How time flies. Today is a sad and happy day. The sad thing about this day is that we have to leave Wuhan. The happy thing is that we are going home and we have a lot of memories to take home.

I woke up at 8 am to get ready to go home. I still have one more thing to do before I am ready. I wanted to buy a book at a close by bookstore but Mei Yi tell me to wait for her. So as I am waiting, I get some pau to eat. She is only ready by 8.45 am. I think she has a lot of stuff to do at the room. We go to the store then brought the book that we wanted. By the time we reach back at the dorm it was 9.15 am. We have to weight our bags at 9.30 am to make sure we did not exceed 30 kg. Lucky my bags did not exceed 30 kg. Some of them exceed 30 but Mr. Chong say it was a weight as a group. We started to go to the bus at 10.30 am and we say farewell to the dorm and the local student that come to see us off. They say they will be with us until we are at the airport.

We reach the airport at about 11.30 am. It took us sometime to check in our baggage. We also take some pictures with the local student. Before the check in Mr. Chong say that our flight will be delay. It was a surprise but they say we can board another flight to Guang Zhou. It was the same flight time so it doesn't matter. By the time we finish it was 12 noon. It was very heartbroken for one of the local student. She shed tears when we are about to leave. We comfort her and we went with split with the local student for the final time in Wuhan. We reach the our gate quite early so some of us rest for a while. The flight time is 3.15 pm and I say goodbye to Wuhan for the final time when the plane lift off of the ground.

We all reach Guang Zhou at 5 pm. When we got our baggage it was 6pm. The counter will close at 6.25 pm. This mean we must hurry to get to the counter. It was too late but the stuff say the fastest way to get it on the plane it thought the Oversize Baggage Counter. After that we rush to our gate and when we reach there is was on the last call. We all make it to the plane so we all relax in the plane after that event. The plane leave the airport at 7.15 pm.

It took 3 hours for the plane to reach Singapore. We arrive in Singapore at 11 pm and hello Singapore. We all get out of the plane and all of us are happy. Then we all go to claim our baggage and I reunite with my family. Xin Hui hug her mother. We all are happy. We all say goodbye and it was so hot and humid when I got our of the airport. I also have another 1 hour to reach home in Malaysia. It was good to be home.

Today I woke up at 10 am. All of my friends wanted to shop on this second last day but I didn't join them. I need to spend this day packing. We are leaving Wuhan tomorrow and i need some time to pack.I have buy all the thing that I wanted. I hope all my other friends enjoy themselves.

After I had lunch, I have nothing to do inside the room. So, I didn't when back to the room straight away but go on a stroll beside the Yangtze River. This place is very easy to go to. Ever since I came to Wuhan I have targeted this place but I don't have the change to go there. So, I have this opportunity to go there today. This place is not very beautiful but at least I can kill some time there. You see this two picture. Beside this walking pavement is a place where they sell sands.















Oh yeah today Mr. Chong is going to treat us dinner. He order too much food so all of us can't finish the food. Later I do some last minute shopping. I brought some ancient notebook and the ink for my stamp. After we all go back to our room we start to pack again. It felt like being here on the first day.

Today's a very special day for all of us. You know that the whole night we did not sleep right? Yeah.

It was 6 am and the sky is starting to brighten up. Today morning we all eat breakfast at McDonald. The breakfast is almost the same in Singapore and Malaysia. It was a pity to the stuff in McDonald. They work no hard to keep up with all of our orders. There are only 3 person working in the morning. Okay, after breakfast we all return to our dorm to have some sleep. I thought I set a alarm at 8 am but when I woke up it was 10 am. My friends call me up. If they haven't call me I won't wake up. We all decided to go shopping again today. Yi Sheng said he doesn't want to go with us to shopping because he need some sleep.

So, our group go out shopping with 3 local student. They brought us to a place call.......... I thought this place is a good place to shop but they only sell cloth. I have nothing to buy there because it has nothing except cloth. So, I stroll with them and some of them brought some cloth. We all eat lunch later and we split up. Some of us go to Walking Street and some of us go to Tian Nou Zhen. I go to Tian Nou Zhen. When we arrive here we walk around to see what we can buy. I say something that I wanted to buy when I first arrive at China. It was a name stamp. Of course I brought it because it was my last change to get something that I was longing for. After I brought that I have completed my shopping. It was not over yet because some others still need to buy some stuff. Jerald brought a mouse and 2 bags for his relatives. Xin Hui brought 2 mouse and 1 bag. With this, today's shopping is completed.

