Wuhan: Day 26, 27

Well, didn’t update yesterday because I was really tired.

Day 26-

Woke up at 8 to do my laundry, then left the hostel around 10 for breakfast with the usual. After that we headed to the IT mall, where we bought stuff. The last time I was here, I bought a screen protector, but the wrong size!!! I bought the right one now though… I think. Hahaha. After that we headed back. The bloody bus I tell you. I hate china’s public transport. It`s always crowded. (Not that its unusual, they have 1 billion people) I’m just saying, in the midst of all this, you expect to find someone decent. But no. everyone either stinks or like squeezing. The bus attendants are also very rude I must say, I have nothing to say about them, that’s how bad they are. I have nothing in my vocabulary to describe them.

Onward! After that we had a BBQ with the students here. It wasn’t too bad. But we couldn’t get the fire started until it was almost sundown. We tried really really hard. But other groups started their fire 45 minutes to 1 hour earlier. Which was bad for us, cause while we were starting the fire, they were eating. Its in moments like these, where you find out the true colors of people. And it really isn’t a bad thing, I just got to know people more, yes I was angry about it, but hey, it`s just who they are. They are my friends. I choose them wisely. So anyway, the BBQ was a big success however, there were no lights. And before I ate really anything, the fire died, and everyone was packing up. BUMMER. So we headed back, took a shower and went to bed.
Day 27-

Class started at 10 today. Goodness. I only had 4 hours of sleep, was talking to Stefen until 4am. We guys are nuts. Nothing much happened today, pretty much the norm, going to class and all. We have a mini project interview Friday. I’m doing a project on Hotel Reservations. It`s going to be good, I can tell. Anyway, I am in need of much sleep.

Reflection would be, no matter how angry you might be at certain circumstances, always remain calm and forget about it. it`s all water under the bridge, and if you think back, you’ll know how stupid you are thinking and being angry about the little things, when the big things right in front of you, begging for you to have fun and you shun it away because of the little things, you lose out. A LOT mind you.
H`asta La Vista.

(PS . Yes I know, the terminator thing is getting irritating, but hey, it’s a way for me to sign out. Better than going “XOXO” and all that.)

Wuhan: Day 25

I dare say, today was the best of all days, because, I… Went… SHOPPING! ( say it in a typical blondish way of saying it, and you can “hear” how I’m saying it, if you really did this, you just wasted 30 seconds of your life, if you took longer, I feel sad for you.) Woke up at 7-ish today, bathed and got out, the bus driver was late. Making everyone wait in the piercing cold. (Yes, piercing cold, the cold is so cold, it pierces your body, and enters your bones. PIERCING not a word to describe cold, but guess what, I used it, oh wait, it is a word to describe cold.) So we stood under the rain for like 1 hour, I think. Yes 1 hour, before the bus driver actually came, maybe half an hour, when you’re suffering, you tend to exaggerate.

A one hour bus drive cum catch up on sleep ride led us to a shopping district, Jiang Han Road Shopping Area, which happens to be china’s biggest. It was huge, but a lot of the stuff were china brands and expensive. HOWEVER, I still got like 4 items for 100 sing, so it’s a very very good buy.

I realized, I have a lot of stuff in my bag, that is RED and WHITE, sweaters, jackets and shirts. Come to think of it, they are the colors of my favorite country……… CANADA, sorry Singapore, you come in second though.

ALSO! Today we had Tang bao again here’s describing it. Same as day 22, only more epic:

“Much delectable soupy liquid can be found within this vessel which also seems like it has a partially-permeable outer layer because we dip these meaty balls of delight into vinegar. So, with the partially-permeable membrane-like membrane, the vinegar can make its way safely to the core of the ball where the baby dragon meat lingers with utmost loneliness. As the baby dragon comes alive with you biting into its membrane, it breathes fire (this expression is used as if the soup was the fire), making you open and close your mouth, extinguishing the fire with your saliva. As your mouth gets used to, or cools the fire, it turns into smoke, letting you in-turn, breathe fire (steam coming out of your mouth). This happens instantaneously. Making your mind go crazy because your tongue is experiencing so many flavors at once, your mind enters a whirlpool of happiness. After sucking the soup out, you dip it in the vinegar again, bathing the dragon with it, and then devouring its savory goodness. One is certainly not enough for your black-hole-ish like stomach. Ten is an average value, for others, 15 may be the right amount. Dragons, even after the middle ages, they exist, only to be hunted down by the Chinese for delicacies sake. Todays Bao was surely the best I’ve had, oh wait, I’ve only had tang bao from 2 places now. HAHA”

