Monday, December 31, 2007

Oh my. Today’s the last day of 2007!!

It’s also the day Harris and Michelle fly back to Singapore. And, I’m off again today I don’t know why (:

We met the both of them at Super Brand Mall’s Mac at 10.30am in hopes of eating Macs breakfast but there wasn’t any! :(

Angela also joined us for breakfast because YJ and she were working today. Yup, YJ changed departments already and I’m not gonna work with her for the last month of OIAP. We’ve been together in every department for like 4 months with the same off days and working hours!

After breakfast the 2 of them went to work and I accompanied Harris and Michelle back to their hotel so they could pack up and check-out. They dumped their luggage at the Front Desk and then we walked back to Shangri-la.

Like what we always do when people from Singapore come to visit, we toured them around the hotel! We also met up with Angela and YJ and we were walking around the hotel together.

Since there was still time after the tour, the 3 of us went to Coffee Bean to slack for a bit before they went back to their hotel to claim their luggage and cabbed down to take the Maglev train to PVG.

This marks the last visit by our friends and relatives from Singapore here. Just another 1 more month and we’ll be back in Singapore.

After they left, I met Angela and YJ for their lunch. They had a 2 hour break and because we were so full from breakfast, we spent the 2 hours shopping! Yup, our pay is like finally in and I have money to spend :D I can’t believe I could actually survive through the last 2 weeks of December with less than RMB200.

I didn’t buy much; only a jacket from H&M for Shawn and also 3 belts that were on sale at C&A.

It was super crowded at the mall today. I think it’s because it’s the last day of the year and everyone took leave. Never mind, I’ll have more opportunities to shop when there’s no crowd because I’ll be having off days on weekdays (:

The both of them had to go back to work at 4pm so I took the train to Dong Chang MRT station to visit the Post Office to get a parcel before heading home and I slacked until it was night time.

The initial plan was to go to some place to countdown (bund, nan jing, xin tian di etc) so I walked to Shangri-la to meet Angela and YJ after they ended work.

Our first stop was Pearl Tower’s Subway for dinner and then we decided the weather was way too cold to stay out and we didn’t wanna squeeze with the crowd (especially when you have to put on layers of clothes. It’s not fun) so we ran all the way to Super Brand Mall in hopes of the grocery store to be open so we could buy junk food.

In the end, only the bakery was open so we bought a cake instead (for Angela’s belated birthday and also a reason to binge on cake).

It was like too cold to walk all the way back so we cabbed back to our apartment.

Angela’s aunt was away on holiday in Australia so her whole apartment was empty and we planned to spend New Year there. We collected our stuff at home, went down to Ke Di to buy potato chips, met JY and walked all the way to her aunt’s condo.

The weather was FREEZING. Like, -1 degs.

By the time we reached the apartment it was already 11.30pm. We made ourselves comfortable and prepared the cake (you know, put candles and light them and all)

And at the stroke of 12am we sang Angela her birthday song (:

Did I mention that her aunt’s place is heaven? Yeah, well-furnished big condo for 2 people. Their living room is bigger than our apartment!

The best part, they have cable tv!! OMG!

So yeah, we spent the night watching some tv and DVDs before going to bed in to cold because we couldn’t figure out how to turn on the heater :/