Shanghai trip

It has been a really fruitful trip this time. Why so? Coz there was a lot of shopping! tehehehe

I arrived on Sat early morning and took a nap at my parents' hotel room then we all went for lunch. It was shopping galore at Xiangyang market after that. We spent the whole afternoon shopping till we lost track of time! We picked Shufen up from the hotel and headed out for Japanese buffet where they served free flow alcohol. Shufen and I enjoyed the plum wine very very much... heh heh heh

This is the Jap restaurant where we had the dinner. Apparently, it's owned by Jackie Chan. Nice decor eh? Love the light fixtures.

Staying at the Sheraon Tai Ping Yang was real nice altho it was kidna far from the city. The cab ride cost us abt RMB25 each trip but it works out to be abt S$5 only. Not too bad lah. If it were in Singapore, it'll probably cost us twice as much to travel the same distance. They turn down the beds everynight for us and we get a cute little bear sitting on the bed each night. I think there are 4 bears in a set and we stayed enough nights to get a whole set. Yay!

That's our beds, turned down for the night. See the little teddies on the covers?

It was on to Xiangyan market (again) on Sunday, this time with Shufen in tow. We went nuts buying stuff. I didn't really have a good lunch and I totally forgot to eat until it was dinner time. Dinner was a scumptous meal of dumplings and I think we really overate. The vineger complemented the meal real well and we both had our dumpling fix for the trip.

All in a day's shopping. Stuff we bought in just 1 shopping trip. And there are some more stuff which weren't in the picture. -grin-

Monday was the 1st day of our training and it took us an hour just to travel to the training ctr. After training, we headed back to the hotel for a shange of shoes and before we headed out to Xiangyang (again). Dinner was at Paulaner Brahaus where we each had sausages and beer! After all, they are famous for their German brew.

Tuesday dawned on us and it was the 2nd day of our training. We had the privalage to go to the animal lab and perform an experiment on a pig. Pity we weren't allowed to bring our cameras in. I could have gone crazy in there. :P

After training, we went to Xiangyang (again), this time with Dr Ching in tow. Of coz we didn't want to bore him too much so we kept it as short as humanely possible. It was off to Palauner again where Dr Ching so kindly bought us drinks an I myself guzzled 1 lit of their delicious beer, my fave. That explains why I've got a beer belly right abt now.

Notice I didn't talk much abt my training course there, altho it was supposed to be a business trip. I won't wanna bore you guys with such details. ;P

Wednesday was the last day of our stay in Shanghai so I took the chance to head to their well-equipped gym for some exercise and a swin in their tiny but pretty pool. It was off to Pudong airport to fly back home. I had a blast there. I wanna go back again!

That's all folks!