china trip

So glad i am back to singapore after getting tortured by the weather in shanghai for 10 days. Is the first time i want to go back home so much when i am overseas. Imagine wearing 3 clothing everyday and u still feel damm cold, is really bad. Weiqi side is good even though i lost all my games in the competition. I can only say the kids there are monster...All my opponent are from 3 to 5 dan and my job is not to die too horriblely, haha...good experience though.

Finally upload all the pics and let start with day 1.

Changi airport terminal 2. Nothing special about it, looks very alike like the thailand airport.

My first time taking singapore airline. I was expecting a very different plane experience but it din turn out well. nothing special about the plane besides having a tv in front of your seat.

View outside the window when taking off.

The internal view of the plane.

FOOD!!! Well it looks nice yea? nah, the noodles sucks... only the cake is nice.

Nanjing hotel. The hotel which i have been staying for the past 9 nights. Although the room is kind of small everything else was great. Only the last day then i realise is a 2 star hotel. I thought it was a 3 or 4 star one.

The view outside my window.

I have seen this poster for more than 30 times cause is in the lift but i find the pics abit gross. Especially the dark brown duck in the middle.

Our breakfast on the second day. The xiao long boa is really good.

One of the junctions... The traffic lights in china are just deco. No one follows the rules. In singapore red ligh means stop, yellow means prepare to stop and green means go. However in china green light means go, yellow light means hurry up, increase your speed and go while red means horn as much as u can and go. So is kind of dangerous....

This is like orchard road to them...but too many ppl like going for war.

Mac is everywhere. They dun have macspicy and some other burger u see in singapore.. but they have green pea pie, yucks....

See, is so damm crowded.

shopping area....

There is this huge thermometer on that building above giodano signboard. Is around 10c tat time.

The night view of the city is very nice especially the neon lights, something u cant see in singapore.

This is the sch we are attending everyday for weiqi lessons. 1 special thing about this sch is that they dun have canteen so the lucnch are sent to sch by food companies.

Pics below are my lunch in the sch.

They look plain but taste quite good.

This is my snacks after lunch, haha... oh yar the yoshinoya in china damm cheap think i eat around 5 beaf bowl le.

This is our weiqi classroom...

I was expecting weiqi lesson straight away on the first day but NO!!!! we attended i think is art class or dnt class... We were given a straight wire and are suppose to bend it into a tiger shape..

MY MASTERPIECE!!!! All the parts look like tiger except the head. Anyway speaking of puma, oh my the branded stuff like nike, adidas bla bla bla cost a bomb in china. Is even more expensive than singapore.

Familiar? At first i though this is the crocodile brand but was wondering y the word like so long then i realise is the imitation. This pic not very clear, there is actually a crocodile on the red line. To them this is not imitation, is just another shop selling clothes.

From far i though this was adidas until i enter the shop....

The boy in front is so cute. He is a 3 dan and i was given 2 handicapp by him. U will realise there is more black seed than white seed on the board. Kids in china is really smart, not in terms of weiqi but the way they speak and behave. Weiqi is not a easy game but kids as young as 6, 7 years old can reach to 4, 5 dan is really amazing.

HUAT ar.... playing majong in hotel at night....

Dinner time.... I have to admit i eat like rich man for dinner cause we eat in resturant everynight. this noodle is one of the dish, is looks maggot to me...

This is the famous dish in one of the resturant... Look at how fatty it is......

My friend beside me eat till like tat...see le jiu xiang tu.

My bed side after few days...abit messy....

my luggage abit messy too....

Went to fudan university, one of the best U in china. Omg that place is huge, is like slightly bigger than orchard. There is even street name within the sch.

One of the supermarket in the U.

Part of the sch...

This huge building is the new landmark for fudan U.

We went to visit yue fei temple and this huge guy here is him.

The four letter his mother poke onto his back...

This 2 are the villian which killed yue fei. The chinese must have really hate them, even the statue is in kneeling position.

In the past ppl used to spite on them to show their anger but now cant do that anymore.

I just woke up and when i turn my head i saw this thing, i got shocked, haha... She is sleeping (my teacher)...

Saw this in one of the market, i am sure the left side is familiar to everyone but right side, hmm... rotten corn?

Pudong international airport. Wake up at 4am today to leave shanghai.

Inside of the airport...

Airport food is expensive, this plate of plain curry beef rice cost 55 yuan, around S$10.

Crabs sold in airport...

Second meal on plane.

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Saw this in jurong east MRT station. So many ppl was taking their camera out to take this scence, haha kind of strange... imagine u see ppl around u pointing their hp camera towards 1 direction. well, the cloud was really nice and u can actually see the sun rays....

Haiz, exam exam n exam next week. After that will be flying to china for a week, hope it will be a fruitful trip.

