Shanghai Trip Day 1

Better update about this trip before my memory failed me! :p woke up at 4am to wash up and then reaching at Changi Airport at around 6am. heh, I was pretty much exciting at then! Actually, all the excitement came in only when I packed my luggage, which was like 2 days before leaving? This trip is pretty rush for me, just 2 days after ending my attachment and zoom zoom I have to fly to China already. I couldn't afford myself a me-time. ):



After breakfast at T3, we took a photo while we are heading to the departure gate. FYI, it was my dad & mum first time in T3. ha ha, yeap, they have never visit T3 before (not to mention taking flight from here).


Our family (not sure about my grandparents though!) first time inside the departure hall. :D auctally, there's nothing special about it. normally when I visit T3, I'll be like "wow, i wish i could go inside, it looks so damn classy!" but hmm, after going in, no such feelings exist at all..  


while my mum was inside the toilet, and I was to make sure she is really inside (cos she took really a long time heh!), I was really amazed at the toilet. it's like.. bigger than my living room, no joke! but it's pretty weird taking a photo of the toilet (well, to me, it is) so i decided to take a photo of just myself.


then before we knew it, we were actually late for the flight! we were the last group to report lol ha ha ha. 





still in Singapore, sigh, i wish there's no raindrop..


my parents who sat beside me. I sat beside the window as usual because I have the tendaency to feel sick after a while if I were to sit in the middle. It feels like I have no idea where I'm and I don't like it at all.


up in the air! the water drops had all evaporated. :Dafter 5 hours & 30 mins (I might be wrong) we finally reached Shanghai airport! :D it took long enough to make me feel pretty sick. I can't wait to get out of the plane because the longer I stayed, the sicker I get.


tourist photo! :D




 while waiting for our luggage, eh, i like this photo. xD my grandpa and father looks like they are local already. ha ha ha after checking out of the departure hall, the next thing I look most forward to is ...GETTING A SIM CARD SO THAT I CAN GO WIRELESS AT ALL TIMES USING MY LAPTOP (I brought the mobile USB Stick without SIM card!) but it's so expensive I didn't get it in the end, which is a good thing actually, because the only time when I would use internet is during night time when I use the computer, and most of the hotels that we stayed in had free internet connection! so after putting out luggage into the bus, the tour guide, whom we called Xiao Liang (i might be wrong about this) took us for a ride on the world's fastest bullet train currently, yes, even Japan's isn't this fast.


 my grandma and grandpa



my mum and my sis they remind me of superman -.- because Clark Kent (Superman's name) love wearing red and blue together!

 my dad and I.



reached and alighted from the bullet train as we only took one stop. I wish we wouldn't stop. 





outside the station while we wait for our tour bus. he he, yeap, the bullet train is faster than road transport! the water droplet-like architecture is one of the representatives from Shanghai Expo. I didn't know about that initially until now. -.-


getting down to get to our bus and heading to the Orient Pearl. while on the bus, this is what we seen..





reached Orient Pearl at around 5pm. we headed off to the highest level to see the overview of Shanghai.


on the highest level, I saw this kid (he had a brother looking identical to him anyway) and i was like "awww how adorable" and i hurry and took a shot of him using my compact camera.


the view from the highest level. very misty so couldn't have a breathtaking scenery to look at.


only grandma is not looking. ): anyway, after finishing one whole round of the highest level, we proceed to the 2nd highest level where we can walk on the glass panel. below for more pictures!










 with that, we ended the trip at Orient Pearl and proceed to Nanjing Road, where the tour guide told us it's like Singapore Orchard, but seriously, no! I mean it got all the top brands over there, Zara, Mango, Cartier, Polo Rauphel, Haagen Daz, Unipolo blah blah blah but hey hey hey, it's just not Orchard you know! Oh! anyway, by the time we leave Pearl Orient, it's already going to be 5pm and I actually saw this really splendid sunset as the bus drives on, but because it's so far, I couldn't managed to get a nice photo of it! ):



At Nanjing road.. the stuff there, including memory card (cos I'm getting tired between switching memory cards between my DSLR and compact camera) and even photo album!

 we also took a tram there which travels about 1km (from one end of nanjing road to another end) which costs 1RMB (or is it 5?) and my grandma keeps going "omg shit shit, will it bring us out of nanjing?", "why doesn't it stop yet???" 
make me extremely scare also. -.- I was actually thinking of other ways to get back if that happen during the short ride.
oh! anyway, this is the first time we brought things from Unipolo.. their socks! LOL! well, their stuff weren't exactly cheap and i couldn't find a pair of leggings which i like and is cheaper!
after the whole trip, we went for dinner which seriously, chui to the max. their xiaolongbao really is .. cold, hard, thick skin, weird, something I wouldn't never wanna touch again. and their dinner were salty, cold and we eat just for the sake of eating instead of eating because we like it! 
Motorola really trained me well, I learn to be less pickier on food, and I must have vegetables in every meal else I will feel uneasy.
Next we went to see the night scenery of 上海滩 (it's auctally called  外滩) but foreigners (Asian Chinese) call it Shanghai Tang because of the popular Hong Kong drama years ago.
The temperature was, well freezing cold! it's actually -3 degree, enough to make me shiver like mad, and the below photos are taken in such weather, and me and my sis are like, take one photo, run into the boat shelter (which has heater), a while later "hey let's go again!", then take a photo, run in, and repeat..























Afterwhich we head back to our hotel, which is supposedly a 4 star hotel, but kind of doesn't live up to it, but heh, I don't mind it because at least the temperature inside the room is not cold. and the bathroom has like those super hot bathe, which he he, make me bath for like close to an hour!