Another week has flown past.

Work was tiring as I had to be in control of a few places and also my staff has increased to 6 now. Also I have to start moving things to the new vault in an orderly manner and there are many things to follow up and I have to liaise with more departments/groups and everything is just tiring ! Bah. But still got a lot done and hopefully come this two weeks, everything will go well and so that I can finish off everything in 2 weeks and still have a week for any small problems. Good luck to me !!

But seriously other than work I cannot remember much else except that there were a lot of problems to be solved and people to be met and that one night I went for karaoke after work with a colleague as I was super stressed.

Today however was great. Met up with another colleague who took me shopping and walking around the not so well known parts of Shanghai. She brought me to her old house. It was like in the movies in the 60s, old houses with little alleys and little rooms and very traditional living standards, like no toilets and no heating, but lots of family members squashed in a little place. All very special and makes you realise that just a few streets away from all that shopping and huge tall buildings are these little old communities in a world of their own, where things are almost unchanged for decades. A very special experience of Shanghai that you cannot get on any tour. Thanks, MsAngelW.

We also spent a whole day poking around in those small shops far far away and with treasures to behold. I had an aim to get some shoes and jeans as I had noticed that the jeans here were very special looking and had a lot of character while I know that the shoes here can be ridiculously cheap. Phwoar !!!!!!!! I swear....it is worth it just to fly here and shop. Which is what I plan to do in the future.

I walked around for hours with oodles of self control but finally gave in to the evilness of clothing temptation when I bumped into a pair of jeans with 21 pockets. 21 !!!! How could anyone resist that ??? It made me so glad that I had given up on my previous favourite pair that I wanted to buy, which was a darker shade of blue with a huge dragon motif around the left thigh with more patterns on the right thigh. So I bought it and hugged it to make sure that I really got it !

And then we walked a couple of hundred miles more before just by chance we stumbled upon a basement shop which was really a shoe market and I was lost in a whole new world of footwear. I finally decided to buy something after having my heartstings pulled. I saw something for 10 seconds and decided to buy it after putting it on and looking at it in front of the mirror for 10 minutes. I love it so much. It is a pair of dark waterproof boots and has markings all over its dark chocolate colour. It is also has high white cuffs with copper toes. Amazing. Fantastic. Love it.

By this time it was about 7 pm and we had been walking for about 8 hours. We started to get some food and decided to go on a forage/odyssey of small treats instead of a proper meal. We had some dumplings at DND, then some crepe at a roadside stall, some pork satay at another stall, some crabmeat buns, and finally a giant ice kacang type of dessert in a shopping centre. Love the food, it is all so amazingly good. We spent a lot of time there gossiping over some other colleagues and talking about work and life in general.

A great day and when I came back and tried on the jeans, I love them even more.

The world can be so perfect some times.

I love everyone in the world at the moment. My new boots are winking at me, and I know what I am going to wear next weekend. My lovely jeans. With 21 pockets.

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