Shanghai Day 1

I realized I'm not a good travel blogger. I said to myself I was gonna blog about my New Zealand trip after I came back, and gonna sort out all the other previous trips I've done including Beijing Olympic 2008. And see how long has it been, all the hustle and bustle and it's almost the end of 2010. I cannot agree more about what Alan said when I exclaimed, 'Yay, Christmas is coming!' and he replied, 'It's almost over, everytime when there is Christmas decorations, it means Christmas is almost over.' T___T

Well what more could I say, we go all hoo haa up for that day, and when the day has finally arrived, it is gone just by a blink of eye. So what I think is, we should enjoy the process instead of anticipating the arrival of the day, hmmm, sounds contradicting because come on, what's the difference. Well, all I can say is just enjoy every process, the journey, instead of being bogged up of wanting to know the destination, the result, because at times, the results may not be what you expected, but hey, look how far you have gone, how much you have grown. ~Mee~ always said last time during examination period, don't feel stressed up about the results, as long as we have tried our best! :)

Hmmm so what was I talking about @@

Okay travelling! This post is gonna be Shanghai trip Day 1!

In the airplane, never liked airplanes.

I remembered when I was young (Gosh I'm old already?!), okay when I was tiny, I used to think that the windows of the airplane are open, literally open just like normal non-a/c-buses, and I argued that I swear the first time I sat on the plane with the windows open and I rushed to closed it because of the loud noise from the engine, until maybe the age of 7, or so? Now I came to realize what a naive thought I had.

Very tiring midnight flight we had before arriving to a 40 °C zone, OMG THE HEAT. Seriously pictures can be deceiving and we were melting, literally. And the long day ahead of us!

1. 上海豫园  Yu Yuan Garden.
2. 上海潭  Shanghai Bund.
3. Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower
4. Shanghai World Financial Center (Tallest in Shanghai)
5. Hotel (Hallelujah Mamamia!)

Supplied with lots of mineral water to re-hydrate ourselves!

First stop, 上海豫园- Shanghai Yu Yuan Garden.

Very hyped up about the Mascot!

Tired!! and hot!

Order whatever you want for the first meal, and everything are just so so, too oily and too salty for our liking :/

Not tasty at all, just feel the need to pose with it, so cute please with the straw yes??? :D

Errr,,, Snail???

Another 'exotic' food lover!!! :)) * dance *

Off to walk around after brunch:

Camwhore in action! 

Shanghai Expo Mascot again!

Loving all the oriental details which are carefully restored, must be the pivot of this area. Just sheer beauties.

First group picture of the trip.

Next up, Shanghai Bund:

Phewww, I wonder where we got all those energy!

Follow me!

Enough of the sight seeing (more like sun shading and avoiding the sun!@@) Off to Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower:

Hmm I realized I didnt take much pictures, must be too mountain people mountain sea there, anyway skip that and off to the tallest building in Shanghai, Shanghai World Financial Center:

Spot the bird's eye view!

388 (?) steps to reach the peak from x floor, gosh my memory sucks, anyway, we took the stairs to reach the peak from the exhibition floor instead of waiting for the lift with the crowd, smart move, saves time and the exercise is good for health:

Hello!!

Click click snap all the way non-stop!

And time for dinner, which marks 'almost the end of the day'  \(T 0 T)/ hurray~~~~~

The shape of the bun is really interesting, indented for us to fill in the necessary filling, err, whatever.

* sound of hallelujah *

You have no idea how long we have been waiting for this moment, how conked out and exhausted we were after a long long day!!

And yet, we decided to wash up and head to the bund, crazy bunch of energetic us!

Great first day, next up, Shanghai Expo for 2 days, before 西湖.

Alright, enough for today. It's Public holiday tomorrow meishveryhappy! Will join Jia for lunch at suntec city (since she gets to claim up to $15 for working during a public holiday, and she gets to use her cab card to take the cab to and fro the office wtf so glam) and meet up with Xiao B finally! and I GET TO WAKE UP WHATEVER TIME I WANT! Hmm :)

And I think I've decided, Noe Petite is too tiny for my huge body, so I'll go for Delightful MM. We shall see.
xoxo

"The Social Network"

"I wanna be a Billionaire, so fucking freakin' bad,

Buy all of the things I never had..

I wanna be on the cover of Forbes Magazine,

Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen.... "

Hmmmm :)

Back from watching "The Social Network", despite the fact of them talking super fast without subtitles, lucky thing with sheer concentration plus grabbing every opportunity not to miss any facial expressions, there are a few perplexing conversations I managed to catch.

"I'm 6-foot-5, 220 pounds, and there are two of me." Nice.

And many many other sarcastic answers by Mark Zuckerberg to the board of lawyers which I couldnt manage to catch especially what he said after he said, 'It's raining'. Other than that, about the Victoria Secret founder commiting suicide, great real life story as an example which brought Facebook to success.

Seriously, Facebook is the world now it is undeniable. We cannot live without it, for example:

Yeap, this is taken in my office. Be astounded :)

Overall, it's a very inspiring movie, accidental Billionaire eih?

Something great is gonna happen after a fruitful discussion, can't wait to get things rolling, nothing is impossible ;)

Met up with Hayden and NELLY POT!!!!!!

Went to LV ION before dinner to try on the short-listed choices, really embarrassed when I got the Speedy model confused with the Bowling of Burberry. lolol. Noe is definitely out of the list. ~Mee~ I don't want Neverfull, so Palermo maybe?? :P

Before that, let me present you the most non-duck-duck-meat-ever tasted:

Believe it or not, it is DUCK skewers.

Yeap you hear me right, duck meat, which tastes like mouth-watering-succulent bacon.

Where to get it?

Cafe 8, A secluded corner just off Neil Road.

$8.80 for a set with soft drinks. Not too bad for the price just maybe the portion is a little too small for our big stomach :P

Okay very random.

Manhattan Fish Market we had the other day, yummmm....

Fatigue look after work, blah working woman.

This portion is for one person, which is insanely overwhelming.

Back to outing pix! :)

Met up with Hayden and Nelly Pot yesterday straight after work. TGIF!

Hayden Loo I don't know what to say.

Hello sexy!! :)

Guess what???

Card holder from Jia!!!!!!

And look at the size of it! *points at far left.

Off to Takashimaya after dinner.

Smile sunshines!!

Pretty twinkling Christmas decorations are up!!

Hello Nelly Pot me can't wait to go back to party all night til the break of dawn days!

*Party everyday p-p-p-party everyday!*

Went for a drink since it's Friday night.

Berries Cocktail.

Nelly needs it since it's alcohol night for Fridays, I remember how Ruth, Jessmine and I do the same when we were back in Melbourne. Crazy ladies moments gosh...

Had light brunch today.

And Coffee Bean for Tea.

Don't judge a book by it's cover.

Will never ever order the macha red bean muffin again.

ION tomorrow with the sister maybe tomorrow.

Wanna check out the Longchamp bag she's interested.

Have a great day and week ahead everyone :) xoxo