☼ Get Lost In Dalian!

They video-ed my embarrassing ass while I was trying to snatch the confiscated laptop! I shouldn't upload it for my own sake, *hahas*. I've stolen Fengxian's monkey in exchange of our stolen seaweed and Lays!

It's saturday today, free and easy, *smiles*. I woke up at 12:30pm, looking fresh after the 11 hours of sleep! I had been dreaming about Singapore for the past few days. I think I miss Singapore real bad though China is enjoying.

The wind was freaking strong this afternoon. According to the ahh yi downstairs, the level of wind was 6! I swear I never heard of howling wind in Singapore. I always thought this was a part in fairy tales. True enough, the wind howled loudly in Dalian, honestly. I even felt I was kinda carried away by the wind. The wind came from behind and I felt it pushing me forward as I walked. It was no joke.

Despite the tornado outdoor, we walked to the delicious foodstall (I don't know the name of the stall) and had a nice warming feast. Their xiao long bao was heavenly!! And 4 of us shared the shange hai yun tun mian & shang hai zha jiang mian!


In the evening we took the public transport and head down town, their so called 'Orchard Road' in Dalian. Credits to Preston and Derrick for bringing us around like as if Dalian is our home town. I knew nuts about anything here but they seemed to know everything!

They call it BRT (Bus Rapid Transit). Fengxian, you didn't tell me the pole is blocking! My face is important, *hahas*! I have no idea what the guys are posing.


This is one of the street stalls. Chicken sticks submerged in oil but it taste nice!


The building of IT gadgets. One of the shopping malls we passed by.


We took.. What is that called? The electical land transport, something like that kinda bus which does not require a driver. And I'm looking more like them with the 2 pony tails!


The passengers were starring at the attention seeking Derrick. Might be wondering what the hell he's babbling about.


We were on our way to our destination when we came across this neglected piece of streets. Even their towns are not clean.


Behind me is the Parkland, the mall like Paragon in Singapore. That was where Derrick bought his Evisu jeans for S$500. He is a freaking rich guy! He worn it, pay, and walk off with his new jeans.

The guys accompanied the girls to their so called 'Far East Plaza' underground after the crazy guy-shopping. I was tempted to a hoodie but I did not get it anyway. I shall be back one day again to have a good solid shopping anyway. Time was racing us for abit just now.

We had McDonald's for dinner and I ordered the spicy chicken thighs burger meal. Nice, *smiles*! That was 22RMB.


The hardcore smoker and hardcore drinker. Derrick and Preston.

The locals here could spit anywhere they wanted. Even in McDonald's, we see them doing this. But when Derrick tried to do the same thing, he was scolded by the staff, *laughs*. Not all Chinese we came across were nice. But we met some really nice people no Singaporeans will ever do that.

Since there was no public transport operating (9pm last bus), we were forced to take a cab back. And since cab was 24 hours operating, the guys decided to get ourselves lost in town. We walked anywhere we desired, no goals in mind.

Late night KTV. Looks cool from the outside huh, like some clubbing house or something.




This is where the place we can see in Wikipedia, under the page of Dalian. The lighted ball and the Intercontinental Hotel.


Grabbing the ball is easy. We can do anything we like with this! From holding the ball to kicking the ball.








Finally a photo of us, the wild Singaporean kids on the streets wandering. We insisted to have the ball taken the second shot.




Continued roaming the streets and that is where we were all amazed. The Egyptian salon of the grandest of all.


Look how royal this is. The hairstylists are lining up side by side to the seats waiting for the customers. A haircut only costed 20RMB!! What cheap rates they have!


The pharoah and the potential China girl, Dalianer, *laughs*.

We flagged a cab home from there for 40RMB. How daring we had been to go on the streets without a local. We are Food Technologists, not some geeky Designers, *smiles*.

☼ Food Heritage!

Today supposed to be our first official lesson which we would have to report at our hostel lobby 8:30am sharp. Mutton and I was not in time to catch a bite of breakfast in the canteen though. Well it was alright cause' the food in the canteen sucks big time anyway.

I'm with that pair of sport shoes that made me look so like them! My Converse was all drenched larr, *hahas*!


Look how thick Mutton wore! Extra thick layering of clothes and gloves!

