Changing Behavior in Shanghai
It is raining day today and it was also raining a couple of nights before, when I went out to get some cigarettes at the Kedi supermarket on the corner.
Armed with my [tag]umbrella[/tag] I saw another foreigner approaching me, and we friendly nodded to each other. Passing each other our umbrellas lightly touched and almost at the same time we said, “I’m sorry”, “I’m sorry”. Each of us went his own way and I felt like being back in Europe.
The question is, would I have said ‘sorry’ if I had this encounter with a [tag]Chinese[/tag]? Probably not, as I would have justified my banging into his/her umbrella (slightly tilting my umbrella to the side he/she is passing me) being part of my self defense in order to keep my eyesight.
Strange how perceptions and automatism’s change.
Do you say sorry?
On a recent Saturday night I spent my first evening at Cotton’s. 
It’s more than enough to satisfy you for breakfast as well as lunch. A real brunch in that sense. The bread was a little to enthusiastically toasted. The ham, salami and cheese were generous. More butter makes it even better.
It’s always the toilets. Not much wrong with it as far as cleanliness goes. 
In [tag]Shanghai [/tag]Outdoor and Indoor lcd and led advertising is Wild West. There don’t seem to be a lot of regulations or maybe nobody is enforcing them. Each possible surface, whether it’s moving or static is seen as a potential target.
Buses, subways (stations) and taxi’s have small lcd screens. Screens in elevators have 20 seconds to grab my attention, at least when it’s not too crowded. Shopping in the supermarket, I’m exposed to more screens in the supermarket, as if I wasn’t there already to buy. 
On the ring road big led screens intend to distract the drivers with flashy ads. It’s one big experiment ( I’m sure I still left out some other forms, like gymnasiums, office buildings, hotels, banks, golf clubs, hospitals, and so on) and causes sound and vision pollution. On the other hand I like it that they dare to experiment no matter if it will proof to be effective or not.