Sept 6-21 : Wuhan

Sept 2 - Red Cliff

Went to Red cliff today, Its actually just another one of china's big parks, other then its now a big attraction because of a recent movie..

Some pics here..


Some random buildings at the cliff


The old granny that lives on Red Cliff

She is interesting. First the dog barked to chase us away, however, just went in for the kodak moment. Turns out dogs in china very well trained... Especially this one.


Some wall fortress..


A statue of Zhou Yu, I think..

One of the highlights is the ba-gua-zhen that we played. Gay maze that took me 8 minutes to get out.

8 Minutes.. Q_Q

SEPT 9 - Bumper Cars!

Played bumper cars today...

Went to lunch at gui yuan, then went walmart. Of course we had alot of fun at the arcade first.

The arcade there is incredible, spending 50 yuan worth ($10) gets you a chance to play those spinning token games. In addition to getting tickets, you get coins.

So got 18 extra tokens, LOL if you hit jackpot can get about 100 extra.

1 token is 1 yuan.

House of the dead 4 costs 2 yuan, so its about... 40 cents a game LOL.

Played alot of funny shit, then got this guy playing basketball.. tsktsk

Bumper cars was LOL, fun. Lack of safety has its benefits, the impact here was really good, unlike normal bumper cars... the pain rocks. LOL


10 Sept - Crazy Girl

Some crazy ang mo girl was trying to open my door at 3am. I slammed the door at her face..

suddenly josh came LOL.


11 Sept -

Went to jin san li today for dinner. Goooood fooooood.

Lost my keys there. Imbal, lucky i learnt to pick my door lock just two days ago


12 Sept -


Found the piano centre today on my way out of school.. WOOOO!

When the people saw me they started screaming LOL

Went out for lunch then later went to han zheng jie again. However, wanted to save money so we took a bus and ended up god knows where... in another part of han zheng jie. Simply put, we were lost.

Sandy called then wanted to ask us about where we were. Not only her, but she has this irritating habit of passing the phone to someone else before im done talking, like its some kind of baton race, so i just scolded the next person whom she passed to.

" WHY YOU LIKE TO KEEP ON PASSING THE PHONE AROUND? "

" I HAVE TO REPEAT MYSELF AGAIN LIKE AN IDIOT, DOES IT MAKE SENSE?!"

Returned to Jin San Li for dinner again, where we paid the extravagant 45 yuan T_T

Went back to play guitar in yuxian's room when mrs sng said her internet was malfunctioning again.

Upon reaching her room suddenly, they started laughing and telling me about earlier in the morning the phone call. Apparently it was her they put thru LOL. GG LIAO HGAHAHHAHAA

Chel called, saying someone i needed to meet, so I went to the convenince store.

Enter james. He was sitting there with chel fion and jerms, so the girls didnt want to drink, and we helped them finish. He apparently, wasnt too happy. Either he was too horny or he was drunk, probably both. Finishing his cup, he unleashed a burp. Naturally I followed, thats when they said we were alike -____-.

Jerms fion and chel left, while I continued "interacting' with them. I got the impression they were trying to screw my ass after I was drunk, since they kept pouring cup after cup for me, then keep on gan-being where i had to finish.....

Nevertheless, escaped after like 6 cups. T_T

14 Sept

Mid autum fest today, went out to look for gu zhuang, but started having fever and nausea.

Left at lunch even without touching the food, slept in and out.... but still didnt feel too good.

KX asked me to emcee the event im like -_-!?

Eventually did it anyway, was really comical but yea..


Setting off the KongMing lantern. It floats.

the highlight event of the day was the fireworks bought by jerms.

SERIOUSLY. PA LING. THIS TIME DIDNT GET GOOD SHOTS. SO NVM, WILL POST AGAIN WHEN WE MANAGE TO SET WUHAN ON FIRE WITH LIKE 1000 FIREWORKS.


BOOOM!

Went to eat golden han's....

The queuing part was the most funny as u can seriously see the difference between chinese nationals and singaporeans.

First, the queue was retarded as today happened to be the congregation of a sunday, public holiday, mid-autum festival and unofficial "valentines day" in china.

What is usually an empty restaurant became a fullhouse +++.

For 38 yuan, or about 8 SGD, you get a carnivorous buffet. SERIOUSLY PA LING.

Suddenly, the crowd started coming in, the influx of people was like they were giving free food.

Their crowd control was terrible, having no fixed order of priority.

They split the queuing system into tables, means like there was a queue for 1 table, which could seat 2 people, and 2 tables, which could seat 4 people.

You had to get a queue number, and wait for your number to be called. This is where the fun starts.

First I see alot of nerdy looking guys around, SERIOUSLY. By nerd I mean NERD NERD. Then theres this male dominance effect there.

