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Three busy and tired days...1:31 AM

Thursday, September 4, 2008

2nd & 3rd September~
We woke up at 5Am, took turns to shower. ( Need to turn on the shower for 20min in advance for warm water) Took breakfast at 6.15Am. Forgot to mention, it is quite bright at 5Am here, like 9Am in Singapore. So i doesn't feel like i am waking up early.

Reached the factory to have tour at the final assembly plant (Where completed cars finally drives out). Strictly no cameras allowed, our handphones are kept too. It was rather interesting to see a few different type of cars coming out of the factories. Audi s and Volkswagen cars are mainly created here. So machines are german labelled, briefing done in chinese. SO~ Great~

For lunch we had to bring our own utensil. We could choose among 4 stores which offer 6 different type of food each, and we had to choose 3 out of the 6 dishes. Rice, bread and soup are free flow. We had to choose between watermelon and soft drink(glassed bottles) too.

After 1pm we had theory lesson~Boring~Couldn't understood what they were saying in mandrin. Ended up learning chinese instead of their theories. There were new engineers fresh from the local university joining us for the lesson too. Shared thoughts and questions among us. Had to sit alternately between the china guys & ladies and ourselves. 1 pm everyday for lesson.

Almost the same for 4th sept. Went to the Dben's itp hospital to take blood sample (gasp... my first time taking blood) for our administration to be done. We had to be checked for any diseases or sickness since we shared the same canteen and work area with other workers. Companies policy to check us workers before getting our admin/food card. We would use the card to get our free food from the canteen everyday too. Able to access some special facilites with the card too.

Then we went for dinner today at a seafood BBQ restaurant. We couldn't find poker cards anywhere we go for the past 3 days. Sad~

I think these two days would be what i would be expecting for the rest of my itp.

4th September~

Took my blood report today. Immune system fine but quite low. Haha. Most of us had low immune system but nothing wrong with us. Except for one friend who always drink alcohol, highest immune system. Hahaha. Ironic Sia! A bit of hands on from the theory from yesterday's lesson. A supervisor led us around the factory for us to take photographs~Finally. Then we had free time. We went to the leisure/entertainment building for our company. Level one was Gym, Second level was pool and billard , third level was ping pong tables and board games , didn't know what the last level had ~ Haha

Went back to hotel and play games and blog late. Have to wake up early tommorow. Thats all~

Day 2! First visit to the Factory!12:51 AM

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

1st september!

1st day of my itp. Skipped breakfast as we overslept.We were given time to rest till noon. It was more an orientation to the factory today. Had to collect our working attire(coat,pants and safety shoes) and attend safety talk at the factory. Remember that there were several groups of itp at china from sp? Aeronautical ended up at Harbin. Bioengineering (Dben) and Mechanical ended up at Chang Chun. We dropped the Dben students off at a hospital where they will be having their itp.

Dben had a Welcoming banner at the hospital too~ But my group at the car factory didn't have it! (We were more of a nuisence for them)

Pictures taken from the short trip from the hostel to the factory, which is situated a bit further from the main city. The volkswagen/Audi factory is part of the FAW (First automobile works) main factories. We are the first few students to be able be attached to this factory as they don't like oversea students. And girls. Haha, there wasn't much ladies in my course anyway.

Their mrt/tram station: (will post more things about the city over time)

Sorry for the poor quality of photos~ Moving bus, squeezy and small inside. =D

Chang chun is famous in china for their automobiles factory and research. Trains, trucks, cars , etc are manufactured in this city. We entered another huge district not far from the main city( about 40-50min ride from the hostel). This entire district are completely filled with workshops, factories and showrooms, like a 'car city'. Finally we reached the germany~chinese factory for Audi,Volkswagen and a few less famous car brands. All signboards are chinese and german. Machines and technology from germany, workers from china. A lot of other senior engineer and executives are German! Big shots! There was about one thousand to two workers at the Body shop factory i am situated mostly for my itp. About tens of thousand of workers for this area of land owned by FAW. Since they had other joint production cars like mazda, situated at other places. The company is Huge!

(Naggy right? Too much things to share!~)

First shot i took after the security post, which i was told not to take out my camera anymore! We were told not to take any photos in the factory yet as things had yet to clarify for photography inside the factory. Just a shot to show how long the factory is at first sight. Endless.

We got off the factory after safety briefing with a pretty engineer, and after we collected our attire. Headed back to hostel for dinner (More veggies plus beer today). I hate the food here. Sour, salty and oily. Awww~

Stay tuned, supermarkets and the streets which i explored during the third day!~

10:47 PM

Monday, September 1, 2008

All the best Jo :D

Once again, it's being hacked by ME!

Hope you like the New Blogskin!

Chel :D

Travelling for 24 hours is TIRING!!10:02 PM

30th August

Flight landed at ShangHai International airport at 5.45Am walk around den ate Pizza Hut, No hawallian pizza till 9.30Am, only got bacon, sausage and ham. Plus i ordered another century egg porridge from a store(it said KFC's brother chain store). We were sweating like mad while eating cuz e airport decided to save money by not switching on its air-conditioning. -.- Didn't had the chance to go to city area by maglev, some member missing! Slept at Shanghai airport like pigs. got 5-6 hours to waste.

Pictures taken at shanghai international airport:

One funny thing happened when we checked-in our luggage. My friend brought shieldtox! Wahaha.. security told him to bring it next time.. haha he didn't even know that he brought that. Mother stuffed it in the luggage for him

Getting out from the clouds, bird eye view of Harbin:

Till 2pm. Reached the Harbin airport. Short bus ride(1 hr) to main Harbin city, where we dropped off Aeronautical students for their hotel and itp there. Had our dinner at a underground restaurant(The food sucks! Only thing edible was the egg meant for vegeterian friend & soup) . Harbin is further then the place i am suppose to go for my itp. I was wondering why didn't we were arranged a direct flight to ChangChun. Ended up taking a 248km bus ride.. Zz.. aircon auto switch off every 20 min sia.. den stuffy. Go out den very cold.. Very nice weather! Some what like genting's weather.Reached hotel after 24hrs of travelling, at 12mn sunday. Oh yar, got smoke coming out on top of the cabin sia. hehe

Outside Harbin airport~

Rain just stopped . Floor wet, sun setting. Breezy weather. Nice!

Long bus trip to another province, Jilin, where Chang Chun is. (where my itp is situated)
About 248km... Backside hurt a lot during the trip.

Endless Corn fields along the way: