Day 34

took a 40minute bus ride today to go to the Botanic Garden. My first thought was "BORING!" but it wasn't after going there. It is filled with funny events and have a great time knowing more people.

entering the garden, guan and I chose to sit on this car like thing to move around since the garden looks kind of big and we though it would take some time to cover the whole area. the car is SLOW yet easy to handle! haha!


the outside of the Botanic Garden


Guan bin and the car


Me with the car


Other people with the car.

so we moved around the whole area and was kind of lost because the sign boards are pretty rare! haha! so we had some time moving in circles while chancing upon funny stuff. Met with kok long and gang and took some photos. and even made a dumb video out of it. I see if I can get it from Guan later. haha! it was super funny and had some time laughing. the trip was pretty good as the weather is cooling and windy!


entrance to the kiwi garden.


the bamboo shoots grew in the curved manner that it formed a natural passage way! COOL RIGHT??!!


we saw someone setting up a fire. but no idea what was it for.


one of the clean and nice pond in the garden.


DIRTY pond! I wonder what is the green top layer. hmm..

well. we just went around the garden and talked alot too. crapped alot as well. it was nice knowing guan and I'm glad we were able to spend time chit-chatting. haha! after returning the car, we went to walk around the remaining parts which were not accessible by the car.


the outside of the main building inside the garden


this is actually a water fountain. just so suay it didn't shoot water up.


there's this map about I-Have-No-Idea-What-It-Says on the ceiling. took quite a little effort to get a nice shot. haha!

after which, we board the bus to go to another area in the East Lake. it is called the 磨山 scenic spot at East Lake. A place where it is built according to the chu dynasty history. so all the place has name on something about the chu people or the King.


the entrance map to tell us all the places we can visit.


along the path way


the real entrance to the 磨山


and we saw this NICE ENTRANCE! it looks like those ancient times where people go in and out of the city. haha!

we managed to go to a few places to look at the different scenery which is very nice! on top of the cooling weather, WOOHOO! BEST MAN! during the walk, I was with the ME guys most of the time. it was quite fun to talk with them and hang around with them. super cool! =)


the top view from the main entrance.


the street area where there are many shop houses. like those in old times.


the far view of the Phoenix Tower


Guan and another person climbed up to this statue to take a photo. CRAZY. haha!


entrance to the Gardens of the Chu Talents.


and oh! we saw this dart throwing stall and archery stall. most of us went to try. of course, I went to try as well. here are some pictures on it..


the 小李飞刀 board for people to throw the darts and shooting stars


the shooting items


Jacob with the shooting products


Trying out archery. SHOOTS!


the black pig is won by someone else in the basketball shooting. Guan just took it and attached to his specs. very funny look!


then we went up 322 steps to go to the Phoenix tower to watch a musical play. it is quite worth the climb as the top view was super NICE and also the musical play was quite nice. I feel. and there's one idol of the day which I met. This old man climbed up and down 150 steps for around 7 to 8 times while we were waiting for Jacob to come up from other places. he climbed up and down NON-STOP without REST! WOW! and we got to know from him that he does 10 rounds (considering one up and one as 1 round) everyday!! WAH! and we were all amazed by his calf muscles man! SUPER!! haha!


our tour guide of the day. she can climb! haha! there is funny thing about her while we were walking with her. She asked some of us (4 guys actually) two questions which were very hilarious. One was why our side has alot of guys while the other batch (those from WUST main school) has alot of girls. so we answered we were from different courses. and guess what she asked next? here is the question.
"Is it that Singaporean guys are more handsome while the ladies are less pretty (in comparison to China)??"
HAHAHAHAHAHHA! SUPER FUNNY LA! Guan and I ALMOST LAUGHED OUR VOICE AWAY! haha! gosh. I wonder why she asked that. Hmm.. o.O


notice the old man jogging up the steps? he is the IDOL OF THE DAY! and probably the whole trip! MAN! he IS fit!


the steps from bottom view.


after the trip, we headed to another part of the East lake and look around. nothing much. just went to paddle a mini boat and talked to some of my friends. had some peaceful time while Jacob and gang did stupid things once again. haha! but i shall not mention about it.

went back. had a farewell dinner which was held by An Yuan zhang I heard. the food there were ALOT and there's 30dishes in total! SUPER ALOT LA! my table took some food and shared around. and many people started to get high as they went to sing KTV one by one. Jacob and zhengwei they all went with some of the China students as well to the KTV outside. I wonder how they are doing right now. haha! oh wells.

Random photos of the day...





All of us are trying to be CHIO but FAILED. wanna know why? because we are all TOO HANDSOME ALREADY! hahahaha! =P


REFLECTION OF DAY 34, SATURDAY, 27th SEPTEMBER 2008:

Time: 9:55pm

Today’s trip was to a few gardens that are popular around the East Lake area. The trip is very fun and I was able to make a lot more new friends.

From today’s attempt to know more people who are not in ICT, I’ve learnt that it is really up to our effort to make things happen. Like having to mention previously that I want to learn to be able to be comfortable with people whom I’m not very familiar with. It takes one self to step out of the comfort zone to do so and I’m really glad I did today. I had a lot of great time chatting with a few ME guys especially with Guan bin. Had a lot of fun and laughter even as we know each other more and chatting.

I feel that only by stepping out of comfort zone to know people will then make the trip even more worthwhile as one will get to know more friends. Without knowing new people, one will find the trip a little boring as you will always be in the same environment and not trying something different. It is the same as the new activities over here. If we don’t try and explore, we will find things over here boring.

Overall, learning to know more people by stepping out of my comfort zone is something which I want to achieve in this trip. Getting to know more people from the ME side would be one of the ways. I hope to better improve and be able to open up faster next time.

