1. Pushing. Yes. The people like to push here regardless of crowded places of unpacked places. As long as they are walking past you, they will push you.
2. Ignoring the traffic signs. The green man indicates that you cross the road, but with eyes wide open as cars may just continue driving, and mind prepared with motorcycles or bicycles riding past you. So I suggest ignoring the traffic signs, just cross whenever there’s a chance to cross.
3. Left hand drive. The cars here are designed to be left hand drive instead of right hand drive as that in Singapore. It takes quite some time for me to adjust to the way the road is designed. Even the direction of the trains is different from that in Singapore. I’m still confused at times.
4. Oily food. OMG! The food here is super oily. Noodles, vegetables, meat, soup, eggs, everything is oily. Although the food here is more salty, the oily factor is much more irritating. Maybe that's why I got fat more easily here. Haha excuses.
5. Weird weather. The weather can drop 10degC in just one day. It can be 16 to 10 degC today but 5 to -2 degC the next day. I experienced this weather range and it was horrible! The wind was strong and the uncovered face became dry and pain and super duper cold. No more such weather before I leave, please!
6. Cold weather. It is a torture to bathe during winter. It is ok if the water is running, but when you turn off the tap and need to apply shower gel, omg, cold cold cold. Brrr. Can’t put hair conditioner during this period. Too tough to wait for 1 minute.
7. Taking train during peak period. Never ever take the train during peak periods unless you have no choice. You will be a tuna, sandwiched between 5 people. This is not the biggest problem. If you want to alight at unpopular stops, good luck! You have to squeeze out before people from outside squeeze in. People never let you alight first. It always seemed that the first person to enter the train will get a big prize. Don't understand the rush and I don't wish to understand.
8. Shanghainese dialect. Mostly Chinese strangers, people who want to ask for directions, shop keepers, colleagues, will speak to you in Shanghainese. Shanghainese doesn't sound pleasant to me. Kind of irritating and annoying. If they speak to me in Shanghainese, I always replied,“普通话！”
9. Being fierce. In order to get things done more efficiently, you must be fierce and loud. In order not to get bullied, you must be even fiercer. This is the way of life in Shanghai.
I submitted my final IA report to prof on Monday but he didn't reply my email. He replied my friend’s email but not mine. So I sent him an email today to ask if he had received it. You know what, he replied, “Marked already! Take care.” So he had looked through my report and graded it in 2 days?! Shrugs, whatever.
Anyway, I am so free now. I have 2h of free time between each experiment. Oh god, so bored. I'm thinking of what to do every now and then. Haha. I have been reading Baby Blues comics for the past 2 days, if you all are interested, the website is www.babyblues.com. It has all the comic strips from the first episode to the latest. Great! I used to read this comics everyday from the Straits Times, but once I am in Shanghai, I didnt read that. =(... but now =). haha
At the sea near 栈桥:
Many people picking seafood like crabs, octopus and shells during low tide.
This photo looked like it had been photoshop rite, so fake lah
At 鲁迅公园：
At 花石楼：
ZW forced Jia Hui to take this "teeco" photo
Busy tying their socks. Mine was tied already as the guide helped me! lol
Oui ! It matches my shirt colour. 
Desert duck tour
We didnt ride the camel.
Doraemon! ok, it's ugly
Thats all for day 2 in IM. haha. Distance between places of interest is very far, so most of the time we were sleeping on the bus.
kite flying high high in the sky. Freedom? No. It is still attached to a string. 
Cute guide explaining the history 
Only photo with the guide. =(
These are the 2 who always bully me. lol
The last place of visit was 明城墙. We left the tour group early as we need to take the train to Inner Mongolia. We had lunch at a restaurant nearby. Anw, we had lunch at 10.30am, before that we had buffet breakfast at our 4 start hotel. So I was super full before having lunch lah. The best dish was the fish. OMG! It was super delicious lah. Very crispy and much fewer bones. Those fish I had before had lots of bones and I won't touch them. But for this fish, I think I ate half of it and all the skin. haha. Pls note that I was super full. This shows how I longed for to eat fish, with less bones.
This was the super nice fish!
Our train to Inner Mongolia (IM) was at 12.20pm. We left at 11.30am as we were told that the taxi ride will be only 10min from the train station. So we slowly waited for the taxi. There were empty taxis, but none was stopping! It was 12pm and we started to panic. Cos the train always leave on time or even few minutes earlier. So we cannot afford to be late. We were so desparate for taxis that we took motorbike instead. It was a motorbike that had a cart for 3 passengers. When we reached the train station, I almost wanted to faint. There were so many people queueing up, or rather gathering at the entrance for the queue to have their luggage checked. It was 12.15pm. Really very stressed out. After we got our luggage checked, we rushed to the entrance gate for the train that will leave to IM. When we reached there, I wanted to faint again. There were 2 long queues to enter the checkpoint for the tickets. It was 12.20pm already. But at least the gates were not closed, which means that we still have the chance to board the train. haha. When I was at the checkpoint, the person in front of me had her ticket was confiscated. I don't really know what happen. I was so worried that mine will be confiscated also lah. Going crazy at that time liao. It was 12.30pm. Luckily, mine was returned to me after the train person clipped my ticket. After that, we ran to the train. The situation was simply crazy. I was carrying heavy bags and I was panting super heavily and sweating profusely. When I saw the train, I was so relieved! Cos if we didnt get to board this train, which is the only train to IM per day, I really don't know if we will still be able to go IM. The train left at 12.50pm. Maybe it was due to the Golden Week of China, thats why there was allowance of 30min.
We bought 硬卧. I took the middle deck. Argh! Can't sit upright. The blanket and pillow case didn't seem to be as clean as the 西安train. But at least the toilet was clean. No bombs this time and there was water from the tap. The problem for this train was that the hot water was limited and the hot water station was located at a few cabins only. So I needed to walk to few cabins down the train, sometimes without being able to get hot water. *roll my eyes*
Not bad, I survived 22h train ride. Alrighty, thats all for day4. Will update IM tour soon, I guess. haha
A statue of yang gui fei. This photo was taken by ah wei. Now you all know what he focuses on.
After that, we went to 兵马俑博物馆. The highlight of the tour. This is the main thing to see in 西安。We were super excited as we wanted to see how grand it was. Initially we were brought to exhibition halls in the museum. Saw artefacts that were kept in glass. Was quite disappointed initially, but when we went to the real site where the 兵马俑 were found, we were really impressed. Actually those 兵马俑 were coloured, in fact quite colourful. But after 5 minutes they were dugged out, the colour fade away. Thats why the digging for more 兵马俑 and tombs were paused as people are still finding ways to preserve the colour and also finding ways to neutralize the mecury underground. The amount of mecury is very high and it will kill if inhaled. So smart of 秦始皇rite. He did so much planning of his body after death. haha
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