Q's Mind: December 2009

Shanghai: 24 November 2009

7:43am~ Tuesday morning~ walked out of the hotel to snap a shot of the building...
黄金海岸大酒店...
Across the road lies some very beautiful buildings...
This place is along 北大街 of Wuxi...
random street views...
7:57am~ back at the hotel, just happened to notice this little advertisement card at the cigarette ash-tray... looks kinky~
9:10am... we hit the road~ more visitings today~
not much of a scenary cuz of the fog in the distance...
we got another fella from the factory to pick us up in his car... he's the little boss of that factory...
... and that's his office building behind me... (omg...)the factory...
Anchor Windlass~
huge-ass factory...
and alot of models to choose from... (man not included)
Here's a water-fall model...
9:30am at their office meeting room...
10:29am~ hit the road again...
We were traveling towards the directions of Nanjing... going to Zhenjiang...
Huge-ass chimney...
I love how these signboards look... then wonder why Singapore ones are so ugly...
China is developing at an alarming rate...
everywhere we travel, roads, rails and bridges are under-construction...
There's gonna be a new hyper railway coming in a couple of years, so traveling from Shanghai to Nanjing or perhaps other parts of China would have the time shorten tremendously...
Another 48km to ZhenJiang 镇江...
11:19am~ we reached ZhenJiang...
Oh, a couple of things to add... the expressways there are very complex... once you missed an exit, the next exit would be like many kilometers away, and only those who are very familiar with the roads would know how to find an adjacent expressway to link the route back... so its very common to find cars reversing on the expressways... ZhenJiang is very much an Industrial area I think...
I dun see much of a taller building around...
11:39am~ we reached another factory... this was the vehicle we traveled in...
keke... spotted a puppy tied at the stairwells... It was cold, so lazing out there in the sun looks pretty comfortable huh?
Not sure what breed is this...
but I'm sure my puppy looks more handsome~ ^^
we came to a factory manufacturing marine propellers...
another huge-ass factory...
Yep~ these are what we were looking for...
These propellers were just nice for tugboats only...
Back here in Singapore... getting a pair of blades like this would probably range in the SGD 36 to 40K region...
12:27pm~ the boss of the factory invited us for lunch~ this hotel here is on the omg-level... not even Fullerton nor Raffles can match the services here...
First time eating 大闸蟹... I think I still prefer our S.E.A. chilli crabs... big, juicy and meaty...
The dishes served were luxuriously decorated... The restaurant is unique in a way that every table is located in a room, with attached washroom.
2:13pm~ at another place for meeting...
4:04pm~ visited another factory manufacturing helms pumps...
4:47pm~ @ our China partner's office... summing up the day's discussion...
and looking at some of the stuff he could offer to us...
Here's a video I took of the typical road there slightly before 6pm... I was amazed by how those ppl could endure in the offices above...