Great Wkend!!!

Yoz Yoz Yoz!!! It has been a while since I've visited this blog alr!!! Haha!

We went to visit the village within Beijing this friday!It was a field trip for us to understand the village conditions in China. However, this village we went to, had been renovated, improved its conditions thru one of the govt. policies. Hence, when we reached there, we see clean streets, clean plantation etc. Not sth tat I've expected in a village! They even had a showroom for visitors! Zai rite? So sorry tat i dun have a pic to show u.

We visit the plantations there! Mainly the veg plantation! And mushrooms! Wahh! This is how they grow the mushrooms! Got to noe abt it the first time!

Cool huh?

I'm starting to noe the GIP ppl better and better alr. Through the field trips and the lessons tat we had. And of course, the sports days after lessons and the dinner after tat allow us to interact with one another better! It's great to be here and noe more ppl! Haha!!!

Sunday! (26/04/09)
In order to allow us to have a better understanding abt the modern art industry in Beijing, we went to 798 after our 自然醒. It's an old factory now with many arts galleries inside! The paintings are magnificient! At the start, we tried to guess wat is the painter trying to imply. Haha! None of us got it correct!
Some of the arts inside are bold, touching on the controvesial issues. for eg:



there's a series of photos which a hostess shot herself to reflect her thoughts and feelings. and her undestanding of different men that she had met during her times as a hostess! It's something tat I've nv come across! Yeah! So it's an eye opener for me!

This wkend will be a long holiday! But i wun be travelling out of Beijing la! Haha! Stay tuned for wat i will be doing den! Wakak!!!

九寨沟之旅

I'm finally free to write the blog already! Haha! It had been a while since I'm back from the JZG trip! This time round, replacing Howard and YM were 2 juniors from CS who are here for exchange!

We left on thurs evening and stayed over at 梦之旅 for a nite! Cheap! And we set off early at 5.30am! Btw, our transportation is taxi which we bao for the whole trip! 600RMB per person!

went to 牟尼沟and take a look at the fountain! Nothing amazing to me la! Haha! BUT... it starts snowing after that for the whole nite! The nxt day! this is wat i saw:



The snow there is totally different as compared to wat we saw in Beijing! It's soft, white but with some green! It's nice to see green green all ard! Haha! Took quite a lot of pics while waiting for the uncle!
However, the day was wasted as we can't go to 黄龙due to the snow! Taxi uncle say will all be snow! And may not be able to go all the way up!

We had lunch and check in our hotel! There's electric heating mat underneath our bed! Shuangssss! We went to explore the area before uncles brought us to 藏家to experience their culture! It was really fun! We had a chance to noe a new culture and they are really very entertaining! Everyone noe how to sing there! WY and LM had most fun out of it as they were dragged to be married into the family! The drink was really nice and the 烤牛肉！fantastic! We danced with them till nite! i bet everyone's having a lot of fun! Except for YR! Haha! Tink she cannot really drink too much tat she vomitted! 12% oso can vomit! Haiz!!!

The Nxt day! It's time to enter the 沟口!Best moments awaits inside there! We see many seas tat day! I tink it's the most number of seas and lakes that i had seen in my life! However, the scenery is not that magnificent as ppl had exclaimed! This is due to the weather as it is still quite cold, hence, the colours and the leaves etc are not fully grown!



Nice rite!!! Haha!

We headed back to Chengdu on Monday! Best part came! Our fight had some problems that we had to take the nxt day flight! AND... We will be given 400RMB refund plus accommodation and meals provided! Shuangsss! AND We can still skip a day of work! Shiok！

During this trip, some conflicts occurred among us! However, we handled it well at the end that things are back to normal! I guess this is because everyone had different mentality and see things differently. Managed to get this drawn out finally! Hope tat we starts to have the mutual understanding among one another!

Anw, it had been 2 months in China alr! I'm getting use to the life here! Still enjoying! Anw, my pics are on fb! Do check out if u're free! Haha!

Cheers!!!

I've been to Tianjin le!!!

Went Tianjin this morning! Hearing the rest of the GIP-Beijing people who went to Tianjin said that it is not that great, we made it a one-day trip! This will be my first time taking train! Yeah! So exciting!
We took the normal train there which cost us 19 bucks BUT no seats! So we actually cramped ourselves at the doorway like this:

thought that it will be alrite until we realised that the door nxt to us is the entrance to the cafe in the train itself! Everyone keeps going in and out! AND someone actually juz smoke nxt to us! What an experience! Shifting in is a betta choice and some uncles offered the girls their seats while they walked abt!
We reached tianjin after one and a half hour!

