Shanghai Trip - Part 1

17 March 2012 - Saturday (Day 1) 

• Embarked on journey to Changi Airport Terminal 3 for my solo flight to Shanghai via Singapore Airlines. 
• Was held back at the check-in counter because the staff thought I was underage and also, they were unable to verify my credit card as the tickets were booked under my colleague's credit card and she was not flying off with me. 
• By the time I filled in the nitty gritty forms, it was about boarding time. 
• Two ang-mos sat together with me on my flight to Shanghai and they slept throughout the entire journey (Bravo! I wished I could too) 
• Watched the English shows provided on Singapore Airlines (They had quite newer ones like transformers, You're the Apple of my Eye and Twilight) 
• Watched Chinese Hongkong dramas from my Ipad which was downloaded by my sweetie pie, deardear before his trip to Thailand. 
• Tried to sleep, but failed. 
• Reached Shanghai Pudong Airport. 
• A few of them got their luggage delayed due to traffic control and I was one of them whose luggage was delayed. (Very 'Lucky' indeed) 
• Got bugged by a group of people who asked me to rent their cars to go to the hotel which I refused. 
• Queued at the taxi stand and asked cab driver to drive me to the hotel but he asked me where it was near to instead. (If I have known, I would have told him like I'm some local there) 
• Entire journey was considered to be un-smooth, so I tell myself if I reached the hotel and I don't see Zongfei (my china colleague), I am so gonna be dead. 
• Reached the hotel - LDF All Suites Hotel and finally saw Zongfei! 
• Checked in at the hotel and went to the room to rest awhile and unpack some daily necessities. 
• 6pm struck and I was supposed to meet someone from Shanghai. 
• She came waiting for us at the hotel lobby and drove us to some mall to eat. 
• Had Crystal Jade for dinner. 
• Bid goodbye with her and Zongfei and me walked about for only a few mins and we headed back to the hotel
• Went for foot reflexology at the massage center opposite our hotel. 
• We were wearing jeans and the therapist asked us to change into their shorts. 
• Upon receiving their shorts, Zongfei and me blasted into laughter because one single short could fit the two of us. (It was hilariously BIG like some XXXXXXXXXL Size). 
• So we rejected the idea of changing into their shorts and forcefully folded our jeans to the knee length. 
• Had Rose Milk therapy for the foot and it was really relaxing thereafter. 
• Went back to hotel and rested for the day. 

LDF All Suites Hotel @ Shanghai Pudong 大道988号，源深路

The Living Room

The Balcony

The extra window area beside the bed

The Bedroom

View from Hotel room balcony

Back to Singapore, with a soul-less body.

Say hello everybody to me and my soul-less self.

Just finished bathing and is having limited energy to clear my work emails and at the same time, here to update you guys a little.

The fact that I termed myself as a soul-less self is because I slept less than 2hours last night and woke up at 3am when I'm supposed to wake up at 4.30am instead to catch my morning flight. Reason why I woke up at 3am was not because my butt was itchy or something but I have been having nightmares for two consecutive nights. And believe it or not, last night, that something strange, that something amiss happened.

Woke up from my nightmare to realize that something was pulling my legs because my legs were not secured by the blanket. Kicked the blanket off previously as I was feeling ridiculously warm. Didn't even dare to pluck up the courage to open the tired eyes because I'm afraid I might see some hideous thing that are not at all welcomed. It was a third experience I had having strong feelings over those ugly things. Trust me, it's real freaky. Having blue-blacks from those pulls now and they don't at all hurt. Till now, those nightmares are still fresh in my head and I wonder what they are trying to tell me.

Bad series of occurrences always come together, don't they? Reached Shanghai Pudong Airport, boarded the plane on the stipulated boarding time only to sit in the plane for 1.5hrs before plane took off. On top of that, I am those sort who can't really put myself to sleep on the plane. So the feeling and my mood now is simply worse than atrocious.

I've decided to turned myself down for school just for today. All along, no one will stop me from not going to school especially when I'm not feeling well, not even my parents. So I didn't have to convince anyone today about skipping lesson, except myself.

Had a hard time trying to make a decision as to whether to go school or not. However, reaching home at a time of almost 5pm, unpacking your luggage and get yourself showered clean will need more time with this kind of empty-shell body. So I finally decided that I should bathe, eat and turn in for the day.

Okay so much for today, I'm in a bad condition like kinda torn and tattered. Mum fetched me from the airport and almost couldn't recognize me because I looked way to lethargic, soul-less and different. She said that I looked tanner and my face got sharper. I guess it's just the after-weather effects. Now that I'm back in Singapore, I will definitely look the same again when the next week comes.

Will come back with a fresher mind, body and soul soon to share my second experience at Shanghai, especially having to take solo flights to and fro.

Goodbye Singapore.

Embarking on my first solo flight to Shanghai this time round.

With no company, no laughters, no monopoly deal.

Mainly dependent on my own independence to sit the flight all by myself, head to the hotel from Shanghai Pudong Airport all alone.

No natural warmth felt definitely with the cold temperature of less than 10 degree Celsius, especially at night.

Goodbye Singapore, Goodbye lovely friends. 

Give it a week and I'll be right back.

Severely Mistaken, grievance blames .

Hate to be mistaken.

