Nanjing day -1, Nanjing day 0 and Nanjing day 1! =D

so..monday, 8th sept, began alot like any other... sian, tired, dun feel like getting out of bed and full of monday blues in premonition of another boring week of work..but.....smth to look forward to this weekend! hehe.. apparantly mooncake festival in china is a 3 day holiday(well actually we were lucky cuz this yr is the 1st yr they implement a 3day holiday for mooncake festival..usually its a 0 day break..).. but bad news.. mooncake festival falls on a sunday,14th sept.. so end up holiday for this yr's mooncake festival is 13th-15th sept(sat-mon).. well..ok la..shldnt complain too much.. after all... we are the 1st batch of gip students to get mooncake festival holiday.. and its a long weekend too.. gd enough for chinaman to leave his 2nd home of shanghai and visit nanjing!! hahaahh

hahah..anw, my hair's starting to get long... havent really decided where to cut..but mayb at this place cuz they are professionnel..

anw..tahaned the week of boring work and dodging arrows from zhang yan until thurs night..haha.. thurs, 11 sept, night i went to 上海体育馆 and met celest for dinner.. we had dinner at this restaurant called saizeriya.. a v v cheap italian restaurant(mayb saizeriya means cheapo in italian or smth..)... anw..yea.. the restaurant serves really cheap food.. and pretty decent tasting too.. haha.. one main course is like 10-15rmb(S$2 - 3) and dessert is like 5-10rmb(S$1-2).. so cheap tt even locals find it cheap and so the restaurant was filled with ppl ordering plates after plates of food to statisfy their hunger.. dun underestimate the china ppl's appetite.. its surprisingly huge.. even a prc girl with a waist the size of a chopstick can prob eat more than me.. and i ordered some cheese on hamburger hotplate for 15rmb(S$3) and a champaign grape ice cream worth 6rmb(S$1.20)

hamburger with cheese on it+egg+potato.. size is pretty decent.. and all for S$3

champaigne grape ice cream

and who says china ppl arent 'hip' enough..

aunty with hair even more 'hip' and standing higher then celest's... wonder if she uses 3x as much wax/gel/secret formula tt makes hair stands as celest does...

and later..after our satisfying dinner, on the mrt back to our shanghai apartment...we saw.....

ok.. ill give the benefit of doubt to this lady(looks wise she's quite nt bad la.. i think.. as far as i rmb..haha), her black heels must have been broken and she has only 1 black heels at home.. the other darker coloured heels somehow broke when she wanted to wear them today morning... so she only has bright green heels left in her wardrobe which can match her black stockings....

fri, 12 sept.. morning was lessons again.. slept pretty late the day b4 cuz due to packing of clothes and stuff for my nanjing trip.. so end up.. when the movie was being shown.. i feel asleep... hahahaha.. hey..1st time i slp during tt lesson ok! ive always been awake for the rest of the times..hahah.. then after tt.. celest and i cabbed down to 静安寺 to have lunch 1st.. went to the basement of the shopping centre we went to last week for the roasted meat food.. and yea.. as expected.. every single restaurant was crowded.. hahaha.. so we decided to buy a small snack 1st...

hahaha yea..its takoyaki.. haha.. anw..after buying(b4 eating them) celest and i got seats for a jap udon restaurant after waiting for a while.. cuz it was too crowded we submitted our names to 2 diff restaurant(udon and thai) so that whichever restaurant calls our name 1st then we eat tt place... so obviously the udon restaurant called our name 1st.. well.. even though there were crowds, the service there was pretty gd.. i mean..one of the better ones ive seen here in china..hahaa.. they offered to put my slightly big luggages(did i mention i was carrying a pillow along with 2 smaller bags with me earlier? hahaha)in a corner so that there's more space for walking ard and were really polite most of the times.. anw..celest and i quickly ordered a beef udon with egg for our lunch..(b4 the meal came celest and i finished off all the takoyaki.. hey.. we were hungry u know.. haha)

and udon..was superb.. seriously seriously nice! hahahaha.. its pretty much jus perfect, nt too salty, nt too cold and all... and the soup taste and meat and waaaaa...i type like tt i 害myself become hungry alr!! hahaha...

anw after our really zai lunch, celest and i headed to her companies shanghai headquarters to collect our train tix and then after tt cabbed down to 上海火车站 to take the train to nanjing!! super excited then lor!!! ahhahaha... 1stly cuz gg to nanjing(and playing) there for the 1st time... and 2nd 1st time taking train oso..ahaha

上海火车站

and so after some baggage checking, and waiting for a while... i was on the train to nanjing liao..ahahaah.. 1st time taking a tain..and i must say..its really comfortable.. seriously(no wonder celest falls asleep like even when her movie from her potable cinama is still running..haha).. and its 93rmb(S$18.60) for travelling over to nanjing.

pic from inside of the train(koped from celest)

keep clean inside..

this is called direct translation of chi into broken engrish..

anw..after 2 hrs of train ride celest and i finally arrived at nanjing!!yay!! hahahahah... took a cab and went on to celest's apartment to put my stuff down.. well.. the cab driver.. is a super heavy smoker.. seriously.. at most almost every single second of the journey..his cig is either in his mouth or in his hand... anw after putting my stuff down, we took the same cab with the same chain smoking driver to 湖南路 for our dinner..

1st pic in nanjing!! =D

湖南路

then celest and i walked abit till we reached our dinner place.. a restaurant tt serves really gd porridge..really really really really gd porridge..haha

this is the 麻辣花生tt i bought

after a really gd dinner, celest and i walked over to 狮子桥步行美食街

celest and i at 狮子桥步行美食街

after tt celest and i snatched(oh yea..we really did have to snatch) a cab back to her apartment, really lor, its like..3-4 grps of ppl snatching cab from us!! hhaha...but..u know..u all know what kinda aura celest has..hahaha, one look from her can turn potiential cab snatchers into er..well lets jus say they dun wanna steal liao la, haha....and tt ends day 1 in nanjing! hahahah..