We went to the 鼓楼 by cab! The most interesting of all there is the 钟！YM and me hit it 3 times for gd wishes!


We made our way to the Ancient Cultural Street! Bought a lot of stuff from there! Cheap and gd! YM, YC and WY bought the 扯铃tat we saw during the arcobatic performance yesterday! WY is quite gd at it!

As we took quite a long time at the Ancient Cultural Street, we went to 天津狗不理大酒店 for the famous 狗不理包子! It's actually Haha! Not as bad as the rest had said! But the service there is awesome! When u get down from the cab, there's ppl opening the door for u, someone offering u a hot towel to wipe urself! UPS leh! Haha! Had quite some food there which cost us abt 45 RMB each.

It's time to head back home le! We will be taking the reputable bullet train which cost us 58 bucks!

Haha! But it only takes 30 min to reach beijing! Look at the speed:

There are free bottle of water for each of us at the entrance and magazines for us to read! In fact, it made me feel like I'm on the plane! Cool huh!!!
Home Sweet Home!
So satisfied that it's an one-day trip for Tianjin! Filled with areas that we need to see there! And of course getting quite a handful of good deals there! Haha! Recommended for one-day trip!

It will be great for this and the following week! Been travelling to Great Wall and Tianjin! Nxt weekend, I will be going to 九寨沟. one of the nicest place in China! So excited! Keep posted yeah!

不到长城非好汉！

Today we went to 长城 for our first sch field trip since we came here! Yeah! Going to one of the seven wonders of the world. So happy!
Cold wind blows as we reached the place. We went to the 居庸关 part instead. After taking a group photo, it's time to conquer 长城! Yeah!!
It was tiring climbing up the steps. they were high and the land is steep.

We took pictures along the way. The scenery is fantastic! Nv see it much in my life before. Dun really rmb if I saw such magnificent scenery before! Haha!


We climbed for about 2 hours! Although we din really walk through the whole 长城，which i tink will like take dunno how many days, it's a gd feeling going there! together with a bunch of frens! Haha! Shiok!

on the way down, we saw this stretch which have many locks chained onto the wall. Flora said that these are done by couples to show tat they will be chained together!
Eh, for me, I feel that being chained together sounds bad. Like they have no choice like tat! Haha!

Anw, wish them all the best in that la! Haha!

We went to watch acrobatic performance after Great Wall! It was amazing! though we missed quite a bit at the start due to some stupid system by the theatre, the performance by them is......! Oops, running out of vocab! Use ur imagination! Wakaka!

Wanyi called me today! Haha! While saving her lights in the dark! Study hard ar! Dun play too much!

Exams coming for everyone! All the best! See ya back soon!

What a day!!!

I juz met a person who pissed me off today! In the night actually!

We were trying to get a cab from Carrefour as we waited for the bus and realised the the last bus is alr over! AND...

Juz when we saw a cab appearing and flagged it, a ...... juz ran to the middle of the road and flagged it down! Right in front of us! ARRRGH!!! What the ....! Why is there such person here! I dun understand why i din stop in front of the taxi and confront the guy! Haha! Maybe i wun do tat too la! Haiz! Spoil my day!

It has been a long time!

It has been a long time since I blog le. Haha! Been super lazy nowadays and life's a bit common la! Nothing much happened since then.

Last wk i went to a volunteer session that is about communication between parents and primary school children! It is one of the few volunteer sessions that I took part in after I am not required to do CIP in school anymore.

The parents are from the rural areas in China. Hence, the kids have to stay in their school for their convenience. This results to communication breakdown between the 2 parties as they do not have much times together. The aim of the event is to try to break the communication barrier between them.

It had been great fun playing the games with the parents,children and the other volunteers. There are other student volunteers that took part in this event. Had lotsa fun getting to know them! There's even an American volunteer who is studying here. Guess what? He majored in Chinese studies lo! LOL!

The experience is sth that I nv had before!

And I went shopping today! Haha! Though i kena 砍菜头 by the lady! But nvm! Lesson learnt! Haha!

Anyway, we celebrated YC's birthday yesterday with a freshly made fruit cake! Haha! Happy birthday YC!

It's SPRING TIME le! Haha! Yeah!!

SICK DAY

My first food poisoning in CHINA!!! All thanks to a 紫米煎饼that i ate yesterday. Cos WY and YC always say the 煎饼 is nice there! But they din say which one!

Vomitted and had diarrhoea! Aiyo! Dunno go how many times liao! In midnite oso! So today report sick! Call office say I'll be going late! Haha! In the end, I din go at all!

But I'm feeling betta le! NO NID TELL MUM HOR!! everything's ok le!

Anyway, it's the beginning of the second month in Beijing! Cheers!