My new Hair =)

66th day in Shanghai (04/10/07)

Woke up at 10am to get all our bed sheets, pillow covers and blanket cover washed.

And finally, after so many weeks of saying it, I clear up my curboard =) Kept all the summer clothes and replaced it with all the winter wears.

Watched Joanne series show till about 1.15pm, met up with Jie Ying for our hair cut =) Was quite excited coz I know that I am going to cut short and it has been super long since I last have short hair.

Wanted to cut short coz I am so sick of tying up my hair everyday and my hair is so out of shape already.

Angela and Kim went with us coz they want to go SHOPPING!!

Reached there and the hairstylist came in. At first, when I saw my hair stylist, I thought he was a trainee and was quite worried. He wanted to cut like super short but I done really dare to. Never have a good short hairstyle before.

Washed my hair first (the seat was super uncomfortable) and he started cutting my hair. I think he wanted to try something new too and after a while, I feel comfortable for him to cut my hair. Maybe it’s the things that he said and stuff. Sounds very professional. And I found out that he is a professional, not a trainee. hehe

When he was cutting, I was like ‘omg omg!! So short!!!’ They cut super slowly. They make sure all the alignments are right and everything.

Half way through, some of the trainees will actually come in and see how they cut our hair. And I think because my hair is super thick, he got to do a lot of layering. And my layer is damn short. But it is quite nice. The layers will slant from short to long at the side. (well, I think you wouldn’t know what I am talking about. Haha)

One of the trainees even came in to ask him for advice on how to cut his customer’s hair and he started fidgeting with my hair, teaching him.

After cutting, he rinses my hair again and got to blow dry. He taught me how to blow my hair and I think I am going to get a hairdryer soon =)

One of trainee wanted to try blowing my hair too but he didn’t allow, saying something like its not easy coz of the many layers and stuffs (and he expect me to blow dry my own hair everyday.)

After cutting, both Jie Ying and I were so excited. Cox I love the hair style.. But I think I cant mange it everyday. Imagine styling it everyday before going to work. I think I will give up soon. Haha

We were so excited that we laughed super loudly while walking to a Chinese restaurant to meet Kim and Angela for Dim Sum.

Had Dim Sum and I think it’s not too bad. Jie Ying got to meet up Chang Fang and the rest of us went to H&M to shop.. bought a dress and a top =) Crazy Kim spend thousand yuan there.

After shopping, we went back home to put our stuffs before meeting Jie Ying for Shen Jian Bao. Angela is missing it, Jie Ying and Joanne wanted to try.

And we tried other food there too. I ate smelly tofu.. It’s really smelly. Angela bought it and we ate it beside the store. It taste not too bad. The smell wasn’t that strong but because we ate it beside the store, it made it super duper smelly.

Went back to Dong Chang rd and since Kim wanted to shop at the rd stores, we met her at the station (she got some family meeting online so didn’t join us for dinner).

Did some shopping and headed back home. Got to work tomorrow.. OMG!!! How boring can my life be =(
And I wanna buy wax for my hair!!! =)

NEW HAIR STYLE!!!

Got a new Hairstyle!!!! and since i promised my sis to upload my photos, i shall upload now and blog later,, er like maybe 2 days later??? hehe =)

The process My New HairStyle =) He did it =)
Image of the day
Jie Ying did her's too and she fell in love with curls =)

He did it for her =) and he is quite cute hehe

2 satisfied girls =)

Worst shopping trip; Crowded Qipu but good pubbing trip; Face Bar

65th day in Shanghai (03/11/07)

Couldn’t get a lot of sleep and woke up at abt 9.30am to watch my HK series shows.

Kim went off to Tony & guy to have her hair cut at 9.55am but I didn’t want to go coz I heard from my friend that she will be seating in a classroom and a professional will be cutting her hair with a class of students watching.

Tony & Guy Academy is giving free haircuts for their customer as it is the students (soon to be hair styler) that will be cutting their hair as a practice. Either that or the teacher will be cutting and a class of students will be seating in to see how the teacher cut.

Met with Jie Ying to meet Kim after her haircut (not too bad) and went for lunch at a Korean Restaurant. After lunch, I went up to Tony & Guy Academy to make an appointment coz I also want to have my hair cut.

(I have registered my name but they didn’t call me. Kim helped me check and found out that my number that I gave them was wrong. So they couldn’t contact me =( )

And lucky us, we can get our hair cut tmr coz one hair styler wanted to practice cutting hair. (Occasionally, they will want to practice cutting hair. In the Salon, they got to cut very quickly. But in the Academy, they can take their time and cit it very slowly, to see the alignment and stuffs.

Headed to Qipu rd after that and when we reached there, the whole place was crowded with humans!!!

Maybe it was near winter and everyone is there to buy their winter clothing. The crowd is like during CNY eve, the Chinatown crowd. It was super crazy.

