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Friday, January 01, 2010

1) Suzhou Industrial Park

- We visited the Cultural Centre and saw the milestone as well as models of buildings of the entire SIP. The flats in SIP were modeled after HDB flats from Singapore. But yet they looked more like a condo to me. Also only in SIP do you find simlar scenes from Singapore that you would never appreciate back home. There were trees on both sides of the roads and in the middle of the road, flowers were grown. This reminds me of the expressways in Singapore.

- NExt up, we visited a garment factory as we witnessed the process of making cotten and turning it into clothes/ cloth.

- Lunchtime was great as we tasted Singapore food such as fried rice, curry chicken and fried noodles for the first time in 4 days. I finally get to experience how it's like to miss food from home and how touched you would be when you get to taste food from home in foreign country. Everyone were happy during lunch that day :)

- Third stop was at zhuo zheng yuan ,a residence built by a rich man in the past.

- Fourth Stop was Suzhou Silk Factory where we saw how silk was collected and the uses for silk. Our teachers bought pillows and some other silk products while the students ( us ) did not buy much. It was considered quite expensive for us.

-After dinner we proceed on to our hotel ( zhouzhuang). On the way, we witness the beauty of Suzhou as it was lighted up. This scenary was different from the buildings and houses we saw in shanghai. Over here, it was more of lakes and bridges, reminding me of the chinese saying: ' 上有天堂,下有苏杭'.
On the way, our poor bus driver lost his way for three times as the roads were dark as we entered the '苏州古城' where houses were similar to those we usually saw in tv drama. Our hotel was horrible in the fact that it looks eerie and creppy. Almost all the girls were scared our of our wits when we entered the hallway to our rooms. At the two ends were corridors which was very dark and our rooms were just in the middle of the two ends.

Khairiyah and jeevita s' room was dark while chloe 's room was slightly dark too. So fast forward to the end of our story : All 6 of us sleep in my room , shared with hui yu. We even moved one mattress from chloe 's room and carried the chairs over. In the morning we shifted everything back to where it is. It was a fun and COLD NIGHT ! The hotel do not have heater and everyone was freezing cold. The gloves and socks and three layers do not help . Being scared, we even left the toilet door open when we bath and dared not looked into the mirror while bathing. One of the guys ' room had a blackout and they cam running in the hallway. Everyone can't wait to leave this place and we were grateful that the hotel in shanghai was way better.

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Dreams ended @ --*1:04 PM*--