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The Traveller ・浸濡生

Chua Yee Tat ・蔡易达
Pharmacy Science Year 2
药剂学二年级
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Overseas Immersion Trip China, Wuhan
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Due to internet problems, I (or rather everyone) was unable to blog for yesterday. What are the reasons, they will be mentioned and discussed in the posts later.

Just like everyone, I reported at Changi Airport at around 445am with my parents. As usual, the scatter-brained me (under high anxiety conditions), just have to forget to pack some last minute items that was required for my trip. Luckily, I was reminded by my mum and I just managed to slot it into the baggage in time. You might be wondering what is it and it was just a packet of sweets that I needed to have it on the plane.

As I was on the way to the airport on my father's car, I dont seemed to understand why but I just felt void out of the sudden. Just like what I mentioned in my last post, it was just me feeling nostalgic about leaving my relative and friends, my house, or my room for 1.5 months into a foreign land that is actually rich in historical events. Definitely, this will a chance to once again train myself to be more independant than I am in the past. Just like overcoming having a scattered-brain as mentioned above as it will be really me, myself and Yee Tat.

This marks the journey of me going into a foreign land to create a new self in me. This foreign land includes what I had stereotyped in my mind: Technology that is behind time; Buildings that looked run-down; Environment that is like as if cleaners never existed; Sanitary systems with obnoxious hygiene; People with outright lousy attitudes and totally cannot make it standard of English (Definitely, there are exceptions with the people that I know personally or groups of people from different classes). However, I was thinking to myself like what I remembered from my Social Studies, "There is always 2 sides to a coin". So, I wonder...

Very soon, the sight of the control tower of the airport was spotted and the next thing I know was that I was waiting for closing to 2 hours for our turn to check in for our flight.


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Apparently, there was some problems with the flight that we were taking such that we were made to rush for our plane as soon as we checked in without sufficient time for us to even bid farewell to our family.

After all the security check for the baggages before boarding, finally we could sit down after that long hours of standing and defnitely, its picture time!

The Man of this trip: Dr Tan Hong Kiat!


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Jehanne & I


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Doing final check


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Dr Tan, Edah and I


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Finally, we are boarding the plane!


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So when we boarded the plane and I found out that I was sitting with Calista and Chen Wei who are both my Year 3 seniors.


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We begin to explore the things that we have in front of us in the small pocket of the seat. The first thing that caught my attention was this!

Doctor?


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The next thing was:


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This is really what I deemed as direct translation even though yes, I admit that I use it sometimes also. In this sense, laughing at others will also mean that I have to laugh at myself the time that I used direct translation too. Even though this is one of the stereotype that I mentioned above, it had also lead me thinking back that, if I dont even know how to speak or use the language that you know well, it is really a shame. So, it is really important that we should know the languages, that we know, well.

Finally the plane took off, I captured some pictures on the plane


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I was like knocked out on the plane as I only slept for 1 hour before I went to the airport. I was really so tired that I didnt knew that the stewardess was distributing the drinks until Calista woke me up.

So, I had my favourite: Apple juice! (Sorry that this was taken when I had finished my meal)


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Then the meal came shortly afterwards. I still remembered very clearly that the air steward was asking whether we want rice or rice noodles for our meal. Especially when he walked passed Edah and Hajar asking whether they wanted food. Edah then told Jehanne to tell them that they are actually fasting. At that point of time, I was thinking to myself, "Dont you know that the muslims are fasting?". This is a total classical case of not being updated constantly which I believe, maybe some of us are guilty of that. The reason will usually be that, we dont watch the news or read the newspapers.

It was just like a situation which I witnessed like 2 days ago when I was going home. 2 friends, who looked like upper secondary boys, were walking togther and as I was walking past them, I happened to overhear their conversation.

"Eh, how come there are people who are carrying donation cans around the MRT control station asking for donations for Taiwan?" asks person A.

"You dont know that Taiwan was strucked with a very serious typhoon?" replied person B.

At that point of time, I was seriously feeling that how could a person not know something that is like so happening and it is affecting like half the country.

So, I went back to dreamland once again after eating like this fish rice.


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Finally, like after 4 hours of flight, we reached Guangzhou Airport.


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Well, I was amazed definitely, by the looks of the structure because it was not as bad as what I thought it will be. It was comparable to Singapore.


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We spent like half an hour before we found Macdonalds for our lunch when we are waiting for our interstate flight. I was excited for Macdonalds over here in China was that I was told they had pork as the patty which I find it totally new and interesting. However, to my disappointment, they do not have it at the Macdonalds of the airport and I dont know whether they will not have it at the other Macdonalds of the country as well.


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My lunch for the day -Grilled Chicken Sandwich meal and it comes with a berry sundae.


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It costs RMB$27 which is like around SGD$6+. I find that it is very worth it except that, all of us agreed that the fries were extremely salty.

Finished our lunch and we headed for the next flight.


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As we checked in like 45 minutes earlier, I took a nap again as I was really tired and finally we boarded the plane again at 530pm. Again, I was sitting with Calista and Chen Wei.


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The meal on the plane this time was noodles or vermicelli. This time I chose noodle and it was really nice. It tasted and looked like pasta with cream sauce (to me).


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This is the vermicelli that Chen Wei actually chose.


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Slept again and finally we reached Wuhan at 750pm!


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Checked out.


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I looked like some mother carrying so much things.


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Then, we took the bus to Wuhan University of Science and Technology which was like 1.5 hours again. My butt felt like falling apart when I alighted the bus.

The bus trip was kind of scary as the roads were very dark. The definition of dark goes like this:


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I wonder, what are the chances of us finding such a dark road in Singapore. When we finally reached the more developed part of the city, the view of the streets were kind of magnificant. I did not really have the chance to capture it down as the bus was really moving too fast.


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When we reached the hostel, it was already 10pm and we still went for dinner which I think the some food doesnt really suit our taste as they were kind of extreme in the taste and we dont really eat them in Singapore.


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Just as I thought it would be hostel sweet hostel, I was stumped when I saw the bedroom which was kind of small. It contains 3 bed but I only managed to take 2 of the beds with this angle from my camera.


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The bed looks perfectly fine to me. When I sat down like how I did it in Singapore for my bed, I stood right back up. The reason: The bed is equivalent to a wooden board. Yet, the ironical thing was that there are still springs under the bed still. I was totally stumped. How hard are the springs exactly?! The bed is really hard to the extent whereby when you throw a handphone on it, it will bounce off immediately. I was wondering how am I going to survive the remaining 40 nights with this kind of mattress.

However, the nightmare was actually the toilet.

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I was totally disgusted when I saw this. All I can say is that, the toilet gives me a feeling whereby I dont even feel like bathing. I felt as if the toilet is seriously a jail especially after I bathed in it. The joke I made was that, they should actually drill 2 cuffs at the side of the big hole for people to slip their feet in while they are bathing, So that, when we bathe even there is a slight movement of our feets, they wont end up in the hole. Now thinking back of the spacious space in the toilet that I have in Singapore, I seriously wont complain that I the toilet is small. Reason being that it wont get smaller than this whereby you dont even have space to move. I am seriously agree that you need the bad to actually make the good look better.

With this, Day 1 ended with a whole day of rides and so much new things to be anticipated.

Take home message of the day:

"If you are thinking that you are having a
bad condition in Singapore, think
again. There will definitely be something
that can be worse than what you think is bad. There will always be the worse, to
make the bad actually looks better. Just like the toilet and the bed I used to
have back in Singapore."

"First day is a detox for you guys" quoted from Dr Tan Hong Kiat.

Remenisced @ 12:34 AM