Day 26 - A wet Outing

It's been raining the whole time we were out for the trip. It means... the temperature has been plummeting back to 7 degrees.

Went to ... err... I am not so good with street names.

Anyway, here we are, walking under umbrellas in the street.

I shopped around with Xin Hui. Nadiyah and Hashanah initially. Soon, we were joined by Mr Wong.

Went to eat KFC... I manged to chow down a burger, and another 3 extra wings as well as milo.

Much later on, i went around the area with MR Wong as I wanted to scout out the area more. It's really Singapore's version of Bugis Street, I mean, it's 3 to 5 shopping malls are located beside each other.

In the end, I never buy anything. As for the others I met back at another fast food restaurant, they already had bags and Mei Yun seemed to be carrying a large stuffed toy as well.

Saw this very 'historical' advertisement. Whaha.. Cleopatra loves chicken?

It says 汉口江滩. Actually, after this building, there's really not much to see save for the evening time.

That's when we will see the florescent lights lighting up the shoreline against the night sky. Said to be beautiful and romantic.

The day view isn't that nice...

A ship on the river!!!

Our tour guide, 刘导游 was explaining about this place to Mr Wong. She's pretty, isn't she?

Ah, I wanna eat the 'ikan' (fish). But, it will taste like rock...

Meet Mr Ng, my ECONS (economics) lecturer. Thanks to his teachings, I ended up with B+ in that module...

Three of the naggy tour guides... Whahaha..

Why do we keep meeting the same tour guides for all the weekends? But this is the last week we may be seeing them for a long, long time.

And a biscuit on the bus that we all got from Mr Chong. Thanks....

And finally, went back to the hostel only to find the 阿姨 (Auntie) in charge of the hostel watching a re-run of the show, 大长今 (the Korean drama) and so, went in to watch the last bit.

Unlike Singapore, dramas here are broad casted up to 4 hours a day. Now, if only we had a television in our room...

Ahh... I saw Da Chang Jing... Not bad, there's still the old fashioned television here...

Day 25 - Student Chief

Went for industry visit at 8. Went to Fibre Optics industry... (The use of light rather then the traditional movements of electrons)

Our guide explaining about his industry in Chinese.

Our translator, (one of our lecturer) translating in English.

One of the procedures. The glass rod moving to and fro as the plasma inside coats the rod.

And the end result. The part at the top is the thickest and known as the 'raw material' of this industry. The middle rod is after it has been coated. And the bottom rod is after it has been 'processed'.

A video on one of the explanations...

Look at the diagram.. it shows the whole process and quality control starts from the top when the rod is heated and changed into liquid form, another check. Finally, last check at the bottom before it is twisted into reels.

After which, we went and see the actual process but we are not allowed to take pictures of.

The company!!!

Group photo as proof we have been there.

And we even have rainbow cables. Amazing huh?

The rods before processing (bottom) to after processing (top) have diameters shown here from 150mm to 80mm to 40mm.

Cables- Waterproofing Pigtails Cables. Versatile and useful.

Finally, we took the bus and dropped the ISCT students at Wuhan University (武大) to see the 'Para Para Sakura'.

Look, these stone slabs look alike seem to be emitting smoke. I thought that it was dry ice... but it's too dangerous to transport it thus.

Then, as the bus also passed by Walmart, several of us alighted with Mr Wong and from there, we went our separate ways. I headed to Pizza hut with Stephanie, Xiang Yu, Seok and Mei Yun(Sorry, I always confuse her name)

See, Pizza!!!

The interior of the building. Looks so grand..

We never get a mug in Singapore. So cool!!!

Pepsi with a lemon in it. It's really less gas. And the total bill tally's at 212. We each paid for what we eat. I ended up paying 30+ bucks. Convert it to 7 plus in Singapore... Quite ok... I think...

New Orleans Chicken Wings.. They 'flew' in from another country.

And here, Stephanie and the others were utilising the utensils while trying to maintain their 形象(image) while all I went was, "Since when do you all have 形象?"

Xiang Yu ordered the set meal and this is his pizza. It's so small and still he offered to share it with us. Thanks, but, you eat la, Xiang Yu.

And out Hawaiian pizza that made us wait for 17 minutes... Cheese and more cheese?

Afterwards we went shopping around the area for a thermo flask for Seok's sister. In the end, Stephanie and Xiang Yu went up in the arcade for Free Toss Basketballs.

Go Xiang Yu go! He managed to get 38 points.

Stephanie, 加油! Not bad, she got 36 points.

Went to StarBucks to purchase the thermos flask and in return, we get free drinks... Well, it's free in my case because I wasn't buying anything.

