LIM LIN LUAN

currently working and studying in shanghai. originated from south east asia, miss singapore very much. life's good, for todayy (:

Sunday, 12 October 2008

trip of the GIP -- XINJIANG 新疆!

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WELCOME TO XIN JIANG EVERYBODY!
LET'S START THE BLOG ENTRY WITH THE GREETINGS FROM OUR NEW XINJIANG FRIEND!
Before we start the entry, let me tell you a little more on the place that we chose for our GIP major trip. (:
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is located in the west side of China. It is a really really large region that it took up one-sixth of the whole China mainland. The approximate land area of the whole xinjiang is 1.6million sq km (which is around 2263 Singapores! and there are more than 10airports in the whole Xinjaing, can you imagine how big it is now??). Xinjiang borders Russia, Mongolia, India and several Middle East Countries such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; which explains its multi cultural society with many many ethic groups, its either 37 or47 altogether.
The majority of Xinjiang is made up of the Uyghur Ethic Group, from which its full name suggests too. The uyghur people takes up around 45% of its total population. In Xinjiang, you do not feel that you are in China anymore as the people you see on the streets are not purely chinese, they usually has the tinge of middle east features on them, like how uyghur people look like; and moreover, you get to see Kazakhs and Russians around as well, mostly doing tradings, agricultures or setting up food stalls in night markets etc.
Besides, when you stepped into Xinjiang, you seldom see Chinese Temples and Monuments around. It is really different from other parts of China. Instead, the architecture of Xinjiang s very much influenced by middle east, round roof, flat roof, single story squarish white houses etc. Besides the Architecture, the religion of the xinjiang people are also very much under the influence of the middle east. Majority, which includes almost all the uyghur people are Muslims, that also explains the us seeing Halal signs (清真 in Chinese) outside almost every restaurant, road signs are written in Chinese and Uyghur, which is Xinjiang's official language,also; mosques are located in the middle of no where an almost every single town we went, pretty amazing, its really so un-china.
Moreover, we had also taken much consideration on deciding the location of our GIP tour trip is because there had been 3 or 4 bombing incidents in the City of Kashgar in Xinjiang, policemen and students were killed during the bombings and it was done by the terrorists, something like suicide bomber if i am not wrong, and it just happened back some time back in early or mid August. Freaking recent. but after looking at the tourist attractions and knowing that the places we gonna go are no where near Kashgar, we dicided to go ahead to explore Xinjiang, as u know Xinjiang is freaking big. hahah.
Xinjiang is also famous of its 烤羊肉 and 烤全羊 as the Uyghur favourite dishes, also, the fruits in Xinjiang is fantastic especially their Rock Melon, it was too sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet to be true, the climate in Xinjiang are really suitable for growing different kinds of sweet melons, grapes etc.
Oh and another interesting yet scary fact about xinjiang is that it has the highest AID/HIV infection number in the whole of China(it took up one tenth of the whole China infections), in which, there are 60,000 infections out of its 20 million population.
Okay i guess with this short summary on Xinjiang, we can now move on to our 7 days of adventurous yet enriching experience!
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First Photo in Xinjiang, i am holding the strips which my name was written on it, the tourguide had fetch us from the airport in Urumqi.


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Freaking Excited, 9 of us altogether,

From Left to Right : JianMing, ZiMing, ShouZi, Ler, PeiYu, Dominic, SernSiang, Hazel and Me. (:


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After putting out luggage at the hotel, we dash out to one of the night market there. ahaha. the weather was shiok, prolly aroubd 20 degree celsius, windy icy yet not too chilly.


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哈密瓜!


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烤全羊!


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the uyghur and their stalls!


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YUMMY!

lets move on to the first tourist attraction of the trip! Heavenly Mountain and Lake. 天山天池。


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It was so cold, like 9 degrees, we hurry hurry put on our big big coats!
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WAH VERY NICE HOR!
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thats Hazel and I, can u see us?


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CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
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told ya, the words and languages on the road signs!
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SPLENDID!


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After 天山天池,we set off to this place called KANAS, 喀纳斯!This is the nicest place that we had ever been too! its so beautiful, i swear the photos below still do not do the place justice! and before reaching KANAS, we saw snow! we were so excited! for many of us, it was the very first time seeing snow, taking photo with snow and playing with snow!