Today we have a farewell party for the local student. This party is organize by LSCT and MDE student. We all rush back to the dorm and we are just in time for the party. It was a fun party. So much singing, dancing and eating. Today is one of the local student's birthday. So we celebrate it together. We all party till 10.30 pm because Mr. Chong said the owner of this building has to lock the door. We all return to our room after the party. Yi Sheng and I started to pack some of our cloth to get ready to return to Singapore. We will be returning the day after tomorrow. I will miss Wuhan.

Today was a tired day. This is because I do my project presentation with my group until 4.30 am. I sleep at about 4.45 am. So, it was very hard to get up. Eventually I got up and we ll arrive at the classroom 9 am sharp. Thus, the start of the presentation. It end at about 11.45 am and Mr. Chong have to go somewhere. We took our last picture of the classroom and we all go out for lunch. After lunch it we all go back to our room and nothing happen until late at night.

At night we all go to play pool. We have a surprise at the pool because today is Alan's birthday. So, we play normally first and then at 10 pm we go to a VIP room to play. Later Mei Yi brought the cake into the room and we celebrate his birthday. Today's event is not over yet. Later that night or morning, 12 am, we all go sing karaoke. I don't know how to sing so I just sit there and listen. They all sing untill the next morning and I just sleep in the room.

Today we all have to meet Mr. Chong at 10.30 am to discuss about something. The first thing he tell us is the Tutorial 9. Later he distribute our Common Test result and I got 76%. It was a good result for me. Later he told us about an English session. This session help us and the other local student to improve ours and their English. Before that we all return to our room straight away to do our project and tomorrows presentation.

At 7 pm we walk to the meeting place and it was not a happy sight. Mr. Chong was furious. He had that unhappy face and I know we had done something wrong. It was the timing. They said to meet at 7 pm and we arrive at 7.15 pm, 15 minutes late. It was not his fault but ours. He told us and we just keep quiet. The session still continue because nothing can stop it. It was a good session because I can know more about China.

Oh yeah, I forgotten about one more thing. Tonight we had a party. Today's party is to celebrate Alan and Shan Mei's birthday. We all celebrate Shan Mei's birthday at 8 pm. Alan's birthday has a twist. We all plan to lure him out and surprise him but it was not a success. Although it was not a success we still celebrate his birthday at 12 am.

Today is a fun day. Well you see today we had a Leadership Camp. It was very fun and I thought that it was a waste of time.

We all woke up at 6 am and get ready to go to another WUST branch. When we arrive there the trainer split us into 4 groups. I was group with Jasper, Yi Sheng and Li Ying. There are other people from MDE and ECE that are mix with us.

The First thing to do is to name our group and then we must create a flag and song. Our group name is call Spongebobes. It was a weird and funny name and it was thanks to Jasper. Even our name is that but our flag is the most beautiful compare to the other group's flag.

After that event our activity has started. The first activity is to make a tank track using newspaper. Later we must join it together and all of my group must fit inside it. We think our design was good because it was easy to join and repair. Even with our hard work we got third place. It was not sad at all because it was fun.

We had our lunch break after that activity. After lunch, the second activity is when the instructor say something we must bring our belongings to the other person. It was fun and funny at the same time.


The third activity is to climb up to a tall place and jump across the plank to get down. I was so scare but when I saw my other friends doing it I too wanted to do it. When my turn comes and after I have climb up, I walk to the end and jump across it. I was happy but the scary part is next. I have to jump down. It was scary and when I reach onto the ground I walk like a S shape. Even it was scary it was a good experience.

The forth activity is you have a group of people station right beside a platform. On the platform you have to face backwards and fall down backwards to let the group of people to capture you. It test your trust on other people.It was easy for me because I trust them but I was a bit scare.

The fifth activity is the most trilling one. that is because that we have to climb a 6 storey high. It was rock climbing style. This part has nothing much to say but I climb until the middle part then I fell.




