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Monday, March 16, 2009!
HandWritten on; 12:07 AM
Day 11,12 and 13
Hi all!! I'm back from my 3 day 2 nite visit to the 3 gorges dam(长江三峡大坝) and 3 gorges! For people whom have no clue on what 3 gorges dam is, let me do 3 bulleting summary for u, -it is a hydroelectic power station -it controls flooding -enhances navigation (for more information, pls go search web yourself=]) Okay anyway, let me start from day 11, it was RAINING!!! But drizzling oni. Woke up at 6am and was suppose to meet at 7.10 at WUST main door to board the bus. The weather was SUPER, DUPER BLOODY FREEZING!!(mainly because of raining). Let me tell u wat i wore that day, i wore, long john, tee shrit, cardigan, Sweater(X2), THICK Jacket. 6 layers okay! COLD LARS!! It should be 16 degree oni, but, the wind + rain = 10 degree Celsiues, hahas nvm, then we boarded the bus
The weather is so cold that they can draw on the glass of the bus (p.s. Xiao chun, our pig~~ small circle, small circle, big circle... XP) Then, we reached our place for lunch 4 and a half hr later(around 12 plus) Our bus The hotel that we ate in. At 1st, it was very chaotic, as the waiter there got some things mixed up. A table should have 10 person, but they arranged 8 per table, thus, there are alot of scattered people around, and as we all wanted to be sitted together, many were standing there and caused the whole place to be very messy. But, as we have have good tour guides, basically, he scolded the in-charge for such an lousy arrangement and ask them to sloved it immediately(as we are quite in rush of time.) From this, i really see their(our tour guide) professionalism and to fight for our rights!! I love them!!(you will see why on the later part of my blog). Our soup, it taste nice!! =bOur dish...Still got a lot, but i did'nt take them >< Me~The olympics(the 5 rings)Presenting to you,the 3 gorges dam!!! see the lest and right side of it.The triangle behind me is 4 sided... Also, from what the tour guide said, where ever the water hits on the triangle, it will flow down at the same rate on any side. Special!!The model sample of 3 gorges dam~ (taken half of it, ps, too big)The another side of the dam...Close up pic of the model sample of 3 gorges damThe Close up of 3 gorges dam.The bridge we past while we are in the bus~ Iss'nt the bus unique with a bit transparent at its top?Then, we went to this memoral park!~ Nice~ make a guess whether the vapour is hot or cold? Ans is :COLD~The very BIG construction truck!!!Us~The stone written by liu beiMe and kumaranNow, for something VERY INTERESTING!!!! this is a hill, and on top of hill, the white colour part, it's a historical person called Mao Zhe Zhong, he is lying on the hill! Can you see the mouth, nose, body and leg?? CAN CAN?? (u must hav some imagination) If you can see and you asked why, cause It's NATURAL!The ticket we went into 3 gorges dam!! We then went to the dinner at the same hotel again XPThe dishes we had~ The food taste alright, just like we normally had in those kopitiam. Reached the ferry terminal at We ate damn fast rite? hahas, caused we got 4? or 5? very effective tour guide to ask us to HURRY!!hahas,Actually, we are late then, caused we should be there earlier(6.30pm), thus, it caused all our time plan to shift to a later timing. So we boarded the the ship. The ship was 4 stars in China, not internationaly, but, if compared to international, i think it would be half star. See what i mean. The lobby of the boatThe 2nd floor, which is where my room is situatedMy bedroom!(Looks cosy~) Hahas, every1, let me show you the "greatest" engineer!! see the pic above!! The toilet door is lock from outside!! "Brillant" rite?? XP The toilet; DAMN SMALL and the height, VERY SHORT! Tall people(some people out there) hitted their head on the cellings for don noe how many times!!But lucky, im the short one, hahas~ What's so dissapointing about that ship is that it is 4 stars and it has no water heater and heater in the room to warm the room. Therefore, our room was COLD!! and i mean very COLD(code from sharon:our room breeding penguins is it??!!) as we are traveling on the lakes and you noe how cold it can be... Also, beside of the dissapointment in our room, our ship DO NOT have any entertainment or watsoever!! The oni entertainment we have is oni the top deck which we can go up to enjoy the wind and scenery. So now, you all might be wondering why we are taking the ship, actually,im not very sure then=x hahas, but, now i noe, we took it to see the gorge(A deep, narrow valley with steep rocky sides, often with a stream flowing through it)Also, to experiecnce the 5 stages water gate to pass in order to reached the 3 gorges. So, as i was blur then, i was informed that we are passing the "zero" water gate to reach the 1st water gate, so, i shall now let the pictures and videos do the explaination. It was 11 pm then... The water gate slowly opening up...
