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Wednesday, 8 October 2008

Day 36 & 37 (29/09, 30/09)

Tuesday

1st Group B Meeting

We shall be "hostel kids" for today!

No shopping in today's program.

Video making starts with choosing photos and this already take us half a day!

Try imagine choosing thousands of photos from 5 people?

Lunch takeaway from back alley again.

Tried out a new food today---盖饭

It is plain rice with your chosen dish.

1 word---YUMMY!

another word---OILY!

haha!

Back to work after lunch and soon its sports time!

Do not think that we only care about playing okay! We actually need to take some photos of people playing sports as well. So its leisure combined with work, at the same time helped us to destress!

This time round, dinner no more back alley but a FEAST!

Thanks FIZA + AMIRAH!

Tomorrow is Hari Raya and today is the last day of FASTING. They normally had a big feast to celebrate and indeed, they bought lots of food back! Fried rice, fried noodles, satays, buns, prata and many many more!!!

Lucky us! Get to enjoy a feast as well!

But of course, we also contribute drinks and chips.

Great dinner with great people!

Back to video making and finally after hours, we managed to finish uploading the photos plus did some editing.

Again

The VERY KIND LEADER dismiss the group for early rest and continue tomorrow.

Monday

Suppose to go shopping again, but everyone stay back to do video and the rest of the IS assignments that need to be handed in pretty soon!

Lunch and dinner takeaway from back alley.

Evening Exercise again!

It has been many days since I last exercise and badminton is the main sports today!

Temperature: >15degrees

Attire: Fbt shorts

Description: Never die before!

Such cold weather and you can see all locals wearing long pants and long sleeve shirt playing sports. But we, the citizen of Singapore, wore shorts and t-shirt. No wonder many looked at us.

haha!

Did some blogging and shall officially start work tomorrow:

Group discussion for videos and case studies

Suppose to have group meeting at night, but everyone is tired.

Plus the Group B leader is really too kind, so postpone to tomorrow morning 10.30.

This picture below is what Miss Sebas drew for me.

Time really flies and now is the 6th week!!!

OMG!

I'm starting to miss this place.

oh dear~

Day 34 (27/09)

东湖

Saturday is here once again.
But this time its the last excursion of our 42 days!

Temperature of the day: >20 degrees
Room 219 defy the orders to wear long pants in the end regretted. Mr. Phua had told us about it but we thought it was okay.

In the end...

WE STILL SURVIVED!

Some Facts from tour guide + yahoo.com:

East lake, the biggest scenery tourist attractions in Wuhan and also the largest lake within a city in China, is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River and in the east suburb of Wuchang.
It covers an area of 87 square kilometers (33 square kilometers of water area) that is five times greater than the area of the West Lake in Hangzhou. Because of its winding banks and crisscrossing ponds and brooks, it is called 'a lake with 99 bays'.

The East Lake Scenic Area was formed from many famous scenic spots along the bank. The six major ones are Tingtao (Listening to Surging Waves), Mo Hill (Millstone Hill), Luoyan (Diving Wild Goose), Baima (White Horse), Chuidi (Playing Flutes), and Luohong Hills.

1st stop:
Botanical Viewing Garden

The Botanical Viewing Garden where more than 360 kinds of plants are nursed in 13 special gardens with flowers blooming all the year round - orchids and cherry blossoms in spring, lotus in summer, osmanthus in autumn, and plum blossoms in winter - is also admirable.
Two of the most famous are the Cherry Blossom Garden said to be one of the world's three cherry blossom capitals along with Hirosaki in Japan and Washington in America, and the Plum Blossom Garden which is listed as the top plum garden.

Wudang Pugilists in Botanic Garden!?!

King(s) of Flowers! Lotus pond

Warning!!!

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Ancient Emperor + Empress

SPOTTED!

Empress Lew!

CRIME OF THE DAY!
Vivien!
NO CLIMBING!

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AUTUMN Love Story

2nd stop:

莫山

An important part of the famous Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area, Mo Hill, also called Millstone Hill, lies southeast of East Lake.

The graceful east peak that looks like a millstone gave the hill its present name, Millstone Hill.

Covering a total area of about 5 square kilometers, it boasts abundant plants and unique gardens, amid the culture of the State of Chu (one of the seven warring states before Qin (221BC - 206BC) in China's first feudal dynasty). Many charming scenes, such as Chutian Jimu (Looking at the State of Chu As Far As One Can See), Botanical-Viewing Garden, Tiantai Chenxi (Morning Rays of Heaven Platform), and Zhu De's Stele Pavilion, are located on the hill.

楚天台

430 steps and entrance fee $10rmb

Top view down!

老子 & 孔子

Musical performance using the famous ancient Bells and instruments

As we walked further down...

WE SPOTTED AN ANCIENT COSTUME SHOP!

$10rmb/person

ACTORS GET READY!!!

Fiza said I look like a fairy descended to Earth!

Am I?

haha!

Famous General out to Battle!

This statue is called 虎乳子文

As you can see, a child was drinking milk from a tiger.

There is a famous ancient character named 子文. He was separated from this parents when he was an infant. A tigress spotted this infant and miraculously, the tigress did not harm him. She fed him with milk and protected him. Years later when he grew up, he was reunited with his parents and thus people built this statue to commemerate and spread this tale.

东湖 was really big and we are only left with 50mins to explore.

Thus, the tour guide recommend us to take this transport as it only takes around 40mins to tour finish the whole 东湖. If by foot, it is impossible to finish exploring the place.

$160rmb = 9 people

P.s//The driver aunty is really nice and friendly!

This is the guy that brought about the dumpling festival!

行吟阁
Poetry-reciting pavilion was built in 1955 to commemerate Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet of Chu in the period of Warring States.

屈原纪念馆
This is a place where it contains many information about Qu Yuan and also built to commemerate this great ancient figure.

One of the poem!

Another patriotic ancient figure!

GREAT PLACE, GREAT SCENERY

Monday, 6 October 2008

Day 35 (28/09)

Sunday

Learnt from our lesson yesterday...
NO SHORTS today!
Temperature: >15 degrees

This time round no excursion but SHOPPING!

Went 汉正街 (Hanzheng jie) for CHEAP stuffs.

It's a place for wholesalers.

FAMILY OUTING!

This is my 'family' in China.

coldcoldcold~

New member: 大姨妈, Sebastini

Rank: Mama's elder sister

Our family is getting larger.
P.s// Wa-lap, please work harder!

Took bus there and started exploring!

The place is really huge.

Lunch first- Fried rice.

p.s//Realise that fried rice is the common food here.

Shopping the whole day!

10.30-21.00

Here is our 收获 (harvest) !

Along the way, we tried some delicious snacks!

Street food stalls.
路边摊!

ALERTALERTALERT!

Singapore aunty spotted in Wuhan?!

Sweet Potato

Sebas's manual on 3 ways to use corn!

1st--- Eat like ice-cream
2nd--- whack Andy!
3rd--- use as mic for singing!

Prata

Rolls

After 5 weeks in China, we are becoming more and more daring!
We tried out almost every food stall along the street despite considering whether are they hygenic or not. But on 2nd thought, you are all the way here and would'nt it be such a waste to consider this and that which in the end you missed out trying these good food?
:)

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