First day of school!! Had to wake up rather early… 4 of us took the train to 徐家汇 station to meet with some of the other NTU GIP students at one of the exits… William & I led the way to the school coz we’d been there to recce a week earlier… however, we’d no idea how to find the exact classroom where we were supposed to report, so we had to wait for the class rep to contact the teacher, who specially came out to receive us… apparently, our classroom’s hidden at a far corner of the jiaotong uni campus, at an international learning centre.
We started with a 中国当代电影与中国社会 lesson, which was originally supposed to be some 中国当代文学 instead of 电影, but thank goodness our teacher knew that it’d be impossible for a class of 25 to stay awake for 3 hours listening to her talk about some Chinese literature, so she decided to amend the syllabus such that we’ll mostly watch movies depicting certain aspects of the Chinese culture and present our thoughts on the movies on the subsequent lesson…
Our lessons here were 1.5hrs a period… so we had a lesson from 8:30-10am, break from 10-10:20am, then lesson from 10:20-11:50am… then YAY! Class dismissed! =P the group headed back to steak king once again for a wonderful lunch… tried another steak dish, which was not bad, but I still prefer the one that I ate previously! =)
steak king's salad
garlic bread & soup
steak... =)
After lunch, we walked around metro city for a short while, and I bumped into this NTU jap classmate at the basement food court! Hmm… I didn’t recognize her actually… she just suddenly approached me and said “hi, do I know you?” I was like… -_-“ you’re asking me whether you know me?! … so anyway, she added “are you from Singapore?” then I said yes… and she was like… “I think I know you! you look very familiar! Were you from my jap class?” I kinda thought of my moelc jap class at first… but she mentioned ntu, then I realized…ooohh… she’s this indo Chinese girl from my yr 1 sem 1 jap class… sorry, bad memory… couldn’t recall her name… just found her vaguely familiar… but it’s really quite a small world… she also just came to china after graduating from ntu, and studying Chinese at jiaotong uni!! Interesting… =)
After lunch, my housemates & i cabbed home to catch singapore’s table tennis girls in action!! It was a rather sad but expected ending… singapore’s women’s team lost to china… =( and well, seems like the whole world’s going gaga over feng tian wei… I didn’t manage to watch her match coz the gd ol’ china decided to stop showing the live telecast halfway and switched to some other dunno-wat sport instead… pissed off…
Anyway, after watching table tennis Olympics, William & I went back to our favourite 小吃街 for dinner!! =P first stop, as usual, was pudding milk tea! Woohoo… wat a great & appetizing start… but bad news.. as we left the building for the小吃街, we realized that it was raining quite heavily!! =( and our slightly blur William forgot to bring his umbrella… -_-“ hahaha… so well, luckily I brought mine, so we just shared and walked over to the 小吃街 anyway…we couldnt possibly have come all the way here & leave without the good food! =P
We braved the rain and winds to our usual bbq stall, and sat in the shop to try their 香辣小龙虾! Haha… it wasn’t my first time trying coz I’d eaten it with my family on our last china trip… but it was still a fun experience! =P there’s supposedly this supposed 3-day opening promotion for the 小龙虾: buy 2斤get 1斤 free! but well, we saw that promo a week ago, & apparently, it’s STILL ongoing… as usual, one of those OPENING or CLOSING DOWN SPECIALS that last forever… -_-“ hmm…but actually, why am I complaining… hahaha… I should be glad that this promo is still ongoing, so I can bring my friends and family there again to try the香辣小龙虾 when they visit! =P it cost 32RMB for 1斤 so we paid 64RMB = S$12.80 for 3斤! Yummy… oh, a word of caution though… be careful when you use the plastic gloves to shell the mini lobsters… the plastic gloves may tear and if you have prolonged direct contact with the shell of the mini lobsters, you may get irritation on your skin coz the 小龙虾 was cooked with various spices which may cause your skin to feel a little stingy… either that, or the sharper parts on the shell of the小龙虾 may prick your fingers if your plastic gloves are torn… while feasting on our 3斤 of 小龙虾, we truly understood the meaning of 一份耕耘，一份收获… you reap what you sow… in order to taste that fresh mini lobster meat, you gotta work hard to shell it before you can enjoy the fruits of your labour! =P
香辣小龙虾 mini lobsters (before...)
香辣小龙虾 mini lobsters (after...)
As usual, our feast will usually comprise of more than 1 course! =P we ordered the bbq scallops & oysters again (coz they were juz so yummy when we tried them the last time!), and we ordered something new… “chicken satay”… haha… but well, this was LOUSY! =( the “mutton satay” we tried previously was much better… the chicken satay was DRY and tough… and the meat was not seasoned well enough… to make up for the that, at least the scallops & oysters were FANTASTIC! =D
our bbq feast!! chicken satay, scallops & oysters! are you envious or are you envious! =P
The greedy us left the bbq shop, feeling really satisfied… but well, as mentioned, GREEDY us… so as we passed by this 锅贴 (guo tie/fried dumpling) stall, we succumbed to temptations and ordered their minced pork锅贴 coz we figured we’ve had too much prawns already…(thanks to the 香辣小龙虾)… but well, the pork锅贴 was sold out, so we ordered the shrimp one anyway… and omg… it was GOOD! Haha… really juicy… just a little too oily… my mom is so gonna love it! =P
shrimp 锅贴 guo tie
Since we still had school the following day, William & I bought cream puffs from beard papa for our breakfast… they were just slightly cheaper than sg… the usual vanilla cream puff cost 8RMB = S$1.60, while sg’s would cost S$2… =)
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