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Day 40 – Thursday
Today is the start of a 4 days holiday as mentioned before. Today is the dumpling festival for Dalian. Guess Singapore is also about the same day or something. I miss the dumpling from Singapore, I have yet to try the dumplings here, Jonathan Ho has gotten all the DID students some dumpling for the good festival. The day was spent being indoor to do a long day of work. Lunch and dinner was simply spent on 1 packet of fried rice where the serving is good enough for two meals. At around 10 plus or so, I started to feel really cold and stuff thus i lied down and was simply wanting to keep myself warm that after which I have fallen asleep, my initial plan was to do work until 3am however my body wasn’t working hand in hand with me.
It’s already the same second week being in Dalian already. Somehow i have gotten quite used to the life here. But people moved on, thus next Saturday we will be leaving for Beijing( a four days three nights trip) and later heading back to Singapore. Where a 2 weeks and a half school vacation is waiting for us. I will be missing quite a few things around here in Dalian, like things are very much cheaper as compared to Singapore, the hostel , the trip around Dalian( to know more of Dalian), buddies ( which they are all very nice and friendly people) , some of the food and lots more. Most importantly is the weather which is mostly leaving us in a good mood with the cool breeze around. =D
Day 39 – Wednesday
Its going to be a four days holiday ahead. If seriously speaking there will not be any form of holiday for all the students (DID) as we will be doing our project for the final submission on Monday. When days are getting lesser and lesser, the nerve-cracking amount just seems to rise up easily. In the morning, every student were doing their project and not till lunch, everyone has been concentrating highly. Lunch was spent eating in a restaurant where four dishes were made, 2 vegetables and 2 meat food. Overall the lunch was still alright, other people has been kind of sick of Chinese food but for me, I think I am still alright with it, as in Singapore has Chinese food as well so yup. However I have to agree, I am similar to the others that are all craving for something different like western food and stuff.
Everyone continued to work until the end of lesson at 6pm. Today dinner was different, it was cooking indoor. Before cooking we headed over to the market area outside of school to do some shopping lists on vegetables, meats and more. Headed back to the hostel and started cooking. A total of 5 people including me sat down at a corner corridor to have our late dinner at 8plus, where shopping started at 6 plus. Working resume after dinner time.
Day 37 – Monday
In the morning, the class was taught some plotting technique for the printing of CAD drawings onto the panel. To prevent bad resolution of the end result thus we were taught how to scale everything correctly and about. We have got 6 panels to produce by the end of the projecting period.
Later in the day, it was lunch; I made a total of 3 orders in order to get my food. You want to know why? Well simply the first dish was curry chicken, where the gravy wasn’t enough, secondly was ordering some chicken dishes as well where the food wasn’t enough. Thus in the end I decided to have a dish that was filled with rice, mushrooms and chicken. It was a delicious dish afternoon, perhaps a better choice as well. Considered lucky or...? Well. Talking about chicken, every single dish of mine has got chicken and more chicken, haven’t been eating a lot of vegetables, which is considered bad. However there are still fruits like banana, apples and more to take in the nutrient amount level into my body.
Lunch later was GEMs, it was probably the last few lessons already, the first lecturer which taught us was bad. Thus we didn’t have video to watch and instead the two long hours lessons was spent listening to PowerPoint lecture on the Chinese biz dealings in China, it talks about the dos and the don’t. Some interesting don’ts are for example not to call a lady ( miss) ( Xiao jie) because it means prostitute, to wrap gifts in red wrapping paper to represent good luck and a lucky colour to be used. Banquet is like a welcome gift and the serving of a food is always more than required amount, because over in the Chinese cities, when the bowls are empty, it’s considered of not having enough food for the guests, so its like servings for 5 people can be increased to a 8 serving portions.
Some conversation during a biz talks may includes Chinese landmarks, weather, Chinese art and more. It’s always good to have good relations with the partner of all sort of dealings.
Gems ended at 4pm, went back to hostel and took a good nap because recently because of projecting, almost everyone slept at 3am thus it’s like a lack of sleep. Had dinner, bath and all sort.
Then later work was start at 10 plus till 3 plus in the morning.
