Beijing (+18) CS and lessons

Beijing (+18)

This morning I rushed down to the Voyage classroom to play CS (: Yep, we have become CS fanatics over 3 days lol. All 13 Isparkies now play CS (:

That aside, I DINT SLEEP IN CHINESE LESSONS TODAY YAY.

PE was okay... Just that there were too many people cramped in one court such that each person only got to touch the ball once or twice.

Mass jog today was stupid. They arranged everyone by height so I was somewhere in the 4th row.. What the hell la.

Physics was very easy to understand. Mr Su is a good teacher. (: And so is Mr Ang.

English presentation was screwed. Never mind. We were handicapped.

WOOTS MATH WAS OWNAGE FUN (: BINOMIAL THEOREM!

After I completed my math homework, I SPAMMED CS ALL THE WAY! :D

My AWP skills are imba. Lol. But still needs to be improved. It's great fun playing with such a huge group. I heard the huge group short circuited a few multi plugs and cracked up the Internet server lol.

We also went to this Japanese restaurant for dinner (:

Eel meat (:



Delicious.

Dahwei. AWP.

Oh yes, I promised you guys photos of Tian Wai Tian.

Beijing (+15,16,17)

Beijing (+15, +16, +17)

Hi! These few days, the school has been locked up for the New Year holidays. (: I have been camping in the dormitory these few days, stoning and wasting my time away.

Now that I have access to Internet again, I will continue my blogging (:

AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! IT’S A BRAND NEW YEAR! (: LET’S GO 2008!

Here’s my New Year’s Resolution.

1. Msg 1.00
2. Increased involvement in S.B.
3. Breakdancing ability by end of year
4. Continue to gym actively
5. Join the family in Sunday Swimming
6. Abstain from gaming
7. Homework as first priority
8. Regular filing
9. 170 cm
10. Be involved in major events that allow bonding between students from other schools (E.g. exchanges, SLC etc…)
11. Take up responsibility in an SL project
12. Become more mature by the end of Sec 4.

(:

Today’s Chinese lessons were dead. As usual. Math and Physics were hell interesting! :D We learnt a lot in these lessons haha.

After school ended at 4:00pm, I went to play Counterstrike with the Highflyer Isparkies. All the way until dinner and after dinner (:

The free time is really used wrongly. LOL. Supposed to finish up my online lessons… Ah well.

:D I’m going to bed. It’s 12. (: And I just watched High School Musical and Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring) in CHINESE. WTH LOL.

Bye.

Dahwei. Resolve.

Beijing (+14) ZOO!

Beijing (+14)

Sunday! I suggested visiting the zoo as an outing. 7 other Isparkies came along. (: We had breakfast at Macs, then took Bus 104 all the way to the Beijing zoo.

The entrance wasn’t exactly pretty. And the ticket costed me 15 Yuan. >< Great Panda exhibition hall.







Then we saw this super huge lake that’s all frozen, with hundreds of birds resting on it. Pretty scenery! (:



The Isparkies who went. Me. Shawn Koh. Bo Yan. Kah Hong. Shawn Teo. Jia Jie. Baifeng and Ryan.




Me and the mandarin ducks! :D



Lots of animals, but since it was the winter season, a lot of them were either hibernating or slacking in an indoors heated environment.

One pathetic tiger.



2 sleeping lions.



The most active animals. Wolves.



A super OWNAGE piece of rock that is in the shape of a majestic tiger. OMG! (:



The friendliest animals that allowed us to pat them.



A pregnant one. (:



The tall guy.



We paid 10 Yuan just to visit these pathetic penguins. ><

Panda indoor slippers and 1 Panda pencil case. For my sister of course. (:

After the zoo visit, Baifeng, Ryan and I met up with Xc. The rest took a bus back to Tie Shi Zi Fen. The four of us shopped at zoo plaza and Xidan shopping centre. But I didn’t buy anything LOL.



I was searching for gifts for my parents. I have officially COMPLETED my gift list! :D I have bought gifts for all my friends. All taken care of. YAY!

Now to focus on nice gifts for my parents (:

Dahwei. Panda.

Beijing (+13) New Year Party!

