Day 7 @ Shanghai

Today we are going to Singapore! Jeremy and I were so excited that we jumped on the bed. (And I dropped down 3 times and no injuries) After having our breakfast, teachers went to all of our rooms to check if our luggage exceed the maximum weight. They thought that they were like ' galang gunis' but never shouted 'GALANG GUNI! OKO WA! ' and no " TOOT! TOOT!" were coming out. They were more like those newspaper men.

Then, we went to have our lunch in the Aerospace Centre. Soon, we went in the bus and to the airport. After having our luggage and passport checked, we waited for a while and finally entered the plane (It was the same China Eastern Airlines). I listened to music and drank coke. Finally, we reached Singapore.

I saw my parents after taking my luggage. "Hello! Long time no see!" I greeted my parents. They were quite happy to see me."Arnold, your form teacher."My mother said. I turned around and was surprised to see my form teacher standing there, talking with my classmates who when to Shanghai and asking questions. "Hello, Miss Wun!" I greeted my form teacher. " Oh, Arnold! I was about to leave!" she exclaimed.

Finally, we went back home. Home sweet home.

Day 6 @ Shanghai

Today is the last day of exploring! The news flashed to us this morning.

Firstly, we went to 城隍庙(Cheng Huang Miao). However, we never visit the temple but shopped at the shops around it.

Before shopping, we went to the Yuyuan garden. It was a beautiful scenery! Some of the rocks there are from a famous mountain! I think the owner was very rich. He even has his own opera theater. Sadly, my phone ran out of batteries so I cannot show you the pictures.

When we shop, I bought many handicrafts. I was happy that I can bargain an object costing 80 RMB into 16RMB!

Then, we went to have our lunch. It was certainly delicious! Soon, we were to go to the Shanghai City Planning Exhibition Hall. We began to know about the Shanghai Expo 2010. The city gonna change! I wished to go the Shanghai in 2010 so I can see the new and wonderful buildings.

Then, we went to have our dinner. It was a farewell dinner by the Shanghai Society of Astronautics, the organiser of the trip. We have to do our performance we performed in Jin Xin Primary School again, this time to them. After having our dinner, we headed back to the hotel. We boys had a party that we were going back to to Singapore, our homeland.

Tommorrow, we will be going to Singapore!

Day 5 @ Shanghai

Today, we went to the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. This science museum is 4 times bigger than the Science Centre in Singapore! Super, super big! It also let us get further into science, which I always want.

When we went inside, I felt as excited as a astronaut in a space shuttle ready to zoom off. But then it is like the space shuttle speeding up to space with the astronaut' s stomach having butterflies fiying inside, making the stomach to change shape like the shape of all those dirty slimes or aliens in Pluto. We are going to the roller coaster, ready to travel in the ' mouth' of a ' human'. Finally we ended in the toilet bowl and there' s a " Hey, a poo was dropping on us!" by me. I thought that smell gases will come out so I covered my face.

Then, the teachers let us view two exhibitions we want. We went to the robots exhibition and saw some robots dancing.

Also, I learnt about the Robot Gobang Player. Here is the information I took:

Robot Gobang Player

• The gobang board is not the normal one, it has a printed circuit board which has photoelectric sensors and when a stone is put on the board, it blocks the light and signals the sensor.


• The signal will be transformed and transmitted into the computer, telling the computer the location of the stone.


• The computer will combine with the gobang strategy data and tell the robot where the best location to put its next stone.

Then, we went to the spider exhibition and saw many different types of spiders. They even got some dead spiders to show you! However, they did not allow you to touch.

After we bought some souvenirs, we went into the bus and to the Oriental Pearl Tower, the tallest tower in Asia and third tallest tower in the world.


It was taller than I thought! I found out that it got 280-500 storeys! (Admittedly I forgot what is the maximum level.) The scenery from the top is certainly pictureque! Here is one of the sceneries I viewed:

It was so beautiful, isn' t it? The Oriental Pearl Tower was so tall that you can see the whole city of Shanghai.



Other countries had sent the tower some beautiful gifts. Here' s one by Japan:



After that, we went to see the history of Shanghai (Still in the Oriental Pearl Tower). It was very interesting. But the most interesting is the Opium War, which was fought between China and Britain. Britain won, and China had no choice but to give Britain Hong Kong. Hong Kong was only given back in 1997, the year before I was born.

At last, we went to have our dinner and after having our dinner, we went back to the hotel. It was my favourite day.

