Shanghai
Dear Shanghai Pudong,
I have visited you once in August and these are my thoughts.
MAJOR construction everywhere and especially getting ready for the 2010 world exhibition. Your Science and Technology Museum is really huge
Anyways the next stop was the Super Brand Mall, probably the only mall in Pudong side. There are other shopping areas but there is only 1 MALL.
Big and tall.... to accommodate sooooooooo many people on weekends. I loved the giant 10m-tall teddy bear you put in your center display. I also guessed you loved the attention as the cameras were busy flickering like the locals treated you as a super star. Better even the kids were PUSHED to stand to take photos (?????) and the adults pushed among themselves to get to the teddy bear to take a photo!!!?!??!? OMG the adults are seriously deprived of childhood I think, hugging broken and dirt bears to sleep???
Sometimes I think the China people are overwhelmingly-warm?!?!? They like to touch each other (arms and butts and shoulders and all)??? Rubbing across in public places ..... ok I can understand the “toking-loudly” cos the bloody parents were all too noisy screaming across the mall calling for each other. But I dun think my country’s mrt is that noisy?!?!? So why does the china high-pitch-behaving-all-so-rich-rude-ass-darn-idiots keep SCREAMING over the phones in the trains .... <> yupyup... we must embrace their rudeness haiz..... is that why the crime rates of kids are rising
For food try the shop ‘KungFu’ on the 3 storey of the super brand mall!!!!! Super good and S$5 dollars for soup and drinks included... I think they easily trash any Singaporean mixed vegetables and rice stall.
Ok next:
Visiting the Macdonalds... they eat surprising small portions!!!! Our small drink = their large?? Whatever anyways the restaurants are much cheaper comparatively and you get proper waitress service (for some)..... Try the Din Tai Fung at World Financial building... FANTASTIC Service, changing my plates for every dish, helping me to scoop from the main bowl into my own... only 1 problem, never help me refill water repeatedly...
The zoo carnivores were kept in ‘wildlife’ all the long grass and trees and duckweed-filled pond. Not bad, get to see the animals swimming in wild, but not sure if they are fed well... There were so many monkeys kept in the 1 big cage (no trees) and when i walked past, the monkeys were following me sticking their arms through the grills to beg for food... Mostly were scratching the desert-dry ground for worms.... Worst thing I saw was a black bear, maybe sun bear, was forced to stand on 2 legs for the whole 1 hour animal show?!?!? When it came down on fours, the trainer used a metal bar ended with a hook to beat the bear’s side to ask it to stand. The baby elephant was taken aside behind the performance stage(in view of half the audience) to get beaten on the trunk cos it refused to stand on 2 legs during practice. ....................... The zoo totally does not operate like singapore’s on a food-reward system. They do the punish-starving system to get the animals to perform. Only the pandas were spared, given a big enclosure (consisting of indoors and outdoors) to run and play. It just slept and slept throughout.......... Poor tiger cubs, locked away from their mother and taken into human’s custody in cages. The tiger cubs were chained and held by the trainers, collecting 5 dollars for a picture, no teeth to bite yet......
Even though the excuse that people are poor.... I do not think life in Shanghai is that poor... I had the opportunity to visit a local house probably about 60 square meters (not joking) and owners were playing stock market on their computer?!?!?!? 4 people stayed in that house with no intention of moving ..... In pudong, houses cost 1 million SGD for a studio in a condo, apparently I walked into one to see the design of the house and most viewers were china locals..... buying 1 house but brought the whole generation down to see.
I thought communism was supposed to be about people helping people, what I see is people struggling to get reach by all means ....” who cares if my neighbour is poor , I need to take care of my family, I’ll do whatever it takes” ..., on the other hand, the british people were concerned with one another’s activities, not to the extent of kapo-ing though... Communism really brings out the selfishness in people cos I guess their hard earned moneys were/are taken away from the people to do what??? Who knows, maybe into govts pockets or feeding the richest in the country...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Shanghai
Been to perth in July 09 for 1 week
Hihi!!!Let me do some updates....
Been to perth in July 09 for 1 week
1. Emperor's crown backpackers is damn good, worth the 25 aussie per night, walking distance to town and shopping !!! (suprised I can even remember the name still)
2. Clothes are expensive... unless you're talking about factory outlets which mostly sell sports gear, maybe about 10 dollars cheaper for a pair of nike shorts
3. Eating outside is a killer!!! Food too salty and price is like 10 dollars per plate?!?!?! not refillable, even if it is, I just can't wait to rush home to gurgle my mouth
4. Cooking is so much cheaper like 2 dollars for a huge chunk of spaghetti, almost the same pricing in europe. Meat is slightly more expensive than locally.