Beijing (+13)

Woot! It’s the WEEKEND! (:

We had our class’s New Year 2008 Celebrations today. Every class had organized a party where they would just eat, drink, play and be merry!

Gao Yi (09) had lots of events planned for us. (: We had a dumplings folding session, where flour, dough, filling and water were placed before us.







My dumplings (:



Then we sent the whole lot of 200 dumplings to the kitchen for boiling.

The kitchen was wet, messy and strewn all over the floor was rotten veggies. Ew. The way they cooked the dumplings was quite weird as well. They used a huge shovel to stir the boiling pot. :D Omg.



We carried our boiling hot and cooked dumplings back to the class (:



Balloons, fluffy strips and a crazily doodled board :D


Half eaten sweets, papers and wrappers all thrown around. Aiya, it was a HUGE MESS la. BUT! We had LOTS OF FUN (:

And during the last hour of the party, we had many performances put up by the local students. Whee! Talented.







After the party, I gave Zi Han and Si Lü the cards that I made. Then XC, Russell, Ryan, Daniel and I went to Cheng Du Mei Shi for lunch.

We went to Wang Fu Jing to shop for the whole afternoon (: I bought a few souvenirs for the people back in Singapore. Yay.

An interesting Saturday out in the streets of Beijing! :D

Dahwei. Happy New Year.

Beijing (+12) SNOW! YAY!

Beijing (+12)

Aw… Last day of Immersion, last weekday before Year 2008. Last school-day and last Friday of the Year. BUT IT WAS EXCITING! CAUSE…

THERE WAS SNOW. YES SNOW. SNOW WOOT SNOW FINALLY.



Although it was light snow, it was still SNOW! LIKE THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER SEEN SNOW HAHA (:

Pathetic as it is, it is SNOW! :D

We had Math for our first period of Immersion. Complex. As usual. Chinese Geography was sian. Mass jog was cancelled cause of the melting snow and wet ground. ): Chinese Lit lesson was dead. As … usual.

AIYA all the lessons are part of the routine already. The next time I blog, I wouldn’t mention lessons anymore. >< color="#ff9900">Higher Higher HIGHER Chinese) for Immersion. The Chinese teacher was so interesting! (:



I talked to Zi Han quite a bit today. I even got her handphone number!



Took a photo with my buddies during lunch today haha.



And Si Lü has this pen that unleashes COOL BLUE INK. I’m going to get that pen colour when I get back to Singapore. To add on to my Purple, Light Orange, Silky Black colour pens. (:

The afternoon lessons were sian. My Ih group had to present our “Causes of War” Powerpoint today, Ms Quah gave us a Volunteerism project and Mr Ang wasted 60% of the period talking crap lol.

Today’s blogpost will be a bit brief because I really need the free time to do my Comprehension assignment (It’s graded what the hell.) and make 2 New Year cards for my Chinese buddies. (:

Actually from today onwards, there will be a significant decrease in blogpost length because:

1. I won’t be going to much attractions anymore ):

2. I need the time to do the work thrown at us ):

Sad la. School starts soon. ): BUT THE NEW YEAR 2008 IS COMING! HAHA! :D And tomorrow is the school’s annual New Year Celebrations cum Class Parties. We are invited!

Whee. I shall await the countdown. Will call back to my family of course. (:

Dahwei. New Year.

Beijing (+11) Tian Tan

Beijing (+11)

Second last day of Immersion. Sian. ): Had better treasure the time left with the Chinese students in class. I made another new friend. Zhang Wen Da. (:

We had Math for our first period. COMPLEX >< But if one actually puts in the effort to understand the stuff being taught, it’s actually quite easy. The teacher was simply complicating things. Everything was abstract compared to the simplified version being taught in Hwa Chong.

(: We went back to Voyage’s classroom for Geography. The only thing I learnt during the lesson was about Great Pandas. LOL.

PE was volleyball again. Quite pwnage fun (: This time Russell and Daniel joined the Chinese students in the game.

Owned mass jog as usual. Was running in front of the pack :1

We went back to our Immersion classes after the exercise. Our class was having DnT.