While waiting, there was a chair so a guy sat down, while letting his girlfriend stand. Chivalrous right? LOL. i saw liao was like WTF

Then, there was this guy, who was very tall, and looked like a farmer. Our queue number was 15, and I saw his was like 40. It was damn funny cos the queue was moving at like 5 minutes for a table.

He tapped the attendant and said, "Eh, 我这样等不好吧?"

LOL. LIKE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT U WHEN THERE ARE LIKE 20+ PEOPLE AHEAD!? HAHHAHAHAH


21 Sept

Will only be updating entries worth updating now.

Back from Wudang. nice place. Alot of climbing, cheap cha-ye dans. beautiful scenery. lots of steps... did I mention alot of steps?

Stayed one night at wudang, at the height of the clouds.. not kidding.

All day long and night its mist around, I have to wipe my specs and camera lens every few minutes, the water keeps condensing on the lenses.

At least the half hour cable car ride was awesome.

5 hour bus ride thru and fro... very T.T


The red cloth hanging..


Flowers..


More Flowers...


Still more flowers...

On a side-note, this trip really seems to reveal many secretX.... it kind of shows what time does to people congregated in a small group.

My advice is, better watch your gf/bf's when they go on 6 week immersions... no shitting here.

Welcome to wuhan - the land of a thousand scandals.

Day 4 - 5 - Wuhan

DAY 4 - NEXT SCH DAY

Basically nothing much happened today, stupid internet still refuses to work, left class early in pursuit for the "I" connection.

However, failed my coursemates because the system of the school is seriously too farking stupid. I mean farking stupid. srisly.

Next, went to do stupid stuff.

Bunking with 3 photographers, all armed with DSLRs, we attempted to smash a remote control car into the wall and taking the shrapnels in bullet time.

Failed.

Suddenly, I realised some black dude walked past my bag.

My first instinct was, "Did the nigger just take my bag?"

It was said out loud too. Justin has a damn spastic photo but I shall not post it.

Official usage of my english name, Jason also began.

This is done just so we can name our bunk the J-Room.

For dinner, went to this restaurant in the campus, so damn big we had to take a bus there.

Ordered alot of food, which included the usual chinese dishes.

So happens got this tofu dish, which had black beans in it.

Suddenly, someone screamed and stood up.

One of the black beans crawled out onto the table, and dropped to the floor.

Turns out it was a cockroach, and the staff there didnt even want to change the dish for us. wtf!?

In china, ignorance is not a bliss, its a necessity, things you dont know wont hurt you, so just eat and shit it out, or you really will starve.


Day 5 - Outing day.

No class today, so we took a trip down to some river to take a look. Rather beautiful, but nothing really compared to the other scenic places of china.

What was different was that you get to camwhore with friends, and spend your own time, the pressure of a tour group simply isnt there.

Then went to some duno what jie to buy food, where I tried this re-gan mian. (My laosai medicine all ready)

DVDs were going at like 5 yuan each, ($1) excellent quality. I see suakus buying like theres no tomorrow.

Went to carrefour again, where we bought more stuff, that totalled 700, including shit like hotplate, pans to fry, rice cooker. LOL

Because the chinese nationals behave like ill-bred animals in out NTUCs, we decided we should'nt lose out...



I shit you not, this went on for the whole journey of about 2 hours.

Then some of us decided that we were overspending and we wanted to share the hotplate with Kenneth and friends, so we decided to REFUND it.

This is where the fun starts.

As usual, the chinese people play the blame game, and start directing me around, nevertheless, the manager came out and eventually accepted the refund request.

Next was directed to a refund counter where the had to fill in SEPERATE forms for each refund.

Once we saw the policy that refunds were accepted, we started taking shit out like nobody's business, refunding everything and making them TOO-LARN. LOL



Next went around with my remote control to turn off their TVs.

Camwhored abit, when I realised this pic of Justin looks exactly like something I saw a while back...



LOL

Things in china are really really really different.... even their mahjong sets, wtf do you mean by no animals?! only flowers!?

played 3-jiao mahjong, as we were really desperate, the tiles are like even smaller then A2, i think its an A3. LOL

3-jiao is nonsense bah, so easy to hu, and so big, srisly

Saw something today which confirmed my initital perceptions. If you somehow are reading this MA you will know what I mean.

I've seen too much of this stuff to know the next thing that comes is enough shit to fertilze the amazon forest.

If you really have a chance, good luck. If not, don't make it awkrawrd and be a jerome. REALLY. I really dont wish to see this kind of things happening again.

MA, pls.. help ?

Day2-3 Wuhan

DAY 2: Exploring Wuhan, Carrefour.

Was dreaming of something pleasant, cant really recall what.... suddenly. BOOM,

I awake.

The place looks unfamilar...

Oh.. Wuhan.

Going to Carrefour today, its called 家乐福 here. Gathered at 9am, where the temperature was a ridiculous 30+ degrees. Nevertheless, took cab to carrefour.