Anyway, todays reflection: Never ever spend on impulse, for if you do, you would end up buying things you don’t need. A white elephant, that’s what people call it. Now, look around you, see the things you don’t need? That’s it, throw them away. No, like really, throw them away, THEN, see how much difference it makes in your room. And yes, you got me, this post is all about YOU doing stupid stuff because you read this, now, you wasted 5 minutes of your life, if you’re a slow reader, you probably wasted 13

Below are pictures. OH P.S I like shirts with Photos in them. Picture Uploads Tomorrow. TIRED!

H`asta La Vista!

Wuhan: Day 24

Hello, today we went to Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company Ltd. http://en.changfei.com.cn/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/index.html this is their website. Well going there today, was SORT of interesting, although to be honest, I got bored half way. I’m not my usual self today though, I think it`s because of the stress, had a test today, it went well, but still on my mind is my IS assignments and stuff, oh wait, its just the IS assignment.

I kept my cool reserve today, but my peers kept irritating me, juvenile I tell you. Haha. Let`s just say, today I woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and I just had so much to think about. Procrastinators, we learn our lessons the hard way, but it’s the best way in my opinion. We procrastinators, leave our work to the last minute, “burning the midnight oil-candle” as people say, by doing so, we stupid-recklessly stress ourselves. Piling on the pressure as well. This is why, procrastinators learn the best way, because we rush everything, we can absorb more (this is total BS) but I can find a good thing about procrastinators, and it is… we learn life’s lessons faster and harder, making us more determined and having nerves of steel for the future. HAHA. Nights ya’ll, going shopping tomorrow, I HOPE!

H`asta La Vista!

Looks of the Place from the outside

Their Logo

Optical Cable

Optical Fibre Preform

Quarts Substrate Tubes and Single mode Fibre Rod

Coloured Fibre

PMF Preform

Wuhan: Day 22

Okay, so today was normal for me, except I spent time studying for my APPG theory test tomorrow, NOT. Motivation to study has left me, for now, it’ll be back tomorrow after the trip to this industrial place, Mr.Chua said something today though, we’re here to improve our self-learning abilities, from that, we can proceed towards university with the responsibility to study. I, have none, for now that is.

This just seems to me as a very long holiday, with studying in between. I never thought to the extent of learning how to self-learn here. Very silly of me to have left that one out. But who can blame me, while I was here, I missed out on “Heroes”, “How I Met your Mother”, “Gossip Girl” and “The Big Bang Theory”. Just a few of my favorite series I like to watch, makes me sane for the moment. Or at least weekly, since they come out every Tuesday. The weather here, certainly has not improved with the heavy downfall and some thunder and lightning. The cold, no words to describe it now.

Having writers block is very irritating. I think my reflection is in this post already, in the first few lines. Right now, all I can think about is the heavily packed weekend. And of course, tomorrows test. It’ll be a massacre tomorrow.

H`asta La Vista!

Wuhan: Day 22

Hello world, today was the norm for me, BUT! We had the long expected (tang bao) Xiao Long Bao that we always wanted I’m guessing there’s baby dragon meat inside – therefore the name. Also, much delectable soupy liquid can be found within this vessel which also seems like it has a partially-permeable outer layer because we dip these meaty balls of delight into vinegar. So, with the partially-permeable membrane-like membrane, the vinegar can make its way safely to the core of the ball where the baby dragon meat lingers with utmost loneliness. Oh the savory delight of the bao, its taste is very intriguing but it is still unmatchable from the Dim Sum places in Singapore which I visit with 4riends at least once a week. We make it a habit to indulge in such foods as we like to live it like the olden days.

