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!!!!!!!!
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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)...
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....
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
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.....
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.
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.
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
Checking out at 10am, I lugged the 25kg plastic stone around the city centre Marienplatz and to the Olympicpark.
Since the Bahn worked on an "honesty" policy, heheh we just bought 1 single-journey ticket and used it for 3 trips on the Bahn.
Hofbranhaus is the main brewery/drinking bar in Munich. Even without the Ocktoberfest, the place had a festive feeling with the locals enjoying 1litre/500ml glass of beer (bier). I ordered a glass of white fruit wine and it tasted great, but as usual, the bitterness comes up after half the glass. I also ordered a plate of 2 meat balls+mashed potatoes.
You could occasionally get the wisp of smoke from the neighbouring tables.