Later that night we all return to our room and I started to do my blog.

Yeah. Finally our last trip is to Lulin. We all gather at the front gate at 8 am to get ready to start the trip. It takes about 3 to 5 hours to breach there. Before we reach there, during the ride, the bus driver is amazing. Why you ask? This is because he know how to pass the cars. He would horn the cars when passing it. He was really amazing when driving. I have never seen other people drive like that.

We arrive at the hotel at about 1 pm and had lunch there. The tea that they serve for my table is so orange in colour compare to the other tables. That is when I know that our tea leaves are more compare to theirs. After lunch we got our respective room and the room is the same quality as the hotel in Wudang San. It was so comfortable.

At 2.30 pm we all gather at the front of the hotel to start our program there. The place where we are going is call Valley of Beautiful Girls. This whole place is just beside a river. We are walking up stream of this river and visiting many beautiful water fall and some nice things there. This place is a scenery spot that you can't miss because it was beautiful. Oh yeah when walking along this river one of the MDE student got injured. He step on the wrong place and got cut on his shoulder. It was not that serious but everybody still take care of him. We walk up stream more to reach a place tthat has a lot of rocks. The tour guide say that the rocks in this place dates back about 7000 years back. The rock is red in colour. This place has a lot of water falls. The water here are also very clear and the colour of this river water is blue or green in colour. We all walk for 2 or 3 hours untill we reach the end and that is the end of this activity.


It is not over yet because we still have to attend a small party at the hotel after dinner. They have a small performance and some of us got up the stage to sing. It was a fun night and I have enjoy it. Tomorrow we have to return to back to Wuhan but before that we still have some activity.

On the next day after we eat breakfast we go to a place where we climb to watch some natural wonders. This place is on a mountain and call Lulin Fort Village.


This place is also once an army camp. So, they have ancient chinese army camp. To watch this natural wonders we have to climb around it. They have steps so it is easier to walk around. After seeing the scenery we go to the next stop where they have a place to play chinese chess. On the way there, there are a lot of natural wonders. After we reach this chess place we all play some chess.


The last stop is a military camp. When we arrive here I became like a child. I just love this kind of places and it was a rare change to visit it. I play with a flag and took some pictures.



We then go back to the hotel and had our lunch there.

Our final activity there is to go into a cave. This cave is call Kongshan Cave. Inside this cave is so beautiful and the lighting effect they make is also good. We walk about 1 hour inside this cave and it was not tiring at all because it was cool.


Below is some stuff in the cave that I can't explain.







After that we are on our way back to Wuhan. It was tiring during the trip and we all fell asleep in the bus. We arrive at the dormitory at about 8 pm and that is the end of the last trip.

Okay today I'm going to tell you what we do on this two day which is Friday(3 April) and Saturday(4 April).

3 April 2009 - Friday

Today's the day that I'm starting to go shopping. We go to a place call Han Zheng Jie. It was a place where it sell a lot of stuff. It was a surprise when we got there. The only thing they sell there is normal stuff. Nothing special. So we walk around for a while and I go with Jeremy, Jin Quan, Velverie, Shan Mei, Li Ying, Kumaran and Alan to another place call Walking Street. The others stay at that place to explore more. We go there and also walk around but we also buy some stuff. They all buy cloth because it was cheap. Alan and I later then go buy some chopstick. The chopstick is so beautiful that Alan and I brought the same design. Then we walk around until about 9 something (I think) then go back to my room.

