Saturday, July 08, 2006

6th of July in Shanghai

6th July,
Wow, had a hard time waking up today….physically hard as my whole body was aching. Humm, the bed that I was sleeping on was hard, did tonnes of housework in the day, carried 29kg of luggage……Anyway, had about 9 hours of much needed sleep. After which, my flat mates came to my room and we started discussing the stuff that we need to do. As usual with girls around, we took more than 1 hour to settle it.

We met up with a group of guys to do the paperwork together. So we headed for the police post to apply our Permanent Residence Pass but was told to come back later as they were having their break. We then went around looking for lunch and decided to eat at a restaurant.
As you can see ,the food is pretty good. Interesting facts that I came to know are as follows: rice is called 主食 , Sprite is called 雪碧.Oh, just to mention, they have a dish here where they had slice chicken cooked in special sauce and poured over you tiao. I thought that this dish is quite special and it was delicious.

After which, we headed to China Telecom to get our internet connection where we met with some problems too. We were told that the speed of internet that we can apply depends on the area we stayed in. At XinLingDi / 龙阳路, we were limited to 512kpm per household. This is something we don’t experience in Singapore. We were told that it is because the supply can’t meet the demand, thus they started restricting the speed that one can apply according to the location.

Waited quite a while to get our permanent pass at the police post before heading to metro ( 麦特龙) to get blanket and stuff. Ha then came across Chipmore cookies, try guessing what it is called in China………..,it is called 趣多多. Cool right, I mean it is a direct translation of Chip(趣) and more(多). Really hope to learn more, it is quite interesting.

Came home after shopping because we are tired from walking from one place to another, though the places are around us, it is not exact very near. Thus one of my flatmates Eliza and I stayed home to cook out first dinner in Shanghai. We cooked maggi but with a twist, we added special ingredient, hea bi hiam (dried shrimp fried with chillies) which I brought from Singapore.

Ok then, going back to my wonderful bed to zzzzz.

Posted by agnesia at 10:11 PM