In Shanghai!! The new home until 28th Dec.
Thanks phoenix for sending me off (and missing the last train). Thanks for the photos!! (which is currently sitting on my small bedside table)
I got the window seat on the plane! From above, the land look so flat, very lighted, and the sea is like so vast surrounding the smaller land. Said final goodbye to spore. Hmm…it felt weird, not scared/worried but rather the “excited going for short holiday” feeling. Maybe it hasn’t hit me yet.
Arrived @ Shanghai Pudong Airport, Terminal 2 early this morn around 6.30am. It was pretty cold, around 27°C (so different from the killer heat during daytime).
The school arranged shuttle bus to bring us to the GIP Shanghai Office, where we had briefing-cum-breakfast. Breakfast was soya bean milk, 饺子, 糯米饭stick with 油条and pork floss inside (quite nice but quite dry).
From there, our housing agents brought us to our apartments. A total of 3 groups (including us) engaged SenS housing agent, 1 in puxi (陆家浜) and 2 in 浦东(隆洋). The first drop-off point was puxi (陆家浜), so we had the chance to see puxi. Crossed the 南浦大桥 (above the 黄埔江) from pudong to puxi. This is the only bridge linking pudong and puxi, the other 5 links are all tunnels. Managed to see a rather good view of parts of puxi, but could not see too far because of the rather strong mist from the air pollution.
陆家浜 seems like a very happening place, so many small eating places, shopping centers, banks, etc…Quite big difference in the houses, high rise condominums on one side of the road and very very run down 2-3 storey houses on the other side.
隆洋 (where we stay) is a more quiet residential area. Quite happy with our house, its quite big and considered quite clean. No view though, coz we staying on the 1st floor. Luckily we didn’t get the other house, the other grp in long yang has to climb 6 stories everyday!! Coz they stay on the 6th storey with no lift.
Not much eating places nearby, mostly restaurants, no 小笼包 and cheap food. Settled our lunch at a nearby restaurant, with coca-cola flavoured chicken wings (couldn’t really taste the coke), some fatty pork with 梅菜(which is super nice!! The pork taste like those in the dumplings in spore), some vegetable in soya sauce (which came in long crunchy stem with almost no leaf!! We were like shocked!!) and corn rice for a total of 25 RMB.
The heat during the day was just killing us. So we da bao-ed our pizza dinner straight after lunch and spent the afternoon lazing around in our air-con house watching the Beijing Olympics on TV and napping.
Walked to the METRO supermarket and bought lotsa stuff (pillows, bedsheet, towel, cups, hangers, water filter, etc.). They dun give plastic bags!! Felt like sandbag training, carrying the stuff back in a recyclable bag.
We spent quite a while fixing the water filter for the water dispenser in the house. Trying to understand the manual in Chinese!
Thanks phoenix for sending me off (and missing the last train). Thanks for the photos!! (which is currently sitting on my small bedside table)
I got the window seat on the plane! From above, the land look so flat, very lighted, and the sea is like so vast surrounding the smaller land. Said final goodbye to spore. Hmm…it felt weird, not scared/worried but rather the “excited going for short holiday” feeling. Maybe it hasn’t hit me yet.
Arrived @ Shanghai Pudong Airport, Terminal 2 early this morn around 6.30am. It was pretty cold, around 27°C (so different from the killer heat during daytime).
The school arranged shuttle bus to bring us to the GIP Shanghai Office, where we had briefing-cum-breakfast. Breakfast was soya bean milk, 饺子, 糯米饭stick with 油条and pork floss inside (quite nice but quite dry).
From there, our housing agents brought us to our apartments. A total of 3 groups (including us) engaged SenS housing agent, 1 in puxi (陆家浜) and 2 in 浦东(隆洋). The first drop-off point was puxi (陆家浜), so we had the chance to see puxi. Crossed the 南浦大桥 (above the 黄埔江) from pudong to puxi. This is the only bridge linking pudong and puxi, the other 5 links are all tunnels. Managed to see a rather good view of parts of puxi, but could not see too far because of the rather strong mist from the air pollution.
陆家浜 seems like a very happening place, so many small eating places, shopping centers, banks, etc…Quite big difference in the houses, high rise condominums on one side of the road and very very run down 2-3 storey houses on the other side.
隆洋 (where we stay) is a more quiet residential area. Quite happy with our house, its quite big and considered quite clean. No view though, coz we staying on the 1st floor. Luckily we didn’t get the other house, the other grp in long yang has to climb 6 stories everyday!! Coz they stay on the 6th storey with no lift.
Not much eating places nearby, mostly restaurants, no 小笼包 and cheap food. Settled our lunch at a nearby restaurant, with coca-cola flavoured chicken wings (couldn’t really taste the coke), some fatty pork with 梅菜(which is super nice!! The pork taste like those in the dumplings in spore), some vegetable in soya sauce (which came in long crunchy stem with almost no leaf!! We were like shocked!!) and corn rice for a total of 25 RMB.
The heat during the day was just killing us. So we da bao-ed our pizza dinner straight after lunch and spent the afternoon lazing around in our air-con house watching the Beijing Olympics on TV and napping.
Walked to the METRO supermarket and bought lotsa stuff (pillows, bedsheet, towel, cups, hangers, water filter, etc.). They dun give plastic bags!! Felt like sandbag training, carrying the stuff back in a recyclable bag.
We spent quite a while fixing the water filter for the water dispenser in the house. Trying to understand the manual in Chinese!
Fixing water filter in progress
Filter is working!!
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