OITP - Week 6

Wow, it's week 6 already, and i'll be flying back soon to s'pore on next friday~

For the past weekends till now, we have went to quite a number of places, mainly with food and shopping. 6/4 Mon was QingMing festival, a public holiday in China, so we got a 3 days break for the weekend. I've heard that its Good friday and s'porean will have their 3 days break too, but sadly china doesnt have that, so i gotta come back for work tmr.. but at least its still not too bad : )

Last Sun we went to XiangYang market, the single storey undergrd megabig shopping level, again for the Nth time, to get whatever we want.

I got 3 leather belts, all 'Boss'. It looks almost like the real one in looks, texture and quality..
I keep saying to myself, three, not more than 120(rmb)
[btw 100 is abt S$20.+)

So of course the starting price was like 260 each i think, crazy enough, i say dun want. And she(shop keeper) asked how many i want, i said 看多少钱就买几个lor. (heez..)
Then i pick 2, and ask how much she wanna sell. It abt 200+ oso, still too ex.
I go pick the third one, and say 三条，120. She was like 不可以卖la.. What abt 200？
I just say, 120. Then she say 真的不可以卖啦，你一挑就挑店里最好的。。
Then i say, how much if i just take two, she say 120, and say why not three for 160?
And i just say 120. Then she say, ok, 140.
Then i sui-bian a bit, and take la!
(Actually if i tried to walk out of the shop, i can get at 120, but 20 to us is S$5, to them it mean much more, i actually xin-ruan for them most of the time at the end, so i dun push further laa )

3 belts for 140rmb, meaning, two are abt S$10.+, one abt S$8.+
Is that ok?
Haha, honestly, and i guess many fren would have known, 99% of my stuffs (except meals when my parents aren't ard) are not bought by me. My mum always help me get all the stuff, so i have not tried bargaining before. But i think it shld be good enough le ba? Dividing the price by 5 is satisfying. Well everything here can be negiotiable, so i was trying to (play ard and) see how far can i go to fight for the lowest price they offer.

Heez, I've also helped my fren to get another belt at another shop. the starting price is at usual unacceptable, but i told my fren, no more than 60, never. (Cos that one i think Levi's, got one big piece of unique bucket, and also its my fren's budget, so i just say no more than 60 lor)

The shop keeper and my fren negotiated for quite some time, but refused to give in, so i say, we use the walk away method.
After walking 2.5 m away from the shop, they finally say 60 la. Yeay!

Heez.. There are many more cases that i chipped in and lower the price for several items, i just feel it's so interesting to lower price and see things which are closer to the limits! Lol, though the 3 of them would have already think the price offered is good enough for them, but for me, perhaps my max for everything is not as high, i will lower the prices.

Yea, i hope when i go back, i wont say, auntie, why not cheaper la? Lol, i'll get stared and told to scam lor~

In Shanghai we did a lot of jay-walking (80% of the time actually). We dun really take the colours of the traffic lights into account, but look at the vehicles moving on the road, and cross when the road is ok to cross. That why we can see the Red man right in front but still walk staight towards it.
It's not that we're trying to break rules, purposely. The thing is, a Green man doesnt mean its safe (cos all the car will still move and make all the turns they want, without giving much priority to pedestrians), and a Red man doesnt mean it is not safe (if we dun cross in the clear road, who knows when's the next time we can cross again)

Yup, and this is also a concern for the guys, who is hoping they will rmb they're back in s'pore again, and to watch for the light instead. Haha, they're not worried abt getting knocked, but more of getting fined when ppl see that.

For me, i've tot about our temperature there. Today, its 22'C, and im feeling vstuffy in the lab. Well im wearing jeans and cotton long sleeves plus a thin sports jacket. It shldnt be as bad, and luckily im not in Harbin, that place is -ve..)


Oh yes, i've found my solution to let ppl see photo, without me uploading.
pls visit http://ev3ryreason.wordpress.com/links-to-pics-in-shanghai/
My fren uploaded her cam's photos to the facebk account, right now it has 10 albums, thanks so much to her, so i can continue to (be lazy n) save the time for other stuffs k~


We will be catching a train to Hangzhou, an area in the province on the left of Shanghai this coming sat 11/4. Setting off at 7.40am, the ride will take abt 1hr45. We got the fro ticket at 8.40pm, hope we will get to see the crux of Hangzhou in a day..

Im flying back on 17 apr,
MU 545 17 APR SHA / SIN 1550 / 2050



Hahs, somtimes, i will still say, I am in Shanghai~
acknowledging the fact again, that im in this place at this time..

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