another aeroplane, another day
Monday, December 3, 2007
I'm finally back in a land where I can come out from the shower without shivering, where I don't have to freeze despite wearing 3 layers of clothes, where I don't have to worry about dividing the price of everything by 5, where the sun sets when it should- not at 4.30pm. I'm finally home! Whee! Haha. Taxis are real scams, and I'm not talking about China taxis. I mean Singaporean taxis. There's nothing more heartwrenching/nervewracking that seeing the airport+midnight surcharge surge up every few seconds. I paid $25 to get home from the airport.
Anyway.
Wuhan is a really weird city. It's super, super cold right now, and when we left it was averaging at around 5 degrees celcius in the morning. And that's when the sun is bright and shining and all. The people there eat a lot. Even more than I can ever manage :D, and I'm serious. The houses in Wuhan are also really deceptive. Everyone says "don't judge a book by it's cover", but nobody really cares about that line until you get freaked out by the ultra disgusting/
slum (I SO DID NOT SAY THAT.) looking facade of the apartment building that you're going to be homestaying in. Haha.
Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong is also a super super nice school. Firstly, its HUGE. About what.. 5 times the size of RI? It has its own stadium, boarding complex, about 10 classroom blocks, design centre, arts centre, science block blah blah blah. It's gigantic. AND it has a garden. Not a pathetic plot of land with a few pots of plants, but a real garden, complete with river, pavilion and stone bridge. Scary.
Anyway. It's 4.41 in the morning (That Gwen Stefani song again -.-.. well, around there.), and I'm not in any writing mood at all, so I'm going to let some photos to do some talking while I mess around with my badly missed itunes.
hua si yi fu zhong
Clocktower Super long name, and it's a shortened version of the super super long something something chinese name. It's super nice. Argh. When I go back to school, RI's going to look pretty pathetic :D
THEY HAVE A GARDEN! I wasn't kidding.
And, this is a school. Not some science park thing.
lu shan 庐山by the way. we were supposed to go to 3 gorges dam, but the trip was too long so we went here instead.
while in wuhan, we found out that there was a landslide at 3 gorges, and 3 people were killed. thank god we didn't go near that place.
Man-made lake. This photo is dedicated to Kenneth who told me that I couldn't take any photos since the bushes were blocking. :) Haha.
Random. I somehow like this photo very much :)
east lake
hua si yi fu zhong middle school
Eugene gets mass taupok-ed by the 12 yr old kids :Drandom
Me and Kenneth on top of the Lu Shan waterfall trail which took 3 hours to climb :)
Lushan waterfall! (L-R) Kenneth, Wee Ping, David, Bing Yang, Gabriel, Lincoln, Me, Jonathan. Yay!
and something that I just found on Deborah's blog.
con3 camp group photo :D whee.it's blur, but heck.
good night, from
Singapore.
A surge of randomness at 4:06 AM, Singapore time.
another aeroplane, another day
Monday, December 3, 2007
I'm finally back in a land where I can come out from the shower without shivering, where I don't have to freeze despite wearing 3 layers of clothes, where I don't have to worry about dividing the price of everything by 5, where the sun sets when it should- not at 4.30pm. I'm finally home! Whee! Haha. Taxis are real scams, and I'm not talking about China taxis. I mean Singaporean taxis. There's nothing more heartwrenching/nervewracking that seeing the airport+midnight surcharge surge up every few seconds. I paid $25 to get home from the airport.
Anyway.
Wuhan is a really weird city. It's super, super cold right now, and when we left it was averaging at around 5 degrees celcius in the morning. And that's when the sun is bright and shining and all. The people there eat a lot. Even more than I can ever manage :D, and I'm serious. The houses in Wuhan are also really deceptive. Everyone says "don't judge a book by it's cover", but nobody really cares about that line until you get freaked out by the ultra disgusting/
slum (I SO DID NOT SAY THAT.) looking facade of the apartment building that you're going to be homestaying in. Haha.
Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong is also a super super nice school. Firstly, its HUGE. About what.. 5 times the size of RI? It has its own stadium, boarding complex, about 10 classroom blocks, design centre, arts centre, science block blah blah blah. It's gigantic. AND it has a garden. Not a pathetic plot of land with a few pots of plants, but a real garden, complete with river, pavilion and stone bridge. Scary.
Anyway. It's 4.41 in the morning (That Gwen Stefani song again -.-.. well, around there.), and I'm not in any writing mood at all, so I'm going to let some photos to do some talking while I mess around with my badly missed itunes.
hua si yi fu zhongClocktower Super long name, and it's a shortened version of the super super long something something chinese name. It's super nice. Argh. When I go back to school, RI's going to look pretty pathetic :D
THEY HAVE A GARDEN! I wasn't kidding.
And, this is a school. Not some science park thing.
lu shan 庐山by the way. we were supposed to go to 3 gorges dam, but the trip was too long so we went here instead.
while in wuhan, we found out that there was a landslide at 3 gorges, and 3 people were killed. thank god we didn't go near that place.Man-made lake. This photo is dedicated to Kenneth who told me that I couldn't take any photos since the bushes were blocking. :) Haha.
Random. I somehow like this photo very much :)
east lakehua si yi fu zhong middle schoolEugene gets mass taupok-ed by the 12 yr old kids :DrandomMe and Kenneth on top of the Lu Shan waterfall trail which took 3 hours to climb :)Lushan waterfall! (L-R) Kenneth, Wee Ping, David, Bing Yang, Gabriel, Lincoln, Me, Jonathan. Yay!
and something that I just found on Deborah's blog.
con3 camp group photo :D whee.it's blur, but heck.
good night, from
Singapore.
A surge of randomness at 4:06 AM, Singapore time.
who is operating this random rubbish?
andrew!
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four L '08
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BAYLEY!
holyspirit
i like soft toys. :)
random interjection
i made this blog template with NOTEPAD >< if you hate it, go sue notepad.
how you can help!
hey look, i learnt to parody from lit! :D
what else you can do (updated)
do all my chinese homework for me :D
um. and find me something else to do besides randomly stoning around.
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the author is in no way responsible for the polar bears that drown from melting icecaps which may be an adverse effect of you staring at my seemingly pointless blog. that was a really long sentence, by the way. the author is also not responsible for any injuries, both mental and physical, which maay arise as a result of insanity which is silently being injected into your helpless veins as you read this utterly long disclaimer, if you are even bothering to read it. also, the background picture is not mine- the source is
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Raphael Lacoste in
2003. There.