Blogs from Jiangsu, China, Asia - page 116

25th Oct to 27th Oct 05 this page is dedicated to my friends n family who wants to know what's happening in my life in suzhou. The pix are all about me, moi and myself...*grin...have fun and u can email me ur corny remarks if any :) a pretty standard day for me is : morning - work from my desk in Xing Hai School. Clearing school work and also nygh work..It's pretty neat that the school has broadband internet access where i can update the blog and also download emails from school. Managed to skype my colleagues and friends as well today :) minor achievement for a techie like me! lunch - never had a fixed lunch break in nygh as we all eat at different times but here all the staff eat at around ... read more

The girls have fun attending lessons in class and learning all the terms in mandarin. Some girls even had a taste of crabs ...as it's the season for crabs now. Weather's great - between 12 to 22 degree and our girls formed an impromptu team to play soccer against the Xing Hai girls. Some were captivated by their handsome teachers....and found lessons more interesting :) Hands on paper cutting session was a fun time for all - esp to those who discovered that they can do a complicated design effortlessly...*grin..for others...it proved to be quite challenging !! Even Physics teacher, Teresa couldn't resist having her "xuang xi" cut out in various sizes... Home was cosy for the girls and the host families were all out to pamper their singapore friends...Beiyu has a room with a good ... read more

I forgot to tell you about text messaging in China.Almost every one of the 1.3 billion Chinese has a cell phone,well perhaps not everyone but every 20 something, of which there are millions,has a cell phone and all of them are text messaging ALL the time.Thumbs are flying and messages are shooting through the air waves.During the show last night the conga player was text messaging while on stage!!! People are biking and messaging and Noah and his friends are constantly in touch.It is cheaper than phoning apparently and you would be hard pressed to find someone without a cell phone in his hand... read more

Well we awoke early yesterday and snuck out to not disturb the sleeping hosts.One of the symptoms of working in bars at night is an aversion to mornings.Ann had a desire to eat some street food and we wandered around Noah's neighbourhood.There was a line up at a small place serving some sort of pastry or so it looked coated in some roasted black seeds? Not sure what exactly it was but it was popular.We wandered on and found a stand with a man eating a steaming bowl of noodles. A few points and nnods later and we were sitting and eating our own bowls of noodles and vegetables.The smiling woman seemed happy and as always curious about us and i think even may have complimented us about our chop stick work.We had some fried bread ... read more

We are up at 5 am packed and ready to go by 6:30.The ship has packed a breaqkfast for us and a young looking guide arrives promptly at the appointed hour. She does not speak much english but takes us on a tour of the Three gorges Dam anyway. This pam project is the largest construction project in the world and they are still building another power generating station to house another 14 generators as well as a ship elevator to lift container ships up to the river elevations.The things is huge and while hazy/foggy you could feel the power of the water flowing out of the sluice gates. We are deposited at the bus station in Yi Chang for the 5 hours bus ride to Wuhan.We slept a bit on the half empty bus but ... read more