hello i am back from china and malaysia.

day 1 in china:

travel. thats it. first time on aeroplane. wheeeeee. seat was small. food wasn't good. then had lunch in guangzhou airport. food wasn't good. and it was expensive. then took another airplane to wuhan. wuhan is a cool place. it has quite a large proportion of farms but it is strangely hazy and polluted. wuhan food is spicy. not as spicy as sg food though, but spicy enough to make one worried about the next training. especially since we know we're gonna get thrashed. ys and yanjun were making a fake china accent, and basically amused quite a lot of ppl.

in the bus 4 ppl at the back (me mitch, jimr and alwyn) were making so much noise tt eng was pissed. (alwyn shouted "chen shui bian wan4 sui4!")and when eng is pissed ppl get scared cos when he's pissed he's scary. makes sense?

okay, test time! how do you say "spoon" in madarin?

easy rite? tang1 shi2 rite?

wrong! china ppl call spoon "shao2 zi" or "tiao2 gen1".

then we din like veggie. so we played zhong ji mi ma(jugde think of number between 1-100. other people try not to say the number. judge will shrink the range accordingly)to make ppl eat them. (veggie isn't bad enuff to use cai quan...no funky sauce lah)

hotel was good. toilet cistern screwed up though. so in order to flush must take off cistern cover, pull the chain, put back cistern cover, then wash hands.

jimr passed me to train digimon. becos u have to shake the digimon back and forth 36 times in 10 seconds to train it, you need energy to accelerate and decclerate the digimon. so to save energy, i used my hip to deccelerate the digimon and my hand to accelerate it. it turned out that it looked kinda ...erm...queer.

day 2:

morning PT in cold weather. didn't do much, but hardly anybody knew what he jiao lian wanted us to do... so we ran a bit, sprinted a bit, jumped a bit, tts it. but then i didn't really want more cos my lungs felt weird because it was cold and dry.

after breakfast we trained ourselves under eng cos wuhan just disbanded their judo team.

after tt shopping. we went to see guns. i bought a nice pistol, but weixiang bought a nice big gun. this instigated everyone to buy a bigger gun. while ppl bought big guns, he bought bigger guns. and then it was set: weixiang had the biggest gun. the following night we have judo vs gym. judokas only showed them pistols, so they humchi only bought pistols. then on the day of judo vs gym, judokas thrashed gym.

then we trained with hubei team. those ppls' strength were crazy. its like they let u u might throw them, but if they want you to get thrown u confirm get thrown. pwnage man pwnage.

randori in chinese is called "shi2 zhan4". sounds damn cool cos if u directly translate it means "real combat". nagewazi randori is "tou2 ji4 shi2 zhan4" , newaza randori is "qing3 ji4 shi2 zhan4". cool yah?

armlocks: guan1 jie2 ji4 (d.t : joint technique)
kena armlock: pie3
chokes: jiao3 ji4 (d.t : entangling technique)
lapel: zhi2 men (d.t : straight door?)
collar: ling3
sleeve: xiu4 zi
seoi nage: bei4 fu4 tou2 (back carry throw?)
uchimata: nei4 gu3 (inner reap)

forgot the rest. there was harai goshi, osoto gari, tai otoshi, ouchi gari, but i 4got wad they're called.

oh and we learnt how to unhook. damn...why wasn't garry there?

in between there was a street with lots of shops. clothing shops, shoe shops, ornament shops, music cd shops. yuck. i HATE shopping for garments. especially since i'm given 1 and half hour to shop for garments. yuck.

can't follow ys/bryan/timo/martin cos they'll definitely be shopping for clothes. mitch/jimr/wx confirm shop for music cds. (mitch is obsessed with sun yan zi) so i followed lincoln... he's less extreme. so as we walked along the street their were ppl who would pull u into shops. here i'll translate what the people puller and lincoln said:

"hey do u want to buy some addidas/nike/rebok clothing and shoes?"
"erm, i dun really need them..."
"its okay, just come and look, it's okay if you don't buy them, just take a look!"
"erm..."
"they are going really cheap!"
"err...yah let's see."
"follow me!"

then the guy took us to a v small shop that sells nothing that can be sold: bathing scrubs, sponges, towels, socks, hair pins, then we walked further in, into something like their kitchen(inside was really dirty, with a few burly guys), then he opened the door to a hidden room full of branded clothing deep inside, and we went in, feeling kinda uneasy. then 3 big guys came in and closed the door(!).

lincoln bought 2 shirts for 170 yuan. he tried to bargain to 150, but not successful. then we walked out and when we walked far he said "DAMN CHEAP!!! oh my god..."

oh and there was this funny small shop that sold game pc and console cds, and had a small escalator upstairs...if u didn't pay attention you might not really notice it. then when we went up then we found ourselves in a bookstore 4 times the size of kino. (if u dunno what i'm tokking about, i mean that we landed ourselves in a rather...big bookstore) it has games cds, computer stuff, uni textbooks, guidebooks, art books, children books... lots of stuff. it really makes us wonder why such a big bookstore has to be hidden within a small shop.

now about the cruise.

i think it was pretty much a waste of time. the fog was really so thick that there wasn't much to see. and the rooms were small. toilets were stinky.

oh and there were magazines with suggestive looking covers on sale in the cruise ship. alwyn and yanjun wanted but didn't dare to buy them. i told alwyn that i'll buy one from the counter and sell to him at double price. he agreed. and i really bought it. and he bought it from me. earned 10 yuan. it was all words and few black white pics. and he was reading it out loud in my room, and i called ppl to come in and listen. so timo, jimr, me, yanjun, ys, timo, mitch, lincoln(not sure if he was inside), martin, junhan(for a v short while), were in my room listening to alwyn read yellow magazine. alwyn read out "my first time"(rather generic), "cybersex", "how i raped my university teacher"(slightly more descriptive, explained some 'stances').

then he bought 10 more... with a military magazine to cover the top. so he spent 130 yuan on mags in all. and he lent the best(according to him, i just thought it had the most suggestive looking cover but didn't probe further) to jimr. and jimr was reading with a blanket on.

after the cruise alwyn threw all his magazines away. aww... thats $26 wasted on mags.

then we came back to wuhan and i bought a machine gun... then lincoln got his first try on it. the sound was damn scary... but it's actually weaker than weixiang's mp5. but it fires at 8 shots per second! when it was fully loaded, lincoln went to ys' room and knocked the door. ys just finished shitting and opened the door b4 zipping up his pants and lincoln unloaded all the 32 bullets on ys. ys dropped his pants and ran and covered himself up in the blanket.

the scary sound atracted a lot of attention and soon lincoln's room was filled with people. lincoln lied tt it is 400 yuan and in a far away place so tt ppl wun try to buy it. i actually bought it for 130 yuan at the nearby mart.

more later.