Although I am still coughing my lungs out I thought I stay in touch with reality and read the online version of the Shanghai Daily to catch up with the latest news. I have missed a lot, I can tell you. Here are the headlines.
City boasts abundant water supply
While fresh, clean water is loosing its status of being a commodity in Harbin, the good news is there is more than enough in Shanghai.
Bird flu worries hit chicken sales
People are less fond of chicken products so prices are going down. If you want to save money, buy a chicken, it’s cheap.
Sales of frozen chicken have dropped 42.6 percent since the start of this month at supermarkets, while egg sales had fallen by 24.2 percent, according to a survey conducted by the Shanghai Commercial Information Center.
Surgery removes woman’s hidden testicles
Just read it yourself. Drop naked wedding photos
A hot topic these days. Wedding pics with or without clothes.
Someone with an opinion quotes a photographer from Hangzhou who states the obvious. It is easy to put these naked pics on the internet “even though they had been destroyed in front of the couple once they had been developed. ”
And you don’t want that, remarks the author.
“If those portraits are blogged, it will be gloom for the groom when he finds that his bride is being “gang raped” by thousands of other guys’ eyes — unless, that is, he simply doesn’t care.”
Well, I am going to stay clear from the Shanghai Daily for some time and focus more on creating authentic content. They just make it too damn easy.
In a city with an average income of 3000 Rmb I was surprised to read that they spend 160.000 on their weddings.