Our ship going into the water gate.
Our ship rising
Passing the "zero" water gate
The water level of the boat which have rised. To about 68 meter, till the gate at the top!! Hope the videos did'nt waste alot of ur time, as the ship was travelling very slowly then... Okay, basically, this is roughly wat is going to happen for the passing of next 5 water gate, keep going up and up. So, i went to sleep at 12am, i just wash up and got changed; i did'nt bath XP~ VERY COLD!! wore 6 layers when im sleep too XP
Day 12 It was an EXCITING day!!!Woke at 7am by the morning call!!Their morning call was SUPER NOISY!! OMG!! CANT STAND IT!!! SUDDENLY, china music SOUNDED and it was LOUUUUUUDDDD! Acutally i was not awake, but the continuation of the irritating music, made me soo fed up, and wake up... Feeling half asleep and half awake then, the next part of morning call came, the continuation of knockings of door by our tour guide... (Effective eh, they really knock and knock until u open the door...) Finally, i wake up and went to wash up,btw, it's ICY COLD!! I wore 6 layers again, as usualy, i do not noe how to descibe the coldnest, it very veryX10000000000000000000 cold!! We are on the lake and no heater in our rooms. Gosh! Temp for that day was 14 degree, but COLD!! So, they informed us that the break1st is at 7.30 am and so at 7,30, went for break1st. (acutally i don eat break1st, but no choice, since woke up, must as well eat...) Very cold!~ Bo bian, wear alot again =x 6 layers again. HAHAS... Sorry no photos of my break1st, but the break1st is quite nice! Got man tou(bun), mian xian(noodles), zhou(porridge), peanut, vege etc Mysteriously, we went pass the 5 gates already, woah?~~ (hahas i slept very well last nite caused i ate motion sickness pills before i slept, thus, i do not feel anything).So after our break1st, ate and rest till 10am. At 10am,we changed to a touring boat and was informed that we were at shennong stream(the stream ultimately flows into the Yangtze长江 River via the Wu Gorge). It has four natural gorges, which i will exaplain later. So, we were travelling to a place(i don noe it is called wat) which we took our wooden boat (2 and a half hour) Shots of the scenery there. Us boarded the touring ship~ (with felicia holding the tic, SHE IS SOO CUTE!! KAWAI~) This is our 4 Stars Ship (ps i took half of it again)Another half of the boat...The Yangtze don noe which bridge =x (sorry, not paying attention then) Scenery~Me, with the bridge and scenery behindMe, mei yi(po po) and felicia(baby mei mei)Me and mei yi(po po)Me and felicia (baby mei mei)Interesting sights:Buildings on mountains... Acutually, did u see the white colour part above the lake water level? That day we went was considered as low tide, if it is high tight, it should rise till it covers the white portion. Finally we reached, we went drifting along the Shennong Stream in small open sampans (called 'peapod boats' by the locals; called by us the wooden boat =x). It is the unique method for viewing the natural scenery, the ancient village and the flavor of Tujia (the local ethnic minority). Us (9 of us here, the other 9 is in another wooden boat)
All of us(including MDE students)
Scenery Me and mei yi~ Actually was quite supprised that i can stil fit in that live vest, cox im already 6 layed, wif that, im 7 layer =S WOAH~~~ One sampan is usually steered by six boatmen who are local peasants. While appreciating the natural beauty and historic sights along the two banks, we apperciates the songs from the the guide who is giving speech.
When reaching the shallow-stream places, they will paddle in the swift-flowing stream to tow the boat upstream by the rope. This scene has made the drift a unique one compared to other stream drifts. Now, i will show you what this whole paragraph means:The unpollutated water, it's shallw and clear~ Can you the stones? Pulling of our wooden boat, cause the lake is too shallow Our touring ship~ Nice rite? See the 2nd level, we can sit up there and enjoy the scenery! NICE!! Felicia, the guide on the boat and me Then, travelling back to our touring boat and back to our own ship.(2 and a half hour) Finally!! We are back on our ship at 2.30pm, we rest for half before we can have our "late" lunch. Finally, the door of the curise's canteen opened and we dashed in as if we haven eat for days! This were the dishes, basicaly i oni taste a few dishes, the fish (too many bones), the hot dogs(not very nice, like vegetarian hotdogs), soup(too oily) and the rice noodles (dong feng, which i love the most!!!! Spicy!! Yummy, i love it!!!) After lunch, we waited till 6 to travel to another to province called shi chuan. Along travelling, we passed 2 gorges out of the three gorges.(as we passed the 1st gorges while we are sleeping)The thrid gorge，QuTongXia，瞿塘峡，! It is the most significant and glamoros out of the 3 gorges! Nice mah?? i found it very nice!! ITS HUGE AND IS AN EYE-OPENING FOR ME!
