Here I am to blog about my 5 days GuangZhou Study Trip - 22/09 to 26/09.
Reported to school on 21/09, 10pm. Check in into our school's hostel, its a super cool place. Totally cozy! In order to pass time, we spent the night playing Monopoly. Started with 10 players, end up only me, Cyrus and Olivia. After 4 hours, Cyrus bankrupt.
Pack up and left the beautiful hostel. Budget Terminal via bus at 4am, everyone is feeling shag. Had McDonald's breakfast and checked in!
Twitting with my iPod, my first time bringing my iPod overseas :D
Group photo with beloved retail clique. This bunch makes the trip memorable!
Customs done, and that marks the start of the boring 3h 40min journey to Bai Yun International Airport. Nothing much to complain on the plane comfort. Budget airline, you should know how 'great' it feels.
DAY 1.
Landed in China, airport was huge, met our Tour Guide. Miss He. Took a 40 minute bus ride to our hotel to have lunch. Nightmare begins.
We hated the food so much, everyone was struggling. Everyone ate it for the carbohydrate, never for the taste! Check into our hotel, my room mate was a pair of twins. Boarded the bus and started our sight seeing. Frankly speaking, the bus is our 2nd home. We spend most of the time on the bus, from one place to another always takes at least 40 minutes!
Wang Li Hong endorsed mineral water. The brand is 'Wahaha'. The following pictures were taken at 'Ancestral Hall of Chen Family'.
Brick carvings.
MY ROOM MATES :D
A boys group photo.
Day 2.
Woke up early in the morning, headed to Wella Hair Training Center. Lots of hair theory, quite dry and boring. Dosed off a few times. They did some hair cutting demonstrations and these are the amazing outcome;
this girl looks like Chen Wei Lian.
Had our dinner at a new restaurant which serves Turkish-Muslim food, lastly visited the Circus at Dong Guan. The bus journey was hell! Close to 2 hours, its the longest ride in this whole trip.
Watching the circus made my heart dropped a few times. Imagine this human beings flying around and doing difficult routines just to entertain. Personally, I feel that animals should be banned in circus. Quite abusive to me, however the show was awesome!
Day 3.
Visited Wal-mart Supercenter. Learnt nothing there, waste of time.
Day 4.
Shopping day.
- Bai Ma (White House) Wholesale Mart ; sucks, mostly allows bulk purchase. Girl's paradise.
- Beijing Lu ; the only UNIQLO in GuangZhou!
- China center ; Nothing much, just a typical shopping center.
- A shopping mall full of Leather ware, the place all your LV, CHANEL, GUCCI came from. Love their craft work~
See! The fine is so minimal to smoke inside a shopping mall. [by the way SGD$1 = $4.73 RenMinBi]
Gorgeous BeiJing Lu.
All of them are ready for the upcoming mooncake festival.
With Cyrus :D
Our last dinner in China! After dinner, we had a mini mooncake festival celebration at our hotel room. Played a few silly games for bonding. Laughed my ass out~
Day 5.
Journey back to Singapore! Most of us have been waiting for this day to come. Woke up at 6am to pack our luggage, not a problem for me though. I didn't buy a lot, reason is I feel that the fashion apparels in China is only look best in there. It's not easy to blend into the Singapore crowd.
Look at all our retail smiles for one last time at the airport.
MR GARY! HE'S THE CUTEST :D
Landed in Singapore and spent the lovely weekend watching Singtel Singapore Grand Prix. A race with difficulty at the same time full of drama, but still Lewis Hamilton clinch victory in the garden city!
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Okay I guess its detailed enough, anything you still want to know about China, can ask me when you see me around. More than willing to share the horrible experience.
Nevertheless, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the 3 teacher-in-charge namely Miss Tan, Miss Leng & Mr Wu for making this trip a great success.
Lastly, THE 9-MEMBERS RETAIL CLIQUE FOR MAKING ME FEEL AT HOME AS ALWAYS! Totally love the bond, please come back to Higher Nitec! I want to see you guys in school :D
*Thank you Yuping, Jerom and Olivia for the photos!
