Day 3; To the city!

Went to the city as planned today! Met the group at 11am and we set off!

LMGT students! only 3 of us.

We all gathered and took a bus. my first bus ride in China. 2 RMB for the bus trip, equivalent to 0.42 cents in Singapore dollars. So cheap right! The journey was pretty long. There was no EZ-Link card, bus card or even an alighting bell. There was this lady conductor standing in the bus going around collecting money and issuing the tickets to us. and we have to either tell the driver or the lady our destination and they will shout out to us when we arrive at our stop.The Bus ticket that was issued by The Lady. She was practically squeezing her way around in the crowded bus. Pushing here and there. There was once when a guy wanted to alight, the bus door closed too early and drove off. The guy just shouted in chinese scolding the bus driver and the driver stopped the bus and let him alight. What followed was the angry man hurling vulgarity which was "mother" [ma-de] // [niang-de].

Me, Reb and The Lady

Us in the bus. super squeezy and packed.

When we reached the city, we saw road stall selling the same kind of nuts and it is everywhere. Crossed the bridge to go to the shopping mall.

Wuhan Super big shopping mall! Bigger than any shopping center in Singapore. Reb and I pointing at 2 shuai ge! HAH.

That's us going around looking for food and we settled down on McDonalds

First McDonald's meal in China! I ordered their fillet meal and changed my drink to some mango ice cream drink. It was very nice! The fillet was super crispy too! No idea why but it was very nice. oh yes, Reb and i got bullied by the locals you know! Some local more kiasu than us. CUT our queue. nai nai one lo.

Walked around the shopping mall and we saw the theater place! Look at the screen! Everything was in chinese. How to watch! As in how to know what are we watching.

Look at this man! He's super strong! Carrying such a heavy load and still walking quite fast too you know!

The scenery at the other end of the huge shopping mall. what a big construction site!

Arcade game that Singapore doesn't have.

Went to have a hair cut that cost 25RMB! Xanier, Eshlyn, Shunqin and me. During the process of cutting my hair, the china hairdresser kept talking to me! I don't understand what he talking about so i told him, " wo bu zhi dao hua yu. bu shi hen hao" then he laughed. End of our shopping trip. Most of the shops we patronised gave us a membership card for free regardless of the amount spent. I've got alot of cards with my name on it already. There was once whereby im supposed to fill in my name and NRIC number and i shocked the person by writing my chinese name and relatively short NRIC number as they know we were not locals.

We then meet each other to go back to our campus together. Took a bus during peak hour and have to run after the bus before others got up. Luckily for us, all of us got up. (: dinner at roadstall again.

while walking along the road store, the "chou-tou-fu" very smelly lor! Jarold bought it and we tried some. Quite nice despite the pungent smell of it.

Super long, complicated and hard to read menu. All the stuff cheap right!

The noodle and fried rice me and reb bought to share. The portion of it is madness. overflowing from the packaging. Looked like it have got a small amount of it only. But actually, it is alot.

The BBQ store me and Reb like. very nice! I like chicken, she like pork.

Us enjoying our dinner!

Many local crowding infront of the television to watch it. Beside the television is the supermarket Reb and I going. Bought snacks again and went back to our hostel.

In the middle of the night, the ICT people celebrated their birthday. HAPPY BIRHTDAY SHI HUI AND ANGELA (:

Bathed and we put on facial masks! The climate here is super dry you know! The mask have got a super cooling effect together with the air con in the room whoaaa shiok ah!

Reflection; I realised that friends make a great difference in my life. Old friends and new friends made! below are us! I love the friends i made in wuhan. love it! wooo. all so friendly and caring! During the whole journey to the mall today, i feel very fortunate that singapore SBS buses have got ez-link card, bell and a better facilitied bus. the bus driver in singapore are friendly too. and along the walkway to the end of the bus have got poles around to help u balance. ezlink card to allow easier and faster way of collecting the bus fare. bell to let the bus drive to know where we alighting. however, i kind of like how the low charges of the transportation cost. even tho u take the bus from 1 end to another in china, it only cost u 2RMB! super good and cool right. if im in singapore, it will cost a BOMB. Singapore Standard of living too high.

Oh, and when boarding the bus, the bus stop they have is like 20m long. when the bus came from afar, we have to run all the way infront of it if not others will alight first and the bus will drive off. Been to china for 3 days already and i never see any double deckered bus to cater to more people. isnt a more populated country supposed to have a bigger bus for the people?