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~

Second day being at WUST

Today, we gathered downstairs our dormitory at around 9 am, one of the lecturer from Ngee Ann took us around the school to familiarise with the facilities and the classroom we will be using for the rest of the days at here~

There is about 2 to 3 canteens here and we need to top up the canteen card to buy food from there~

This is the entrance of WUST!






The view is so nice and we were told that it will be nicer when all the flowers bloom during spring time!
Hopefully the flowers bloom before we go back singapore :)

After visiting the school, we were given a talk by the Deputy Director of WUST. He briefly told us about the history of the university and explained our schdule for the next 5 weeks~

All of us feeling hungry and went out for LUNCH!!Yay!it is lunch time!!The students here are very warm and hospitable! They brought us to the greenery cafe to have our lunch~The food is so tasty at there and we had a lot of dishes for our lunch! I feel so satisfied and a bit sleepy after having a very filling lunch ~





After the lunch, it is the time to exercise a bit to aid digestion! we went to the supermarket nearby which is called "wal mart" to buy some necessities by taking cab!

We shop until 5 pm , we were so tired and decided to find a nice place to have our dinner! We went to a restaurant called shiweiguan to have our dinner~We ordered a pot of soup called"shiwei bone soup" with vegetable, sotong ball , some mushroom and corn , "shiwei fried potato" and pumpkin with salty egg~









I found that the students here are really very friendly,hopefully i could have a chance to bring them around our school and singapore to have fun same as what they did~Before we come to Wuhan I thought the people here are not so friendly and hard to communicate with them. However, after hanging out with them for half day, I feel that they are really nice to talk to and quite get along with them :)

We reached our dormitory at around 8.30 pm, we felt so tired and had a nice sleep after showering :)