5. Visit the caversham wildlife park.
Follow a 1 day tour to include the winery and chocolate factory at about 70 dollars. The wild life park is not reachable by public transport as the park is damn big!!! Get to touch the kangaroos and feed them, shear the sheep and milk the cows. It does not have the stench of a wet park so the experience is enjoyable overall.
6. Don’t buy any expensive souvenirs ... Looked at the label that reads “MADE IN CHINA”..... Asked for some Australian made wool pouch “ It’s gonna cost much more expensive, we keep it locked in the cupboard. ......... What do you expect, everything is made in China now”
7. Visit Rottness Island and go cycling. Pretty lakes and calm ‘water-land-sky’ scenery.
Warning: Don’t underestimate the power of the hills and sand... damn tough to cycle. 4 hours cycling and sightseeing and we only did 3km at most... impossible to cycle even to the nearest hot spot beach. Only managed to reach an isolated light tower on a hill top. FANTASTIC view though. Unbelievably clear waters to see the corals
Plently of these to see ard. Very cute!!! But the size of malteses (dog), bigger than Chihuahuas... I wouldn’t dare to touch then though, their 2 front teeths stick out like beavers. There were no feeding signs, didn’t see them until I gave almost 1 quarter a box of cornflakes to 1 furry ball by the road.
ROTTNESS IS THE MAIN ATTRACTION!!!!
8. Bring stuff there to do at night... shops close FLAT at 6pm... self entertainment thereafter, also July is the autumn period??? So sky night-dark at 7pm.
9. Feeling: Countryside, home town and cosy ... not much main-city activities
Sunday, May 17, 2009
BlogSHOP - convenient fast shopping to fantastic fashions
My sis and I are opening a blogshop soon hopefully done by end of this month..... phewww... it sure takes a lot of work to coordinate the buying, selling, advertisements pricings etc....<
It's a commitment to our friends and customers who depend on our services to "reach out to the fashion world hahaha"......
anyway keep watching!!!!!!!!
Visit: ballerinarose.livejournal.com
Thursday, January 15, 2009
doing interest rate stuff, recalling the impacts of interest rates on this stupid economy and these stupid stuff I have to do because of the incompetent staff....
I've been eating so many peanut butter biscuits and so much soyabeandrink in this office....
Carpet so dirty and the aunty only vacuum once, the accounts department here are totally animals.... I mean only an animal will treat another person like an animals right???
kio sai is one of my main jobs cos my senior is simply too lazy to even put the buscuit bowl in the sink herself, even the one below is too lazy (or credits to her for being too short to stretch) to walk and take her stapler....
The challenges of the job is simply not even tying figures or clearing up last years mess.... but "Managing your difficult senior"...... simply cannot be friends outside of work even ..(no need to say inside work)...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
workingzzzzzz
6 months into the job and I feel so tired..... Good in the sense I have PLENTY to do to keep me occupied, totally away from the "try to keep awake" mode.
The view from the office is nice, can see a little of the Singapore river and the museum... the supreme court still looks like a UFO to me.
Now I'm checking account opening forms for the details and I realise how much people appreciate clear handwriting. Some people cannot write in a straight line WITH the line there...
I feel like going home at 6pm.... the past 2 weeks have been quite a slack for me, giving the feeling like something ominous is going to happen.....
guess what I know what going to happen, I'm gonna be chopped up by my boss for not finishing work in time, gonna camp in the office burying my head in files and files of unorganised so called "work" (and my boss wonders what work is there done when everything is so messy) .... clocking heavily discounted OT (where's the justice for that), pulling a black long face and hope nothing else distant me from my unbelievably far finishing line....
Thursday, June 12, 2008
15 days into shanghai
Since 31st May 2008 I've been in Shanghai with no friends to go shopping with:( I spent time researching where the nice places to go are and shopping sites!! cheap shopping site I mean... there are tons of ROLEX, LV, GUCCI etc....
The Shanghainese are damn rich maybe the brands are just trying their luck to get customers by setting up shops all over the place.
Recommendations:
QI PU LU -- must go for girls
things they sell: tons of earrings and necklace at 10 yuan, blouses and teenagers wear, get your nails done, hair accessories etc.... belt for guys and girls at 25yuan, sunglasses @ 19yuan, bags at 29 yuan .... The chances of you bargining successfully is very low cos if the boss gives 1 customer discount, he has to give everyone there discount. Most shops have also come up with the policy of "Final Price, No Bargaining" unless you're the really really naggy and thickskin then you might get your way etc...
THE BUND -- super high end shopping mall
for the rich and buying REAL stuff
SCIENCE ND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM MRT STATION UNDERGROUND -- pirates >:<
for those looking for pirated stuff, the quality is not as good as koreas but prices are better... they offer you prices based on how many bags/wallets you buy, I got an LV big bag and coach small bag for total 1200 yuan, their offering price was 2500 yuan ....... so bargain and BARGAIN!! walk away if they refuse to reduce, they might lower their last offer, if not there are always other stalls ahead!! I find their LV wallets not bad quality, overheard that the offering price was 400 yuan..
