THE 42 days AFTER Shoes.




We go for breakfast as usual and do some tidy up with the my apartment so that it is ready for us to return to Ms Wang. The room is cleaned and we left our hostel to Wuhan Domestic Airport. The weather in Wuhan for today is rather hot and stuffy, a cooler weather of Singapore.


Home sweet home.

Looking back at these 42 days, it's been a fun and enjoyable trip with Mr wee and the rest of my trip mates.

Times we shared our tears, joy and sadness with my friends. Getting emotional whiplash is not my forte, but it's getting more and more uncontrollable when I am not home.

But last but not least, it's time for me to kiss goodbye Wuhan, welcome Singapore.

THE CHINESE RESTAURANT










Our Friends in China



Graduation
Someone's certificate
My Certificate !!


Today is our graduation day.
We had our Director Wong Kiafu to have a speech about our 42 days in Wuhan.
His speech touched many of our hearts. I took his speech from his blog:

李书记，张教授，石教授，Andy老师，张老师，汪老师，Mr Wee,各位同学们，大家好。我姓黄，名叫家富。在这里，我谨代表义安理工学院20位学生致结业感言。

武汉42天的生活就这样悄悄的过了。当我们在作最后的购物，收拾行李，收拾心情准备回国，准备一个新的学期的到来，偶尔也有一丝的留恋于不舍。

这42天，有开心，也有悲伤；有成功，也有失败；有欢乐，也有泪水。太多的感情值得我们一辈子去珍惜。这40多天过得太快了，仿佛我们提着大包小包的行李到海谊楼，懵懵懂懂的到南区上课的那刻，还留在昨天。

42天，看起来很长，过起来却是如此的短暂。往昔依旧，眼前重复的是40天来的光景，可怕的是，这些记忆丝毫没有模糊。

第一次到少过10度的地方；第一次爬上7楼楼梯上课；第一次放风筝；第一次在40天里庆祝了6个生日；第一次离开家园42天；第一次自己洗衣服，下厨煮饭；第一次5个人一起挤2张床。第一次。。。这40多天里有太多的第一次了，每次过后都兴奋许久，如今往事已成往事，记忆已成永恒，美好已成定格。

我们在武汉上了 Project Management, 上了有关中国文化，经济，历史的科目。这些课都让我们增广见闻，开拓视野。

我感到十分荣幸，因为跟其他学校比起来，我们所住的校舍有过之而无不及。这些都得感谢武职的热情招待。武职为我们安排的旅程，见识了三峡大坝；登上了武当山；看了有中国国宝伟伟和希望的武汉动物园；去了国家旅行4A级的红楼以及黄鹤楼等；更到了历史著名军师诸葛亮故居的隆中，真是令人大开眼界，一饱眼福。

到了中国，到了武汉，我们得以了解本地风情，风俗习惯以及本地人的生活点滴。热干面似乎已成了我们的习惯。征服了隆中700个梯级的山，我们再也不向电梯低头。

回到了新加坡，我们会怀念这儿凉快的天气，友善的同学们。在这里，我们通过了体育及音乐以本地学生间接的交流。我们20位学生从不认识到现在称兄道弟，武职功不可没。武职为我们提供完善的软硬设备-体育场所，厨房等地方，都对我们之间增进友谊非常有帮助，因为我们可以一起下厨，一起打球。

42天里，由于武汉天气较为寒冷，同学们可能水土不服，接二连三的病倒了。承蒙老师，2位海谊楼阿姨以及同学们的照顾，大家都在最短的时间内康复，继续上课。我想在这里向大家说声谢谢。

这次42天的课程无可否认让我们学习到了终身受用的知识，但美中不足的是我们还没有机会以本地学生进行正式交流就得回国了。感叹太多东西要做，时间太少。

我还想代表我们20学生, 因为在这40多天里对武职校方造成的不便向武职道歉。我们的喧哗在夜深人静的夜晚的确影响了附近其他人的休息。

光阴荏苒一挥间，厉兵秣马又四二。聚日无多勤珍重，劳燕分飞话离别。

一路走过来，我们收获了很多，得到了很多财富。一路走下去总会有尽头。我们即将到达武汉交流42天的尽头。在这尽头，也许我们可以停下脚步，回头看看，想想，然后带着我们学到的东西，信心满满的回到新加坡。我相信，我们以后的路会走得更远，更好。

老师们，刻在木板上的名字未必不朽，刻在石头上的名字亦未必永垂千古；而刻在我们心灵深处的您的名字以及教诲，将真正永存。

同学们，风是透明的；雨是滴答的；云是流动的；歌是自由的；爱是用心的；恋是疯狂的；天是永恒的；而你们，是难忘的。

谢谢！

Our graduation ends with the photo taking session which lasted for 10 minutes.

We eat in one of the Chinese restaurant in Chicony. The sumptuous feast in the restaurant is unforgivably delicious. The first dish is the spicy chicken soup. It is the most not-so-salty I drank so far. We had 13 dishes and it is Mr Wee's treat.
We had the WIT student councilors to sit with us to enjoy our meal. We went to Chicony's supermart for some last minute shopping and took bus home.
I talked to one of the WIT students and found the lifestyle for china students is much more different from Singapore:

• In Singapore, we stayed in our house when we are studying. We normally move out of the house when we got married and rarely leaves our comfort zone. For China students, they are eager to move out of their house when they decides to study University.
  
