Weren't exactly picture worthy but it was so much fun just spending time with the people I love and treasure!

The past 2 weeks were crazy and I'm finally having a breather! After coming back from Shanghai, my schedule was something like, work 1 day, meet friends 1 day, work 1 day, meet friends 1 day, after touchdown go for dinner, lunch next day, work again, friends....... I was having a serious sleep deprivation, and basically had no energy to even switch on my laptop at the end of the day.

Now, I'm in London, and fully rested :)
Will be going for breakfast after this entry and then, shopping!!!

CHRISTMAS

The sequins from my cheap skirt was littering all over the place!

Met my girls on the eve of Christmas eve for dinner at Chinois and I thought the food was really good!!

I'll definitely go back again!

 Cucumbers wrapped in pork slices with spicy sauce

Very nice!!!

Roasted pork belly

SO BAD FOR HEALTH BUT IT WAS SO CRISPY AND YUMMY!

That's all for the food pictures 'cause we were starving and finished everything in seconds after these appetisers.

Do order the foie gras and chicken soup too if you're there!

No regrets, promise!

Then we retreated to Jasmine's room in RWS

We didn't do much the entire night...just spent a lot of time laughing like this:

Doing silly things like this:

Eating...

And playing games like Saboteur, Monopoly Deal and Bridge hahaha.
I loveeeeeee them!

Then I had a post-Christmas gift exchange with my university schoolmates at Hard Rock Cafe 

and it was a night full of teasing (at ZF), laughters and talking crap. 

It was such a noisy night.

Everyone was so noisy hahaha.

My dress has shimmers.

Nobody brought camera so all of us have red eyes in the pictures.

The prettiest girls in the lecture hall hahahaha

So thankful to have met them in Uni or I doubt I would've been able to graduate!

They were so willing to share notes and information when I wasn't able to attend lectures, 

always keeping me updated when I was overseas,

and always able to answer my questions when I don't understand.

Of course, they are my closer friends in school but I've a group of project mates in Marketing who are just as amazing. 

They made datelines according to my schedule and always take it upon themselves to take up the heavier parts of the projects because of my hectic and unpredictable timetable.

Truly self-sacrificing and I'm so glad I met them!

My girls had an impromptu meet-up on New Year's eve but I was tooooo tired to drag myself out to meet them having woke up at 6am that day for work :(
So I spent it sleeping and H & I went for my hair appointment and shopping on New Year's day!

So happy with my buys!

I've also been dining at many new places, will share soon!

Happy New Year all! <3

上海 (一)

Helloooooo! Hope y'all had an awesome weekend! Mine was great and it had been a magical December for me thus far :) Actually, 2011 had been lovely to me and and I hope it'll be the same in 2012!

Alrighty, here's the part one of my Shanghai trip.

I fly to China for work very often, but I rarely step out of the hotel room as the stay's too short and rest time is always more important to me. My typical routine in China consists of sleeping from check-in to check-out and have an order of room service in between heh. So I've always wanted to travel to a city in China, explore and experience it.

Shanghai is the most developed city in China but it still lags far behind developed cities around the world. It has the second highest GDP quality in the country after Beijing but you can see most of the locals are still poor and struggling to make ends meet. Earning 2500RMB a month is consider "better off" than their fellow mates. It is sad really... I cannot imagine myself living in the country, doing very well and seeing how that old man walking past me is thinking of ways to earn 4RMB for a bowl of noodles.

Enough with all that sappiness, let's move on to the pictures!

We waited FOREVER for a cab and my ears were freezing so badly I had to use my scarf and hands to keep them warm. One thing I've learnt - Never be afraid to snatch cabs in Shanghai or you'll Never get one.

Noble House (名軒)

H's cousin made a dinner reservation at Noble House on the day we touched down and the food was so yummy!

Starters - some kinda cold vegetables (I think?) and some kinda crispy fish

Both were yummy! Especially the fish!

Crab roe and crab meat with tofu - SO GOOD!

Expensive hairy crabs.

Like S$100 EACH kinda expensive

Branded crabs with stickers on them

The servers de-shelled them for us...

And we were told to enjoy the crab roe first.

SO SO SO GOOD OMG!!! It was gooey and so tasty with their special vinegar, nothing like those hard roe that we have here! I had a hairy crab at another restaurant in Shanghai and it was nothing like this!

The bowl of goodness that was presented to us when we were done with the roe!

One thing I didn't like about Noble House was they didn't even bother to change our bowls/plates despite the changing of dishes...and this coming from a top-notch restaurant was pretty unacceptable to me.

Something like Peking Duck but the crispy duck was wrapped in buns!

The buns were so sweet I liked eating it on its own.

Fried rice drenched in gravy.

I was stuffed by the time this dish arrived hence I didn't really enjoy it.

Overall, I really liked the food at Noble House.

Worth a visit if you're in Shanghai!

What I wore the next day:

Off all things I forgot my eyeliner brush so I had to pay a visit to Sasa.


上海老街 (Shanghai Old Street)
We walked through an old street on our way to Yu Yuan (豫园)...

Dirty-looking smelly tofu I didn't try 'cause my stomach can't take roadside food well haha

Yu Yuan (豫园)

So we joined the snaking queue for Nanxiang xiaolongbaos (南翔小龙包)...

Very cheap at 16 for 20RMB but not nice at all.

Don't bother wasting calories and time for it.

As you would already know, I'm not a fan of visiting gardens/palaces 'cause they all look the same but since I was in comfortable footwear, I didn't complain much haha.

Will be back with more restaurant recommendations, the Pudong skyline and shopping in Shanghai next!

Here's a lovely manufactured piece by MerryMolly this week!

The colours are so lovely - I like how the vibrant colours of the embroidery contrast against the white.

The neckline is low enough to bare sufficient amount of skin yet you don't have to worry about having your bra exposed 'cause it's not toooo low ;)

Plus it's fully lined and not sheer at all!

 Comes in sizes too :)

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