Sunday, January 11, 2009
Im back from Hangzhou! Went there on Friday night together with Daniel,Denise and her mum to take the IELTS(International English Language Testing System) by Cambridge. Denise's driver brought us there...
OK...BEFORE THAT...ON THE WAY TO HANGZHOU...had the shock of my life - - was almost close to having an accident on the highway...It all happened in a blink of an eye...(if i had video-ed it...definitely some epic video)
1.Lorry which dropped things
2.Car which went flying
3.Our car
It was like this....the lorry dropped things from the back....so the car in between dodged and made a sudden right turn to the middle lane....then this container truck...just knocked it and made it went flying...the car flipped like 5-6 times before landing at the extreme right corner...we were like so THANK GOD for the angle which the container truck hit the car..if the angle was slightly different it might flip and come towards our direction...and then i wouldn't be here blogging since there were so many incoming cars behind too...it will be GG... Seriously the car flipped like some James Bond action movie- - just that the fireworks was missing...PHEW
Me and daniel shared a room...and for the whole night we couldnt sleep...before that i called my mum and told her what happened...she was kinda relieved that nothing happened -_- then i called like mindy and text a few people telling what happened...i just couldnt believe- -'' We chatted til 1am before sleeping...We woke up at like 7 and went to take the test... we checked our seats then went to the respective floors to register. 99% of the candidates were chinese and only 1 % are foreigners...including me. So i brought my passport as identification... and before entering the class...all the teacher will be like"喂!!! 你手上的是什么东西??!(passport..bright red compared to chinese's IC so its so noticable) 给我看看..." Its super irritating because they were like saying it so loud and the whole class will be like looking at u "新加坡人?!" If i'm in singapore, i would go "NONONO PASSPORT FAKE ONE" Seriously - - omg....
Finished the listening,reading and writing test in one shot which is like 3 hours...the format is something like olevels...super huai nian la-.- lol ...even the cover page is exactly the same...it was kinda easy and i tink i can do quite well in it... After that, we packed our things and checked out from the hotel and went for lunch at Papa John Pizza.
Funny things happened in here...waitresses had really bad service...food was okae though...and had really bad fashion sense(the socks? or stockings? whatever the name is... Denise mum noticed it...and pointed it out...we were all laughing like mad so i asked Denise to take a picture...SHE WAS LIKE SUPER OBVIOUS LA-.- omg...she just directly point the phone at her and snapped...here it is...
May not be clear here- - but its really funny there
After lunch, Denise mum said she wanted to buy Silk products from some place(Hangzhou is famous for silk) , so we just all followed and went there. We had like around 3 hours to shop because my oral test was at 5pm. So we went by cab there...upon arriving...me and daniel went "oh noes"....
Super long pathway...every singleshop selling exact same products(Perfect Competition) lol ._.After like some long shopping, they bought some silk scarfs and hankerchiefs cos her mum said like wanted to give as gifts when they go back for New Year. Next we went to the shopping area of HangZhou and walked around...i wanted to buy the newest apple in-ear iphones with mic for my iphone but just couldnt find any apple shop around instead we saw tons of branded stuff ... saw this Zara shirt which was really nice but cost like 299rmb(60sgd) even after discount...so i was like bahz forget it- -
On the way there...we saw this Haagen Daz shop...but we kinda forgot which way was it so me and daniel were like arguing which direction...we had little time left so we ended up going to starbucks and had some "quick coffee" and left again... I was gonna be late soon and it was the PEAK PERIOD....there were no taxis at all...and its like ochard road..people were snatching for it...so we were desperate to get back to the testing area so we ended up riding this...."rick-motorcycle"? It was seriously BAD- - i shared one with daniel and it was like half a butt in the seat and half of your legs were outside in the air hanging...damn scary after tat car accident- - denise and her mum rode another version which was better with a "tray with cushion"... just nice for them...
This was just how close i was to the driver.....
Say hello to denise and her mum...this was like take 20...really hard to take picture especially on a moving vehicle with 1 leg outside+freezing freezing cold air+numb hands+ hard iphone camera...We arrived back at the testing area SAFELY and me and denise went for our oral test...where daniel had to come back AGAIN on Sunday to have it..(bad scheduling for him...randomised...too bad) it was kinda easy and me and denise both got the same topic... this oral was kinda harder than singapore's type of oral test but it was still ok.... one thing to note though...the examiner's accent was REALLY REALLY hard to understand...and a few times i had to "sorry, may you repeat?" ...man im really afraid that it might affect my score- -'' Its not my english tat is bad but its ur freaking accent damn EXAMINER even though u arent reading this.
So we all finished our tests and went back home.....emphasis- SAFELY HOME......what a relief- - hopefully my tests will be good which will come by in 10 days... aniway im glad im alive and kicking and able to type this blog post...
CYA