My First Trip To China At 14 Years Old

2007 年上海／苏州／杭州文化浸濡团

SHANGHAI/SUZHOU/HANGZHOU CULTURAL IMMERSION TOUR

23-05-2007 TO 31-05-2007

Departure Flight from Singapore to Shanghai: SQ816 (0115 / 0635 hrs)

Arrival Flight from Shanghai to Singapore: SQ805 (1635 / 2150 hrs)

PLEASE ASSEMBLE IN CHANGI AIRPORT TERMINAL 2, ROW 10 6 ON 22/05/2007 (TUE) AT 11PM.

INFORMATION ABOUT TRAVELLING IN CHINA

TIME DIFFERENCE: No time difference between Singapore and China

WEATHER: 19 degree Celcius – 28 degree Celcius

WATER: Tap water is not safe for drinking. Boiled water is provided in  hotel rooms.

ELECTRICITY: The electric current in China is 220 volts. Adaptor will be needed.

CURRENCY: Renminbi (人民币). You are strongly advised to change it in Singapore. 

Currency exchange rate: S$1.00 = 5.00RMB approximately. 

ITINERARY

First day, 23/05, Wednesday

Morning

早餐后游览上海博物馆

Afternoon

午餐 （酒店用）后去竹园中学交流，上课。

Evening

晚餐结束后回酒店休息。

Notes

高桥石化宾馆。早、午、晚餐。

Second day, 24/05, Thursday

Morning

竹园中学课程

Afternoon

竹园中学课程。城隍庙（不吃晚餐，给学生餐费吃小吃）

Evening

东方明珠

Notes

东方明珠。早、午、晚餐。午餐学校用。

Third day, 25/05, Friday
Morning
早餐后，去苏州游览苏州工业园，虎丘。

Afternoon
午餐后，游览寒山寺， 狮子林，七里山塘街。

Evening
晚餐后，逛观前街。

Notes

环龙商务酒店。早、午、晚餐。

Fourth day, 26/05, Saturday

Morning

早餐后丝绸厂，过后前往杭州。

Afternoon
途中游览乌镇，（午餐乌镇用），抵达杭州后，游明清河坊街。

Evening
晚餐后观看西湖之夜。

Notes

百瑞四季酒店。早、午、晚餐。

Fifth day, 27/05, Sunday

Morning
早餐后游西湖（游船）游岳王庙，花港观鱼，曲院风荷。

Afternoon
午餐后参观灵隐寺，龙井问茶，过后前往上海。

Evening
晚餐（酒店用）后回酒店休息。

Notes

高桥石化宾馆。早、午、晚餐。

Sixth day, 28/05, Monday

Morning

竹园中学课程。

Afternoon
竹园中学课程。游外滩，黄埔公园（拍照）

Evening
晚餐后船游黄浦江。

Notes

高桥石化宾馆。早、午、晚餐。午餐学校用。

Seventh day, 29/05, Tuesday

Morning
竹园中学课程。

Afternoon
竹园中学课程。逛上海书城（2小时）。

Evening
晚餐后，南京路步行街。

Notes

高桥石化宾馆。早、午、晚餐。

Eighth day, 30/05, Wednesday

Morning

竹园中学课程。

Afternoon
竹园中学课程。

Evening
学生往宿竹园中学学生家。老师／1家长和女儿住酒店。

Notes

高桥石化宾馆。早、午、晚餐。午餐学校用。

Ninth day, 31/05, Thursday

Morning

鲁迅纪念馆多伦多文化节。

Afternoon
午餐后乘坐上海磁悬浮列车到机场，乘飞机回返新加坡。

Evening
NIL

Notes

早、午餐。（同学在学生家用早餐）。

Memorabilia Collector or Hogger?

So... The time has come for me to split rooms with my sister. It has been something that she wanted since young. I remember that she wanted to do so when she was in secondary school. I'm all good with it of course, it's time to have some personal space before we respectively get hooked up and married off hahaha.

Anyway, splitting rooms mean a lot of packing. It's almost like moving houses and I have to go through loads and loads of JUNK or should I say MEMORABILIA... Basically everything that from notes to to textbooks to albums to files. My gosh. I'm starting to think I'm a hogger. I wonder if hoggers have good memories or bad memories. Is it because hoggers have bad memories so we tend to keep a lot of things to remind ourselves of what happened in the past? Or do hoggers have good memories so we can remember the past by keeping a piece of memorabilia?

I think I just want to share things with people. Whenever I dig out something from my stash I feel like sharing it with people who are relevant to this particular memory of my life.

I can't believe it's so hard to throw things away, there were even several times when I already threw it into the bag but picked it out again and set it aside. But later decided to throw it away again.

I think I will be updating quite a bit because I'm gonna post photos or write down some of this memorabilia worth taking note of and then throw the physical copy away.

If blogger ever shuts down... ... ... please don't.

A Nightmare — Haunted temple

Yesterday night, my mum showed me this video of a man who can communicate with spirits. At one look at this person, or simply given brief information about a person, he can tell many things like what illness he/she has, how many bank accounts, what kind of behaviour they have at home, how does your house look like, etc...

I had a nightmare during the night. (Oh, nightmare and night...)

I am someone who has a lot of dreams, but I'm not the kind who will be disturbed by my many dreams throughout the night. Maybe about 60% of my time I will remember my dreams when i wake up.

I always find it quite odd and cool that my dreams sometimes have continuity.

It can be a whole episodic continuity where I refresh a dream and it starts exactly the same way but ends differently.

Or it can be an environmental continuity where its the same premises but it feels like another day or another

Or it can be a scene continuity where I just begin from exactly where I left off.

Amazing right?


So my nightmare was about a haunted temple. This dream was a environmental continuity. But I remember, as I was dreaming, I've had this dream before, and it was also a scary one.

Imagine a multi-level open spaced car park. And imagine yourself standing at the second-last level.

(Apparently I put this off several months and I can now no longer remember my dream clearly. dammit.)