Day Twenty-Three.

Today our IS Lesson is about the Philosophy of China. Just knew that, in China they have to wait for notification in order to know their holidays and that it is not stated in calendar. People cannot make plans beforehand as they do not know when the holiday falls on. Compared to Singapore, everything is stated in the calendar, the possibility of changes made is minimal. We were given a handout to do. It is about the cultural difference between the Chinese and Western and was asked to note down our own point of view in the short passage given. The Chinese treat their guests well and they expect their guests to treat them the same, when they are in their country as well. But the westerners are straighter forward; they want more private space to do their own things. They tend to put their family as the priority unlike the Chinese. Hence, we should look in different perspectives so that we won’t offend the other party, avoiding having the misconception between two parties.

Class ended and we took Bus 588 to 步行街 for shopping. We walked to a famous stall that they were specializing in making 煎包 and bought it. They do it on the spot for us and we always see people queuing for it whenever we go there. It is crispy on the outer and juicy in the inner. Most importantly, it is not oily.

This is how the locals firemen wash the fire engines. 

Walked over to Happy 站 to grab a bite. Meanwhile, we wait for Cynthia to check her designs of those photos. COCO, a bubble tea shop found in the basement of the shopping mall. It is nice compared to the other bubble tea shops we bought at those streets.

  

Headed to the street stalls at around 1800 as they only set up their stalls in the evening. Probably, because people had already knocked off from work and able to shop at this timing. There were many people when we were about to leave. The people there will keep pushing you without apologizing. Hence, we have to accept their behavior, with no choice left; we have to squeeze our way through, pushing one another since everyone don’t care at all. Unlike in Singapore, we will have the tendency to apologize under circumstances. Passed by a stall selling sugarcane and it stated on its surface that this stall owner is disabled. It is made manually and the equipment is rather cool. I had never come across it before because nowadays, people are using machine to make. And so, with the experiences we all have gained from the past few days or to be exact weeks, we managed to hop and the bus quickly and returned to our hostel at around 2200 plus.