• In Singapore, we travel up to 2 hours to our school whereas China student, they would travel at least 4 hours to go back their home.
  
• Not all the students have the opportunity to go back home twice or once a month. Only a few richer student can afford the expenses. As for the rest of the students, they would return to their home during the summer or winter holiday.

Reflecting over this short conversation between me and her, I realise that Singaporean are less risk taking for their studies. Most of the Singaporeans would prefer to stay in their own country or somewhere in their comfort zone whereas the Chinese in China would prefer to study outside, or somewhere far from their home town.

Just One More Day to Go.

The different types of MacDonald pie

I did not go out today.
I have been watching Korean drama show, 太阳的女人， for the whole day. The storyline is splendid. It's about revenge of 2 sisters, whom the elder sister have no blood relationship with the younger sister and abandon the younger sister in the train station and how they met again.
Some parts of the drama is a little draggy but still okay. I still love this drama.

Then, I went out for dinner at Houcaller. For my 17 years (going to 18 years) of life, I never know the chicken steak is cooked at different percentage. To me, as long as the food is cooked, I would eat it. There are just too much of things to learn about food.

Went home after dinner. Yawns.

3 more days.
We went to Hankou again for the 3rd time in my life. It is also our last time going to Hankou.
We were supposed to take hippo, but due to our bad luck, we did not have the best price we want and take taxi instead.

We went to Si men kou for our lunch and ate my 冰糖葫芦. I'll miss it when I return to Singapore. Goodbye my 冰糖葫芦, goodbye my 三鲜豆皮.

We took taxi to Hankou for shopping. We reached there rather early. The unexpected rain seems to be describing my unexpected moodswings. Waiting for the rest for a while and start our spree.

Later in the night, some of us were hungry and went into a restaurant for dinner while other continue to shop in Meterbonwe. The food is not really fanstastic, I should continue to stick on my Macdonald and KFC.

In the ZOO
The Circus Show


The Seal Show


have you seen white peacock?



The monkeys in the cage
汉阳江滩 - 大禹神话园

Guess whose legs are those???

FOOD in food street. Si Men Kou's still taste the best.
The Magic Show


Huang He Lou


The picture depicts the myth. :)
I wondered how the architect squeeze the whole Huang He Lou in to this small mini model?


Day 38

Happy Birthday Eileen!
This is our last birthday celebration in Wuhan. Our birthday girl is having her... (drum rolls please) 19th Birthday today!

As for today, we did not have full celebration with Eileen since we had our outing today.
We went to 4 places:
黄鹤楼
Yellow Crane Tower is build in the 2 century. The tour guide mentioned about the interesting myth behind the building of Yellow Crane tower. Many Parts of Yellow Crane Tower has been destroyed and rebuild throughout the centuries. The tower is also constructed in a way that the front of the building is facing North, back is south, the sides are west and east since the main function of the tower is for military uses.

I love the myth the most. It was said that once upon time, there was one Taoist went to one of the restaurant and get free beer from the kind heart owner. Before the Taoist left, he gave the owner a piece of drawing - Yellow Crane. The yellow crane will come alive if the owner touch the drawing. So one day, the owner out of curiosity touch the drawing. Yellow crane came out from the drawing and danced . This attracted many guests and customers and prosper the owner's business. After a long while, the old Taoist came back. He ride on the Yellow crane and fly to the sky. The owner then realise he is the one of the 8 immortals, Lv Dong Bing.


汉阳江滩 - 大禹神话园
We visit the park. There are many statues that are made based on Da Yu Legend. We saw alot of couples are taking their wedding photo in park. Indeed, the park is really pretty. It should be the best place for taking photos.

武汉动物园
Wuhan Zoo is one of the largest zoo in China, and it is where Xiwang 希望 and Weiwei 伟伟 are being put in. They seems to be enjoying themselves in the heat. In the zoo, there are many other animals are kept in. I find the zoo is not well kept as I could not see zoo keeper around. Unlike Singapore Zoo, all their animals are put in the cage, whether the animal is dangerous or not. The peacock showed their feathers spices up the boring walk in the Zoo. Their feathers are truly one of the most beautiful things in the world.

We also went for the animal circus show during the late afternoon. The first half of the performance was okay and I am pretty impressed by the animals. At the second part of performance, some family left the place. I was curious but I did not know why until the performance started. The cruelty of the performer was really brutal. If the bear did not comply or not do well in the rollar blading, they would force them to or whipped them. I realise our animals in Singapore are really fortunate since they does not need to being force to do things they couldn't do.

琴台歌剧院
We did not went into the threater. We were drove pass the threater. I heard that the threater is use for holding international musical performance.

Afterward, we went to Chicony and had our dinner in the Japanese restaurant. We went back to the hostel and I went to the hostel next block to search for my stuffs. I saw many people crowded outside Mustafa's apartment (Eileen's neighbour). I get to know Kuan Wee's awesome guitar playing and Tee Yong's superb drumming skills. They are really good in music, the category which I could not do well for my whole life. I was surprised by Kiafu who rapping Numb. It was a very funny scene. Jinrong's guitar skills is awfully good also. I am very fortunate to have many great musicans in my Wuhan's trip.

We celebrate Eileen's birthday there. I heard that she was really touched by us and cried quietly. Oh well, Happy 19th birthday:)

Photos Taken From Tee Yong's blog
Veggies is the best dish ever