being localized in Shanghai

上海的生活习惯了吗？？

It's amazing what a month's worth of living in one place can do to a person and his habits! Seriously! So I figured that indeed, it is true nga pala!

I've been here in Shanghai for a month. And right now, all my Manila habits are coming back already. I got no more problems with my appetite, with the metro, with the sometimes rude people in the streets, and.. with converting the prices of the stuff I buy! I get what you mean now Steph. For some reason, when drivers here or store assisstants say 5RMB, in my mind, it does register as 5 lang! So that I only realized the amount of that in Philippine peso after a while.

So I am guessing that in the coming months, I will slowly get my old habits back. Esp. my shopping habits! Of course, it also helps that Wanda is very near Fudan. I am actually loving the fact that Fudan is quite far from the city! Coz then I get a taste of the Shanghai district life as well as of the Shanghai city life. And this makes me real happy!!

But I miss the food back home though! I felt so bad last week eating the same stuff everyday for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Plus it doesn't help that we eat in prison-like plates in the 食堂 (cafeteria) everyday! I hatettttt!! Buti nalang we've discovered some nice places to eat just near or dorm. So that sometimes, whenever we really, really want to eat "comfort food" but are too tamad to go to Wanda, we know we can always go in front of the dorm gate or in the Korean street somewhere around the corner!!

and yes, we are also sanay na with the weather!! Compared to when we just arrived. This is definitely the longest winter Shanghai's ever had! And I guess right now, am loving it already!!

xoxo.