living up da dream in Shanghai ...

alwiz love chinese cities coz they r so bloddy huge. makes u feel so insignificant. well, this time in shanghai ... went up on top of da world at Century Avenue restaurant over at Park Hyatt Shanghai. superawesum dinner. wuz mighty happi wid my baby lobster :D and oohh ... champagne. did da usual rounds at hua hai road & first time in nanjing road. not too bad .. but not nuff time to really hunt fer bargains.

review of restaurant check out:
http://www.smartshanghai.com/venue/4190/100_Century_Avenue_shanghai

we compared our tour guides ... :D

so the second leg of ma trip wuz in beijing ... my colleague & i questioned ourselves, how comes our tour guide looks like this (left) compared to this other korean tourguide (right)? but nways, our tour guide wuz actually VERY VERY good cept she did not allow a stop for starbucks or anything else for dat matter(so i had to make do wid some chinese watered down capp .. yuck!) she kept the schedule like the military.

this is wat u want EVERYTIME you checkin.

this is wat u want to happen every single time u check into a hotel. the reception tells u they r overbooked and upgraded u to their suite ... ahahaha ... so much da happi me :D way to start my beijing trip!

SANLITUN & YA XIU beijing.

Sanlitun Village is just another hyped-up commercial hub - basically if you need to shop just stick to WANG FUJING STREET (see below article). Go there if you need to hit the bars, not shops. There is one market bazaar of sorts called YA XIU - tell the cab driver "yah-shew sanlitun". but this will appeal to the more uninitiated amateur shoppers - you will mostly get garbage here (note: not my quote, this came directly from the local cab driver). quality is not good, but the price - basically here is the tip. if they offer you 180 yuan for a replica sweater, drop the "0" - dats 18 yuan and dats how much approx actual cost. of course, you risk being called at if you go dat low ... so i went like 50% from the actual offering. but later i found out, i could go a lot lower - shit! hahaha .. but dun buy too many stuff there, quality not worth it.

Beijing : Souvenirs @ local market

along the huge shopping street WANG FU JING street, tucked in a corner you will find a local night bazaar of sorts. excellent if you want souvenirs and ive got one! :)

BEIJING WANG FUJING shopping

when in beijing ... goto main shopping strasse "WANG FU JING" street. despite the minus degrees, i managed to scour da entire street. mainly stuff we get in singapore but this shop METERSBONWE having huge megasale (50%-70% off) on hip winter down jackets. got one ... hehe fer my next germany winter trip :D

Versace for H&M LAUNCH - Donatella Made me do it.

so i know right? this is insane. already knows the dresses are like not-worth-da-price range (for H&M ma ...), but still made it to the ONE-DAY LAUNCH. i mean ???? wha ...???? all i can say in my defense is donatella made me do it.

Donatella ... why ...?

Image excerpt from Film Advert on VERSACE for H&M.

All I can think of wuz ... ooohhhh!! finally a designer collection from H&M in Singapore ... yay yay hurrah! all kinds of happy me. AND THEN .. !!!! i saw da prices *faints* waitaminnit! this is H&M MY ALLTIME FAVORITE STORE FOREVA AND EVA. why leh donatella go and spoil the price range like this? or maybe it's just here in singapore. singapore prices always higher than REST-OF-RETAIL-WORLD. hahaha ... nways. i'm still thinking whether i should queue up fer this. we'll noe soon nuff! *WINKS* maybe i just buy my piece fr H&M shanghai since i'm goin there nways.