Something interesting, can you all see the steps in that hole??? From the tour guide, this hole is for war as their secret hideout!! INTERESTING!!This is the 2nd gorges, WuXia巫峡called the smallest gorge out of the 3 gorges! Sorry, no 1st gorges, if interested, please search internet yourslef!Sorry for the inconvience caused=] So, around 6pm, we reached Si Chuan!~ It is beside of Wuhan. Then, we walk for a distance to a place called Bai Di Miao, when we reached there around 7pm, it was DARK already, see what i mean below
Felicia and Ian, see the background, dark rite?? China sky was very dark and is pit dark as compared to singapore! Singapore is too bright, thus, this come to a conclusion that there is no stars in the sky of singapore, but however, i saw alot of stars in China!! (ps, did'nt took the pic, cox it jus too far to take and it's too dark either)
Before we reach the temple, we nid to took a flight of stairs!! (350-400 stairs) Omg!! Climb till half an hour, till i gasping for breath!!Finally, we reach bai di miao~~Going in to see what's inside: for the below picture, i took for fun, i did not exactly hear wat the tour guide says
Okay, here come something interesting!! The suspended coffin!Read bah, don nid read also can, hahasThe real suspened coffin, it is made out of tree trucks! The mystery if it is unknow how they made the inside of the tree trucks hollow without breaking the edges!! Can understand what im trying to say?Also, another mystery about suspensed coffin is that they are suspended on the hill as shown in the drawing above. Mystery is that how did the people in the olden days did that?how they pused the coffin in?Lastly, Tada, see that hole over there. it is where the coffins are placed!! The below picture i took for fun XPEeriee~~ Below 2 pictures is a meeting place for important people in the olden dayss
From what i noe, the material of the chair are in SUPER, EXTREMLY FANTASTIC quality. Also, whether you are fat, skinny, tall short, u will feel very comfortable when sitting on it. Lastly, at 9pm, we return our boat and have our dinner! When we reached back to the ship, i overheard that the tour guide said to the receptionist that said tat our group, (MDE and LSCT students) will be the 2nd to eat, cox we came back early. (see, they know that we are hungry and always give and fight for us!XP) Once again, we rushed in once the door is opened This time round, i oni ate the steam eggs, fish and soup. They are eatable, but, not very nice... Egg, too plain, fish, full of bones and soup, tasteless... After eating, we wash up and got changed, as usual, it was too cold, i did not bath again!! Thus, i did not bath for 2 days!!!=X!
Day 13 Day 13!! we are going back!! Woke up at 6am by the IRRITATING MUSIC AGAIN!! AGAIN it was very cold!!! COLD COLD!!!(but day 12 was colder) Then, went to eat break1st at 7pm:
The break1st, NICE!! i feel that the break1st is the BEST out of all the meals. There is 1 more dish is Mian xian(noodles). Actually, this break1st is like the break1st we have on day 12, only 1 dishes changed. The food u see in the picture are delicious! and i love the soya bean drink!! =x As we nid to board our bus for 7.30am, we ate quickly and boarded the bus. The whole journey for our ride home was 9 hrs!! We reach back WUST at 4.30pm. During the ride back to WUST, we stop at a shopping mall to bought some local food.(tu chan)Hubei tu chan is Zhi ma tang(sesame sweet). i bought a packet of it, even though i don really eat zhi ma, but nevertheless, jux buy 1 box, try try, as all my friends bought them too!! hahas during the journey too, we also stopped for some toilet time(3 toilet time). i got a culture shock again in 1 of my toilet time. Let me tell you wat happened. Basically, at that toilet time, we went down of the bus to search for toilet. But, we came to know that the toilet main door was locked by a women inside. Then, we waited very long but she did'nt came out. Thus, we find our tour guide for help. Then, when he reached there, he jux banged the toilet main door and told the person inside the toilet to come out and is like NOW!! At last, the women in the toilet opened the door and once she opened it, out tour guide, he scolded that women for occupying the toilet for so long and said that others(we) wanted use it urgently while she is so inconsidered. My friends and i just stood there and was kinda shock.. hahas, but, the tour guide was really caring for us and FIGHT FOR OUR OWNS RIGHTS!! See, i really love them!! So, after reaching WUST, we went to wash our clothing at my lecturer's(mr chong) room. At around 6pm, we went to eat dinner,which i drink and eat at....The shop of the bubble tea which i bought bubble tea(1.5yuan) from!! The bubble tea is very nice!! HAO HE!! BETTER THAN SINGAPORE(hahas to me,the drink which is better than singapore is probably this drink)
The fired rice i ate, egg and ham fried rice, ALOT RITE?!!? the fried rice is nice as the Xian cao xian chi(fried on the spot). FABULOUS! it's nice!! 3.5rmb oni, CHEAP!!! hahas XP
Lastly, i went to sleep after wash up as i was dead beat.
