First thing I like to clear is that this post has NOTHING, NIL about cows. The reason I put this title is because for the past few days, me and the guys have been this map in WarCraft called Moo Moo. Its about protecting this big thinggy called Moo Moo. that's all. the game is pretty interesting and quite funny as well. haha!

DAY 23

Anyway, back to today. It is quite a normal day until night time where we had a mini belated mooncake festival celebration with some of the China students. Let me run you through the day progress.

Morning woke up and slacked around till 12plus. Decided to run through the assignment that I did with Jacob and some of the PM slides as there is a test at 2pm. Although it is said to be a walkthrough test, I thought getting myself familiar with the content is good. So off we go to the classroom at around 1:40pm as we remembered about the reading time (which is to allow you to read the paper before the exam starts. Usually 10minutes before the actual timing that is stated).

Did the paper for about an hour and ten minutes. Pretty easy paper I guess. except for some tricky ones which tests your reasoning. haha! but oh well, what's gone is gone. No point hogging over it and thinking if I will do badly or not.


haha! A proof that there WAS a test! haha! i took it before leaving the classroom after I handed up my paper. =P

anyway, went back to apartment to play Moo Moo. We played till 7pm and headed out to the Foreign Language School for the mini celebration. There were LOTS of mooncake I tell you. From what I heard, they bought 50 moon cakes in total! haha! I think everyone will get constipation after eating so many moon cakes. If not, they will have problems going to the toilet for the next few days =X so there were mixing around and talking + interacting. It was just another chance to know more people. Both from Singapore and China. haha! oh! and they celebrated Kok long's and Astro Boy's (Guan bin) birthday as well. I tell you. the cake is HHHHHUUUUUUGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEE and super duper CREAMY. Guan bin and I made a comment that if we remove all the cream from the cake, we can make a mini castle. those lousy ones of course.



The spamming of moon cakes on the tables..



the cakes for the birthday boys. =)

and there's a SPECIAL guest in the party today. it is this CUTE and ADORABLE xxx. (I shall not say until the picture) I wish I could hug and kiss and hold it tightly forever till death. The only thing I desire for in my lifetime. The love of my life. I think I somehow fell in love. OH MY!




TADA! haha! and you all must be thinking I'm falling in love with some girl right?? haha! sorry to disappoint. Haven't found the right one. =P MUAHAHAHAHA!

alright. Cut with all the fooling around. so after all the eating and drinking and chatting, we went to the fourth floor to watch some magnificent view of the fireworks. FYI, fireworks are for sale in China and you can just SPAM buying it and play. so the student leaders bought four of it and WOOHOO! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! goes the fireworks. it was a nice view and you don't get to see it everyday in Singapore. Except National Day and some other special occasions.


This is taken using my handphone. not that nice I guess. haha!


I like the color of this fireworks and the explosive feel.


WOOHOO! DUAL BLAST! NICE.. =D


Another dual blast. I like the mixture of colors.


and this is my personal favourite. It somehow resembles a cross or a tree this is on blazing fire. super nice. =)

it ended at around 930pm where all the cleaning up is done and all went back to rest. haha! it was a nice little gathering I guess. THANKS THE STUDENT LEADERS FOR ORGANISING! YOU ALL ARE THE BEST!! =D


REFLECTION OF DAY 23, TUESDAY, 16th SEPTEMBER 2008:

Time: 10:41pm

Today I was at the bubble tea shop that is situated inside the school with some of my ICT friends. While waiting for a drink that one of us ordered, we were chatting using English. While serving us, one of the shop keepers actually asked where we were from. I was curious on why they asked us and they told us that it was because we were speaking in English and that we spoke pretty well.

Although I responded saying that our English was so-so, the shop keeper insisted that our English was very good. To think upon that, it would be the same if we were to comment on their Chinese.

From this, I remembered that we each have different strength and are unique in a sense. Just like how one is good in understanding Chinese and the other, English. It sort of reminded me of the past three weeks which I have been living with the ICT guys. Truthfully, there were times where conflicts happened due to different characteristics and behaviours. Some cliqued together and others being outcast at times. But still, we seek understanding and learn to see things differently. It is just the same as the bubble tea shop incident. It reminds me that people are unique and different. We need to learn how to accept and adapt to it after being aware of it. Just like how I’ve learnt it from an outside organisation (called Trybe). It is important and it is what life is all about.

Learning from this, I would like to be able to look at people’s strengths more often rather than their weakness. After all, not everyone is perfect. Each of us has something that is bad and hard to overcome. Only through accepting and adapting, does it help makes life better!

Learning in progress: Accept and adapt to differences/look at people’s strength more often rather than their weaknesses

Finally! its already the 4th week in China! Time really flies pass and soon the 6th week will be here! The past three weeks have been an exciting experience for me and I've learnt quite alot of things from observing the surroundings.

DAY 22

well, today was purely finishing up the PM assignment on doing up a proposal and TOR. Jacob and I had to compile everything we had and to edit all the possible mistakes that we could have made. We took quite some time to complete the last cycle. We took around 4hours to do that! WOW! I think that's the longest period of time I've actually focus myself on doing a project/assignment! haha! POWER!

and oh! just a random fact from Mr. Tan. Today (Monday) is actually a public holiday for China. so yea. We would expect very little people on the streets. But we didn't head out today, so we couldn't like really tell whether it is true or not. haha!

well, there isn't much event for today but I shall elaborate more on yesterday's Mooncake Festival celebration which was held in WUST (WuHan University of Science & Technology Branch). Anyway, it was held at night as there were a huge crowd in front of the Admin Building and the female dorms area.


Zhengwei standing in front of the huge crowd at the central area.


a random shot of the crowd.

and there was this segment of the celebration whereby they play some music and the student would dance together. some sort of what we call a mass dance. like the whole gang of campers and people would gather and dance around like nobody's business. and shouting "ENCORE! ENCORE!". it was pretty interesting. Here is a video about it:



Anyway, Jacob and I notice one thing about the school. We concluded that every time when the school have an event, they would on this very beautiful lighting for the Admin Building. The view is really magnificent I tell you. It is really beautiful and we finally got the chance to take pictures of it.
(P.S another thought could be that whenever it is Sunday, they would on the light. So we are still trying to figure it out.)
Anyway, here are some pictures we took:




These are some of the nicer shots I took. Cause the rest are taken to test how we should adjust our camera mode and other functions. So yea.


so since we adjusted our camera and roughly know where to use which mode, Jacob and I tried playing around with the camera to take a few other interesting shots.



Moon shots


My own shadow. haha!



Moon and house shot. this is the harder shot to make it nice.


well, it ended pretty soon at the central area as all the students were heading to the female dorms are for the Karaoke session. We head back to our apartment soon and rest after that.


REFLECTION OF DAY 22, MONDAY, 16th SEPTEMBER 2008:

Time: 12:49am

It has been the 4th week in China, Wuhan and I have seen a lot of road side stalls being setup. I wonder if that is a legal stall whereby they have obtained license for them to setup the stalls or that they just come and sell items to people. It is pretty interesting as food sold are considered unclean and yet they still setup a stall at the roadside. If it is legal, I think it would be rather dangerous for the government personnel as people who ate the food and feel uncomfortable may complain and cause trouble for them. If it is illegal, I don’t see any police catching them.

I think that is one thing in China that is common and seems like they have some unspoken rules where foreigners like us would not know. I think I should interact more with the locals to find out more about it. Other than those roadside stalls, I would like to know how the locals would setup a business (legal ones) and what are the conditions needed. Hopefully I would be able to know more of such details which would be more of an interest to be.

Learning in progress: Observation skills/knowing more about business in China