Day 4 @ Shanghai

" To Shanghai Aerospace, to Shanghai Aerospace, to Shanghai Aerospace...!" I sang in my mind as we walked out of the hotel after having our breakfast. The Shanghai Aerospace Centre was just beside our hotel. When we went in, we saw many fantastic spaceships and military objects. They don' t let us take pictures of the military vehicles, so I only can let you see the spaceships.

Here are some of the spaceships...

It was very interesting and exciting. I wish that Singapore have those things! They were a beauty! I mean, many beauties!

Then, we went to the Oriental Park. We saw many interesting military ships, aircraft, tanks and cannons in a ship. They attracted me so much that I almost got lost while I was looking at those vehicles and the group moved away. When I saw my group going away, I had to run to them. And my umbrella almost blown away for a lot of times. Won' t it be exciting when the umbrella was blown away while I was holding on it? It would be exciting and I can experience life in air with no plane covering me.

After that, we saw the statues of many famous people. Most of them where scientists or mathematicians. Not only there were Chinese people, there were also more other famous people in the world like Albert Einstein and Christoper Columbus

Then, we went to have a steamboat dinner. It was delicious (I overcooked some of them) !

After this delicious dinner, we went back to the hotel. It was a very, very exciting day.

Day 3 @ Shanghai

Today is the day where we launched our rockets. I imagined the sound 'Brrrrrrrr...ZOOOOOM!' by my rocket as I was in the bus (The back, as usual). However, we first have to go to the Shanghai Museum. There were lots of artifacts there, such as jades, old coins and weapons.

Here are some of the weapons...

and coins...

and masks...

How very interesting they were. I wished to have one of these fantastic objects (Except for the mask. They were too scary!)


Then, we went to Jin Xin Primary School for launching our rockets. When it was my turn, I felt nervous. What if my rocket start an explosion? Or start a fire?" No, it cannot be," I thought as I pressed the button. At first, it did not launch. After changing the wire, it zoomed up and landed on the school building! I was so shocked, I thought I'm dreaming.


After launching our rockets, we watched the water rocket launching competition. The boys' flew further than the girls', but they flew out of the field and the girls' won. It was a pity.

Soon, the school teachers annouced the winners. Sadly, I did not win. My rocket worked, only that it landed on the school building and took a shorter time in air. "Never mind, it was not anything serious about losing," I thought to myself.


After we have our farewell performance, we headed back to the hotel. It was an exciting day, with rockets going ' ZOOM!' and having to see interesting things.


See you for the next day!**Sleep tight**

" HAY, ARNOLD! QUICKLY CHARGE YOUR PHONE AND SET THE ALARM FOR TOMMORROW!"

Day 2 @ Shanghai

After brushing our teeth and bathing our body, Jeremy and I headed down excitedly. It was the first day to go to Jin Xin Primary School (Which was a government school). We were to make rockets. We went to have our breakfast before going to the bus. I liked to have a bumpy ride, so I sat at the back. Soon, we reached Jin Xin Primary School.

The hall was so good! There were chairs for us to seat, not like our school. I took some pictures of the hall...




So good!
Then, we went to explore the school and see how the pupils study. After that, we made our own rockets. We had fun making them! We worked with our China buddy (I forgot his name) and I liked him a lot becausehe was kind and never get angry when we asked the same question over and over again. It was so interesting that I had to be forced to go out during break time because I was so busy gazing at my rocket.

Tomorrow, we would be launching our rockets. How excited I was!

Day 1 @ Shanghai

On my first day, we were going to Shanghai! We were to board the plane travelling from Singapore to Shanghai. The plane was in China Eastern Airlines. It was my first time in China Eastern Airlines.

In the plane, I found out that you can only watch the television (Which was in front) or listen to music. Then, we were to board the Maglev Train. This train can travel up to 400 kph! Faster than the MRT! Much more faster!

Interesting, isn' t it? The Maglev Train travels very fast, so the places 'travels' very fast to the back too. How excited you would be when you were in the Maglev Train. It was such a beauty.

This is how the train looks like.


It was a beauty, isn' t it?

Then, we sat in the bus. When we arrived at the hotel, I was so excited! So excited! I never been to a hotel before (I stayed in my aunt' s house when we went Shenzhen) and I was curious about how the room looks like. The hotel was already prepared when we reached the hotel. I went in my room with my roommate, Jeremy, and gasped when I saw the room. It was a luxury! A luxury.

After having our dinner, we went to the conference room to write our journal. What' s an exciting day!