4 April 2009 - Saturday

The next day. Today's program is go back to Han Zheng Jie. Why you ask. Well Mei Yi tell us that there are more to it than it meets the eye. The place we walk around is just a part of it. There are still more. So we all decided to go to that place again with a different bus and let me tell you it was very long. That place is full of stuff to buy and what I buy there. Well I brought two small ping on a pair of shoe and a new shirt. It was so cute. Oh yeah, we got bored walking there so we go to another place call tian nou zhen. Some stay behind to walk further more. We had a problem here. Well all the taxi that we call won't go across the Yangtze river using the Da Jiao(the main bridge).The problem is not over yet. Jeremy, Alan and I ride in the same taxi but the lady forgotten to start the meter because she tell us how to got there and how many places with the same name call Tian Nao Zhen. So, she tell us the price is about 55 yuan. When we got there our other friends tell us that they only paid 30 to 32 yuan. She just cheated us. Jeremy was angry and well nothing can be done to erase the past.We all arrive there about 4 pm. Alan say that they will start to close at about 6 something. Nevertheless we walk around and Alan go to the top floor to look some China hand phone. He wanted to buy a handphone but say his budget is about 450 yuan. So, he try to bargen. It was not successful and we leave the place. When we are leaving the building the place was close. This is because Alan was trying his best to lower the phone price but never mind we are not angry. I was a bit of a jerk. This is because I always tell them to hurry up and I never think about my other friends. I felt sorry and I will do my best to correct this mistake in the future. When we got out of the building we all go back to the dormitory and later we had another party to celebrate Jin Quan and Jasper's birthday. We all where all the new cloth that we buy. It was fun and we party till about 12 midnight. I sleep at about 2 am. I think I won't wake up tomorrow for the last trip. We are going to a place call Luling.

Finally today's the common test for Environment Technology. The test start at 1 pm. You can say easy and some what hard. Some question I know but some I don't. Not only that, when my friends compare the answers, some of my answers are different from them. Don't worry I'm not going to be let down by different answers. I will still move on because the earth is still spinning. Oh yeah, today's the last day of lecture and tomorrow Mr. Chong say that we will be doing the tutorials. The learning plan is not over yet. There are still the presentation for the Environment Technology and IS. I hope that I will do fine in both of this and I will do my best of not failing it.

Okay I know that I am late in doing this blog. This is because I have less time and I need to prepare for the common test tomorrow. Okay now I will say the stuff that happen form 29 March until today. Please forgive me for combining 4 days for one post. I also know what Mr. Chong has say but please forgive me.

29 March 2009, Sunday.

Well, today I have nothing to do so I spend the whole day doing nothing except play some computer games and surf the internet.

30 March 2009, Monday.

On this day, it was also a boring day because the whole day we are all just studying and Mr. Chong remind us about the common test's day.

31 March 2009, Tuesday.

Today is also a bit boring but Mr. Chong let us to watch a movie call Earth. This movie told us about the earth from the north pole to the south pole and back again to the north pole. Oh yeah, Mr. Chong also told us that tomorrow, 1 April 2009, we are visiting the new campus of WUST.

1 April 2009, Wednesday

Today we all woke up at 7 am and gather at the front gate at 8 am. You see today we are visiting the new campus of WUST. It took 1 hour to reach there. When we reach there the site is much beautiful than the old campus. The bus let us alight at the library and that is the start of our tour around the new campus. Inside the library the is a small muzium that tell us about the WUST's history. After that they brought us to the Medical side of the school. Inside the building there is a exhibition of the human body. After that, we are taken to the room inside the building. There are beds and some human size doll on the bed. It was for the student there to practice. After the tour we are brought to a room where we done our presentation. The student there play some games with us and that's it.



Lunch time, we go to their canteen and guess what the canteen look like our Ngee Ann's convention center. After lunch it was free and easy. We stroll around the campus, took some picture and after that we go back to the old campus. Mr. Chong told us not to go back first because he need to finish his lecture. It was very tiring. After class, we all go back to study for the common test.

Today's Saturday and I miss one day of my blog. I was suppose to do my blog yesterday but I have forgotten. I ask for your forgiveness and I will write yesterdays event today. Okay I will use a time machine to warp myself and yourselves to yesterdays event. Okay here we go. 3... 2... 1... ....

27 March 2009, Friday

Today is a bit of a good day and at least today's tour around the optical fiber factory is not boring. Oh, I have forgotten to tell you that today we have a visit to this factory. Okay I will tell you today's event.

