Monday, April 20, 2009
day 41
Today I woke 11am, this is because we slept at around 3 last night. Then after this we brush up and went out and have our breakfast and also buy things for the interactions. Then after that, we went back to our room and wait for 5 for the last interaction to start. But, while waiting for the time to past, Mr ma came to our room and check the fireworks that weather they all ready to for the night event after interaction. Then at 5, we went to the interaction and after that we played fireworks. Then we went back to our room and end a day like this.
During today’s interactions, it makes me think of our first interaction with them. It also let me thinks that time flies really fast. Our first meeting with them is like happen only 2 days ago. Then when we played the fireworks with them, from some of the students there, I can see that they really accepted us and really want us to stay and not to leave. To find this kind of friend in china is really hard, sometimes in Singapore is also hard. So good friends are really hard to find and you do not know who is your good friend until the day that you are leaving them.
Friday, April 17, 2009
day 40
Today, during dinner, I went to buy a cup of tea. Then after the lady have taken my orders, she asked me that why am I still here, she thought that we should go back already. This question surprises me as she notices us when are we leaving. This shows that even we are not the locals, the locals there pays attention to us. This makes me feels that they have accept us as one of them and it also makes me thinks that this place is like my another home too.
day 39
Today I stay in the room for whole day and the only time I went out is for my meal. So is a boring day for me, but this whole of day of rest makes me feels more energetic.
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day 37
Today when we are eating at the road, I went to an bbq octopus stall. My friend said that the stall bbqing skill is good and their food is nice. So I went to get some. When I reach there, the one who cooks the octopus is a youngster. Then I started to think that the food is not so nice after all as a youngster is cooking it and he is lack of experience. Then when I ate the food, the food is really tasty and the octopus is cooked just nice. So through this I learn the real meaning of do not judge a book by its cover. The youngster may look no experience at all, but when you try the food he cooked, you will know how good he is.
day 36
Today when I played table tennis, I found that it is a very hard sport to play. When I watch on tv, I always thought that the game is easy to play, because we only need to keep a small in a big table that’s all what table tennis is. But today when I played, I found out that when you are playing you cannot hit the ball too hard as the ball is very light and it is very easy for it to fly out of the table. Some more holding the bat and controlling the direction of the ball is also hard. The ball can fly out even if you just touch it. in short, what a hard game to play.
day 35
Today’s first activity, I think that the activity is quite good to “sabo” your own friends, as long you have enough people, you can kick them out. Then they have no more time to find others and they will get it. Then for the second one it has a bit of challenge, the challenge is at the part where you have to jump to another board. When you are jumping, at the same time you are looking at below too. But I do not know how I manage to jump over. The third activity, I just count down and trust those below catching me, because I think that they won’t let me fall. The rock climbing activity is the most challenging one. It put my perseverance and strength to test. At first, it was quite smooth but half way through I stop and think for a moment but I still manage to continue moving up. But when I was about to reach the end, I struggle there for very long, because both my legs and hand are too short to reach the other rock. So I tried to jump to hold the other rock. In the end both my legs and hands are out of energy and let off the rock and I fell down. I knew that I am not able to make it to the top, but neither do I knew that I climb quite high. The struggling part is the part I am disappoint of. Because I thought that I can reach at first, but eventually I can’t touch the other rock.
day 34
Today’s class is quite helpful to me as it revise most of the chapters for the coming test. Today class help me to some doubts on chapter 6 and 7 which is the weakest chapter for me in the whole module. I think that today is useful because there are less people and can make me focus well rather than a whole class. Some more cheap stuff are good but with limitations, after buying 3 games and not able to play one I swear that I will not buy anything from this school anymore.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Photo Essay
This is a fast food restuarant that i saw in china. this restuarant sells rice dishes and fries but no burger is sold in this shop. The price of their food are same as other fast food restaurant.
This is what a drink stall menu looks like. They usually put it on top of thier stall. Price of a item are usually state beside the food. But drinks are different as the price is depends on the size of th cup.
This is thier clay pot rice. They used rice that is cooked and put it into the pot and then the fry the indgredients ( depends on what you order), and then put the fried indgredients with the rice in the pot and cook it for a while and thats how thier clay pot rice is preapre.
The fishball soup looks like a normal soup but the only thing you will find werid is they use basin to hold and serve the soup. The other thing is that the fishball when you ate it, you will find that the texture is different from usually what you have. This is because thier fishball did not add other ingredients, they uses the meat from the fish and smash it into mud texture and make it into like a ball shape. So when u eat it i do not have those bouncy type of feeling.
This is another dish that you will find it werid because of the thing that they use to serve. In singapore, most of the non- soup dishes will usually serve by using a big plate or small one depends on the amount. But here some of the non-soup dish like this serve by using a frying pan looking thing.
