Shanghai China Snippets Observations about living in Shanghai and China in general

MI 3 and Laundry
The always amazing [tag]SARFT[/tag] (State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, search for it on Google and you’ll find more highlights of this small club that decides what is appropriate to view in [tag]China[/tag]) is not so happy yet with the new movie of T. Cruise, [tag]MI3[/tag].

It was filmed for a big part in [tag]Shanghai[/tag] with approval and so on.

Why, you may ask. Well, there are scenes cluttered with laundry hanging in the streets of Shanghai. A pretty normal thing but not something we want to show the rest of the world as it could hurt the Shanghai Image.

Coming soon is a series of the best hanging laundry pics in Shanghai.

The National [tag]May[/tag] holiday is almost at its end. Friends in [tag]China[/tag] send sms messages to wish eachother a happy holiday. Many of them consist of a funny short story that make light of life. It happens that the more popular ones are received more than once as everyone forwards them.

Here a translation of one of them (my translation so a rather bad one)

I wish,

Your joy becomes more and more, just like fake goods do

Your sorrow becomes less and less, just like interest does (interest from the bank)

Your income increases very fast, just like the price of oil

Happiness surrounds you tightly, just like advertisements surround you everywhere

Relations with your family become just as strong as the way you are stuck in the stock market

Bad luck disappears forever just like Binladen