Reflection for these 3 days - I just simple love the tour guide of China. One word to describe them, “Skilled” - China is so humongous! We need one day to travel! I really felt so much things we can do and a day isn’t enough, we need to live our life meaningfully. -Lots of natural sites in China! There are magnificent and you really can’t take your eyes off them. Really didn’t regret coming to China. - Never have to high expectation, you will fall greater. The example is the cruise. It was really a letdown, but however, it still can sail. From this, I learn to adapt to changes and never have too much expectation on a foreign country. - I discovered a new culture shock (Toilet incident) - Lastly, I found out that the tour guides of China are not properly taken care of, even though they are very effective. Firstly, while we are having 10 dishes, they only had 5 dishes. Secondly, they served food for us, but they get to eat only after all of us started eating about half way. Also, they must eat faster than us even though they started later. Thirdly, there was one time they did not even have their dinner, which I do not know why. Fourthly, we share 2 people per room; they shared 6 people per room. From these, we can really see the different treatment between the locals and visitors. This is really discrimination. I really hope they have better treatment as better treatment= better services= more visitor= country prosperity. In contrast with China tour guides, Malaysian tour guides are treated better and very good! Maybe, China should consider this point.
The weather is so cold that they can draw on the glass of the bus (p.s. Xiao chun, our pig~~ small circle, small circle, big circle... XP)
Our bus
The hotel that we ate in.
At 1st, it was very chaotic, as the waiter there got some things mixed up. A table should have 10 person, but they arranged 8 per table, thus, there are alot of scattered people around, and as we all wanted to be sitted together, many were standing there and caused the whole place to be very messy. But, as we have have good tour guides, basically, he scolded the in-charge for such an lousy arrangement and ask them to sloved it immediately(as we are quite in rush of time.) From this, i really see their(our tour guide) professionalism and to fight for our rights!! I love them!!(you will see why on the later part of my blog).
Our soup, it taste nice!! =b
Our dish...Still got a lot, but i did'nt take them >< 
Me~
The olympics(the 5 rings)
Presenting to you,the 3 gorges dam!!! see the lest and right side of it.
The triangle behind me is 4 sided... Also, from what the tour guide said, where ever the water hits on the triangle, it will flow down at the same rate on any side. Special!!
The model sample of 3 gorges dam~ (taken half of it, ps, too big)
The another side of the dam...
Close up pic of the model sample of 3 gorges dam
The Close up of 3 gorges dam.
The bridge we past while we are in the bus~
Then, we went to this memoral park!~
Nice~ make a guess whether the vapour is hot or cold? Ans is :COLD~
The very BIG construction truck!!!
Us~
The stone written by liu bei
Me and kumaran
Now, for something VERY INTERESTING!!!! this is a hill, and on top of hill, the white colour part, it's a historical person called Mao Zhe Zhong, he is lying on the hill! Can you see the mouth, nose, body and leg?? CAN CAN?? (u must hav some imagination)
The ticket we went into 3 gorges dam!!
The dishes we had~ The food taste alright, just like we normally had in those kopitiam.
We ate damn fast rite? hahas, caused we got 4? or 5? very effective tour guide to ask us to HURRY!!hahas,Actually, we are late then, caused we should be there earlier(6.30pm), thus, it caused all our time plan to shift to a later timing.