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lying down on the wet icy wet icy snow.

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SNOW BALL FIGHTING!

LOOK WHO's LER trying to attack! WAH PEH! AND THATS SERNSIANG SLIDING AND ALMOST FALLING DOWN ON THE RIGHT WAHHAHA!


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THE GUYS
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THE GIRLS
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tiny little peiyu
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shouzi's snowball was in the air!
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hahaha the guys running down the slope, pretty amazing! it was so slippery and cold and we were all dressed up like penguins and they can still run around freely. MAD COWS!
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APPROACHING KANAS!

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The hotel we stayed in KANAS was in actual fact a big big bungalow with many many rooms. its cosy and comfy besides the fact that it does not have my favourite winter electric appliance HEATER!!!!
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FOG covering the mountains!
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trying to take a people with the cold air from our lungs, whatever it is. so cold there, prolly around 4 degrees in the morning.

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this is not china man..
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happy dog, according to peiyu. ziming and ler touched it and never wash their hand and then after that they took buns and eat.
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debating if inner mongolia is still a better choice than Xinjiang after looking at the beautiful magnificent KANAS!
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sernsiang trying to push MR BUMBERBEE down the slope!
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so we took a shuttle bus to the mountain area or highland area of KANAS.
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and suddenly, postcard-photos-like-sceneries are everywhere!
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it does not even need a single effort to capture a nice postcard photo, thats how nice KANAS is!
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月亮湾,look like moon as u can see.
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then we went to this place to have buffet lunch, quite horrible as usual and after that we stole from butter cookies for snacks and we were very full so we had to do some exercises.


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More photos of KANAS.





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can you see the rainbow? there are actually 2 appearing at the same time, long and clear. after the rain.
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see the 2 rainbows!
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哈哈

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horse riding sessions! 40rmb for one hour but in the end only half an hour like that.
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白马王子。 (sarcasm intended WAHHAHA )
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call me 肉粽!
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nice one babe!


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ziming and Ler's horse SHIFU brought them so far away into the forrest full of yellow trees! so jealous! we only gallop at the grassland but we never had a chance to go into the forrest!

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WAH PEH LIKE PHOTOSHOP ONE! so jealous!

then we took a boat ride to the KANAS river in which all of us fell asleep in the 100yuan halfan hour ferry ride.
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Ler looking stunned.
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呵呵


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EVENING SETS IN.
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LIKE EUROPE HOR!
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NOT LIKE CHINA AT ALL HOR!
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HEAVENLY MANN.
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we went for campfire at night with the Russians dancing their traditional dance and in their traditional costumes!
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Jian Ming and his favourite, not pretty lor!

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wah scary man.

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SERNSIANG and his favourite. it was negative 2 to 4 degrees and can you believe it, they were wearing so little!

哈哈哈
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Last day in KANAS, we love the place so much that despite of the cold weather, we still took a stroll at the jungle area to get more photos.

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we are in AMERICA. GEORGIA. (LIKEREAL) (OH MY GOD IT RHYMES) wahaha!
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Jianming and Sernsiang are gonna get me killed.

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Aikhong, this is for u! KUNGFU PANDA in KANAS.


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Thats about all for KANAS. we took like 2 gb worth of 2230 pictures in 7days, cant expect me to upload more.

On the side note, i took 1 week to complete this entry because of some shitty things happen in the middle.

and thats only half of xinjiang, look forward to the next entry where the brand new experience reveal. i promise, you will see a total different XinJiang.

Take care people, miss me.

Sunday, 5 October 2008


HELLLLLOOOOO ALLLLL!!!

i'm the cover girl for the day :):)
incase some of you have no idea who am i, i am actually the girl who hugs linluan to sleep, needs linluan as my pa when i am sick and gossip, laugh and irritates linluan!!

i am hazel!!

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yes, i just had an awesome haircut here and my curls are gone! LOL
this is the loving family members i have, all looking normal, but well, looks are deceiving :P

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seee i told you guys!!!

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yet another one

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in case mr lu is missing my bed buddy....................... 
i present you the lim lin luan and lim luan luan twin, take your pick. 
leave one to sleep with me ok??? :):):)

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i've no comments for this siamese twin here who claims wearing a panda shirt is cool (roll eyes)
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present to you my wonderful findings: child pornography 
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today we had another fantabuloussss roasted duck. it's cheaper than the jiaotong one!

