Tuesday, June 01, 2010

From Shanghai with love

Day 1

Arrived around 1630hrs on Sunday, arrived @ the Jinrong International Airport around 1800Hrs,that is after clearing customs and immigration @ shanghai Pudong International Airport.

After a brief rest in room 812, all of us went around doing our first day shopping. I managed to buy a wireless router for our now known cyber cafe 812, which open daily soon after we woke up and back from supposedly our shopping.

So far Shanghai is very kind to us, there is a halal restaurant just in front of our hotel, and the shopping complex is not that far, just that the price is a bit expensive I think. Anyhow some of us managed to buy few thing on our first shopping trip.

I can give only give the url for pictures I took, reason is that, have to use proxy, all the options not available:

http://s463.photobucket.com/albums/qq357/bempaya19/Shanghai%20Day%201/

Day 2

I couldnt have enough sleep. Well we slept late last night, and I woke up every 1 hour, may be due to unfamiliar with the environment, at least that is the only reason that I can think of.

Woke up @ 6 am, brush my teeth, wash my face and straight to my laptop, trying to find ways to access my blog and my friends' facebook. Since we found out that those and many more sites are blocked due to Chinese political reason. So as of this I cant post any picture other than the one that I have uploaded to the photobucket, thus explaining why I can ask you to click here like before.

Anyhow the Alcatel University is about 1 hour trip by bus from thne Hotel. It was a difficult 1 hour to re-adjust back to studying mode, but after that it webt well. Since our instructor is a chinese, he use simple english which can be understood easily.

The hard part was around 11 am, when my stomach really need to be fill up..... So hungry meehhhh..... Luckily the university took us to the halal food restaurant somewhere that I still dont know where, but the food was really nice, the kebabs, salads, chicken, bread, as for me who has this small stomach... I really enjoy the food, eat alot. I wish I could talk more about that.

But the best ending of day 2 was taht we went to Nanjing road, went there using the subway, line 1 cost us 4 yuan which is less than BND$1.... It was a busy street, lots of people of so many races, well majority ofcourse chinese... but true that lots of people there, I managed to shoot some videos but unfortunately hard for me to post it due to political reason meeehhhh.......

I managed to buy few things which really didnt satisfy me, yet I dont regret buying them..... It was a long walk, tiring, back aching (due to age factor) yet it was fun......

That wasnt the everything about our Nanjing road experience but it is very late now and I need to got to sleep....

I hope day 3 is much better, can wait to go to the same restaurant where we went for lunch... as promosed by our course coordinator.......

For the 2nd day:

http://s463.photobucket.com/albums/qq357/bempaya19/Shanghai%20Day%202/

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