Day 27 monday 30 march 09

My lesson today starts at 9 am. The weather was cold in the morning. Today lesson was project management topic 8 and 9. In topic 8, I learnt about site organisation, organising people on site, site organisation chart. Site organization= group of people involved in the construction is being organised to meet the project objectives, coordination of the various function groups in the company. Organising people on site= number of staff, responsibilities, relationships.

In topic 9, I learnt about planning techniques, project planning and project control. Project planning includes scheduling, resource planning and project costing. Project control= ensuring all activities are identified and included, and cost control. After lesson we went to shop in the nearby shopping mall.

I did not shop for anything, I went to their ‘’food court “in the shopping centre for lunch. The place look really empty, but I decided to try. I bought a plate of curry chicken fried rice, cost 6yuan. The taste was really unique as I have never tried that kind of fried rice in Singapore. The fried rice was better than I expected and I manage to finish the whole plate. After lunch, I went back to my apartment to take a nap. I woke up in the evening to do my blog and watched dvd.

Chicken curry fried rice...nice

Day 26 Sunday 29 march 09

I woke up 10 plus am today. I ate bread with cheese and Milo. I went out with my friends to a place called si meh kou, it was a 25 minutes taxi ride. There were plenty of nice food along that street, some food that I ate there were, barbecue oysters, beef meatballs, lamb stick, smelly tou fu, and fruits. After lunch, we went to shop around in that area. There were a lot of retail shops selling shoes, bags and shirt.

My friend bought bag and shirt, but I did not buy anything thing because I feel that most of the things here I can get in Singapore also. For dinner, we took a taxi from si meh kou to the Carrefour shopping centre; we ate the Japanese stall (2nd time eating). I ate 3 bowls of rice plus beef, fish, vegetables, soup and desert. The food there was really delicious and price was reasonable (38 yuan). The boss of the shop was also a Singaporean, so she treated us spring rolls, I really enjoyed that dinner. When we finished dinner, we took a van back. It only cost us 15 yuan for 6 people.

Nice oysters

Day 25 Saturday 28 march 09

I woke up at around 10 am today. The weather was really bad; it was raining once again and the temperature was around 6 to 8 degrees. I ate bread and Milo for breakfast. I stayed at home and watch TV series with my laptop. In the afternoon my friend went go to eat so he helps me to buy lunch (fast food). After lunch I did some blog and went to take a nap. My friends took a taxi out in the afternoon, I did not join them because I don’t feel like going out as the weather outside was really cold. In the evening, I decided to go out to take a walk. I went to the nearby shopping mall to shop and went back home at around 7 plus pm. For dinner, I cook my own egg omelette.

Raining outside... really cold !!!




Cook my own egg omelette for dinner!!!

Day 24 friday 27 march 09

I woke up 10 am today and cook my own breakfast (egg+crabmeat+cheese). After breakfast we watch movie in our apartment (Haunted house). Many classmates came to our room to join us ( xiu jin, Li zhen, Eileen and others). Our lesson starts at 2.15pm so we have plenty of time to watch movie. Today lesson was interdisciplinary studies taught by Mrs Edith. The topic was on HuBei, there are plenty of lakes and hills in Hubei and it is located in the central of China. Hubei is a really beautiful place and it is extent across Hangtze and Hanjiang River.

The weather temperature in Hubei can be sometimes really cold (-14 c) or humid (43 c) depends on the month. Compared with Singapore, our weather temperature is always between (20 plus to 30). I also learnt about some features about nature source in Hubei. There are 570 species of terrestrial vertebrates in Hubei; some of them are golden-hair monkey, leopard, white deer, white snake and white tiger.

Besides that I also found out that at the end of 2002, the population had increased to 59.878 million and average expectancy of urban resident is 75.68. After lesson I went back home to rest as it was raining outside. I did my blog in the evening. For dinner a group of friends were at the shopping mall shopping, so they bought me and my group mates’ dinner (Mac Donald).

When the weather is bad, it is best to stay at home and wait for delivery!

