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Chung Ling Teachers’ Day 09:Pre-party and Preparation in 5SA1

Written by Nicholas Chan on July 7, 2009 – 12:13 am -

To be honest, I don’t know want how to present and write about this, the teacher’s day celebration that happened a week ago in school. I took so much photos and I don’t know where to start, so I guess I will let most of the photos speak for themselves with a little caption add on. I’ll divide it into parts too.

Jing Xiang was graffiti-ing the whiteboard.

So what we had two weeks ago, on a Friday was the postponed Teacher’s Day Celebration Day and it’s party in every class or it’s more likely a popluck. It’s not really party, it’s eating but yet there’s still fun when everyone were full.

Our class had a popluck party, other classes too but I guess my class had the most food with more than 13 foods to choose from. Some classes students paid RM15 each and ordered catering and there’s like only 7 food while for us, we paid RM18 each and we got so many food.

The food we had were spaghetti, fried rice, fried bee hoon, curry chicken (with roti benggali), sushi, satay, prawn cake, roasted pork (siu yok/sio bak), sausages, fish balls, 3 jellys of different flavours, 2 types of cake, spring rolls, 3 types of fruits, KFC for a Malay teacher, lots of soft drinks and soya bean with barley.

Arranging the food.

Since it’s a Teacher’s Day Celebration, the main subject was at the teachers at first. We started the whole thing at 10am when the first teacher came in for food. We get our hands on only after they had eaten. My friend had a crazy idea and that was starring at the teachers while  take the food so that they got a little pressure and tension from us, thus getting less food with a lot left for us.

Play time before start. It’s Chee Pherng a.k.a. Mumbai carrying Jin Jie.

Mr Cheah Kok Kheng (senior assistant) and Miss Kong Mei Yuet (teaching History).

Mrs Goh a.k.a. Lady Goh Goh (my Chemistry teacher, she can dance).

Miss Chin Wee Kem (my Physics teacher).

Mrs Goh, Miss Teh Phaik Keow (my form teacher, my add math, maths teacher and my Leo Club teacher advisor), Mr Ong Chin Hua (my Moral Ed teacher).

Mr Chuah (the school principal). He was late so not much left for him.

The teachers kept coming in after the first guest who is our school’s senior assistant for CCA came in. We were so excited as that means we were getting closer to the food. There’s cheering, laugher and shouting that fill the air in the classroom.

Mr Soo on the left (another vice principal or something).

After they have done with theirs and it’s our turn. When it’s our turn, for sure there won’t be much left over for the late comer teachers.

It’s the real party time after all the teacher had gone out from our class and move to other places. Two things to be said about them coming to our place, it’s too happenings and too many food, I bet there’s no other places better than our class 5SA1.

More to share on the next part when it’s our turn to eat and real party time.

Tags: 5SA1, chung ling, Chung Ling High School, Class, clhs, Eat, Food, Friends, fun, games, high school, many friends, Many People, party, People, School, teacher, teachers day 09
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Leo Forum 09:Closing Ceremony and Last Few Photos

Written by Nicholas Chan on July 6, 2009 – 12:24 am -

The last day at Leo Forum 09 was pretty boring and energyless. We got 2 meal on that day, a breakfast and a lunch. It’s just a closing ceremony and got nothing to do on that day. Energyless because that I did get only 3 hours of sleep the day before at 5 and woke up at 8 in the morning.

It’s check out and moving the luggage out from the room to a place to keep it. They had part of the basement carpark to keep the delegates’ luggages temporarily. There’s no other place in the hotel can do it already because there’s like 1000 delegates.

After checking out, we were transported to Sunshine Banquet Hall for closing ceremony and lunch. It’s just boring talking and I find nothing interesting.

Alvin.

Lester.

Dark circle, eye bags and a tired face.

We were just sitting there and wait for food. It’s buffet again and luckily there’s a special lane for the forum sub committee which I was part of it.

Yong Seng, Jason, Lester and me.

Min Xiang, Lester, Yong Seng, Jason.

No matter how bad or not good the forum was, the report speech at the closing ceremony still talk about how good it was. So it’s just a  waste of time I guess.

The left over that we got. Ugly and dirty.

Yin Chen from Pahang. I’ve forgotten which club she was in.

With twinning sisters club, Leo Club of Sam Tet High School, Ipoh.

The last day was not really a good mood for photo taking because everyone look so tired. Guess a lot of people were like me that slept for a few hours the previous night. They’re all just waiting to go home and get a good sleep.

