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Yap, post kali ini bakal berubah jd bahasa Indo, karena akan menyangkut dengan org2 luar indo..
Dari hari pertama gw nyampe di China, gw baru menyadari betapa pentingnya bahasa itu.. Udah banyak banget yang ngira klo muka2 kayak gini itu org Taiwan lah, orang Korea lah, orang Cina lah.. begitu ngomong bahasa indo, lsg diliatin.. pada bingung kali ini orang muka begini kok bahasa begono.. Dibilang orang Taiwan itu udah ribuan kali, dibilang Korea udah ratusan kali. Cuman ada sekali, sama tmen Taiwan gw, gw dibilang mukanya ga mirip orang Cina.. *agak nusuk, cuman yaudah, itu opini orang*

Hal-hal enak dengan muka begini adalah :
- Kalo bahasa mandarin udah fasih, tersamar deh sama orang lokal..
- Sejauh mata memandang, semua org muka terlihat sejenis (hahaha, bukan rasis ye)
- Klo lagi ngumpul2 trus ngomong bhs Indo, ditanya mba2 restorannya "kalian orang mana?", bisa ngibul2, contoh : kita waktu itu ber 11, ditanya "kalian org mana?", pada saat itu gw dapat status jadi orang Jerman *oke gw tau gw ga ada tampang jerman sama skali*, ada yg jadi Korea, Thailand, Maurisius, kaco abis deh sumpah, udah berasa 1 meja kumpulan 11 negara.. *si mba nya percaya lagi, agak kasian juga sih, jd dibuli2*

Hal-hal ga enak dgn muka begini adalah :
- Di kelas inter, waktu dean nya masuk, lagi jalan trus tiba2 berenti, menatap tajam muka kita2 (barisan anak indo) trus tiba2 ngomong "You Chinese??" *mukanya dia sih ga nyante sumpah*.. WTH..
- Dengan muka begini, smua orang ngira kita anak lokal, jadi kalo mo beli apa2 smua mba2 dan mas2nya bakal langsung casciscus dengan bahasa dahsyatnya, saat tiba2 mereka sadar gw ga ngerti dan salah2 dalam ngomong, mereka suka ngetawain.. dasar orang2 ga ngerti susahnya belajar bahasa orang, ckck..

Oke, sekian dulu buat sekarang..

Yeah, My First Winter is Coming !

Hahaha, maybe some of you guys would mock and laugh at me, knowing I had never experienced winter before, but that is the truth !

Feeling the air outside the room is colder than inside the room is actually something weird for my senses, and I like to blow wind out of my mouth to create those "foggy" things. Sometimes, I also like to run and jump a lot of times knowing I won't get any sweat no matter how fast I ran or how frequent I jumped. You can say that I'm freak or whatever, but maybe you did the same thing like I did in your first winter right?

I also got a little problem for choosing best suits for winter. In Indonesia, I always go out wearing shirt, short jeans, and sandals.. but the whole story is different in Nanjing. Shirt, jeans, jacket, socks, and shoes is now never been enough. Going to the city to buy winter coats, I also kinda confused to choose which one is suitable, because I never tried to wear one before. Haha, but behind those troubles, I actually a little excited to see what will happen when the real winter comes. To see snow falling from sky, perhaps? :D

Discovering China a Little Bit More

October 1st, is actually a date which I bet, being loved by most people in China. It is actually China's National Day, and guess what? I got a week full holiday. Yeah, it feels like heaven.

To fill my holiday, I spent 5 days with my friends and went to Suzhou and Hangzhou. We travelled by car and it took about 2 until 3 hours from Nanjing if I'm not mistaken. Our driver is actually my own senior, Iyan (yeah special thanks to Iyan).

From my trip, I got several places that is worth to visit in Suzhou and Hangzhou that I would like to share with you guys. So, enjoy ! =)

Suzhou (苏州)

1. Timesquare

The place is quite cozy, and is very beautiful especially at night. This place has a lot of cafes and restaurants to hang out, with street lights, beautiful river in the middle, and roof covered by television (yeah, some places got a really long and wide TV as your roof) which made this place even brighter at night. Not only as place to eat, but this place also got a big and luxurious mall. You can also walk under tunnels in Timesquare, where you can find your walls are covered by lights from advertisements which only glow when you walk along. This means while you're walking, you're being followed by the lights besides you, quite interesting, I think.