Went to ikea with jon n mos but din buy much stuff... then went to queensway shopping center to walk walk...

hmmm..nothing to blog, too tired and stress about up coming test and project.

Is so hard to balance between weiqi and studies. I think is possible but must plan the time well which is something i sucks at. Really have to make up my mind to do something well.

Anyway all the best to jerlyn line dance competition and bob basketball competition. You can do it jerlyn!!!! JIA YOU!!!

sick

Today is a bad day for me. I woke up and feel very giddy and could not walk properly. When i was in the toilet i couldnt even stand properly, got to hold on to something. Is like everything around you is trying to turn upside down .I though maybe if i go get some more sleep it will be fine but i was wrong, it remain the same when i woke up.

This is the first time i felt so giddy in entire life. Went to the doctor and he say everything is fine, some internal problem and gave me some pills. Damm, pills again and this time one of the pill cant bite de, it so dam super duper hard, have to swallow by force. Oh no, my swallow pill phobia is back.

Till now my head spins like hell.....

Good thing is that my teacher just inform me the china trip has been approve. Yea!!! but die, week 7 need to pass up some web development stuff.

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So boring now....................

My sis is now away in china for a 10 days exchange and the whole house seems so quite. No one to fight with for 10 days sia... I received a sms from her telling me tat she never knew singapore was such a good place to stay in. Haha, yar singapore is really a very good country to live in compared to most countries just that people dun treasure it.

Was back for a jurong district scout leaders meeting at ying wen's condo and was surprise to know that scout actually got starhub as their sponsor. The first thing that cross my mind is that wonder if starhub can sponsor SWA too, haha.

Most people think that girl guide is the female version for scout but they are wrong.Scout and girl guide/brownie are totally different organization even though we all wear scarf. Actually girl scout was greatly disapprove my girl guide association cause they we will be like snatching people from them, which is quite true though...

Unlike ncc have support from the army, npcc have support from the police force and so on, scout have support from nothing and the thing most different from other association is that all leaders have no salary, they are all volunter. ncc, npcc and other cca officer have pay. What amaze me is the enthu in all scout leaders and the will to help out in the community without any salary.

Anyway Girl scout is officially approved and they will start next year and we are looking for girls who wants to be scout leader. Anyway if anyone wish to volunter as a scout leader, girls or boys do tell me. What we normally do is planning and organizing events for the scouts, participate in adventure stuff like rock climbing, kayking blah blah and so on.

Tml is a start of a new week and i dun really look forward to it cause is boring... haiz.....

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Was helping mr Zhao to take over his class on fri in bishan and is was a disaster. Firstly the parents are kind of strange, is either i am invisible to them or they dun like a relieve teacher, haha, cause be4 i start the class i was telling the parents who are seating at the back of the class that i am taking the class for today then bla bla bla and i was expecting a nod from them or something but they have no reaction at all, i am serious, NO REACTION AT ALL and i got this feeling i am talking to a few zombie-face parent who just stare back at me, yea is that frightening. So i was like errr, ok lets start the class.

The kids are very unique too or maybe i just dun get used to it. Just when i was about to start, 2 kids start to fight over a chair and neither of them wans to give up, is not like that seat has some super duper good feng shui, i dunno.... kids world are hard to understand, generation gap. So i try to tok nicely to them but it doesnt work at all (stupid chair), and it was so strange cause the parents are staring at me (as if watching movie wor...) and none came forward to help, is so unlike my other class, the parents are so friendly and helpful. Thankfully my 6th sense got me to buy a pack of chocolate in sch be4 the lesson so i said if u all behave i give u all chocolate okay??? Then suddenly all the kids look at me like i am their god. Problem solved.. haha...

The rest of the lesson is alright, nothing much to say about too.

Anyway i was buying a drink in cheers and the cashier name is called thing. Haha, when i saw that i really feel like calling her name out but on a second thought, nah is childish... I am 19 man!!! muhahaha.

Is just so ironic, i got so much things to say but on a THIRD thought, nah is useless... is not going to help, haha... ren yi shi feng ping lang jing, tui yi bu hai kuo tian kong. I just cant help to feel my chinese is getting improved, muhahahahahahahaha

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Blog Blog Blog.... So many stuff happen since sch start so i quite lazy to blog about them. Well, sch is not fun. Lesson are quite boring for example like today's comm skill. OMG, i cant believe the teacher can talk non stop for 2 hours about conflict management. I dun think is very practical for her to chant so many scripture out cause i feel that when u really have a conflict different ppl with different character will respond differently and most ppl will just explode and say the '3 word scripture'. I dunno, maybe is useful to some extend but if we are going to follow their method whenever we have conflict it make us behave like robot, like must follow some fixed procedure.

