Wudang Shan Trip =)

Last weekend was spent at Wudang Mountain, it was really fun !
We have to take several buses to reach the Golden Peak of the mountain, we were 2000m above the sea level! Can you imagine how great it was? The view from the peak of the mountain was just breath-taking!I felt peace and relax.



At the Golden Peak!!


After that, we walked further down to explore the Golden Peak. To my surprise, we saw snow!!It was my very first time to see snow and feel it!


photo taken with snow!

My observations
Maybe it is because that day was Saturday, the bus we took was very crowded. We must push all the way to get ourselves up so that we have the chance to board the bus.If not, we will be leave behind! Everyone was pushing no matter young or old, just to get onto the bus. If we show mercy to others,we have to sacrifice ourselves,it was like the scene of war.Our tour guide kept asking us to push no matter how hard, so that we can get a place. I seriously disagree with the habit of these people as this kind of actions will only cause chaos in the crowd and may cause injuries or the kids will be lost with their parents. This is not a good way for elderly too! They are already old and cannot afford to fall down. I hope that this bad habit can be changed some day and the people can queue nicely before boarding the bus so it will be more convenient and organised.In Singapore, people queue for almost everything! For example, queue for the toilet,to buy food, to wait for the bus etc. So, I hope that the people here can take up this good habit and not to cut queue or push others when taking a bus or whatever.

The next day, before going to Wudang Shan, we were teached by a coach to do Tai Chi early in the morning! It was a nice experience! Tai Chi combines physical exercises, relaxation and breathing exercises to give a peaceful mind. We repeated the Tai Chi movements for a few times and we decided to teach Mr Imran the Tai Chi movement we learnt after we go back to WUST as he was not there with us.

After a refreshing start of the day, we started our journey to Wudang Shan! We have to take cable car to reach the peak of the mountain! It was exciting but also frightening in the same way. Me and Camellia screamed all the way when we were taking the cable car up!

When we reached the peak of the mountain, I was taken aback by the huge crowd of people! In order to make our way out, what we can do is just push and push! For the sake of getting up to the peak, we pushed each other until we reached the peak of the mountain. I felt very bad for being so inconsiderate as I normally will not do this in Singapore. It takes about 1 hour for us to go up to the peak although it was only a very short journey. I nearly lost my way and got lost from my gang !

Finally. we reached the peak of Wudang Shan! The scene was amazing~



At the peak of Wudang Shan, there are a few temples. Our tour guide kept reminding us not to take photos of the gods. I do not know the reason behind it but I guess it is probably to show respect to the god. All the temples are very crowded and this has shown that people in China are very loyal to their god. I can see a lot of people praying to the gods inside the temple we visited.

This ends my journey to the Wudang mountain! I was very enjoyed throughout the trip and had discovered some new cultures in China!

Bye Bye blog! Good night! :D

Third week in Wuhan!

Hello blog! It has been nearly one week I did not update my blog! It was a tiring week filled with tests and PBLs!
Well, for this week I went to a lot of different Traditional and Chinese Medicine shop for my reflection on CAM in Wuhan PBL. While we were visiting most of the TCM shops, we tried to ask questions for more information to do our PBL , however, sometimes the pharmacist do not want to answer our questions and asked us to go other shops for more information. The pharmacists and shopkeepers were very unfriendly to us as we did not purchase anything but keep on asking questions.
There was an incident happened when the year 2 senior, Calvin went for acupuncture for his muscle ache. As we were doing our reflection PBL, we need to take photos on what we know or what we did related to CAM in Wuhan. However, the nurses did not let him to take photo for the process of treatment. The local students who brought us there had a quarrel with the nurses there and we were chased out by the nurses and physicians. I feel very bad as we initiated the quarrel and the local students being scolded just because we requested to take some photos. The nurses even scolded them for helping us which are foreigners to them. According to one of the nurse, taking photo is prohibited in their clinic and this is their privacy.
When the incident happened, I actually felt angry as we being chased out and treated badly by the nurses and physicians. However, after went back to dormitory, I reflect this incident and found that we were actually wrong at the very first place as we took a photo of the physician without seeking his permission when he was explaining to Chaz about his cough condition. No photo taking is one of their rule and principle of their clinic and we were putting them in a difficult situation when we keep requesting to take photos for our PBL.
After this incident, I learnt to ask for permission before I do something so that I will not offense others or break others rules or principles. Also, I learnt to be more patient when talking to others. The local student, Christina who helped us to persuade the physician for letting us to take photo talked to the nurses and physicians very patiently but her effort was in vain. I know how to communicate with others using suitable tone so that people do not get offended.
The next day , me camellia, gracia, dharshini, Clarence, larvanya and azleena went around the school to look for other acupuncture shop but we did not get to find one after walking for around 1 hour. So, we decided to go for foot massage so we have something to do for our PBL.
It was my very first time to do foot massage.
I felt so relax after the massage and we plan to go for the massage again before going back to singapore! :D

