Wake up, lecture, free time, went out, came back to have dinner with china students, slack, sleep!

Lecture and practical was quite okay, learned a few more things and covered up to chapter 5! Still haven't touched any of the tutorial though. Went out to shao ping mao (chinese name for the Shopping Mall) to shop and eat. Took a cab there and our driver got lost and the fare ended up to be around RMB $27! It appears that not a lot of students take cabs too! The cabs are known as Da Di in china, and some of the china friends that we talked to have never taken a cab before! Which is quite the surprise.

Anyway, went to shao ping mao to walk walk see see jalan jalan. Its really huge, and there's tons of stores and brands there like Uniqlo, Paul Frank, Nike, Adidas and Vans! There are even 2 arcades down there!!


Went to walk around a bit and settled down at a nice korean bbq restaurant to have some food. Quite a nice little cozy restaurant, bill amounted to about SGD $10 per person! I have to say though, the meat there is DAMN nice. Like, nicer than anything that I've ever tried before for a korean bbq! The price is quite good too, we ordered the set with 4 types of meat, beef, pork, duck and chicken, and they were OH SO DELICIOUS when nicely cooked!!'






We than went over and play at the arcade, RMB $1 for 2 tokens. Didn't went to change tokens first though, we went and played with the bumper cars first though! RMB $10 for the ticket to play, for about 10 minutes of fun! Quite worth it if you ask me, changed tokens after that and played some of the machine games. Played Jubeat but half of the cubes are not working, so I felt kinda cheated =/ Oh well, I didn't bring my maximum tune card too so I can't play when there's the machine!! So walked around and look at the arcade machines that they have, the arcade is really big and carries all sorts of machines! From the newer fishing machines to the older percussion master and to the oldest coin dozer type of machine. Watched as Ying Jie played the drum game and we move off to meet our China friends for dinner!

They were really nice! We were embarrassed about being late though! Was suppose to meet at 6pm but we reach at about 6.30pm! They booked a table of 25, and the table is damn small!! We all had to squeeze like crazy and some even had to stand in order to eat! We ordered like 4-6 dishes, and a soup! There was fish, beef, chicken, and some other vegetables. They really seems to like lady's finger! I'm seeing it in every chinese meal that was provided for us! The fish was really bony too! Learned later that it is a fresh water fish, which seems to be the type of fish that most restaurants or eateries are providing. They don't really care about the wastage of food! Even though we ordered a lot, and had a lot leftover, they were okay with it and still want us to just enjoy ourselves!


I really enjoyed myself today and got a chance to see how fortunate I am to be living in Singapore! Some of the students here have never taken a cab before, and have never ventured out a lot before! They're living conditions are far worse off too! 6-8 people in a room and there are no heater or hot water and the electricity is cut off at 11.30pm! I wonder how they survive, really, they have no way to warm themselves during winter, or cool themselves during summer! Which is so hot and humid!!

Alright! Shall post till here, will update more tomorrow! tata~~!!

~holychef~