We shopped until pek sek cox it was stuffy inside the mall, people squeezing through the crowd, shouting and everything.

It was the worst trip I ever have compared to the last few when I went there. But still, we manage to get some stuffs =)

And with the many things that we bought, we got to walk all the way to the Train station, which was like 300 metres away.

Went back home slack for a few hours and Jie Ying, Joanne and myself head to Face Bar, a place Tracy recommended.

The place is actually quite near my place but still; we got to take a cab in coz it is quite deserted; The place is at the mansion area where it will enter one gate and it’s like a house on it’s own.

When we reached there, someone open the cab door for us and I was like ‘oh, not too bad. Some one actually open the cab door for us. ' (well, normally it’s only at hotel that u get this kind of service. Not when you go to a pub right??)

One look and I feel that the place was quite classy. The structures, the displaces, etc…

Since Tracy told us that the manager, Vance was a Singaporean, we decided to look for him. But he was busy at that time. And the funny thing was that no on entertain us when we went in. We got to ask the staff if there is a table for 3 before she bring us to our seat -_- Bad impression…

And the table was outside the bar. The whole ambience was very quite.. Not very pub that kind. Haha

Ordered our staffs and Vance came over to look for us. He helped us arrange 3 seats at the bar counter and had some chats with him. It was then I realized that Face Bar is actually one of the famous bar around.

It is one of the recommended bars in most of the famous Travel Guides and is very popular among Caucasians. The whole place look pleasant. I like it =)

He was nice enough to tour us around the place. They had 2 restaurants, selling Thai (which was the most expensive Thai restaurant in Shanghai) and Indian food.

Their toilet is quite cool too. They got this mini bed inside it.. So the first thought was… hmm… But Vance told me that that place used to be a hotel, so the mini bed used to be a bathtub. And yea, they don’t allow 2 or more person in the toilet at any time. Haha

Had a long talk with him till abt2+am till the place close. And I think we were the last customers that went off so there wasn’t any cab left for us. Got to walk all the way out to the gate to catch the taxi.

Reached home at 2.50am and lucky for us, there were still Shao Kao (Joanne’s craving came back).

Slp at 3+am and got to wake up early coz we got to clean up the hse and go for our appointment at 2pm.

IBLAC

59th day in Shanghai (28/10/07)

Today was another long day of work supporting BQT for the event IBLAC (International Business Leaders’Advisory Council) for the Mayor of Shanghai

Work start at 7am, the earliest time ever since attachment started. Reported to Yee Hui and he asked us to look for one of the manager, Johnny at China Hall.

Saw Johnny and since he got nothing for us to do and we haven had our breakfast, he let us go for our breakfast break =)

Went back to China Hall to see the setup of the hall. The whole place look damn nice with classroom settings at the 2 ends of the hall and a circle set up in the center.

This event is very important as it involves all the big investors that contribute revenues to Shanghai. Most of the participants are either CEOs of big company or Chinese Governments.

And I think the coolest thing was that I saw Sun Zhong Shan’s granddaughter, Nora Sun. Wanted to take a photo with her but I think it’s quite weird and skipped that thought. In the end, I just said ‘Hi’ to her.

So the what we did for the morning was waiting for their coffee break time and lunch time and we will refresh the meeting hall by throwing away their used Evian bottles and replacing it with new ones.

It was then lunch time and Goh asked us if we want to have lunch together at Burger King in 正大广场.

So we went down to BQT office to wait for him and while waiting for him, we taught Tracy some Hokkien sentences (Almost all is vulgar one) and she taught us Shanghaiese (I leaned another language to sold people =)).

After quite some time, feeling freaking hungry already, we decided to walk around level 3 to see if he will be at the Ballrooms. But still, we didn’t see him.

Went back down to the office and gave him a call. He said that he is at Burger King already and asked us what meals we wanted. So since he asked that question, we assumed that he is going to buy back for us (Yu Hong asked Goh if he is going to buy back for us but I think he didn’t reply or whatever)

So we went to the back of the BQT office and help Niki and Dora to do up the menu for tonight’s dinner while waiting for our lunch.

After about 15 mins, Goh called Yu Hong and asked where we are. We were like ‘I though you are going to buy back for us?’

And apparently there was some miscommunication. Goh asked us what we wanted cox he was at the queue already and he bought our food first so that by the time we reached there, we don’t have to waste our time queuing up.

By the time we reached Burger King, our fries were cold and soft already =( and they have already finished theirs. Anyway, they waited for us to finish up and went back tgt.

Went back to BQT office coz Yu Hong bought egg tarts for some of them and we started slacking in there again.

Went back up to China Hall to see if they need any help there after walking awhile, we got tired and went back to BQT office. Nothing much to do there, we went to the back and started slping for at least 20mins.

Realized that BQT office was very quiet, went out to take a look and saw Cherry, Niki, Dora and Yu Hong changing the menu coz some of the words were keyed in wrongly.

