Lets start with the flight to Shanghai being delayed for 2 hours. Hong and I got onto the plane at 1.00am, settled ourselves down and got ready to leave for great China. The plane starts moving around to the take off tracks but all of a sudden the pilot made an announcement, stating that a levitation mechanism was faulty and the flight would have to be delayed.
Plane was parked somewhere to be repaired, but couldn't be repaired anytime soon. So we were asked to move our asses to another plane, set to take off at 3.30am. Already feeling tired physically and mentally, we dragged our asses to the waiting hall...
...and rested our asses there. How suey, can't even leave peacefully. Plane took off at around 4am. Got served our 'late night supper' at around 5am. Heck, they'd to go and remind us that they delayed our flight for 2 whole hours, making us have early breakfasts instead of supper.
Reached Shanghai airport at around 9 in the morning. Had the idea of taking a plane instead of a bus to Ningbo. So searched around for some people who can actually answer our questions, but each one of them told us that there're no planes to Ningbo. Wasted bloody 1 and a half hour walking around the airport.
Got on the darn bus to Shanghai Long Distance South Station and then another bus to Ningbo. The whole journey to Ningbo took 3 hours through the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, longest bridge in the world I think.
So long you dont see the ends. If an earthquake happens, doesn't matter if you're driving a Lamborghini or a Ferrari or a Veyron, you wouldn't have the slightest chance to get off the bridge before it comes down.
Before reaching Ningbo city, we passed by a large span of farming villages. I gotta tell you, it's either they make damned good money from throwing some seeds into some soil or land and houses there are dirt cheap. All of the houses, and I really mean ALL of them, are bungalows.
Yeap bungalows haha. Strange how all their house don't touch each other, or are they even legally built?
Hmm I wonder if this pagoda belongs to some rich farmer too. Store his wives in there, 7 in total, one each day, 7 each week.
Went to wait for a taxi as soon as we got off the bus in Ningbo. Streets in Ningbo's real scenic, seriously. Every road you come across in Ningbo would have trees grown alongside, just like the photo above. Try going to Google Maps and look for Ningbo and you'll see.
This guy here's our crazy taxi driver of the day. I don't get what's the iron grills are for. It's not like that'll save him if some dude wants to put a bullet through his head. Traffic here in China is, as most of you have heard of, chaotic. Car horns must've been made for the Chinese. Once every minute you hear cars honking here and there.
This taxi guy for example, honks at cars that comes our of a junction, cars that tries to come out of a junction AND cars that didn't even get the chance to try to come out of a junction. It's like he's trying to say, "Fuck you for coming out, fuck you for trying to come out and fuck you for even thinking of coming out!" We'll if you've the time and money, come visit China and get first hand experience. I can assure you that this will be more thrilling than roller coasters you can get in Genting.
Oh, and this aunty and his chauffeur here had a whole lane to themselves. And yes they got honk-raped by the taxi guy. Couldn't get a clear shot. Taxi guy was rushing to send us off and go have dinner or something I suppose.
Finally reached Nottingham Ningbo at 4.30pm. This is just a small part of it. If you put Malaysia Campus next to the Ningbo Campus, you'll want to throw eggs at the Malaysia Campus. No chance of winning, whether in terms of size, landscape, number of buildings, or architecture. More of this crazy huge place and about settling down there in future posts.
