Test Booklet.
Although the test was open book, answers could not really be found in the notes. That’s the style of Ngee Ann Poly lecturers. Haha! They conduct open book test for us but with answers that are not found in the notes. SMART.
So for this test, it is more on understanding of your work and a bit of common sense. There were quite a number of questions and each question we had tons of words to write. Many of us couldn’t finish writing till the very last minute! Hope we can all do well for this test!
Finally, one heavy weightage test down! Got to reward myself again with a RUN! =DDD Ran with An Yu and Alvin around campus and back on the track after that with the others. After the run, we went out for dinner.
Wanted something simple, but some of them wanted to introduce the restaurant which they went the other time to us so we went. The food was super not nice. Seriously. All the food is either fried or still fried!
And one funny thing happened.
ME: “Er, do you’ll have something steamed?”
Waitress: “Steamed??? Er… no all our food here is either fried or stir fried.”
Which restaurant doesn’t sell steamed dishes in Singapore!
I was stunned for a moment when she told me that.
In my mind I was thinking “WHAT?! NO STEAMED DISHES IN SUCH A BIG RESTAURANT!” but no matter what, we still ordered our food. And it all came out either super oily or have some weird taste which smells like 臭豆腐.
Haha! In the end, all of us left the restaurant with no more than half filled tummy.
Conclusion: NEVER GOING BACK THERE AGAIN!
Restaurant.
Group Photo at the restaurant.
Reflections:
Singaporeans are health conscious. Government’s effort on promoting a healthy lifestyle which incurred a great deal of money spent on health education programmes have indeed paid off. In Singapore, we can see people jogging at any place suitable, be it the parks, along the canals etc. Exercising locations are built specially by the government and can be found everywhere in Singapore but it is almost impossible to find it here in China.
It is either the road is very rocky or it is just not suitable for running. At around 5-6pm which is the time when most people get off from work, this is the time that the park is also gathered with working adults, kids. We can say it is almost any age group. In the early dawn, elderly gather at the park to do Taiji, meditation exercises etc.
From this, we can see that majority of the Singaporeans are exercising as long as time is able to be taken off from their hectic schedule.
Some personal experiences that clearly shows the difference between the level of health consciousness between Singapore and China:
1) It is very difficult to find food labels with nutrition information on their food products here in China. For the first 1 week when I was here, I was trying to find food products with nutritional factors printed on it, but it was so limited that only those foods that can be found in countries like Singapore & Malaysia has it.
2) There is no ‘healthier choice symbol’ on the food package!!! In Singapore, the symbol is what I always depend on for the choice of food which goes into my tummy!
3) In Singapore, eateries that utilizes the least oil but still able to whip up a good dish would attract tons of people. But in china, eateries that use little oil is one in a million!
The government had indeed put in a lot of effort to benefit the health of us citizens. Be grateful that we have such government that helps citizens to think about our health aspects. I think that I have been taking all these measures taken by our government for granted, thus when I am here in Wuhan, I find it really difficult for me to find food products which are healthy. Besides healthy food that can be found off the shelves in supermarkets in singapore, I miss my mum’s home cooked food!!!!!!! Because it was always ‘custom-made’ to my request haha! Steamed vegetables, chicken breast etc. this will never be found in Wuhan.
xanier!