Learning in progress: Knowing people who are unfamiliar/stepping out of comfort zone to do things

One of the more eventful day where we did quite a number of things in one day! Interesting and funny. =)

DAY 33

had a revision lecture to prepare us for next Tuesday's test. The lecture was pretty simple as we realised that the test doesn't really test us the theory part but our understanding about it. We will have to explain and provide reasons on why we state certain things as our answer. Hmm. I guess the paper would not be very easy. Need to study a little. if not, I think I will die when they ask questions regarding to theories which I'm super bad at. haha! and we got back the test and assignment results. Thank God for the good grades and thank Jacob for his carefulness when doing assignment. Else I doubt I would have gotten such grades. THANKS BRO! =)


The class listening to Mr. Tan.. but.. are you sure?? haha!


1. Sheng kiat doing some drawing..


2. Jacob spacing out..


3. CAUGHT IN ACTION! RED-HANDED! play DOTA!


Only me so focus. haha! =P

after lesson ended. we went to Lu xiang once again. This time with Da Ming, Azri, Nat and Jing Liang as well. So the nine of us took this van like cab to go there and it cost us around 3RMB per person! WOOHOO! CHEAP! you will never find such prices in Singapore man! haha! over there, we ate our lunch at McDonalds before heading to do a little shopping around. Jacob and I found out that the uniform for the staff in McDonalds are very cute. haha!


the inside of McDonalds


bored waiting for food. haha!



the staff of McDonalds! the attire is SUPER CUTE right?? I wish Singapore had something like that other than just black -.-


The counter.

After that, we went walking around and buy lots of stuff. I bought a shirt and a headset. Zheng wei bought a earpiece. Jacob bought quite a number of items too. Cheng teck bought a bag. it was a nice time hanging out with the guys. getting to do stupid stuff and talk. a great time of fellowship.

We went back to the sim lim like tower to accompany Zheng wei to buy his earpiece. While I went back to the stall where Jacob and Sheng kiat had previously bought their headsets from. I went over to buy the headset for someone and also to look around. Jacob went over to buy a thumb drive. it is REALLY cheap i tell you. haha! I shan't disclose the price. LOL. anyway, the stall owner had a pretty busy day today as she was running here and there. so we had to wait a little for the owner to head back to the stall before making the purchase. while waiting, the other staffs invited us to sit inside their stall which was super kind of them. we had a chat with the two staffs and they were really fun to talk to. One stayed in Beijing and came over to learn about hardware fixing while the other is a permanent staff but she is really sweet. had a nice chat with them and even exchanged number. they even booked us for next Saturday to go out and have fun together. haha! so kind of them. =)

So after that, we took the bus back where we saw this scene of many people chasing after a bus. It looks as though there is a movie star on the bus and the people are trying to chase the bus down. haha! too bad I didnt have the video or picture on that part, but I have a picture that shows how it looks like after the bus stopped.


the crowd in front of the bus. LOL. it is really hilarious when u really see the people moving together with the bus while it is still moving.


the bus map. it is on the bus and I really cant figure out the whole journey. LOL.

alighted near the KFC area to have our dinner. ate a fried rice which was finally not that oily. haha! and we had the bubble tea where there was this 星座 thing. we made fun about CT's 星座 and said that he was sexually aggressive (which was what the thing said due to some words being covered). haha! AND HIS EARS TURNED SUPER RED AFTER THAT! haha! it was really funny looking at his ears.


Cheng teck and his RRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDD ears!

haha! after dinner, we went up to the supermarket to re-stock some stuff so that the next day we could bring it out as we were visiting this garden. so there isn't any restaurants as of what we know, so we had to bring out own food. and Jacob tried to be like those little boys in the shopping centre, sitting in the shopping cart! LOL. super dumb -.-


ah boy Jacob holding on to a box of Condom, thinking on which guys around him to use on.


SHOCKED when he saw me! haha!

While walking back, we saw this Mitusbishi lancer which is really nice! jacob and I tried doing shadows/fade away with his camera. haha!


Jacob's fading.


My fading! haha!

went back apartment wanting to blog. end up the internet was down after 1130pm i guess. SO IRRITATING LA! made all of us have NOTHING to do.. and luckily it came back. phew! or else I think I will die. I WAS WATCHING ANIME HALFWAY LO! haha! so yea. Thank God it is back! haha! and I managed to chat with Joyce and Hui ru yesterday night as well. had some great time of sharing and I thank them for sharing so much. I felt that there was a bonding session between us even though we know each other for only 5 weeks. hopefully the friendship will extend better. =)


REFLECTION OF DAY 33, FRIDAY, 26th SEPTEMBER 2008:

Time: 10:18pm

Today is another day where we get to relax and explore around. Went back to 鲁巷once again as some of us wanted to buy certain stuff and to walk around.

Back at the 苏宁, we went to look for certain electronic products. Jacob and I went back to one of the stalls where we bought the head-set from. While waiting for the boss to come back to make payment, we had a little chat session with two of the remaining staffs at the stall. Both of them were very friendly towards us. We talked about topics from our education all the way to sharing of individual’s background. The more interesting talk we had was with the technician who came all the way from Beijing to learn. Although he majored in software development during his University days, he came over to become a hardware technician as he was more interested in hardware. His main objective was not only to learn something but to pursue his interest when doing work which I feel is more important than other factors such as money or status.

From what I have encountered today and what I’ve learnt from PPP lesson. I feel that pursuing interest is more important when seeking for a job. We can find a job that is related to our studies for starters so as to collect experience. After which, seeking job(s) that suits our interest is more important. As an interest will keep us going for a longer period of time even when the job gets tough at times. Factors such as working hours, work venue and pay does not affect me as much as I feel that things will come to you once you work hard enough for it.

Learning in progress: Knowing ownself better