Yng Shin and Pei Cing.

Pei Chia and Wan Pei.

Eunice and Carren.

Photos by YngShin.

Before getting home, I had individual shots with the girls from Leo Club of Penang Chinese Girls High School who claims to read my blog. I was happy when it seems like everyone want to take photos with me, sounds as if I am a superstar but I am not. Anyway,  I thank you all especially to the camera girl Lye Yng Shin, a very cute girl from the club who takes nice photo and blog a lot too! I had fun. Good one.

Everyone were going to their buses and I waited my brother to fetch me home. It’s nice to meet some new faces and names there, although it’s a not very successful forum, yet I did enjoy it, it’s fun at some part and being crazy and a lot more. I had a long afternoon sleep on that day. It was so so so tiring.

Tags: blogger, Boring, Friends, Leo Club, leo forum, leo forum 09, Many People, People, sleepy
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上下九步行街 Shang Xia Jiu Pedestrian Shopping Street at night

Written by Nicholas Chan on June 4, 2009 – 12:36 am -

A few weeks ago, I wrote about one of the shopping attractions in Guangzhou and it’s the Shang Xia Jiu Pedestrian Shopping Street. Now, I am showing you the same place but with photos that I’ve took at night of this area.

Shops light up at nights with big signboard but then it’s still not as pretty as in Hong Kong. Though, I did feel the happenings of people moving around at there. Some have street snack on their hand while walking on the street. So enjoy.

On the left is a cinema and on the right is a restaurant.

There’s a cinema at Shang Xia Jiu there and many restaurant, all in the old Chinese designed building. The ticket for movie at the cinema is more expensive than here in Malaysia, it’s like at least 40yuan for the normal seat and the price goes up for different seat and room.

I was there during New Year’s Eve night but unfortunately there’s no countdown there. The shop as usual, closes at 10pm during New Year’s Eve. Though, there’s a large crowds of people at there during New Year’s Eve.

One thing I like there is the Famous Australian Barbeque Mutton on a stick. It’s so delicious and it’s 10yuan for 2 sticks. A little bit spicy but still nice. I bought some Chinese books there too. I realise most of the shops don’t give plastic or paper bag, you need to pay an extra 1yuan if you need it. What a good action for saving the earth. Malaysia should learn this.

Tags: canton, China, Event, guangzhou, Happenings, new year eve, Night, People, shang xia jiu, Shopping, street, Travel
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上下九步行街 Shang Xia Jiu Pedestrian Shopping Street in Daytime

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 5, 2009 – 5:47 pm -

This is my brother Yikhung and he is celebrating his 21st birthday this Saturday.

Back to Guangzhou, behind him is the famous Shang Xia Jiu Pedestrian Shopping Street (上下九步行街 Shang Xia Jiu Bu Xing Jie) in Liwan district in Guangzhou. That’s also where the hotel that I was staying is at.

The tall building standing on the right is Holiday Inn Shifu Hotel, the place we were staying in Guangzhou. Nice room and low room rates. Unfortunately, no Internet access.

This is one of the tourist attractions in Guangzhou, a shopping heaven for the shoppers. Comparing this to Beijing Lu Pedestrian Shopping Street (Beijing Lu Bu Xing Jie), this place is more famous to tourist than Beijing Lu. It’s a long stretch of road only for us, human to walk. No vehicles can be driven into this area.

One nice thing is that the buildings here are preserved from the old time till now. Do you know 西关 Xiguan, a very famous place during the old Guangzhou time and this is the place. If you watches TVB series like search 东山飘雨西关晴 (dong san piu yu sai kuan cheng/cantonese)，西关大少 (sai kuan dai siu/cantonese), you will know about this place.

Most of the building and shops are preserved from old times and look gorgeous on the inside. Their restaurant are so nice and there’s elevator in there sending people up and down.

Very cool.

This street is quite quiet in the morning but when it comes to the noon, people started filling the street, mostly window shopping and the voice of promoters standing outside the store shouting and clapping for customer fill the air. The shops played loud Chinese techno music and the store promoter follows the beat and clapping their hand as if they are at a party, which all is just to attract passers by into their store to take a look.

I was standing in front of the cinema.

Shops open early at there too at around 9am and there’s not many customer. The crowded place in the morning is the restaurant where people go there to yam zhou cha (drink morning tea) and eat dim sum. Dim sum at there is a lot cheaper compairing to our local’s.