The view outside school was good though...



The taxi here is very very very cheap, so cheap I wonder why buses even exist.

Carrefour was over 10km away from the university. The end fare was only 10 yuan.. or 2 dollars.

WE PAY EVEN MORE THEN THAT JUST TO SEE THE UNCLE'S FACE IN SG.

Went to carrefour, where we just went on a frenzy and started buying stuff.

To put a very clear picture, we looked like chinese in singapore's supermarkets

I was sure I didnt get hit by a flying luggage on the plane, but the only words I knew how to say at the supermarket was "very cheap" like an idiot, reptatively.

Just look at the alcohol price, btw its 1SGD to about 4.8 yuan.



Vodka 750ml at 10SGD? WTF?

Bought so much nonsense, we totalled 1700 yuan.

Buying like theres no tommorow, we bought alot of shit that included:

Fridge,
Remote Control Car,
Mop,
Broom,
Basket,
Glass
Vodka
Gin

If you are looking for a place to experience total culture shock, be embarrassed and hated by locals, China is your place. You can also at the same time, piss the hell out of the locals.

The service staff was being so grouchy about us buying too much she was practically sulking all the way. I really felt I should have used the mop to slap her across the face.

Next, we magically discovered that they dont give plastic bags. Somehow they expect you to grow hooks and hang your purchase on.

I asked her to give us plastic bags for our and her response was:

"六个够了吗?"

Like wtf, isnt that your job to know? Giving us 6 small plastic bags, we tried to put as many things in as we could, making it clear we were taking our own sweet time and pissing everyone in the queue off.

We actually had to use 3 trolleys to store our stuff.

Next, we went to take a cab.

In singapore, you usually see drivers stopping early and giving way to the pedestrains, simply because knocking one of them down would probably mean you never touch another steering wheel.

In china? No.

Its like a dodgeball game, you actually have to try to cross the road while the taxis somehow are aiming you, trying their best to beat the high score.

Also, their taxi drivers have the right not to care about you just because they see you have alot of shit to load.

While we were trying to get a cab, weird people started coming up to us and speaking in some language they thought we understood.

Sorry, I speak little bit chinese, but i have no clue wtf you are trying to say.

Their hanyu pinyun has only 3 sounds, the 4th one is missing and this I am not kidding. So if the sentence contains any 4th sound words it basically converts the sentence to arabic, and you dont understand shit.

Asking for the weirdest things like what price we bought our containers for, we tried our very best to smile, although the auntie clearly made me think MINDS wasnt such a dull place anymore.

Some man came to me and told me to put my purchase out to the road. Maybe he got hit by a flying luggage?

Finally we got a taxi and chionged back to the hostel....

Whew.

Dinner came, and we found ourselves with... no food.

I asked around and others were spending only like 400 or 500, and they had food and all the other stuff we had. We spent 1700 and we're like starving.

Somehow its very unwise to bunk all guys together simply because we will buy the stupidest of things like fridges, vodka and remote control cars. Next thing we know we've just spent 70 yuan on chips and noodles and we're still hungry.

Luckily, fiona came over and offered to let us go over and pinch their food. Also came over to make milo for us. Bery sweet of euu, thankssx. We didnt even have a spoon to stir the milo with..



She even bothered to help wash the cups, which after she reminded we forgot the washing liquid. wtf man. Srisly, tmr I'm like going to town again, abusing the taxi fare and buying enough shit to eat for like a week.

Having to ration off others people's food when we've spent 1700 is not only disgraceful, but a clear demonstration of our mental retardation.

Day 3 - School Starts

Today marks the start of the academics as I awoke to pay a fine of 5 yuan for being 5 minutes late.

knn, ytd we waited like an hour at the carrefour for them for being late they dont pay anything.

First lesson was Chinese culture, lecturer began talking about he geographical divisions of china, and explaining why the natives couldnt explore further.

Basically quite geography+history stuff, and not really relevant for your future life, so I shut off.


Clearly an interesting class...

Next came Chinese political systems, luckily this time was conducted in English. However, the english was quite. un-understandable, so basically didnt understand what he was trying to say except for the fact that he was actually a member of the CPC himself (Communist Party of China)

Turns out CPC members must shed their religion before they are granted admission into the party. O_O

Next was a tour of the campus where I finally started to see some scenery.

Dosent change my mind that wuhan is terribly ugly, I still do not comprehend how they can shamelessly proclaim themselves to be the most beautiful university China.

Had lunch at KFC.

Another fun thing you can do in a country where the people speak foreign language is to try to make special orders.

We didnt want drumsticks and thighs so we tried to find the correct word for thighs, however, chi-tui* didnt seem too right. Somehow I figured it meant drumsticks.

So the problem now was how to tell her we didnt wanted only thighs and breasts, wtihout knowing how to say it.

Nevertheless, finally managed to get it done by saying that we DIDNT want drumsticks and wings.

Moving on, went to carrefour to buy food so we might survive the night. Thanks to fee-no-ah for helping us to buy stuff.

Had some "welcoming ceremony" where they started talking nonsense which we werent really interested in, and it included a self-introduction we had to do each about ourselves.


This banner, and their principal..

The day ended with jems and josh tapaoing dinner for us, which.. WOOTS, was 24/7 delivery! NO MORE STARVING, NO MORE INSTANT NOODLES. THIS IS BY FAR THE GREATEST INVENTION OF CHINA, TAPAO FOOD.

Derrick came over, and as usual we played cards, LOL, this time won 300, but I bet 100 hands to let jeremy win back again. Ended up losing a few hundered, but covered with the winnings of the first day, not bad.

Vodka + coke was very smooth. Seriously pawns the expensive shitty vodka they sell in SG.

Oh well, when some of us get high, its really very funny LOL.

Waking up in 5 hours, and I promised myself a good night's rest today. tsktsk.

Gambling is becoming a major problem here, we are conforming to chinese stereotypes...

Day1 - Wuhan

DAY 1 - SIN - GUANGZ - WU

Awoke early in the morning, 4am, with less then 3 hours sleep. Ma promised to come send us off, even though I predicted she would ps as usual. Nevertheless, boarded a cab, which upon entering, the fare was already 10 dollars. (Midnight + Booking + etc + Airport charge)

Was gona pick up MA, but the smart girl as usual managed to do sth stupid, even at 4am. So her dad was awake, then saw went into the room to ask her mom what she was doing up so early. Ma at this time already was at the main door, when she heard her parent's door open.

Smartly, she sat down in the living room, trying to act normalX.

Mom saw her there, dressed in denim skirts and all, asked her what she was doing. She replied, "Nothing."

MA! x)

Went to pick up Jeremy before heading to the airport together.

Cab fare reached a peak of 50 SGD, sth I have to add to my list of wise things, just beside the 90 dollar crabs.

More people were at the airport then I expected, course mates actually came to send their friends off. Some brought parents and relative... but wtf, only 6 week or -_-?


take peekturess

After some very ralphy check-in nonsense, finally boarded the plane to guangzhou for a connecting flight. Thx to my surname bearing a close resemblance to my lecturer Sng, I got the prestigious seat beside her. QQ

Conturary to popular belief, chinese people are very very racist, and they hate me alot.


Bwg... racistsxxx

The plane landed, and the announcing crew declared the temperature to be 38 degrees.

I dont understand how it can be 38 degrees. This is a city not some desert. The only thing 38 degrees should be my body temperature. WTF-d

Somehow, it was cloudy, and the temperature was only about 30. Seems like some mistake was made.

Got stuck about an hour at the transit dept. Airports in China make you proud to be Singaporean. They have advertistments and all sorts of nonsense hanging around. It looks like some mall on discount then a place to fly planes.

Since had so much time to burn, took some very qew qew pics..


Soft toys make good models

Soft toys on fiona make better models


Artistik shot. Not by me thou,

Sunset is best on a plane..



Ngeah!

Eventually, the connecting flight came, and I reached Wuhan, but it was already night.

Wuhan university is seriously so big, the bus almost got lost inside.... and its THEIR bus, not ours.

After some turns, we managed to get to our hostel area, but the journey was just beginning.

Its ok to have wires hanging loose from poles. However, when your bus gets entangled it in, the fun starts.

The bus jerked to a stop, because the driver felt something.

He got down to check, and they realised the bus caught the wires from the pole, probably the bus was too tall.

So he went to get help and soon a few men appeared with wooden planks on their head. Like zombies in silent hill, scaryx.

The planks eventually got removed and we reached our hostel.......

"5th floor?! WTF?"

No elevator... stairs galore. My luggage is like 20kg....

As part of the natural duty of a guy, it becomes a divine right that we carry baggage for girls.

Some of them pack 30kg + wtf, do they think I'm some cow? 30kg luggage and lots of stairs are not fun.

After we returned from helping female coursemates with their baggage, more fun was in store for us...

The door lock jammed........

The janitor eventually used some cheap cardboard card and put it inbetween the door ledges, swiping the lock open. (Plagirist of ideas) You can see the high tech security our hostel provides.

Unpacked at last, here are some pics of the hostel. Its nothing nice.. but, it will do. Air-con rocks too. Cold.





..... no hot water. nicedx

Cannot believe we already started ban-lut on the first day. Was losing like 200 yuan? omg?

Then they started betting big to let me win, and jeremy one bet 100 on two hands, ended up with me nor-leng-ing and him QQing.

Compulsive Gambling is bad people. Do learn to prevent QQs

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