I wake up at 8 am to get ready to go to the bus that will take us to the factory. The bus will depart at 9 am but when we arrive at the main entrance guess what no bus. Yeah...... No bus, how are we going to the factory? Have no fear because the bus arrive a bit late. Once we arrive at the factory I am very impress with the cleanliness of the factory. It was a surprise that the factory is clean and area outside the factory is not clean. Okay, we all gather inside the factory and there are one person waiting there. He will explain all the tour and some stuff at the entrance of the factory. He told us some share holder and a brief explanation of the production of the optical fiber. Oh yeah he also tell us to keep our voice down as to not to disturb other people that are working in the factory. He take to our first stop in the tour. We are not allow to take photograph but have no fear I will explain it. Okay first stop and it was how they transport the raw material to the other station. He also give us show that explain the process on that spot. I was amaze by how high tech the factory was. On the second stop, it was how they make all the raw material into a rod for later process. He also show us the show. On the third stop, It was how they make the big rod into a small thin fiber. On the forth stop, he tell us that how they check and to make sure that the fiber is strong enough. It was a quality checking. On the fifth stop we are back to the place where we started. This place he allow us to take pictures so We all didn't hold back and it was fun. After that we got onto our bus to take us back.



The day is not over yet. We told the drive that we, LSCT student, wanted to see the cherry blossom. Why we wanted to see is because that the bus is on the same road. What I mean is that the bus is going back to WUST but it will pass by Wuhan University. Wuhan University is the only place to view the cherry blossom Also we all wanted to got to a shopping mall later. The bus drop us near Wuhan University and we had our lunch. We enter the university from the back door. They say that it will be about 10 minutes of walking time and we paid 10 yuan. We walk about 10 to 20 minutes and theystop at a place with a statue to take picture. I also took it and I go on ahead first to look for the place. No sooner, a few second of walk, I arrive not at the actual place but at a small park that also have the cherry blossom. It was spectacular view and I can't explane it. I run back to tell my other friends and Mr. Chong. They floow me to that place and we took a lot of picture. We later go to the actual place of viewing the cherry blossom. It was a surpirse because it was not that beautiful anymore. Some green leaf have grown out. So we spend a bit of time there and we all go back to the first place.



After the cherry blossom viewing, we go to the shopping mall. Guess what the shopping mall is call shopping mall. 14 of us took bus and another 4 take taksi. I took the bus. We miss the bustop and it too us across the Yangtze river. So, we took another bus back and when we arrive there I go to play pool with my friends that took the taksi. After that our day end.

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We are back. Nice ride isn't it. hope to see you soon.

Today we have a presentation. This presentation is for the local student to know more about Singapore. I present with Jeremy, Ian and Jin Quan title Foods & Fruits. My other friends also have to present . So, my group is the third group to present. I was not nervous at first but when my group was presenting I was very nervous. This didn't stop me because when you continue to present it will just flow naturally.

Today I had my lesson at 10.30 am. It was quite hard to wake up at 9 am because I sleep at 1 am yesterday. Today Mr. Chong teach us waste water management. Later he let us see a movie call Red Cliff. This story actually really happen in the Hubei province. So, he wanted to show us this movie because we are in Hubei and he say it will be a waste not to know the story happen here in Hubei. After I eat dinner, I go do a project with Jeremy, Ian, and Jin Quan. This project is for the student in China to know how Singapore are like. We don't actually get any point in this project but I know it will help me to built some confidents for myself. This project is very important because Mr. Chong say that tomorrow many high rank people will come to see us and how we present. It will be a blow to do a mistake in this presentation. I hope I will do as little mistake as I can.

I'm writing for yesterday's event which is 23 of March. On this day the whole day not much event happen except that I am thinking. The event happen on 22 of March and the dagger I'm thinking how to dealt with it. So basically, today I'm thinking. I have ask my parents and they gave me some advice and the experience that their friends gone through. This lead me to that I will throw away the dagger. At least it will not burden anyone else especially Mr. Chong. Oh yeah I forgot one thing. Tonight we went to a high class restaurant to eat dinner. It was much cheaper that the restaurant we eat at the first night in Wuhan. It was good and the environment is so good. You see we got private room because all 18 of us are eating together. Inside the room have 2 sofa and a television. It was like in a house with a big family.