Lectures are fun cause is playing time, yea!! opps...haha..If my mum read this sentence think i will be questioned like hell, haha. Labs are quite sian except for the night class cause the teacher is LAME!!! very very LAME. We were having lesson halfway then he said "u all know about the notebook joke?" We were like SHIT, something lame must be coming out from his mouth and we were right!!!! Then he start saying once he ask his class if they got notebook at home then they start taking out their notebook from their bag and pocket (those nomal notebook, paper form) and then he say he meant laptop. Thats the joke. Me and my classmate were like slient... then the teacher keep laughing. Oh well, interesting teacher.

Went hagen-daz to eat ice cream with mos and jon and we share this ice call desire if i am not wrong. The melon flavour is so damm nice, really love it alot.

Yesterday got no sch so met meng yeow and jon at vivo city. Then we went liang court to look at some weiqi seed and board and i got 1 set of set which cost me quite a bomb.

Got 1 of the set from the second shelf. The far right weiqi set on the second self cost $199 and when i take it and see i was quite shock cause there is no seed inside means that the cover itself is $199. Then the sale girl say is make from pure wood and i went to touch it, it is really like cruve out from a tree quite cool.

Haha, influencing my classmates to play weiqi in class. I realise something... In order to make more ppl in my class to play this game i must influence the key person then the rest will join in too. This apply to spreading this game in singapore. Singapore weiqi association set their primarly target on primary sch and that is kind of bad cause pri sch kid have short attention spent and most importantly they dun spread to other ppl. If we can spread this game to secondary student or ppl with strong finicial backup, only then this game will be popular.

Haha, looking at this pic i really wan to laugh. Meng yeow is really a game freak. Once the DS get into his hand he wont stop playing. We went to kino and he stop at that position (ENTRANCE) to play DS for more than 10 mins.

My teacher just called me and ask if i am willing to be excused from sch for 2 weeks to go china gor weiqi exchange. Of course i wan to go but is 2 weeks and i just came back from thailand, doubt my parents will let me go, haiz. And if i go i might miss out quite alot of sch stuff and my project team member will be doing alone. haiz... y 2 weeks so long..............

trip

First day of sch for me today and i am not really used to it cause i get very tired easily in class and my class morale like very low maybe the lessons last week isnt tat fun, haha.. First period is maths and oh dear.... I dunno wat formula is it, is super long and huge. Think i am going to have a hard time passing it this sem.

Just went to suntec with jon to check out his hp battery price and it cost $38. I really think jon should change to a new NOKIA battery cause he is using some other brand battery for his current nokia phone which is quite dangerous cause u never know what will happen to the phone and worst thing is it might explode. I saw news in other country that hp do explode and since is constanly in our pocket it will become very hot and u never know wat reaction will there be.

Anway i bought a new deathnote poster in suntec costing $10 only.

My sis got this figure for my birthday...

And lastly for today entry i got this aircraft model when i came back from thailand for 21 bucks and i like it alot. In future anyone taking plane pls help me buy their plane model too.

thai

Just came back from thailand and decide to blog abit before i sleep.

Left my house in the morning on 15 oct to flag cab and i so heng got a mercs cab.

I was very surprise to see a tv beside the meter cause i have never seen 1. But i find it kind of dangerous cause the driver might be distracted by the tv leading to an accident. So i met up with another friend then went to the budget airport.

Our teacher treat us breakfast in the airport and we were told to take whatever we want...
Took tiger airways and the whole journey from singapore to bangkok is around 2 hours. View from the window seat.

Then we proceed to the hostel that we will be staying for the next 5 days. I was expecting non air-con room and dirty toilet but i knew i was wrong when i enter the hostel lobby.


I thought i enter a hotel when i saw the reception.

Team singapore preparing to check in....

This signboard is just at the entrance of the hostel.

Our bedroom.

Toilet.

On the first night the korea team offer to play friendly game with the thailand team and in the end thailand lost all as expected.

The lady in the picture is the team leader for korea, not the player. She is professional 2 or 3 dan and she is the first female pro in korea if i am not wrong. She played against 2 other dan player and won both games. She is also a english lit teacher.

The person in blue is singapore team leader, pro 6 dan. And his opponet are both from korea amateur 6dan and in the end the female lose while the other won. This shows tat korea amateur player are really very strong.

The guy in green is the china pro coach employed by thailand and is playing against 3 singapore players. And he won all 3 in the end.

The next day we went to visit the king's palace and some ruin city and honestly is not fun at all cause is so damm hot and theplace is kind of boring... On the way i then realise that some part of thailand is experiencing flooding and is the first time i see floods.


Introducing our tour guide!!!!!!

