Monday, September 21, 2009
Day 21 - IS Lesson & Information Gathering Day
Today our IS lesson is about China's history and Chinese Traditional Philosophy which includes Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The lecturer name was Philip An and he started off his lecture by go through with our the first King (皇帝)(Qin Shi Wang-秦始王) who is the first person to unite the whole of China, his real name is called嬴政,he is notorious for his atrocious deeds that he done like burning of books that go against the policy that he practice and kill the scholars that read those books (焚书坑儒). He undertook gigantic projects, he send his army to attack Xiong Nu(匈奴) and in order to prevent them to attack Great Wall of China is built by the north side of 3 country which is Qin(秦),Zhao(赵) and Yan(燕), the now famous city-sized mausoleum guarded by a life-sized Terracotta Army, and a massive national road system, all at the expense of numerous lives.
The basic teachings of Confucianism stress the importance of education for moral development of the individual so that the state can be governed by moral virtue rather than by the use of coercive laws. He believe that everyone have their own social order if everyone follows it, the world will be peaceful like prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son(君君，臣臣，父父，子子).
He stopped at Confucianism and will with the lesson next time.
After that, we heard that Mr Loh is sick so we wanted to visit him but we met with Dr Tan, he told us that Mr Loh just went back to his room and rest and he was feeling much better and started to eat already so we do not want to go and disturb him.
We take bus to the Grand Ocean shopping centre to do some information gathering, we spotted a few interesting things like tea with pearl is spelled wrong like tea with pear. This time, I went with a different group of people, we went to a steak house and eat which seems very high class but a set of steak only worth like 10 dollars. JunRu and I went different ways from the rest and collect data about the clothes in China. When we came into a shop which wrote 29 RMB for the jeans so we quickly rush in, she tried one piece and another piece and I lost count on how many times she tried, I think 3 to 5 times. When we arrive at the cashier, they told us is 129RMB! Oh my god! I am caught off guard so is JunRu I believe, we started to reason with the people at there but their voice is really loud and scared us so JunRu paid for the jean. I tried to comfort her by tell her that the jean is really make of good material (It is the truth!) to make her feel better. We went to one level which only sells girl stuff, as usual I will start calculating the price and recording down the price of the items that she like in case other shop sells at a cheaper price. I help her to cut down a price of a cloth from 50RMB to 40RMB feel pretty good!
Around 6pm, we went to meet up with the rest of the group. JunRu saw the girl making their nail and wanted to try. So the rest of the guys have to sit down there and wait for them. After making the nails, the girls cannot wash their hands, take out money and carry their bags so I have to help them.
Topic For Today!
This is the Principal of the Foreign Language School and he came and teach us.
Preparing to Go Out!
In The Bus!
What A Long Way!
Fruits Stall! Such A Big Truck!
Begger, I wished that I can give her some money but if I did it, there will be many beggers chasing after me. I am Sorry.
Place We Are Going To ( Guang Gu)
Group Shot!
Brought some drinks. Want To Know What We Brought? We Are Pointing At It!
People That Brought Drinks!
All The People That Went With Me!
Help The Group To Take Some shots!
My Meal!
It is Really Very Hot and The Sauce is Shooting Everywhere! >.<
Help The Girls To Carry The Bags as They Just Made Their Nails!
So Many Things and So Little Hands!
Wanted To Go Haunted House But We Decide To Call More People!
Reflection
Last time, I watch before a show called Xun Qin Ji(寻秦记) which talking about a person went back to the past to see the history of Qin Shi Wang(秦始王), some of the parts are fictional but it have me a general idea of what Qin Shi Wang have done in the past and the lecturer helps me to clear the water and I am able to answer some of his question which give me a kind of satisfaction as Singaporean, I have some background information of the history of China and he was pretty impression that I am able to understand also. I also discover a small little error in his teaching; do not know whether I am right or not. He said that in Zhou dynasty, the king always enjoy himself in the wine lake and meat supply as much as forest (酒池肉林) but he said 肉林酒池. This time, I really take a good look at the mall as this time I have time to wonder around and discover many more shops that I do not visit before. The night view there is very pretty as the light glow in the dark with many different colours.
The basic teachings of Confucianism stress the importance of education for moral development of the individual so that the state can be governed by moral virtue rather than by the use of coercive laws. He believe that everyone have their own social order if everyone follows it, the world will be peaceful like prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son(君君，臣臣，父父，子子).
He stopped at Confucianism and will with the lesson next time.
After that, we heard that Mr Loh is sick so we wanted to visit him but we met with Dr Tan, he told us that Mr Loh just went back to his room and rest and he was feeling much better and started to eat already so we do not want to go and disturb him.
We take bus to the Grand Ocean shopping centre to do some information gathering, we spotted a few interesting things like tea with pearl is spelled wrong like tea with pear. This time, I went with a different group of people, we went to a steak house and eat which seems very high class but a set of steak only worth like 10 dollars. JunRu and I went different ways from the rest and collect data about the clothes in China. When we came into a shop which wrote 29 RMB for the jeans so we quickly rush in, she tried one piece and another piece and I lost count on how many times she tried, I think 3 to 5 times. When we arrive at the cashier, they told us is 129RMB! Oh my god! I am caught off guard so is JunRu I believe, we started to reason with the people at there but their voice is really loud and scared us so JunRu paid for the jean. I tried to comfort her by tell her that the jean is really make of good material (It is the truth!) to make her feel better. We went to one level which only sells girl stuff, as usual I will start calculating the price and recording down the price of the items that she like in case other shop sells at a cheaper price. I help her to cut down a price of a cloth from 50RMB to 40RMB feel pretty good!
Around 6pm, we went to meet up with the rest of the group. JunRu saw the girl making their nail and wanted to try. So the rest of the guys have to sit down there and wait for them. After making the nails, the girls cannot wash their hands, take out money and carry their bags so I have to help them.
Topic For Today!
This is the Principal of the Foreign Language School and he came and teach us.
Preparing to Go Out!
In The Bus!
What A Long Way!
Fruits Stall! Such A Big Truck!
Begger, I wished that I can give her some money but if I did it, there will be many beggers chasing after me. I am Sorry.
Place We Are Going To ( Guang Gu)
Group Shot!
Brought some drinks. Want To Know What We Brought? We Are Pointing At It!
People That Brought Drinks!
All The People That Went With Me!
Help The Group To Take Some shots!
My Meal!
It is Really Very Hot and The Sauce is Shooting Everywhere! >.<
Help The Girls To Carry The Bags as They Just Made Their Nails!
So Many Things and So Little Hands!
Wanted To Go Haunted House But We Decide To Call More People!
Reflection
Last time, I watch before a show called Xun Qin Ji(寻秦记) which talking about a person went back to the past to see the history of Qin Shi Wang(秦始王), some of the parts are fictional but it have me a general idea of what Qin Shi Wang have done in the past and the lecturer helps me to clear the water and I am able to answer some of his question which give me a kind of satisfaction as Singaporean, I have some background information of the history of China and he was pretty impression that I am able to understand also. I also discover a small little error in his teaching; do not know whether I am right or not. He said that in Zhou dynasty, the king always enjoy himself in the wine lake and meat supply as much as forest (酒池肉林) but he said 肉林酒池. This time, I really take a good look at the mall as this time I have time to wonder around and discover many more shops that I do not visit before. The night view there is very pretty as the light glow in the dark with many different colours.
# posted by Alvin Lee @ 1:29 PM 
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Post a Comment