Episode 3: Ingarden Assembly

27th November (Day 3) : Woke up feeling rather pumped for the day's activity. Since it's nearing the jingle bell reindeer Santa Claus Xmas period, I decided to kick start the festive atmosphere donning my dope ass sweater. Got down to Huan Li again but this time, instead of doing the same old boring shit, we got to do some hands on product assembly and blend in with the workers there. I had one job, literally though, which was to unscrew the parts with this really sweet-looking screwing machine. First 20mins was cool and fun because I don't get to work in a factory on normal days. After that, boredom rammed me so hard in the head that I had to fake an excuse to go take a shit when I actually went venturing HAHAHAHA! I had to sit there for 1.5hrs unscrewing that shit. 20 mins and I had enough of this mundane life. HOW DID THESE WORKERS SURVIVE 12HRS, 6 DAYS A WEEK, IN THIS DAMN FACTORY, DOING THE SAME SHIT AND EARNING JUST ENOUGH TO FEED THEMSELVES?!?!?! I asked the worker sitting next to me about their salary. She told me it's about a few RMB per hour. If I'm not wrong, I did the conversion and it was like SGD$2-3 per hour!! Life's hard for these people because they work to basically pay off their expenses and foot bills. Some never stepped out of Suzhou once in their entire lives! We Singaporeans are damn lucky...

Loitering...

Right after our last meal at Huan Li, we headed off to the Tiger Hill for a mini-quest. Places in China have weird titles named after animals. So far, we have Lion's Grove and Tiger Hill. Who knows if there's gonna be Praying Mantis Temple, Pussy Valley, Cock Farm..... hehehehe... Anyway, the entrance of Tiger Hill wasn't anything unique or eye-catching. It's basically like a museum entrance except without air-con. But I shit you not, when I stepped across the threshold, HOLY MOTHER OF AUTUMNS AND EARTHLY BEAUTY.... THE VIEW WAS A-M-A-Z-I-N-G-G-G-G-G. Why does the AMAZINGGGGG has so many Gs? Cuz that place was so GOOD! Check out the pics man, you'll die from chronic eyegasm. Yellow autumn leaves blanketing the entire ground! I could like live a stark nude hobo there and stay warm just by tucking myself under the thick layer of leaves on the floor. I could also like dive into the ground and possibly die from hypoxia when the leaves flood my airholes. I could like make a yellow leaf angel cuz I'm so turned on by the awesome place I can't even.... This, nigga, this is, the most scenic place I've seen before my own eyes!








Rolled out to complete our tasks with Starhill Enterprise. HOLY SHIT... DID I SEE A FREAKING HORSE CARRIAGE. SHIT... COooooOOoooollllLLL!! There was a moat (water surrounding a property) that looked sweet glistening under the warm cozy sun's rays. Instead of completing the task sheet, we spent 99% of our time taking pics and trying to make them Instagram worthy. Met a few peeps along the way and we were like, "Screw it lah, we gon' lepak". Chatted with the teachers at the meeting area and got share stuff like my shoes and shit. Mr Chu is a chill and cool guy when work is not in mind :) I get to tease him and joke around with him during these chill times. And so, we ended the entire adventure with a jumpshot taken with the entire Econs trip :) I don't have the jumpshot uploaded to the computer so gotta suck it up. Anyway it wasn't really nice so.... yeah.

The sun started to set.... We arrived at Suzhou Industrial Park and were taken to this huge building that was supposed to constitute the entire informative display of the Industrial Park. I gotta say, everything, I REPEAT, EVERY SINGLE FREAKING PIECE OF SHIT IN THERE WAS HIGH TECH. Ultra large curved HD screen with 3D animation, touch screen heads-up display etc. That museum of sort was hella slick (Y)

Dinner time! We were traveling to some crowded market-like area to have our dinner. Initially, I thought we were gonna have dinner at some Chinese restaurant again I'm like, "NOOOOOOOOO BITCH NOOOOOO!! I DUN WANNA EAT RICE AND VEGGIES ONLY!" Heck was I wrong. They brought us to a street full of shophouses lining the street with stores selling ALL KINDS OF SOUVENIRS AND ALL KINDS OF..... wait for it..................... FOOOOOOOOOOOOODD!! The best part was, the teachers granted us liberty once again, to venture the entire "Chinatown" lookalike and search for our own meals. AWESOME! The teachers specifically mentioned that they don't want us to split into sub-groups. We didn't. So we joined forces and formed one ultimate mega upsized group then rolled down the street. Gangster? Hell yeah nigga.






We all decided to have our dinner in this one fancy looking, fine dining, awesomely designed Western restaurant, called In Garden. This is the highlight for the day, as the title of this blog post suggests. There was only one waiter running the place flooded with like 20 people. Everyone wanted to place their orders, but shit was getting too slow. The food was getting served slow and we had only that much time left to wait for the food. Good thing mine came first, and I got to savour the delicious sirloin steak and French fries. Suck that they don't have chilli sauce to go with the fries. Anyway, Edwin, Zaki and I became alliances with Chester, Sarah, Saranya and Amanda. The group was formed so quickly that we had a whatsapp group almost instantly and began spamming it already. Don't know what to name the group? Just name it after the restaurant that we signed the treaty, Ingarden :) And that was how our clique rose up above the ranks HAHAHA. Luckily we had extra time! I got to buy a rainbow lollipop like the one in Kung Fu Hustle movie and watch a monk create a honey dragon candy stick for me just by drawing it with hot honey. It was a really good night because I enjoyed all the food there and I made alot of friends :) Socialvis on the ball!







Time to find our coach. But crap, we need to walk all the way out of this street to the big road for the coach to pick us up. We began walking and walking, it almost seemed like a trekking expedition in China cuz the walk was bloody long. It was like a Bugis Street, except it was in China. AGAIN!! I felt the pump in my throat all of a sudden and couldn't resist but to break into spontaneous singing. Good thing I've got Edwin and Zaki with me, who joined in the Sing Aloud session. Chinese peepo there be judging the shit outta us but we dgaf cuz we high on food! The pump didn't go away even when we boarded the coach and I knew I gotta let it out!! *BAM* I slid opened the window of the coach, stuck my damn head out, plugged in my earpiece and started singing along to the music. IT FELT SO GOOD! THE WIND BREAKING UPON MY FACE AS MY CROAKY AND SOMETIMES OFF TUNED VOCALS MASKED BY THE RUMBLING ENGINE OF THE COACH! I WAS ABOUT TO FLYYYY~~






Got back to the hotel. Man, it's gonna be the last night here in Suzhou.... This place had been a ride.... Ahh! Gotta get my daily dosage of Haagen Dazs from the convenient store! Strolled back to our room, did some really gay shit, took a half nude selfie and that's it for the day!