The small cup of drink... Vanilla and Caramel. High class de!!

Finally, went back to the hostel and met up with Mr Wong to go to Mr Loh's house. We met up with Mr Loh and took a 5 minutes walk to his apartment. Not too shabby, Mr Loh.

See, we all sitting down after bringing over the ingredients.

And finally, the 3 senior chief's in-training. Stephanie, Seok and Xiang Yu.

Mr Loh's bed has electric heating. I am so envious. I want it...

Seok chopping garlic video...

She looks so 不爽('Not happy, wanna fight' look). Direct your anger at the garlics, please.

Stephanie washing the vegetables.

Much later on, I am also helping her in peeling the vegetables and becoming the messenger. Don't think I never do anything ah...

Xiang Yu is really like a traditional hawker. He has the skills as well... Impressive, I never knew he was that multi-talented.

In a chinese newspaper, this picture caught my eye. The headlines read, "If women ruled the world..."

I was also laughing to the jokes inside there.

And at last, we, student chiefs, have cooked up a spread. It's simple but seriously, now I know how my maid actually can stand doing this tedious work.

Ate our own cooking and soon, joined by Clive, Randolph, Masita and Hajar.

Watched the 'diving' championships channel at Mr Loh's place. Stephanie, Mei Yun, Seok and Xiang Yu left first and soon, Mr Wong and me left.

It was freaking cold by then and also dark because there was inadequate lighting. Finally, went back to my dorm room and blogged as well...

Good night!!

Day 24 - Presentation to Locals

As per usual, we woke up to have lessons at 10.

In class, I a a left-hander. Not really, more like 'left hand poser'.

Mr Wong and the lesson. Last quiz for the whole module. So happy!!

After the quiz, went to eat lunch with Xiang Yu, Nadiyah, Stephanie and Seok Hui.

See our plain lunch fare?

The 服务人员(service crew) were like hurrying us to finish our meal as they were closing the place.

Anyway, went back to Stephanie's room to rehearse for the presentation before meeting again at the corridor to get to the place.

It was there that most of us met Mr Wong, who was dressed. Also, a little bird stole our attention and hearts as most of us took photos of it until it finally got scared and flew away. Aww... I never even took it yet.

We are inside discussing about whose turn is it to go first with the ISCT group.

Finally, we decided to let ISCT go first. You know, they were good at tempting most of us to remember about Singapore's delicacy- Now I want to eat Laska thanks to them.

Finally, as they ended the talk, Hashanah, Zee Min and me went up first to talk about our courses with relation to MDE.

Have to give it to Zee Min, she hogged the mike and was entertaining but too long winded.

Finally, my group was to present first. At the end of the day, I ended up being the narrator and had to restrain my laughter as everyone was laughing due to Xiang Yu's acting as well as al the times I went, "K ,Pause!" to explain.

Everyone thought that skit was rather funny and amusing and Mr Wong remarked that we were good as we were able to turn a boring topic- Singapore's transportaion mode, and turn it into an amusing skit.

Weiguang's group then followed up was also amusing, especially Zee Min's spitting act. Even I was laughing to it as well as the Hokkien song from the movie 'Money No Enough 2'.

And, need to learn more about Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering? (Combination of Science and Engineering)

MDE watched too much 小娘惹(The little Noyna). Randolph presenting about Paranakan culture.

At the grand finale, MDE started singing 'Rasa Sayang' leaving the difficult parts to Hashanah, Nadiyah and Zee Min to sing. I have to admit, I find it rather stupid...

And sang a Singapore song with the lyrics, "Because in Singapore, Singapore, our hearts are big and wide you'll find..." with the ISCT.

Went for dinner afterwards.

The restaurant I went to had anime shows. I wanted to watch it but I was even more hungry.

Did I mention that 8 of us ran in into the lecturers? What a coincidence. You know how I can e happy in eating here? As long as the lecturers treat, that's the best.

Randolph and Benedict adjusting the turn-thing. See, as we turn it, it will move in the opposite direction and we have to position it again.

Opposite of me is Seok Hui and Franice.

And here, MengZhen, Ci Min and Hui Miang. While waiting for our food.

The lecturers digging in.

Mr Loh was saying how much Faith Tay was telling him that my blog's nice to read and I was thinking, "Err..."

We have our own service crew. Introducing Randolph and Benedict... Whahaha.

And we have complimentary drinks of iced 奶茶(Milk tea). The design is so adorable.

And after dinner, we part way with Seok, MengZhen and me heading back to the dormitory first.