Day 4 & 5

First Saturday in Shanghai, with the internet up and running, no one slept early. So everyone woke up late the next day. And so our day started with us going down to Shanghai Science & Technology Museum. The size is approximately 5 to 6 of our Singapore Science Centre. First in it was this mega fake animal and plant area. Everything looks very realistic. And there’s even a waterfall within the building. Rather impressive I should say. The rest of the museum has most of the stuff what we have. One special area will be the sports area where they use technology to create device to help them train in sports. No wonder Singapore sports… Haiz… There is one rather special exhibit, the flowing tap with no inlet. But actually, I realized there is an inlet just that it is covered by the outlet. Walking the whole museum is damn shag. No joke. After which Evi went for pedicure and the rest of us went for dinner. Once Evi was done, all of us left for home together.

Exterior of Science & Tech Museum MRT

Background of Science & Tech Musuem

Earthquake Sensor!

Fake Safari

Fake waterfall

No inlet? Where water come from?

CBE Unite! Ancestors of DNA!

Feel the power of Science?

Time flies, day 5 already. I left early in the morning to join my boss for golf, while the rest went to wait for Estelle as she just arrived from Singapore today. Golf no pics yet, no one to take for me. Firsthand experience in golf is not as easy as I thought it was. It is not about swing you club at maximum velocity and smacking the ball. The more you desire to smack, the worse it gets. Rather focus on the swing and let the ball just be in the way. Everything is a very graceful motion. Of course, for a beginner like me, I think I suck at it. Many thanks to Poh Hoon (my IA Company Plant Director), he paid for all the expenses during golf and lent me his son’s clubs, plus he taught me how to play. He said I have to control all of the urge to smack the ball with all my might in order to play well. This sport is really about gracefulness and body movement; even a strength free shot can let the ball fly far if you hit it correctly. I tried earlier with a big swing end up the ball just fly say 20 yards. Totally horrible. Actually I hit horribly, but actually some of the “regulars” hit not as well too. They simply use golf to vent anger. Slowly I improved and hopefully I can play better golf when I return to Singapore.
After a simple lunch with my boss, went over to meet the rest of my housemates at Carrefour. More shopping of household stuff and then its time to get home and rest.