Mistaken for the things I've never done.
Mistaken for the feelings I've never felt.
Mistaken for whatever that you find no one to blame, I become the culprit.

Heavy-hearted.
Emo-ism. 

Anger of Tears.

What Happens When I'm Angry? 

1. Facial expression changes to a state where people wouldn't dare to come close to me. 
2. I Slam books, staplers, files and whatever I can find on my desk to let out those anger fumes. 
3. I become very unreasonable, so don't ever talk sense into me when i'm super mad. 
4. I tend to isolate myself after awhile, not communicating to anyone. 
5. My eyes and neck become bloody red because I'm enduring those anger inside me. 
6. The side effects become such that I will tremble and shiver not because I'm cold but because the blood is boiling at 1000000000000 Degree Celsius.
7. Worst case scenario, which happened today, I cried. 

No, they were not tears of sadness but anger of tears.

Tell me how not to be SUPER MAD when all you are trying to do is to remedy the situation as much as you can and came along some idiot who just feel like stepping on your tail and make it sound like you are darn brainless, like everything becomes your mistakes when you weren't even the one who make the initiation. 

As much as I wanted to turn the table on the particular person, I endured.
It was just mere pissed off initially, then as I proclaimed my defense along with the theory and logic that comes attached with it, I could no longer keep my cool. 

I exclaimed all I could. Seriously, don't have to push the blame to every single one.
Get things right, I am NOT your slave of actions. 

And you can jolly well just say it simply that you are purely lazy and don't wish to account to anything.
So just freaking give me the outcomes I want and I can do it all by myself manually even if it takes forever.

Because I didn't want the whole world to know, I chose to isolate myself.

I hate those words, I hate those tears of anger.
And I Hate It more when others see me cry. 

I am no longer as strong because it's getting far too tiring.
I have no more patience, my tolerance level gets real low and I am in need of the strength I used to possess. 

Things Pending to Do: 

1. Work Stuffs (Plenty)
2. Assignments (Due every two weeks) 
3. Group Projects Researches 
4. Luggage to Shanghai Unpacked

Everyone has their limits and mine's currently up. 

BLOODYＨＥＬＬ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Company.

Yesterday was a meaningful weekend spent because of the wonderful accompany.

Met Lily at Somerset, bought some light food and drinks and walked around the town. I had a great splurge at Forever 21 because I'm totally in love with their current collection. Bought two long sleeves tops - one in stripes and another in flowery patterns for my upcoming Shanghai trip. Went to pay at the counter and after making payment, I spotted another piece of short flowery outertop and went to queue again to make another payment. Teehee! Also bought a super comfy covered shoe from Vana at 313 Somerset which will be blister-free for sure! (Satisfying retail therapy)

Waited till 6pm while the other two came along and we went for our K-buffet Session from 6pm to 10pm.
I guess I was abit too tired and so I wasn't really tuned to the very high and cheery mode.

Session ended at 10pm and Pher sent Lily back home and after which we headed to the Mac near my house for a brief chit-chat session.

Wendy, Lily & me

Lily Mummy always taking gd care of us at work!

The girls!

Great company be it at work or outside work. I'm really luck to have great colleagues whom I really like. 

Oh man, time passed like bullet train and it's already Sunday. Monday is just a stone throw away and after the week, I'm gonna embark on my lonely journey to Shanghai alone.

Was pondering about something and I felt the loss of words.
It's either because of being too influential or because of the jealously that amounted, it always results in a duplicate and copyright of belongings after the presence of an item new to me.
The only difference now is that it's no longer a physical, non-living item but a tarnished chased-away figurine, causing the replacement and it definitely don't feel good at all.
I wonder when will competition over unimportant things stop, when will someone's intention be seen through and when will it be the case that everyone will become true to each other ever again.
It's just so hard to be myself with the presence.

Words like these are never meant for anyone to comprehend,
So don't fret, because when problems arise, I never like to put it straight across.

Sunday will be burnt with the need to accompany my china colleagues to boss's house.

Hope everyone will have a blasting Sunday and rest well for Monday's battle. :) 

黃亞細 肉骨茶 - Ng Ah Sio Bak Kut Teh

And a personal blog is always a corner where you can share the favourite eateries places that you have went.

For lunch yesterday, along with bosses and china colleagues, we headed over to 黃亞細 肉骨茶 (Ng Ah Sio Bak Kut Teh). It was my first time there. Always heard about its popularity but never had a chance to visit the place. The design was very much kind of like those olden days kind of eateries which was really cool and they had lights that was designed in a bird cage form.

The crowd at lunch hour was damn packed, which means their business is real good. We had the signature bak kut teh along with Dang O' vegetables as well as pig tail. (which I never dared to eat).

The taste of the soup is really nice and there is a reason why it's call 肉骨茶. You got to drink the soup after you drink some tea and you will realise it tastes completely different. Their tea is really fragrant and it leaves an after-taste of sweetness.

They have two locations for the place, but apparently the one I ate was at :

Address: 208 Rangoon Road, Hong Building Singapore 218453
Tel: 62914537
Operating hours: Closed on Mondays. 7am to 10pm (Tue-Sun)


It looks like it gotta rain anytime soon, I better go off to get myself prepared to meet the colleagues for our K-session. :)