Canada’s Maple leaf has been calling out to me, more and more, I’m feeling very VERY Canadian. Haha relfection on today? There is none, except for the fact that I have satisfied my utmost dim sum need ever since arriving to Wuhan, I don’t think this counts as a reflection but OH WELL! Pictures below! Oh and in one of my past posts, I said that I wanted to feel the cold, longing for it. The past few days its been so cold, and when I felt the piercing cold rain dropping noiselessly onto my shivering skin, I am feeling more alive than ever. Right now, all I want is the warmth of the sun, “I want to sun burn, just to know that I’m alive…”. My adaptability to the cold weather is so poor (but I think I’m very geng, SO! I choose to think I’m warm all the time). If this goes on, I’m bound to have a cold snap.

H`asta La Vista!

The Xiao Long Bao which has assorted flavours like CORN! and Seafood. I think This was Mushroom.

And This is CORN.

Wuhan: Day 21

The day our trip hit half way, was the day I had my first test for APPG, it didn’t turn out too bad though, and I can ace it. I’m sure of it. My personal stalker has made the tendency to web cam me almost every day, AWWWWWWW. She’s just been such a good friend these days. She’s just in this one sided relationship now and she needs someone to talk to, me on the other hand, needs contact with the outside world (Singapore) so, I owe her uh… picnic at botanic gardens when I get back. Of course it’ll be hard cause I have to rehearse for singing at the SOE FOP. I’m going to kill it.

Okay so back to today, it’s been a rough day, apparently, had a minor quarrel with one of my friends Cristofer. Childish issue, but a lot of logic in it, my side of course, I was juvenile as well. After the test, we had another APPG lesson. And TODAY, wow finally we went to play basketball again, everyone has just been so lazy, it’s a good thing we did today. I don’t know what else to write, being forced to do a journal really gives me a mental block.

Anyway, todays reflection is, carpe diem (seize the day). OH and a lot of the quotes written all over the walls of the corridor OF the school are meaningful. I hope I remember to bring my camera and take a few pictures of them. Anyway, back to carpe diem, a lot of things we do here, are not what we really want to do or intend to do, because we are too shy to express ourselves, so in turn, here I am writing about seizing the day, probably because, I regret not walking up the Wudang Mountains and a lot of other stuff but this is just one of the examples I can think of right now. Fatigue has hit me hard, I think I’m going to sleep early tonight, until tomorrow guys. H`asta La Vista.

P.S I got into french for IS module! ArcEnCiel ArcEnCiel ArcEnCiel BABY! (Arc-en-ciel means rainbow in french, no im not gay, but dont you think Arc-en-ciel is just so darn fun and cool to say? =D )

Wuhan: Day 20

Oh my oh my, its day 20 already, the days on the calendar are flying off the walls as though they were vouchers for an all you can eat buffet. I’m half way there guys, only another twenty two more days till I’m back in Singapore. My stalker for one, is one of those who are missing me. This stalker, who is now deemed as my best friend, has been with my almost all the way since the day I left for Wuhan, this stalker, is none other than Nadia, most of you may know her as my ex, but for now, she’s my best friend. We just get along SO SO well.

Okay, so here to bore you with the days details, had class today, APPG trail test, I THINK I can ace it tomorrow. The trail test was done with A LOT of ease I tell you, I strolled right through it. a lot of people found it hard though, it`s basically just remembering the concepts and what codes go where. That was pretty much my day, except for the “hardcore” revision I had-done, am-doing. Right now, all that’s on my mind is shopping, I need to shop, like REALLY. I have tons to buy, for myself and such, for crying out loud, I brought t-shirts I could throw away because I knew I was going to shop a lot for myself, BUT NO, no shopping done yet. I need to buy clothes, if not, a lot of the pictures I take of myself (against some background of course) will be me in hideous clothes. Haha.

Reflection for today? Bring nice clothes no matter where you go, so you can take nice pictures and also, do take note, my best friend has made some things clear to me about myself, MY GOODNESS.

