Day 34 - Free and Easy

Day 34, Our trip is coming to an end soon! :( I miss Singapore, but i'm starting to like Wuhan too! Too bad i can't be at both places at once!
Anyway, as it was free and easy, we woke up really late. After we all got up, we went to the Fishball restaurant once again for lunch! We were pretty addicted to the fishball soup+fish and the egg with tomato. Simple yet delicious! :D

Tomato with egg! Yummy! Vegetables which we decided to try. Nice at first, but the ending taste was bitter. So i didn't eat much of it.

What we came for. Fishball Soup with Fish! :D After lunch, we went back to our hostels while some went town to shop once again. We played Counterstrike together and we watched some movies, and went for a run! After that we had dinner and night came, and we did the usual of watching movies/blogging/playing before we went to bed. Pretty wasted day.
THE END!

REFLECTIONS!
After today, i have learnt that we should make full use of the time we're given instead of wasting it. From the whole of today, i could have finished up a lot of assignments and work, but i ended up playing and getting 0 work done. This really woke me up and realise that i have to start prioritizing my priorities properly and exercise self control to finish it instead of wasting an entire day :D

Day 33 - Getting my hair Dyed cum a little bit of shopping

Day 33 started with some of us going to Grand Ocean shopping centre early in the morning. We took a private van there as it was 30 yan for 8-10 people. Really cheap!
When we reached, we went for lunch as we haven't eaten anything since morning. So we went to fill our stomachs at a beef steak restaurant which served very nice food at a reasonable price :)
Some pictures are below!


Grand Ocean Shopping Centre! Delicious beef steak :)After that we went to a salon to get a haircut/dye/treatment for some of us. As for me, i only dyed my hair for 198yan. Pretty reasonable, counting it was a salon with superb service.

Me, getting hair dye applied on my hair

Some of us who went for dye/cut/treatment for the hair!
Me, Polim, Chong Sian, Anyu

Me, Roy, ChongSian(Left to right)
At Grand Ocean shopping centre. Nice night lightings :)

China pizza hut!

They have pork pizza! Totally new to us!

Night view of the shopping centre :) nice!

After a whole day of shopping, we were dead tired and we took the private van back to our campus and headed to bed after bathing and washing up! :D Well actually not really shopping. We spent most of our time in the hair salon and we didn't shop much. I saw quite a few things i wanted to buy but i didn't as i did not really need them. Save money! :D

Thats all for today! :D
REFLECTIONS!
From today, i have learnt how to exercise self control. Though i saw many many things that i wanted to buy for myself, i didn't as i did not really need them. But instead, i only wanted it because i thought it was nice/cool and all. I'm glad i did not buy it as i would not use it much. So i get to save some money to spend another day when i see something which i really need :D Also, the size of their shopping centres are so gigantic that it was really messy just to shop at their shopping centre. Its like you walk non stop, but yet you will never be able to cover the whole shopping centre. Pretty cool giant shopping centre i must say!
Also, i have experienced a lot of things out of my comfort zone such as looking after myself in another country and i am glad i came to this OIP trip.

Day 32 - Written test 2! End of Lectures!

Oh no! Time for written test 2! Nothing much happened today once again. We had a 1.5 hour test in class today on BPE. This time, I almost completed the whole paper. I only left 1 part of a question blank. Not bad compared to written test 1! However, having written test 2 means that we have no more lectures! YIPPEEE!
The answer booklet!

Roughly how much each of us wrote for 1 questionAfter the test, we headed for lunch at the fishball restaurant nearby and after lunch, some of us headed to Grand Ocean shopping centre to shop, while some were tired and headed back to the hostel for some rest. At night, we went for dinner as usual and that is all for today!

Fish ball restaurant! THE END!

REFLECTIONS
Though lessons are over, it does not mean that we are not learning anything anymore! We learn something new every day! Our learning journey does not just stop on the last day of class. It will carry on until we grow old and eventually leave earth :) So I’ve learnt how to make use of any opportunities I am given to learn new stuff!

Day 31 - Happy Birthday China!

Day 31!Happy Birthday China! My Home for 42 days! :DThe streets and everywhere was all empty today, including the school! The students were having holidays as it was China’s Birthday! Most shops were closed so it was a boring day for us. We woke up really late as we had nothing on, and we ate lunch at a wanton shop. After that, we went back to our hostels to play computer and wasted the day. Also, we watched the television in the canteen. It showed the National Day Celebration. Everyone in China was so patriotic and proud of their country.

Patriotic locals, carrying the china flag on a boat

When it was time for dinner, we were pretty hungry and went to a Chinese restaurant near our campus to eat! The food we ordered this time were pretty delicious, but a little bit oily and salty. But not too bad! So we enjoyed our dinner and went back to our hostels and finished up some blogging and headed to bed :D So that is all for today!

