first 2 days... and drained out..

Reached shanghai at 5.55am yesterday and the whole day was damn damn long… Meet up with our host, ying lao shi and she accompanied us for half the day to do some official stuff.

Things that I have gone through on the first day (31/08/07):

-China Eastern airline suck totally
Its like going into a sauna. I was sweating for almost the entire journey.. which coz me not slping throughout the whole night…

-went into the accommodation provided for us
That place sucks like hell. Firstly, it was to carry our super duper big luggage up to the 6th storey high apartment (yea, they dun have lifts and we stayed at the highest floor!!). Reached the small little room meant for the 4 girls- and although it’s a little better then expectation (cox my expectation was like negative already)I still cannot take it; the room stinks of new/old wooden smell, no fan nor air-con, the beds look like thousand of people have slept on it before, the floors were dirty (imagine wearing your shoes into the house and walk around. This is what they do!!

The toilet looks like those in the prison, and I think our room mates were like super dirty (empty bottles were all over the floor.. and its not like one or 2 of it, but 15 or more of it!!!)

And all those were only the apartment itself. The apartment is like a 1 hour bus ride away from the hotel I am working for and the whole place is damn deserted (after alighting the bus, I think there is still a 20-30 mins walk in).. there were no shops (that sells national brand), high rise buildings or wat so ever.. and the apartment that I am staying in seems to be surrounded by a lot of men. And worst still, there wasn’t any lights there at night!!!
It’s so dangerous and insecured!!!

Then it was to the guys apartment which is big, with new bed, nearer to the road/gate with gym and some other facilities I think.. and they stay in the 2nd level.. everything seems so much better there…

-medical check up
Then it was to some medical check-up (the girls were already deciding if we wan to either more in with the guys apartment or to a cheap hotel)

First, they gave us this Chinese form to fill in.. (all 7 of us just suck in Chinese.. ) and as we were filling up the form, we saw things like anus check, liver check, blood test and stuff. All of us (esp the girls) were so freaked out.. ANUS check. What the hell was that.. some of us got too scared and started crying.. and I never have a body check up before!!!!

I was so nervous and stuff (lots of ppl say that china clinics are not very safe to go to) and after a whole mess, we completed all the stations of check up and there is this Chinese test to complete (a 6 plage chinese comprehension) and I think we got to get 100 marks to considered it as passed. All of us didn’t even bother to read the passage. We tried copying from others and getting ying lao shi to do it for us. (she did all 7 of it and so all the papers were of the same ans..)
By that time, all of us were like hungry and stuff and after taking the blood test, my whole went so numb and tired.. I think everyone almost fainted…

-lunch at Shangri-le hotel (still deciding on the hotel.. )
Went to the staff canteen for lunch and food wasn’t that nice.. but I think the canteen is so much better then the ones in Singapore.

We felt like some pola bears coz everyone is starting at us and stuff..Then we started slacking (for 1½ hours) in this training room while waiting for their ‘family event’ to start. All of us just slept in the chairs like no body biz.. until someone entered the room.

Their employee welfare seen quite good.

Then we felt that we were all transparent coz no one is bothering abt us..
Had a short tour around the motel and we continue slacking in the hotel to wait for Linda Xuto settle some stuff for us (confirm going to stay in a hotel already…)
Went to the hotel for check in (4 girls in one bigger room) and I am so so happy with the hotel. I got a proper bed, air con, proper toilet, internet connection, shops around the motel, supermarket nearby. I feel so save here =)

By then, everyone were emotionally and physically drained out…
I cant wait to just slp on the bed. Went back to Shangri-la and the guys were nice enough to go back to the old accommodation and help us bring over all the girls luggage(which is 4 big one and 2 small one). They almost went crazy over it.. coz they lost their way, and had a dirt shirt time finding the apartment. Thank goodness we moved to the hotel….

By the time we settled everything. It seems like a few weeks have gone. Every min seems like days… I just hope that my life here wouldn’t be hell anymore.. day 1 is bad enough…
Had a very late sleep but by the time we head of to bed, my mind went shut immediately once I was on the bed all the way to 12pm the next day.

Second day (01/09/07)
Woke up today at noon and by the time we went out, it was near 2pm already. We spend the day very relaxingly.. All we did was went for lunch, took passport size photo, buy our sim card and IP card and walked around our neighborhood. Had our dinner and headed back to the hotel.. reached back the ,motel at around 8pm..

Tmr will be a day to go some roaming and shopping in shanghai and OIAP will officially start. Just hope that I wouldn’t get hell…

And yea, shanghai stuff are still CHEAP!!!!!

I am going to survive through!!!!!