Hello 2007!

Oh i forgot to report on the events leading up to the new year. Let's see, J. was down and funnily enough despite my plans of planting myself in the kitchen, we ate out most of the time. Which is a good thing, since food in Shanghai ROCKS! Despite that fact, J's first few meals consisted of every other cuisine BUT chinese.

Did the touristy bit on the Bund on Saturday. Even took the bund tunnel train across the Huangpu River to Pudong. Nothing spectacular really, the strobes and laser lights werea rather cheesy, and there are other much cheaper ways to get across to the other side of the river (like the 1.50RMB ferry), but it's just something that you gotta do at least once. I rather enjoyed myself and was quite happy to have paid the 40RMB. Once on the other side, we hit the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Got ourselves the 100RMB ticket and went all the way to the topmost observatory level (the Space Module - 350m). I thought it was well worth the money (if you convert it to Singapore $$). The view was spectacular and you could see for miles on end and photographs just didn't do it justice! (It also didn't help that we were taking shots in 'Night scene' mode WITHOUT a tripod...)


New Year's Eve was spent pigging out (I'm not proud of it! OK, maybe a little) at the champagne brunch at Westin Hotel. We got there at 1130hrs and left at 1500hrs. How's that for making our money's worth! The best part was, when I made reservations for the brunch, I forgot that I'd accepted an invitation for Singaporean style dinner that same day :s :s. We had 4 hours to rest and digest before having to run off to venue #2. Still, we managed a decent portion of food. I mean, it just wouldn't do to be rude now, would it. :p Food was great, wine was a-plenty and we were all in high spirits to the point the karaoke set was switched on (but of course). Bellies full and wine almost coming out of our ears, we took our leave around 0100hrs and headed to a rather pretty club by a lake where drinks were a tad more expensive than the usual places I hang out at (still a little cheaper than in Singapore though) and the shisha was AWFUL. Oh well... Happy Belated New Year people!!