Today will be our last IS lecture. The previous few IS lecture had been a long and tiring lecture of up to 3 hours with 100 over slides! I hope that today's lecture will be different!
Indeed, today lecture is interesting! We are taught the different methods of business etiquette like shaking hands, passing of name cards and greetings! Furthermore, she included that China has the 2nd largest economy and may even overtake USA! One of the thing that interest me the most is the China Import and Export Fair(Canton Fair). This fair occurs during Spring and Autumn. This is a must to go event for most businessman. This shows the high import and export rate in China that they require a Canton Fair. Next, after the lecture, we had a certificate giving ceremony by the Dean of the school. It has really been kind of them to provide all the IS lectures for us to learn more about the Chinese Culture. Moreover, he prepared everything for us, the classroom and hostel. Without them, this trip will not be possible for the 40 of us.
In the night, we went to the opposite side of the road for our street food! However, we had a major obstacle, our one and only obstacle, the crossing of road. The road outside our school do not have any traffic lights! Thus, it is difficult to cross it. Fortunately, we had our brave lecture, Mr Lee to lead us across the road. To cross the road in China, one require really good dodging and daring techniques. We had to look out for the cars and dodge it as the car will not stop for you to cross. Thus, we had to be extremely careful and to abide to the rules used in primary school, 'Look left, look right and look left again.' In Singapore, many of us took for granted the traffic lights provided and simply text or listen to their mp3 players while crossing the road. Many of us even jay walked across the road as it is convenient for us! However, when we are in China, we learnt the importance of traffic lights. Traffic lights is just one of the things that we failed to appreciate when we are in Singapore. There many other things like food and climate that we failed to appreciate too.
That's all for today! Hope that tomorrow presentation will go smoothly for every single one of us!
I feel you. Crossing the road in Wuhan is like playing dodge ball with the cars..
ReplyDeleteWe nearly died every single time we cross the road to get street food. But hey! the street food is worth the risk because its so good!
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yeah! being in China makes us appreciate the value of traffic lights! hahaha!
ReplyDeleteCrossing roads in China is really a nightmare for everyone! Now then we realise the value of traffic lights and the etiquette and discipline of Singapore drivers. But then, Thailand traffic is much much worse. Have a look there one day, it's double nightmare. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that the IS lecture was interesting. Although i did not get as much information as i could, i agree that business ettiquette is important, especially when we go for interviews for our job or when we by any chance goes into the business field!
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you about your obstacle crossing the road! In China, with so many vehicles, it was very hard and unsafe to cross roads, what i learnt is only that we should follow the locals or we wait till there is no cars left and safe enough for us to cross! We should really aprreciate how Singapore have trffic lights and zebra crossing that works and could safely bring us to the other side of the road!
-Chiam