Bangkok Trip: Recertification Day 1

It's Sunday, and we must get ready early in the morning for our recertification training.
Left hotel at 8.15 AM (it was instructed to leave hotel at 7.45 AM) but since it was Sunday, traffic situation was alright.
It was my first time I wore high heels for the whole day.

Had early dinner at Savoey Restaurant with the class. Our table was located at the back yard of the restaurant, which is by the river. The view was not that pretty, we only saw one big boat and some factories.
The food last night was better compared to this one.


After dinner, the van dropped us at Siam Paragon. Can't help it, I wanted to buy some underwear and lingerie there. I asked Melvin from Singapore to buy me jack fruit cracker and cashew nut since he was going to MBK Plaza.

After shopping, we went to Health Land again with boss and my two Malaysian colleagues. We had foot massage for THB 250.

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 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 :)

Shanghai trip, Day 8 (Nov 23, 2008)

It's been raining since Friday night. When we went out to downtown, it was still raining. We had lunch at Tang Palace Restaurant, serves Hong Kong Style Dim Sum. This restaurant is located on 6th floor of Super Brand Mall (Pudong area). Taxi cost RMB 55 from our hotel. There were many people waiting to be seated, so were we. Danny and Roland were wondering around while we, girls, waiting inside restaurant. While we were waiting, they served free orange juice.

I didn't imagine that the restaurant will be big, but once you enter the table area, it's large. I asked Linda and Lisa to order something that I can eat (vegetable, seafood). So many things served, even only eating dim sum I can feel so full. Below is the waitress preparing us jasmine tea.

After lunch, we went window shopping. My boss purchased some stuffs. I need to buy moisturizer and body lotion as the cold weather breaks my skin and my hair feels coarse.
We went downstairs to Watson. There I bought Neutrogena face moisturizer for oily skin, Pantene shampoo with milk protein, Pantene conditioner, and Vaseline intensive care for dry skin. Also, bought face mask.

After that, we went to supermarket to buy fruits.

Danny and Roland still wanted to buy something, so I and Lisa decided to hang out at Iceason, gellato parlor, while Linda was in Uniqlo (dept.store). I ordered vanilla gellato with chocolate corn flakes. It cost RMB 35.

It was late afternoon, so we must go back to hotel. We would have a weekly exam on Monday, so we must study and make some summary of our one week material.


Studied from 8.30 PM til 1.30 AM! So tired, phewww........

Weekend in Pratunam

(checking out)

After checked out from Evergreen we checked in to First House Hotel, which we booked through the net.

There were First Hotel, and First House Hotel. I have never been to the location during my last visits to Bangkok. It’s called Pratunam. A little bit awkward. Taxi driver said he knew the place. But he took us to First Hotel. Then I asked him to ask the door guard of the hotel if he knew the location. Oh my God! He said that the hotel is smaller and not far from there.

Susan and I looked each other, smaller????

Well, the thought was right. We had to go in to an alley to get to this hotel. It was in market area. I wasn’t comfortable with the atmosphere. But what can we do? We were stuck there for 2 days, so let’s just enjoy it. The room wasn’t too bad, breakfast I can handle, by only ate toast bread and salad.

There were shopping malls, e.g. Platinum Plaza where it has thousands of store that sell fashion clothings, bags, and shoes. Too bad I have big size feet, otherwise, I would buy those pretty shoes!

Integra Training, Day 9

Aspirators lectures.
Only one thing I'll remember:
Vadim - Vadim - Vadim - Vadim - Vadim
Ummm, no wait............It's five! Hahaha
Class finished early.
Hansen reported about our client's problem that has occured.
Dinner with Jolean, Jin, and Young at the same Indian restaurant I went last night.

Jolean wanted to buy Bangkok bags.........Jin showed us the store at Patpong, then we went back to hotel.




Used our welcome drink coupon with Susan, Jolean, Victoria, KM Chung, and Xi Bin.

Must pack tonight because tomorrow we have to check out and move to First House Hotel.

Integra Training, Day 8

Had no class today, they will discussing new products: RADIONICS. We enjoyed sleeping and woke up late. At least we still had a chance to take our breakfast. Something happened in Jakarta, one of the hospital was having a trouble with their CE video. Asked Hansen to investigate, therefore I must talk with him online.

Then, worked out at the gym for one hour, took a shower, and with Susan we went to MBK. Well, the plan was to go to MBK for lunch then browse Siam area. But we went out quite late from hotel, we could not get to Siam because I had an appointment with Anil at 5 PM, so we went back to hotel.

I bought so many things, I didn't know how to pack them in my luggage, not to mention the overweight luggage!

Anil was waiting for us, so we took taxi to Gems Gallery. Dian asked me if I can check out gem stones in Thailand, especially ruby. Anil went there sometime ago and bought some gems. We were late, there was traffic jam, and the gallery will be closed at 6 PM when Anil confirmed.

When we got there, the sales supervisor Anil met greeted us and showed us the gems.
Eeeksss..........Ruby is expensive. Small piece can be range from B 40,000 to B 120,000.
Hmmm.......Dian must be informed about the price.

I was just looking around. I didn't want to buy anything more. I have spent my money. I even withdrew some from my ATM because of the nice stuffs.
I asked Ms. Wan, the sales supervisor, about my birth stone, it is diamond. Godness! I can't afford to buy that stone!
I didn't know what came over me, I bought a bracelet with garnets. It's so pretty. But actually it's better if I bought gold instead of gems.

The gallery sent us back to hotel without no charges at all. Anil and I decided to have a dinner and asked the driver to drop us at Himali Cha Cha, Indian restaurant near our hotel.

What a coincidence, we met Karen, Rich, Vadim, Murray, Caroline, Christina, and Phillipa there. They were finishing the dinner, and we joined them. Phillipa asked me if I wanted to go with them to Suan Lum. I wished I can......I have no money left in my wallet and I really need the rest. I still haven't done my proposal yet.

It was a nice food. Then we went back to the hotel, I have a class tomorrow.