Day 28 Tuesday (31st march 2009)

I show lab 6 to Mr Ma but he find some error in my program and I got to some changes. After that he start array lecture. Which I found a bit difficult and I ask my friends for some help. Mr Ma ask us use array in mini project but I didn’t know how to apply. When I back to dorm, search on Web. I found some the tips from C# forums.

Day 27 Monday (30th march 2009)

Woke up at 8pm, need to do some clean up for last night BBQ. But before 9:00 we receive message from Mr Chua, no need to go. Thanks to china student because they clean it and lesson postpone to 10 pm. Lesson started with lab 6 and Mr Ma ask to finish by today and all lab by end of the week, stress. But before we go back we have 5 days free and easy. I finished lab 6 at midnight. But I still worry about lab 7.

Day 26 Sunday (29th march 2009)

Woke up very late. My friends went to Lu Xiang Plaza but I didn’t because I want to start doing mini – project. I did use interface then it was 3:30pm and all my friends back. We went for BBQ, organize by china the china students. It started out without fire starters but instead weeds and branches. A new experience for me. Maybe I can use next time if there is no fire starters. Most of us were sit around and talking. I didn’t eat anything at BBQ and my friends had some BBQ foods, just to show china student that we like it. After a while we went out and had dinner at fish ball restaurant. The fish ball taste was quit good but is soft and like jelly.

Day 25 Saturday (28th march 2009)

Today, Woke up late and rush to meeting point to go for shopping but the bus was late and also raining. We wait for bus half an hour under umbrella and it was very cold. When bus comes all ran to bus and settle down. After an hour we reach to Wuhan Beach Park but there also raining. Nobody wanted to go outside because very cold. The tour guide asks us to go Jiang Han Bu Xing Jie and we ran to fast-food restaurant for breakfast. We had our breakfast, we went out to shop but still raining. Most of the shop sells branded things and expensive but I think that is same price with Singapore. After waking around in rain, we went to Starbucks to have some hot drinks and snacks. The weather was cold so we just stay there for an hours. After that, we went nearby shopping mall bought ourselves playboy jackets. Then, we went to meet other, but due to heavy rain our lecturers decided to go back to school but some of us alighted halfway at around Yellow crane tower for shopping. There was no rain but cold. I brought some stuff then we ate at a fast food restaurant which looks same as KFC.

Day 24 Friday (27th march 2009)

We Woke up 8:30 and had breakfast, rush for bus to industrial visit. Which took 2 hrs reach to the place. When we reach Mr Chua ask us not to make noise and take photo expect show room. There was a person who goes through some of their process and Mr Chua translate to English as he speaks Chinese. But they do want show all the process because they don’t want to lose some secret. But I didn’t understand anything about the process. After that we went back to school and had lunch at nearby restaurant. Then, we start to prepare for test 1. Some of my dorm rest for while. We went to classroom for test and it was not easy but most of us able to do it. We went to enjoy our dinner at KFC but on the way back raining.

Day 23 Thursday (26th march 2009)

Mr asks us to do APPG revision again. But I start to do lab 6 and my project. After that we had IS. He ask us to assignment 1 because we late for submission. After lunch, we had trial test 1 because next we are going actual test 1. Mr Chua told us that next day we are going to visit Yangtze optical Fibre and Cable Company Limited. This is world second biggest company of optical Fibre and Cable.

Day 22 Wednesday (25th march 2009)

As usual we went to classroom we had the whole day APPG revision and practice past year paper for theory test 1. It was a bit boring I sleep for a while but my friend weak up me. After that we went KFC for lunch. Afternoon, Mr MA go through all the past years paper. After that we went Luxiang Plaza to change money because I and kaya left with little money. But all banks were closed. We went around Luxiang Plaza my friends want to have dinner at Japanese restaurant. We order a lot of food which cost RMB 545 but we get around 50 Boucher which worth RMB 250. After that we went to play arcade for a while. We went back dorm very late.

Day 21 Tuesday (24th march 2009)

Today, I woke up a bit late then other because I was in second batch to do lab test. I went classroom wait for while, first batch to finish test. After first batch, I ask my friends form first batch about, they said easy. After that I went for test. It was really easy but there was some enactment to do which I found a bit difficult. After that we went to Hu Quan night market, it was very crowed. We walk around bought some stuff. After that we rush back to dorm because there was a meeting at 9:30pm.

Day 19 Sunday (22th March 2009)

I woke up around 5:45 to bath and ask my roommate Woke up but he was very tired, he didn’t bath. After that I went to other room to wake them and then check- out. We went same restaurant again for breakfast and I had one egg and soya mink. After breakfast, we went to take cable car but we got queue for very long and some local people cut queue using their kids and try to push us. And we break into 2 groups because of them as well as not being as smart as them. So we learn how to cut queue, push and close every single gap between us. Finally we reach to cable car, after queuing for around 2 hrs. At first I thought it is not fat but it was very long taken around half an hour to reach peak of Mountain. After taking some group photo, we went down because hungry. We took some jump shot with Mr Chua. We had our lunch at nearby restaurant. After late lunch, we went back to bus interchange. And then we went back to University which took 6 hrs. We reach very late night and our teacher post bond class for an hour.