H`asta La Vista.

Wuhan: Day 17,18,19 (Wudang)

Seventy two, seventy three, seventy four, seventy five, seventy six, seventy seven. A sleepless night has led me here, even the counting of sheep doesn’t help. So I have decided to write my journal entries, trying to make them as interesting as possible. Avoiding the possibilities to bored you guys.

Hello again, the past 3 days I haven’t written anything partly because uh, I was lazy and we went to the Wudang mountains for 2 days. SO, I shall not talk about day 17 although this title says I would. It was just basically classes, and getting ready to go. So let us see, we woke up early on day 18. Thank god for my awesome hostel mates, waking us up almost every day ever since we got to Wuhan. (Us as in Stefen and I). So the journey there was 6 hours? Let me count eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, one ( or two) . So roughly 6 or seven hours to get to our “4 star” hotel lunch, which tasted alright for china food I guess. Oh, whatever photos I thought were nice, I posted below, other than that, the whole trip photos are in the picasa album. Continuing on, the toilet was legendary there this is some serious shit. The moment you step into the toilet, say sorry to your shoes, for they are in a pool of piss. Like really. I regretted wearing my limited ed. Vans shoes. Aww. And wearing sneakers up a mountain is a bad idea. Really. Nothing else was interesting though, until we got up to the mountain, as you guys can see, taking pictures from a moving vehicle is a very bad idea, photos are always out of focus, silly Nicki. Learn from your mistakes!

I have adapted a new pose for now, this china trip. The trademark Thumbs Up, from none other than you know who. I shan’t say but a lot of my readers (I hope) know who this trademark is from. Any hoo. I’m glad I brought my 2 favorite shirts (that I have in china) up to the mountain, the striped rugby polo tee, and my zara long sleeve, which I bought with Arthur back in Singapore YOU KNOW WE GAYYY! Oh and I’m glad I brought them cause I look good in them (I think… Yes I do).

Wudang is famous for its martial arts, or rather, its Wushu. The master / shifu, is a good trainer, I can tell, since I’ve learned martial arts before (muay thai), and perfection is everything. Beating the apprentices for little may seem harsh, because they are young may seem cruel but its not, from pain we learn. Only then do we become perfect. Got back to our hotel, DAMN DOES IT LOOK Eerie. Oh wait there was dinner, aiyah, same difference, it’s just food. Oh, the hotel. Surrounded with nothing but trees, mirror facing directly infront of us, weird noises in the night, its hard to think that its not haunted, oh and, if it makes it even better, in the midst of being cold and all. I woke up in SWEAT. WHAT THE EFF.

I’m trying my best to make this interesting but I think I’ve failed. In epic proportions. I think its cause im more of a writer writer, not a journal writer. Okay never mind, talk about day two now.

Day two of Wudang mountains, this is where the story kinda gets more interesting. The queue is like getting into zouk on a party night. Damn crowded and you can queue for almost 2 hours. However, this is not zouk. But a cable car up to the peak of the mountain. Why so long? Let me tell you why, Chinese here, can only think about building cable cars that can hold 2 people at a time. Waiting for the queue was ridiculous, Chinese are rude and crude, and very very disgusting people. They let their child pee in the queue, they shout a lot. And always try to cut queue. I’m glad I’m Canadian haha. Civilized people here? I beg to differ. Getting snubbed to me, is very disrespectful.

Therefore, from now on, I won’t ever talk to anyone I don’t know. Really. What the hell is the point. I’ll sleep on that issue for now. Uhh, okay. So when we got up, I saw MENG ZHEN, I spelt it right this time. Apparently, she walked up instead of taking the cable car, and beat us by a good hour. Major bull. If I’ve known, I would have walked up as well, cause we only had like, 45 minutes to an hour of exploring the peak, that includes walking up and taking pictures, buying souvenirs (I did not buy any FYI, others did). Sad sad thing. Journeyed down, or is it journied? Microsoft word is confusing my with spell check. Journeyed (journied) down, lunch, then travelled back, again the trip took longer, or same time, I think it’s the anticipation that makes it seem shorter. (I mean since the trip back seemed longer, so here I mean the trip to wudang mountains) wow, I’m tired now, photos below with captions, I’m hardworking tonight, partly cause I can wake up late, class starts at 10 tomorrow, THANK GOD!

