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Hie, this blog is done for my trip to Wuhan, Hubei, China! Availability 3rd march till 12 april 2009. Continuation of blogging is still unknown. Welcome to my life in China!
Name:Xin Hui =]
Currently in ngee ann poly
Under skul of life science and chemical technology
Gender: Female
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Friday, April 3, 2009!

HandWritten on; 1:58 AM

Day 22 to day 25

Hie all!! im blogging finally!!(ps im in day 32 now) Today i had my common test on environment technology! So for the past 3 days, i have been mugging! Sad to say, nothing much went into my brain.I just can't memorise the notes! I used to be pro for memorising things, but not for the case for me in China. I really need the environmnet to study. However, it's over!! Thanks for all those whom have been giving me support! Love you all!

Now, i shall start with

Day 22 (Tuesday)
Weather: Cold
Woke up at 9.30am for lesson again. Ate at back alley at 11am(lunch)

The place i ate at

The delicious Beef noodles!! I just simply love the texture and the taste of the noodles! IT'S AWESOME!

After lunch, went class for lesson again.(continuation on the topic of waste watertreatement)

Went for dinner, i ate... forgotten, but i know i ate this!

Gui ling gao! It is from the shell of turtle? Somethings like that? From my classmate, they said that Singapore has something similar to this, but it replace the it with grassjelly! But as compare, of course the desert here is cheaper! Even though i had not been to Singpoare's gui ling gao, i think that it should be around the standard of Singapore's and im right, those whom had tried it agreed with me! The texture is really very smooth and the sweetness is just right for me. What's so good about this dessert is that has a cooling effect in our throat(run huo) and it is a healthy dessert!

Then, went back to dormitory to discuss our presentation(for the locals;china students) about Singapore which the presentation is going to be on a thrusday,the day 24.
About midnight(1 plus) slept.

Day 23(wednesday):
Weather: Cooling
Woke up at 8.30am, continue to discuss our presentation. The funny things about our presentataion is that our slides were still undone. We are JUST discussing about it...(slow right?)Discussed till 9.30am and get prepared for class which starts at 10.30am.

Attended 10.30am, did tutorials and then ate lunch. My lunch for the day!

Set lunch in the WUST canteen! It's 4 rmb oni! Mean Singapore 90cents? It's VERY CHEAP! I love the potatoes!The sauce is nice, potatoe is neither too soft nor hard. While the egg is neither too saltish(lucky not much soya sauce was added). For the cabbage wise, taste good too! WORTH EATING! (At last i found some good food!)

After lunch, continue lecutre for wastewater and started hazardous waste treatment.

Lectured half-way on hazardous waste treatment and about 5pm, it's movie time for us! We watched Red cliff and Red Cliff 2 at 1 go! The reason why this reason was soon is because we are in China and this moive was related to China history(about the three kindoms; mentioned in my day 3 reflection)

Basically, let me do 3 bulleting summary again about red cliff
-It was about the three kindoms lead by shun quan, liu bei and cao cao.
-As cao cao was a very powerful opponent, shun quan and liu bei decided to alliance to fight for the war that cao cao declared.
-In the movie, it features Zhu ge liang, a famous politician, known as Kong ming whom is the greatest and most accomplished strategist of his era, came out with brillant war strategy and caused liu bei and shun qun to defeat cao cao.
It was a FANTASTIC SHOW! I love it! I was charmed by the way Zhu ge liang strategies the war! Also the "little little knowledge" that he said he had. Totally salute/adore/amire/respect him!

Due to not having pop corns while we usually had while watching moive, we use this(the tibits in the picture on top) to replace it.

After moive, had dinner at back alley(sorry, i had forgotten what i ate) to save time as our presentation slides for the next day was still undone. Thus, we discuss on our presentation did the powpersildes, we burn mid night oil till 3am in the morning...

Day 24(thursday)
Temp: Very cold! (Raining)
Woke up at 8.30am again to talk about how we are going to present later(at 4 pm)

Went for lesson at 10.30am, continuation of hazardous waste treament and completed the topic. Then, we for lunch at 12.30pm

After lunch, back for class again for tutorial. Did tutorial 6.

So,after class, around 3pm, we reached our presentation lecture hall. We get prepared and set up the things that we need.

At 4pm sharp, Deans(a person more superiour than principal), professors, lecturers and the locals arrived! The lecture hall was filled! My group and I was the second present, we were presenting on Singapore's Culture, Beliefs, Different Languages and Different races

The 1st speaker:Yisheng, saying about Singapore languages and races

The 2nd speaker: Me! About the beliefs in Singapore (Buddhist and Muslim)

The 3rd speaker: Mei yi, about Singapore's Belief too(Christinality and Hindusium)

The 4th speaker: Alan, Talking about culture in Singapore

The last speaker: Felicia, continuation of culture of singapore

The local students were very attentive

and supportive!

This presentation is all about Singapore's for the locals to understand more about Singapore. There were other presentations like student lifestyle, food and frutis in singapore, places of interest, Singapore's history etc. For me, i enjoyed myself during the presentation! It was a TOTALLY new experience for me as so far, the presentation that i had done are mainly for age and education around my level or lecturers. I have not present to Deans before. Also,this was the first presentation presenting to foreign students. Rare opportunites!

My group and I had put in a lot of effort(although last minute) for this presentation! We used the concept of picture and one word presentation so as to reduce the amount of english words as it might cause them to be bored. Thus, i personally feel that we did quite well, and a lot of us had step out of our comfort zone in doing this presentation.