Edy enjoying his dinner!

The yummy food we ordered! Thats all for today, REFLECTIONS TIME!

REFLECTIONS!
From today, I learnt that being proud of one’s country is important. We ourselves must defend Singapore. We have been growing up in our country from the very first day we were born. So we should treasure and protect it as it is where we belong. Without Singapore, I wouldn’t know where we would be. So in future we should be more patriotic than we already are and that we should stand up for Singapore without any qualms! The china locals gave their best and celebrated their country’s birthday the entire day, not just at night like how It is done in Singapore.

Day 30 - Presentations!

We did nothing today except for presentations for assignment 2! I did a presentation on Value analysis! It is a technique used to improve processes in an organization! Pretty useful tool in my opinion. After that it was just free and easy! But we stayed in our bunks and ended up watching movies on our laptops till dinner, whereby we went to a restaurant to eat. After that we headed back to our hostels and continued watching more movies! :D After that, we were all tired and headed to bed at about 12am!

Just settled down in class, getting ready for presentations!

Time to present! My group.
Roy, Me, Alvin(Left to right)

Presenting my part on value analysis :D

Thats pretty much all for today!
REFLECTIONS!
Learning is very important and that we should give in our best and be inquisitive when learning. That is when we learn the most. Thus in future when there is new things to learn, I would be inquisitive and attentive so that I learn and benefit more from classes no matter where I am!

Day 29 - Party with the China Students!

Finally we were able to sleep in! Classes started at 2pm today! I woke up at about 1pm and prepared to head to class! We had a quiz on Chapter 10 which was our last quiz! YAY! However there were still assignments and presentations to come! After classes, we took a short rest before having an early dinner! This was because at night, the china students have prepared a party for us! Definitely a night we will all remember. Roy performed his dance, and Edy sang on behalf of MDE! We are all proud of you and Roy! Below are the pictures! We all had lots of fun and it was really a night to remember where we put all our worries aside and just had fun.

Where we gathered for the party! Pretty cosyRoy, after finishing his dance performance!

Edy, singing on behalf of MDE!

MDE with the China students!

After heading back to our hostels when the party was over, we celebrated Gloria’s birthday. The most dirty birthday ever! We played with the cake so much that all of us were basically covered in cream! But I must admit it was fun, and that bonded us even more together as a family :D Pictures are below! Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Gloria!

At the end of the day, the cake victims take a photo together :)

Thats all for today!
REFLECTIONS!
After today I started to realise how important we are to the China students. They really treated us with warmth and we were like their close friends even though we knew them for a short time only. This really taught me to accept people for what and who they are. Also, it has taught me that friendship is really important in life! Without friends, life would be a bore! No celebrations and playing with each other and stuff like that! Because we wouldn’t smash cakes on our parents face for sure! We only do that with our friends!

Day 28 - Industrial Visit!

Day 28 started with us having lessons at 10am. Lessons were getting slacker as time goes by and as the trip is slowly coming to an end. We had lecture on Chapter 8 and had a quiz after lecture to ensure we know what Mr. Loh is teaching us.After that, we headed off for lunch at the canteen in campus. As usual the food is oily and salty, but we should be thankful that there is food for us to eat.

We then gathered at 2pm again as we were going for another industrial visit to a pharmaceutical plant. It took us about 10minutes to get there by bus. However it was quite disappointing as they did not allow us to go in to look around. We were only allowed to stand outside and listen to them explain on the different areas of the factory. Without much further ado, the pictures are below!

on the way to the factory! An ox in a factory. Cool :)

China worker, transporting some black medicine i think

random photo!
Gloria, Rebecca, Mingyu, ChongSian, Me(Left to right)
Inside the factory gates, outside the building :P

Group photo as we were walking around!




Safety Hazards! Apparently, we went in with cameras and handphones :P

After awhile it was time to go back to campus. Disappointing trip to be honest! On the way back all of us suddenly got high and started to spam pictures and make a lot of noise in the bus! We were all starting to behave like one big family! :D We just took pictures after pictures, even when we got back to our hostels. So that sums up the whole of today! Night was as usual, dinner and back to hostel to blog/do assignments.


On the way back on the bus!

Some random giant spider we came across!

Back at our hostels, and still spamming photos!
WE ARE ONE BIG FAMILY :D

REFLECTIONS FOR TODAY!
I felt that today’s factory visit was quite redundant. The China locals were not willing to let us enter to look around and explore their factory. They were probably afraid that we might take note of their factory and end up copying them and stuff like that. Like how all the fake branded goods came out. But then again, it is their factory so we have to respect their decision. So from this, I have learnt how to respect other people’s decision.