Although we woke up on time and maybe even 5mins earlier than the time I usually woke up, we took a cab down to work today. Why?

The main reason was because at like 8.15am the doorbell rang and I thought it was JY who wanted to borrow our hair dryer. But I was greeted by 2 guys when I opened the door and they claimed that our landlord sent them here to do maintenance on our water heater and stove.

I was suspicious at first, but he went on saying that he knows we are from Singapore and he even told us the name of our landlord. He even said that he knows our neighbors (CF and JY) are from Singapore too.

So we opened the door and let them in. They took away the stove and heater and left us a written receipt with his hand phone number down. He asked us to call him when we end work so he can send the stuff back to our house.

The whole thing felt quite weird because our landlord didn't tell us (or rather YJ and I) that there were people coming to our place. I thought maybe he gave either Joanne or Angela a call but they didn't have time to tell us because when we reached home yesterday they were already sleeping.

And when we were walking to our office our landlord called us and said he didn't know those 2 guys were coming. He said not to open the doors to such people because they'll take the stuff and extort him by asking him to pay if not they won't return the stuff.

I, on the other hand think it’s damn dumb because he can just go buy a new one which will definitely cost less than the amt the people want. It's really amusing to see how people try to make money in China. Haha.

But, yeah it's super dangerous to open the doors to people that are complete strangers. Gees. Next time, we'll just call our landlord if such things happen again.

Okay, so today was quite a slack day because we only needed to work half day! :D

I practically did no work from 9am-12pm because I already called arrivals for today and tomorrow and they want me to do it again -.-

BUT, when I passed Nancy the paper for arrival timings, she gave me a whole list of people to call for TODAY to ask them to guarantee their bookings.

We left at 1pm and was still contemplating to go home to change or not because we weren’t quite appropriately dressed to go to Expo.

Oh yeah, there’s an event called FHC China at Shanghai New International Expo Centre and Denis & Raymond asked us to go there to explore a bit.

So we chose today afternoon to head down to take a look. Basically, it’s a kinda like a food fare- http://www.fhcchina.com/en/index1_10.html

But we were hungry so we went to eat at Super Brand Mall first.

Had Sushi and stuffed ourselves and it only cost RMB75 in total.

In the end we decided to heck care about our attire and cabbed down to Expo.

The good thing was that we were ushered in quickly and given passes without further questions asked (:

We were just in time for a talk about New Zealand’s wine and Kelvin Tay was there giving a speech. We sat in and displayed in front of us was 9 types of wine for us to taste.

In the end, I kept on eating the cheese they provided because it was so yummy!

The talk ended and we explored around ourselves. There was so much free food to take so YJ and I went around eating ice cream from different places!

In the end we saw a lot of chefs from our hotel because they were there for some event and they offered to go back together. We hopped onto their transportation and they brought us back to the hotel! Yay.

YJ and I walked back home and it was drama drama drama the moment we opened our door.

We quickly called the guy that came in the morning- quarreled with him for like 15mins but failed to make him bring back our heater.

Called our landlord and talked for another 15mins trying to reason out the cost and when he’ll get our heater and stove back.

And we found all our clean clothes ON THE FLOOR. Its super irritating I swear.
We have like NO water at our house now. Thank goodness we have JY and CF as our neighbor so we can go there to wash our face and bathe.

The drama of the “stolen” stove and heater will continue tomorrow…