of 3 checkpoints. After exploring the factory, we assemble at the entrance of the factory and get ready to go back to school. We reach school at about 12 plus. Then Mr Chua told us that the APPG theory test will be at 4. So I followed the rest to a restaurant near our school for our lunch. The food there is quite ok. Me jayden and marc return back to dorm to rest until 3 plus before we go for our theory test. The test is quite manageable. After the test, we went to canteen 3 again for our dinner and went to gym after that. Head back to dorm and rest for the day.

Day 23

Thursday, March 26, 2009

8:12 AM

When gym after lesson. After gym saw our dorm mate playing table tennis at the clubhouse. Saw Mr Chua playing too (look like professional player). Join them play and this is my third time playing so abit clumsy but still having lot of fun with them.

Photo Essay

7:07 AM

JUST BEAUTIFUL GLASSES

Day 22 Normal Day

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

7:43 AM

During the first lesson of APPG I continue my lab 5. The lab 5 was so difficult although I finish the lab but still i don't ever understand how the program work and run. Hope coming theory test never tested on this topic. The next part of the lesson our teacher go though the past year paper and this coming Friday is our theory test… wa so stress. After lesson went to gym but keep thinking of the miniproject, theory test, and those work haven finish. After gym, went back to dorm see no one and i was hungry so I eat whole pack of bread shh~ haha Continue my miniproject till they came back. Get distracted by them went out see what they brought but haha they just brought some bread and food.

Finally i get a chance to take a shot of GYM

Marc doing his 100kg bench press

Day 21 Lab Test

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

9:30 AM

When I walk into class my heart starts pounding woo~ so scary. Sat down and all the C# sentence loading inside my brain ah~. Once I receive the paper “heng ah” it’s like the practice we did yesterday but still encounter some difficultly at the display result part. But still manage to finish everything in the last 5min.

It’s 5pm after lesson same went to canteen 3. Try out their Korean food and taste not bad but there a lot of vegetable, capsicum and spices mixture up with rice. I realize most of the food stall like to fried with vegetable, capsicum and spices I think that their style of cooking. Went to play pool after dinner. It's was fun man^^

Day 20 Windy Day

Monday, March 23, 2009

8:58 AM

Woke up at 9am and it's raining outside wooo~ so cold so i didn't shower. Ran all the way to class and my whole jacket are wet, went into class and my whole body are freezing. During APPG lesson, i start doing my lab5 and it was so difficult I scratch my head until my hair drop. Trying to find solution for the next hour. During the second lesson of APPG we practice for our lab test tomorrow. Once I see receive the paper I see the first question OMG, cannot do but I still try my best to finish. Manage to complete the paper in 2hours. After I finish the paper I found that it was so easy. Haha. Hope tomorrow paper came out with the same concept. Went over to canteen three for dinner. Brought mini streamboat for dinner cost me 22rmp=$5 and it was super big portion but too spicy for me. Went back to dorm and brainstorm for my APPG miniproject. It’s was 12.30am still stress for my APPG lab test tomorrow hope test can go smoothly.

Day 19 Top of WuDang

Sunday, March 22, 2009

10:40 AM

Leave the hotel at 7am and had our breakfast at the same restaurant. Went back to Wudang Mountain, the mountain is about 1.6km high we can choose to walk up or took cable car up. Our group choose to took the cable car cost us 95rmp=S$22. We waited 2 hours for the queue. Meanwhile, we saw a few of them trying to jump into our queue but one of our tour guide leader stop them and started quarrel. The ride of the cable car was about 25min. It’s was scary up here because it was quite shaky up here but after awhile get use to it and enjoy myself and took shot of the beautiful scenery.

It’s was windy and cold, we had to climb up the steep staircase to reach the highest point of the mountain but worth the pain, the view from the top super nice took some shot of their beautiful scenery. When back down to meet the rest of our member.

Having our lunch at some hotel restaurant most of the food served are vegetable and I only drink their soup. After lunch we took the bus back to school the ride should be 7 hours but I think the drive lost his way and there once we travel at a opposite way of the highway(so scary). Reached school at around 10pm was so tired lucky lesson start tomorrow 10am.