Friday, March 20, 2009

17thMarch09

whoa. Got to wake up real early for a mini excursion to the " Wuhan Iron and Steel Corp" for a visit and see the process of iron / steel making.

By the way, got to thanks Ernest to wake me up...

We took a hour bus ride to to main branch of Wuhan University where is more urbanise with more shops and fun, to meet up with the other group. As usual, the seat, which is the most torturing part for me in this OIP trip. Both of my legs are numb again...

After reaching the industrial area, railways track are a common scene, they are like everywhere. This railways are for the raw material and processed end product to be import and export to the market by trains and of course the air was badly polluted.

The only thing that we saw when we went in was a red hot molten iron bar , it was so hot that even we are a few distance away, we still can feel the scorching heat..
The process from the hot molten thick steel bar to a long solidify steel strip was quite facinating and the noise produce was very very loud. After i went out of the place, i was particailly deaf. Just wonder how did those worker endured the loud noises and work there for years, i assume that some of them might have hearing problems or already deaf.

The visit was ended and it was really a mini one, it only last less than an hour, and i was thinking those long toruring traveling time i have gone through isit worth it?
Well, though most of the people would say it's not but i think it worth it.
It a good learning visit although it last less than an hour, it quite an interesting in compare to a normal one hour lecture where there's a high chance i would fall asleep.

It's quite disappointing that the process of making and transporting it was all automated, i was hoping to see some olden days style of steel making which is totally impossible.

Time to head back to campus.
During the ride, many of us fall asleep.
But theres a change of plan, Mr Chua let us have some free time at the " Lu Xiang Guan Chang " before the class which will start at 3pm rather then the usual 2pm.
The main issue was not this, infact it was the driver took 3 hours reach " Lu Xiang Guan Chang ", where earlier on the trip from our campus to the main branch university and to the industry took only two hours.

The usuals had decided to had lunch at canteen2 and 1APPG at 3pm.

A little recreation time after class, a game of basketball and then head for dinner at canteen2 too.

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