Presentations after presentations for this week and after Wednesday, it seemed that everyone had went crazy!

On Thursday, I went out with Millison and Calista to Guang Gu and this time, the highlight of our trip is that we went to the salon to do our hair! Millison did rebonding, Calista did treatment while I dyed my hair. The salon we went to is the top salon in Wuhan from what we deemed it to be as they have quite a number of franchaise in Wuhan. We also saw one of their stores in Hankou and many other places also. Regarding the pricing of the things that we did, I find that rebonding and treatment is considered very cheap as compared to Singapore. Tell me how are you going to find a rebonding in Singapore for only SGD$50 and treatment for only around SGD$30! Only the dyeing of hair was kind of close to Singapore prices.

When I was about to dye my hair, I was shocked by the colour of the dye that was prepared for me. It has the colour of Planta butter! I was stumped at that moment and Calista and Millison was kind of stumped too as the dye colour differs greatly from the result brown colour I should get. Nonetheless, we continued with the dyeing and I find that the service in China is really much better than in Singapore. They will do things more merticulously paying more attention to the customers unlike in Singapore where everything is done so fast and quickly.

However, when I was about to wash off my dye at the washing station, I was kind of astonished at the hygiene of the salon. Reason being that when I peeked into the drainage of the sink, I saw the cotton buds and other things trapped there and I was thanking god that my hair isnt that long enough to the extent that it will touch the sink as compared to those girls who have long hair. The thought of my hair touching those rubbish is just horrifying.

Before that, we managed to chance upon a cafe and I simply love the ambience there. It seemed so relaxing and it gives me a feeling of home. I don't know why but it really makes you feel warm and it will be a great place to relax and catch up with your friends or even do work or some reflections there. Nonetheless to say, the tea there is also very nice.

I ordered the specialty of the shop which is a combination of red bean, pudding and pearl in milk tea. The taste is unique even though that one might think that red bean, pudding and pearl just don't click. It is almost the same as in life. People usually thinks that people of the different characters just don't click and they will not get along well but usually the case would be that when they come together, they will create something that is unique and maybe even better than being individual.

Then here comes Saturday which is the second last day here in Wuhan. We went for last minute shopping again and I was dared to try the most spicy chicken wing here in Wuhan known as the BT chicken wing (变态鸡翅). Ernest and the rest claimed that it is really too spicy such that it is almost inedible but me being a spicy food eater, I want to try how spicy can it get.

So, Calista was with me when I bought it. She must be the witness that I tried this and what is my reaction so that she could tell the rest about it. To me, the chicken wings looked innocent and nothing much except for the spices that coat the outside. I was still thinking that it is done in the style of the buffalo chicken wings that I ate in Singapore. The first bite I took, I felt that it was nothing. I continued eating and I find that it was not the spiciness that killed me. It was the food being too hot! The chicken wings were barbequed on the spot so it was really very hot such that I think my tongue got kind of burnt after that. So, to me, I can survive the chicken wing! I took away some for Millison and when she tried, she said that her lips were burning.

At night, we went for the farewell dinner held by the school and unexpectedly, there was also a wedding ceremony going on. However, we got criticised as most of us didnt knew and we wore black there but the director of the foreign language school was not really happy either as they were not informed that there will be a wedding dinner going on. So fair enough. The China students then joined us for dinner but apparently the ones at our table were not the ones that we knew. We still chatted with them although it felt a little weird as we do not have much table topics with them.

After that was photo taking session and we took photos with quite a number of people. Out of the sudden, I was dragged into a photo by 2 of the locals together with a ICT guy whom I dont even know.







Today was the last day which we were most nostalgic about. In the morning, we discovered the beauty of wrapping things in the original plastic bag they were contained in. It was nice and it helps in conserving the environment instead of buying more wrapping paper. So bottomline what we did? We wrapped our books in plastic bags so that when we bring it back to Singapore, the edges wont be damaged.

In the afternoon, we went to visit the bakery shop auntie who we know and stayed to chat with her for around 2 hours. She gave us a lot of free food for our journey tomorrow and she insisted on it. So, we repaid by buying more food from her shop and even giving some of our Singapore money as souvenirs to them. To add on, we even offered to give them new recipes to try out that are from Singapore so that they will have better business. I find that it is such a joy to know people from overseas and they are actually more friendly than the people you know back in your own country. At least it makes you feel home even though you are overseas.



Before dinner, Candy came to find Wen Liang and I. We gave her the electric kettle that we bought over here as we are not bringing it back so might as well put it into a better use by gifting it to someone. We chatted awhile before she left our dormitory and the rest of us went for dinner at Zhen Gong Fu. Even though it was a considered a elaborated meal in China as it was something like a Zi Char in Singapore, I find that it is actually the simplest and the best meal that I have ever enjoyed over there even though that Ajisan is better. However, how many more times can we sit down around the table and eat a dinner like a "family"? The simplest thing can be actually the best thing that you can have in life.

Anyway, keeping the cables and modem now. Tomorrow is gonna be really Home Sweet Home.