Winter BBQ ?? At Oriental Green Haven - Somewhere near Shanghai

Winter BBQ

We had a BBQ today at Oriental Green Haven. A wonderful place with gentle scenery, ponds and lakes, gardens, bamboo woods... It's quite a huge place. The BBQ garden was located at the northern part - an area where you can see architeture with British, American, Spain features or something, each equipped with adequate modern holiday facilities such as tennis courts, sand volleyball courts, natatoriums etc..

The Eastern part is where the martial aircraft carrier stands tall and upright near the lake bank, show you the secrets of modern military science. I think the most exciting part is the "Bravers Trip". On the 200m long road for bravers, you can climb, jump, creep, run or whatever your body can do without tools in order to pass the military barriers and net twine labyrinth.

Well, the barbecue food was not nice. Was said "Unique Barbecue Food" with beverage and snack included. We booked 5 BBQ pit with little food and choices each pit - taiwanese hotdog, fish balls, half pigeon, few slice of beef, and 'man tou' (chinese bread). I don't like it personally... :) but I do love the scenery!

The Holidays that I've been waiting for

Left China to Singapore and Malaysia for holidays, Finally....!

The first few days in Singapore are always odd after staying in Shanghai for more than a year. It's probably a reverse culture shock! @.@

It all started by how polite everyone is in Singapore. When you buy something in a shopping mall or retail outlet, the staff will say "Thank-you", smile and proceed to wish me have a good day. When I bumped into someone, I always have to remember to say "sorry" or "excuse me" and they will invariably say "sorry" back. Scene like these will never happen in Shanghai! I've lost count of the number of times I've been knocked off my feet by people to get pass me and they just looked at me in shock and anger and continue onwards without showing the slightest bit of remorse!!

When you are walking on the streets, it's amusing to see cars stop by the zebra-crossing to allow people to pass by. You see all cars stop at the red light at a virtually empty intersection, patiently waiting for the light to change to green before they head on.

It was refreshing.

Beijing Golf Club in Winter

Ok, Nellie and I was so excited about this photo that we took during our site visit. A beautiful and peaceful scenery with a bicycle under the tree... The first things we did was change our desktop photo to this pic, haha!

Beijing Trip Update

Back from Beijing. It's freezing !! Well, the construction site is actually located beside Beijing city, 2 hours drive from Beijing Airport.

A so call "hotel" that we are staying was the lousiest hotel I have ever stay in! It's just like a motel with broken ceiling... but we are told that's the best hotel in town :)

I was thinking that finally, we can try the authentic Peking Duck (a famous dish in Beijing) but instead, we had some other authentic dish like fried chicken ankle!!!... in a so call high class restaurant :) But it's a lot nicer then Shanghainese food. Beijing people are friendly. We are so glad that the big clients that we met speak English! The guy is a HK born Canadian PR while the lady is married to an American. They speak good English!




From the left: Van (Our Art Director), Me, Client, Client, Nellie and the one holding the camera was our technical designer! :D

Beijing Trip

Just a quick post... will be going outstation to Beijing later for a Golf Club House and Hotel project. I am now writing this blog while waiting for my driver to fetch me to the airport at 6am later. Well, it's winter time and guess Beijing will be colder than Shanghai.

WenZhou Trip

Arrived in WenZhou for a business trip early in the morning today. Wow, I can't believe that i was treated like a Queen when I'm there. On arrival, there was a VIP shutter just to fetch me to the VIP airport lobby where the driver was already waiting at the entrance. Oops, did I told you who's my client ? Well, he's the Director of China's Petroleum!

WenZhou lies in the middle section of China's golden coastline. Bordering on the East China Sea and standing by the Oujiang River. It is the economic, political and cultural as well as communication center of the southern part of Zhejiang Province.

Many people think of WenZhou, whose many small commodities such as shoes and lock are well known the world over, as a commercial city. Shops line its streets, and WenZhou people have such business acumen, they are popularly known as China's wheeler dealers.

We had our lunch in a very high-class Chinese Restaurant. Abalons, traditional snacks such as dumpling soup and sesame seed cake were served, and claypot fish which was cooked in front of you ! I was told WenZhou cuisine is one of the four noted cuisines of Zhejiang Province. Less oily and often uses yellow croaker fish, crab and squid as ingredients.

The Sleepless Shanghai

View taken from my bedroom's window

It's midnight now and I couldn't sleep. My room is freezing even I got my heater on. I took out my mobile phone and start shooting anything outside my window. It's snowing...

I am staying in an old service apartment at the end of DingXi Road, very near to ZhongShang Garden and 5 mins walk to MayFair Hotel. It's consider a crowded area beside Shanghai City center. The advantages staying here are: you can get almost everything here, walking distance to fast food restaurant like McDonald and KFC, Cantonese Restaurants, Shanghainese Restaurants, Italian Restaurants, shopping centers... It's great !

When midnight comes, it's very quiet, and what wake me up in the morning ? 6.30am, a group of elderly playing 'Tai Chi' using a radio and 7am, China's National Anthem ! I am staying in 18th floor, can you imagine that ?? :)

Ok, back to sleep...

It's snowing in Shanghai

Heavy snow

Photo taken outside my work-place. I left the office at around 8pm and waited for a cab for more than an hour! They are all occupied! Althought it's just a 15 mins walk from home.

I am trying to get a cab nearby... but the local seems more expert to jump in a cab quick!! So, my best option is: walk home! Strong wind, slippery road, traffic jam...by the time I reached home, it's 10pm ++. Had my shower and a good night sleep. What a bad day!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve

Wondering around Nanjing Road...

Big Termo.

Party time !

PSI Company Dinner at JB Restaurant at XinHua Road and karaeok night.

I love Japanese food

Set dinner

Normally we will go for Japanese buffet twice a month at XinHua Road near the place I work. It cost RMB150 per head. Four Seasons, a small restaurant in the middle of XinHua Road, just opposite LianHua Supermarket.

But the photos above was taken at another Japanese Restaurant nearby. RMB300 for a set dinner, quite expensive huh...