This is a dish call soup bun, in chinese we call it tang bao. This dish is a dish which the filling of the bun is soup. For those whom do not know these dish may fail to tatse the real tatse of the soup inside the bun as they break the skin when they are taking it.
These is also the same dish as the above. But you see this bun looks not different, but when you taste it the amount of soup coming out is different from the above. So this dish may look the same, but in order to find a good one you will have to tatse it yourself.
This ia a pizza that we got it from the local pizza hunt. They do not serve cheese powder with the pizza and you will have to eat it without extra cheese. But overall it is a worth one to try.
A picture shows a bread shop's cake or dessert. In their shop, food are often arrange like this and a shop like most of it can sell up to 20-30 plus types of different bread or cake.
This is their own mash potatoe. They can buy instant one like this in the supermart. Comparing the mash potatoe in singapore and china, chian one will taste a bit tatseless as their mash potatoe is really only mashing up the potatoe, while singapore one will add a bit of sauce on top of it.
This is the road stall that sells deep fry food. The number of different types of food they sell can make you hard to decide which one to eat. But be sure to ask which type of meat it is as some sells dog meat.
They also sell french fries, but the french fries you see in this picture is already cooked. But then, this is what you will see before you order your fries. That means that they will deep fry the fries again when you ordered it. So the fries will taste quite oily when you are having it.
This is the machine that they use to cook to food. But take a look of the colour of the oil. It is black in colour. They use the same oil to recook people's order over and over again and thus the oil become black and it is very unheathly to consume it. I think that the oil they only change it when they open the other day. This is where your food will be place after your order is ready. They will ask you which of these bottle of sauce you want and add in according. For fries, they only had chilly and tomatoe sauce, while the rest they have everything which includes the green bottle, which contian special spicies powder which made taste a bit spicy.This stall sells fry dumplings. The fry dumplings can be in the road stall ad normaly at evening time. Because during day time, the china people will eat steam dumplings and not fry ones. There is one more thing that they sell is a burger like food. But they uses bun to replace to bread. In china is common to see road stalls. But normall for all raod stall, they will either use a bike or a bicycle to help them to move thier stall around. But for this one, is uncommon, because they modify their into kitchen and cook and do business inside their car. A unique way of cooking food. They threw the bun or biscuits and stick it inside the pot. The fire burns at the bottom of the pot and make the whole pot hot. Then by sticking the food inside the pot the heat will cook the food.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Day 33
Today the taxi uncle has bought me into another vision of china. I always thought that china people are always selfish and trying to lie on others. But this taxi uncle is very friendly keep talking to us and even answer some of the questions we ask us, some more, he even offer us things. This is a scene that we can hardly see in Singapore. So the taxi have prove to me that in a country there are not only 1 type of people, there are still other type of people that I have haven encounter before.
A nice delcious looking pizza
Eating my pizza
A group photoDay 32
Today in the clothes washing shop I found out something. The place itself can say clean in (when u are comparing in china), but the board the use to iron the clothes is cover with a white cloth and the cloth is yellow in colour. Then I am starting to think that is the clothes that you send it to wash I cleaner than washing it by yourself. But for someone they would think than is clean because they paid money. But for me I think I am not sending my clothes to wash after looking at their iron board.
Day 31
Through this test I found out that even I studied everything for the test, I will still some mistakes and those mistakes is so small that I did not even notice it during the test. So for the next test I must look out for those small mistakes and of course the other mistakes that I had made in the past.
Day 30
Today in the second lecture I found out something about feng shui. According to feng shui, in our home the bed room seems to have the greatest challenge to arrange and good one. This is because most of the bad feng shui we can at least find one in most of the house. So I was thinking that feng shu can really affect a person life? To this I have no answer because each and everyone have their own believes, and on earth, I am sure that there are many people will go according to feng shui and make MANY adjustment just to make them feel comfortable or get a good feng shui.
Day 29
I learn a lot in today’s lecture. The three relationship, is one of them. People says that the young must always respect the elderly, this is true. But the three relationship have teach me that we all must respect each other regardless of your age and states. Like a students must listen to teacher but on the other hand the teacher also must listen to his students. One more thing that leaves me a deep impression is the sentence, “Do not do to others what you would not want others to do to you”. This sentence is really very “true”. If most of the people understands this sentence and willing to behave on what the sentence has said, this world will have lesser prank or cheat cases.
Day 28
Sometimes even you pay attention and listen to your teachers words will not help you in any module. This is because you never even understand a thing. This is what i learn from today. knowing a thing withour understanding it is equal to learn nothing
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day 26
Using torch light as the only light
Food looks not badDay 25
A picture with the tour guide
A picture from our reflection in the mirror