Day 2 in Shanghai

Tonight is really cold.  Really really cold.  I think it is the wind, and it don’t like my hand a lot.  My hand become numb just taking a walk for like 5 minute.  Now I can understand why people wear long jacket that is up to the knee.  Without it your lower body just don’t have enough protection from the cold weather.  And I really need those gloves that they are selling out on the streets.  While I was longing for those gloves, some other hawker just shout and the hawker who is selling those gloves just wrap up his merchandise and prepare to run off.  So did the rest of the hawkers, then they found out that it was a false alarm and they went back to their sales talk.  It is a scene that wasn’t around in Singapore for like few decades already.

It’s good that I am now in my cozy hotel room blogging.  So tomorrow will be the day I go back to Singapore, a hot and humid place.  My flight will be at 23:45 and it will be a great flight home.

Shanghai

So here I am blogging in a contemporary style hotel room in Shanghai, Parkyard Hotel to be exact.  One week ago, I wouldn’t have imagine this.  This is a last minute business trip, so it was not plan.  As this is also my first trip to Shanghai, it is also an eye opener.  Coming out of Pudong Airport and taking the company arranged car wasn’t that spectacular.  The hotel is quite a refreshing look though but the trip to the office and the office itself was a normal thing.  When my colleague brought me to Shanghai’s Huang Pu River, that is the eye opener.  The neon lights look similar to Hong Kong but the space in between the street is wider and the buildings are bigger.  Looking at Pudong from Puxi (or is it the other way round) across the Huang Pu river is spectacular.  Very nice panoramic view.  My colleague was saying that having a party up in a building that has a clear view of the Haung Pu River would be absolutely “the thing” to do.

I believe tomorrow, the second day will be absolutely wonderful!