:D Woodwork, innovation and craftsmanship. WICked. Although the Singaporeans were slacking throughout the period, we managed to pass time by doodling.

When we got back to our Gao Yi 09, we had a pleasant shock. Our class was staging a PLAY titled “Little Woman” and Zi Han was acting as well (: Many of the class members were involved. The costumes were AWESOME. Pretty.

After lunch, we went to Tian Tan for our outing! :D

But there wasn’t much to see at Tian Tan.

The few attractions were:

1. The Circular Hall (Qi Nian Dian)







2. The Echo wall



3. The Nine dragons stone (Jiu Long Bo)



The Ispark group of 13 was pretty exhausted after the trip. And quite disappointed as well. It wasn’t exactly impressive, nor was it culturally enriching. It was something like a walk-see-walk-sit trip. Quite boring. ><

When we got back to Beijing Shi Fan Da Er Fu Zhong, we went to Cheng Du Mei Shi (Heavenly City Food) for dinner. My order totally sucked. Fried rice with shredded meat SUX.

And after that, it was free time all the way until 11:30! (:

Not a very exciting day. And it is saddening to realize that tomorrow is the LAST DAY of Immersion. Sian.

Dahwei. More Immersion.

Beijing (+10) Keppel

Beijing (+10)

It’s been 10 days. We have survived 1/3 of our journey. (: Hope the remaining journey will be full of surprises.

We were going to have lessons until 1:00pm, then we would be going out for ANOTHER OUTING :D

Chinese lessons were monotonous as usual. The class has gotten used to the deafenining silence. Apart from the teacher speaking of course. >< IMMERSION! YAY.




Zi Han was smsing under the table again. (:

We were going to have English :D HAHA! An eye-opener.

Jessie was our English teacher. She spoke excellent English with a Chinese accent. I was surprised at the standard of English here in Er Fu Zhong. Most of the students here had good vocabulary and can hold a reasonable conversation.

The lesson was simple and easy to understand, even though the Singaporean students could spot a lot of syntax errors. But it was extremely impressive. (:

Math was the complex one. The math teacher was old but quite knowledgeable. The lesson was pretty much a lot of derivations of Trigonometry. Although the Singaporeans had problems understanding the various weird symbols, most of us could still grasp a little. ._o



Probably only Bo Yan and I could understand the teacher. We could capture all the information that was presented before us. At least better than Zi Han, Shi Ruo and Si Lü. :D

Shi Ruo and Si Lü are another two girls that I met today. They are seated in front of us (:

YES 3 friends WOOT. :D

Lunch was quite good. Better than the canteen at least.



We were going to a Beijing workshop. In summary, it is a workshop about Keppel. KeppelLand, Beijing branch.

We were brought to a very stuffy room for our first lecture. We were seated on very uncomfortable stools, but we got through. (: Even though 80% of the people were sleeping or daydreaming, I was paying full attention. ><

My stool was quite shaky, so I couldn’t sleep or daydream properly. I was jotting down notes. Haha. The lecture was about the Keppel structure, property sales and the 3 secrets to Successful Property Sale.

The second part was a tour of “The Seasons” high-rise apartments. The place was spacious enough for snowball fights, skateboarding, ball games and lots of outdoor activities.





If there were fresh air instead of this polluted shit, if there were rushing water in creeks and if there were snow or the scent of spring, THIS PLACE WOULD BE A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE IN! (:



But now, it looks barren, deserted and foggy. Quite dreadful. I believe it’s the winter season that’s causing the place to seem so lifeless.

The third part of our Keppel workshop was a lecture by the manager about the history of China property, the policies employed to retain reasonable property prices and the strategies of property sale.

Sadly, almost nobody was listening.

We got screwed by Mr Yap for destroying the reputation of Hwa Chong, for being a totally unattentive audience ):

But Keppel was still very generous, inviting the entire delegation of students to a very posh restaurant for dinner.

AND FINALLY! PEKING DUCK FOR THE FIRST TIME! :D



After the meal, XC and I suddenly had the inspiration for a masterpiece. (:



Guess what ingredients were used. LOL.

Dahwei. Keppel.