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linluan and her spastic smile again. she refuses to take a proper pict with me?!?!!
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nononono shanghai is not like that, its just this street!
hehe
AND 
dom happened to see a dog peeing into the baskets of veg,
so wanna do some marketing here in shanghai?!?!

I MISS SINGAPORE FOOD :(

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thereafter, we ate in this superb restaurant which costs 5sing per pax. we had many many dishes, but well, all of us had (____________________________this big_______________________) 
of appetite, we just got one dish to present you. hehe

come come shanghai, we'll show you more food :P

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andddddd this is mr shouzi trying to squeeze into silver's leather coat which cost a whopping $100sing!!
i (hazel), was trying to help him squeeze into it. hehe

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wah satisfied him, in the coat hehe

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sooooo the one in yellow is silver!! she's none other than grumpy sean's girlfriend!!

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awwwwwwww, bon voyage babe =)

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hahahahaah see limlinluan's scarf, pretty pretty right?!
i am going to useeee hers too hehe

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hi mom and dad, if you're reading this, this is me after the incident!!
i am fine and i miss all of you.

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just to tell you guys a joke that i think its funny hahahah, i've got a friend who suddenly ask me why am i not afraid of peach. 
i was shocked by his random question. 
then he said

"it's furry like a dog, why arent u scared?"

hahahahah linluan, your friend, your friend: sernsiang
 
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awwwwwwwwwww the sweet couple =)
not as sweet as the girl who wears 
i love WY to sleep lah

:D

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ohohohoohoho, looooook at the photos, why is shouzi 1 head taller than us???!!!
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orhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, u guys should know hehe

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ohhhh, guess wheres this place.....................

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it's the A & E department of shanghai hospital hee

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well, i had a minor heart attack when i was in xinjiang and when i reached shanghai, i wasnt feeling too well and had fever so we came to this hospital to pay the doc a visit.

BUTTTTT

the hospital is gross, seriously, everywhere we go we held ur breath, refused to look around and when i had a blood  test, they used needles to poke my finger, LIKE NEEDLES U KNOW, not the stapler you use in singapore.

OH, and there's a place where the people were put on drip, it was like a refugee camp to linluan hahahaha

so you guys should count your blessings :)
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and after the hospital my mom insisted i should head to parkway medical centre to visit another doctor and have a checkup.

just for 15mins in a beautful environment and some simple test
the bill turns out to be 400+ sgd!!!

seriously.........................


but well, the env is good, i like it hehehehhe

i loook happier here too :P
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To linluan and sernsiang:
thanks for accompanying me to the hospital, taking care of me, buying porridge for me, hugging me tight, checking on me and etc. you know i can never thank you guys with just words. you guys are one of the most beautiful thing that happen to me =)
i wash clothes for you guys for 1 week? hehe, using washing machine? lol

(linluan u peeeped!!!!!)

To dom, shouzi, ziming, jianming, ler, peiyu:
thanks for all the love, care and concern. xinjiang trip was great and the bond we share together is deep =)
hahaha camel, thanks for the piggyback too!
& dom n shouzi, thanks for looking out for me.
not forgetting ler, ziming and peiyu for encouraging me!

I LOVE ALL OF YOU

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hope i didnt bore any of you out there =)

for the next entry, look forward to the new cover boy, 
specially flown back from xinjiang

he is cute and wears a songkok (if thats how you spell it)

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from hazel, linluan, sernsiang, dom, shouzi, sean, peiyu, ziming, ler and jianming



loooooook forward to spectacular images.
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singapore we miss you, friends and family we loveeeee you :P:P

many many many loves,
hazel 
p.s: do leave any comments, it'll sure light up our days =)







Friday, 3 October 2008

Best news of the day for Wenyang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plane has landed safely in Pudong airport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Thursday, 2 October 2008

3rd day of our 4 super duper happy days

3rd day already! Time flies!! Happy time flies, really fast! We two pigs woke up past noon. Sern Siang and Hazel were even worse!! They woke up in the later part of the afternoon!! That makes them the pigs of pigs!! Don't know why, even though we woke up at noon, still very tired!!! We had lunch at home, instant noodles!! =)) It was nice, really nice!! Perhaps it's the hot water that made it special, or rather, the person who boiled the hot water that made it special!! =))

We then left the house for LuJiaBang. As recommended by Dominic (ChengHao made his suit there), Miss Lim and Mr Lu went hunting for a tailor to tailor a suit for Mr Lu as i require a suit for my Buddy Tao Liang's wedding in 2 weeks time. We took the subway there, (my first time on a subway in Shanghai, we have been cabbing for the first 2 days), arrived at LuJiaBang station. The Fabric market where my suit can be tailored was just a 5 mins walk away.

