Day 38 - Relax, Night Shopping Posted by SuperJuniorF , Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 11:42 PM, in

3 days to go before this OIP trip comes to an end. As we have free time in our hands, most of my friends went out to shop while I accompanied Si Hao in the dormitory due to his injured leg. Me and Si Hao skipped breakfast this morning because we woke up quite late, thus we had lunch straight. Si Hao and I tried to catch up with our blog while we had the time in our hands. However when the clock struck 5.30pm, Si Hao and I got ready to go to Jiang Han Lu to do some shopping.

As we took the bus and arrived at Jiang Han Lu, I saw this old equipment that is used to pay for a parking lot. It was ancient to me as I no longer see this in Singapore, or may be I should say there are very little left in Singapore. In Singapore, most carparks are now underground or multi-story carpark. The payment for the carpark is also by the hour, so the drivers do not have to worry about not paying enough and using more time.

At Jiang Han Lu, Bu Xing Jie, although it was late in the trip now, I tried to learn bargaining. I was surprised that I succeeded well and managed to get a shirt for 20RMB which is only about $4! The price is definitely very cheap compared to even the shirt sold at bugis street. We also witness a fight between two ladies. We were not sure what their reason were to fight but their fight caused a scene. Good thing some people stopped them and nobody got injured. So After walking through Bu Xing Jie, Si Hao and I each went to buy a pair of contact lenses. We managed to bargain each pair from 120RMB to 60RMB and to be honest, it was a good deal! In Singapore, buying a 1-year coloured contact lenses would cost more than $50 per pair but we bought it for 60RMB which is about $13! ^_^

The sellers of the contact lenses.

Reflection

So far throughout this trip, I have seen 2 incidents of ladies quarreling to the extend of physical contact. That is by far the most time I have seen two women fight in a month. In Singapore, although there might be some fight between the ladies, most of the fights are not in public areas. What surpised me after the fight was that everything could go back to normal the way they were before as if nothing happened! Its amazing how the people in China behaves. No wonder so many wrong things can happen. Nobody actually care about enough to take actions when something wrong happens such as littering or spitting. It is when the bad incident that happened is related to them is the only time when they really react. It is a good thing Singapore's government take firm actions when someone does a wrong thing.