Another thing that this company leaves me is how they make use of a foreign name for one of their product to enter overseas market. One major problem is how they had to get people to believe that China piano can be trusted. Usually when we saw something labelled with "Made in China" we often think of them as inferior goods but this trip has definitely wiped that out of me.

Violins
Erm...not too sure what these are called.
Guitars

This is not something that is fitted into the wall. This cravings are done when the wall has been put up. It's literally wall cravings and every single one of them tells a different story. This thing is the thing olden days people use to "mo" the ink out. It is really big, valuable and weighs a ton. Make that a lot of tons. It was so priceless because of the good quality of ink it can produce. Can you guess what this fan's made of? Ivory of the elephants' trunks. Though i still think it's very cruel to cut off the tasks of an elephant, but i cannot deny how skillful the workers are to be able to create something as beautiful as this ivory fan.

After lunch we went off to Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University. I was expecting a tour and so i was not prepared that we need to sit there for a few hours listening to the professor telling us about the Guangdong province's development over the years. From economics to infrastructure. All his information were presented using powerpoint slides. This was how the lecture was conducted. Never mind that it was all in Chinese and small fonts. The professor read every single word off the slides. At first all of us were paying very close attention as we thought this will not last too long. But by the 10 odd plus slides, we realized that this is not going to end anytime soon. Most of us got a bit distracted and started doing other things. I know there were people playing "bingo", sweets were even passed around. However, i will say that Professor Le Che definitely has his stuffs. I do catch somethings that are going to be helpful for our project.
Professor Le Che is the man with the vest.


That night Yi Ling, Andrea and I did not head for market research. Instead we took a walk along the river and stopped at some point to chat. Not far from us i noticed a begger who was wearing black sunglasses and had a cupboard with words written on them. Since we were warned by Mr Wong as not to be a nice guy, i didn't take too much notice of him. However, as we kept chatting i started seeing his hands which at first had not been there. I thought perhapes he was cold so he kept his hands in his shirt. He took off his sunglasses and wiped them. I realized he could see! I started having some doubts about that man and continued to observe him. Slowly i caught him putting out his legs which he had kept hidden as well. It finally dawned on me that this guy is a fake begger. How can he make use of people's kindness towards the unfortunate. He can see, has a well formed body yet he's begging in the streets. I was truly disgusted at how horrid people can be.

Since we were spared from 8 dishes and 1 soup for that night, we decide to head for something western. MacDonald's is where we went. I wanted Fillet-O-Fish and we had to like read the board to order in Chinese. It was a new experience. When eating, i was missing the Garlic Chilli that we have back in Singapore which China do not have. We figured that fastfood to the Chinese people are high end food since it was really expensive by their standards. And their service was seriously slow. In Singapore, there is no way we would wait so long for fast food. But back there we had to wait patiently while they assembled our burgers. Another obvious difference of the fast food restuarants will be the music being played. There we heard chinese radio stations and in Singapore we hear english radio channels. However, i think MacDonald has indeed helped me appease some of my home sickness.