Yangtze River Cruise along the Three Gorges Dam!

18th March-20th March 2011
Finally, we went to the Three Gorges Dam for the three days two nights trip! :D We took a 4 hours bus journey to the Yi Chang to board the Yang tze cruise!

On the way to Yi Chang, the view from the bus was so nice! There are yellow flowers along the roadside! Besides looking at the view outside the window,I studied at the bus as the lecture test is coming! Hope everyone can do well and the questions will not be too hard for us!

Finally, after 5 hours, we arrived at Yi Chang, it was around 6 pm. We checked in immediately after boarding the cruise and unpacked our luggage. After that, it was our dinner time! However, the dishes did not taste good and there are people quarreling at the eating place. There are about 8 to 9 China men who were complaining to the waitresses and raising their voice to them as we,as the foreigners, being served the dishes first. The men were very fierce to the waitresses and asking them to pay them back the money as they already paid for the meal. Lastly, they went off without having their dinner.

I thought about this incident after the meal. The men who were complaining should have be more patient towards others as there was only a chef who was cooking. They should be more understanding and tolerance towards their nations instead of pissing off to them. In Singapore, this kind of incident is not common, and I guess that if there is such thing happens, Singaporean will ask for the Manager of the restaurant to solve the problem immediately instead of raising their voice at the waitresses.

At around 11 pm, our cruise went through the first ship lock and all of us were so exciting! The water level raised about 44 meter after we entered the ship lock~

After that, raining started and I went back to the cabin to rest.

The next day, we went to the Shennongxi river! We transferred to a small ship to go there. It was very cold on the ship as there is no roof! Without wasting time, we took a few photos on the ship~





Finally, we arriving at Shennongxi river and took the sampan to have a look at the shennongxi river! There are about 5 men who rower the sampan and 1 man controlled the direction of the sampan. The men are about 40 to 60 years old! I guess the weight of the sampan plus the weight of all of us was exceeding 500 kg and yet they are so strong to row the sampan for us although they are not so young as us.


I admired their stamina , determination and spirit! On the other side, I pity them for doing the tough work for everyday and I guess that their pay is not very high too. Compared to us, they work more but gain lesser. However, they seemed like enjoyed their work very much! I told myself to cherish what I have now and not to complaint even though there is a lot of school works and assignments because our suffering is nothing compare to them. I hope I can be as determine as them and not to give up easily even though I am in a difficult situation.

On the sampan, our tour guide sang a folk song for us! Although I cannot understand what she was singing, I enjoyed listening to the song very much!

After a tiring day, we packed our luggage and had a good sleep~

The next day, we went to visit 185 platform which is the highest platform of the 5 levels ship lock! The view from the 185 platform is really very nice!After that, we also went to a park and took some photos!





And this ends our Three Gorges Dam Trip!
Overall, It was AWESOME! :D

Shopping Time! :DD

17th March 2011

Today was the day of our Herbal supplement PBL! I felt very nervous before going to the class.

Our presentation did not go very smooth due to some technical problems of Gracia's laptop! However, I am sure that we can do it better next time! Jiayou! Camellia and Gracia!

The presentations of year 2 really impressed me! They presented in a very natural way without script! I want to be like them also! So, for the nest presentation I will try not to refer to scripts! Jiayou She Hui!!

After our lessons today, we want to relax ourselves after the PBL! so, we went for shopping at Jiang Han Road!

I bought 2 shirts , 1 hairband and 1 ring!

Felt very satisfied after the shopping!

Tomorrow we are going to the Yangtze River cruise and Three Gorges Dam! Hope that the cruise will not be too bad as what Mr Puah have told us :/

Hope eveyone will have a nice trip! :)

Awesome dinner with Mr Imran and Pharm gang!

15th March 2011

During today's lesson, Mr Imran suggested that all of us to have dinner together with him tonight! He suggested to eat at Greenery Cafe which the food taste really nice but we had our lunch yesterday at there already! Sorry to Mr Imran! However, in the end, we decided to go to a German Buffet at Xu dong road near wal mart!

We meet at 6 pm downstairs our dorm and I took cab with Camellia, Gracia and Mr Imran! The cab is very different from cab at singapore as the seat of the driver is covered with plastic plates! It is used to prevent robbery as we guessed!We felt so unsafe when sitting in the cab as the driver drive at a super fast speed and keep cutting other cars lane! Although we can reach our destination in a shorter time, it is really dangerous to do so! Also, the driver honk a lot during our journey, it is like their habit to honk even though there is just a small problem! Sometimes it is really noisy and I can always hear the honk sound inside my dorm. I hope that there is some laws to be enforced so that all the driver follow the rules at the road so they will not endanger other people's life.

After we alight from the cab, we need to cross the road . However, it is very hard for us to cross the road as no car was willing to give way. Even though there is zebra crossing, the car will not let pedestrian to cross the road, instead, the drivers will honk them!I just hope that the drivers here can be more considerate and think of others safety before their actions!

Finally, we managed to cross the road following Mr Imran and we start walking to the restaurant!

The buffet looks very nice from the appearance!



We waited for around 25 mins for seats and finally! we went in the restaurant for dinner!





There are quite a lot of food there including my favourite sushi! :D

There is something special about the restaurant at there, the waiters will come to you with a skewed of meat, char siew or sausage and cut it for you! This is really interesting! I like their way of serving food, thanks for Mr Imran who brought us here!

The seniors decided to bought beers for everyone to drink !The servings is really special!


I tried a bit of beer, it tastes very fruity and I diluted it with sprite so it tastes sweeter!



It was an awesome dinner overall! Hope that we can have another dinner together before Mr Imran's leaving!

All the best to everyone for the PBL tomorrow!:)

Lunch at Greenery Cafe :)

Today we are having lessons for thw whole day!

The first lesson for our OIE module was conducted by Grace Teo!

We learnt about the Geography, History and Culture of Wuhan city and Hubei province! It was interesting to get to know about culture of Wuhan city and I have learnt a lot from her :)

We were released 1 hour earlier and we decided to go Greenery cafe for lunch! I ordered a beef steak which was recommended by seniors and it was so niceeeeeeeee :D
The beef steak taste like heaven! I would like to order the same thing for the next time i go to the Greenery cafe!

nice beef steak!


After meal!

We walked back to school for our second lesson in the afternoon!

After lessons, we start preparing for our PBL- Herbal Supplement! We doing Ginkgo Biloba for the presentation!

The PBL is on Thurday hope our group can do well! :D

Bye! Jiayou for PBL!

Tour to Huang Jia Hu campus :)

14th March 2011

We went to the Huang Jia Hu campus which is near to the Huang Jia Hu lake!

The campus is so large and i guess it is larger than the Qing Shan campus which we are setting in now, and, I am sure that it is like three times bigger than Ngee Ann Poly!

It takes about 1.30 hours to reach there and we finally arrived.The scene of the school is so nice!






When we arrived, the students are so warm and come to us to welcome us!It was then i knew my student partner Zheng Jiao :) She is very nice and talk to me all the time so I wont get boring. She also told me about the student life at their school.

She is from year 1 , major in English, from Hebei. I found that she is very nice to talk to :)


This is our first photo!

After that, the student host gave us welcome speech! I felt that I am so honour as the students are so warmly welcome us, and I also proud to be a part of representative from Ngee Ann Poly :D

Then, we were brought to a sport court to have some games with the local students and also interact with them. It was really FUN :D I enjoyed very much!