Day 23 thursday 26 march 09

I woke up 8am in the morning to eat my breakfast and study. The project management test(25%) will start at 1.30pm. So my roommates (Jian Wen and Kia Fu) and I spent the morning studying. For lunch I ate bread with chocolate peanut butter and my roommates brought their own bowls to the campus canteen to buy food. After lunch we went to school to take our project management test, (do 2 questions out of 3 questions). I did question 1 and 3. The test was average; I am able to do most of the question. After test, I went back to my apartment to do my blog. I did not do my blog for the last few days as I was studying for my project management. So I have to spend my whole evening recalling what I have done the last few days and do my blog out. At night, I went out alone to the nearby restaurant; I ate a plate of beef spaghetti (price 32yuan)Sing dollar less than $10. The beef spaghetti was average, compared to Singapore. After dinner , I rushed back to my apartment as it was raining outside.

Beef, Spaghetti,Egg......

Day 22 wednesday 25 march 09

Woke up early today, there was no lesson, but have to self study. I fried egg, ham, crabmeat with bread for breakfast. After breakfast, I went back to my room to study. In the afternoon, my roommates went out for lunch, I did not follow them. I ate bread with peanut butter. After lunch I continued to revise my project management notes, there were other class mates who came to my apartment to study and revise together( saw, Xiu jin, Eileen and others). In the night I ate cup noodles with ham,, and crabmeat.

My dinner was cupnoodles and ham.....

Day 21 tuesday 24 march 09

Woke up around 11pm. Today we don’t have lesson as we are going on a tour to HuBei Provincial Museum. We board the bus at 1.30 pm and reach the place at around 2pm. We attend a music concert once we reached there. The music instrument that they used were Bronze bell, stone chimes, drums, qin( plucked instrument), bamboo flute and panpipes. The sound produce by all this unique instruments creates a piece of soothing music. After the concert, we visited the museum (exhibition of Chu culture).

Chu was the name of a state and a clan. Chu Stat lasted for 800 years until it was conquered by Qin in 223BC. During the 800 years, the Chu created rich and profound culture. In the museum I saw the sword of Gou Jian, the king of Yue late spring and autumn period. There were many interesting things to see in the museum. At the other part of museum, I learnt about (records on jiuliandun). It was an ancient tomb complex, lies on a mound stretching from north to south between wudian town and xinglong town in Zaoyang. There were more than 7300 burial articles unearthed.

I took a lot pictures in the museum but some of them were not clear as flash light was not allowed. Some of the interesting articles were the wooden crossbow with hunting scene painted with lacquer and bronze square pot with dragon-shaped ears. At the other part of museum I saw the (tomb of marquis Yi of Zeng). The tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng is located at Leigudun in the suburbs of Sui country in Hubei , and was excavated in 1978. It was the tomb of a feudal King buried 2400 years ago.

The tour to the museum was really eye opening; I learnt more about the culture and history of china. After the tour, the bus brought us back to the apartment, and I had my dinner at the road side stalls. I ate fried egg with tomatoes and a plate of rice, it was a simple dish but taste delicious.

HuBei Provincial Museum.



Music Concert....


wooden crossbow





The sword of the king....


A wine vessel.




A really huge coffin.


Their coins in the olden days.

Bronze bells ( music instrument)

Music instrument




Weapons and armour.


my dinner, egg+tomatoes+rice.......


CEEsssss



Mr wee and CEEsss

Day 20 monday 23 march 09

My lesson today starts at 9am. My roommates and I were almost unable to wake up on time, because we slept really late. The weather was really cold as it was raining. The lesson today was project management, and Mr wee went through tutorial 2,3,4 and 5 as we were be having a test(25%) on Thursday. After lesson, I went to eat a bowl of noodles at the road side. We went back to apartment to study after lunch. I took a nap and woke up at 6 plus pm. We went to the Carrefour shopping mall to celebrate shu jin birthday. We went to eat buffet at a place called golden Hans. There were total 15 of us including Mr wee. The food were delicious, I enjoy the meat: beef, lamb, chicken, sotong snd prawns. They will serve to us the meat and we don’t have to go and get it ourselves, the serve was not bad. We also play games and loser has to drink beer, and I drink about 4 mugs. We also play with the locals as they were sitting beside our table, Li zhen and one of the locals sang a song together. Today was really an enjoyable night!!