I never thought that I will be going to a mountain again. It has been a long time since I been to a mountain. The mountain that we will be going is call Wudang Shan (武当山). So, we started this trip as the same as always. Wake up at 6 am, gather at bus at 7 am and start another journey but this time it is 6 hours long. We arrive at the base of Wudang Shan at about 1 pm and ate lunch there. After lunch our journey to the mountain continue. It was a short ride from the restaurant to the entrance to the mountain. When we arrive there, there are a lot of shops that sell swords.



Why the swords? Well this place is like a kungfu and taoism place. So, the shops sell a lot of this kind of stuff. Back to the journey, we all go up to the mountain using buses. It was a pretty scary ride for me. This is because the place I seat is a tourist guide's seat. I have a front view and a side view near the door of the bus. It was so scary until I feel that I was on the edge of a cliff. This Wudang Shan has a lot of spot to stop. So, the first stop is call The Prince Temple.



It is a temple so don't expect a lot. We are not allow to take photos of the gods in all the temple. So, we all don't have pictures of inside the temple. I don't have a lot to say when in The Prince Temple but I know that the scenery around the temple is great.



Okay the next stop is 12kkm away from here and it is the Purple Heaven Palace. I thought it will be in purple in colour but it was not purple in colour.


Nevermind that when we go in to the temple, I think that is a temple, we saw a group of people practicing some moves. It was my first time seeing it in person and it was exciting. Other than that this temple is much more grand than The Prince Temple. We later got a chance to take a picture with the master teaching his student at the temple.


Then the next stop is the final stop. I don't know the place of this place but we go visit a temple that the ancient people built at a cliff. Of all the temple I visited, this is the most colourful temple I have been. There are not much things to say here.


After this last stop we go back to eat dinner and go to our hotel. Let me say this, the hotel's room is much much much better than the room of the cruise last week. Alright, we had our first LSCT Wuhan Annual General Meeting 2009. We discuss if who wanted to clim up the Wudang Shan or take a cable car up. We discuss with Mr. Chong and our final decision is that I am the only one that will take the cable car up.


The next day 22 of March, we all woke up at 6 am and ate breakfast. We arrive at the same place again to start the begining of the last day at Wudang Shan. I split with the rest of my friends and join the other 3 MDE students that will take the cable car. I arrive at the cable car station and it was a long que.



It took us 2 hours of waiting time to get into a cable car. When I was waiting at the que something happen. Then peopl there are really good at cutting que and I mean good, I mean good. I have never scene that kind of strategy before and it was a good one. You see this is how they do it. First, they take their child and put into a que with open space. Second, they bwalk away. Third, after some time they came back to check the que. Forth, untill the child is near the entrance they climb in and say they are at there first. Fifth, this is how their tactic is. It was so perfectly plan. If anyone compalane they will say they go to toilet or something clever. This is what happen when I was waiting at the que. Oh, one more thing. When waiting the que my camera is not working. It was a blow to me because this mean I can't take any pictures. Okay back to the story, when I arrive at the peak guess what? All my friends that climb up has arrive up there 1 hour early than me. I was so surprice that they took 1 hour to climb up. Even so, I still go up to the peak with the other 3 MDE student. Mr. Chong help me to take some picture at the peak of Wudang Shan. "THANK YOU MR. CHONG." Then later I rejoin with my other friends and go down buy cable car. After that nothing much happen except a few IMPORTANT event take place. This is a bit personal but I will still express it. When going down the mountain, in the bus, I have a new friends with the MDE student and she bought a small dagger to give to her friends as a gift. I ask her how she is going to bring back and she said by mail. She want to send it back to Malaysia so I thought I have a change to buy a small dagger back. I have ask many people about buying a dagger for display at my house but many say it is impossible to get it back. Even Mr. Chong and my parents say so but at the base of Wudang Shan I bought a small dagger. It was a mistake to buy that dagger. In my opinion, I think Mr. Chong was angry and worried at the same time. So, during the bus ride I rethink what I have done. I never think about other people that I will affect. First, is Mr. Chong. It affect him buy making him worry and this cause me thinking further. This lead to when crossing the imigration. I will be stop and cause a lot more problem. Not only this I will even make Mr. Chong more stress, he also have to take care for the other student. He is a good guy, I think I'm a litle bit similer to him. A kind-hearted person. So, this is why I'm feeling guilty now. Second, is my parents. My parents say not o buy this thing as it won't cross the imigration. I also will make them worry. Third, is my friends. It will afect them by making them worry about me. This is because, I know I will ask for them help and make them more stress. They also have other things to dealt with. Like financial problem in Wuhan, souvenir to buy for their parents and friends and other little problems. So I'm going to think through this the next day and find help from my parents. Back to the story. We arrive at Wuhan at about 8.30 pm and at the dorm about 9 pm. I ate some dinner and that is it.