Went up to Grand ballroom and they were having roll call; no one inform us about the roll call which means that we were not assign to anything to do =)

Helped Cherry to put the menus on the tables and arrange the chairs neatly, etc…

Reception starts shortly and we just walked around to see if they need help anywhere.

Went out to the cocktail garden to feel how cold the weather is already and the wind was so super strong that it blew down a glass of water. And with a very loud clash, the normal reaction for us was ‘OMG!!’ but to them, it seems to be very normal that a glass broke so loudly.

Dinner started and we started pouring red wine for the guest and at some point, helping the food server clear away dirty plates.

Time always past very quickly during serving time. After the whole dinner, we steal some food to eat; fruits, coffee cheesecake, etc.. (there is this secret place where the staffs will secretly eat the food) and there was this final roll call before everyone starts to clear away everything; the cutleries, table clothes and chair covers, etc…

By the time we end, it was near 9pm already… 14 hours of work!!! And some of the BQT staffs got to work more then that. Some of them ended work at 3.30am the previous day and started work at 9am today till they remove all the settings. And some of them didn’t even have their lunch and dinner. Poor thing!!

So super tired already, we still walked back home. Wanted to watch a DVD but was so tired that after watching 10 mins, I went off to lala land.

Until now, I have already got 2 days off from RSVN =) which means that I just got to support for another 2 more time and I can get 4 days off to accompany my parents when they are here this Dec =)

Singapore Evening

57th day in Shanghai (26/10/07)Today was a very long day. Worked from 9am till 11pm, the longest day I had ever since attachment started

Reported to work at 9am in reservation and started calling for arrival time. Wanted to tell our RSVN manager that we got to support BQT for the event Singapore Evening at 12pm but she said that she need to give us training first and we can only support at about 3-4pm.

But well, I think she is quite nice as she told us that every extra hour that we work, be it in BQT or in RSVN, we can claim back the day-off. So I plan to work a few more extra days so that when my parents come, I can take off and accompany them=)

So during lunch, we went to find Yee Hui and told him that we can only report at 4pm but he said that row call is at 2pm and asked June, one of the AM to call up to Nancy.

But in the end, we still can’t go down at 2pm coz Nancy said that if she can’t give us training today, she will have to wait for another week before she got the time for us.

So training today was all about the Global Distribution System (GDS) booking. And to handle all those booking, we got to apply what we learn in school into practical; using the OPERA system.
One of the leaders, Lily gave us the training and we recapped how to use the system (it was barely a few months since we learned it and we forgot some of the steps already)

So from Monday onwards, we will have extra jobs to do; make new reservation, edit changes and make cancellations.

After the training, it was near 5pm already and we got to report to Yee Hui straight to ask him for our roles for Singapore Evening. And at that time, both Kim and I were super hungry already but we can’t go for dinner cox dinner was starting soon.

Singapore Evening was an event to introduce Singapore into China. It shows Singapore’s culture, cuisine, etc during this whole event. The whole set up at the reception was super Singapore. Clean and green with a few lions around.

Before the event starts, I became a mini tour guide for Angela and Joanne. After touring Angela around, she needs to go back to work and Joanne came up to find me. So I toured her around too.

Then we saw Tay Pinghui and wanted to take photo with him but all of us don’t really dare to ask him coz he was rehearsing his MC speech with Dong Suhua.

Not long later, SM Goh came and he was surrounded with tons of reporters and security. Then I realized that it was a super VIP event where there were quite a number of ministers and big shot (rich ppl) that went to this event. The managers were making sure that nothing goes wrong during this whole event.

So Kim, Yu Hong and I were supposed to be in charge of the drinks for 3 different sections and I was in charge of the whole area where SM Goh was seating. Then I managed to talk to Mrs Goh as Cherry wanted me to ask her if she eats beef if not, she can have a choice of chicken or fish.

It was a super busy night and I think that my whole section lack of drink server. So for the whole night, time past very fast coz I was pouring drinks non-stop and helping the food server clearing the plates.

But well, I still manage to watch the performance; they got fashion shows, Malay dance and Sun Ho was here to sing some songs =)

After the whole event, we started taking photos with a lot of Singaporeans and make new friends around. We didn’t feel very comfortable taking photos at first cox we were working and if we take photos in front of the staffs, it feels really weird. But in the end, we can’t be bothered and took photos with a lot of people. . And most importantly, took some name cards from impt ppl =)

Photos are still with Yu Hong =(

And almost everyone said that the service in this hotel is so much better then the one in Beijing. Everyone was so glad to hear that.

Bought home some goodie bags (they gave real good stuff) and they gave us a lot of free Yeo’s water chestnut drinks. Singapore production=)

I think we are quite lucky to be involved in this event as we get to see a lot of Singaporeans working, having their internship or exchange programs here. And besides, we saw a lot of Singapore’s big shots (real rich people).

I can really see how much Singapore wants to be recognized in China.