The Four Gates

we were supposed to meet up with the chinese studies students at 8.10 in the morning. and guess what. we woke up at 8.09. haha! with only 1 minute to spare, we hurried like rats around the dorm and kit and kang qi even forgot to change their slippers to shoes. super funny. and we were in such a rush such that amanda forgot her wallet and her watch. and i had to wash my face with my waterbottle. we're cool like that. don't laugh.

and so we went to Hubei Province Museum for a history and culture tour about the past people living in Hubei. It took about 2 hours? apporximately that long. it was in chinese but i had help here and there with translations from kang qi, kit and our china friend who majors in english. the tour was really fast and i didnt get much time to read the boards up on the walls.

on the left is the main museum building and on the right is where we watched the performance after the museum tour.

aziz no more a snowman. like me. haha!

i dont know what pose you were aiming for ha kun

ngee ann students dominated the whole place. ok not totally.

this is cool. its where you place your wet umbrellas. you have to unlock the slots with keys to open it up so like it kind of like secures your umbrella so others don't take them away.

this tomb right here was their casket

and later put into this primary tomb. protection against? unnecessary much?

they were obsessed with the phoenix

these big bronze barrels are used to keep wine. apparently the emporers loved wine so much, they had like many different kinds of pots and barrels just for wine.

instrumetns in olden times

used to store their clothes

pure gold! just to eat. pfft.

this is freaky, put this small jade things in the corpes' skull? er...

goldgoldgold

all hail the king

empress accesories

our china friend from the university we're living in

she majors in english. she practically speaks like an american
she's a helpful friend who helps me translate

the village life

amanda knows how to camwhore only
covergirl number 2.
kit! you have competition already, you better watch out

edward the gentleman!

the woman in red is our tour guide

COLD and BORED

agnes the video woman

COLD and BORED WAITING

our china friend who tagged along with us today
she's super nice. she's in the media club and reporting for their school's newspaper about us :)

then we went for a short performance which involved many old instruments from the history in olden times. what surprised me was they played a western piece at the end to prove that not only can the chinese instruments play traditional tunes but western ones as well

this is really cool, no?

lots of kite-flying
ill come back here to fly a kite before i return home to Singapore

lots of old men passing their time fishing
dr zhu said the fish from this lake is fresh and nice
we'll see about that soon

we had a bus take us on a tour around the lake where i practically slept throughout the journey cos i was too tired and i entrusted kang qi with my camera. it came back in one piece :)

my lunch. halal burger, and fries

the chinese girls' lunch

abdul, the hyperactive boy from 2 days earlier, kicked the boy on the left. abdul was called back in for a scolding.

kamsahamida! our korean neighbours enjoying their homemade kimchi and mixed rice

we had seafood maggi for dinner which had mushroom, eggs and cabbage
awesomeness :)

the halal burger stall

the two puffy girls from 2 days earlier talking to a boy
can't stand them. they way they communicate with each other is too adorable

kit has problems wearing her socks properly
her socks keeps slipping off

the beginning:
kit action pro air hockey player
shakkir scared alreeady

2 all

shakkir let go of his defence and kit still can't put the chip in. haha!
final score: kit 2, shakkir 4

this is super funny
shakkir and ram tried to play para-para for the first time
and they even failed level one of easy. haha!

so we went to the arcade in town where we spent like 2 hours there trying to finish our games. we collected a total of 164 coupons, all of us combined and we're gonna keep it to get something in exchange since we have 6 weeks still. i'm not going to spend money on tokens anymore. waste of money only.

fariz says he's an all Adidas man.
true enough. he has nothing else but Adidas

i don't like guys who are petty with their food choices
which the guys were where they were choosing between Macs and KFC
it was already so late and all the shops closed already still so petty

the guys were starving so us girls accompanied them to KFC as we needed them to send us off to our dorms as it was already 11 at night and the streets in town were already quite abandoned.
the night life in Wuhan City isn't really night life at all. the streets are quiet unlike Singapore on a Saturday night at 11.

so after that we had a long walk back to our dorms where the guys accompanied us back and for being such gentlemen, we spread bread for them with nutella and peanut butter. since some of them didn't eat at KFC cos it was ex. kang qi, kit and i bought ice cream which was really nice. i think it tastes better than island creamery in Singapore. haha!

then later on kang qi's lock couldn't open her drawer lock so kit and i helped her and kit succeeded, SHOCKINGLY! the princess knows how to break the problem combination man. all hail princess kit. haha you know i love you kit :D kang qi you can always turn to us if you have problems. dont keep em to yourself cos it can't be solved like that. like what kit says, ONE FOR FOUR, FOUR FOR ONE (its supposed to be all for one and one for four, but kit's smart that way).

day 5 has been quite an experience with the guys around :)