Night class~

Hello!

My post for today is here! I actually wanted to publish yesterday's post earlier in the afternoon today. However, my VPN wouldn't load so I couldn't access to blogger to post. Now it's better, thank goodness. :)

Today I woke up relatively late compared to the other days because we didn't have a morning class. I slept at 11 plus last night and woke up at around 9am. So shiok hehe :) I went down to Kenneth's dorm to have a run through of the presentation that happened this afternoon. Kenneth and Brandon kept trying to make each other, Kang Ming and I laugh during the run through. Brandon also had trouble pronouncing "jie dong feng" meaning borrowing the east wind. He said it in such a funny way that made all 3 of us laugh like crazy. In case you were wondering why there is a "borrowing the east wind", our group presented on history, and focussed on the battle of red cliff. Kenneth read the Three Kingdoms "san guo yan yi" book, and I watched the movie "Red Cliff" so we have a rough idea on what happened. The presentation went well so I'm quite happy. :) Oh and during the presentation, we played JJ Lin's Cao Cao and we showed the official trailer for the movie "Red Cliff". We ended up influencing our tutorial class to sing the song and wanting to watch the movie. Haha! Our group is awesome that way :)

I experienced my first night class here in Wuhan. We had an IS class on Chinese customs & fengshui at 6pm.  The class was quite interesting overall. But the speaker had to show us food from different provinces and we all got quite disgusted by the internal organs and fried golden cicada. *shivers* He then touched on fengshui. The concept of fengshui is really profound and hard to understand. The way the house must be positioned by the river is so confusing and complicated as it all seems the same to me. He then touched on funeral customs for different ethnic groups on china. The most common type of burial for the deceased in Singapore is "huo zang" which means cremation. However, the different ethnic groups practice different types of burying the dead. Some examples are: "xuan zang" means hanging the tomb by the cliff, "tian zang" means leaving the corpse in the open area and allowing the vultures or birds from the sky to consume the corpse and "shui zang" which just means sinking the corpse into the water. We finished at around 8plus and it was near to pitch black outside. The streetlights and lamps didn't seem to help as there aren't many and are very dimly lit. It also suddenly turned really cold as my teeth were slightly chattering. I quickly went back to my dorm and warm up before going out to the streets with Jovin and Shan Hui to get some hot food and breakfast for tomorrow.

Tomorrow should be lecture day for me. The chapters and contents for this second half of the trip seems more heavy because we have Forensic DNA and Forensic Psychology etc. Will and must jiayou! Fighting!

Rest well and sweet dreams to everyone!

xoxo
Zayneeer