H`asta La Vista

(and yes, it’s my tag line, it’s like bruce almighty saying “ as the cookie crumbles” I say “H`asta La Vista” like the terminator).

Some bus fun with Shu Gen our “Mud”

Wu Dang “something something”

This picture of Cris’s Gay Face is Worth a Thousand words, the first 999 words are Gay.

Out of Focus

Oh LOOK! TAI ZI PO! ( i think, im just typing it out just to make people think that i know this, but actually, i dont know what or who, it or he is).

BRIDGE! interesting!

i think this was my best picture of Day 1

Chinese and their Ridiculous signs, made my whole journey worthwhile with hour long laughters

LOOK! PO ZI TAI !

Me going What the Eff/ What you looking at PUNK

Hello Rooftops

TWISE

Buildings ( random Pictures of i dont know what)

Please tell me this made you laugh.

Interesting…………………

The watch made me look gay.

More Randoms

Turtle with a dragons head

WU SHU BABY

First Thumbs Up

If that last one didnt make you laugh hard enough or at all.

Blow Wind BLOWWWW.

Funniest of them all. NOT.

Hotel Room, look. ORBS. oooooo SCARY, i actually got scared by these, so. haha.

Cable Station

Our First Stop.

Hello Roofs ( 2 )

This says its the third of its kind.

Best Picture of Day 2

Wu dang Something SOmething again

Heaven Pillar Peak, GOOD i can read.

This shows you how close we are. AWWWWWW.

If that last picture wasnt enough, heres a few more.

WOOOWWWWWW

OKAY THIS IS THE FUNNIEST, if until now, you havent laughed at the signs, i dont know what else to say. NIGHTS!

Wuhan: Day 16

Its day 16 already! Wow, only another 26 more days! Singapore here I come! Well, it’s still too early to say. Today was like any other day, I’m sorry people, really, and there really is nothing to do here. BUT but but… I forgot what I wanted to say, I think I really am maturing here in china. I’m starting to grow up whether you like it or not. I’m 19 this year for crying out loud. It’s time to be a grown up. No more petty and childish stuff. Or NOT. This post barely hit 100 words as well. hahaha. Which is a good thing yes?

Reflection for today is… In times of crisis, the best thing to do is rise above the situation, or strive under it. Getting through life independently is only the first step to changing your life. H`asta La Vista.

Wuhan: Day 15

Today was a terrific yet horrible day. Let me start at the beginning. We woke up at what? 6.45? Class was at 8, the canteen was jam packed with people, I hate Wednesdays, particularly cause its IS class that’s why. And it starts from 8 – 12. It’s a drag really. We learnt business etiquettes today. The lecturer was really funny, as in his accent and pronunciation of words. No offence though, not like we Singaporeans don’t seem funny to the Chinese. Anyway, lunch was at a new canteen, where we had this damn good soup I forgot what it was, but I know there was pork in it, or was it chicken?

Anyway, I want to have that for lunch tomorrow again! The soup is just damn good, it satisfies all of my needs, anyway, we had to do a summary for the whole business etiquette thing, and I wrote my part of the summary, it was 2 pages long and 1000 words exactly. I think I wrote too much, or was it too little? I don’t know for sure.

At 3, we went to this I.T mall. Only 3 pictures from me, would have to take the rest tomorrow, anyway, here they are below.
The bus ride to the IT mall though, was horrendous; I tell you the people here are ridiculously ill mannered. Cultural Revolution made them this way? You decide, I personally think that they can change whenever they want to. This is pretty much what I think about the Chinese now, the IT mall though is bigger than Sim Lim Square, but the prices are ridiculously high as well. Might as well buy stuff in Singapore, this was pretty much it, I’m just waiting for more inspiration to write more about my days here. Lately this has been a burden. Alright, shall not bore you guys, H`asta la vista.