Day 18 Saturday (21th March 2009)

I woke up around 6:30 am but we late for bus because everybody Woke up same time. The tour guide told us the journey is very long, around 6 to 7 hrs. I try to sleep but I weak up after half an hour because my friend was sleeping on my shoulder. I took his PSP to play for the rest of journey. Finally we reach to WuDang Town for lunch but the food there was not nice. After lunch we went the bus interchange of Wudang to tour around Mountain. Our group stopped at three places, Ta Zi Gong, Zi Xiao Gong, and Nanyan Gong walks around, took photo. After that we went back to same restaurant for dinner, the food was almost same. After dinner ,we went to a hotel to stay overnight, the room there was better than our dorm and cruise room but too bad that we was there for one night. We put our stuff in room then went outside to buy some snack but most of the shop there was close because it was around 9:30 pm.

Day 17 Friday (20th March 2009)

Today, APPG lesson start 9am, I did lab5 until user interface. But I was not able to do coding, it very difficult. After lesson Mr Ma brief about mini project, we had to hand in the project title by Monday and it is individual. I had some project in my mind, like Restaurant revenue management, financial planning and etc, but I was not able to decide. After class, we went to night market, Hu Quan . The place was a bit smelly, I think due to road side stall and cooking all kind of different animals, rabbit, dog and so on. We spend a lot due to stuff there are very cheap but we came back early. Some of my dorm mate want go again. Because next day we are going to WuDang Mountain at 6:45 am.

Day 20 Monday (23th march 2009)

Today, we woke up late but the weather was very cold as well as raining. We try to run to our classroom but the wind was opposite direction and very dry then we walk like 4 drenched men. We late for class but our lecturer didn’t say anything, I think he understand us, as we are not used to this kind of weather. Mr Ma summarized chapter 5, 6 and 7 for our project. After that we had lab trail test. He wants us to think project title base on all chapter. And then I finished lab 5. After that we went outside for dinner. We bought some stuff from supermarket for out breakfast.

Day 16

Today APPG lesson started doing lab 4 but I did user interface a day before. So, I just write the code. But it was very hard, got 3 parts, it was car sale, which include insurance, accessories and trade-in calculation. After lesson we went to play basketball, it was very fun because we play “any how”. We go KFC for dinner and sleep early.

Day 15

Today, we woke up 1 hrs early than other day because had the china business strategies and etiquette lecture by china’s lecturer. The lectures was very boring, because he was just taking about foreign Business etiquette, not about include china. I sleep for 1 hrs and we went to dorm for lunch and we did summary of the lectures. It was just copy and paste because I really don’t understand. After that we went to Digital mall. It is very big, have 4 building. But the electronic stuff, price is not very cheap. So, I didn’t buy anything. We went to eat spring chicken. It is very nice, with honey and they give glove for u to eat. We took cab, back to dorm.

Day 14

Woke up early in the morning, went to steel factory. We walk 10 mins in factory and it was interesting because the metal steel will first heated up in very high temperature. The heat, we can feel from 30m. There are few machines to clean metal, cool the metal and roll. We can’t take photos inside as per our teachers. After that we went to Luxiang Plaza for lunch. On the way to Luxiang Plaza, due to heavy traffic the bus driver took shortcut but it did work out because road was close and he u-turn all the way back which took very long to reach Luxiang Plaza. We had our lunch at Pizza hut. We went back to school around 2pm for APPG class.

Day 13

Morning woke up late as per normal, we are never had breakfast. Went to APPG class, I start to do lab 3 and I found a bit difficult. It includes calculation and message box. After class we went to dorm to use internet, not able to use internet in classroom. After that we went for our social interaction program, it was so good that china’s student organize it for us. There was singing, dancing and funny game but I just sit down quietly because had flu. And our classmate also performs and did some stunt.

Day 12

Today, is the last day of cruise, we had our breakfast at cruise. We check out at 7:30am and took a bus, which took 4 hrs to reach Wuhan. On the way back, the bus stop at a supermarket and I brought some stuff. After reached to dorm, we rest a while, my dorm mate went to play volleyball.

Day 11

Today, I woke up a bit late due to I was not able to hear any announcement. We cannot even bath, there was no hot water. And I went for breakfast, had porridge, a very cold boiled egg. We transfer to another ship to go Yangtze Shennong Stream. When we reach there, we took little wooden boat around Sehn Nong Jia, the place was very quiet. Tracker begins their very heavy work of moving small boat to upstream. After that we went back our cruise for lunch and it was around 3pm, I was very hungry and had very spicy foods. We saw 1 of the beautiful Gorge, which can be found 10 RMB china note.

Day 10

Today is the day that we will be going to the three gorges. After packing my things and washing up, we went to the meeting place and get ready to board the bus. As last night I did sleep properly, once I sat down I started to doze off. The trip from Wuhan to Yichang takes about 4 hours and one more hours to reach the 3 gorges. At about 12 plus, we reach Yichang and we went to a restaurant called Yansha Dajiudian. The food there is quite nice. After eating, we boarded the bus again to go to the 3 gorges. The scenery there is very nice and we took a lot of pictures there and group photo too. As time is running out, we went to board the cruise straight away. The tour guide gave us our room key and we put down our luggage and went to 4th floor to see the ship rise up the dam. After playing card we went to sleep.

