Finally got my apartment settled!!!

9th day in shanghai (08/09/07) The day of adventure

Accommodation settled =)

Gonna be neighbors of chang fang and Jie ying.

So, in order to save some motel money (coz we can only move in either on Sunday or Monday, which means that we got to spend more money on the motel over the weekend), we decided to move Into Chang fang’s apartment for a day or 2.(she got this freaking small room available)

So early in the morning 9am (we got to check out by 12nn), the girls started packing up their luggage. What most of us did was putting all our moisturizers and toiletries into one big plastic bag so that our luggage wouldn’t be that heavy.

After everyone finished packing, our average no. of bags to lug over to the apartment was 4-5;

Kim got her handbag, a big luggage, 2 medium size plastic bags and her laptop

Joanne got her handbag, a big luggage (those hard cover type where she couldn’t put her hand luggage on top of it), a big hand luggage and a medium size plastic bag

Angela got her big handbag, a big luggage, and a 5L mineral water to carry.

I got my hand bag, a big luggage and a big hand luggage and my laptop.

So, the mission started the moment we leave our hotel room. We waited for a lift with no one inside, and then squeezed all our stuffs into the empty lift. The moment we reached the lobby, I could see eyes staring at us.

Checked out, and the mission officially started. As the apartment is very near our motel (abt 200m away) we decided to walked all the way to save some money and we doubt any taxi would want to drive us too.

We didn’t want to trouble the guys for help (they live super far away) so we did everything ourselves. We were like ‘okie, today we are going to be superwomen. Independent girls dun have to depend on guys and yada.’ (yea, lugged all our luggage down the road at 10am in the morning)

So how things go was like we lugged our stuff in one row, me being the first and kim was the second followed by angela and joanne. And after 5m, Ms kim said that she was tired already..

The entire trip was dam funny. We keep laughing and joking. Super tiring but fun.

Reached the apartment and that wasn’t the end. We got like 5 storey high of stairs to climb.

So, all the pitiful girls started carrying all their barang barangs up slowly. It has being like super long ago since I did hard labour. Super tiring and we were all sweating like hell….

Reached the apartment and most of us were drained out. Angela went back to WenFeng for a hair cut and the rest of us decided to have lunch at McDonald (not craving for Singapore food but western food haha) but ended up in KFC..

Met up with angela again and off we go, the 2nd shopping trip =)

Back down to Qipu road. We boarded the taxi the uncle said that it would be better to take a train down coz there will be a jam somewhere along the way.

So we decided to follow what he said and took the first train ride in Shanghai (which means that I have either being taking cab or walking for that past 7 days in shanghai). Reached Nanjing north station and got to walk like 10-15 mins.

So, our plan was that since we took a train down, we will take a cab back home.

Reached Qipu Rd and this time, we went to the correct one; Lots of things, lots of people. Unlike the previous one with limited people and stuffs. All of us did crazy shopping there (coz we know a new strategy of bargaining, haha wanna know? Go shopping with me the next time =))

And with the whole lots of stuffs, which was like 1 super big bag full of shoes (10 shoes I think) and 3 other super big bags of clothes (about 30 of them), we decided to go back home (not because we are done, coz we all have no $$ with us already. Hah. I think if I go back a few more times, I will just spend my entire earnings there..)

Tried to hail for cab but there dun seems to have any and we decided to walk all the way back to Nanjing north rd (Which was like another lugging of stuff, and this time, much further) to meet up jie ying for her to pass me the keys.

Got the keys and we got to go to the main road to call for a cab. This time,, another joke happen. We saw a cab that was empty and joanne started running towards it. And suddenly, her big plastic bag full of clothes broke and all the clothes start falling off.

She and kim started screaming and laughing. It was real damn funny. And the cab obviously was taken by someone else already. All of us continue laughing so loudly while picking up the clothes that the security guard started staring at us ( I think is the same one we asked for directions earlier in the day)

Finally got a cab and reached the apartment. And we have got like 5 storey high of stairs to climb again… Plus all those big bags it was like crazy.. (but still, cant be compared to the one in the morning)

After putting all the stuffs and everything, we decided to go to the supermarket to buy some cup noodles for dinner (super broke already) and some tidbits. So, climbed down the stairs, went to buy the foods and climbed back up the stairs again…

Had the most adventure today and it was damn fun=)

Starting to like the environment and accompany here. =)

10th day in shanghai

Finally, we have moved into our new apartment.

After waking up at 9.30am in changfang’s small little room because of some loud china people talking super loudly, I slacked in the house blogging and watching DVDs with the rest. We couldn’t really go out of the house as there were some people in the house trying to fix in the internet connection.

And we were so lazy to go out of the hse that we decided to call for delivery. But I think shanghai is just too big that they decided not to deliver it to us coz our place is too far away. So, we called our landlord, mr wang to buy KFC back for us=)

Continue slacking till abt 6pm and after Mr wang confirmed with us that we can move in to the apartment for the night, we headed to Jia Der Li, the supermarket nearby and bought all our necessary stuff; quilt, quilt cover, bed sheets, pillows, detergent, pail and etc…

We got like a lot of things and have to lug everything back to the hse. (we have being lugging things for the past few days.. I so feel like hard labor…)

Chang fang cooked curry for our dinner and there is a price to pay (shall not elaborate coz I will get pissed off again…)

After dinner, we got to carry all our stuffs from jieying’s room into our apartment. Got a hell time doing it and the whole room was like super messy. Decided to pack up everything before going to bed and yea, we spend like hrs cleaning, shifting, transferring, placing, and organizing our things into the ware rope and drawers…

The whole room is so clean now (except of Angela’s cox she is having morning shift later and cant afford to do it with us) and I am so satisfied =)

And it’s 10th sept, 1.19am already!!!

11th day in Shanghai.

3rd day of off-day and we didn’t do anything much too…

Kim, Joanne and I woke up at 10+ am and we realized that all of us were covered with dust/dirt. Maybe coz we didn’t really clean up the room and didn’t wash the bed sheets and the quilt cover so we started cleaning up the entire room. Sweeping, mopping, washing up our clothes (for 3 rounds including our bed sheets and pillow covers).

After clearing up, all of us did our own stuff (watching dvds) while waiting for the landlord to come and settle the curtain, tables, chairs, etc…

Helped up a bit and we went out for less then 2 hours to duplicate the keys, buy some more necessities and back home for dinner (Maggie=()

And finally, I can get to slp comfortably with my winter quilt (although its still quite hot here..)

And I am so glad that my hse is 90% complete. The only thing missing now is the freight and the washing machine.

We even bought a DVD player coz I think we will spend a lot of time washing dvds here.. (coz the DVDs here are like damn cheap. Average one person has already bought like… 4-5 of it?

I thnk I am going to miss this little home badly after 5 months. It’s small but comfy =)

*gonna come out with some house rules. haha