TGIF!

Thank God It's Friday! Perhaps time is really flying, somehow it feels as though time passes very quickly here, too quickly I think. Can time slow down so we can enjoy this my stay here for as long as possible? In fact, I realised that Hidayah has been absent from class for a whole week now! Hope she gets well soon and can rejoin us in class.


We released fireworks tonight! Something spectacular to witness, since we do not get to play with such things in Singapore. This fireworks which was bought from 兴坪镇 was much better and nicer than the hand-held ones that we played during the last attempt. Surprisingly, the 30 shot box went up really quickly and it was over in an instant. Thankfully, this was just a test to see how well it is and we were planning to buy a few boxes to release on the last night if this worked well, which it did! We are so gonna have a fabulous display!


After the fireworks, we went to the field with the China students to chit-chat for awhile before we headed back to the dormitory to rest.

Pandemonium!

Today was a fairly relaxed day, since lecture was over. But now we actually have more time for ourselves and we can plan our schedule better and that way we can enjoy our remaining time here.

Anyway, something funny happened during lunchtime. We headed back to the dormitory to visit Hidayah to see that she was okay and to buy her lunch. But apparently she was nowhere to be found in the room!? Where is she? She actually got trapped in the toilet as the lock was stuck! How unlucky can that be? Very ......

After lesson, we went to take photos of everyone wearing the panda hat. We planned to use this panda hate portraits of everyone to form the border our trip poster. This trip poster would be use an advertisement for the whole school to see what a wonderful time we are having here!!! I love 四川!

HP + K! = FJL

New fomula for today! HP + K! = FJL, whereby HP = HotPot, K! = Karaoke and FJL = Fun, Joy and Laughter.


Today was officially the last lecture! After three and a half weeks, we finally covered the whole syllabus. Now we are left with spending the remaining time practising and revising to wind up all the chapters. Apart from that, I realise that at a turn of the eye, we are already in our second half of our stay here. I am starting to feel weird. Many of us are missing home, but I, on the other hand is starting to miss this place. This place is really awesome! I simply refused to count the number of remaining days as that would be very depressing.


Anyway, tonight's activity was awesome! We headed to 小区 for 麻辣火锅 and that was an awesome experience! It's so spicy and so numbing!!! I ate till I was having a whole head of sweat (direct translation of 满头大汗). After dinner, we headed to the Karaoke lounge to sing K!, obviously. The place was a little shabby, with an old school PC and quite a small room. But the song selections were surprisingly quite, QUITE updated. However, it is still very limited compared to Karaoke lounges in Singapore. Anyway, I am treating this as a new experience so I won't complain. Besides, everyone enjoyed themselves, that's what's most important!

God saved the people!

Our dear classmate Hidayah is stuck in her room as she can't move above so as to not aggravate for injured leg. Well, she still could attend class (electronically), through the use of webcam! Technology has its advantages yea?


During afternoon lesson, Hidayah said she just washed her hands after using the toilet! We all were rejoicing after hearing the news! So we need not worry and everyone can bathe properly without bothering about rationing the supply.


Still, it does raise a question about how we actually cherish what we have. I also notice how people here are easily contented with what they have and really cherish what they have and what is given to them. This really gives us, Singaporean a good opportunity to self-reflect on ourselves.

What's life without that liquid?

Just as you thought you were comfortable at home with all you need, what happens when you do not have them? I knew the answer tonight.

There was no lesson in the morning, as the time for allocated for a short trip to 广汉. I did not follow them and chose to stay back in school as I wanted to stay in bed and catch up for the lost sleep and much needed rest. Afternoon lecture was scheduled after the shopping trip and this was when I realised our dilemma. After lesson ended, I needed to ease myself after holding for the whole length of the lesson. I rushed to the toilet only to find one of my friends there. After easing myself I glanced at my friend, noticing that he was fiddling with the tap. Puzzled, I went to try out the other taps. None of them were working!? We even popped over to the ladies and try the taps there, all were dry!? This was when calls came from our friends who headed back to the dorms, they could not flush! This was when we realise that there was no water!!! Our worst fear was confirmed when our lecturer received a call informing that the water pipe that feeds the water to the campus has burst. WOW! Great ... now we have no water ... As an interim measure, we had to purchase bottled water to bathe and for sanitary purpose, how cool is that?!

The night lecture turned out to be very interesting but most of us were dozing off during the lesson, so I guess there will not be a second time to this. Oh well, it was a good experience!

兴坪镇

We headed to this small town near our school today to explore and check out the town. The town is really very simple and looks very run down, however the town is has much variety for daily essentials. The walk to the town was terrible, trekking along the gravel road, making our legs all so aching.


We explored the town for quite a bit of time and found that there were many snack stalls selling local snacks, such as 凑豆腐. We dropped by the fireworks stall and decided to a box of fireworks, which could fire up into the skies much higher than the hand-held ones they got the other time.


I headed back to the campus first with the fireworks in hand, as I thought it would not make any practical sense to be carrying the huge box around the town. We had an awesome dinner at the teacher's hostel with goose liver that we bought from the town, what a treat!

Back to class!

After the week of fun-filled activities, it is time to head back to our lessons! Though I was not in the mood to study, I somehow absorbed a lot from this lesson.

After lesson, we headed for some sports activities. That was where I saw a different side of Mr Cheah. He really knows how to enjoy his time, as in he knows how to set his mind aside for the various things he does. He isn't bothered and worried about the module's tight schedule and plays happily and enjoys his game. In fact, he's really good a playing table tennis. Perhaps we should develop such a sense of mindset. It is not good to be always stressing over our woes.