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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Bundled sale

Seldom do hotels in china surprise me these days, but this is something neeeeeew. Check this out:

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I can't think of anyone would may use all that. To me, forcing those who have urgent needs for "tamons" to buy condoms at the same time sounds sorta ridiculous.


Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Shanghai Trip 2009 - Set 1

Finally I get to spend some time alone in this city. It's my second time there (apart from work trips which I hardly had time for anything besides meetings and dinners) and I must say it looked quite different from the last time I was there. I went to quite a number of places - famous attractions and random spots - and there are still places that I want to explore further.

I think I start to like Shanghai. Heh.

A short, 8-min ride on the Shanghai Maglev Train (or Shanghai Transrapid) from Pudong airport to town. It ran at 301 km/h when I took it, but I was told it runs at 431 km/h some other parts of the day.

Inside of the car

In case you're wondering how the maglev track looks like...

YuYuan Garden (豫园), a heritage shopping area

The foodcourt at the Chenghuang Temple ("City God Temple" 老城隍庙) - so-so food at inflated prices. Specially designed for tourists.

Alright I confess - I'm officially a Din Tai Fung fan after my TPE trip. But the food there wasn't cheap at all!

An old Chinese opera stage at some random road junction

An old-fashioned cloth shop

A random alley

After spending some time in Puxi, I took a ferry ride across the Huang Pu Jiang to Pudong

Doggies!

A cute structure in front of the Shanghai World Financial Center, where Park Hyatt Shanghai is located. SWFC claims to be the third tallest in the world.

Greeting the Expo with civilization?!

And the Riverside Promenade Park is a "Patrotism Education Base"? No joke.

You would expect Zara salesmen to behave even when they talk on the phone outside their store, right?

Best Buy's Chinese name is weird - it means you think 100 times before you buy

Separate traffic lights for the motorbikes - A LOT of them!

Quite a clean alley with artwork on sale

A dark alley and the barber shop inside

A quaint looking building

Nanjing Road, the main shopping area of Shanghai

Another building on Nanjing Road

A landmark on Nanjing Road - XinShiJie

Plaza 353


Friday, August 14, 2009

Guangzhou at twilight

It's been a while since my last post. Have been tied up with settling down, buying the necessary and biz trips. Finally have time to process some pics - this is the view from my apartment.


Wednesday, August 05, 2009

All for sale?

Saw this in the Guangzhou IKEA today. Strange.

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

United Breaks Guitars

Close to 2m counts in 5 days... 

"He accomplished with his one song more than all the lawyers and lobbyists and union officials in North America for the past eight years," Bill Skolnik, vice-president of the organization representing 17,000 Canadian musicians, said Friday.



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