It was cold in the morning with light wind blowing towards you. There’s sun but it didn’t warm me up. =) There weren’t any Chinese flag when we were there the first few days, but it’s put up during 1st January 2009, New Year Day. Cool.

To go to Shang Xia Jiu Bu Xing Jie/Shang Xia Jiu Pedestrian Shopping Street/上下九步行街  by Guangzhou Metro, you can take the Guangzhou Metro on Line 1 to Changshou Lu Station and walk 10 minutes following the arrow on the road. Do check the local map at the metro for more info.

Tags: Brother, China, Chinese, District, Family, guangzhou, Morning, old, pedestrian, People, shang xia jiu, Shopping, Travel
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Walked to Huang Sha Yi Yuan Stationery Wholesale from Shifu

Written by Nicholas Chan on April 16, 2009 – 12:14 am -

On the third day of my Guangzhou trip during the New Year, we went to the stationery wholesale market at Huang Sha. We have decided not to take the taxi but instead have a morning walk to Huang Sha. Thanks to the map application on my phone which had successfully guided us to our destination successfully.

It’s quite a long walk like 30 minutes. It’s always nice walking on foot because you can see a lot of things, you can feel local too.

We started off our walking trip to Huang Sha Yiyuan Stationery Wholesale Market from the back of our hotel along Shibafu Bei Lu （十八甫北路）

It was like 10 in the morning and the area was like a little market with stall set up on the road side selling stuff like vegetable and food.

We turned into Tiyun Dong Lu. It’s not really a very crowded place although there’s still people walking on the street. It’s quite quiet with a few cars passing occasionally. The place that we walked past was definitely not a tourist area. It’s local.

They sell animal like snakes and scorpion. The local told us that it’s used for making some sort of Chinese soup and it’s good for health. I got no idea how to make it. They all lies in the cages. It’s seems like the business was not so good, I didn’t see people buying it while I was there. Wrong timing I guess.

There’s also ugly skinned goat hanging just by the roadside preparing to be chopped into parts. You can seldom see it here in Malaysia. We probably have an enclosed area for working on these.

(My brother, Yikhung.)

We were trying to walk till the end of Tiyun Dong Lu and then turn into Datong Lu, but then the end of the road was blocked due to construction of building.

Then we found a little wet lorong (alley) which connected us to the main road (Liu Er San Lu) which will then lead us to  Huang Sha.

If you see the Huang Sha Zhan Metro station, means that you are already on the right track. The whole walking trip was guided by me and my phone. =)

It’s a big main road on your left which is also the Nei Huan Lu (Inner Ring Road). Walked along it to the west and you will see Huang Sha Da Dao and then Huang Sha Hou Dao. If you still got no idea about where are you and how to go, you can always go into the metro station and check out the map at the station.

Mom said she would never walk into this alley because the local there hangs their underwear out there and she wouldn’t want to walk under it. She said it’s pantang. Haha, I’ll remain commentless with that.

We reached Huangsha Hou Dao 黄沙后道 after some times of walking. You will notice a lot of shop lot selling stationeries and office products.

Yiyuan Stationery Wholesale Market was where we went into. It’s known to be the oldest stationery and toy wholesale market in Guangzhou but later it had became a standalone stationery wholesale market. Toys wholesale market is near to Haizhu Plaza which I will talk about it in another time.

Stationery wholesale market, Huangsha.

Mark this place if you are looking for lots of pens in wholesale price. It’s a good place to seek for stationery supplies, for business or yourself. We bought like a lot of pens and calculator for dad’s office.

*Chung Ling student, if you are looking for cheap black gel pen, I am selling at RM1 each. There’s also correction pen for RM2 each. Look for me at 5SA1.

Tags: canton, Cold, Far, guangzhou, huang sha, Market, Morning, pens, People, Shopping, stationery, Travel, walking, wet
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4 Random Shots in Class Today

Written by Nicholas Chan on March 26, 2009 – 11:18 pm -

This is the sitting plan of my class and look for me.

Somehow, I don’t know who went to the toilet and found a toilet pump and don’t know who brought into class and it had become our toy right now. It just appeared in the toilet suddenly and some curious kid brought it in. For your information, the nearest toilet is just next to our class. My class in Form 4 was also right beside the toilet. So lucky to be study in a class that’s beside the toilet for two years.

It’s after school and I don’t know why Beng Tian in his purple PE t-shirt was lying on the table.

I think you know what I meant with that. =) Ignore my ugly handwriting.

Tags: 5SA1, chung ling, Class, clhs, Friends, high school, People, School, School Life, Student, Teen
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