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Saturday, March 20, 2010 one month in 上海

I kind of regretted not logging factual entries into my blog so here goes...
and all after a month of being here :)

well, I am still very thankful for everyone who took time off their sleep to send me off at the airport, the breakfast we had at yakun, helping me look through my luggage, fearing that it'll be over weight...really appreciate it :D

View from the plane.

It was then I realised I'll be away from home for quite some time...

Shanghai Pudong Airport that is quite dead boring.

Customs was quite a pain cause we kept having to queue.
From the airport, we took a cab down to Fudan's International Dorm at 杨浦区，57武东路
Thinking we might get 'kong' by the cabby (师傅）we asked to go by meter (表)
- thinks bangkok style -



We settled into dorm after the near 45mins jouney by cab.
Settled payment for dorm which amounted to 8420 RMB, got the china telephone line going, bought the internet access card. My first step into independence...at an age of 21, how apt.

First meal in Shanghai was spent at KFC...
Dont really like the pepsi here, it's quite tasteless.
KFC big tub!

By recommendations of the aunty that sold us the sim card, we headed to 吉买盛 to get our daily essentials.
The balloon cart by the road
Cartful of stuff; we have another cart by the way

Bought alot of stuff and was really dead tired after we went back to dorm.
Oh, we took a china tuktuk back with all our barang barang! Scary~

So we woke up a little later, just in time for lunch.
Googled for good food before heading out and it led us to 政民路，which is right behind the dorm
Shops lined up at 政民路
CIAO cafe which we had lunch at.
seat by the street- which is a nice filming location.

So we walked further down and saw this gorgeous building which is part of Fudan Journalism School
Fudan Journalism School
Here's 五角场，which is the like hipper part of the area that i live in
China boy deciding on what ice cream to buy at the Mcdonald kiosk
finally understood what 沃尔玛 is...Walmart.haha
So I had bubble tea...taste pretty awesome, like it's shaken :)

Now this is day 3 and we went roaming around the school compound
复旦老门
and there's some russian plane in the school compound
bicycles are too common and they dont last forever, they get stolen.
this is not plastic like those you see during CNY
手抓饼，looks like roti prata
another entrance of 新闻学院
hot chocolate from starbucks!
miss the one with marshmallows in sydney
and the weather got really cold at night.
I think this is the next day and we arrive at 五角场.
Meaning a pentagonal area...
awesome structure!
and we got hungry again!
the night scene at 五角场...

I cant remember if this is the next day
光华楼 that looks really majestic
very european style walk way
favourite stretch of road

So we kind of travelled out of school compound and neighbourhood
The MRT system of shanghai

and so we arrived to the heart of cosmopolitised shanghai
南京路
上海 art museum
the very awesome egg tart...

Ah this day I remember.
I ventured out to 浦东 for service on my own :)
on board the bus...
on board the train which i have to change like twice...
and then i finally reached 上海科技馆站！
it's a nice place where people fly kites like almost every weekend

oh yes, and it was 元宵节 while i was here.
and fireworks just go off at every corner of the neighbourhood

this is the other day where we went to 七莆路
.
and this other day, it rained...
decided to have korean food and hide from the cold
this other day, i went for cg at 浦东
it was raining again, and i waited out in the cold for the bus.

the flowers at 江湾镇站

my first try of china macs
and so this is 七莆路 that we went for twice in less than a week
the very awesome 生煎包

it's the next weekend and i'm off to meet a singapore sister who's in fudan too

always have to grab a picture here, dont i
she's linghuan

the very awesome 烧烤！i must stay away from it~

And on this day, it snowed!


and i am back to the 路边滩

with the other singaporeans, we went for korean food

this is manying, my pri school mate!
and we got intro-ed to coco~
布丁奶茶 짱!
and 德龙馆’s 小龙包
the evening sky as i walk back to dorm

this other day, lunch's alone again at ajisan
it's super cheap here!
the big field that people play and picnic on
and on this day, we went to 城隍庙

china boys
jeanine is my CS senior interning at an events company in shanghai.
met her at 常熟路 and she brought me to this place
whisk: a getaway for her, where she forgets that she's away from home
and we walked to 淮海路 and towards town...

this other day, i met up with muriel for BSB concert.
it's near to 延安西路站
old school music love!

other shots of school

盗版 is very common here. and police dont even catch...
so i got my share of dvds to watch and learn from...

and aloy came for holiday in china where i had to take stuff from him.
brought him to the supermarket near his hotel to get pocky!
it's all the way at 黄兴路站 and then after i roamed around before going for music practice.
i ended up at 陆家嘴，town

yoshinoya for lunch~awesome curry猪排饭
and then off i went to 外滩，where my digicam died and i whip out my polariod!


i'll be back there again!

so here's my 1 month stay in shanghai and i'll head off for more adventures:D

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