Evening Serenade: Episode 2: Suzhou Adventures

26th November (Day 2) : *Edwin's phone alarm ringing* "Switch off... that fucking..... shit......" That was actually me. I was so freaking tired and the bed was doing an excellent job seducing me to stay glued to it. Never slept so well in long time~ Just when I was about to fall back to sleep, Edwin pounced on me and gave me freaking good morning buttsecks. It was so gay I had to jolt out of bed and back away like I was facing a hysterical animal. Got dressed and went downstairs to have breakfast. The breakfast area was classy! Beautiful sunrise emitting its vibrant rays through the glass frame~ The food there was awesome. Continental breakfast done right! After our breakfast, we had like 30mins of extra time before gathering at the hotel lobby. The Friday Bros ventured out of the hotel because like, WE ARE REBELS, and also partly because WE BADASS AND AIN'T AFRAID OF NO CONSEQUENCES. We got to experience how bustling the city was. You've got tons of Chinese riding their electric bicycles to work, you've got cars honking incessantly for no apparent reason, you've got a beautiful garden over there..... WAIT..... GARDEN?!?!?! LEGGO!!

Man, the garden adjacent to the hotel was finnnnnneeee~ Autumn leaves falling to the ground, kinda reminds me of Maplestory (mainly due to the maple leaves hahaha). The wind was bone-chilling cold.... Wrapped myself up like a Christmas tree to stay warm and since I was at a scenic place..... In the presence of an iPhone 6's high resolution camera..... And there's nobody around...... "QUICK HELP ME TAKE AN OOTD BEFORE PEOPLE COME!!!!" It was really a photography experiential tour, testing out all kinds of camera angles and backgrounds with the two retards :) Alright! Time to gather and begin our first corporate visit to Huan Li!

Neat~

Bustling city life

Autumn in da house

"Wtf is this remote area... Holy crap is this the company we are visiting... Looks like one of those infamous holding area for victims of kidnap...." It looks pretty dilapidated I must say, but I shall leave the overall judgement till the end of the visit. We were greeted by the Chinese workers of Huan Li, pretty awkward, but still passable. We all took our seats in the conference room and because the other "spectating seats" were taking, I had no choice but to sit on the boss ass office chair surrounding the enormous meeting table, with the teachers and high ranking personnels of the company. LIKE A BOSS. Just to give y'all a heads up, my unglamness hit an all time high when I'm in China. All the pics I take had me looking like a lizard, a fish, an autistic child, a Downie etc. So..... Enjoy your exclusive disclosure of my unglamorous moments HAHAHA!!

The representatives of the company's various departments began giving their presentation on stuff like, how the pump works, how they measure the company's economic and financial progress and shit along the line. It was so freaking technical with so much (note that I used "much" instead of "many" because the details they mentioned was insane) nitty gritty information like how many volts their product function on in the different components. Yo, if this shit ain't mad enough, guess what? THEY CONDUCTED THE PRESENTATION IN CHINESE!! HOLY FUCK!! NIGGA BE SPEAKING TECHNICAL DETAILS IN CHINESE?!?!?! I don't even understand the technical shit already and you are presenting in Chinese? Oh fuck me.... All I hear during the presentation was "CHING CHONG BING BONG LING LONG". Plus, the slides were in Chinese with chunks and chunks of Chinese characters I almost died. Y'all remember the Chinese comprehension passage right? THAT. ON THE SCREEN. Except, you don't understand even a single character. Man, I was like sucked into the past learning Egyptian hierography and scriptures. I was damn ass lucky to have done PW and specifically, Oral Presentation. Can't doze off.... Gotta stay away and show some respect.... Holy crap..... OH! Good thing they got fruits on the table!! HAHAHAHA! OM NOM NOM NOM NOM.......

LUNCH TIME!! OH GREAT!!! FINALLY!! One awesome thing about Huan Li is that they cater free food to all their workers. We got to enjoy the awesome filling lunch, which was once again, all veggies, but it's good cuz I'm already getting used to the low protein diet HAHAHA. Next up! A tour around the scenic location of Suzhou by the Taihu Lake!

Jiao Bins

GOD HAVE MERCY!!!

OOTD STEP

Banana Agents

Alighted the coach to a beautiful park. But first, I needa take a piss. After my small business, I turned on the tap to wash my hands...... Only to realize there's no water supply in the entire toilet. Ooops... Aiya screw it, gtfo asap HAHAHA! Taihu Lake was so picturesque! The scenery was outta of this world. The water was calm and turqoise in colour, basking in sun's radiance was the dried up tall grasses. The wooden walkways we strolled on were perfectly matched with the environment. There was a gigantic wooden "ferris wheel" of sort that kinda reminded me of the Singapore Flyer. This place was hella dope!

After the scenery viewing tour, we headed back to Huan Li to view their assembly line, like how they bring different parts of the products together. We ended off the day's activity with a Q&A session involving the students and the vice-CEO. That, I most regretted participating. I should have shut my mouth....... Here's how the mishap happened. I was curious as to what the CEO does on a daily basis, like his job scope and I wanted examples like "Does he conduct various business transaction over the phone?". Due to my weak ass command of spoken Chinese, I couldn't convey my ideas into words and I ended asking, "请问那个总裁上做什么的？他是不是打电话还是...?" Holy fuck, I didn't know it would come so freaking rude I was appalled. The teachers had to save my ass and salvage the embarrassment by properly translating what I meant into professional spoken Chinese. Omg..... Why am I so enthu..... Should have just eat my banana and be the audience of the session..... And this is why I freaking hate Chinese (Y)

Well, albeit my disrespectful question, the company still treated us to dinner at a private hotel. No surprises, all kinds of veggies, one bowl of anorexic kampong chicken, two buckets of rice. Tuck in! Had a Chinese representative of the company sitting at my table and that was pretty fun. Exchanged cultural talks and compared certain standards between Singapore and Suzhou. Got us talking and laughing :) Great night! Time go back to the hotel! I NEED WIFI... INSTAGRAM CAN'T WAIT! Got back to the hotel and instead of heading back to our rooms, Mr Chu took us to the convenient store near the hotel. OMG!!! HAAGEN DAZS ICE CREAM!! Everyone bought a lot of shit and practically emptied the store of its goods. The cashier was frantically trying to tend to all 38 Singaporean students single-handedly, I could see he wanted to quit his job that very instant HAHAHAHA! Rolled back to the room, watched Real Madrid's match on TV and that's it for night. LIGHTS OUT!