hahaha i waited around a month to blog about my experience in china...hahaha partly due to my laziness but also due to the tight schedule i had...after arrival in singapore on june 8, i thought i had only 1 week to finish my TIP report (due to reservist), so i chiong for the whole week... then i went for 2 weeks of reservist trg from 16 to 27 june... then i rested for many days due to plain exhaustion maybe plus a bit of laziness lols.
today then i officially continue to write my report which is due on 10 july. should have ample time to finish lols.
alrite back to china trip. it was a fun trip with fun loving pple. though we were rather suay to have met the earthquake that led to many changes in the itinerary, the final itinerary turned out to be good, and i think it's better than the 1st 2 weeks of the trip itself. i guess this is probably due to more rest time and more fun time for the final 2 weeks lols.
the 1st week was rather tough for me, especially for the lack of sleep. we simply slept too little lah. at that time, i was wondering whether i can tahan through the whole trip. we went to hongkong, guangzhou, shanghai on the first week. so much travelling itself is tiring. plus the living conditions weren't really comfortable. besides, i have some conflicts with dear then due to some communication problem. all these resulted in a very sullen mood during the first week.
2nd week was much better, we were in nanjing and beijing. minimal travelling. better accomodation. and also because dear was more understanding, and she emo-ed less luckily :) and yeah i climbed the great wall :) shiok. though tiring. i was one of the first few to reach the top of what we can climb :) hahaha not bad sia, considering i am not v fit.
3rd week we went to tianjin and stayed almost a week there. air condition there is not good cuz there is sand in the wind but it's ok when no wind blows. the schedule is lax there towards the end of tianjin stay because there is last minute changes due to earthquake near xi'an which was supposedly our next stop. but it's good in a sense, rest was what i craved for.
after which we went to wen zhou for a light itinerary. this was arranged by anderson's friend 施永川老师. it was really light, yet inspiring. it was short trip before we went to xiamen where there are really many singaporeans doing business there. we met singaporean bosses, had casual talks with them, get inspired, get motivated, learn about our advantages and disadvantages as a Singaporean doing business in China. i like the food in xiamen, cuz it's closest to singaporean food, make me feel closer to home :) i also like the dialect there cuz it's hokkien and i can understand, unlike when i was in guangzhou and hongkong, cantonese was all over the place, and i could barely understand.
all in all, this china biz trip was really an enriching experience. although it was tough in the beginning, it was overall a nicely paced trip. i like the pple i meet in the group. i like the intangibles i have learnt in china. i like the overall feel of the pple there. i like the overall feel of the country. i guess i can go there for a vacation, going to see 兵马俑 which we have missed out when we took away xi'an from the trip. go to see other historic monuments. go and see the villages and the pple there. china is such a intriguing place especially with the history it has, and which i havent really had much knowledge of.
back in singapore, i am back with my dear. that's what i look forward to whenever the trip was really tough. absence really makes hearts fonder lols. missed her everyday, even though there were many instances when she emo-ed and i also sian.
the week before reservist, i spent with dear and my lappie. do report. duang around with dear. that's all i did i guess.
reservist was rather lax this time. less sai gang, less packed schedule. at least i get to sleep more often during this ICT, compared to the last. i guess it has to do with the new OC we had. less shit is passed down to us i guess. or maybe i didn't have any bad experience with the OC ba, compared to the 1st ICT, when i had some unhappy experience with the OC, who wun be coming back at least for 1 more year ba. hope he just goes away lah. his admin skills really cmi lah, maybe i am biased but ya what i know is that i get a lot of shit to do.
initially i wun be booking out for 2 whole weeks, which happened to be untrue. i got to book out on the 1st week's friday nite luckily, due to some luck also. cuz we voted for 4 of 12 drivers to take part in the live firing which is on saturday, and those pple booked out only on sunday morning. they are really korlian. but it's just luck. i prepared for the worst already, but sometimes i get lucky when i dun think i will be lucky lols.
the 2nd week' major event is the 2 day 1 nite outfield. before that on monday we got a whole day + nite training. so it was rather tiring for us to go on an outfield the next morning. the outfield was rather ok, except for the mosquitoes that bit me on that nite when i was trying to sleep. i didn't sleep well. most probably i wasn't used to outfield already lols. but this kind of thing i also dun wan to get used to it lols. throughout the outfield plus the training on monday, i breathed in dunno how much of mosquito coil smoke lols. 3 whole days of mosquito coils burnt. it's mad lah lols. passive smoker lols. but for the sake of repelling mosquitoes, i guess i have no choice but to be a temporary passive smoker :P
before bookout, there's an unhappy incident. me and jackson kanna arrowed by his VC to "touch up" on the vehicle shed. his reason was because we didn't go and clean the place earlier on when the rest of platoon went. but i was rather sure there were pple who didn't go. but he purposely aimed us lah. basket him lor. initially i didn't wan to do de but cuz it affects my out-processing, i just went to do lor. just do lor. bo bian. if he had given a better reason, i would have done it with less grudges. but because of his f-uped face when he talked to us, i really was angry. but nvm, at least i know his pattern liao personally, after hearing so many stories from jackson about him.
alrite now i am back as a civilian, i got to finish my work as fast as possible. look forward to the upcoming taiwan trip on 26th july to 31st july. yeah :) i will be back blogging...upon continuous pushing and external motivation i guess lols
