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Yue-Sai Kan on the Making of a Beauty Queen Plus New Places to Dine Right at Your Doorstep summer 2012 Yue-Sai Kan on the making of a Beauty Queen plus new places to dine right at your doorstep Reading All About Life at Your Doorstep in this message from issue management Dear Residents and Tenants, Every once in a while, even stressed-out Marketing Directors are in the fortunate position to say “It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it.” message from management Well, that’s basically how I felt when the Miss Universe China beauty pageant 3 chose our very own Shanghai Centre Theatre for their China regional selection, exciting things going and I had the privilege to be one of the judges… Yes, it was a great experience, but believe it or not, it's a lot more work than one would think! You can read on at Shanghai Centre all about it in the cover story of this newsletter. Our summer issue is all about beauty, and how it relates to Shanghai Centre. You don’t need to go far if you want to pamper yourself: for the latest fashion- 4 Shanghai Centre news able haircut, you can go to Toni&Guy; in need of a manicure, we have Fiori by Nail Plus; a revitalizing facial you can get from the experts at Urban Retreat great new venues or SIYANLI; or if your whole body is screaming for some well-deserved attention, Shanghai Centre then there’s Green Massage. In the Retail section of this issue, we put the spot- right at your doorstep Management Office: light on some of those fantastic venues! Suite 710,1376 Nanjing Rd. West, Shanghai 200040, P.R. China The spring season was very busy here… More activities than ever for the resi- t: (86 21) 6279 8600 f: (86 21) 6279 8610 dents, from theme parties, outings, sports events and lectures to lots of charity 6 COVER STORY fund-raisers. We also had the Singaporean Food Fair to please gourmet lovers, a range of international dramas & concerts at our theatre, and there was the The Next Miss Universe... overwhelming success of Foursquare Day 2012, where we had a crowd of more Kurt Sigouin than 650 social media fanatics gathering at the Exhibition Plaza. (see Event Last year, Shanghai Centre played Property Services Director Recap section) host to the Miss Universe China tel: (86 21) 6279 8600 x 6579 Pageant. Beauty icon Yue-Sai Kan For those amongst you who will be travelling during the next couple of months, takes us behind the scenes to show I wish you a safe trip; for the home-stayers (like me!), I’m looking forward catching up over a beer or a cocktail at one of our terraces. what it takes to be Miss Universe Jenny Jiang Customer Service Manager If you have any feedback you want to share, feel free to contact me anytime tel: (86 21) 6279 8600 x 6627 by phone (ext. 6615) or over email ([email protected]). 8 events recap Enjoy the summer! Foursquare rocked, Tomoko Ueno Alex De Ceuster Japanese Customer Relations Manager Marketing Director a lot of outdoor action tel: (86 21) 6279 8600 x 6678 and giving back Alex De Ceuster events schedule Marketing Director tel: (86 21) 6279 8600 x 6615 レジテントの皆様 春らしいお天気になり、時より初夏を感じさせる季節になりました。お天気のいい日には、 10 retail news ご家族やお友達とご一緒に出かけてみませんか。 Production summer is here Design/Layout/Printing: 上海商城では様々なイベントを企画しています。コーヒーモーニングは毎月開催してい ます。6月1日は国際子供の日です。宜しければ、お子供様連れでパーティーに参加してく and now the fun Green Light Visual Identities ださい。6月10日、サマーバーベキューパーティーが8階のテラスで行われます。上海の夜 really begins! [email protected] 景を楽しみながら、お友達やご家族と一緒に食べたり飲んだりしながらお過ごし下さい。 また、毎週水曜日の夜8時半から、バスケットボールゲームがあります。勉強や仕事後の リラックスタイムとして、汗を流してみませんか。 11 front line profile Copy Editor Richard Baimbridge 5月31日まで、アパートメントのキャンペーンを実施しています。 Jenny Fang ensures その1:アパートメントの1ベッドルームもしくは2ベッドルーム(133平方メートル)を Shanghai Centre's serviced 1ヶ月～3ヶ月ご予約の方には、毎日エレメントフレッシュの朝食券をプレゼン トします。また、無料で4Mのインターネットワイヤレスサービスもご提供します。 apartments are spotless Please direct all enquiries to: その :アパートメント(スタジオを除く)を三泊以上ご予約の方には、上海商城の会議室 [email protected] 2 を2時間無料でご利用できます。お問い合わせは賃貸部6279 8502までご連絡 just about kids ください。 www.shanghaicentre.com いいお知らせです。スターバックスとホテル入り口の間に、新天地にもお店を構える kids save the 「王徳传」がオープンします。中国や台湾製のお茶を取り扱っており、お土産にも大変喜 environment and ばれると思います。またグリーンマッサージはより良い環境を提供できるため、スペース を拡大する予定です。 meet the Ritz's Cover photo & Cover Story photo by jazz man Fadil Bersha ヴィスタ カスタマーサービス 3 Shanghai Centre news NEW Wang De Chuan Teahouse Relax and appreciate the exquisiteness of a cup of tea at Wang De Chuan Company. They call it the "New Tea Lifestyle". With over a century of heritage, experience and incessant passion for tea, they truly know their tea. The store's spatial design emanates the quality of a centennial store with a modern am- biance. Shanghai Centre residents will receive a mini- tin of hand-wrapped tea-bags with each purchase. Wang De Chuan teahouse can be found next to the west-side entrance of the hotel. Suite 102 / tel: 6289 8386 refer & WIN! Shanghai Centre’s referral program is now open to both residents and office tenants. Anybody working or living NEW Crêpes & Co