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

December 26, 2005

Christmas Eve | Chengdu Travel

Filed under: China Travel — Shanghai @ 11:24 pm

It was supposed to be a Christmas performance we were going to attend. It turned out to be a disco with X-mas decoration.chengdu christmas

Christmas is good business for entertainment venues as Chinese take it as an extra chance to have a party.

chinese tissue Each table in the place had a nice sign with the minimum one had to spend. The nicer the table, the better the seats, the more expensive.

It was enjoyable and enlightening to see the crowds using inflatable bats donned with the American flag to hit others over the head. To confuse things more the tissue paper box was branded by Che Guevara. It was great fun though.

December 24, 2005

Chengdu Hotel | Elevator Part 2

Filed under: China Travel — Shanghai @ 12:25 pm

chinese massageContrary to yesterday tonight there was no guy sitting next to the elevator. Instead the chair had moved into the elevator with two girls handing out businesscards while whispering, ni yao anmo ma?.

Again I declined the offer for massage. Maybe tomorrow evening they will already be in my room, including the chair.

We’ll leave tomorrow so I will miss out on that.

December 23, 2005

Chengdu Elevators | Travel China

Filed under: China Travel — Shanghai @ 9:54 am

We are staying in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, visiting W.’s family.
Just had a nice dinner with one of her friends and as Chengdu dialect is the mode of communication I took an early leave to the hotel so W. and her friend could catch up without being bothered by me.

We stay in the Chengdu Hotel, once the hotel of Chengdu, now a bit degenerated with a pool without water and a tenniscourt without a net. I walk towards the elevator and my eyes spot a guy sitting on a chair next to it. I didn’t see him during the day. He jumps up, seeing that I am alone and hands me a nice business card for massage services. I guess that a hotel loosing a star has to go many ways to find additional sources of income.

As an aside, living in Shanghai has saved me from a lot of spontaneous uttered hello’s by grown up Chinese men. I was happy today to realize that they still exist, these Hellunatics that think there is something sophisticated about barking into a foreigners face, HELLO. I am sure he has a nice story to tell to the wife at dinner tonight.

December 21, 2005

Chocolate Santa in China

Filed under: China Culture — Shanghai @ 10:45 am

Chinese Christmas A small Belgium Chocolate Workshop has opened in my neighbourhood. As it’s almost Christmas we bought a couple of Santa Clauses as a gift to spread some more western ideology.

The real news is though that they also sell the Chocolate version of Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas), a person who actually really existed and whose birthday is celebrated the 5th/6th of December. In Holland the guy is more popular than Santa.

I guess it’s the first version of Sinterklaas in Shanghai, maybe even in China. I tried this years Sinterklaas and he tasted good.

That’s why Santa is in the picture, I have to wait a few more days before he is ready to be eaten.

This post sounds like a plug and I guess it is. The same shop has also some branches in Belgium but I just give the Shanghai address.

Pralinor Chocolate Workshop
432 Taixing Lu, Shanghai (crossstreet Xinzha Lu)
Tel: + 86 (0)21 62586659

December 13, 2005

Thank God They Are Still Virgin

Filed under: Whatever — Shanghai @ 4:00 am

Despite previous internet claims that 84.14 percent of girls in the Beijing Foreign Studies University have had sex another highly scientific survey shows this is nonsense.

….the survey found 3.8 percent of sophomore girls have had sex experience, compared with 7.9 percent of junior girls and 24.8 percent of senior girls.

The survey team said their survey counteracted Internet claims that 84.14 percent of girls in the university have had sex, which damages the female students’ reputation because Chinese tradition respects virginity before marriage.

Source: Shanghai Daily – Click here

Chinese Internet Addiction Show

Filed under: Chinese Multi Media — Shanghai @ 3:54 am

computer games chinaApparently there is a “Care for the Next Generation” organization here in China that came up with the luminous idea to educate the younger generation about the perils of playing computer games too much and too long.

In co-operation with some other friends the Care people have produced a 38-episode Internet addiction themed television show, called “The Story of Shan Dian Mao”.

The aim is to show teenage viewers the horrors of using the Internet too much.

Now just get those addicted internet game players to find some time forwatching the show and everybody will be happy.

Source: ChinaTechNews

December 9, 2005

Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Museum

Filed under: China Culture — Shanghai @ 10:12 am

One of the most interesting museums I went lately is the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre. Hidden in a basement the world of Chinese Propaganda in the Mao era opens up to you.

I bought a comic book there from 1957. The cover shows an interesting view on the world at that time. The title is “Two Worlds”.

To find out what the western guy is protesting about, go to the special page that has been added with more info about the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre.

Shanghai Museum Propaganda Posters

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