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1. We got lost in the Shanghai Expressways

A journey from Sheshan to Tomson sure is no joke. What should have been a 1 hour journey turned out to be a 2 hour ride on the highways of Shanghai. We knew we screwed up when we saw a sign telling us the Pudong International Airport is 15km away. You have to believe me when I tell you thats really far. The Pudong Airport is about a 45 min cab journey to the city centre.

Many a time, we stopped in the middle of expressways, making calls to the company driver to ask him for directions. Its quite pathetic thinking back, we had quite a bit of horning from many drivers on our predicaments.

We stopped to ask for directions 3 times before we finally found a huge poster of the BMW Asia Open staring at us. The season is just mid winter and spring, the weather is quite cooling for joyrides such as the one above.

2. The Car is more important than the VIP Label

My boss drives a Santana. If you do not know what it is, its just an old car that looks very low class. Despite the VIP car label displayed brightly, Tomson security still had a good mind to stare at us and try to lead us away from the VIP areas. You should have seen their puzzled faces when my boss says he is hear to see their boss. Perhaps, they thought we were here to do construction work (施工). =)

One security guard kept insisting the VIP lots are filled. Only on hearing his boss’s name, he relented and led us to the VIP carpark. Needless to say, it was filled with many empty lots.