Day 38 - Rest Day

The Overseas Immersion Program is coming to an end. My friends and I went around malls in search of gifts for our loved ones! We took a mini van to Grand Ocean for lunch at Pizza Hut!


Private Contractor
It is amazing how 8 passengers are able to squeeze into a mini van!


Pizza Hut
One of the healthier food choices in Wuhan. Sadly, it is priced the same as Singapore!


Mushroom & Ham Pizza
Delicious as it looks. Thin crust pizza!


Cheese Cake
I love the fine garnishing done. In secondary school, I took a subject called Food & Nutrition. I always enjoyed cooking, and preparing food. This cheese cake is finished with a professional ending touch by simply garnishing the plate with a circular design of chocolate.

REFLECTIONS

Private contractors are common in China. They use their personal transport to service needy passengers. Although it is considered illegal in China as personal transport is not under a registered service, drivers still do it to earn a living. In the night when the demand for transport is high, drivers can raise their prices, using a biding system. The reason behind it is because they do not operate using meters, as bargaining system will allow them to profit more.

In Singapore, such private services are illegal. Although there are private contractors who render transport service around places within Singapore, or from Singapore to parts of Malaysia, they have to do it discretely. Singapore has kept strict laws on this policy do safe guard the interest of taxi drivers and other public transport service.


You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power.
-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn