Finally a day to rest and stay @ home!

159 days in Shanghai (5/5/08)

Woke up 9.30am and started backing up the room. Helped Joanne with her luggage and went down to the photocopying shop to get our report printed out.

The whole morning was then Kim packing up all the last min stuffs and clearing all the rubbish.
Went back to the photocopying shop to collect the report and YES! Finally the report is done =) Hopefully I can score well in this report..

Jia Wei and Yu Hong came over to Jie Ying house to stay so that it will be more convenient when we go to Beijing.

Helped Kim move all her luggage down and then was to bid goodbye.

It’s so sad man! All four of us came together and now, all of them have gone home leaving me going to Beijing with Jie Ying, Yu Hong and Jia Wei. Went back to the room and suddenly, I feel that the whole room looks so empty.

Both the cupboards are empty, the shoes rack is empty, the clothes rack is only left with my stuffs, the toiletries are left with one bottle of facial wash and there is only one toothbrush in the cup.

But still, although they have all went back, they left a lot of things behind for me; chocolate biscuits, Milo nuggets, Oreo, BBQ Pork, drinks, many pairs of slipper, crackers and etc.

And now, after so many days of rushing projects, doing last minute shopping and few hours of sleep only, I can finally have get to rest at home one whole day.

Here I am, updating my blog that has been missing for one month =)It has been so long that I stayed at home one whole day.

Time is passing so quickly here! 5 months just flew past like that and a week later, I will be back in Singapore too.

I am so damn going to miss this place!!!

So, slacked at home the whole day using internet and while I was doing that, Jie Ying was rushing her report and both Yu Hong and Jia Wei went to Shanghai Science Technology Park and then to some wet market to buy some stuffs to cook for tonight’s dinner.

Dinner was spaghetti and some fried fish in tomato sauce. So, the guys done up the dinner and we girls are supposed to wash everything and DAMN IT!! The whole kitchen is just so damn messy.

After dinner was back to slacking- watching DVDs and then head off to bed.

Last Shopping Trip for Kim & Joanne!

158 days in Shanghai (4/02/08)

It’s the last day in Shanghai for Kim and Joanne and we really have got to very stingy with time. So, we woke up super early today to get ready and leave the house at 8am to Qipu road for the last min shopping.

Reached there and all I shopped for was clothes for my brothers only. Okie, I bought myself a pair of heels =)

By the time we were done with shopping, it was 2.30pm already. Cabbed back home and we ordered delivery coz all of us were crazily hungry.

Finished up all our report and started packing up everything. All of us still have got so many things when all of us have actually sent back at least one big bag of things to Singapore already.

Called up Kelvin to ask if he can help us bring back some stuffs since we know that he is a super light traveler. Got him 3 big plastic bags full of our stuffs when we go to his house to 放鞭炮. =)

It was damn fun man!! What we did was going to one location, making sure that there is no police or security around then light up the fire crackers. We went to a few location and some of the fire crackers are damn nice. We played with a few different types like 蛋糕，两千向, 双响炮 and etc.

There was one time when we placed 4双响炮 a row and light it up. So when Joanne and I got our crackers’ line lighted up and Kim and Yu Hong was still trying, the cracker started exploding while Kim was just beside it. I guess she got shock out of her life.

After all the exploding, it was back home and we ordered a lot of 烧烤and 麻辣烫. So much that we couldn’t finish all of it. Anyway, it will be the last time eating 麻辣烫as the stall uncle is going back home for chinese new year.

After eating, I was super tired and went straight to bed.

More Shopping today!

157 days in Shanghai (3/02/08)

Woke up at 10am to do my report then meet up with Yee Hui, Kelvin, Maxim and Angeline to have lunch at Tang Gong.

Ordered Dim Sum and they started telling me all the nice places to go in Beijing and I doubt I have got enough time and money to go there.

After lunch, Kim and I went to pick up Jia Wei to go Cheng Huang Miao while Joanne went home to finish up her report.

Bought facial stuffs for sister and Kim bought RMB 210 worth of preserved Cherry and both of them did their chinese name stamp.

