My Shanghai business trip.. or rather shopping trip!

Was in Shanghai over the past 4 days... 22nd March to 26th March. Went over to meet my new Akzo colleagues to sort out some integration matters on Monday & Tuesday, with Ophelia. Spent more time shopping though!

I really do love Shanghai! Its big, its diverse, its interesting, its fun!!!

What did I do there?

1) Shop, shop and shop

2) Met up with Grace at Johnny Moo

3) Met up with Guisong & his madly in love girlfriend =)

4) Had the yummy Xiao Yang Dumpling at Nanjing Road West

5) Had coffee on the 54th floor of Grand Hyatt Hotel

6) Went to Xintiandi

7) Stroll at The Bund

8) Made clothes at the textile centre (I cant wait to go back there again!!!)

9) Met up with Carrie and her team, and had dinner with Maureen & Daisy

And my shopping list:

1) 1 tailor made suit (RMB400)

2) 6 scarves (RMB20 each)

3) 1 tailor made jacket (RMB170)

4) 1 tailor made skirt (RMB80)

5) 2 pleated skirts (RMB50 each)

6) 2 knitted tops (RMB 80 each)

7) 1 turtleneck top (RMB50)

8) 2 pair of shoes (RMB 80 & RMB 45)

9) 3 pair of pants for HK (RMB110 each)

10) 4 packet of Walnuts (RMB 35 each)

At the new T3!

Where we stayed.. Jianguo Hotel

The station near our hotel..


The streets of Shanghai... look at the trees..

At the Bund..

It was windy!

The Colonial house facing the Bund

A meal at Xintiandi in the cool weather

The touristy chen huang miao.. which we left just after 10 mins there

I love this place... it holds special memories =)

Coffee at Hyatt..

It was almost 10 degrees at night

With Ophelia, at the Xu Jia Hui Cathedral

Their public toilet, found it quite cute..

And when I came back to Singapore, arrived at 525am, and had a pleasant surprise seeing HK waiting at the airport. =)=)=)

Getting your pronunciations right =)

Ever wondered if you were pronouncing these brands correctly? Here you go! =)

Damn disgusting

Had this huge pimple at the back of my ear which caused me so much discomfort the whole day... didnt know how big it was until I showed it to HK and got him to take a photo of it so that I could see what was irritating me the whole day.. and when I saw it, I went "eww...." its really quite disgusting isnt it.. And, it got me so irritated the whole day, especially cos it was a Saturday and I was out shopping for a TV with HK...

Anyway, guess what.. I burst it.. at Harvey Norman at Suntec. And felt much better after that. Haha!

Anyone looking for a maid?

Looking for a maid? Head to HomeMaker at Upper Thomsom Road!



Owner is the pretty Cheryl SC Cheong, also my good friend from PwC. Ex auditor turn CEO of HomeMaker. =)

A long day....

Was on leave today, went shopping for sanitary ware & wallpapers with HK.. boy, turned out to be quite a challenge.

Sanitary ware

First, we went to Jalan Besar where there are quite a few shops selling sanitary ware.. but hmm, realised there were too many shops & too many different designs to choose from. Gave up. Decided to head to Sim Siang Choon instead, where at least the many different designs were confined to just one shop.

Still had a bit of a problem initially.. there were just too many designs. After walking round the shop a few times, everything seemed to be "okay" and "possible" designs to choose from. Still, after a couple of phone calls home to check for dimensions, we managed to shortlist all the items we needed:

1) Toilet bowl

2) Basin

3) Basin mixer

4) Shower mixer

Yippee! Settled!

Thats HK making the many phone calls home to make sure the items we shortlisted could fit..

Wallpapers

Next stop: Goodrich --> to select wallpapers for our bedroom

This turned out to be a greater challenge as compared to buying sanitary ware.

There were tons of albums with various wallpapers on various shelves. Almost like a library.

We spent an hour there, flipping albums, feeling lost, confused and tired. There were the dramatic ones, plain ones.. cheap ones, expensive ones.. modern ones, "Adam Family" ones.. All kinds. In the end, we went home without having any idea on what we wanted at all.

Think we should start looking at more design magazines.

Congratulations Yongxin!

Attended Yongxin's wedding at M Hotel.. it was quite a touching wedding, with him surprising his bride during the 1st march by singing while walking down the aisle. =) Christina, Weiliang, Yimin and Kim Wen were there too.

Here are some photos, courtesy of the super duper crappyWeiliang!

Me & Weiliang (ahem... looking handsome.. )

Weiliang, me & nana

Me & sweet looking nana!

Me, Nana, Weiliang, Kim Wen & Yimin

Me, Nana & the funky Mic

I like my curls!

Ooh, see my curls - it was done by HK! Quite impressed with his skills! Even my mom & sis was impressed! Yippee! Now I have a stylist who can help my curl my hair for FREE!! =p

Fun night out with the barbies & cabbages

Celebrated Meilan, Ruilian and Justine's birthday today.. having their bdays in the first 3 months of the year, they are always the first among us to turn a year older (and crazier too!=p)!

The birthday gals


Now you know why I said crazy... =p


Had dinner at Marutama Ramen at Central.. yum yum! Esp the egg tofu thingy which tasted really good. Then, as usual, we proceeded for desserts at Nectarie at Clarke Quay. Wow, the cakes there were super yummy!

Here are some photos to make you salivate!

The strawberry yoghurt cake, apple struddel and the yummiest of the 3 : the chocolate cake with some coconut layer inside which blended so well with the chocolate..







And, the ice chocolate drink that Justine had was fantastic! Definitely worth trying!!



The sisters..


Me, Pau & Justine


And Meilan, Rui, Nana & Serene

Farewell Clarence!

Woke up really early today to go to the airport to see Clarence off to Australia today!

His flight was at 10am so reached there about 815am, luckily was staying over at HK's which was only a 5 min drive away.. Yuwen's the champion, she stays at AMK and she took a cab all the way down, she woke up at 630am.. Heh. Clarence, touched or not?????

Anyway, yeah, it was good to see him off.. his gf was there too, and it was quite a touching scene seeing them say goodbye (altho its only for 3 mths as his gf will be joining him there in June)! Hehe, Clarence bet you had a hard time holding back your tears!!!

Spent the remaining morning at T3's TCC with Yuwen, chatting and laughing. Ohh, and Yuwen was very sweet, bought me a Frommer's on Canada - thanks Yuwen!!!! *hugz*

Happy Birthday Justine!

happy birthday justine!!!!!

Birthday wish specially in green for ya!
Time to grow up and learn more from us Barbies!! Haha!
*Muacks*