Lots of food for us to choose.


Salad.




Jia Fu , Me and Mr Wee

Day 19 sunday 22 march 09

I Woke up at 10plus am today. Ate some bread for breakfast and went back to room to study as there were be a test on the coming Thursday. In the afternoon, I went to have my lunch in the campus fast food restaurant and to the campus mini mart to buy some ham, cup noodle and drinks. I went back to my apartment to study for project management after lunch. In the evening, my group of friends came to my apartment to cook for dinner. I ate bread with ham. At night, a few friends went out to buy a birthday cake for Xiu jin. Many of us went to celebrate Xiu jin birthday in her apartment ( 12am). The neighbour complaints that we were too noisy, so we change our plan. All of them went to the first floor ( My apartment) to cut the birthday cake and take photos. The celebration was long, and that why all of us slept late that day.

Fast food in the camp.... 13yuan for this


We cook our own dinner.. Fried egg with tomatoes. vegetables. rice

Day 18 saturday 21 march 09

We don’t have to attend lesson today as it was Saturday. I woke up 7.20 am and we board the bus around 8.45am. We were going for a tour in Wuhan, Some of the places that we were be going are the sakura flower in one of the Wuhan university, the famous local food street and the olden castle of china.

The first stop we went was to watch the sakura flower; the tour guide told us that this was the best time of the year to watch the sakura flower. There were plenty of sakura flowers in Wuhan University because during War world II Japanese soldiers took over part china. Wuhan was one of the places that the Japanese had taken over. The government of Japan decided to import sakura flower to china so that Japanese soldiers in china will not miss their homeland in Japan so much. The sakura flower was really beautiful. There were mostly red or white in colour. The place was crowded with people, both locals and tourist. I took some pictures of the sakura flower.

It was really a good experience for me as this was my first time watching sakura and I always thought that sakura flower can only be found in Japan. After touring around in the Wuhan University, our next stop was the famous local food street. It was crowded with people and there were many food stalls. There were foods like, fried bananas, barbecue chicken wings, barbecue oysters, smelly toufu, ice cream, Fruits with a layer of sugar outside, tim sum and noodles. I tried their tim sum, the taste was a bit spicy but still delicious.

The smelly tou fu was not smelly enough compared with countries like Taiwan and Hong kong. I tried their Barbecue oysters with garlic; it was 4 for 10 yuan, the price was really cheap compared with Singapore. The taste of the oysters was juicy and nice. My friends bought the strawberries coated with sugar and I tried some too. They also sell many other kinds of food that I don’t get to see in Singapore, like the duck neck, small snails, red baby lobsters and black smelly tou fu.

The third stop we went was to look at those olden days castle. It was huge; we went up to the top of the castle to take pictures. The local guide also told us the history of the castle. We have two hours to tour around the place; I climb up to the highest part of the mountain with my friend to take some photos.

After the tour, the bus stops us at the Carrefour shopping mall. The six of us (cee group) had our dinner in a Japanese restaurant. The food was really good and price was reasonable. I paid 39 yuan for fish, chicken, beef, oysters, vegetables, soup, cake, and free flow of rice. I really enjoy myself there. When we finish our dinner, we went to Carrefour to buy some stuff. We took a taxi back after a long day.

White sakura flowers!!! really beautiful





The pink sakura flowers!!! nice


Other types of flower.


They sell duck's neck here!



Lobsters and some sea creatures


Looks like our singapore satay!

Rice and mushrooms inside! nice.



Black and smelly toufu!!!Dont get to see in singapore


Fried bananas!!!


Oysters really juicy! 4 for 10 yuan,cheapcheap



Fruits with a layer of sugar


A man selling candy floss!!


Huge castle







I finally reached the top!!




Dinner was Japanese food!!!