Okay I'm back on my trip to Wudang Shan. Don't worry I didn't forget anything and I have some pictures to guide me. Today is Friday and I thought that today we will be going to Wudang Shan but I was wrong. So this means that today, the whole day is free and easy. If we want to go where we can go but with the permission of Mr. Chong. We decided to go to a place in Wuhan call Han Kou (汉口). How we go there? We go there by bus. It cost 2 yuan and takes about 30-45 minutes. Inside the bus is very crowded just like when I go back from Singapore to Malaysia using 170 at peak hour but IT was much more worst. You see even the bus is very full the bus driver keep on telling some people to come in the bus.











After we got down the bus we go to a shopping mall to walk around. They say that there is a restaurant that sell Singapore food so I when there with Mr. Chong, Hadi, Yongqi and Jasper. We went inside this lift and something out of the ordinary is in the lift. Inside this lift there is a air conditioner. I find it strange as why there is a air-con in a lift.



After we had our lunch we go find the other people shopping. It was quite boring at this shopping comploex because I don't have anything to buy. We go back to WUST at about 5 something to celebrate a local student's birthday. His name is Kidd. On the way back we will go through a bridge call 武汉长江二桥. It was a famous bridge and we always cross the Yangtze river using that bridge. Back to the story, on the bridge all I see is fog. I don't know why but I think it was either the air is dirty or too cold.



We arrive at WUST at 6.30 pm just in time for the party. Well not just in time but 30 minutes early. So, Mr. Chong, Yongqi, Jasper, Hadi and I went back to rest for a while. The rest of my friends go to buy shoe to go to Wudang Shan and some go get the cake. Everything is ready about 7.30 pm. When the birthday boy arrive I think he was surprise at the size of the cake. This small cake is a fake one because it was to smack into his face. We wanted to smash into his face but it hit his jacket. Poor thing.


This is the actual cake that we will be using to celebrate his birthday. After the wishes it was party time. We sang song, dance around and some picture taken.

Today is a some what sad and fun day. The sad thing is that today is our last day of our IS. This mean that we won't have to attend Xiao Ling Lao Shi's class anymore. Although we won't have to attend her class anymore, we, at least have our memories and some picture with her to remember. Of course we have some gift for her. Hope she like it. Later that day I, Mei Yi and Yi Sheng decided not to go shopping but the rest of tthe class went shopping. So, it is just the 3 of us that stay in the dorm. We meet Journey and Walter in Mei Yi's room. So the 5 of us go to eat dinner together. Journey say that she has a lesson she wanted to attend so she take away her food. That left me, Mei Yi, Yi Sheng and Walter to eat dinner. We eat at a small stall that sell mix rice. It was so small that the only take away the food but we eat there and the table and chair they provide is very short. Even that stall is small the food there is very good. Oh one more thing is that Walter treat us a type of tea. It was so good and it was cheap, only 1.50 yuan.

I have return to my room. Such a good feeling. It was fun and good experience to go to 3 Gorges but when I got there I got sick again. Why? This is because I ate something to make my stomach not feeling good and there goes my holiday. Even I am a bit sick it is not going to stop me to enjoy myself.

We woke up at 6 am to get ready to go to the bus that will take us to 3 Gorges. We will spend 3 days for the cruize at the Yangtze River. The bus start to depart at 7.15 am. It will take about 4 to 4 1/2 hours to reach a town call 宜昌(Yi Chang). On the road to Yi Chang there are some beautiful scenery that I have taken. I have never seen such a beautiful scene by traveling on a highway before.


We arrive at Yi Chang about 12 pm and we had lunch there. The restaurant name is Yansha Da Jiudian. It was good but with my stomach not feeling well it was no helping. Nevertheless I ate some and it was somehow good but one vegetable are too salty.



