Monday, June 19, 2006

2nd time to Shanghai

On the evening of Friday I went to Shanghai by train, my roomate Sally also would like to accompany me, so we went together. After we arrived the train station, we found there're alot of people~we bought our return ticket. When we found the train depart time is so late, we would love to stay in a restaurant to wait for the train. We happened to meet a person on our same table, he is also working in Kunshan, base on software programming, so we talked a little bit, he also introduced to us his this and that, hehe. Maybe he's interested in Sally since that day she wore very beautiful:-D

About 8pm, we got back to the train station, fortunately this time the train hasn't late, so we got onto it smoothly. There're many people on the train, it was hard for us to get our seats, there are 3 layers of one train, our seats is writen on the top layer, but we found it in the middle~ Don't know what kind of ticket they printed, hehe, anyway we had our seats, many people there standing.

We reached the Shanghai station half an hour later, I had to accompany Sally to waite for her friend, since she's so dependent~I am also responsible and caring for whoever with me. Unfortunately the person's super stupid, he wasn't able to find the subway exit I mentioned, had to explain to him many times on the phone, wasted lots of money for travel service! Oh mine, whatever, 40minutes later we found him! I was very angry for wasting my time so stupidly, I handed Sally to him and immediately turned back to my subway entrance, and politely said a bye bye, the only word I spoke to him, he just said a bye~what kind of person he is! Because of that day I was a bit angry, so I didn't really considered well Sally's safety with him, he looked like very weired a person~I should had arranged a hotel for her~but fortunately she is fine at last.

I went to see Christl later, got to her place about 10pm. After a short talk we slept.

The next morning we woke up about 9:00am, we went to the Huaihai Rd., since I came to Shanghai very roughly, though staying for 3months, but I didn't take my cosmatics with me, so I had to find a Sasa to buy my cosmetics to cover my work need. after shopping we continued stepping on the most beautiful road of Shanghai. I love it very much, we went to visit Suen Yatsen's place, it's very attractive to me, and it's my aim this time. We found it without too much effort. We had to wait for the tour guide finish one group. In our group, there're 2 Shanghai students, 4 Singaporean travellers, and 2 of us, we changed on our shoe spats for the clean of the house, but it seemed to be wored by hundreds of people, though it's looked clean~ anyway, tolerate since I love this president of China.

Later we went to the most famous Shanghai nuddle restaurant, it's widely spread throughout hong kong travel books, so I went there to try if it's good~ the shop only opens 1hour before, now it's almost 3hours a day. 1hour in the morning, and 2hour for lunch time, it's not far from Suen yatsen's place. We waited for almost an hour for the seat and cooking, within my imagination, here's really a lot of Hong Kongers customers, on my table there's also two singaporeans, why there're so many singaporeans in Shanghai? Don't know~honesty speaking, the nuddle is not that good as it mentioned on the book~quite normal~

After our lunch, we continued our shopping travel, we went to the most luxurious shopping mall Paris Spring, at first we made our mind only to go for window shopping, but after we arrived, we both bought something for souvenirs, hehe, since the receipts has Paris Spring's logo~ I bought for this reason lah, I went to the super market in the basement of this mall, it's very expensive inside that mall, my sliced bread costs 7yuan~normally could be 5yuan at most in Beijing foreign store, anyway, since I need food back in Kunshan, so whatever. I also bought some Natto, the Natto's cheaper than Beijing's, and the Kimchi, I've been missing Kimchi the whole week in Kunshan, at last I got some~happy~

Later we went to Nanjing road again, I went there the first time in Shanghai, this time's mainly for cloth shopping, I didn't bring many cloths to kunshan, so have to purchase some from shanghai, Kunshan's cloth are super expensive, almost nothing under 100yuan! I got some pants from Nanjing Rd. and some other things I forgot.

Later we went to the bund, I love the bund at night very much! We had our talk for about 2hours about whatever interesting or hindering~ Just for relax~ Later we went back home.

Because Christl had a headache so she slept early, I logged on my MSN to see if there's any buddy there, I saw Gary my colleague, he gave me a very interesting page to play with. I just realized his typing speed was super slow~ he told me he hurt his arm last night for just sleeping by one side~ surprising~hurt by sleeping in a bad position. But he said we'd have a KTV the next night, so I was very happy! wishing him rest well and happily logged off.

The Sunday morning, I made up my mind to go to the biggest cathedral in Shanghai, the Xujiahui Cathedral, we are there at about 8am! So early of us, but we found the Mass's celebrated in Shanghai accent, so I didn't understand anything, since their choir is okay, at least I had something to enjoy of. hehe. Later we took our pictures there, and I also grabbed the priest there to take a picutre with us. I also got the introduction of that cathedral. We departed after the Mass, because I would like to go shopping again for my future food, so Christl went home.

But after I arrived the subway I changed my mind to go for Lu Xun's home, it's quite far away from the centre, so I had to give up my mind to shop for eat. I arrived there on about 10:20am, it's really far, the train took about 40minutes, but it's worthy at least. I met a kind person to take me to the house of Luxun, if not by his help I would never find it by myself smoothly, it's very hard to find. Luxun's place is very simple, he had a son after he's 40s, so he treasured the son very much, gave him the best room of the house, the house has 3 floors, and it's very neat and clean. I could feel Lu xun's spirit there in the house.

Later I visited the Nei shan book store which was belonged to the best friend of Lu xun, it's occupied by ICBC already, but on the second floor there's still the memorials for the store. unfortuantely the day's sunday, I wasn't able to get in, it's open only from Monday to Friday~

Later I visited the tomb of Lu Xun, it's also very simple, of course it's big, but it's not luxious at all. I bowed there and took a picture before his statues~

Later I kept walking to non-where because I still have sometime for free walk, I saw there's a big supermarket just nearby the subway station, I had 1hour left for shopping, I bought a lot of food to eat~ it's so nice of God! Because I bought two rats on the way to the supermarket, and they're not storable in the supermarket, so I took them with me for shopping, haha, it's the first time I did so crazy a thing~ fortunately the stuffs there love the rats~good~

I later went to the subway station and came back Kunshan with Sally. She looked fine on the train, she tried to explain for that man who picked her up~ seems that she had a nice weekend, that's enough.

I contacted Renee my colleague to ask if Gary and Andrew would go for KTV this evening, she said yes and we started to plan our night on the train. After arrived Kunshan, Sally took my super heavy bags to the hotel, and let me freely play with others, hehe, she realized I was angry that night, but actually I already forgot that small a thing, hehe, whatever, it's good to play without luggage~

We had our dinner together about 7people. I am the one who shedding weight so I didn't take anything, so they enjoyed a lot~

We had a great time in the KTV, although the quality is not satisfying, but at least we could sing~ I sang my favorite songs, all of us enjoyed alot~

about 23:20, we left the KTV for home by taxi~after got home, it's the time for world cup, Brazil VS Austrilia! I slept in the middle with a facial mask on my face~ because I am not a good socor fun~ hehe.