I hate it when she stops and starts to explain stuff cause out of 10 sentence u can only understand 1 sentence. Her english is no difference from thai language. The worst part is when she starts making eye contact with you.... Normally when a tour guide introduce some stuff she will try to make eye contact with everyone but this guide is totally different. When she start explaining she will tend to focus on 1 person only and ignore the rest and is like so strange and that person can never escape her clutch till she done her talking. So everytime when she start explaining u can see team singapore all hiding at the back of the tour, haha...

The competition area...

This often happen when 2 strong opponent finish playing.....

On the second last night they host a teaching game and represtatives from other countries play teaching game with the local people...

Kang lao shi playing with 6 3dan at one time with handicapp and in the end 1 won.

Guy in white is from korea and black from japan.

Guy in white is from japan. All the players from local and other countries are from university. Speaking of japan they are kind of unlucky in thailand cause on the last day 2 players were amitted into hospital for food poisoning. And i was so shock when my teacher told me that one of the player representing japan last year met with the same problem too and his condition became worst on the plane back to japan and was admitted to hospital immediately after they land japan and that person died few days later. I was really shocked when i heard this n i keep thinking about it. The closing ceremony stage was quite grand... Weiqi is getting so popular and strong in thailand because of the strong support of 7-eleven. This whole event is sponsor by them and it must have cost a bomb.You must be wondering wat is this pic about... Because our closing ceremony was in an open space we were so lucky that there was a sudden downpour and we all have to move everything indoor.

This is the place where we can use internet for free 24 hours.

Last of all i really wan to thank my teacher lina, kang lao shi and all my friends who were with me in thailand cause they gave me a surprise birthday celebration.

We were playing cards in a room and suddenly some of my friends say that there is a meeting in my room so we all went there and kang lao shi suddenly bring out a cake and i was so surprise. We celebrated in the hostel looby and 7-eleven boss join in the celebration too. She also gave me a present.

Of course i really have to say thanks to my poly friends for celebrating early for my birthday. THX ALOT GUYS!!! i really appreciate it.

vivo

Today is my mum offday so my sis n i accompany my mum to shop in the new shopping mall, VIVO CITY. I din know about this place till my mum told me yesterday... btw is beside habourfront shopping mall.

That place is not big, is HUGE!! I thought the new marina square shopping mall was big enough but i knew was wrong when i start walking in vivo city. Sad to say not all the shop are open yet cause the official opening date is on 1 nov if i am not wrong. But even if all the shops are open i dun really like that place cause is like all the shops are for 'high class' ppl. Not sure if the shops are told to do so but the shops design are quite different from other outlet for example giodano... The outlet design is totally different from other outlet...

The top level is actually an open space with fountain and the view there is good... can see sentosa, cable cars, the open sea and so on...

What is true friendship? Different people have different concept on this point.

Some people thinks that if the other party share the same interest with him, he is a true friend.
Some thinks that if the other party agrees on whatever he says and wat he do, he is a true friend.
Some thinks that when he face a problem and the other party agrees to listen, he is a true friend.
And bla bla bla, many other more reasons which is impossible for me to listen them out.

For me true freinds are friends who are willing to help you when you are in any trouble and not expecting any return from you.

As i grow older and older every second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year i get to see all kinds of people. Some are really true friends but sad to say some others regard us as friend because there is 'value' in us.

For example
...if your science is top in class u will suddenly find people who dont bother greeting you come talk nicely to you in science class.
...When you have a better looking friend they will come to you and have nice chat but eventually their goals is to know more about your other good looking friend.
...when u have discount on some branded stuff they will flock to you like some hungry crocs and after everything they will only ask u for more discount stuff.

Haha i make it sound so bad but seriously there are people out there who are like that. I was so bored on the trip to vivo city so somehow i thought of all these stuff.

ok, going back to youtube to watch deathnote anime.....

thai

7 more days to thailand!!!!!! Heard that haze is bad there too.

Today's weather looks good, no more haze... but my crazy sis say no good cause cant wear mask anymore. i was like err....... some screw not tighten upstairs in her... dunno y she likes to wear mask so much maybe she thinks is very cool... reminds me of the show hostel.

Today schedule is the same as every sunday, wake up at 12pm, go bugis for the 2pm class and left at 3pm, go to the same shop to have my favourite wanton noodles then take bus 61 home which takes around an hour trip.

Sat schedule is almost the same... wake up at 12pm then go bugis for the 2pm class, leave at 3 to have lunch at the wanton noodle shop and go back to the club for 5pm lesson then leave at 6pm to jurong green cc to play there.

Weekend is just so robotic for me. Is fixed!!! no change, haha. think the wanton noodles boss know me le. But is still better than staying at home cause i know i will be clued to the tv the whole day to rot.

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~~~Hazy hazy haze~~~