Everyone. I'm back!!!
Welcome me back. From
Let me tell you what my dad had with me.
Dad: Hey, you seemed to slim down.
Me: Isn't that good?
Uncle: What you have for your meals?
Me: Nice food but not precious food. :D
Dad: Omg, so how you tackle spicy food?
Me: After this trip, no matter how food is, I will just taste it at least once.
All of them freak out upon hearing that I traveled to Shangri La @ 4000++km above sea level.
Haha, actually, is nothing much for me. Perhaps my stiff body is made for this?
Day 0:
I didn't sleep much on the day and fear I will suffer from high altitude when I reach there. To my amazement. I'm alright after all. First time on the plane. I finally experience how the plane flies off. Laugh all you want, I have already been through it.
Day 1: The kiasu-ness of me.
I thought all of them going to leave the plane straight after the plane had landed. Immediately, I put on whatever clothes I have with me. Gina saw it... When the plane was really about to land...
Gina: You very kiasu leh.
I think should be because my tissue papers comes in dozen, and I rushed to put on all my outer clothing.
This freaking joke continues until dinner time, when I say is first time on plane. Haha. It's just a joke.
Went to bei da. This visit can said to be the worst? Day 1 is a good day anyway, I learnt more than what I have learnt, where I begin to think of the people around me more often.
Day 2:
Woke up @
Slept on the plane, caused I felt extremely tired, from my memories one woman put sandwiches on my chair, when I'm tired I don't know what am I doing, I kindly threw it aside and continue sleeping.
Reach the airport, gosh, the ground has frozen, we have to walk in to the shangri-la airport, and I walk myself on the slippery path.
Went to the hotel and sleep, and went for lunch. On the way back to the bus for the potatso trip I heard Jay Chow's Caihong.
Yuxian: Hey at least got a song to hear.
Me: Ya lor, this region their songs mostly in low pitches and by man. It’s great to hear some low pitches songs. By the way, see who sms-ed me? Aaron, to ask me goes his house. Why not, wait for me 3 hours. : P
Yuxian: I suspect it is their latest pop songs.
Me: I think so. Haha
We went up the mountains to explore
Day 3: The 4 hour preparation for bargaining.
Went to the Tibetan temple in the morning. Tibetan only bath thrice in their whole lifetime, when they are born, when they get married, and when they died.
Caleb: I have a idea, marry and divorce everyday. You can then bath as much as you want.
Me: Do Tibetans society allows you to divorce?
On the way to lijiang by bus when Joey and Mildred is the emcee! They have great courage! We sing and cheer until Mr. Liow played the song “Girlfriend”, you people should know this song contain some vulgarities? Clearly, he doesn’t seem to know it and he played it.
Went Lijiang for bargaining and dinner. During to dinner. The shop kept short circuit. So I think I just ate a half-cooked pizza? Watermelon juice.
Mdm Koh brought us all around, we went buying Lijiang handcraft and there was when the bargaining starts.
Bargain is a must I think.
Great debrief, where we learned our lesson I guess? Thanks Mr. Ng, anyway.
Day 4: Prepare for the sandwich fantasy.
Suppose to pair up with Yuxian, Hasrul, Caleb, myself.
End up, I had Yuxian and Hasrul as casualty, while Caleb run away.
Show I have to shop with the JJ mentors. It was then when a guy from the other group has gastric pain then I have a companion back to the hotel. Wow, 1.2.3 casualties!! Met Mr. Fadzel as he was supposed to go lunch with the others. End up I went lunch with Fahmy and Hasrul.
RMB$64 meal. One corn, one big bread, one 1.25 ml Pepsi. 10 chickens!
We split among ourselves. By the time we finish everything, I am so bloated.
Fahmy received a burger from Prevena.
Me: When did you buy it?
Fahmy: The burger bought me.
Me: =. =”
Went back to hotel, on the way few of us bargain for the hat that cost us RMB$14, after a series of bargaining. Ha-ha
Just as we about to enter the hotel, one woman keep clinging onto us to buy her stuff, Shawn stuffed her 1 buck hoping her to go away, while she asked for more!! Omg, that’s a nightmare in
Plane back to
Back to
Bedtime…
Day 5: Where people from a faraway land meet.
