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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Keeping to my promise... here is my first post to kick of the travelling experience... and obviously the first subject or country I would want to review about is Shanghai..... honestly, i've been there about 2 times already and have really fell in love with the place, it is definitely an interesting place to explore, honestly you could even find some shopping centres built by Singapore companies therefore not lacking the Singapore taste, obviously, i'm not going to post every thing I know about Shnaghai up here lah, is not people would just copyright and pass it off as theirs, lolzzz, i believe that will happen, so if you want, press the right click on the mouse button and it will tell you what to do!!!! hahaz!!!
Honestly, let me start off with a picture welcoming you to explore the city of Shanghai....

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Actually, this was taken when i was about to fly home, but anyways lets start.......

Landing at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in you airplane, a look out of your windows would look at the beautiful newly built Shanghai Pudong International Airport, a sight to really admire although it is still in its early stages, on entering the terminal, if in summer, you would feel the air-con blasting down on you to overcome to hot and humid temperatures while in winter the warm air give you warmth from the coldness outside. Passing through immigration and loading your bags on your tour bus and set off for the city, honestly, it takes 1 hour just to reach the heart of the city of Shanghai, don't complain about the long journey, wait till u here about certain journey times later. On looking back the airport, beside you the flyover over the airport tarmac and just beside you would be the huge international airline planes, the few minutes out, you would be able to notice shanghai's maglev train, takes you to a subway station nearer to the city in just 7 minutes and highest speed??? 435km/h... i tried before K!!!! chao fun lah...

Anyway onentering the city centre the first thing that would catch your attention in the day is Dong Fang Min Zhu Dian Shi Ta, while at night the brightness and attractiveness of The Bund would certainly catch your attention with the thousands of people around, suo wei dao shanghai jiu kan ren tou mah!!! Looking from the Bund across into the Pudong area, you would see the 4th highest building in the world " Jin Mao Da Sha".... The bund overlooks Whampoa river which flows into the 3rd longest river in the world, " The Yangtze".

For avid shoppers, there is alot of places for you to choose from, their Orchard road, known as Najing Road, shopping for souveniers, Shen Huan Miao/ Yuyuan would be the best place ever to get them traditional souvenirs like chinese seals with your name carve on them to modern day souveniers like magnets, looking for some imitation to Nike or whatever Xiangyang Lu is the place for you... and be clever, BARGAIN, GAN GAN DE QU BARGAIN, they say 300 yuan right, don't stupidly agree, must cut-cut-cut everything to at least two-thirds, 300 must say 80, normally they would not allow at first, but then using various techniques you would be able to succeedpractice makes perfect.... experience state you can cut fromm 300-100, 180-90 etc.... hahaz... Xin Tian Di, although looks modern, but looks like some old european town, but the goods there chao ex. one don't need to see also know...

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Nanjing Road at night....

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Xin Tian Di...

Not interested in shopping??? Take a boat down whampoa river at night and admire the nice night scenery, or ascend up the oriental pearl tower, you would receive a magnificent view!!!

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Yuyuan, Chen huan miao

Some facts, Shanghai is separated into old and new shanghai by the means of whampoa river, the new side is called Pudong while the old, Puxi. Shanghai is always changing so don't expect roads and building s to be the same when you go back one year or maybe even 6 months later.. that's the time span between my 2 trips.... lolzzz.. but one thing i must recommend to you all, i got to know this uncle making chinese traditional seals with your name carved on it in shanghai, the first time i went there was like my parents talking to him and then introduce me to him also, then during that trip, we went there about few times, then during 2005 June, went back to the same shop, Uncle still remembers me hahaz, he even mistaken me for a tour guide hahaz ( maybe after all my ambition may come true) this was because like i came back in such a short period of time, so i become his "shou ke" but don noe if i go bak now he still remembers me hahaz, his stall is in some traditional wooden stands overlooking a departmental stor i think and with a whole row of shops to the lest of him, although his seals are quite expensiveabout twice but his seals are really hand-crafted and real true quality as what our tour-guide said, some others are just make of some "fen" hahaz, i walk around the whole area of yuyuan right, he was the only one using hands to carve, all the others use drills, and thier packaging is just a plastic bag, while the uncle is a nice box hahaz... but don't forget to ask for free ink pad...

Not forgetting, people over there are chao friendly lah, they would try to help you when you approach them, so don't be scared, at most they would just dao you thinking you are some salesman...lolzzz. The tour guide we had also chao friendly lah, thats all i have to post about shanghai, wanna know anything else, ask me lah hahaz, i will tell you everything that i had learn from my tour guide, trust me it is chao interesting one, that is why shanghai is my most favourite place among the places i went to.....

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