After the meal we are on our way to the 3 Gorges Dam. Also on the way there are some more beautiful scenery.



There is one mountain they call Mao Tong San, which they say that Mao Zedong is lying on the mountain.


When we arrive on the dam the scenery is so spetecular. At the dam there are 3 spot. The first one over look the dam and the area around it. It was so beautiful.



The second spot is much lower and we can look directly at the dam.


The third and last spot is a Memorial Park. The memorial park is also beautiful and it was a scene that look straight into the front of the dam.


We finish the 3 Gorges Dam tour at about 6 pm and the days is not over. We need to rush to dinner to board a ship for our cruise along the Yangtze River. I hope the captain of the ship is not mad at us because we are late by 1 hour. The lecturer say that the bedroom are very small and I mean small it was very very small. Not that only that the toilet was very low or I was too tall.

Oh, and did I mention that I and Yi Sheng sleep on the second floor. What good is that about is that there is a boucany on the second floor. This mean that I and my friends can go out the and have a look. That is why we go out there on that night and it was amazing and all of us are hyper. There is a catch, it was night time. This mean that no picture can be taken. So sad but there is this one bridge at night that I have taken so hope you all like it.


On that night I sleep the earliest because I'm not feeling well. Then at about 10 pm I woke up and I find it strange why the ship is not moving. The reason is that we are crossing a 'lock'. This lock is not the lock that we all use to keep stuff. It was a lock that enable a ship or boat to go up or down a small hill. It takes about 1 hour for the ship to clear the lock. I did not take any picture because I was tire and sleepy. So back to sleep.

Mr. Chong say that we have to wake up at 6 am. but it was later change to 7 am. This cause me my sleep because I woke up at 5.30 am. and just to find out that nobody's waking up. Then I sleep again and woke up at 6 something. Not a good experience. I had a bit of breakfast only and then later at 8 something got to sleep again. Why? I don't know. Even I sleep again I woke up at 9 something and just in time to got our first tour to go to Shen Niong Xi. We got off our cruise ship to a smaller ship and when we are at Shen Niong Xi we got to a even smaller boat.


What there is so great about that place is nothing is great. A normal place with amazing scenery and a good experience of the small boat that we took. What is so great about the boat look at the picture I don't know how to descript it.


It seems that that is how the people there pull the small boat when go to a shallow place. I thought I will be cool but it was HOT. Oh the sun, the river, not a good combination but a good experience to gain.





We got back to our cruise ship at about 2 pm and ate lunch at 2.30 pm. After that lunch we got a full day to waste. Yeah........ so boring, help me. Have no fear because we go to the observation deck to enjoy the cruise and take some more photos. Oh yeah they, I mean the tourist guide, say that we can encounter the 3 Gorges and nothing happen. It was well I miss it. What I mean is that I don't understand it and I miss it. Well don't worry I save the best for the last. The last 3 Gorges is so beautiful that it was on the 10 yuan note. Here is a comparission of the real and the 10 yuan note.




Seeing is believing. Soooo beautiful and no words can descript it. You just have to go there and experience it yourselve. It was a good wait because the last one is 2 hours away from the other 2 gorges. And we arrive to our last destination on this cruise. On this place we visited like a temple. It was tiring to go to this temple because it was situated on a hill. So tired until my first sweat came out. This mean I have not sweat ever scene I came to China on the first day. Back to the story, this temple looks like a normal temple but it has some suspended coffin. A special coffin and the other time is just going around the temple and explore it.











Suspended coffin drawing Real coffin







I regret something I came to this temple. I did not buy a comb here for my sister. But I think I will have other chance. After that we ate our dinner at 9 pm. It was a long day and I was tired and sleep at 10 pm.

Third day on the cruise and the last day which is 15 March(Sunday). The morning is cool and beautiful and we have arrive at Yi Chang already. It really puzzle me that how they got back to Yi Chang so quickly. So it was a good day and I'm feeling better and it was time to go back to Wuhan. We arrive at WUST at about 3 something.

Hi I'm Jonathan Tiong and this is my journal for my trip in Wuhan, China.


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