It was lunch time after the game! Zheng Jiao and her friends brought me, Camellia and Gracia to the "Nan Yuan" canteen to eat "Hui Mian", I ordered a plate of fried noodles, it is very filling! The noodles is nice and I was so full after the meal~



We went around the school to visit and took some photo! The library is so big and full with books! However, we did not stay for a long time as we are disturbing those hardworking students who are studying.After that, we walked around the Qing Hu inside the campus! The view is so amazing !

Taking photo with our partners!


We found that there is a supermarket inside the campus and we went in to buy some famous local products to bring back singapore!

After that we gathered at the sixth block which is the medical school to visit the preserved body parts of humans! There are also some babies body parts! So scary! However, as a pharmacy student, it was a good chance for us to understand more on the anatomy of different body parts~


It was 3.30 pm after we visited the exhibition of perserved body parts and we were about to start our journey back to Qing Shan campus. We felt very sad to leave the school and be apart from the students there~ We exchange our emails so we can contact each other in the future. It was so sad when the bus was about to leave and the students waving hands to us through the mirror. This was a very good experience to interact with the local students at there. I will not forget you, Zheng Jiao ! :) Good bye!

Wuhan City Tour !

12th March 2011

We went to the Wuhan City Tour with Mr.Imran, 2 other lecturers and BA students. Unfortunately, Meiling was sick and cannot join us :( , luckily Mr Puah was willing to stay and take care of her~

First, we went to the East lakes. The scene at there is so amazing!
The lake is very large so we do not have enough time to visit the whole lake ~it takes about one and a half hour by car to do so ~

We took a lot of photos at there :)






Next, we went to the Hubei Museum. I gained a lot of knowledge about Hubei's history after visiting the museum!

There are a lot of ancient things displayed at the museum including gold cup and bowl the king used in the past, the musical instrument the ancient people played, the coffin of their king etc. From all the things they displayed, I can know that the people in the past are very faithful and respect to their king, and the people are categorized into different levels, range from the labours to king and king's family.





After that, we went to a nice restaurant to have our lunch! The food at there is so nice and we felt very full after the meal. Coincidently, we witnessed a Chinese wedding ceremony while we having our lunch. The ceremony is slightly different from Singapore Chinese~ The bride’s dad have to take her hand and hand it to the groom as a sign of asking him to take good care of his daughter. The moment was very touching but this is not commonly practiced by Singaporean.

After the lunch, we went to the Yellow Crane tower, which is the symbol of Wuhan. It consists of 9 levels but we can only see 5 levels from outside.
We climbed to the top of the Yellow Crane Tower by around 20 minutes, the view from top was really breathtaking! We can see the whole Wuhan town from here!



At around 3 pm we continue our journey to the next destination which is the Jiang Han road! There are a lot of shopping malls at there, however, I did not buy anything as the things sold at there are quite expensive~





We gathered at 5 pm and go back our dormitory to rest after a tiring day. It was nice to travel around Wuhan today  However, today I realised that most of the people living here have smoking habit, I can see people smoking everywhere. I guess it is probably because of the cold weather ~However, smoking is not good for their health so I hope that the people will not smoke so frequently when it turns warmer.
So, these are all for today! Good night people!

First Complementary Medicine Class :)

We having our first class for complementary medicine today at 9 am so I woke up early in the morning to prepare for the class~
For this module, we have 3 PBL ,1 PBL test and also lecture test!
All the assessment deadline are so close i afraid that i cannot cope with them :(

However, I felt excited to learn new things from this module :)

Today, we were introduced to Complementary Alternative Medicine. There are 5 CAM practices: Biological Based System,Mind-Body Medicine,Manipulative & Body based, energy therapies and also holistic alternative practices. Mr Imran asked everyone in the class to meditate, it was very fun and most of the people fall asleep!


After the 2 hour lecture, we went to top up the canteen card and eat at "chun hua canteen" there~I had a plate of char siew rice from the second floor of the canteen, it comes in very big portion and i cannot finish it even thought i was very hungry~



Around 4 pm we finished todays's lesson, we went back to our dorm to rest for a while after a tiring day of lectures~

We decided to go to the street behind the school to explore and have our dinner at there~It was very crowded and there is a lot of food selling at there~ The food is very different from singapore's food and we tried some of the food~

Then, we meet our friend who brought us around yesterday and having dinner together~we went to a ramen shop, the mee used for cooking is made by the owner of the shop, it is quite delicious~