first stop was in shanghai – dont have too many pictures of the sights here, partly cos there werent that many pretty ones, and also i was lazzzzy as usual :P
one way you can leave the airport for the city is to take the MagLev:
it’s not as cheap as the other options, but it’s really fast. it can apparently go faster than a bullet train, but this was a very short journey and the fastest speed it clocked was this:
301km/hr! frankly i’m not sure if that’s meant to be fast or not, but it was quite shiok sitting in it and zooming extremely smoothly across the land :)
saw this in the taxi:
it’s quite crap though, cos taxi drivers in china are absolutely useless. they usually dont know the road that you want to go to, and it’s quite difficult to communicate with them. maybe if you dont speak chinese you have less problem cos they might be nicer, but sitting in cabs wasnt always pleasant. we took taxi lots though, cos it’s not too expensive and subways arent always convenient. and oh, cab drivers are usually rude! and a lot of them suffer from road rage.
in shanghai, there was this driver who kept honking at no one in particular, wove in and out of traffic for no apparent reason and had jerky driving. in hangzhou, this driver wasnt sure where our hostel was so we directed him, yet he didnt believe us and kept questioning our directions. wtfh lor. in suzhou, we got in and told the driver to go to this particular place, and he didnt even grunt to acknowledge that he heard. then when i tried asking him if he knew some location, he cut me off with a “dunno” at “excuse me..”. sigh. and in beijing, none of the drivers seemed to know the main street we were near to even though it leads off tiananmen square.. which is unfathomable.
the mrt stations in shanghai are really nice. the newer ones look like the northeast line back home:
the trains all have tv screens too, which show news and entertainment clippets. unless things have changed since i’ve been home, that’s way better than singapore’s mrts. sorry, but so much more can be done regarding the crap stuff shown on the screens in the mrts back home!
and i thought that this was funny, as it seemed odd that you have to forbid people from trying to get themselves killed:
met up with e. and b.t. in shanghai, which was really nice cos i got to speak lots and lots of singlish! my first meal in china was xiao long bao:
check out the price for one long:
so cheap – that’s less than SGD1! food in china is very cheap. i ate too much while i was there!
it was rainy on the first day – and for the next few days too, actually. it rained a lot when i was in china, which wasnt very pleasant. but we went walking around, and saw this shop using mickey and minnie mouse to advertise their opening:
the mice have no relation to the shop – it’s a bakery cum cafe sort of place – but everyone seemed to love it. apparently, in china a lot of shops use well known icons to advertise their products, precisely because those icons are already recognised and familiar among the people.
some views of the street in the old town, near the Yu Garden :
of course, we had to look at the oriental pearl tv tower:
it’s very nice at night hor?
however, it looks quite crap in the day:
here are more shots of the city at night, on the Pudong side and looking over at the Bund:
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