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

I am frustrated, I am underpaid, my boss forces me to work too much and give him a hongbao to get a promotion.

My wife keeps on nagging me that I have to make more money. I have to have a car, an apartment, a mistress and buy my kid an entrance to a good [tag]Chinese[/tag] as well an overseas university.

Oh yeah, my family keeps on pressing me to send half of my salary their way. You’re still reading… you want to meet up? Come over tomorrow to the [tag]Rising Sun[/tag] Anger Release Bar in [tag]Nanjing[/tag].

Look for the guy who is beating out the crap of a man that looks like the typical lazy laoban (boss).

Or..

My clients try to grope me all over and I can’t do anything about it or I loose my job.

Customers in the restaurant yell at me all the time, look away when they talk to me and hand me the money and my husband is never home. I don’t even want to start thinking what he is doing out there.

Look for the girl slamming that fat, bold guy with a spoon in his hand.

Fiction, not really. The bar exists since April and is pretty popular.

The bar is the brainchild of Wu Gong.

he got his inspiration from similar bars in [tag]Japan[/tag], but felt a personal need for the type of service after his experiences as a migrant worker in [tag]Guangdong[/tag] Province.

The bar employs 20 “models,” well-built men in their 20s and 30s, who are available to be hit. Customers can specify how they want the models to appear they can even dress as women and then they are free to give them a sound beating.

It’s not a very harmonious way of dealing with one’s feelings, is it?

Source: China Daily, Photo: Istockphoto

In a very pro-active fashion Mouding county in [tag]Yunnan[/tag] province, [tag]China[/tag] has killed almost all of his dogs. Noooo, not because they were hungry.

It has all been handled in a very harmonious way:

On Saturday, a woman was walking her dog – a small white animal she’d had for a long time – in a Yunnan Province alley.

Several men approached, talked her into handing them the leash and then beat the dog to death as the owner looked on in horror.

In an effort to fight against the spread of rabies 54,429 canines are now chasing cats in dog heaven. It seems rather drastic but then again there were already some casualties so time for rigorous action to squash all the [tag]Chinese[/tag] goofies and plutos.

Witnesses indicated the slaughter was often carried with the sort of dramatic elements found in a grade-B horror film.

Around midnight, shadows would flash along the walls of homes as men carrying clubs made noises to set the village dogs barking. Homing in on the sounds, the men would find their quarries, and the barks would be replaced by shrill yelps as the animals were dispatched.

Source: China Daily – 50.000 dogs killed

I have watched way to many [tag]football games[/tag] until now. Resulting in too little sleep.

Some observations:

6 hours time difference is too much. Either change [tag]Beijing[/tag] Standard Time for a month or reschedule the games

In a country where social stability is everyday’s slogan, make sure university students have electricity 24/7. They want to watch football, not study for their exams

There is about a 10 second time difference between the game on Chinese TV and Dutch radio. It’s fascinating to hear about a goal and actually be able to mentally prepare for seeing it on CCTV 5.

And what would it be like to be one of those guys facing the public during the match.

Friend: I heard you were there, you know “The [tag]World Cup[/tag]”
Crowd watcher: Yep, I was.
Friend:: You’ve seen any great matches?
CW: No, but I did hear and feel them.
Friend: Huh, where did you sit in the stadium
CW: I actually stood
Friend: Really, was it that busy.
CW: Yeah, but I did see a lot of people.

I wonder how much they got paid or maybe they volunteered for ogling fans.

[tag]Pandas[/tag], [tag]China[/tag]’s cuddly creatures, can be seen online these days.

It takes some planning as only between 11:00 and 11:20 China Time you have a chance to see Rong Rong, No. 20’s Son, Lei Lei’s Daughter, Ya Ao, Younger son of Hua Mei and Elder son of Hua Mei on the Panda Cam.

Why most of them haven’t gotten a name for themselves is beyond me.

Maybe they will do another National [tag]panda[/tag] naming contest during the next Spring Festival Gala.

It’s the year of [tag]Italy[/tag] in [tag]China[/tag], actually also the year of Russia and the Year of the British Poems in the [tag]Shanghai[/tag] subway, but I digress.

There are [tag]pasta[/tag] exchanges (the jury is still out on who invented the long pieces of dough), and other cultural feats.

From the [tag]Year of Italy in China[/tag] website:

“Our two countries share an affinity that has been passed on from generation to generation and is still growing stronger.”

Emperor Berlusconi (aka the premier of Italy) has added a very special insight to this that I am sure will be appreciated.

“I have been accused many times of saying communists eat babies,” Mr [tag]Berlusconi[/tag] told a rally of his [tag]Forza Italia[/tag] party.

“Go and read the black book on communism and you’ll find that under [tag]Mao[/tag]’s China they didn’t eat babies but they boiled them to fertilise the fields.”

Source: Herald Sun

This is what a panda looks like after having been inseminated. Seems she’s shagged out.

Source: SH

The first [tag]meeting[/tag] of the China-Brazil High-level Coordination and Cooperation Committee aka the CBHCCC is happening right now.

[tag]CCTV 9[/tag] (aka The Closed Content Television) here in [tag]China[/tag] had some promising news.

I quote [tag]Hong Kong[/tag] presenter James:

“[tag]Brazil[/tag] and China will promote cooperation in various fields”

I am sure you didn’t want to miss that one.

To have some good online [tag]laughs[/tag], go to [tag]CCTV[/tag] and click that red button on the right to see it live.

You still want to know why dvd’s are popular?