2. Suzhou Le Yuan (苏州乐园)

Suzhou Le Yuan, is a big theme park with wonderful games inside to play. For rollercoaster and andrenaline-pumping-games lovers, this place is really worth to visit! Unfortunately I only played 2 games (3 actually, but the other one is sucks, so I don't count it as a game), but for me, 2 is enough, because those 2 are both fantastic rollercoaster. The first one, is kind of rollercoaster which you don't step your feet on (get what I mean?), and this one got a lot of spins, going through waterfalls and small cave, quite interesting! The other one is a normal train rollercoaster, what makes it unique is the track. The track doesn't make any circuit, so it has a dead-end. You must be wondering, "So, what will happen when the we reach the end?". Guess what? When you're at the end of the circuit, the rollercoaster stops and reverses it's movement until you get back to your station. For me, this is a unique concept of rollercoaster.

3. Suzhou Ferris Wheel

This is actually another theme park, but the size is smaller than Suzhou Le Yuan. The only famous thing in this park is the 'Ferris Wheel', which is the third or fourth biggest wheel in the world. Other games in this park is also amazing, including 'Stingray' and 'Disco'. I would never know the reason why the rollercoaster was named 'Stingray' until I played it. This rollercoaster has got a unique way of seats. What kind of unique seats? It is actually normal seats, but when you are being seated well, they will rotate you 90 degrees to your back, so you are now in 'sleeping' position. Just imagine it yourself, when you're being rotated in the track, you're no longer seeing your front neither left and right, but your below and above, just like stingray. Another one is called 'Disco', this is actually a normal moving seats, but the only thing makes this game exciting is the fact that your seat is not secure, there's no belt or anything else, just a place for your hand to hold and a pad for your back to lean on. Scary, I know, but that makes it exciting! The ferris wheel itself is also worth to ride, because it takes half an hour to make a complete cycle, and you can see the scenery of Suzhou when you're on the top of it.

Hangzhou (杭州)

1. West Lake (西湖)

There's no other words to describe West Lake except 'beautiful'. The scenery is actually amazing and I suggest you rent a bicycle to ride along West Lake, because the lake is actually so big that you can die if you walk along it. They also provide a 'Dancing Fountain' in a certain time, but according to me, it is not so impressive. Another thing that can't  be forgotten is the food, the food in Hangzhou is very delicious, especially for their cooked pork named 'Dong Po Rou'.. woah, I still remember how it good it was.

Yeah, actually we were exhausted at that time because it is our last day, so after West Lake, we directly turned our head back to Nanjing.

Suzhou City (at night)

Suzhou City (view from Ferris Wheel)

The Stingray

Bicycling Around West Lake

上海世博会 (Shanghai Expo)

Approximately a month ago, I went to Shanghai with my friends. The main reason we chose Shanghai as a place to visit is because 'Shanghai Expo' of course, as you can see in the title of this post.

The first day we arrived, we went to the Expo, bought 'Shanghai Expo Passport' which will be stamped in every pavilions, and of course, we directly headed to the Indonesian Pavilion.
 

The Indonesian Pavilion was actually much more bigger and better rather than in my imagination. It had huge 'Lamps' with Indonesian islands shape to represent our country, and all of the employees inside wore Batik (Indonesian traditional clothes). Besides islands, our pavilion also showed Indonesian's rich wildlife and biodiversity. Indonesian's copper, silver, and gold are also being introduced very well in the pavilion.

The next pavilion we visited is Finland Pavilion. After queuing for 2 hours, I finally discovered that Finland has an absolutely different themes with Indonesian. If Indonesian Pavilion was considered 'traditional', Finland Pavilion was much more considered 'high technology'. They created some kind of 'Living Robots' in the wall and you can see your face sometimes replaced the face of those robots. Before we left this pavilion, of course, we stamped our 'Shanghai Expo Passport' with Finland stamp..

