Back to Shanghai. And dying.

Argh.. I was so terribly sick when we got back to Shanghai. So much so that I forgo dinner once we got back to our hotel (the same one we stayed at for the first few days in Shanghai).

*If you are easily disgusted by graphic description of anything and everything disgusting like vomit and faeces, I suggest you don't continue reading the entry*

Chunks of food (I remember one particular huge piece of mushroom getting stuck in the sink) and rice will be vomited out if I'm lucky. If I'm not so lucky, I would have to fly to the toilet to take a dump as soon as I eat anything. The food goes through undigested and out (some still in huge chunks) with nothing but water. Its like peeing through the ass.

And then the 'water' turned black. All thanks to the countless charcoal pills I took. And then green cause I took May's green diarrhea pills.

Oh my God, I remember crying myself to sleep that night cause I was so cold (damn heater wasn't working), hungry and in so much pain... My roommate for that day was Khai instead of Joshua cause Khai and I would not be staying there the next night (unlike the others, Joshua included, who were not travelling to Beijing and heading back to Singapore two days later).

Khai's flight was early the next morning. And I was supposed to head to May/Liangping/Wenhui's place to bunk in before taking the 7pm train to Beijing the next day, leaving me the whole day to travel around.

That was supposed to be the plan BUT although it was one of the best days we have seen in Shanghai (sunny and warm), I was too sick to even leave their place. So instead I rested on their sofa overlooking the 31st storey view of Shanghai. Like a cat doozing off under the summer sun, I tried to recuperate.

Then that night, Yeow, Huiloh, Ashley, Pamela and I, took a cab from their place to the train station.

Shanghai Kiss.

The next day we woke really really early to visit the Hunter Douglas factory somewhere out of the city area in some really ulu factory district. It took us over 2 hours to reach the place!
The current Hunter Douglas factory: It was really cold inside the factory area and these two girls, Ying Ying and Zheqing were freezing; Ashley had to share a bit of her body warmth:Next it was to an exhibition for the Shanghai 2010 Expo. Yes, there is such a thing as an exhibition for an exhibition! Held at some shopping centre:Singapore!:

Malaysia...:The mascot:Trying to look the part:

Our guide with his bad English (at least he was trying):The exhibition site:

That rice cooker is Singapore's pavilion:

The China pavilion:

Theme Pavilion:

Performance Centre:Exhibits from past World Expos:The first phone:

The first cash register and Ferris wheel (model):

Next it was to an art/painting gallery:

Next we went to 1933 - buildings which were former factories and abattoir (argh.. haram haram!):It really nice, the buildings have been converted into shopping centres with restaurants and bars:The inside of the slaughterhouse is a labyrinth of stairs, corridors and ramps:

You can go all the way up to walk on a glass floor:Khai:Yeow and Hui Loh:The outside is equally if not more labyrinth-like:

Unfortunately, because of its far location from the city centre, the shops are not fully leased out:We later met up with Liangping and my baobei, May, took the subway to see the Pearl of the Orient and the Bund from across the river:

It was crazy! The mist!:

After dinner at a restaurant at the shopping centre near the Pearl, we rushed over to the Bund because according to Liangping, they would turn the lights off at 9pm. So we ran in the rain from the Pearl to the Bund... Only to find out that they don't turn off the lights at 9pm sharp...: