Sunday, September 23, 2007

Hola!!! Amazing Race Shanghai

Yesterday was a super Amazing day...was in sch for 汉字与汉语 class in th morning. The lesson was on the American n Asian style of teaching. So we were divided into our liitle groups for reading and discussions with Ben, Gary Zheng(dont call him Hanbin anymore), Swee Meng (Rui Ming is Swee Meng, Swee Meng is Rui Ming; apparently Jiangqing could not tell the difference until after a few wks...hahah) and me. So there had to be a leader in the group to represent the gp and considering Ben n I were part of the elite lousy speaking gang we had to fight it out for 五岭盟主得位置. Having trained into Scissor, Paper, Stone in Facebook; i crushed Ben with my Stone in it (arrrr taaaaa!!!!). So Ben was the leader this wk...Yea!!!

Here are some positions of Various Sleeping Gurus...Watch, learn n discover guys...


Kk so the lesson was very interesting, look at JianYou's super positioning (he was next to the teacher somemore (最危险的地方是最安全的地方)


Xiao Ying in "hanging moment" and screen-saver mode gal, JinJin (true master of the art)


JJ with her 1st stance (neck rigid with look of focus on her face...


JJ 2nd stance (lying down looking attentively at textbook); got 2 more but no chance to catch it...dont worry i will jiayou de!!!

Afternoon went over to join the Spore freshies in Fudan for amazing race bonding session. The 5 of us, Ben, Gary, JinJin, Rong Xin n I were divided into different groups to mingle with the others. So this is my group below...



The people were great, GL Joyce n I were Sporean while the rest were M'sian. Our clue cards were horribly difficult and add to the fact most of us did not have lunch worsened the prob. In the end after using some lifeline (some hints of Who Wants to be a Millionaire in it), we found our way to 豫园@ 陈皇庙. It was raining the whole time and we were misled into thinking the place we were looking for was a
dessert shop. After 1.5hr of frustration (lots expensive food buying to quench our hunger n anger, as well as a deeper understanding of 陈皇庙), finally found out that we were supp to find a 茶壶.





Evidence we were there (on arrival shot still feeling happy)


Angry shot after the programmer TUA us on what we had to find...Raarrrrr

After that lots of walking about (i mean my group spent the least on traveling cost; only cheap cheap 11yuan). We thought we last liao when others were onto their 2nd or 3rd location while we just completed our 1st. Next was the walk through some small alleys to take the boat over to Pudong side. Visited the viewing tower to find a parrot amongst the pictures in the gallery.

One of the alleys we passed selling cheap electric appliances...





The boat ride across the 黄浦...was only 0.5yuan so cheap and i was the 1st one in my house to take it...hhaa... also all the motorbikes n passengers board the same area




More pics of the boat...

Than of we went to 外滩 to find some weird ligthhouse look alike with boat host on top. The programmer still want us to find the name of the building but it was totally fenced up under-construction (thats where my GL called the programmers to scold them...haha..fierce manz...kind-of reminds me of a Cat in our Omaha gp...lolz...

Cloud cover so thick it covers the whole viewing tower thats 88 storey tall...



Yea me at base of the tower...


Ya view from the bottom outside the building...so foggy till u cant see the top...


The gallery of pictures where we were suppose to find a white parrot (piece of cake!!!)



Little bit of History along the stretch of road to 外滩...1st lamp post in Shanghai (n its now along the busy st of Shanghai...how cool!!!)


This is the end of the 外滩 area...freaking loonggggggggg walk to get here just to take this pic in awful rainy weather...

Walked to People's Sq after that (OMG it felt like forever before we arrived) only to discover to our horror that the swing we looking for in the park (we was realli far away)...really felt like eating a buffet on the spot at that time...After that went back to Fudan, was 3rd overall with Ben's gp the 1st (they won by default after JinJin's group had to much time penalties), RongXin's group was 4th (they went to eat Burger King...haha), than Hanbin's group was last (he put the group airplane and went home from People's Sq there cause it was nearer to Longyang...Overall i got to know Shanghai slightly better, came to know a few more frenzs, burnt all my breakfast n lunch meals from the walking but enjoyed myself thoroughly...woohooo!!!



Final leg of the race...


Immersion with Fudan Sporean a success!!!

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