Let's make this quick and straightforward yea.. i hope i promise.. lol! (look at the previous post man, tht's more like e prelude to the trip.. >.<) xd, u wanna bore them, haha, wad will mine do man.

Day 1 - Singapore/Hangzhou (this day is slack. fun. we thought it will be like this throughout..)
Everyone is excited. No matter how long it takes just to get the plane moving. Everything fascinates us. We took a few pictures infront of those BIG planes. we rejoiced every step we advanced into e terminal.. In the plane, SIA, while xd snorin away, i was fascinated again. when was the last time i was on e plane? primary 6. (not verylong, but excited all e same) but i wasnt alone last time.. took e window seat, while jay and kai xiang were relaxin beside me, i nearly squeezed and broke tht controller when the plane took off. oh well, so much for tht, up in e sky, watched and played, played and ate, ate and listened. when we landed, nice cool wind greeted us. omg, i hope the 9 days will be like this!(it wasnt to be)

we had to take a bus straight to hangzhou, another long journey.. finally reached the hotel after many pictures taken, i couldnt believe it.. i m in CHINA. i thought i can only access it through the tv. there's a pit stop, dumplings! xd,yl,xav,me, shared 3 dumplings. very nice bonding. -_- Reached the hotel after much enthusiastic talk by e tour guide. hotel was nice. very nice. only for me and xd, i couldnt believe it. 4 stars i think, i didn care much bout anythin, i juz wanna hangout! Chatted till our heart's out, but slept early, very early.(compared to the rest of the 8 days)

Experiences are gained everyday, esp. new things we nv encounter be4. So minor are some that they go unnoticed. but they all make up the person i am, though slowly.
Posted: 12.45a.m July 4 2005
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Day 2 - Hangzhou (WaHaHa Industrial Site - it may sound funny, but they have what it takes..)
Still fascinated. Still VERY alive. Until the teachers made me e first I/C of the trip. Wad can i do? the teachers are mostly ncc teachers. >.< i thought yea, its okay, juz counting heads, ensuring no one was lost... i did some admin stuffs, collectin some money for e polo t-shirt..(some havent pay yet) and yea and we are off to WaHaHa.. they produce those "energy" drinks stuff and there was this "fei chang" cola which they adapted from the real Coke.. anyway the production was massive, like 1000bottles per second.. it was very cool..

Next, we went to a long jin tea village.. the place was beautiful, mountains of terraces of tea leaves filled up the entire place and my camera had no choice but to juz keep taking. anyway, the promoter for the long jin cha was professional.. she kept tokin while we "savor" the "wonderful" tea ( i dun really noe how to appreciate them).. anyway, i bought one can, for my uncle who i think is very into tea and yea they sell lots of stuff too, tea candies, pillow -_- and other stuff.. martin actually bought a pillow! haha.. so yea, continued my i/c job, checkin everyone is present.. and back to e hotel, when all of us tok alot bout our past late into e night.. it was very meaningful, very nice bonding.. will nv forget this night..

I didnt expect this day to be my downfall weeks later. he felt tht i didn do enough. he thinks i might not be good enough, for wad i always aimed for.
Posted: 1.04a.m July 4 2005
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Day 3 - After last night. thought all was wonderful. i spilled my guts out finally, my dark side was revealed. But i was happy. i shared my burdens with them. like they did to me.

Let's say, it was very good at first. ( i hope they read this. this misunderstanding nearly cost me my buddies. it may seems stupid now. but it was kinda serious then.) We woke up like its time to sleep. We slept very late. but it didn spoil my mood. the task for the day was to ask questions and answer e crossword puzzles about China. Then i started feelin not right.. Head spinning, legs dragging. "Hey, this not gonna spoil my mood here" So i set off with my group through the streets of China, startin from a McDonald's. I looked at the puzzles, it gave me displeasure and more displeasure. i started laggin behind. i kept very quiet amidst xav, yl's thing bout "jerk". Seriously, i didn care much bout tht name-calling. But i think i was too quiet. i stayed that way. All i was thinkin was, "i hope this will be over soon". we went into a travel agency to ask for some of e answers. yl asked me to check e map of China in e agency. I looked at him, stunned.. wad was going on? lol, i tried to look for the question paper. yl went forward instead. oh well, i continued in silence. all through, i didn tok.. this shouldn be the way but i juz feel wrong. and yes, yl woke me up suddenly, "kc! why u so petty? u nv got urself involved at all, just e word "jerk" and you angry..." oops, wad hav i done.. i looked at him, i tried to tell them, but i questioned him instead.. what petty? whr got? lol.. xd didn bother lookin at me, " guys! we got to finish this first, tht one can leave it to later".

