Shanghai

Shanghai


Dear Shanghai Pudong,

I have visited you once in August and these are my thoughts.

MAJOR construction everywhere and especially getting ready for the 2010 world exhibition. Your Science and Technology Museum is really huge , and your underground is fantastically busy, holding the biggest piracy market at unusually high prices to attract tourist mostly. It was a little strange to see some locals (knowing most of them to be poorer)and then an indian guy appearing beside saying "Just take the bag I'll buy both for you".......... thoughts** the girl is a whore???, FYI the indian is fat..

Anyways the next stop was the Super Brand Mall, probably the only mall in Pudong side. There are other shopping areas but there is only 1 MALL.
Big and tall.... to accommodate sooooooooo many people on weekends. I loved the giant 10m-tall teddy bear you put in your center display. I also guessed you loved the attention as the cameras were busy flickering like the locals treated you as a super star. Better even the kids were PUSHED to stand to take photos (?????) and the adults pushed among themselves to get to the teddy bear to take a photo!!!?!??!? OMG the adults are seriously deprived of childhood I think, hugging broken and dirt bears to sleep???
Sometimes I think the China people are overwhelmingly-warm?!?!? They like to touch each other (arms and butts and shoulders and all)??? Rubbing across in public places ..... ok I can understand the “toking-loudly” cos the bloody parents were all too noisy screaming across the mall calling for each other. But I dun think my country’s mrt is that noisy?!?!? So why does the china high-pitch-behaving-all-so-rich-rude-ass-darn-idiots keep SCREAMING over the phones in the trains .... <> yupyup... we must embrace their rudeness haiz..... is that why the crime rates of kids are rising

For food try the shop ‘KungFu’ on the 3 storey of the super brand mall!!!!! Super good and S$5 dollars for soup and drinks included... I think they easily trash any Singaporean mixed vegetables and rice stall.

Ok next:
Visiting the Macdonalds... they eat surprising small portions!!!! Our small drink = their large?? Whatever anyways the restaurants are much cheaper comparatively and you get proper waitress service (for some)..... Try the Din Tai Fung at World Financial building... FANTASTIC Service, changing my plates for every dish, helping me to scoop from the main bowl into my own... only 1 problem, never help me refill water repeatedly...

The zoo carnivores were kept in ‘wildlife’ all the long grass and trees and duckweed-filled pond. Not bad, get to see the animals swimming in wild, but not sure if they are fed well... There were so many monkeys kept in the 1 big cage (no trees) and when i walked past, the monkeys were following me sticking their arms through the grills to beg for food... Mostly were scratching the desert-dry ground for worms.... Worst thing I saw was a black bear, maybe sun bear, was forced to stand on 2 legs for the whole 1 hour animal show?!?!? When it came down on fours, the trainer used a metal bar ended with a hook to beat the bear’s side to ask it to stand. The baby elephant was taken aside behind the performance stage(in view of half the audience) to get beaten on the trunk cos it refused to stand on 2 legs during practice. ....................... The zoo totally does not operate like singapore’s on a food-reward system. They do the punish-starving system to get the animals to perform. Only the pandas were spared, given a big enclosure (consisting of indoors and outdoors) to run and play. It just slept and slept throughout.......... Poor tiger cubs, locked away from their mother and taken into human’s custody in cages. The tiger cubs were chained and held by the trainers, collecting 5 dollars for a picture, no teeth to bite yet......

Even though the excuse that people are poor.... I do not think life in Shanghai is that poor... I had the opportunity to visit a local house probably about 60 square meters (not joking) and owners were playing stock market on their computer?!?!?!? 4 people stayed in that house with no intention of moving ..... In pudong, houses cost 1 million SGD for a studio in a condo, apparently I walked into one to see the design of the house and most viewers were china locals..... buying 1 house but brought the whole generation down to see.

I thought communism was supposed to be about people helping people, what I see is people struggling to get reach by all means ....” who cares if my neighbour is poor , I need to take care of my family, I’ll do whatever it takes” ..., on the other hand, the british people were concerned with one another’s activities, not to the extent of kapo-ing though... Communism really brings out the selfishness in people cos I guess their hard earned moneys were/are taken away from the people to do what??? Who knows, maybe into govts pockets or feeding the richest in the country...