OUTING!
8.30 am we gathered and made out way to 汉口江滩.
汉口江滩
A total resemblance of Marina Barrage, just that Marina Barrage is so much nicer and cleaner compared to this. We were given about 30-45 minutes to tour around.
Group Photo.
Saw many people selling kites there and we discovered this uncle who was releasing a SUPER DUPER LONG KITE. Which you see no end to it! Interesting eh! =)
So LONGGGG!
After this short tour, we were given quite long hours to shop around 江汉路步行商业街.
江汉路步行商业街
Had lunch at 永和豆浆. Ate 鲁肉饭 and drank a cup of 黑豆浆.
鲁肉饭
After which, we went to shop around and released that the prices were not much different from Singapore and there was nothing much for us to stay on.
Thus, I and An Yu decided to head for the wholesale centre which sells a large variety of stuffs. No one expect us walked such a long distance just to catch a view of how their wholesale centre looks like. But it was a good experience because we actually caught a glimpse of their lifestyle and how different the wholesale centre looks like compared to those in Thailand.
Their Houses.
Rather disappointed actually, because there was nothing much that suits us. Most of it was necessities and clothing which were not of very good quality.
Ladies out there: those online shops which states that their clothes are all imported from korea, DO NOT BELIEVE IT. I saw plenty of those clothing here in Wuhan’s wholesale centre.
After a long long walk back to our meeting place, we saw the THICK layer of dust which was covering our feet.
DUST.
Rested our tired legs for a while before heading back to our meeting place where we boarded our bus back and bid our sweet tour guide, Ms Lei Jing farewell. She was really sweet because before she left, she gave us her number and told us if we needed her help to find our way around Wuhan, we can just give her a call. HOW NICEEE!
And our day ended with most of us visiting poor Jun Ru in the school’s hospital due to her high fever and bad stomach. Most of us actually wanted to visit her but were told to go back to our hostel as the hospital room is too small to accommodate too many people. And all I heard about her condition was that she was put on drip.
Reflection:
Thanks to having a nice company today who is none other than An Yu! I somewhat felt that I had fulfilled a small portion of my backpack travelling dream (although today I was using a sling bag). Both of us separated ourselves from the group and went on to venture for the wholesale centre. Navigating our way around the place which we were totally unfamiliar with, thus resulting in us walking up and down the same road twice after we realize we were walking in the wrong direction.
And on the way, we bought food from road side stalls, looking at how they bargain with each other etc. made us really immense into the life of Wuhan citizens. Oh and we were trying to act as if we were one of the locals there so that people will not con us, but by not knowing how to cross their crazy roads with cars coming straight to you although it was green man had totally disclosed our identity as “TOURIST”. HAHA!
One important point: if you want to act like a local, never run when you cross the road. Stroll across even though you know there are cars coming directly into you because that is what the locals do! O.O and never trust their green man as it is represents nothing to the drivers.
Lastly for JunRu’s incident, a lecturer had told me before to never fall sick in China because whatever illness you have, you will be put on drip. Never really thought that the medical sector in China would be so backdated. They didn’t diagnose on what was the main cause of her illness and no oral medicine was even given before she was placed on drip. So they think that drip is the medicine to all sickness luh?
Was quite pissed off when I kept hearing that Junru was given packets and packets of drip one after the other after her condition became worse. They know that the glucose drip wasn’t helping, so what for you keep poking needles into her body and trying to flood her with glucose. Seriously, china should put 101% of their emphasis in future on their medical sector so as to save their citizens from glucose over dosage.
I just think that, if they do not have the ability to diagnose a patient’s condition, just say it honestly so that we still have time to search for better alternatives and not put a patient’s life at risk. There are still plenty of improvements to be made to the infrastructure and facilities here in China.
Hippocrates, father of western medicine:
“I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.”
(Wonder if doctors in China really took their doctor’s oath seriously or just pledge against it for the sake of becoming a doctor. They should take their work more seriously, treating each and every patient with passion and the right attitude. Much more needs to be done before the medical sector of China would thrive.)
