Saturday, October 22, 2005
Day 2: reach Shanghai Pudong airport at ard 6am or 6+ am cant rmb la..and the way u alight is very interesting...like some president reach sum country then frm the plane exit jus put a stairs down to the ground ..and then they cum out...wave they hands and walk down..wahhaha..Yeah we did dat..and its abit cold ard...we got into a bus (ppl squeeze like hell..have to see see got pickpocket nt) that take us to the airport...i tell u..pudong airport is suppose to be a big and u noe..modern airport..but...when we r de..i finally understand hw cum sg is no. 1 in terms of airport...yes pudong is big...but its big n empty..nt much facilities to entertain passengers...the restaurants also...we wanna find a place to sit downn eat also difficult..the very few restaurants...and is like repeated patterns...u walk another dunno wat metre n u cum across the same restaurant...no variety de...the food court is supposed to open by 7am but its 8am n still nt open..finally..quite a lot of us ended up in KFC..its realli challenging to order food in chinese..bcos we r so used to ordering kfc in english..ah..they have hot orange juice...weeeeiiirrrddd...the food portion is realli small...so we missed sg's kfc!!!! then we wonder ard cos we hav 8 hr transit..so much time..so little stuff to do....we sleep in the airport..take turn to look after the luggage...then finally...get ready to take the flight frm Shanghai - Changchun..this plane is a smaller carrier...this time clara's luggage have to b kana inspected again..she v.sway wif the inspection leh ...so we waited n waited n waited to board e plane.....by then was pretty tired so..didnt even care to wait for plane to fly ..we are alr aslp...the flights takes abt 2+ hrs to reach changchun..byt he time we reach ..its like 5 pm n the sun is setting (autuum ma..weather cold..sun set much earlier..juz like last time when i was in aussie for 2 weeks..) the sun set realli fast..by the time we check out..got our luggage and stuff..its alr dark...the ppl frm Jilin Collge of Arts came to bring us to our hostel...( i jus rmb i forget to add in a bit abt hw irresponsible the lecturer in charge of us it...but well guess i cant realli write much here..to put it shortly...in e plane every one whose goin to tthis exchange prog is given a piece of arrival{cant rmb} declaration form EXCEPT us..n the lecturer didnt bother to ask ard..ya..ok fair enuf..dun expect her to go ard askin every 1..but when i go n ask her abt..the lecturer say it in such a way like its ur own problem..u will have to solve-it-urself like of thinggy..when we alight a plane we have to go SEARCh for the piece of paper which is dunno in which part of the airport to fill it in...we were so worried lo..scare dudn hav the paper cannot get out of the airport...since frm changi airport..we r like left to defend ourself...) ok where did i stop? ya the hostel...its a bit more lao pok pok then we expect it to be...n we r CHEATED big time..stupid X10000000000 lo...when in sg we were told there 600rmb room..500rmb room room..and 300rmb room..300 is the one wif no toilet..600 and 500 is the one wif toilet but of cos 600 is the bigger ones...n 2 person to share a room so it mean one person pay 1/2 of the price for the 600RMB room..BUT we r told other THING..its is actually 600 per person.....so the room is 1200RMB for a room..KNN..KNS la...we r all so damn shocked lo...then realised we last time writ ein which type of room we want ..is juz rubbish..cos inn the end we have to fight it out for the room we want nw...mj keep tell the lecturer we wanna take the 1200RMB room for 4 of us..but then the lecturer sumhow keep looking pass us...sumhw miraculously we became invisible...in the end theend no more 1200 rmb room..then anothe r4 person wanna have the room..then she go like help them see gt a nt..WTH we ask frm starting till nw lo..n we have to squeeze in the smaller room...mind u..we have 4 person lo..then the stupid lecturer dare to keep asking "can a nt? bu yao mien qiang leh.." like very concern but i wanna slap their face..so angry... it was after then then we noe the lecturers each person take the 1200 RMB..wat e hell..1 person?! wof dinning area..kitchen..bathrm n bath rm...!!! v.selfish lo...ppl 4 person squeeze such a small rm n here she stay such a big room..no wonder keep quiet abt the room la..until everyone room is fixed...then we put our luggage...and go to the sch canteen where they serve us dinner..they serve pipping hot soup in metal bowls..(eye pop out) then almost fill to the brim..wah lau scary...so we eat lo..n went to buy a v. impt thinggy--> Toilet Paper!!!!! ha..then when we go back to our room..clara went to bathe..we watch tv n watch ROTK which is dubbed in chinese..which is kinda hilarious n some part..sissy-fying..then Tadah..Black Out...clara still into toilet...have to lent her my torch lights...then it keep black out lo...kaoz...then finally we go bathe..n sleep ..tml have to walk up early to go sch la.....to be coont to day 3...
ok...finally manage to get to use a com wif internet access since arriving Changchun's Jilin province in china for 1 week and 3 days??lotsa stuff happen man...kana cheated alot of times...the minute we reach our hostel we kana cheated of the amt of money to pay for the hostel room..but..let me say it insequence or else u guys kana confused..(by the way i dun dare put caps lock cos the com ah..siao siao one..) Day 1: bade parents and siblings farewell at changi airport at 12am ...b4 dat mum was having some photo snapping frenzy which was driving me nuts. b4 dat we check in our big luggage(mine seems to be the biggest among the big big luggagesss =X) and it weigh 19.9kg..wah kao eh...saw pigeon..my sibings gave dat person a nick..call "spare tyre"..cos the tummy so bulging still wanna exposed. ok..say bb to every 1..then ..me..clara..felicia...n mj set of to the repective gate we r supposed to go (its Gate 4) n b4 dat clara went to mac buy fish burger n coke (last mac meal in sg!!) then we headed de..then nid to go thru inspection de..n clara's luggage kana have to inspected cos inside got SCissor!!!! so dat kana confiscated..n wasted abit of time..by then most have gotten into the plane liao...then my plane seating is different frm them but thx god the person's seat whom i have seated to be wif them..didnt cum or have changeseat also..so heng lo...in the plane...mj gt excited when the plane starts to take flight...the plane food was like..plane food lo...u noe dat kind...but still edible..the flight frm Singapore - Shanghai (Pudong airport) takes abt 5+ hours in which i use it to sleep abit...listen to my mp3 abit..cont to day 2..