22 Weeks: Shanghai and Nanjing

See the wonderful ice-cream pics above? Here is something that Haagen-Dazs in Singapore ought to learn.

Daddy has a biz trip to Shanghai and mummy tagged along with a free ticket, thanks to her mileage accumulated with United Airlines. :) After a weekend at Shanghai, we took a train and spend one week in Nanjing, daddy's home town.

While daddy worked, mummy did her own shopping by zipping around using the trains. Shopping is good, though for imported stuff, they're still pretty expensive. At the current state, shopping for clothes is tough, but mummy managed to get some maternity wear from H&M. The most important thing we accomplished is to have the stewed pork la mian along Nanjing Lu. You know, for certain food, after you try it the 2nd time, it will not taste as nice. But for this particular item, after so many years, it is still so perfectly tasty. Imagine those cartoons where the character float into the sky and the flowers start to bloom.. I was shopping when it started to rain pretty heavily. Uh oh... no brolly. The mysterious thing is, these sellers with bags of umbrellas will suddenly appear out of nowhere in an instant at the shop's entrance. It's almost magic. Promptly bought an umbrella for S$1.

Couple of highlights:

Maglev: Mummy took it by herself for the first time to get to town. At full speed, the journey takes 7 minutes and 20 seconds to complete the distance of 30 km, although some trains in the early morning and late afternoon take about 50 seconds longer. A train can reach 350 km/h (220 mph) in 2 minutes, with the maximum normal operation speed of 431 km/h (268 mph) reached thereafter. The speed is simply amazing. I just got into the train, SMSed daddy of my arrival, and when i'm done, i've already reached my destination. DAMN! didn't take a picture.

Baby Clothes: Bought many baby rompers at the bazzaar near the Science and Technology Center. Osh Gosh, Carters etc. they were going for S$3 each. When we were at Nanjing, we checked out the malls for baby's clothes. Not cheap. But near Ye ye and nai nai's place, there is a wholesale centre call Huan Bei. We bought so many items from there.

Weather: It was smothering hot on the last day we left. 38 degrees C.