After a few days in Beijing, I made a trip to Shanghai with a few of our Nuffies to see some Nuffnangers there. We woke up at 4AM or so that morning and was at the airport by 6AM in order to catch an 8AM flight.
I’m not in this picture because I’m behind the camera with a grumpy face cursing and swearing and asking David why the hell we picked such an early flight. He said that it was the cheapest flight of the day and he wanted to save us some money… so fine.
For the first time in my life I was going to fly an internal flight in China. You know I’ve always heard bad things about the flights within China but I can say that after flying it once, they were all unfounded. It was a really good flight. I think I flew China Eastern. The planes were new, the stewardesses were polite, the seat had a good reclining angle and there was enough leg room.
The instant we got to Shanghai though, the Nuffies put their game on. Julia put on a nice dress.
They said Shanghai girls are very pretty so them Beijing girls wanna keep up! Actually Julia and Rachel aren’t really from Beijing. That’s the thing about Beijing and Shanghai that really remind me of New York. When you go to New York, lots of the locals there aren’t actually from New York itself but from some other city in the USA. Same for China… the locals there are from everywhere else in China. China is HUGE!
I met up with one of my friends there Jia.
Funny how you meet people. I met Jia through my Thai friend when I was visiting Bangkok some months back. Jia actually went to UCL too. He was a year below me! When Shorty saw this picture she said “Wah who is that guy? So handsome!”. I chose to ignore it!
In Shanghai we met with some bloggers and also had some meetings. We had one meeting in an office in the tallest building in Shanghai called the World Financial Center.
The view from the top was amazing!
Shanghai is actually my favourite city in China. It’s not as cultural as Beijing but it’s really a first world city. On par with cities like Tokyo or New York or London. No wonder so many of my friends choose to work there. I met up with one old friend who’s working there too. Meet Ker Loon!
Ker Loon told me that at first he didn’t quite like it in Shanghai but eventually grew to like it.
On the last night I was there, we all went for dinner at this really nice Yakiniku restaurant. When Ming and I first went there some 3 years ago, it was completely empty. But we loved the food there!
This time though it was packed! Like some food bloggers went to review the place or something and suddenly everyone in Shanghai was eating there.
Met up with Darren Chin too… first time seeing him again after some 3 years. Last time I saw him was in Shanghai too. Here’s David with some of the Nuffies.
After dinner though we headed to what is supposed to be the most happening club in Shanghai called Muse 2 opposite this building.
It was packed going in and the Nuffies were pretty excited.
I wasn’t allowed to take any pictures in the club but I can say this about it:
1) There were definitely A LOT more guys than girls in the club.
2) The girls there were unbelievably hot. Shanghai girls… aww man… !
Julia met a group of Singaporean guys when she was there. After a while one of them came over to Ming to say hi. His opening line was something like “Do you know who my father is?”.
Haha is that the way we should introduce ourselves these days? What if my father isn’t anyone big? Then what would that mean?
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space