Day 42 – 1 Sept (Mon)
Went to work today, and as usual, once I reached my desk, the first thing I would do is to plug my laptop charger into the electrical socket… and I leave a travel adaptor/converter in the socket coz china uses a different type of 3-pin socket… but this morning, I was about to do the same thing when I realized that my travel adaptor was gone!! *poof* just like that?! I left the office for shanghai last Thursday, and it was still there… I specially bought an extra travel adaptor to use at work, but this morning, it was nowhere to be found! I went to ask the HR, and apparently, they lent my travel adaptor to this other guy from Singapore who was down at our nanjing office last Friday… omg… -_-“ well, apart from taking my personal stuff without my permission, they didn’t even have the decency to ensure that my stuff is returned to its original location! It’s only when I asked them about it that they suddenly recalled lending my travel adaptor to that guy, which he used in the meeting room… so they went to the meeting room to check the socket, but the adaptor was not there either! Argh… in the end, they concluded that the guy probably brought MY travel adaptor back to s’pore with him… omg… THANKS EH… the HR told me that it’s probably ex-er to just call back sg to check if that guy has my travel adaptor than to get me a new one, so she said she would buy one to return to me… from morning to lunchtime, she supposedly went out to buy… but during lunch, she told me she couldn’t find it, and that she would check again later in the afternoon… I said oh, ok.. but I was thinking to myself… how is that possible?! I see that sold in practically every single supermart, and I myself got it from this electrical store near my workplace!! I even told her specifically where I bought mine from… yet for the entire day, she couldn’t get it?! Ridiculous… and so, without my travel adaptor, my laptop charger was rendered useless… I could only survive for around 2hrs on my laptop battery, before my laptop finally died… >_< and the worst thing was… of all days, this was a day I really needed my com & net at work! Coz I was busy discussing the xi’an flight details with William and we were trying to book tickets online… oh, in case I haven’t mentioned, William, my dad & I will be going xi’an from 30 sep to 2 oct, during china’s 7-day national day holiday, known as the golden week… it’s the week from mon-sun that contains 1 oct, which is china’s national day… haha… how lucky right… in sg, we only have 1 day of national day holiday… at times, when it falls on a Saturday, we don’t even get to enjoy a free day… =) so when I heard about this golden week holiday, you can imagine how ecstatic I was! Haha… all excited to take a break from school and work, and immediately thought of making some travel plans… =P
Since I was in nanjing, while William was in shanghai, we could only discuss online most of the time… and when we realized that the domestic flight tickets to xi’an were selling fast, we panicked and decided to get our tickets real soon before they get all sold out!! Since the golden week is such a long holiday, it’s a very popular travelling period where lotza Chinese will either travel to other parts of china or go abroad… so if we want our travel plans to work out, we would have to act real fast! And well, of all times, I couldn’t chat with William today since I couldn’t use my laptop, so we had to sms each other (sorta considered overseas sms) coz I was sending messages to William on his shanghai no. while he was messaging me on my nanjing no… >_< fortunately, after a series of exchanged messages, we finally managed to book our flight from shanghai to xi’an, and from xi’an to nanjing after that… coz my dad & William would be spending a few days at my nanjing place before taking a train back to shanghai together on 5 oct (sun).. woohoo… I’m so excited about my xi’an trip!!! =P
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