It wasnt really resolved yet. i haven told them how terrible i felt. it was weird when i think bout it. haha, i thought u guys noe me, how could i be petty just for tht word? but yea, i really am sorry, i really wanna apologize, for not being part of e group then. should hav juz told you all, but i thought i could do juz fine. on the bus, i slept all e way to suzhou. of coz, i got better.. but tht night, when we had our usual bonding, i juz dun feel right tokin to them.. kinda feel guilty. i couldnt start tokin. i listened to their stories. but i feel really weird. i quickly went to sleep..again.
Posted: 6.30p.m July 6 2005
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Day 4 - Suzhou School Exchange. Nice Garden. I just love e sceneries in China. The garden we went to was so much different than Singapore's. The level of artistic influence was just magnificent.

I started tokin to them slowly and steadily again. But it was kinda weird & different. oh well, we went to a China school on this day in our SJI uniform. Very formal but it wasnt too good, there wasnt much interaction between e chinese students and us. and their lessons about garden planning go on and on in chinese. i doodled on my notebook. many 'decades' later, we finally had our break. yl and i, kinda alright now, lol, went about lookin for students we can tok to. ended up with 3 girls who brought us around. xd came in later, but all e same. noe abit bout them and sch time's up. We are gettin back tmr to this same sch.. so no worries, my souvenirs still kept in my bag.

After some activities bout certain murder case (i was kinda enthusiastic, dun wanna hav e same impression again) in a wonderful garden, we went to a nice street and i felt like i was in those dynasty times. the scene was kinda beautiful. i bought this nice small piece of art for my dad. ended kinda well on this day, and news bout our final business proposal begun to pour in. we gotta think bout some business ideas. (later. we will surely do them later.)

Posted: 7.04p.m. July 6 2005
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Day 5 Suzhou School Exchange II, Suzhou Industrial Park

Back to school again on this day. we were to wear the custom-made black polo tee with the sji symbol and our pants. looks very cool, but its kinda small for me. ( should hav gotten "Large"). i thought it will be the same girls, but its a totally new class. We are well distributed too and these students are so much friendlier. got to know this girl, "pin pin" (kinda cute) who had an english name too. Jolin! lol.. yea, after some mixing around, we decided to leave some contacts behind and yea, decided to give e souvenir to her. no point keepin them. she gave me one in return, this very cute little bottle of decors. my camera began workin again and every little memory of tht place was captured neatly in it.

Nxt we went to this Suzhou Industrial Park, had somethin to do with Singapore i think. i went in in awe as we see the places full of HDB-like houses, industries and more industries, buildings and endless buildings tht really reminds me of Singapore. anyway, went in to find this Singaporean speakin 'alien' to us about business everlastingly in this beautiful conference room. i fought fatigue thoroughly as my eyes closed and opened, vice versa. i nearly lost e battle and slept through in front of everyone, but luckily he finished at e nick of time.

as we continued e afternoon, we came into another garden, this garden is so much better than the first one. this one practically rocked my life. It was wonderful and i now noe why my dad loves China so much.. u juz hav to stop to absorb wad they can offer. still, there was this activity whr we needed to find clues again. cant stop to look, if i could, i will surely go bac thr wif my dad.. i promise man..

in e hotel, i began tokin like me again, we played card..again and again.. until we had e discipline to stop, do we? haha.. as usual, was late in e morning, when we dozed off.

Posted: 7.25p.m. July 6 2005
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