Friday, February 12, 2010

1st month in Shanghai

Time flies today official marks my first month working and staying in Shanghai.. Weather's been v cold lately, with wind speed at 16km/hr (can feel it sweeping me away a little) and temperature falling to 1 to 2 degrees C, yesterday kas, jk and dn even experienced slight snow or mayb v tiny ice cube at their work place.. Had reunion dinner with the whole wan bang estate gang (24 people) yesterday, booked 2 tables at a cantonese restaurant near our place. For the first time in our lives, we played firecrackers and fireworks (and its completely legal).. The experience was awesome and breath taking.. Jk, dn and I combines 3 big firecrackers together and lit it up, creating the largest boomz last night.. The mini firework display was also v nice, everyone was busy filming down the whole process, never once did I see a firework display so upclose, it was definitely a memorable night. Shanghai is like ghost town recently, everyone is busy returning to their hometown to spend their 1 week long cny holiday.

Kas, Jk, Dn and I will be visiting beijing during our cny holidays, Cl, Xs, Ly will be joining us from suzhou. This is by far our longest break from work (so far only visited suzhou), before school starts in March. Beijing is pretty far from Shanghai (10+ hours), we'll be taking dong che there. We'll be satying over at Dn's sister apartment in Beijing. Looking forward to snowskiing, climbing of great wall and the other attractions over there..Our return ride should be a more comfortable one as it is double the price, we'll be having a cabin of our own, there will be 2 double deck beds installed in it and seems like we will have our own personal mini tv and earphones too..

Today is the last working day before the cny holidays and we're suppose to end work 3pm.. But I've a web training session for work expo, the training will be conducted through net meeting from 3pm till 6pm.. omg.. how sucky is that.. I'm gonna kill the angmoh trainer now.. roar!! (just kidding)