The final batch of photos that were lost when one of my harddrives failed that i recovered for $1000. Harddrive failure is real and will happen to you today or 10 years from now so be prepared!!!!
fast trains, but not bullet trains. I rode on this one from Wuhan to Shanghai. At Shanghai north station i called a few hotels. Many of them were full and to my surprise a few of them said sorry no foreigners. I finally found one, Jinjian Inn on 1331 Lujiabang road. I called Kyou kaeri san and hyouyou san formerly from my japanese class in tokyo (don't know their chinese names) and we went to Tian Zi Fang to look around. at Shanghai north station i called a few hotels. many of them were full and to my surprise a few of them said sorry no foreigners. i finally found one jinjian inn on 1331 Lujiabang road . I called kyou kaeri san and hyouyou san formerly from my japanese class in tokyo (don't know their real chinese names) and we went to Tian Zi Fang to look around. we wandered around some more somewhere and at sichuan food. Then wondered where to go for drinks and ended up going back to my hotel for snacks and drinks. Missing photos include a bunch of nice photos of them including one of them kissing (they are nice looking shanghai girls), and photos around Tian Zi Fang. Now on to some photos!
if you're into wispy chinese fairies that look like they are 20 yr old 5th graders
who dat is? Mao?
I lost my lens hood for my 24mm 1.4L somewhere around here around this time. Very poor design canon!!!! i knew this would happen some day. it just twists right off and has no locking mechanism or anything.
Oh look its Kyou kaeri san and hyouyou san formerly from my japanese class in tokyo (don't know their chinese names) and we went to Tian Zi Fang to look around.
Tian Zi Fang is this area that reminds me of a compact Nan Luo Gu Xiang in Beijing.
Chinese Don Knots security
across the street from Tian Zhi Fang.
these two are like 21 now and have lots of their parents money so all their products are real, and real expensive.
asked the taxi driver what this thing on the meter was and he told me and i didn't understand him at all.
Lots of Shanghai cleans up pretty nice. Dinner time, they asked me what i wanted to eat and i said Shanghai food of course. They said there wasn't really any. I've already had tons of soup dumplings from Shanghai so in the end we ended up eating Sichuan food. oh well.
Hyouyou san was this new girl in our japanese class one day and she always shy in class but smiled and laughed at me a lot. Me and Marco asked her and others in our class to hang out and drink some beers every day including fridays but the answer was always no from everyone. Me and Marco hated our class after about a month of this. Finally one day she hung out with us and had a great time but ended up moving back to Shanghai shortly after that so that's her story. And she was like 19 at the time. I really don't get the Chinese kids in our class (80% are Chinese). Kyou Kaeri san even eventually hung out with us too but that was after Marco short circuited and went back to Spain.
Yes! too bad Marco didn't get any of this in Tokyo!
somewhere in Shanghai. They asked me where i wanted to go. I said i want to hang out somewhere where foreigners don't go. they said there are foreigners everywhere and they you just get used to it. Maybe i should be more accepting of foreigners not only because i am one but because that part of the identity of these cities. But that doesn't mean i'm gonna like hanging out in Sanlitun, Roppongi, or Las Ramblas. You can see the rest of this Shanghai trip and the rest of the asia trip in previous posts on this blog. It was nice to be in Shanghai with friends this time around, which ultimately led to me liking shanghai instead of disliking it like i used to. Well this is just the middle of the asia trip so i'm not going to write any conclusions, you'll have to check the last post of the asia trip for that overall conclusion, or the last shanghai post for a shanghai conclusion. so now everything after this will be back in Paris. Back up your data ya'll!!!!
forgot to post these stamps i got in hong kong. the look pretty sweet.
I said i would start collecting stamps from the places I lived after seeing the cool ones in Hong Kong and then i get to singapore and this literally was the best looking stamp i could choose out of all of them. My enthusiasm for stamps instantly dropped. The Serangoon Reservoir? Come on Singapore this is pretty weak! When i went to the post office in paris they said they don't have any beautiful stamps. I will have to try again because i can't believe france doesn't have any.
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