The fabric market is just like Sim Lim Square back in Singapore mann!! Just that the difference is that it is full of shops that sell fabric (that's why called fabric market whattt!!). We did quite a bit of marketing as proposed by Dear. Doing marketing quite shiong mann!! Need to find out price, then touch the fabric, everytime i go into a shop, i just touch a bit here touch a bit there, acting like i know a lot about fabric, but in actual fact, all i can identify is its colour, i left the important task of choosing the fabric to Miss Lim's touch. I trust her. =)) Or rather i just wanted to tailor something that was chosen by her. Any colour, any design, as long as it's chosen by her, i'll be happy to wear it. =)

We then settled in this shop which looks slightly more atas, as compared to most of the other shops around in the market. We asked for the price and the shopkeeper quoted 600 (or was it 680 Dear?), after lotsa effort and time, my dearest teh-pok finally brought it down to 480. Seems like it's the lowest the shopkeeper is willing to let us bargain. We then settled for that price and now, the toughest part!! Time to choose fabric, they have tons of fabric there to be chosen!! How to choose?? Wenyang took the easy and lazy way out!! Wahaha!! He left it to his Darling. (i'm not really that lazy lah!! but like what i said, i just wanted something that was chosen by Miss Lim to wear on my Buddy's big day). After a while, we settled for a dark blue suit with very fine strips (i'm sure i'll look good in it! wink wink!!)

Next, i thought since we were already at the fabric market, must as well make a shirt too. We asked for recommendations from the shopkeeper where we made our suit and she recommended a shop that specially tailors shirt. Nothing much to be mentioned at the shirt shop, we didn't bargain much, think Miss Lim was tired of bargaining, anyway it was only 100rmb for a shirt, at most. Doubt we can do much bargaining here. In the shirt shop, we met this Singaporean couple by chance. The guy was working in HP Shanghai (we didn't ask what the wife is doing). Btw, we identified this couple when the husband first told the wife 'let's go'. They then subsequently spoke in a weird language (guess it!!) France has got Eiffel Tower, Rome has got the colosseum, Malaysia has the twin towers, USA and Canada has got the Grand Canyon, Singapore.................... has got SINGLISH! Wahahaha!! It's really a powerful language, not really that easy to master okay, so many ang mohs want to learn also got problem LO!! Wahaha! Btw, his office is situated just beside GES where my Dearest works). So China isn't that big afterall huh!?? Like real, China is really really huge, this is really just pure coincidence lah!!

This couple was singing the praises of this one tailor that they always frequent!! Say he this very good la, that very good la. That made Dear and me think, wah peh!! Wouldn't it be good if we had met this couple earlier (btw, this couple both round round one, their actions very comical and can tell that they are nice people). Then we decided, why not make another suit, since it is not really that expensive. This tailor charges 600rmb (slightly more expensive than the one before, but if the quality and worksmanship is good, it's worth it isn't it?). So we followed Mrs Lim (the round lady, not my Dearest, my Dearest will never have a chance to be Mrs Lim! wink) to the Tailor Shun (Stall #198). When we arrived there, she greeted the tailor and his assistant like they very 'arh ga liao'! Can joke and talk cock kind. Anyway, after we settled on the price of rmb600. We thanked her and she left us and rejoined her husband Mr Lim back in the shirt shop.

This time we chose a brown suit. We didn't have any colour in mind when choosing. But brown wasn't a bad choice as the brown blazer can be worn out casually with jeans. Sure very shuai one!! Haha. Time spent at Tailor Shun's stall was very short. We left shortly and on the way out of the market. We bought 2 scarfs for my Grandma and one for my Darling.