And while we were there, both Kim and I were considering borrowing money from Kelvin since he keep on asking us to borrow and we both are quite broke. I decided to borrow RMB500 from him in case I really got to survive on snow everyday in Beijing. hehe

Cabbed down People’s Park and have dinner at Papa Johns. Went to Di Mei after that as Kim wanted to do her nails and I wanted to buy sun glasses. And today was the first time I went there after so many months.

Bought my sunglasses and while waiting for Kim to finish up her nails, we went to Haagon Daiz =)

She got her nails done and while I went home, she went back to the salon shop to re-dye her hair as she wasn’t satisfied with it. So for the last few days in Shanghai, she spent all her nights doing her hair… That shows how important her hair is to her. Haha

They started packing their things and the house is messy like crazy now.

Goodbye to Angela!

156 days in Shanghai (2/02/08)

Today was the day Angela is going home.

Woke up at 9.30am to get ready and at 10am, we send her down to meet up with Edison, one of her colleagues to send her to the airport.

Time passes so freaking fast for the past few days and now, she is going back to Singapore already. 5 months just past like that!!!

Went back home to get ready to meet up with Dennis and Raymond at GHL for lunch. Lunch was too bad and after that, I went to make spectacles. It was so super duper cheap there as it was supposed to be like some spec warehouse there.

Bought one spec and the lens is super thin (the last time I got thin lens was like when I was in pri school when my degree is just 200??). The technology there seems to be better then the one is Singapore.

Contact Len are also super duper cheap too. Sis, u definitely got to go there the next time we are here in Shanghai.

Spend almost the whole afternoon there as all of us bought something, esp Joanne. Even Kim, the perfect eyesight girl bought a Levis Specs.

After that, took a cab and drop Kim and Joanne home first before going to Ba Bai Ban to collect my jeans.

Bought KFC home for dinner, continue on my report and went to the salon shop at about 10pm to accompany Kim as she wants to straighten her hair. So in the end, I had my hair trimmed too after much consideration since yesterday.

So, after Kim straightened her hair, her hair dye seems to have all faded off and the boss was nice enough to give her a free red highlight.

The staffs there were also all very nice. So nice that we got quite pai sae. They are supposed to end work at 11pm but because of us, they ended work at around 4am. Crazy huh.

So, most of my time now was planning for the schedule on where to go for the last few days in Shanghai and doing my stupid OIAP report..

It has been so long since I wrote something and now, I am supposed to write a 3k words report. Yea, 3k isn’t a lot but then, it’s the brain that is not working now.

LAST DAY OF ATTACHMETN!

155 days in Shanghai (1/02/08)

Today was the official day we end our attachment. Like finally!!

Headed down to Lu Jia Bang to collect our suits before going to the hotel to do some admin stuffs and bid the rest goodbye.

Reached the hotel at about 4pm and I realized that I lost a lot of things; hair clip and the employee’s handbook. Lucky I got the hair clip from BQT office and Yu Hong has got an extra handbook to rescue me from paying some money.

Went to HR and things starts to get a bit irritating. They gave us this whole list of things that we got to return and do. Like returning of the locker keys, name tags, going to the various department to get some stuffs checked and sign.

Everyone got quite pissed off as some of us have got to go to finance to collect our extra pay and the general casher close at 5.30pm when we have got a lot of running here and there to get things signed and everything.

By the time we reached back HR office to let them sign the final slip, it was already 5.30pm. Lucky they told the general cashier to wait for us.

Anyway, got our money and we got our BONUS too=)

Met up with Jia Wei at Zhen Da for dinner and shopped for a while before heading back home.
Went to the hair salon opposite our house to have our hair done as Angela is going back home tomorrow.

Myself- had my hair highlighted red
Angela- got a hair cut and red highlight
Kim- got a haircut, jet black dye and red highlight
Joanne got her hair perm and red highlight.

So in the end, all of us have got almost the same colour. Joanne was the last one to get her hair done and all of us were eating Mala Tang while waiting for her. The boss of the shop was very nice =) We left the shop at around 3am.

And the snow today was super huge (bigger then the previous one) that we started to play with the snow on the way home.