Fourth weekend in Shanghai: graduation and Hangzhou trip

Dec 8, 2008
We had our Final exam! After learning for the whole month, now it's time to face the last exam.

I passed the exam. Some of class mates must retake the exam due to low score in a few days.
We celebrated our success by having dinner at Hooters in Hong Qiao.
They were having 50% off for food for dinner between 5-7 PM.

Dec 12, 2008

The retake of exam was today. We also had our last animal lab.
At the end of the day, we had our certification handed over.
Dick gave us equipment bags to bring to our country.

It was a very important week for all of us.

My boss will fly back the day after. We spent the night by having dinner at Amy's Restaurant, Hong Mei Road area, across Xiao Nan Guo, and followed by massage in Fortune Hotel.

Dec 13, 2008

My room mate, Lisa, asked me to join her in a trip to Hangzhou. She'd visit her cousin who works there.
We were 30 minutes late. We went on the next train. It took 1 hour, ticket price around RMB 60. We were planning to come here in a group, to rent a car, and it would cost us RMB 500 per person!
The cousin took us for lunch and took us to look around the city.
There's lake in the middle of city. The view was beautiful.

We went back in the evening. Went back to hotel, then called up our Indian colleagues for having dinner together. They will treat us Indian food. We went to Darbar Delhi, Hong Mei Road area, across Xiao Nan Guo.

Third weekend in Shanghai

Today we have half day lecture although I didn't focus on the lecture. Yeah, I kept falling asleep during lecture. I felt bad.

The weather is better than yesterday night. After we got back to our hotel, we took some rest for 1.5 hours and went to Super Brand Mall, Pudong, again. It took 1.5 hours to get there because of traffic jam. I and Linda fell asleep in the taxi. We were so tired.
We had dinner at Tang Palace again. This time with different menu. No dim sum.

After the meal, we started to do window shopping. Well, not completely, cos we ended up carrying that shopping bag, hehehe.

I decided to buy a shirt for my niece and pijama for my little nephew in Uniqlo. I bought big size so they can wear it later on.
That's the christmas tree from Uniqlo in the lobby area of the mall.

After finished shopping, we walked to The Bund. Accross the mall, is Pearl of Oriental, the landmark of Shanghai. We didn't want to miss the opportunity to take some pictures.

The weather was so nice, I was enjoying our walk, even though it was quite cold. We arrived at Haagendazs ice cream shop and ordered Banana Split and another type of ice cream set. They have chocolate ice cream fondue, cost RMB 218! A family seated next to our table ordered that one.

We wanted to go home, but when we were out of the area, it's the back of the mall building, we found Hooters! The EBD team has been to Hooters for several times for their get-together-dinner. So, we decided to go there to check it out. After some drinks and chicken wings, we went home.

Wow, what a Saturday night!

Class dinner, Dec 5, 2008

Had class dinner at this Japanese restaurant in Warner Inn Hotel. They've got this grilled oyster with spinach and mayonaise sauce on top, served with the shell. Also grilled prawn with mayonaise sauce. It's "all you can eat" set menu. Yum, yum.










Had massage in Fortune Hotel, finished at 1.30 AM. Man, it's -1 degree Celsius! We jogged from there to hotel, but it made us having chest pain due breathing the cold weather. My nose was freezing and start running.

Class dimissed early (Dec 4, 2008)

Today there was a meeting with big boss and China sales team. Since my trainers must attend the meeting too, we finished our class presentation assignment right before lunch time.After that, class dismissed! Yippie.... My boss took us to downtown again. Rheina didn't come along because she had stomachache again.

Baron is waiting for his cake

First stop: Huai Hai Road, shopping at H&M, Sephora. Then went to Yu Yuan Garden again, just for sightseeing and ate some local delicacies.

For dinner, we went to a hot pot restaurant. It's called Dolar Shop, located in Bailemen Hotel (near Nan Jing Road), 20th floor.
This type of hot pot is individual one. So each of us can choose the type of broth we prefer. The ceiling is made from glass so you can see the sky. Too bad, not long after we arrived, the glass was covered by fog.





Today's weather is very very very cold. Windy too! But we managed to take some nice pitures outdoor :)