Chapter 2.1: Setting foot on Shanghai

Hi guys! Finally reached Shanghai 2 days ago. The reason I'm only able to blog now is that the past 2 days was quite hectic. I will upload the photos later after I've done resizing them so do be abit more patient. Let me briefly talk abt the highlights of the past few days:

Day 1: When we reached our apartment, it was great except its on the 6th Floor and theres no lift... All of us had to carry our uber heavy luggage up the 6 stories which left me breathless. Next up, we took over the house from the agent but it was quite dirty, partially due to the construction works beside and some of the junks left by the previous GIP students. So we decided to go Carrefour to get our basic necessities bought and start cleaning the house.

We took a short walk to the nearby Metro which sells alot of stuff as well but then since Carrefour is further, we decide to go Carrefour first to see if things are cheaper there. So we started walking and asked the security beside a junction about the location of Carrefour. He said "Just follow the road, its about 1km." So we believed him and walk to Carrefour instead of taking a cab.

So we followed the road and walk... and walk... still walk... after like 1 hour of walking, we finally reached Carrefour. We thought it was way longer than 2 km but we really explored quite a lot. Thus, next time when you are in other countries, please double check the distance before walking...

Our first meal in Shanghai was rather 'safe', it was Ajisen ramen. The ramen itself costed only around ~S$5 which was cheap and not to mention good. After shopping at Carrefour we took cab back to our house which only costed ~RMB10 which is about S$2 shared by 4 people. Darn, should have taken cab there in the first place and save 1 hour.

After that is a massive spring cleaning of house for 2 hours before finally eating dinner at around 830pm and settle for the day at around 11 or so. What a day!