Sweden, was actually not as good as I imagined. The themes for Sweden Pavilion is 'Go Green' which means they showed their products which use recycle-able things. Not very interesting, in my opinion, especially this pavilion took another 2 hours for queuing. At least the most important thing is I got Sweden stamp. Yeah !

The next couple minutes, we were confused to decide which pavilion should we go. We decided Germany, but we cancelled it because of the 9 hours queue. Looked for France, England, Italy, Netherland, Russia, but the queue didn't look so cooperative with us, so we went to Canada pavilion and took a queue. After several minutes, I didn't know what happened, but this Canada pavilion let all of the queue to come inside the pavilion without queuing. With no second thoughts, we directly went in the Canada pavilion. What a luck!

The themes for Canada pavilion is actually quite unique, I still can't find the words to describe it until now. They have those looks-like-motorcycle-machine with a screen of your life, so it's like you're riding a motorcycle and the view is your life from baby, childhood, and go on. The situation is quite dark-cozy with eccentric lights. After got a stamp, I concluded that this pavilion is worth to get in !

and that was the last pavilion of the first day. The second day, we were just running around collecting stamps from small pavilions, so it didn't took a lot of time for queue.. Well, after a long two days, I finally went back to Nanjing by the new High-Speed Train and only took about an hour to back and put a step on Nanjing.

These are some other pics of Shanghai Expo, so... enjoy ! =)

Singapore Pavilion

Australia Pavilion

New Zealand Pavilion

Malaysia Pavilion

Philippines Pavilion

Thailand Pavilion

Vietnam Pavilion

Republic of Korea Pavilion

Japan Pavilion

Saudi Arabia Pavilion

Czech Republic Pavilion

England Pavilion

Chile Pavilion

Central and South America Pavilion

Mexico Pavilion

Brasil Pavilion

USA Pavilion

Germany Pavilion

 Netherland Pavilion

Slovenia Pavilion

CONGRATULATIONS for Nanjing Medical University International Student's Basketball Team !

Congratulations for all members of Nanjing Medical University International Student's Basketball Team who had succeded to pass the elimination round ! Hopefully you guys keep on doing good job and will always win !

Even though the weather is amazingly cold, we (me, Febrian, Iyan, Gaby, Anin) will never regret to had shouted "国教加油！国教加油！国教 国教 国教。。加油！加油！加油!" and even there's a little obstacle for us also (example : we must hide from Ms. Liu Nar sight because we ran away from those marching things), but we are so proud of you guys !

For Paulus, Yan the Vietnam boy, Said, Cesc (谢岳霖)，东东，and other Taiwanese friends, You Guys Rocks !

so here I am !

Well, for everyone who read this, as this is my first post in my first blog, so first of all I would like to introduce myself.. My name is Reynold Andika, I'm Indonesian and now I'm studying medical at Nanjing Medical University.

Now maybe you're wondering, "Where on earth is Nanjing? I never knew that kind of place even existed !".
If you're one of those guys, so I would like to tell you, that Nanjing is the fourth biggest city in China after Beijing, Shanghai, and .... okay, I forgot the third one, but it's okay, at least now you've heard the name "Nanjing".. Nanjing is also famous with the history of  'Nanjing Masscare', and we also have a museum to respects 300.000 Nanjing's people who were killed by Japanese soldiers at that time.

Okay, back to our topic, if you're thinking I'm taking Chinese Medicine for my major, you were wrong, I'm here taking Western Medicine. I know, it sounds kinda weird to take Western Medicine in the eastern part of the world, but for me, it doesn't matter. For all I know, I always wanted to take college in China since I was in Junior High, and now I got what I wanted for a long time. Sounds a little bit arrogant I know, but somehow, I'm now in the path of my own choice and carrying a huge responsibility of it..

Well, I think that's enough for the beggining, so here I am ! In the middle of China !

Location of Nanjing

City of Nanjing

Nanjing Olympic Stadium

Nanjing's MRT

Museum of Nanjing Massacre

Nanjing Medical University