Day 30 - Presentation 2

Didn't have much to do the whole day except the for the presentation. All of us were busy preparing our presentation in the morning. Had lunch again at canteen 3 before going for the presentation in the noon. Didn't do very well for my presentation as there was some problems yet again with the slides and miscommuncation. Ended the presentation and there was practically nothing left for us to do for the day.
Wordy presentation slides yet again!

Some questions to let us reflect on after finishing the lecture


Presentation by Edy's group

Presentation by Yoke May's group

Reflections
The news of what happen to the SP student was really sad and it spreading very fast. This really let us see that one's life is really very unpredictable. It's really saddening for his family to have heard what had happen.

Day 29 - Interaction Night!

Had the whole morning to ourselves again today. All of us were really tired so we decided to sleep in for the morning. Woke up at about 12pm and went out to canteen 3 to have our lunch. Proceeded to class after that to complete our last chapter for BPE. We decided to take the quiz without going through the lecture since all of us were really tired from doing all the assignments the night before. After completing the quiz, we were allowed to go off early to get a little rest and prepare for our night activites.

Doing our last quiz!

Disco Night!

Room 319 group photo

Look at all the goodies!

The interaction night was real fun with all the different activities organized by the China students. All of us had lots of fun and some of us even went on stage to perform! The program ended at 9pm and all of us had a group photo together before going back to our hostel. Later on we had a small surprise celebration for Gloria's birthday at night. Although the surprise wasn't really successful, but overall it was not bad!

Day 28 - Pharmaceutical Company Visit

Had lecture and and quiz for chapter 8 at 10am today, didn't had much to do as we are nearing the end of the module. After completing our quiz, we were free to go off. We were also told to gather back at 2pm for a factory visit to a pharmaceutical company.

Had lunch in the school before proceeding for the visit. The company was actually just a 15mins bus ride away from our school. All of us were actually expecting to at least see some laboratory in the company. But in the end we were only touring the company from the outside, since they didn't allow any visitors inside their company as hygiene standards of such place are usually very high.

The front view of the company


A worker carrying some coal to the generator next door

Ion Reaction room

The warning signs that could be found around the factory

As we could not enter the building itself, the tour of the place was relatively short. The tour of the place actually only last 40minutes. This tour was more towards for the LSCT students who were always there with us. They actually had to do a report on the place when they return back to school.

Reflections
Usually when we think of China, we will think that their hygiene level are really low. But actually after visiting this company, I realize that not all places in China will have low hygiene level. Their technology and their precaution measures are actually on par with what we see in Singapore.

Day 26,27 - Wudang Mountain

Day 26

Another day that we had to wake up really early in the morning! Met up at the bus bay again at 6.30am to board the bus for our 7 hours bus ride to our destination. Had a really good sleep on the bus while traveling there, all of us were tired out doing assignments the night before!

All on the bus getting ready for our 7 hours ride

Our tour guide for the next 2 days!

Had our lunch at one of the hotel there, the taste of the food here is not that good as compared to the food we got on the cruise. It was raining quite heavy when we reach there, luckily we will only be climbing the mountain the next day!

Raining heavily when we reach the foot of Wudang Mountain

We had to change to their environmental friendly bus to travel up the mountain

Wudang tourist centre

We were informed that we will be staying up in the mountain for the day and we will only be touring some of the famous tourist attractions on Wudang mountain today. The temperature up in the mountain was really cold! It was around 20 degrees in the day and it could drop to 14 degrees in the night.

Our first attraction for the day!

状元榜! It shows all the outstanding scholar names

Look at the mist! This shows how high up in the mountain we are!

Second destination, Purple Cloud Temple

The hotel we will be staying for the night!

Day 27

Woke up early in the morning to prepare for our mountain challenge! Heard that we have a total of about 6500 steps(4.8km route) to climb before we will reach the golden peak which is the top. Most of us chose to climb while some others took the cable car, we take this as a challenge against ourselves. Had a fun time running up long flight of stairs and cheering our friends along the way. This was really a good exercise for us, most of us were tired out even before we were half way up the mountain!


1 of the most famous mountain in the world!

Look at the number of steps!

Think how hard it is going for this guy to bring the food and water up the mountain

Steps, steps and more steps!

Our final destination up there!

It took us 2.5 hours to actually reach the top of the mountain, all of us were tired but very happy with our achievement. Had a really nice view of Wudang when we were at the top. We spend our next 2 hours taking lots of photos and enjoying the scenery. After that we had to take the cable car down as we didn't have time to climb back down again. Had our lunch at a nearby restaurant in Wudang and again we had to endure another gruesome 7hours ride back to school.