The 2nd floor, which is where my room is situated
My bedroom!(Looks cosy~)
Hahas, every1, let me show you the "greatest" engineer!! see the pic above!! The toilet door is lock from outside!! "Brillant" rite?? XP
The toilet; DAMN SMALL and the height, VERY SHORT! Tall people(some people out there) hitted their head on the cellings for don noe how many times!!But lucky, im the short one, hahas~ What's so dissapointing about that ship is that it is 4 stars and it has no water heater and heater in the room to warm the room. Therefore, our room was COLD!! and i mean very COLD(code from sharon:our room breeding penguins is it??!!) as we are traveling on the lakes and you noe how cold it can be... Also, beside of the dissapointment in our room, our ship DO NOT have any entertainment or watsoever!! The oni entertainment we have is oni the top deck which we can go up to enjoy the wind and scenery.
The water gate slowly opening up...
The water level of the boat which have rised. To about 68 meter, till the gate at the top!!
Very cold!~ Bo bian, wear alot again =x 6 layers again. HAHAS... Sorry no photos of my break1st, but the break1st is quite nice! Got man tou(bun), mian xian(noodles), zhou(porridge), peanut, vege etc
Us boarded the touring ship~ (with felicia holding the tic, SHE IS SOO CUTE!! KAWAI~)
This is our 4 Stars Ship (ps i took half of it again)
Another half of the boat...
The Yangtze don noe which bridge =x (sorry, not paying attention then) 
Scenery~
Me, with the bridge and scenery behind
Me, mei yi(po po) and felicia(baby mei mei)
Me and mei yi(po po)
Me and felicia (baby mei mei)
Interesting sights:
Buildings on mountains... Acutually, did u see the white colour part above the lake water level? That day we went was considered as low tide, if it is high tight, it should rise till it covers the white portion.
Us (9 of us here, the other 9 is in another wooden boat)
All of us(including MDE students)
Scenery 
Me and mei yi~ Actually was quite supprised that i can stil fit in that live vest, cox im already 6 layed, wif that, im 7 layer =S WOAH~~~
The unpollutated water, it's shallw and clear~ Can you the stones?
Pulling of our wooden boat, cause the lake is too shallow
Our touring ship~ Nice rite? See the 2nd level, we can sit up there and enjoy the scenery! NICE!!
Felicia, the guide on the boat and me
This were the dishes, basicaly i oni taste a few dishes, the fish (too many bones), the hot dogs(not very nice, like vegetarian hotdogs), soup(too oily) and the rice noodles (dong feng, which i love the most!!!! Spicy!! Yummy, i love it!!!)
The thrid gorge，QuTongXia，瞿塘峡，! It is the most significant and glamoros out of the 3 gorges! Nice mah?? i found it very nice!! ITS HUGE AND IS AN EYE-OPENING FOR ME!
This is the 2nd gorges, WuXia巫峡called the smallest gorge out of the 3 gorges! Sorry, no 1st gorges, if interested, please search internet yourslef!Sorry for the inconvience caused=]
Before we reach the temple, we nid to took a flight of stairs!! (350-400 stairs) Omg!! Climb till half an hour, till i gasping for breath!!
Finally, we reach bai di miao~~
Going in to see what's inside: for the below picture, i took for fun, i did not exactly hear wat the tour guide says
Okay, here come something interesting!! The suspended coffin!
Read bah, don nid read also can, hahas
The real suspened coffin, it is made out of tree trucks! The mystery if it is unknow how they made the inside of the tree trucks hollow without breaking the edges!! Can understand what im trying to say?
Also, another mystery about suspensed coffin is that they are suspended on the hill as shown in the drawing above. Mystery is that how did the people in the olden days did that?how they pused the coffin in?
Lastly, Tada, see that hole over there. it is where the coffins are placed!!
Eeriee~~
From what i noe, the material of the chair are in SUPER, EXTREMLY FANTASTIC quality. Also, whether you are fat, skinny, tall short, u will feel very comfortable when sitting on it.
This time round, i oni ate the steam eggs, fish and soup. They are eatable, but, not very nice... Egg, too plain, fish, full of bones and soup, tasteless...
The break1st, NICE!! i feel that the break1st is the BEST out of all the meals. There is 1 more dish is Mian xian(noodles). Actually, this break1st is like the break1st we have on day 12, only 1 dishes changed. The food u see in the picture are delicious! and i love the soya bean drink!! =x
The shop of the bubble tea which i bought bubble tea(1.5yuan) from!! The bubble tea is very nice!! HAO HE!! BETTER THAN SINGAPORE(hahas to me,the drink which is better than singapore is probably this drink) 
The fired rice i ate, egg and ham fried rice, ALOT RITE?!!? the fried rice is nice as the Xian cao xian chi(fried on the spot). FABULOUS! it's nice!! 3.5rmb oni, CHEAP!!! hahas XP