Episode: The day starts bright
Friday, May 15, 2009

18th April 2009 (Saturday). 11am Milan time. 5am Singapore time. Milan is 6 hours ahead of Singapore. Usually, during the Milan fair, it would rain but this year seems different. The day was bright.


These were the prototypes that were with us in the plane. It includes two tables, a coat rack, a chair, tools, 800 brochures and of course the rulers and set square pieces are with me.

 We were waiting for the rest for the rest of the team to arrive, but somehow we got to know that they missed their flight and won't be reaching until around afternoon. We had to do lots of stuff before we get settled. We had to get paints and stuff to set up the booth on the next day and had to get the rented car, so Gabriel and myself left Wendy at the airport to wait for the rest while we went out to get the rest of the stuff.

To get to the city center, we had to take a 45 minutes bus that cost 7Euros for the ticket. When I stepped out, the cold temperature hit me. It was as thought someone left the air-con out. Then, we took the Metro, had to spend 10Euros for the 10 ride ticket. Wah, already spent 17 euros = $34 on transport. Stopped at Porta Genova (Zona tortona) and we walked to a paint shop to get of course paints. The guy no speaking the English. Only Italian. So, most of the time we were doing hand gestures to show what we meant.

We did got the stuff in the end. With lots of time left, we thought of waiting for the rest to take us to the apartment somewhere along Tortona but after some time we got bored and decided to get to Superstudio to take a look at the place. Took this picture of the tram there. You don't get these in Singapore. Nice!

OK, this is Superstudio, another place where we were exhibiting.

It was for Elle Dekor, and when we arrived, they were still setting up the place. The location was not that good, as it was in the basement in one corner of the building.

Then, Gabriel and I wondered around Milan, since the rest were not settled yet. Up until late at night it was just the both of us. Went to Duomo and chilled there for a while before we went to  Amendola (the station near to our apartment).

Got there, it was raining. Milan rain is like drizzling that last for hours. Soon, Sebastian(meeting for the first time) found us and we head down to the apartment. With all the prototypes at the back of the car, I had to squeeze in one place to sit. We soon reached our destination. The apartment was at Via Arona. (Via means street). As I stepped out of the car, I stepped into a puddle of rain water. I was like OH NO, MY NEW SHOE(converse original, Jack Purcell shoe that cost me $119). 

Anyways, that was when I met Luciano. After settling into the apartment, we got out to a pizzeria and had a celebration dinner. It was great, we finally reached Milan with all the stuff we need and the prototypes done with only the assembling part to do.


Got back to the apartment, and I slept on the floor as there were not enough beds, but I didn't mind. I just slept. 



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Aidie blogged @ 10:24 PM