End of DATE

After 13 weeks in Hangzhou, we've finally come to the official end of the DATE 2019 program. Surprisingly enough, I really don't have much to write about for this week. My theme has spent the...

Week 10 Nanjing

This weekend we headed to Nanjing to see the Nanjing massacre museum, the night market and a bit of the Nanjing city wall (affectionately coined the lesser great wall). We took a train to...

WEEK 9 – So Near, Yet So Far

This week was mostly spent indoors with the news of a typhoon approaching Zhejiang. Many Singaporeans were disappointed as expectations of their first experience of a typhoon were not met due to the typhoon...

WEEK 6 – Food In China

Food in China is a little bit more OILY. So if you have a weak stomach, prepare your charcoal pills, Po Chai pills or even your Gaviscon before embarking. However, food in China can...

Week 2 In ZJU–Theme4

The most meaningful day we think is Saturday. Qirui and me went for Yixing毅行, from Yuquan campus to Zhijiang campus, we walked for over 6 hours. Climbing the mountains were exhausting, but we had...

Shanghai Post #6

As I'm sure many of this site's readers will have realized by now from the subject matter of recent posts, a rather large number of us (myself included) headed to Shanghai over the past...

Destination: 4chuan

Hello everyone! Alex here. I was slated to write the 6th week's blog post, but it was a woefully uneventful week, with nothing much to write about. Instead, I'll be sharing some snippets from my...

快乐,美好,幸福。

This summer, the ALP-TFI students (Justin, Melissa, Spencer, Jing Ren, Daniel, Marvin, Grace, Gio, Keith and myself, Joel) were on a mission to bring smiles to the special-needs students of 杭州市湖墅学校 (Hangzhou Hushu School), in...

Week 11 – Cat cafe and site visit at Sanqingshan

The week started off with a visit to a cat café. It was a gem discovered by my roommate, and although we previously talked about going there, we never did. Until now. The café is located...

[WEEK 02] 14-16 | Above the Sea 上海

20170514 – 20170520 Friday-Sunday, 19-121 May 2017 14-16 | Above the Sea 上海 Photo Credits: Joyce, Kar Wei, Hui Yin & I

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