Kun Hsu, a consultant at the Bain Shanghai office was nice enough to take some time out of his busy day to meet up with me. We were to meet up at noon at the Bain office which was located on the 31st floor of the 2nd tower at plaza 66 on Nanjing West Road. It was actually just down the street from the school and where we live. So we ended class at 11:30 and took the afternoon off. So then, I walked over and the Bain office was located in such a beautiful and upscale building. The office itself also had a great view around where the partners offices were. Apparently they only recently moved into the new office a year ago, and i think it's great.
Kun took me to the restaurant across the street called Paul. I had a salmon sandwich and he had a croque monsieur. It was very yummy. We had a very good conversation about many different things, his background (grew up in Toronto, U penn, Insyed for MBA, and then shanghai to learn mandarin.. his parents used to live in taiwan). He was a very cool guy so hopefully we'll keep in touch and he can come visit the Toronto office.
After lunch, I walked home and it was so hot today. I was all sweaty by the time i got home so i ended up taking a shower before i went to meet up with the girls. We met up at "tao bo" mall which was at 580 Nanjing West Road (at chengdu road). It was a mall filled with fake bags and it was quite exhausting going through them. We ended up buying a bunch of longchamp bags for 40 RMB each (~ 6 CAD), then we kept going around trying to find this purplish red colour in the medium size for ashley. It was very exhausting as every single lady asked if you want to go in and look and if you want to buy bags, it was noisy and annoying...
Then we headed over to the fabric market where min showed me her satin shirt store and I ended up getting 5 shirts. It was crazy cheap as they were 110 RMB each (~<20 CAD). So then I went and got fitted for my jacket (which looked great on ashley, since she got the same one) and my grey suit which also looked awesome. Then I decided to make a pinstripe back with a fishtail skirt one (another suit). Then we walked over to the chinese-y bag store and bought more little things as Ashley know the guy. It was very cheap which ended up being about 25 RMB each. I still have to look for a magnetic clutch for mel mel though. We'll try again on Tuesday when i go back to pick up our tailored clothing.
We want to take it easy tonight in case we want to go out clubbing since stupid clubs here close at 4-5am... anywho i should see what the girls want to do. There's also class tomorrow... i also want to skype home
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