We went to CiJiu secondary school! We sang Peng you, laoshu ai da mi, tong hua, and other cheers ever since 3rd day from Shangri-la to
Reached Ci Jiu, I am drowned! Drowned by the love their spread to us, the songs they sang touched me a lot, and the welcoming spirit is one of the styles that you will never find it
All of them are nice people, they always reply me. I don’t feel so…. Like the sec 1 orientation, hope to spread this back. Hope my presence brings them happiness.
I’m so sorry. Because I am not really fast enough to take food, the china students weren’t able to have their lunch.
Having our lunch we were briefed and school tour.
Look at the pictures I will be uploading later on. How neat are they! Take a look, should even uniformed groups cadets in
We taught them songs also. Line dance. The day just ended like that.
On my way that, Mr. Tan KG answered lots of our questions, I shifted my focus from politics into finances. Wow, his knowledge is great! His explanation clear most of our doubts.
Later on I went to have dinner, nice dinner! Same as the first day we ate. I thank everyone who served me food, who ushered me in. That’s to make everyone around me look good. We needed them greatly for this CIP trip!!
Day 6: Separation
Went cijiu, and conduct a activity, paint my ambition. I will like to study law, but has no clear intention of becoming a lawyer, to entertain them, I just say I want be lawyer. (What can I do besides becoming a lawyer, I studying law….)
Thanks Gina a lot, the lawyer photo she drew!! Curly hair, while my hair is spiky.
Later on I tell them: Everyone has their ability to achieve their dreams, as long you have the passion, the initiative and determination to carry on. However you do have the power to help your friend as well.
Why not you help your friends as well? It lightens your friends’ burden, with you as their companion to achieve the ambitions, more motivated they will be!!
Let’s not only just put your ambitions on the windows, are help your friends as well!!
Prize presentation, I told them we were leaving that day, and all of us were about to cry. All of us have presents and gifts for them, while I just request for more badges for them. Hope they will remember all of us!!
If I have a chance, I will surely visit them again. Good companion always.
Day 7:
We cried and I will like to share with you people what the teachers said.
May be bit private, but I rather get scolded, than not preventing more miseries. It worth it!
Because of Mr. Tan busy-ness, he waited till he cleared his work and brought his father to the doctor. His father was diagnosed stroke. During the whole series of events, he recalled, how this strong father care for him, brought him up with all the hard work. Just a sudden that his father requested Mr. Tan KG to bring him to the doctor, he didn’t take it to heart. When wanting to remorse it is all too late.
Think about it!! A man that’s so strong one day ask you to bring him to doctor, and you just put your work as priority, causing that man so much miseries after that. Even that man is not your parents, not your kin, but just because that small carelessness of yours, creating that much problem, can you forgive yourself?! Care about your family, there’s only one JunHong in history, one you in memories, no ordinary beings can live twice. Treasure the moments, whatever miseries you can prevent, do your best! Other choices are merely foreign temptations.
Mr. Fadzel’s story, he quarrel with his father 2 years ago, and was harsh on him, both of them began to be in cold war. His aunt reprimanded him, saying that his father have done the same as him, quarrel with his grandfather. His father left home, and when Mr. Fadzel’s father decided to return home and apologise, it was all too late, his grandfather have died. Just because of a moment of anger, you can’t accompany your kin to the last moment of their live. Can you bear with it?
He further elaborate, he do not want to repeat his father’s footsteps. He recalled how his father cared for him.
Kin-ship is the most powerful thing, no matter how much money you have, you buy temporary happiness, or rather surface happiness.
After that went to what Jade Rooster Golden Horse square, some of them went to have ha-agen das while we go and have pizza hut!! We order 3 pizzas initally, but with the present of 6 of us, Ern, Nicklaus, Chung si, Caleb, Yuxian, me, the first pizza is nowhere to be seen in 10 sec. So in the end I think we ate 4 pizzas? Nevermind, china quite cheap to dine in anyway =P.
I imagined, the times where I quarreled with parents, just because of my stubbornness. The times they cared for me, when I was sickly and weak, without them, I will not even have the chance to quarrel with them, to chat with them, or to help the less privileged people in
Some may find it over reactional, what I have to say here, don’t wait till is too late. When there’s a chance to clear the misery, do it!
I am back to normal posting, I spent about two days posting this. The photos will come after this post. Thank you.
R&R : Rest and Relax
Reflect and reflect
Random and rough :P