Went to IT mall to buy my friend mp4 while i got myself a tripod, although everyone believe that in China things are cheap but this doesn't apply to electronics as there is import tax for foreign electronics. Thus only local brands are cheap thus got myself China made tripod to show Jit Siong light painting which I did with Mervyn and nick at east coast park a few months back. In China the way they bargain wasn't that friendly as we thought, as they like to raise their voice every time they talk and the mall was full of smoke as China peoples like to smoke which i abhor and dislike their sulphuric taste of the cigarette. They are the best at ignoring signs which state that smoking is prohibited and continue to smoke this show that Singapore fines are hard crack down is a better way to prevent peoples from lighting up in non-smoking places.
Half way while buying the mp4 I had stomachache and have no choice but to challenge the toilets to a smell endurance show down. found the toilet after climbing up 5 floors and got a shock of a life time, I had seen people spitting, peeing, shitting in public since the day i step into China, and saw how horrible their toilets are when it was choked with decomposing shit, but nothing prepare me for what I saw on why way to the toilet, i couldn't even believe my eyes it's nothing good to write it here but the China peoples just walk past her like it's a daily event here in China.
Next up would be the toilet, let me introduce the humble little toilet to you.
5 cubicles, ZERO doors, But I was too urgent to bother about the smell or what ever, is totally desperation thus I have no choice but to use it. A new experience which could never be experienced in Singapore, a new experience of shitting and looking at the next person peeing, maybe I say hi to him. I learn that in China always use the toilets in your apartment first before going out because you never know if the next toilet you see is clean or allow you to have privacy or not.
squeeze on the 901 bus again, this time with my tripod thus it isn't really that hard to discover the way out and people would give way because they are afraid of what you are holding. In China it's better to talk softly and hold a big stick rather than talk loudly like the common China Chinese because is normally those who have power in China that have better manners.
Went back for the barbecue night which is organised by the Chinese students,
Didn't really trust the food by looking at he way they prepare at my apartment,
They use the pail which we used to wash clothes to wash and store the vegetable.
In China isn't not uncommon to see people using pail or containers which is used to store chemicals to store food nor it's uncommon to see food that are exposed to air for a extended period of time.
Tired to start the fire the Chinese way, the Singapore way of starting a barbecue is to use fire starters while they use grass as tinder. It's easier to start a campfire going rather than charcoal burning, the weather was wet and morning it just rained thus we have extremely hard time to get the charcoal burning.
It get dark quite early in China as we are in the northern hemisphere thus some of us rush back and get out torch as China people barbecues normally ends when sun down as in China almost everything in the village stops when the sun is down because there is a absent of electricity lights thus we should always bring a torch light around with us to prevent ourselves from getting lost in the dark.
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