Just came back from Lv Lin Mountain Resort over the weekend with an aching backbone and gluteus from the long hours ride.

However, I am not going to talk about the trip to it but instead, what I have not been updating the past few days. Day 3 and 4 is again free and easy day while we are supposed to have lesson on Day 4 , which is Friday.

Day 3 was just a whole free and easy day so we decided to go back to the place that we went on Tuesday, which was Guang Gu. This time round, we spent the whole afternoon shopping there and we managed to finish shopping the whole shopping centre!

Before that we saw the local students coming back into the campus.

So for the lunch, we went to Macdonalds. Finally I got to taste the most unique burger that I suppose no one can ever eat it in Singapore- McPork!



The meal at Macdonalds is much better than Singapore’s in terms of price and combination. I got my meal of a MacPork and a sprite float for RMB13, which is only around SGD$2.60? I think it would cost more than SGD$6?

I wonder if Singapore will ever have scrapped cars in the shopping centre even the shop is under construction.



We saw some other shops with very interesting shop signboards. Chinese is really a very wonderful language. In English, it means you don’t sit when you are not hungry. However, in Chinese, it means that you do all evil deeds by using the same tone but by changing the second and the last word of the phrase, it means another meaning.



After which, we went to the arcade and there are some games here that Singapore doesn’t have them. The drum maniac game here is played using a real drum set and that person inside is really getting a lot of attention from people.



Then we saw a group of people playing Jackpot. They seemed to be like using cheat codes because they keep scoring 3 Bars and coins just flow out like water. In front of them there are just buckets and buckets of coins.



Then we walked past the Pharmacy here in China.



One thing that you can expect from the Pharmacy here is that all the drugs are in Chinese and most of them doesn’t have generic name for it? Even they have the generic name I wouldn’t have understood also even with my standard of Chinese with the scientific terms.

Another interesting thing is also that the drugs are not just pure western medicine and they have like a combination of Chinese and Western medicine together. Especially the excipients.

Fake Macdonalds?



The menu of this store is almost identical to Macdonalds also. So unique~
We went over to the other side of the shopping centre which has a bookstore that is as big as Kinokuniya in Orchard road. Dr Tan is really helpful by helping me to source for JLPT Level 4 Ten Year Series and I got it for RMB 40 which is only about SGD$8.

When we were going back, we saw Millison, Edah and Hajar still waiting for the bus back to the campus. The problem was that they left 1.5 hours before us and they were still waiting for the bus when we left the place. Imagine that happening in Singapore! I think that everyone would be complaining and definitely it will be in the news. The time when we reached the bus stop was around 415pm and after waiting for like 15 minutes, the bus finally came at 430pm which sums up 2 hours of waiting time for Millison and gang.

When we boarded the bus and we asked the ticketing officer what is the interval of the bus, she actually told us it is 6 minutes once! We were all seriously stumped. If it is really 6 minutes once, I think 20 of the bus that we were waiting for would have already past. More information would be that, the bus that we are waiting for is just like a bus in Singapore that has like E.g. 900A and 900. So without that A, we can’t go back to the campus.

When we reached back the campus, I did my first round of laundry which obviously, I was quite blur as this is really my first time in my whole life doing laundry. Yes, I know that I am much pampered but I believe that with this experience this time, I will have no problems next time anymore if I am going to survive on myself.



The food here is still very foreign to me. So in order not to starve myself, I have no choice but to just survive on bread and pastry. However the pastry, which is Wife’s Biscuits, is superb to me as the butter taste is very strong.



So at the end of the day, here are the souvenirs that I got so far.



So moving on to Day 4, I woke up very early in the morning to look for the public piano that they actually have in the campus. However, the result that I got was even more disappointing. The landlady managed to acquire for me that near Canteen 2, which is very close to my hostel, there is a public piano. When she asked the manager over there whether we are allowed to use the piano, the manager replied that we need to pay to use it. Reason? He was afraid that we will spoil the piano.

At that point of time, I was kind of angry and disappointed. I shall start off with the disappointment first as with my character, anger derives from disappointment. The piano is really so close yet so far. It is just a 5 minutes walking distance from the hostel to the piano and I cannot use it. In Singapore, even though I do not have a piano at home, I don’t even mind travelling down from Woodlands to Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, which is situated in Bugis, to use the public pianos there. For here, this is what I got. Now for the anger, when I checked the piano out, I thought that it might be a grand piano such that the manager is afraid that we might really spoil it as grand pianos are really expensive and I think that it would be rare in China. In the end, it was just an upright piano, something that I could have just found it easily in Singapore.

So after that, we went for the campus tour to know where our classrooms are. On the way, we saw a number of other divisions of schools and some scenes from the school are really scenic.



The school that we are going to study at is Foreign Language School. It is a nice place as I think it is the only place where in China you will actually see English signboards or posters and they are more or less grammatically correct. I find that the university encourages their student for English as well which is good as this will really prove people wrong that their English is CMI (Cannot make it).



I think our classroom was something that we really need to adapt to it as well. From the first looks of it, it looks decent as I have seen this kind of classroom in my secondary school days as well. The only difference is that there is no air conditioner in this classroom. Oh well, back to the secondary school days which I don’t really mind.



However from this picture, you can imagine how microwave-like the classroom is.



The tour ended like in 1 hour time and we went back to our hostel to do our work.
Then at 9pm, we went for a briefing for our excursion to Lv Lin Mountain Resort.



Lights off at 1130pm!