There are also clothes there though not as many as QI PU LU
Jing An Temple UNDERGROUND STATION -- clothes shopping for ladies
haven't explored to buy anything yet
XU JIA HUI
supposed to be the teenagers town of shanghai or bugis street of singapore
SHANGHAI BOOK STORE
you should really visit the 7-storey book store for 1 day and buy all the books you will ever need since most books are printed here, they are super cheap compared back at home
SHI LIU BU near the Huang pu river
Tailoring clothes here, there's one store whose owner's name is JING YING who specialise in office wear girls and guys... I know many singaporeans who tailor made their clothes there.... 1 shirt = 80 yuan, 1 skirt/pants = 100yuan, 1 pants/skirt suit = 400yuan... wool material, though you can be 100% sure it would not be 100% wool, but it has been proven by people I know who keep going back to custom make office wear...
Other shops provide coats, dresses etc... practically anything you would ask for, but bea in mind they are better in copying than making a new design, so bring along a picture of the dress you like and give them details in helping you tailor nicely..
FOXTOWN warehouse sales
shuttle bus on weekends from xu jia hui mrt station, or 15 min interval bus every day to the foxtown mall for ware house sales also from xujiahui mrt station
Nanjing LU and Huahai rd
2 long LONG streets with many manymanymany shopping malls and stalls etc...... not a bargaining place as the stores are brand names in shopping malls. There is this PEARL CENTRE ON NANJING ROAD beside a basement KFC that you should not miss!!!! customing making your own jewellery(pearl)is very cheap here, about 110yuan for a set of necklace and earrings... you can pick your own match of stones and pearls. There's this store number 27/29 run by 2 young girls, their handicraft is quite good and they are not pushy about you buying or not buying... There are also accessories using crystals to make..... Have a look
Take the mrt and stop at nanjing station
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Venice - 18th Dec 2007
Leaving the hotel at 10am.... apparently later than planned, Took the train to VEnice centre and bought the boat ticket all day pass. The city's main transport in this tourist spot was really through boats. Deliveries and distributions were either made through "taxi" boats or private bunk boats.
I met Karen outside the Pizza shop at the famous bridge _______ !!!! hahah....We went to the Louis Vutton outlet near the ______ Square. Gosh!!! the people were RUDE and Ruder and Proud!!! There's always this discrimination that Asians are Poor chaps which can barely afford 1 product, compared to the Italian speaking tourist that bought 22,000 EURO worth of Louis Vutton goods........The counter guy didn't even want to show us a bag because "No, I'm serving another customer now"....??????? er.... Is this considered quality service or shows that you can't even handle 2 customers??? So while you're serving 1 customer I have to stand at the side and wait for my turn because there's simply isn't enough salesman???? I mean why dun just implement a ticket queue system then?!?!?!? instead of serving the customers by chance of "who is lucky to stand at the counter in front of me when I'm finish with my current customer will get to be served next".
The people in Italy are so arrogant, even the boat ticket sales lady ignore you when you ask in for directions in English..... Hahah.... ok it just struck me that their english knowledge/education might be peanuts so they can't be bothered to reply you cos they simply dun know what you're talking about I think....... so it's DUMBNESS + ARROGANCE + TOO STUCK UP IN THE BUTT = majority ITALIANS.....
Rome - 15th Dec 2007
After arriving in Ciampino rome airport, we bought a bus ticket that shuttles to the city centre, Termini station. The ticket cost 8 euro.
The city wasn't that exactly comfortable to take a bus as the roads were small rocky roads. Full of squeezing cars.
Vatican City - 15th Dec 2007
Asking the house keeper where the Vatican "CITY: is, it was just reachable by the metro line A. Pompeii was then in another city which was 2 hours ride on the rail.
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Spain Barcelona 28-29th NOV 2007
I start to realise that without a computer around, taking pictures will certainly help you to remember what you wanted to write in your blog. Hence, a good camera is a MUST when travelling, with many Spare batteries and a huge memory card.
We're always running for buses to the airports, to london...... It's has gotten worse to running for Airplanes!!!! and some say Holidays are great get-aways.....
At the budget airport, we wanted to test how strict was the "100ml" rule so we left a little bit of water in the 500ml bottle and went past. hehehe guess what???
Mine passed by Karen's one go an alarm sound and it set off the checkings and scanning and dumping of water bottles away!!!!
Luckily her newly bought moisturiser (gel) was below 100ml ......
This packet of M&Ms on Easy jet cost me 2.10 pounds !!!!! but it lasted 3 days hehe
