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.