Photo Essay- ( FOOD )

This picture shows a stall selling alot of different kinds of food. You can pick any kind and owner will fry it which is very interesting. You wont get to see this in Singapore. All this are freshly deep fry for you.

Here is other stall using different method. The seller barbeque for you. The process is that he will barbeque and put on alot of seasoner with alot of chilli oil. While compare to Singapore, we normally marinate the food before we barbeque it.


This picture of fried rice looks delicious but do not be decieved by the looks. The amount of oil and salt hey add in to fry was really alot. You maybe wondering if their oil and saltare free!

One example on how they fry their fried rice with their hands! Bet their hands are very hot and painful as they endure the heat and sizzling.

This picture was taken at night where they dispose their leftover food and paper bowls. Incredible dirty and the amount will just keep on increasing. With the stink and rubbish, you dare not go near it.

You may have got to all kind of fast food resturant, but this is very different. In China, you get to see Chinese and English signbroad with very interesting names on it.

We normally have drinks in can or in plastic bottles. In China, we usually get drinks in glass bottles with Chinese word on it.

Here is one picture that he make the noodle on the spot and serve hot to you.

We usually get this kind of bread in China. In Singapore, we hardly can get this kind of bread with flavours.

This cucumber dish was served. Though it looks very yummy and delicious but it was very oily!

This is how they kept their rice before being serve to customers.

In China, they like to serve in very large portion where as in Singapore they like serve in very small portion. This is one of the example shown in picture where the bowl contains about 40+ fishballs.

This is some of the sauces they used to served customers. As you can see, they made use of plastic water bottles maybe they want to recycle.

You will be suprised to hear this. This picture shows that they serve passion fruit juice in HOT! There is cold too. In contrast, Singapore doesn't have juice serving in HOT.

This is how they normally serve us rice and we have to scoop it ourselve where as in local, we will be serve rice individually.

This is how they set up their stall and sell thier food like this in this picture.

This is one alternative method on how to fry the dumlings. We normally deep fry dumplings in Singapore.

Pardon their English in China as you can see in this picture that the word should be "meat" not "meet".

This picture shows a Chinese ramen noodles. It is very common in China; can be found anywhere.

This is one very bad example that after they ate their food, they just litter as and when they like. In Singapore, we hardly find any uncivilization action out there.

Day 41 13/04/09

Sadly this was our last day in Wuhan. Though all of us wanted to go back home badly but we also sort of have the feelings we had in Wuhan. Memories of happiness, sadness, the stress we had and the days with my buddies. We woke up at 12 and do a final touch up as we don’t want to pack our luggage at the very last minute. I had too many things to stuff in my luggage and ended up Nick, Kenneth and shu gen brainstorming and redo my packing of luggage.

Around 1pm, we went out near school to get our friend’s presents. After shopping, we went to help Ben to carry the drinks and snack for the closing ceremony. At 3 pm we went to take a group photo at outside of our campus. We took many idiotic shots, as this will be the last time taking group photos together in WUST. After that, about 5pm we went to foreign language school to have our closing ceremony. We had did some final interacting with the students, and took photos with them as a memory in Wuhan. In addition, we also played games and dance with them too. And I am the one who was been sabotage by my friends and got to go up the stage to dance with them. Well since it would be the last time here in Wuhan, well might as will be supportive right?! Haha.. I bet all of us will miss one another when leave the place.

Mr Ma and Mr Ann gave final last speech to us and farewells. At that point of time, I can really felt that my days in Wuhan were really ending and really miss every single thing at there! We then headed out to watch the firework display held at open space between the foreign language school and Business school. Well… I did played a lot of fire crackers but I realised this was different from what I used to play. After awhile, I knew it. It was because I am playing with my best friends and with my teachers. I really appreciate what Mr ma and Mr chua that really guide us and bring us enjoyment this period of time. Time really flies fast. When i was first week in wuhan, I told myself that oh man… China!? I prefer Singapore man. But now, I couldn’t bear to leave China, maybe you will get to understand me if you got to stay there for 6 weeks,
AND!!! With a bunch of best friends! (Gay friends forever man!!! To Shugen, Jia Hui, Kenneth, Nicki, Stefen, Jit Shiong, Ernest and Ben!) Not only that I had made a lot of very funny and good friends like Xin rong, Zhi hui , Chewy and others!

