Saturday, March 28, 2009

Day 25 - March 28

Today was a bad day for outing, it's drizzling for the whole day.

it's suppose to be a shopping outing but way they sell thing in China makes me doesn't want to let go of my Yuans that easily. Went to the front gates to board the tour bus but only to find out that when it rains in China the traffic condition would get worst thus the bus driver was late.

Driving in China is just like playing Need For Speed, the drivers seldom use their signal lights to indicate where they want to go and road dividers are nonexistence in China, late filtering and tailgating is the norm. China Drivers makes Singapore Road Rages look like small boys playing with toy cars. It's rare to find driver using signal lamps but it's rarer to find driver who don't play horning concerto where ever they drives. It's normal to see cars with dents marks as driving here isn't as easy as Singapore. Drivers like my father used to complain about the road being bumpy in Singapore but here the roads are literally filled with shell scrapes.
Today I learned that the temperature changes in inland countries is faster than coastal countries like Singapore, when it rains the temperature drops from 18 degree to 8 degree within 15min. Therefore next time i'm able to gauge what kind of clothing I should wear.

Gortex Jacket prove to be a good thing in such wet weather, it's a pity i didn't get Performance Shell

But China Yellow Plastic Rain Coats works as well
Those who didn't have any protection from the rain are all shivering from the cold as their jackets are drenched

In China they don't give plastic bags out for free unlike Singapore. As it's their culture that they use thin plastic bag or don't use at all if can. In Singapore only on certain days that retail shops don't give out plastic bags




Went to their road side toilets as the urge to pee was reaching overflowing point

Only to found out that it a place where you pee into a bucket and they collect and clear it when the bucket is full
冰糖葫芦 is a sweet treat in China, it's fruits coated with melted sugar, it's one of our favourite Chinese food
Had lunch at Dicos which is overprice and they staff could take orders from us as efficiently as Singapore fast food thus there is a delay in getting our food.


It was still raining when we left to go back to Wuhan University of Science and Technology
You all could never see me in any group photos which look reasonably nice framed
It's the last time we would be seeing our tour guide
He dropp a few of us at Yellow Crane Tower to shop for Fake branded stuff. The whole building was praticall filled with Fake stuff like Porter, Agnes'B, LV, Stage, SubCrew and tons of branded stuff which is popular with the youngster here in China.

Fake converse which look real to the untrained eyes

Went into a backstree for dinner, the food there was good until we found a resturant that sells soup baos.
It's awsome as comapred to the one I eaten a few days ago
The road side kebab men selling different kind of meat from mutton to cutterfish

A kind of Chinese sushi which taste something like sushi dipped in oil


Yellow crane tower in the distance
and a truckload of rubbish not far away from us
Taking the Taxi back was a risk, It's no different from playing Crazy Taxi. The taxi driver beat 4 red light, travel 3 time above the speed limit, got into 2 near collision and went into the wrong side of the road 1 time.
Went back to bath,
Was bathing happily when I heared my phone ring,
pick up the wrong receiver, "Hello , Hello" but no one is on the line
Only to find out that it's the shower head that i'm taking into.

And the end result was a broken shower hear. This show how corrosive their water is by seeing the rust on the inside of the shower head

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