We walked up and down the slopes to the 'main' building of the entire school. The rain had stopped last night and the weather was cloudy in the morning. The strong breezy wind made our faces all chilled and fingers numbed. It was no joke! We wore layer and layer of clothes like some noob candidates that looked so bumpy. We are Singaporeans anyway!

These are some roads along the street of our hostel where we have to walk everyday.


Our lesson was all about wireless network and local connection (this is not in our module by the way) . Finally, like after 2 long freezing days of detachment with the world, we achieved the internet connection. But the classroom was short of power sockets to adapt everyone's laptop! That was pathetic. First lesson ended after the intense struggling to get connected. Before that we were made to walk all the way back in the cold streets to our hostel just to pick up our laptops!!

It was a 20 minutes walk to the little eating house during the lunch hours. I had 'hong shao' beef la mian while the rest had some other beef noodles. We didn't really like the taste of their dishes, and that was the first halal store we've seen in Dalian. 1 hour of lunch break became 2 solid hours, *hahas*! Our lunch was on Mrs Ser, *smiles*!

Walk this way to the eating place right at the back. This is still in school.


The meat was little, and the noodle didn't taste nice at all! But the soup was good.


Even in the stuffy room, we still had our layers on. It felt kinda cosy though!




And we saw this really oversized bread in their bakery store. Look at the cream!! You probably might have gained another 10 ponds by finishing that!


Back in the warmth-filled classroom, we had a short briefing on our lesson schedules and e-learning. The last lesson was GEMS, combining with the Design students. It was all about Dalian, I couldn't pay anymore attention towards the end of the lesson and decided to text my China buddy. I was so much interested in where to get my bangs rebonded at the cheapest rate!

The lecturer from China, Dalian Polytechnic University. He would be taking us on our GEMS module.


This was a mistake. I hit the zoom button unnoticely, *hehes*.


It was taken in the middl of the lesson. Nobody knew it, *smiles*.





And this is the ally of the classrooms at the 5th floor.


Back in the hostel where it will always be the most chaotic place that can be. Apparently they started a food-stealing contest, going over to each other dorms and grabbing any food they can find. This was the best time to rip out the camera and keep snapping away like some irritating reporters will do.

Peering outside my hostel room window it looks like that. This building is the Library.





I slept with this monkey every night. It suffer a broken nose when I rescue him outta the luggage. He was squashed pretty badly.





Do not hate me cause I climbed onto your bed, *frowns*.


Love me because I'm your room mate, *LOL*!


This is what I was talking about. Their food war along the ally of our rooms.



We met my China buddy at the lobby and she brought us to the school's salon. She's nice to have walked us there when she's busy with her project and stuff, most importantly it was far from where she live! We had our fringe rebonded at 20RMB. Now I think I look like any other girls in Dalian. Oh gosh, I'm adapting to them!

After the pretty much makeover, we took a stroll along their little food streets. Some of the Design students were shocked to see me mushroom-headed, *hahas*!
Some finger food were nice but some tasted like crap! Not all suited our Singaporean taste buds! And I must say their strawberries are awesome!!

Pretty strawberries!! Ranging from papa strawberries to baby strawberries!



This ugly fruit looked cute the way it is, *hahas*!


Beside the hostel, we witnessed the sunset!


Guess who are we. We all looked the same didn't we?


They have nice bites. It's an flavouredn eggy cake something smilar to waffle! Actually the sales person got shocked by the flash light, she said (behind).


As commented, this is a mini baseball bat rather than a corn. For the taste, I do not know, cause' I hate CORN!!




Ohh god I look like the potential student in their school. I mean physically!


All the finger food along the streets would be our dinner for today. We had a little tea talk at Jiahui's room before we went to bed. It was more of a crappy talk I would say.

That was the chicken rice they bought. Not eaten at all cause' the weather completely chilled the food in 15 minutes.


Not nice larr can Jiahui please throw that away?


*Wahahaha*, I see myself I wanna break into laughter.


This zombie was found dead on the bed so we decided to roll her up.


Look what a dead body she was!


What a fine day we had! No sweat, no frustrations, no tears, not stress at all!!





For this entire trip I would look different, *whahaha*! At least this is China, million miles away from home! I don't care about how funny I would be. People may stare at my dark skin tone like it's something foreign in their country. This is me, *smiles*. I'm gonna get my hair highlight!!