Friday, November 2, 2007

We wanted to wake up 15mins earlier today to head to the bank to deposit money before heading to work but our plan failed. Not because we woke up late, but because we didn't bother rushing to get out of the house earlier :P To make things worse, we we're 10mins late for work. Haha.

I blame it on the weather; we need to wear thicker clothes and wearing it and then taking it all off to change into our uniform takes more time you see.

I thought today I'd be doing GDS only, but when we were doing shop calls, Nancy asked me to do callings for Sat, Sun and Mon while YJ called Wed and Thurs because occupancy is expected to be freaking high.

I hate doing call arrivals. Oh, we took some videos of us at work for our multi-media project (: We're working on it, slowly.

So, I spent the whole morning calling and calling. Finally it was lunch time and YJ and I headed to the staff canteen to eat (we brought money just in case the food wasn't to our liking).

Food was quite okay though, so we ate there. But, after eating we were still not full! We headed over to Super Brand Mall after that to look for more food. We settled for large fries and 2 pineapple pies @ Macs (:

Soon enough, we won't be able to go out of the hotel to eat because of the weather. It's way too cold to be dressed in a suit only and walk across to the mall.

I came back and finished all the call arrivals. I was given a thick stack of GDS bookings in the morning so I finished that up too. Although we're quite occupied with work, I don't like facing the computer for such long hours :( My eyes hurt.

So I was like typing in the GDS bookings and stoning when YJ received a call from Joanne. Guess who she saw at the hotel?

LOUIS KOO.

We so made an excuse to go out of the office to print the reports and off we headed to Shenyang Room to see if we could get a glimpse of him.

The doors were shut, and the BQT staff said we couldn't go in :( He's here for some event today and there's outside catering near the Bund. But, they don't allow female staff to work! How unfair.

We hung around for awhile and the doors opened twice because someone walked out of the room. We saw him sitting down inside. And finally, the whole group of them walked out of the room and he walked past us. He's not as tall as he seems to be. And we couldn't take photos with him.

That was the end of the whole celebrity saga and we headed up again so I could complete yet another stack (thinner this time round) of GDS bookings before ending work.

Our initial plan was to go home first because my leggings were loose and YJ’s feet hurt from her boots. But then we got lazy because the MRT station was just next to our hotel and we didn’t want to walk for like 20mins home to change before going out again.

So we met JY at Nan Jing Dong MRT station and walked around Nan Jing Road. We didn’t do much shopping because things are expensive there.

We got hungry and ate at Da Niang Jiao Zi and walked around some more. Saw Bread Talk and bought bread to eat (:

We walked the whole stretch of Nan Jing Road but didn’t buy a single thing. Raffles Place was just nearby so we decided to go there.

The shopping mall feel’s so much like Singapore! Food court at the basement and top floor and brands such as Mango, Fox, Aldo etc etc.

Again, we didn’t buy anything but we headed right to the top and ordered dessert (: It was something similar to ice kachang but not that similar.

Our plan was to take the RMB2 ferry back to Pudong but I think it was a half an hour walk so we decided to forget it and take the train instead because the train station was just THERE.

Finally, 1 week has gone by and being stuck in Reservations doing GDS is so boring. I’m only looking forward to weekends now.