Train!!!! chu chu!!

19-3-2011

Hey guys its Saturday!!! We gathered at the lobby at 9am and met with our language partners and mine came yay!!!together took a bus 643 and then a train to tang gu. Apparently train tickets in china are shaped something like casino chips.Also when u enter the platform u tap thechip like u do on a ezlink card weird eh? And when u alight  u drop the coin into the machine weird haha.

After breakfast we headed to the yang huo shi chang to explore . the place mainly sells weapons such as tasers, electrical baton, pocket knifes , butterfly knives and swords. There’s also many shop that sells fishing equipment and astronomy equipments such as telescope and binoculars I even saw night vision goggles hahah!!  But of course we wont be buying such items as it's not what we are looking for a half the items sold there is not allowed to be brought back to Singapore. Oh and the atmosphere around the place gives you the creeps as we are told the most road side stores are with the triads which are usually the people committing the crime. Which means when you pay for something and if the owner noticed u have money you may be a target of being targeted by the triad and to be robbed.

We came back to by train again at around 3pm and something that  I thought that will never happen in my life actually happened . Just as I was  about to board bus 643 I saw a hand on my peripheral vision was about to reach into my pocket I immediately smacked the hand away and board the bus immediately .yea guys I almost got picked pocketed and if im not wrong the lady was a gold haired lady and from what my friend says she might even be local as it is a Caucasian lady. Now I understand why Mr.chua and Mr.Tan always emphasis a lot on being alert of pickpockets.But my friend wasn't that fortunate as his wallet actually got picked and he lost his IC  but not that much money .

Well enough of the  unfortunate incident we actually went to KTV  at night  from 7-9pm with our language partners oh I can tell you it was so much FUN! We sang im guessing at least 40 songs haha!!! But one thing about the place is that its like a maze as its like a saware  insaide a square with many other square we almost got lost haha.

Reflection

Okay so today I learnt that we Singaporeans are actually too “pampered” by the government in Singapore as  the security is so good that we doubt we will ever be pick pocketed so when in other countries we are also laxed and did not really bother about security and after to days incident I  probably changed my mindset and  will be alert when im in a foreign country because  being alert for me today actually help me to not be pick pocketed. Also today I learnt that there are many type of people in the world and I kind off saw the dark side of many people  as we observed around us at the yang huo shi chang.