12th March 2011 (5th day of the trip)

Hooray! It's the weekends! Today, we were told to work on our individual IS group topics for example, Architecture, Food, Culture etc etc. All of us took the public bus for the first time and we were all so worried that we missed the stop that we kept looking out to see if the bus was somewhere near our destination.

Luckly, a helpful and informative passenger managed to tell us where we were supposed to alight and directions to the place. Finally we got to the place and it rings a bell! I've actually been there before! There are tons of stuff here, from food to dessert to toys and even knives!

After the food street, we went to  古文化街 (Culture Street). It was an eye opener as there are a number of cultural artifacts and architecture. At the culture street, a number of us went to get a sketch of our faces from the side stand sketch artist. He did it in less than 5 minutes and it indeed look alike!

All of us learnt something today which is there are a minority of locals who are actually quite friendly and helpful. The impression of the local Chinese during the first few days were frankly not assistive but this event led to a total change of our mindsets. Most of the time the first impression is the greatest, however, the shocking one stays the longest.