Shanghai Trip Part 2

• 18 March 2012 - Sunday (Day 2)  
• Woke up for our first breakfast with compliments from hotel. 

Zongfei mentioned to me one day during breakfast that she feels I am very westernized due to the type of food I eat. Haha, every morning, I had Cereal with milk, toast bread, fried eggs and cucumbers to wash the oil away.

It's surprising how china people eat alot but they are still small in size or slim. I think it's due to Cucumbers?
Randomly, you will just find them holding the whole cucumber with the skin and biting it on the streets. 

• Made our way to Qi Pu Lu (七浦路) which is a wholesale place for clothes, bags, accessories, shoes
• Zongfei bought supra many things as it was her first trip to Shanghai, whereas for me, I didn't get as much as my previous trip. 

She was carrying too many plastic bags and both of us had no hands for everything. So I advised her to buy a "China bag" to contain all the barangs barangs. She got a very sweet bag here! 

TA DA! Me and Miss Little Hello Kitty which I got specially for my bestie at work, Swee :) 

It's a unique hello kitty because.............

There is a zip at its bottoms and......

JIANG JIANG~ A face towel hidden inside! Also with kitty prints! 

Heh.. It was my second trip to Shanghai and this time round, I didn't buy as much stuffs.
It was Zongfei's first trip there. That explains why she has the feel of "I want to buy this, this, this and that!"

• Spent almost half the day there and we went back to the hotel to place her many things. 
• Then head out to Yu Yuan Which was actually their famous City God Temple. 

Yu Yuan is actually a sort of garden which you will have to pay an entrance fee to get in and take photos with the beautiful scenaries. I went there last year with my bestie Swee and it was really beautiful. It is a place that they say those olden-days drama were filmed.

Hence, this time round, Zongfei and I didn't pay to go in. We merely just walked the exterior of the Yu Yuan Gardens. 

Entrance of Yu Yuan

Look at this, so many people! It's crazy having to squeeze out from the crowd

All weaved! So gorgeous!

SO MANY TOYS! o.O

• After Yu Yuan, we headed to The Bund! 

Similarly, it was my second visit there but i'm still loving the place alot because the scenary makes you feel like you are in London or some victorian places. 

My favourite pic!

Another of my fav pic!

Zf and I at the Bund

19 March 2012 - Monday (Day 3)   

• As usual, we woke up for breakfast 
• Headed to Exhibition Center at 9plus in the morning
• Went over to the registration center and was abit lost because it wasn't at the usual place like last year anymore. 
• I was surprised when someone actually called me : "Dianna!" at the unfamiliar place. 
• Turned and saw that it was Mac, the exhibitor in-charge. 
• It's been one year and he still recognised me, not bad eh ? 
• So with his help, we got the exhibitor badges which I applied beforehand and took the necessary documents and headed to the booth
• By the time we got our goods from the logistics, and prepared the whole booth, it was already 5pm.
• We then headed to the Thumb Plaza Carrefour to get some drinks and stuffs for the next few days exhibition
• Anson reached Shanghai and we to dine with him for dinner at some Japanese-style restaurant that is famous for its BBQ. 
• After which, we headed back to the hotel for our rest. 

The whole place still undergoing construction

The Japanses Style Restaurant

20 March 2012 - Tuesday (Day 4)   

•  It was the first day of exhibition. 
• Met up with Anson and Zf for breakfast and headed to the Expo. 
• The jam in the morning was atrocious and so we managed to reach only around 9.30am when the exhibition starts at 9.00am
• First day crowd was really great and the location of our booth this time was alot better than last year. Imagine just the first day and I finished one box of my namecards! Thanks to Mac! 

Hello to us in formal!

21 March 2012 - Wednesday (Day 5) 

• Second day of exhibition with booming responses. (I used up the second box of my namecards, DIE!)
• One of our customers come along and we had quite a long bit of discussion
• He gave us each a gift. (I got an Elizabeth Arden perfume which was like ermmms. WOW? He bought each and everyone of us a branded gift - damn generous) 
• Exhibition ended and we all headed for dinner at a korean BBQ restaurant at Thumb Plaza which was really great. 
• Only headed back at 10plus at night and as usual I got to bathe, clear emails and prepare to sleep. 

22 March 2012 - Thursday (Day 6) 

• Was the last day of exhibition and its expected to not have as much crowd as before.
• Packed up stuffs at 3pm and called the logistics in-charge to pick up the goods for shipping back to our factory. 
• Neighbour booth guy came over to apologise to me for some matter which I was damn mad over. 
• So I was like "Whats the point of saying all these when the exhibition has already ended?" 
• Was simply not interested in talking to him and I got teased when he asked for my namecard. 
• Logistics personnel came and we went off to meet the bosses at the hotel. 
• It was raining and 5 of us bravely said that we wanted to walk with the brolly to the nearest train station, instead of hailing a cab because we wanted to gain some experience.  
• And we did it!! (though it was cold and rain was not forgiving) 

Nice hotel lobby

Using this machine to buy the tickets

My second visit to Xin Tian Di at Pu Xi!

