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Friday, January 01, 2010

Day 3

We visited Asia pAcific Breweries where we shown the ingredients of making beer , the machines as well as those above 18 years did have taste of beer.
There was a presentation by one of the Singaporean working there. I have learned that the beer industry is actually considered Perfect Competition. SIngapore's beer industry consists of mainly Calsberg and Heninekeen outdoing each other. I have also gained more knowledge of the beer industry in China and learned that although China 's demand for beer is increasing over the years, the profits made is still lower compared to european countries. The reason being the Chinese s' aim to keep the price of beer low. So it doesn't mean that as the consumption of a good increased , the profits will increase too.

Next up was Parkway Glegeagles Health centre, after lunch at Mcdonald. We learned more about the private healthcare service in China and how it caters to mostly expats. They even have an operation centre as well as wards for patients to stay in after their operation. The Q & A part was fun and it provides us with greater knowledge of the private healthcare industry in china. All the questions for internal presentation popped out as each speaker started to post their respective questions to our guide of the day. She used to be a dentist but switch to being an adminstrative manager.

The day ended with dinner with businessmen from Singapore working in Shanghai. Our group met up with a lady who was working for DBS in Shanghai and she filled us with her own encounters and experience living in Shanghai. Almost all the Singaporeans we met told us that if one do not go after a luxurious life , it is actually considered quite cheap to live in shanghai. After which our group went over to Team content 's table and had a chat with a Projects Manager working in Singapore-Shanghai international school. He turned out to be quite humormous and filled us with details of his own life experience. He is currently studying for a degree ( when we met him) and now he had gotten his degree.

I was thankful to our teachers for arranging for us to meet up Singaporeans working or studying in Shanghai. It feels good to see fellow Singaporeans in a foregin country. They told us that indeed they miss home, especially the local food such as 'Chay guay tiao', chicken rice and hokieen mee. They told us that if given a chance or opportunity, one should grab that chance given to go overseas to experience a different lifestyle and culture.

Dreams ended @ --*12:44 PM*--