~celestine in china~: moving into my nanjing apartment...

Day 9 – 31 Jul 08 (Thurs)

Moved into my Nanjing apartment after work today… just my mom and i… carrying tonnes of luggage, and having to shift everything into my new place… first we had difficulties getting a cab… we wanted to hail 2 in case drivers are unwilling to let us squeeze so much stuff into their car… but the cab drivers here suck! Many didn’t even wanna stop, seeing us with so many pieces of luggage… only 1 guy stopped, supposedly to wait for us to hail a 2nd cab…but we couldn’t get a 2nd, so after much pleading, he finally relented and we juz went in 1 cab… my mom gave him more than twice the metered fare as a form of compensation & as an act of gratitude… coz otherwise we might be stranded outside the hotel for god noes how long… >_<

Have I mentioned that there’s no lift at my apt?! imagine 2 women having to lug 11 pieces of items, big & small, up 4 storeys, using dis narrow stairway… that’s wat I call exercise… we were both perspiring like mad… worse thing was that I wasn’t feeling well that day… had diarrhea (probably ate something dirty) and skipped lunch, so I got tired even more easily… =(

Anyway, we did some major cleaning up of the whole house… luckily it wasn’t that dirty coz it hasn’t been occupied since the owner did the renovations for the place…

Here’re some pics of my Nanjing apartment…

main gate to 新庄花园