Taking with the scenery!

Our way down in the cable car

Reflections
After we had successfully climb up the mountain, this shows me that impossible is nothing. Although this isn't something that is very difficult, but it still take lots of determination to actually complete this. At some point while climbing, I could see that some of my friends actually almost wanted to give up. But with us cheering on them, they would actually push themselves and complete this feat with us.

Day 25 - Business Etiquette

Had IS lesson again today! Today lesson was on business etiquette in China and around the world. Get to know some important etiquette that could really be useful if we ever work in China. Today lecture was actually making use of something like remote assistance, whereby everyone monitor will be showing what the lecturer computer is displaying.

Getting ready for class!

Our lecturer for the day!

Some basic introduction to business etiquette

The slides are as wordy as usual...

Had lunch at canteen 3 after IS lesson. Tried out a new stall today, it was something like mixed vegetable rice. The food was tasty and wasn't too oily for our liking. Proceed to BPE class after lunch and went through chapter 7 lecture and had the quiz today. 2 more lectures for BPE and that is all for BPE!

My lunch!

Reflections
While buying lunch today, I observed that cutting queue in China is something that is very common. You actually have to also follow suit and cut queue with them or you will never get to have your meal. They will actually not flare up at you even if you cut their queue. It is something so common here that in fact everyone is doing it in their everyday lives.

Day 24 - National Day Celebration

Another boring school day! Slept in till 11am in the morning since all of us were tired out by the outward bound activities the day before. Had a group lunch with group E together at canteen 3 and had a small discussion about our IS presentation. Went for class straight after that and we cleared chapter 6. Saw our schedule for the coming week, looks like it will be a hectic week for all of us. With all the presentations and test coming up, no time to rest!

We actually were told during lesson that there will be some performance at the admin block at night. So some of us actually went to have a look at the performance after dinner. We found out from the local students that it actually was a party for celebrating the ending of military training for the freshmen here and also for their national day celebration.

Nice view of the admin block at night!

Look at the amount of people watching the performance!

Some performance going on!

Reflections
We actually got to know that all the performers for this celebration are actually performed by freshmen who volunteered themselves. The performances was really outstanding. They actually have to find time to practice for their performances along with having to attend military training. This could really be a hectic schedule for them but they could still juggle their time well. I am really in awe by how much effort they actually put in for this performance despite already feeling tired after the military training. This is really something that I could learn from them.

Day 23 - Outward Bound

Had student activities aka outward bound today. Really had fun with all the different activities for today, especially rock climbing and high element! We were also suppose to come out with our own tribe name for our group. We named ourselves 龍, and our tribe leader is of course none other than Xanier!

Tribe Leader!

Team Dragon!

Explaining to us about the safety measures

Jarold almost made it to the top!

Had lunch break after the rock climbing session, went back in the afternoon for high element. We actually had to climb up to the platform and jump across a short distance before we free fall down. The distance was actually quite short, most people could do it without much problem.

High element! It is actually 8 metres tall in height up there!

Jun Ru jumping across!

A shot with the instructors!

Day 22 - CocaCola Factory

Another day without lesson, had the whole morning to ourselves and some of us slept in late. Skipped breakfast and headed straight for early lunch instead. Met up at about 1.30pm to take the bus which will be bringing us to the CocaCola factory that we are visiting. When we reached, we were each given a bottle of Coke and a short video was shown to us about the history and progress of the company.

At the enterance of the company

The model for the company!

The free that was actually given to us. But we were not allowed to bring back the glass bottles as they are collected back for reusing

CocaCola is the pround sponsor of the Fifa World Cup!

World of Warcraft figurine and a limited edition coke can beside it!

We were also brought around to look at the production line of Coke, photos are prohibited so I couldn't get any photos to be uploaded here and shared. After the tour of the production line, we were given free drinks again by the company. We actually had to open the bottle caps ourselves this time, I actually find that it is really fun to just open the caps 1 by 1 using the opener.
Headed back to our school after the visit and it was free and easy time again for us. After some discussion we actually went to a nearby restaurant to have our dinner. Our main purpose was actually to try out their fishball which is a local food they are famous for. The food here are really cheap, we ordered 4 dishes and 1 fish ball soup which actually consist of 60 fishballs. It only cost us 110Rmb for 11 person which is like it cost only S$2 per person!