Ian's Blog

Another free day! Awesome. If only I can remember what I did then.

At night, we went back to the BBQ again. I ate even more meat this time around. We said good bye to Leslie’s wife. And we shop some more in Men’s street.

We were minding our own business, watching Jackass the movie, and all of a sudden, Bam! Blackout. This time it’s the whole level. We tried to ask for help, but as usual, the maintenance will appear in the morning. I guess no internet for the night.

Woke up late, as usual. Did absolutely nothing for the whole afternoon, we didn’t even ate lunch.

At night, we Adzreen, Agnes, Daniel, Jasmine and I went back to the BBQ eat out where Leslie brought us. Got to love the meat and cuminum. We ordered something extra this time, seafood. The best mollusk is a cooked mollusk. We laugh, we chatted. Overall, a good full protein meal.

When we returned to our dorms, our friends who went to Wu Dang had returned as well. They look like a total wreck. I’m glad I didn’t go there.

It’s the 3rd week here, and it’s also children’s day. I already had an idea for the synopsis. But instead, I lay back and enjoy some movies. Adzreen and I stayed up the whole morning doing absolutely nothing. At 5.30 am, we went out and bid our friends going to the Mt. Wu Dang trip. At 7 am, we nervously read our results for the first semester. In my opinion, I can’t really say I did really well, but I’m sort of satisfied with 2 ADs.

However, other than that, we slept throughout the rest of the morning and afternoon. The rest of us who didn’t go to the trip were a complete mess. There’s no plan, no meetings. Just do what ever we want… And that’s exactly what I did. I bought some fried chicken and a fried banana, which I missed so much after the cruise tour. I finally bought some necessities for my room, which I had been leeching off from classmates.

For the night, I ventured out the cold, cold night to get some steaming hot beef soup. Pretty boring when there’s no one to hang out with. I miss our friends already.

We had a script writing class in the morning about Animated characters. We watched an old classic, Wallace and Gromit. That show really made me recall what a douche Wallace is. Anyway, we had another assignment on synopsis and step outline. Look’s like another brain-wrecking week.

Next, we had lunch at Teddy’s Kitchen again, for the last time. They may be normal tasting, but their prices are like Singapore’s. We went to a sucky arcade to spend some excess cash. The place is horrible. At least there’s a PS3 and a Wii for rent.

We did a little exploring around, and we found another arcade, only this time is better. Much better. If only we had found this place earlier. The prices for each game is unbelievably cheap. We get 2 tokens for each ¥1. Most games cost 2 tokens while popular ones cost 4. Therefore, we only paid S$0.40 for each game, unlike S$2 back at Singapore. I think we found our next favorite place.

Double IS classes, major boredom. We’re prepared to bring our Macs along to do our ‘work’, however, the first class was quite interesting. It’s about paper-cutting and we learnt how to to make some snowflakes shaped things.

We ate at Chiconi’s Ajisen for lunch before the second IS class. I really miss their noodles back in Singapore.

Fortunately, for the other IS class, we’re able to use our Macs to finalize our script for Leslie. After that, we’re given a briefing the Lu Shan tour. Once again, blah blah safety first, blah very slippery, don’t get lost blah blah.

At the night, we had a little surprise. Very annoying and handful, three little surprises… They’re kids of an Arabian father, who is currently studying in the Wuhan University. Their names are Xiao Hai, Xiao Lin, and. Their Mandarin are superb, they have the slang and everything. To be bilingual at their age is really amazing. They seemed to be attached to our group, I wonder who started this… At most times they visit Gigi and play Plants vs Zombies™. I never really like kids, they may seem fun to play with at first, but after a while, they become clingy and annoying.

I woke up extremely late today. I had a movie marathon till 6am. But hey, I have no lessons today, why judge?

Basically, another typical day of no breakfast and lunch… Some of did venture out of the freezing cold to get some morsels of KFC. On the way, we bought some mochi and some expensive chocolate. Tai Zhong thought that each chocolate piece cost ¥0.88, it was actually per gram, and he went little overboard…

We watched a group movie, Spirited away. It really feels better once I watched  the ending as I only watched it till the middle since Primary 5.  I rushed the finishing touches of the Final script till 5am.

We had a scriptwriting class in the morning and an IS class after that. We actually planned to bring our laptops to slack around abit, but this time, the class is interesting for a while. We learned how to do calligraphy. Most of us were just doodling on the paper given to us. At least we had fun.

We watched Hangover at Gaby’s and Makoto’s room. Very interesting plot and a funny twist. I love how they slowly reveal the what happened.

So, we had fun at the poop deck, again. This time, with less people crowding it. We observed what happened when we approach a dam. To proceed up stream,the ship have to enter the holding area through a door. The door will then close becomes a dam. The holding area will collect water and the ship rises. The door at the top opens and we carry on sailing.

Dam closing

Adzreen and I missed breakfast. Thanks to Jasmine, we got some hard boiled eggs.. More sceneries of gorges on a smaller boat.

Ooooo.. Ahhhh...

The, we got onto a smaller boat. Looks very shaky, like it could fall apart any moment. Those old men rowing the boats are really something. The had earned my respect.

Kudos to them

Small room...

2 weeks. So far so good.

I know, we’re suppose to wake up early for the cruise. But, I can’t sleep… Spent the whole morning working on the script again, for real this time. On the mean time, I finally started on this blog which we’re suppose to start days ago. Just when I’m done packing and covered myself with the blanket, the freaking alarm rang. So, without any shut eye, I drag myself to the showers…

JiaQi was extremely ill. She was in bed for a long time. It was so bad that she had to go to a hospital for drips. I know that the trip will be different without her. The bus ride was boring. I want to give the person who said the ride was only three hours long a piece of my mind. It was twelve freaking hours! At least it got some sleep. Our first stop was a toilet break.

The weather was freezing. Second was Jing Zhou. Bought some souvenirs like the Zhu Ge Liang fan.

This fan just reeks of awesomeness

Then, we went to another museum… It’s built above some catacombs where they found a perfectly preserved mummy.

Nice ass...

Why is the brain separated from the other organs?

Next, we had lunch at a restaurant. Next, another restaurant… Met With my friend, Jun Da, again! Turns out that Engineering was going to the cruise too.

We’re finally in the ship at 6pm. The rooms makes me so… claustrophobic. The toilet’s worse though. A detachable toilet bowl, which is occupying at the middle of the 1.5m x 1.5m room. For the rest of the ship, they had a store at the 3rd floor. A VIP room and the poop deck at the 4th. We literally chilled at the poop deck.

Look's cool

The poop deck