Ni hao, Shanghai!
12-15 December
Shanghai
CHINA
The trip was planned together with Joy and Monina. I can't say that the planning went smoothly. There were some decisions to make and it took a while for us to actually decide. In the end, the Engineer and I decided to stay at a 4-star hotel located at the city center while they booked at a hostel located somewhere outside the city center.
A funny thing happened at the immigration. The officer asked me to smile (I was smiling in my passport) to check if I'm actually the one in my passport. Haha. You should see my passport, I think I look different there too.
On our first day, the four of us were not together. We were not able to talk about the plan, hence we just went on our own. The engineer and I went to the shopping district...Nanjing Road. There we ate breakfast, roamed the People's Park, visited Madam Tussaud's, had lunch. After that, we went to the Yu Yuan Garden and had some pictures taken. We were so tired and the rain began to pour so we spent some time inside Burger Machine. It was cold. Really cold. And the engineer was not well-equipped. At 5pm, it was already dark so we just went back to the hotel to rest.
On the second day, Monina and Joy called us before we went out. We decided to have breakfast together and travel outside the city to see the water village that Joy wanted to check out. It was a long journey, transferring from one train to another. Eventually, we arrived at the place (even riding a taxi to get to the place we could have reached by foot!) and realized, nothing's really amazing there. So many people walking, eating, shopping. We had lunch at a Taiwanese fastfood. Not my idea of amazing but it filled up our hungry stomachs. We went back to the city and separated---Joy and Monina to go shopping and then Engineer and I went to see the 88 Building (used to be the tallest, with a good view of the city). After waiting for a long time just to see the TV station light up (it did not!), we decided to leave. Two minutes after we have exited the building, the damn lights went on! Grrr. Anyway, the night was again too cold for us to stay. We went somewhere to eat dinner at Mc Donalds (that was the only available food stall in that mall). We went back to the hotel, rested for a while and prepared for the flight back.
Shanghai
CHINA
The trip was planned together with Joy and Monina. I can't say that the planning went smoothly. There were some decisions to make and it took a while for us to actually decide. In the end, the Engineer and I decided to stay at a 4-star hotel located at the city center while they booked at a hostel located somewhere outside the city center.
A funny thing happened at the immigration. The officer asked me to smile (I was smiling in my passport) to check if I'm actually the one in my passport. Haha. You should see my passport, I think I look different there too.
On our first day, the four of us were not together. We were not able to talk about the plan, hence we just went on our own. The engineer and I went to the shopping district...Nanjing Road. There we ate breakfast, roamed the People's Park, visited Madam Tussaud's, had lunch. After that, we went to the Yu Yuan Garden and had some pictures taken. We were so tired and the rain began to pour so we spent some time inside Burger Machine. It was cold. Really cold. And the engineer was not well-equipped. At 5pm, it was already dark so we just went back to the hotel to rest.
On the second day, Monina and Joy called us before we went out. We decided to have breakfast together and travel outside the city to see the water village that Joy wanted to check out. It was a long journey, transferring from one train to another. Eventually, we arrived at the place (even riding a taxi to get to the place we could have reached by foot!) and realized, nothing's really amazing there. So many people walking, eating, shopping. We had lunch at a Taiwanese fastfood. Not my idea of amazing but it filled up our hungry stomachs. We went back to the city and separated---Joy and Monina to go shopping and then Engineer and I went to see the 88 Building (used to be the tallest, with a good view of the city). After waiting for a long time just to see the TV station light up (it did not!), we decided to leave. Two minutes after we have exited the building, the damn lights went on! Grrr. Anyway, the night was again too cold for us to stay. We went somewhere to eat dinner at Mc Donalds (that was the only available food stall in that mall). We went back to the hotel, rested for a while and prepared for the flight back.