After the presentation, we went to eat the restaurant(which serve us private room) to dine as we all had been working hard for the presentation that day. So, it's time for us to treat oursleves with better food(as we had been eating in back alley few days back).

But this time round, we do not have that big room again, cause fewer people. Order somewhat similar to what we had previously, but lesser dishes of course.

Went back to dormitory after dinner and do some blogging.
Slept at 3am
As for some of you whom as observed, basicially, day 22,23,24 was like a repeat cycle. wake up, class, lunch, class, presetation discussion, sleep.

Day 25(Friday)
Temp: Very cold
Woke up at 8.30am. Gathered at the entrance at 9.10am as we are going to a fibre optic company. During the bus ride, some incidence happened

An accidenct, qurraleing on the road, but lucky, none was injured

This is eye-opening! See that mini van(in the above picture) driving on the pavement! And do you all know how it did that? It just came driving opposite direction(my bus facing the mini van) on the way we are going and drive on the pavement and cross us! This is like OH MY GOD!! So "interesting" to see! Im astouded when seeing it, no words to descibe the traffic system in China

See! Another car wanting to change its direction. As mention before, they do not have oncoming and incoming car direction arrows, thus, this is a typical sceen for the Chinese, but not Singaporeans!

About 1 hour of bus ride, we reached the fibre optic company! For those who do not know what does fibre optic company produce, it mainly produce cable wires that we used at home. It uses glass to make the fibre of the cable wires. The fibre are then mixed up and formed the cable wire. Of course, the glass must gone through different processes to become the fibre of the cable wires.

Group photo over there! See clearly, we are just leaning against the wall, there's NO SEATS!

The process

Firstly, making glass: To make it short, it uses differnt chemicals to form this glass

The digramme below shows the making process.Silicon chloride, Germanium chloride, Carbon floride and Oxygen is added. Then the chemical clumps together into that orange substance and by moving back and front, it became longer(due to the heat process;surrounding) and it expends and became long. This is known as the PVC process

Then, the collaspe process where the glass is being stabilize by heating it up.

This is a drawing of fibre optic- where glass rod put into furnance of 2200 heat and then it is being strech into thin diameter of fibre. Starting from the top part, the diameter of the strend of fibre is around 125.1micro meter. First coding is done where some chemical is add in the form of liquid. As it is in liquid from, it need to go though a solidifier(represent in an cyclindrical shape) which will solidfy it. After the 1st coding, 2nd coding is done. Each stage there is a monitor to monitor the diameter of fibre.

In the picture above:The thinnest tube(uppest tube) is inserted at the top of fibre optic process of the drawing fibre optic, then the biggest tubes is the one produce from PVC.(the glass that they produced)

An example of a tube of glass on the right side, and the roll of fibre(wire) on the left side. Some photos of the products of the company

Cable and cable wires

Thicker cable wires

Different types of fibres they produce:

After the industrial visit, all my coursemate, except me, went to see cherry blossom and then karaoke. As im not a person who likes to observe follow and sing, i decided to go back to dormitory to do my own stuff.

In the end, all the 40 plus of the students all went for either shopping or viewing of cherry blossom,

Leaving only 5(including zhimin not inside) of us.

Around 1pm of that day, i reached back to the dorm. Sad to say, im the only person left in the 2nd level and 1st level of the dormitory as the other 4 which was previously with me, have left for a student's(Joey) house to stay over.

Lonely me stayed in dorm to do blogging(wanted to video call my sis, but she was not home, went for ambs dinner=[ ). HOWEVER! A student union(kidd), came to look for me at 3pm(after his class)! He accompied me throughout that afternoon. We had random topic chattings. Really appreiciated it a lot, as im scared to be alone. Also, im very touched for the fact he wasted whole afternoon to be beside me, THANK YOU KIDD!!

So, at around 7pm, we went to bought dinner(but i bought only, as he was going home to eat), obviously, he accompied me again. Then, he recommanded Sour and spicy noodle!(Shuan la mian). It tasted like tom yam but the sour is not the usual sour taste(i don know how to describe) But overall, it's nice!!

See, CLEARED! (ps never took the noodles before eating)

After dinner, kidd left after im back in the hostel. Im alone again!But, after i ate my dinner, i was able to video call with my parents with the help of my brother(thanks!). Video called about 2 hours after my coursemates finally are back!

After that, as i was still filling hungry then,

French fries for my supper(thanks jasper for buying for me!)

and my hot milo drink!

Then, slept 1am after posting post on wudang.

Side track a little, below are some pictures while i was not with them.

A drawing of hardy! Drawn by a roadside artist. Alike?!?!?

Some cherry blossom(sakura) picutures

Tag replies:
Kidd: 啊呀，不要=[啦！又不是永远不会再见！哈哈！对！好久没见到你了!还有我电话又没钱了，还没冲至，没办法回你，对不起！！！
Chunhui: hahas yea, MIA after common test! no lor, i no mia, is i on9 de timing, u not on9 =x hahas, i bought a lot of things today! 2molo maybe i will online, maybe i will not on9. oh yes, i saw the pic le! thanks! how u made it, PRO!
Chou huai ren: hahas im fine, only slept very late! Miss you!! meet u when im back in sg okay! got buy things for ni! XP
Didi: Thanks for ni de gd luck! *muacks* common test over le, okay bah~
Mei: oh? i thought u stared skul long time ago?