Devoid of Anything Useful

It seems like this is late.

There is just too many things over here which cannot be expressed in a page of text.

The Chinese lessons in the morning helps. I absolutely cannot deny that.
Only sometimes, my body does not agree, even after coffee, and I accidentally take some shut-eye.

Last week we went Tianjin for fieldtrip. The ecocity was...ok. Nothing much there except for the exhibition centre.
I should think that Singapore is not doing it by herself is becuase our land is ultra-scarce.
Also went to Nankai, secondary school of Zhou Enlai and Wen Jiabao

Then we went Tiantan. The echo wall had too much noise to be fun. The 天心石 looked like something out of Golden Sun.

Immersion started. Their lessons were almost alike ours.

For geog we have not many things in our country to analyse, so we just pluck stuff from anywhere.
They have the 3rd longest river (Yangtze, which they were learning about) and other stuff to boot.

For their history they did Republic of China (1911-1949). Started with the flag and stuff then went on to the 83 day joke.
It was less propaganda than expected (actually no propaganda, it could totally have been a lesson in Singapore).

Computer lessons were imba? All the machines were linked to a desktop switcher application, so instead of having a large projector, material needed will be fed to the screen directly.
Their textbooks had V.Basic and Artificial Intelligence, but I think they are not really touched.

English? Seriously, their standard is better than expected. In fact, the PRCs in our class should have picked up more than 85% of their English in these classes.
The friendly neighbourhood angmoh is not too bad (lived in Canada, now in 双井).

Politics was not too much of that. If I were to rename the lesson, it would to be Current affairs, Civics and Moral education.
But again, I haven't seen much yet.

In P.E. they actually learn a set of moves. Fun overall.

Saturday at Tian'anmen square and National Theatre (国家大剧院). Seeing people queue up like got Hello Kitty just to see Mao is amazing (pun coincedental, now intended).

Bought many stuffs, of which I will be rather gged for. Nevermind that.

Tuesday went Xiangshan. Nice climb to 557m. Cable car down cost 50 RMB. Back in SG the same thing would have costed about $15.
Also got Botanical Gardens. Inside got Sleeping Buddha Temple also.

Heard about the crazy wind, wait till you see those over here.

2 days to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, can't wait...