Miss Lim was complaining that her stomach was making noises. And being the super paranoid other half, i was afraid that her stomach will give her problems. So i quickly whipped out my Lonely Planet (the one that saboed me on the second night) guide and chose 'Paul' at French Concession East since i thought we have never been there. But when we arrived, i realized that French Concession East is XinTianDi where we went on the first night la!! Chey!! But either way, 'Paul' was still a nice experience. 'Paul' is quite atas also, i thought it's just another normal bakery. It turns out to be a French bakery that is mostly frequented by expats in Shanghai. Since Miss Lim was hungry, i went to order quite a bit of food! Only after paying and sitting down, i then realize that the food not really that cheap mann. I almost made a hungry woman a angry woman!! Wahahaha! BUT, Dear's stomach is way more important than money! Even if i have to eat grass, i must also fill her stomach!! And i can eat grass cause my stomach is stronger than hers!! (i know your throat's better than mine lah). Eating grass is overexaggerating btw!! The meal wasn't really expensive, just slightly above what an average meal will cost us.... in Singapore! Haha.

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To be continued.... plane's landing in 5 mins!!! =))))))))))))))))))))))))

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

2nd day of the 4 super duper happy days

My first night in Shanghai was good! Slept soundly, as though i was at home. In fact, i slept like a pig and i was the last to wake up in the house. By the time i opened my eyes, Dear and Hazel was already changed and Sern Siang was about to come out of the shower. (aiya, i purposely sleep longer cause i know Sern Siang still bathing mah!! okay, i know it's not convincing. Wahaha) Kudos to Miss Lim for successfully waking me up, it is a task that my Mum and Grandma still finds daunting, after 23 years. We promptly left the house at around 750 cause Hazel was running late. She studies at Traffic and Traffic starts at 830am while Fudan starts at 9am. We then went downstairs and met up with the rest of the Traffickers (Dominic, Shouzi and Sean).

The 7 of us then walked out to the main road together. Dear called two cabs. One for Fudaners and the other for Traffickers. Once on the cab, Miss Lim showed off her one of the skills that she acquired in Shanghai, lying to Cab drivers. Wahaha!! I shall not elaborate on that! You tehpok!!! Wink wink. But the main reason why Miss Lim and Sern Siang didn't want to be late was because Saturday morning's lesson was conducted by this strict teacher and it was better that we arrived early to secure a good seat (far far from her and away from her view). We didn't get the very good seat in the end. Cause we didn't arrive exactly early!! Heh. After we got down the cab, we went to have breakfast first at the South Africa Guo Tie shop. We then bumped into Ziming and Peiyu there and went to school together.

Lesson was held on the 25th storey of Fudan Twin Towers. On the way up to our classroom in the lift, we bumped into our teacher somemore!! The day's lesson turned out to be a project discussion about Chinese fastfood and Western fastfood in China. 3 groups came together to form a team and i bet the other 2 groups must be damn qi kek. Cause our group didn't contribute much, or anything at all! I only remembered something like ‘炸的很好吃’. Wahaha! Miss Lim's stomach wasn't feeling too good, so she didn't talk much. Ziming and Peiyu was engaging in their favourite activity; sleeping. And Sern Siang and I were busy discussing matters that didn't matter to anyone else except the both of us. Wahaha!! In short, the 5 of us were there only for attendance. Wait, the 4 of them were there for attendance, i was only there because there is no way i'm gonna get separated from this one girl. Wink wink.

After lessons, with recommendations from this AT in black dress, we went to this Korean restaurant near school for lunch. Restaurant food was okay, the 2 of us spent 24rmb on a soupy noodle and fried rice. I think 12-15 was the average cost for each person. Miss Lim was only allowed to take something soupy cause of her stomach. Nothing earth-shaking took place during lunch, except that we were greeted with some maggots in the stove, which luckily we didn't have to use. Ziming had a complimentary gift from the chef in his rice. A black curly hair entangled in his rice. Readers, i leave it up to your own imagination ya! Heh. Peiyu eventually got it changed for him though. But whether was it the same bowl with only the hair taken out remains a mystery!! Wahaha. That was all for lunch!! Oh ya, wait!! The Korean place got sell Dog soup also!! Maltese, Husky, Golden Retriever, Bulldog, you name it you have it!! You can even pat them and talk to them before brining them for a super hot shower in boiling water!! Oh mann!! I sound so cruel!! But i'm just kidding by the way!! There is indeed Dog soup, but i don't know if you have a variety of dogs to choose from. Anyway, we should not eat dogs!! They are intelligent animals and good companions!! But i will eat Sparky one day if he continues to pee on my bag at home!!

