First mission accomplished

Weather: Isolated Thunderstorm

Temperature: 26°

My plan for today was to walk around Shanghai city, familiarize with the public transport system and most important of all: find out the location of the 2 legal firms which I will be going for interview next week.

I bought a map for RMB 5 (Bom later told me I could have got it cheaper) and started my adventure.

As I have said before if you know how to read Chinese, the road signs here are much better than Malaysia. Navigating with the help of the map was not difficult.

I managed to find the first legal firm, Lehman Lee & Xu within half an hour. It was located in Shanghai Kerry Centre at a busy road called Nanjing West Road which is a happening road.

Shanghai Kerry Centre

Main Entrance

Lobby

Lehman Lee & Xu

Mm… nice building. The interior was nice too. Ok, once I recorded how to get there I continued searching for the next legal firm, TransAsia Lawyers.

TransAsia Lawyers is quite far from Lehman Lee & Xu though from the map, it seems very near. It took me nearly an hour to walk to Taicang Road and found this building called “Platinum” which houses TransAsia Lawyers.

Platinum

Main Entrance

Lobby

TransAsia Lawyers

Once inside “Platinum” I was blocked by security guard. I didn’t blame him. The way I dressed, I looked like a Hawaiian tourist in an office building. Any security guard worth his salt would have blocked me. But I explained myself out. I said I was there for an interview. With Hawaiian dress code?? He didn’t believe me of course. But when I managed to tell him there’s a legal firm called TransAsia on 10th floor, he hesitated. I took this opportunity to walk into the lift and when he finished hesitating, I had already gone up to 10th floor.

I have never worked in an office building before though I always fantasize myself working in one. Now let’s see whether I am given the chance now.