Anyway, I can’t wait to get back Singapore to see my grandmother and my family man! So miss them! Well… This trip, seriously, it was the best trip so far in my life man!

Day 40 12/04/09

This will be the last day of my journal, but sadly today I didn’t went out much but still I will talk what I did today. Wake up late in the morning as i didn’t go Lu Xiang. Kenneth and others will there but I didn’t as I want to control my financial assets and I need to do journal.

At 3pm, I went to eat as not that hungry. After eating, went back to bunk and rest till night. I was waiting for the fireworks tonight but as the weather condition was raining cats and dogs, sadly but to change the fireworks programme to tomorrow.
So at night, we bought a lot of drinks and tibits, stay out till the next morning.
By 4am, a lot of people were tired. Xin rong got tired and went up to Ben's room to sleep. Dave, chewy and others fall asleep half way through. Only shugen, Kenneth, stefen, Nicki, Ernest and I talk a lot of topics and even question one another questions that can’t be explain. There is a question keep make me wondering for awhile. Why are we born here in this world? We also talk about religions about how realistic and how unrealistic is it. Some doubt their own religion and some talk about how they feel. Well, through this I really get to know all my friends very well and it is a very good way of expressing things out.

Day 39 11/04/09

This morning, after we ate in school we went to yellow crane tower area there to shop. We have 10 people. Shew Bo, Ben, Kenneth, Shugen, Zhi hui, Chewy, Xin rong, Jit Shiong, Ernest and me. Zhi hui, Chewy, Ben and Xin Rong took a cab while the others and me took a min van.
Here comes the show of the day! The driver says 80rmb to the place and so we accepted the deal and he drove us there. Half way through there, the driver drove a small path which was 1 way only with only 1 lane. Suddenly there was a car drove opposite our direction and both vehicles stop there. The car owner shout out loud say shift back and he insisted. Our driver was kind hearted and actually wanted to drove the van backward but there were lots of cars behind the van. Ended up all the cars behind our van walked out of their cars and started scolding the car owner. At 15minutes later, the car owner finally decided to reverse the car and allow all the vehicles to pass. At this moment, when our van slowly drove out the car reverse and bang the van. This time, our driver was really pissed off by the action done by the car driver. So my driver get down and confronted the car driver. It was the car drive fault but he insisted that is not his fault and not to pay money for the scratch. The van driver was pissed off and got a spanner from the van and hit him. That moment, the tension was very nervous. At this time, the van driver told us politely that this situation will take awhile, and requested us to get another van. He says that the China police is not efficiency, will take quite while to settle this situation. We ask how should we pay him then, he say no need, he doesn’t want to give us a bad day.
We told him it is ok and gave him 50rmb as we felt that it was not his fault to cause this problem. We took another cab to destination and cost 10rmb.
We shop awhile and I bought a purse for my grandma, for her to use it in market.
I also made a photo frames at there and have to collect it on Monday. In Singapore, the frame cost me about SIN$60 for one while here only cost me 30rmb! Worth a lot! In here, the shops can mostly bargain while in Singapore can’t. About 3pm, we went to eat the Tang Bao and went back to school to rest as there will be fireworks tonight.

In evening, Mr ma told us fireworks changed to tomorrow due to the rain. So I and the others went to outside to get the t shirt brand “playboy” and go back to bunk to do our journals.
Today, I get to know that China people are generally unreasonable due to one situation i had encountered today. And they like to blames others but it was actually his fault.

Day 38 10/04/09

We woke up this morning 9.45am as planned and when to canteen 2 to eat. Save some money for shopping so have to be budget. We took the public bus to IT mall as we thought of getting more MP4 for our relatives and friends. After we reached there, we realised that the road stalls outside the mall wasn’t open. After checking with the locals, it only opens in the Saturday and Sunday. HOW SAD! So we decided to try searching it in the malls. How surprise!
We found the Ipod but after long decisions we bought back the mp4 we had, as the fake Ipod is very lousy. No wonder it is made it China.

Then we took cab to Han kou to shop for more stuff! I ended up bought 2 umbrellas, 1 dress for my sister, 2 clothes and 1 pair of shoe! Oh ya.. I happened to see this scene. There was a sport shop where all the sales people gather outside the shop. They do briefing outside the shop, and after that they end with a JIA YOU mean they will work hard to pull up the sales. I also bought some souvenirs for my friends. You will be wondering why I bought 2 umbrellas right? Their design of the outer umbrella is actually a wine bottle, very creative!