Day 9

Early in the morning, I had to Wake up at 7:00 am because I had to wash my cloth and there in no washing machine. It’s was raining outside and very cold. When went outside it was more clod and heavy rain than I expected. Mr Ma asks us to do lab 2 which found not much difficult. Our class end a bit early because there was interactive basketball competition with the china student. Our classmate won the match by 61 to 54, but the game had lots of foul by our classmates.

Day 8

Today, went to classroom a bit late, some groups were did IS presentation (Singapore history and culture). My group was last one to present and totally unprepared and Mr Chua ask us do again. We went KFC to have lunch. At night some of our friends help us to clean our dorm.

Day 7

Today is 1st APPG class, which application programming. Teacher asked us to lab 1. It was a bit because C# is base on C programming. But I forgot to install VS 2008, when I was in Singapore. So, it took long time do lab 1. After afternoon lesson, went to night to have dinner, but it was too crowed. We bought some bread for breakfast because most of the days we missed our breakfast.

Day 6

We had first lecture by Chinese teacher, and it was about history of Hubei and Wuhan as well as she cover some part of china. At start, it was a bit interesting but after while I keep on falling asleep. Afternoon, I had to summarized the PowerPoint slides of History of Wuhan. After that, we went to hostel rest, I had my dinner at hostel because lazy to go out. It was a bit cold as well.

Day 5 Sunday (8th March 2009)

Day five was OTOT, mean own time and own target. So, everybody Woke up very late, around 12 noon. We took a van to go Luxiang Plaza, which cost just two time of bus fare. We had lunch at McDonald, but due to not enough space, we sit outside staircase. We were looking for prepaid card to call our home. But we did not find. It is a very big plaza, so we just tour around 1, 2 and 3 floors. And we went a restaurant and had fish ball soup. Unlike Singapore’s fish ball, it is very soft and like jelly

Day 4 Saturday (7th March 2009)

Day four was very interesting day because our plan was to visit Dong Hu Lake, Hubei provincial museum and Yellow crane tower. And we went to Dong Hu Lake first, which is also known as East Lake. The weather was very cold. We took tram to tour around and the wind was blowing to our face. During the journey I saw small building and temples. Occasionally we stop at some checkpoint to take photo. After that we went to Hubei provincial museum and had to declare our personal belongings before entering the premises. When we entered the museum, I noticed that there are quite a few exhibition halls. The exhibition that entered had a lot of national treasure such as bronze sword. But as we walk along we got bored, so we went parade square to chit chat. In the meantime I got hungry so I went to the food stall to get a chicken burger. After a while we gathered in bus and we headed to Yellow crane Tower. We climbed to yellow crane tower and stop at the first and second story took picture. We heard ‘dong dong’ sound and went down. We saw a bell but need to pay money. We came to our hostel, had dinner and went to sleep.

Day 3 Friday (6th march 2009)

We were supposed to reach classroom at 9am for first lesson but due to we woke up late, reached there around 9:15am and we did not have breakfast. The first 2 groups present about History and culture of Singapore. It was like going back to 60s, 70s. At evening, we went to KFC, which is nearby University.

Day 2 Thursday (5th march 2009)

Early in the morning, I had Woke up for briefing and breakfast. The foods at canteen are very cheap but oily and salty. After went around campus and our classroom, we went to Luxiang Plaza to shop. We bought some cheap stuff. When we return home we took wrong bus and u got take cab to hostel. Bus and cab driver are horn too much. At night, we got internet access but speed was slow.

Day 1 Wednesday (4th march 2009)

Early in the morning, I had to Woke up at 3:30am because my flight was 8am and there was champion league match at 3:40am as well. After watching half of the match, I prepare to leave house. I had to wait for cab. After reaching the airport, I gathered with my friends. Our teachers ask us to gather around them and we collected our passport and band, that we are suppose to tie at our luggage for easy recognition. I bid farewell to my parents. I boarded plane with my friends. I found my seat and settle down and wait for the plane to take off. First, the air stewardess served me drinks followed by the food. The food was not up to my expectation. After I ate the food, I slept and waited for the plane to touch down. The journey to Wuhan by air need is not a direct flight. Therefore, we must go to Guangzhou for our transits flight. We bought drinks at the airport waited for our next flight. The food in next flight was still the same. Upon reaching Wuhan the air stewardess told us through the speaker that the temperature in Wuhan is 6 degree C. Immediately took out my jacket and wore it. When I step out of plane I could feel the cold wind blowing at my face. After taking my luggage, I headed to the bus for the departure to Wuhan University. After taking our key my friends and I headed to our hostel. After putting down our luggage, we went to canteen for our dinner. To my amaze, none of food there was without beef or pork. After searching for some time I finally found a stall that sell chicken and I order a plate of Gong Bao Ji Ding. The cucumber was more than the chicken. After that I went to sleep.