coming soon at this complex who successfully refers a new apartment With the relocation of Zhang's Textiles resident (minimum three months lease) or a new office Looks like we got ourselves another winner! to the East Retail plaza, Green Massage tenant is entitled to a valuable F&B or spa-coupon. Since the opening of Crêpes & Co, the latest will expand and double its capacity, addition to the Shanghai Centre F&B scene, For more information about the referral program, which will significantly shorten the there's been nothing but rave reviews! please contact the Marketing Department at waiting time for massages at this After the success of the first shop opened [email protected] popular outlet. in Bangkok in 1996, David Perrot's gourmet crêpes & home-style Mediterranean dishes Hotel guests will have a chance to now seem to have really hit the spot here experience Urban Retreat's premium in Shanghai. If you haven't had a chance spa services at their doorstep with the th to try their offerings, go early... The place additional treatment rooms on the 6 fills up fast! Crêpes & Co is located in the floor of the Health Club. bits & bites West Retail plaza, between Din Tai Fung In the meantime, construction of the Read'n Queue You can now grab & Starbucks. new Japanese restaurant, Kazuo Okada the Shanghai Centre Newsletter Suite 104 / tel: 6289 8045 is well underway, as this new culinary while queueing for a taxi! Take dining experience is scheduled to open one, it's FREE, and read all about late fall. life at your doorstep! Pizza Marzano has extended the hours of their amazing value lunch NEW Fitbody summer set from 11am to 4pm, Monday coffee corner to Friday. The team at The Portman Ritz-Carlton, Shanghai is proud to announce its During the summer holidays, There will be no Farmers' Market cooperation with FITBODY as the exclusive Fitness personal trainer provider Saturday afternoons are reserved during the hot summer months. for the Health Club. FITBODY and its world-class personal trainers are on the events calendar for meeting The monthly market will resume dedicated to providing the best of quality fitness consultation and personal neighbors and spending leisurely in September. training services to all customers. Over the next few months, FITBODY will family-time. All residents will be Residents can participate in our also be expanding the Health Club group-classes, adding boxing equip- invited for free coffee & snacks Summer lucky draw competition ment, indoor-basketball, TRX-gear and a rock-climbing wall in a newly at our F&B outlets. Keep an and win coupons for Shanghai Centre F&B outlets. upgraded facility on the 6th floor of the hotel. There will be convenient eye on your email for access from the office building so office tenants can also join in. more details! For more information and further inquiries, please email: [email protected] 5 YUE-SAI KAN In 2011, she says, the competition at Shanghai Centre set the standard that is now being used in Ask Yue-Sai Kan what she thinks of the regional Miss Universe China competitions all across expression “Beauty is only skin deep” and she doesn’t the country. “First, Shanghai Centre was the perfect bat a curled eyelash. “Baloney!” she scoffs. “Of course size for us. And the location couldn’t be better. It was beauty is important!” It’s an answer you might expect perfect for us in every way. But most impressive was from someone who’s built her name and fortune on the the staff. They were so professional! There wasn’t a idea of bringing cosmetics to Chinese women at a time single misstep in the whole process. It was by far the when the beauty industry in China was basically best regional competition in the country.” And it non-existent, and who is now at the helm of the Miss ended up producing the winner. Now Yue-Sai has taken Universe China pageant organization. “But,” she adds that model, and applied it to the regional pageants emphatically, “beauty isn’t everything. And a pretty face that she hosts around the nation. certainly isn’t the only thing we’re looking for.” What Shanghai Centre Marketing Director Alex De Ceuster she is looking for, Yue-Sai says, is “someone who can not only helped organize the event, he also served as represent the modern Chinese woman on an international one of the judges. "It was an honor for Shanghai Centre stage.” And to do that, Yue-Sai says, you need not just to be asked to participate in this prestigeous event." beauty, but style, confidence, gracefulness, etiquette, Alex says adding, "And being a judge. well I was intelligence, and… “something magical that’s impossible not complaining!" to put into words.” But as Yue-Sai is quick to point out, once a girl wins It’s a rare combination, indeed, but last year, right the Miss Universe China competition, the celebration is here at Shanghai Centre, a young woman fitting that short-lived – because that’s when the real work begins.
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