After lunch, my Darling decided to head back home first because her stomach was giving her some serious discomfort. Sern Siang, Ziming and Peiyu continued their day by heading to QiPuLu. This time on the cab, it's my turn to apply what i learn from Miss Lim, i tried to urge the cab driver to drive faster cause i couldn't bear to see my Darling in pain. But apparently, i'm not that good in it. The cab driver still took his time. Damn!! I should have 'ka pui' in his cab before alighting!! Wahaha!!

We got back at around 1 plus, rested and when we opened our eyes, wahahaha!! The sky completely dark alr!! We then quickly got changed and left for dinner!! My original plan was to head to Yang's Kitchen in French Concession West for dinner as recommended by Lonely Planet. We took a cab from our place and alighted somewhere near the eating place and walked. We were led into this super dark alley which was supposed to get us to the eating place. We then approached a dead end where it was super dark (actually i purposely bring her to a super dark place one, so can hold...... tightly mah!! wahahaha!!) and a scary man who was smoking alone at the end of the alley told us that it was closed down alr!! Damn!! Came so far just to realize that it was closed. But it was really a genuine error, i didn't know it closed!! Really really!! Heh. When we were walking out of the alley, another couple was walking in and we heard them say something about Yang's Kitchen too. Seems like a popular place, too bad it had closed down.

I then whipped out my trusted Lonely Planet (actually can't trust alr!! sabo me!!) and checked out another place. This time i decided to go somewhere slightly more atas, Whoampa Club situated at the Bund. Cabbed there again, took a while, and finally when we reached, oh God, it was posh mann!! There was a Ferrari parked just at the entrance (the first Ferrari i see in Shanghai). We took a lift up and when we arrived at the entrance, we decided that we should not eat there until we start working in the future!! Cause it was really expensive!! 300-500 rmb a person easily?? So we agreed that next time when we start working then we go back there and eat. Wah peh, that means next time honeymoon must stop by Shanghai! We should actually, since the Bund left me some of my fondest memories ever. =) At the ground floor of Whoampoa Club was a huge Armani boutique. Giorgio Armani to be precise!! We went in to walk a bit. Aiya, but nothing great about the clothes there lah!! All look so weird!! Wear out also let people laugh lo!! I bet if you were to use pen and write Giorgio Armani on a very long slip of toilet paper and sling it over your neck like a scarf, people will also believe that it's from Giorgio Armani!! That's how weird their clothes look!! Wahaha!

Just across Whoampa Club is the bund, just that this time we're on PuXi side. We strolled along it for a while before heading to a small eating place for some Shanghai local food. Paid 85rmb for it. Miss Lim's treat. =)) Food wasn't fantastic, but company was excellent as usual. Thank you my Dear girl. Biggest regret at the Bund was that i didn't get a portrait of Miss Lim and me drawn by those street artist! I should have got it drawn!! The next time i will!! Bought a rose from a little girl for my Darling on the Bund that night too. I know what flowers to get the next time alr!! Wink wink.

Next, we boarded a cab and head to the Grand Hyatt. Hiak hiak hiak!! Guess what were we doing in a hotel!!?? Hiak hiak hiak!! For a drink of course!! The building i guessed that was the Grand Hyatt the night before wasn't the Grand Hyatt!! Heh. The building shaped like a handle is the Financial Center. Grand Hyatt is just behind it. But close guess lah hor!! We had to change 2 (or was it 3) lifts just to get to the 87th storey of the Grand Hyatt. The bar is called Cloud9. The view was fantastic!! It is much taller than the Oriental Pearl. If you can't see what you want to see from Cloud9, you most probably can't see it anywhere else. I think we arrived at Cloud9 some time past 11 and we only left at around 130? We were the very last to leave the place!! Heh. What we did there?? Fast-forwarded as usual!! Wahaha!! We then cabbed back for the night. =)

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Across Whaompa Club



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Some constuction site near the bund which i thought had quite a nice backdrop with the lights on.



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Two attention-seeking buildings on the bund, but they do look good. Heh



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Miss Lim's



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Mr Lu's



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Don't be greedy my blog fans, this is the most you all will get to see!! Wahhaha!



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No prizes for guessing that beautiful hand there. =)