A day wholly dedicated for doing my work. Nothing much to comment on except for the fact that I have to start managing my time more effectively. I’m starting to be lagging behind in terms of my work and this really sucks. =X

Day 32

A day to enter the world of 光谷 to shop. Urgh. Horrible horrible shopping. But since I have been cooped up in the hostel for weeks and the others want to shop, I thought I would take some time off to go shopping with them too. The place was packed like ten thousand sardines in a normal sardine can. Perhaps this is due to it being the Golden week, the week whereby there is no school and all. We split off into 2 groups, the guys went off to shop for their clothes and books while the girls and I went off the further explore the place. There was nothing much to see except for clothes, clothes and more clothes. In the end, even our group split up and I ended up walking with Calista. We made a full sweep of the area and ended up with some goodies. There were sales everywhere and even so, there were many people who were still trying to bargain and even cut the price to half of what it was already selling at.

We met up with Yee Tat, Tony, Dr. Tan, Ryan and Chen Wei for lunch at Ajisan. The menu has a wider range of varieties as compared to its counterparts in Singapore. After attacking our lunch there, we returned to our shopping and only met up with Yee Tat and Tony when we were done. For the clothes sold in China, there were no such thing as the S, M, L, XL sizes and instead, all the clothes there were all sold measuring either your height for tops, and waist measurements for bottoms like skirt or pants. It was difficult to get used to it as we were asking for sizes like we did in Singapore and then the salesperson attending to us will give us a queer look before we realized our mistake.

Shopping took up the bulk of the time and then we headed for the Karaoke that was nearby. The songs were not as updated as the one in Singapore but the presence of touch screens to choose the songs covered up for that. The facilities in the karaoke were pretty advanced if I were to compare it to the karaoke that I frequent in Singapore. It was late when we left the place and it was nearly our curfew to get back to the campus. Make haste! We got back just on the dot, which was lucky, else we would have been locked out of the hostel.

Day 33

Another day of hiding in the room to complete another report while the rest of my friends headed off to 书城街. Well, it was a pity I couldn’t join them as I really love books but well, my work comes first. =)

Day 34

The last day for us to do last minutes touch up on our CM presentation. Consisting of Jehanne, Hajar and me, we were to work on Pilates, which is similar to yoga in some ways but emphasizes more on the stretching and the correcting of postures of the spine. We had to prepare our notes and re-arranged the slides to make the presentation flow. Went to look at the other’s group’s presentation and saw that some of them were actually rehearsing and making sure that they do not exceed the time limit. I remember that I used to do that with my group when we were in Year 1, but as time passed, we abandoned that practice and let nature take its own course. Looking at them reminded me of the times of when we were Year 1s and the confusion and fear we felt when we knew we had to do presentations in front of the whole class and eventually adapting to the changes. Sure brings back memories.

Day 35

Presentation day. Simple and sweet. The only fault is that we do not have a projector screen and so our presentation was screened on the white wall. Seriously, they need to revamp the place. Not all the classrooms have projectors and the screen. They are still using blackboards and chalk. Apparently for China, modernization occurs outside in the world, not in their classrooms unlike Singapore, where modernization works inside and outside of the class. This presentation was easy as there are lesser slides for me to memorize and explain to the class. There were many new questions raised and I was able to see the way different people presents. Other than the few familiar faces from my class (which I already know their presentation habits), there were new habits that I saw and new ways of presentations that I can learn and apply in the future. Take Ryan for an example, his voice was clear and steady and he was speaking about the future business prospects of magnetic therapy (if I’m not wrong). Using business terms was his strong point when he explained to us his ideas and using graphs to show us the statistics. Not only that, they even went further and even had more points that what was expected of us. Really, we cannot underestimate the power of the current year 1s.