We went to the same pub!

Their sausages are really nice!

Live Performance which was really good! KUDOS to the Phillipines 

Beer time! We played many games and ended up drinking more to curb the cold weather! 

So we headed back to hotel only at 11plus at night and the cab that we got onto dumped us at one of the train station cus he didn't know how to go from Pu Xi to Pu Dong. So there we were in the cold and rain trying to hail another cab. Thank god another cab driver knew where our hotel was! 

Reached hotel at 12plus, bathed, and headed to sleep cus I need to catch an 8am morning flight the next day which meant that I must reached Shanghai Pudong airport at 6am and had to leave from the hotel to airport at 5am. 

The last night at the hotel was bad due to nightmares and SPECIAL encounter.

Never wanna think back anymore and so I left for the airport with Auntie waking up to send me off to the hotel lobby. 

Bought a Chanel lipstick for mummy at Shanghai Duty Free, had a cup of coffee that costs ridiculously SGD9.00, did my project using the laptop at freaking 6am in the morning and headed to board the plane at 7.45am.

Eventually, while on the plane, I still called home and deardear because the plane was delayed by 1.5hours.

Alrights, Bye Shanghai! 

 

Sometimes I Wonder...

The many wonders in life that you couldn't resist pondering over. 

Sometimes I wonder, what if I was somebody else's daughter? 

Would I be happier?

Sometimes I wonder, what if I was the only child in the family?
Would I be lonely?

Sometimes I wonder, what if I was a male?
Would I be the decent type or the rebellious one?

Sometimes I wonder, what if I was never born into this world?
Where then would I be and what will I be?

Sometimes I wonder, if I had not said certain things at certain point in time, will things be different? 

Perhaps sometimes, I failed to see certain aspects in a different angle, a different perspective.
Perhaps sometimes, I have paced my life journey too fast to even reach out for those who were left behind.
Or Perhaps sometimes, I just think I must be so lousy and incorrigible to have let some happenings occur throughout the entire life. 

Sometimes I wished others would stop seeing me as strong and view it in a sense that I have a weaker side of me and I am as vulnerable as any other women because I too have a heart in me, I too am a human being.
Sometimes I wished I could stop those facades or pretence to be happy infront of others when I am actually not at all happier. 

Thinking back, I just wanted to prove to them I was happier.
Have all grown up such that it no longer matters as much as before.

But now, I just don't know.
Don't know how to make the current happier.
Don't know how to remedy gaps and stitch them in a linear straight line.
Don't know how to understand others and don't know how to make you understand me. 

All that I ever wanted was just something so simple, yet so unattainable. 

Lately, I have not been very happy with myself either. 

"The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal." 

Hunger Games

After so long, I finally had my movie marathon all over again. 

Watched the Hunger Games just yesterday and I really liked it. 

Heard from deardear that part 2 will be released in November 2013.

So gonna watch it!

The plot is actually more towards the theme of survival.

Jennifer Lawrence was the main actress and in the movie, her sister was chosen by the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces to compete in the Hunger Games. However, Jennifer Lawrence volunteered to replace her sister and so she went for the "game".
In the midst of the so-called Hunger Games, many will be sacrificed and at the end of the day, only one can survive.

For those yet to watch, do go and catch the movie and you will know whether she survived or not.

Can't wait for part 2 to be out and I think I might buy the book!

Over the weekends, Dear and me had a meal at V8 Cafe , Bugis Junction.

Food was not bad at reasonable pricing.

We were like greedy pigs cus we didn't at all had a meal till dinner comes along.

Grilled Salmon

Hawaiian Pizza

Cabonara Spaghetti

And on a healthier side, I'm starting on the Innershine diet - Berry Essence for the Eyes.

I think this is really beneficial to me because I spent long hours infront of laptops at work, at home and in school. Most of my time were burnt staring at those glary screens and I am not surprised if my eyes degree were to deteriorate. 

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And when I reach 25 years old, I will start on the collagen diet which all women will require to keep your skin as firm as youth.

On a happier note, I finally got the top part of my ear pierced! Yes, it's at the soft bones area and it kinda hurt right now and compared to the normal ear lobe, it will take a longer time to heal at the soft bones. Well, who cares? I only live life once and I gotta satisfy myself since I have always wanted a pierce there. Shall take a pic when it don't hurt that much.

Till then, Happy Monday everyone!