China's Trip and Tips

Philippine Airlines has a daily flights to Shanghai, China. This time, we have booked our flight and get a China visa from our travel agency King of Travel in Makati.

We arrived in Shanghai via Philippine Airlines safe and sound. But before leaving the plane, we had to go through the Chinese-way of checking the body's temperature. Sorry but the photo is not good, I was ashamed to take out my camera so I just secretively took the photo from my phone. They looked like Aliens who are lost in space. We couldn't help but laugh. We have to wait for at least 15 minutes as they have to point their laser gun at our forehead. I mean, is that really necessary?



Pudong International Airport is impressive. Really nice! Amazingly nice!

After immigration, we headed to the Maglev station - a German-developed magnetic-levitation, the world's fastest, most futuristic passenger line.

Cost for Maglev is RMB 50 for one way, RMB 80 for round trip. We took the round trip. Start from Pudong Internatinal Airport to Longyang Road. From there, you have to take a taxi going to your hotel.



Then we checked in Best Western Pudong Sunshine Hotel. Reasonable hotel but its quite far from the city center and the expo. So the following day, we transferred to Novotel Atlantis. Will post my reviews of both hotels soon.

Honestly, I was not really pleased with my trip as I was not able to buy anything. I wanted to go to their market but to no avail. Its not easy to just go around as the taxi drivers dont speak English. You have to get a card from your hotel and ask them to write in Chinese characters wherever you go. Poor mama mia!

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China Sign Fair 2009

Two days after our Iloilo trip, went to Shanghai, China to attend the China Sign Fair 2009 at the Shanghai International Expo. The New Shanghai Expo is really big, biggest expo I have attended although Chinese exhibitors were saying that the business is bad due to world recession. One of the indication was that only few European and American attended the expo. But amazingly, a lot of Indians were there. Indian community is promising as what the Chinese are saying.

Shanghai Expo



Car Wrap
We went to China for this. We are a distributor of digital printing materials in Manila and we are looking for additinal products to carry.


Big LCD Screen - same technology in Guadalupe bridge but bigger and brighter. I did not check the price as this is not related in our business. But I heard price is around Php 4,000,000. True or not?

Mongolian Tent
This is an alternative to warehousing. Instead of renting a warehouse, why not rent an empty space and install this tent? Of course bigger tent! Great savings. One of our friends already bought a tent to try it out.

D Batman Christoph is 4

Christoph is now a proud 4! A confirmed mama's boy is so dear to me. He is my teddy bear.

We had 2 celebrations for his 4th birthday:

1. School Celebration - with classmates and 3 teachers only
- 20 pcs of Chicken and Spaghetti meal from Jollibee
- 2 boxes of pizza from Pizza Hut (good that I have a Palm Card)
- Cake from Goldilocks
- 20 pcs of tumbler giveaways (design made by Leth)

2. Warehouse Celebration - my relatives and staffs
- 30 pcs of tumbler giveaways
- Another cake from Goldilocks
- Pica pica food
- Grilled fish, pork and chicken
- Lots of beer
- Pinata with candies

Belated Happy Birthday again bobi Christoph!


Proud Birthday Boy - Christoph D Batman

D Batman Eyes

Batman Cake

Backdrop - made of stickers RUSH

Batman Tumbler - bought at 168 at Php 30.00 each

Lucky day with Adsense

Got lucky yesterday! I have 3 blogs and all of them earned something.. small amount actually but still happy.

Today, I changed my blog name from Trash for Cash (http://garbagesells.blogspot.com) to The Recycling Loop (http://recyclingloop.blogspot.com) for no reason. I just tried it and it worked!

But to my dismay, I lost the earnings.. OMG!! Funny as it sounds, but I was really shocked! I lost USD 0.84 today! hahaha

Sarabia Manor Hotel - Iloilo

Unusual Sunday, my hubby out shooting..they have a club shot today at the Bureau of Corrections. My kids went with Uncle to Metropoint to send off some friends. Alexa is sleeping. I am alone and bored, good that I took my laptop with me this weekend, unusual!



Visited Iloilo last week, reason of going there is posted in my other blog, stayed in Sarabia Manor - currently renovating!

Hotel - ok. nothing special
Breakfast buffet - not many choices, Fruits offered: papaya, pineapple and banana only!
Room - not so good, old stuff.

General comment: I am not impressed as much as I was while checking the website.

Hope to be back after the renovation so I could update my blog! We'll see..

Ibis Hotel Semarang

While I was in Indonesia, we had a side trip to Semarang on the way to Jakarta. Our client booked us at the Ibis Semarang Hotel.

Room with wifi. King bed. Nice set up. Clean.

The hotel is relatively new, all are still fresh.. yes, fresh towels too! But dont worry, I did not get anything from the hotel as what most of my friends are doing. I must admit in my early 20's, I used to bring some new towels especially from 5 star hotels.. Thats my long time secret! Ha ha..

Back to this hotel, the staff are friendly and the food is okay. Nothing spectacular, just the usual buffet breakfast!


Bathroom. I like the colorful tiles so much! Very clean.

Guess what how much we paid? Only USD 33.00 per night with free buffet. I was told they are on promotional offer.

Ibis Semarang Hotel
Jl. Gajah Mada No. 172
Semarang 50133
Central Java - Indonesia
Tel: +62 24 33 000 888
Fax: +62 24 33 000 889