At night, we went back to school to have our dinner, and went back to do our IS project.

Day 37 9/04/09

Wake up late this morning, as usual went to canteen 2 to eat. After that, we went to foreign language school to have our mini project interview. After we reached, one by one all of us present our project; explain how it works and the usefulness to it. We also show our Lab 7 as we haven’t shown it to Mr ma. After the interview, we asked how Mr Ma’s leg is, hopefully he can recover fast and advised him again not to drink beer or eat beans stuff. Then we head back to our bunk to do our IS individual assignment till evening.

At night, all of us started to do our IS project. Quite stress up as the topic isn’t that easy as i thought. About 12 odd, Shugen fall asleep while doing, next Kenneth and Jia hui. So we continue it tomorrow.

Assignment 4: Individual Report - 15%

I have achieved what I set out to learn and discover during this period in Wuhan to a large extent. There are a lot of factors that actually helped me achieve my objectives.

Firstly in this trip, there were a lot of outings that bring us to different places. One of them is the metal steel factory on how they produce steel. Normally the industry doesn’t allow unauthorised people to go in. We manage to get in as the school negotiated with them. Other than that, we also visited the company of Yangtze Optical fibre. Not only that, the duration in China, I discover a lot of their style, their life in China. Our teachers also helped us achieve our objectives.

Some obstacle that I face was the food. Though the food was good but the amount of salt, the oil was a lot more than I expected to be. In order to prevent sickness, I drink a lot of water. And there is another obstacle that is I doesn’t know how to wash my clothes, till i learn from my friends on how to wash clothes to overcome my obstacle.

I have learned a lot of things. As told that I went to the company of Yangtze Optical fibre, I have learned the process of how they made the fibres. The 3 stages are first is to clean the glass rod, second is to melt the glass to form glass wire and being coated twice of special chemical. Thirdly, is to have the product inspect session.

After visiting some scenic places like the museum, Wudang shan , yellow crane tower. I learned a lot of the great history of China, like the romance of the 3 kingdom.
I also have lesson that introduce Chinese traditional thoughts, and the Feng Shui lesson. It was very interesting as I can understand what the Chinese are thinking, the way of doing things. I have learnt some feng shui like the bed shouldn’t face directly in front of the door which is a bad feng shui.

For shopping, while I was shopping in Wuhan, I realised that international brand is expensive than local. And for their own brand like 361 degrees, peak etc are much cheaper a lot. And have a lot of roadsides stalls at night. They also sell puppies at roadsides and you can either cook it or adopt it. Compare to Singapore, it was way too different. In Singapore, you are aware of not to litter etc. Over in China, people just split saliva on the floor, litter anywhere everywhere. In shopping mall, citizens were told not to smoke in there but nobody bother to care the sign broad and smoke inconsiderate.

After I reviewed the questions i framed, I have found most of the answers in China. Firstly, I had understand on how the style of life they live, the standard of living. Did an observation on how they make their deals and how they communicate. Secondly, after boarded the cruise, and visited the 3 gorges dam. I get to know their technology and those magnificent structures which they created. It can manipulate the water level and produce mass electricity current. Thirdly, I get to know the lifestyle in China. And their daylight end earlier than Singapore. At 7pm it is completely dark. Went to their IT mall and explore. Their IT mall are a lot much bigger than Sim lim. Regardless inside the shopping mall or outside at the roadside, everywhere they sells electronic stuff. Forth, after I stayed in China, I can understand how bad the pollution they made, like black thick smokes out from the car’s exhaust pipe. Now i can understand why China is rank first that release most carbon dioxide.
Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to get to see a lot of their martial arts through i heard China are very famous in it. One area I got to see was only at the Wudang Shan which was nothing much.

After I attend the China’s lecture on Business negotiation, business etiquette, Business strategy, I understand a lot of things and will use it in future. I can practice these skills as so ijn future i can use it to deal with client easily.

I truly understand the cross cultural issues the difference of both country Singapore and China.
China has a lot of areas that need to improve like corruption unlike Singapore. Singapore has some areas that can also learn which was like how they preserve the history of past, the culture, uses natural resources to produce electricity current.