shanghai

its about 5-12 degrees over here.. purrfect freezing weather. its about 3 days into our vacation, n its been a lotta fun out here :) shanghai is where third world juxtaposes against first world, n its rly weird to have the modern tall glass buildings right nxt to some old shophouse which houses more spiders than the population of shanghai.

aight so theres this place called Raffles City. named after singapore's raffles city. why? cuz its built by singaporeans. it looks almost like the rafflescity in s'pore. well, but tts juz the outside. so anyways~ we go there pretty often cuz my dad has one of his offices there. n our driver aint frm shanghai so he gets lost driving us around.

the food's pretty gd here. nothing like the frogs we had in beijing. all pretty normal food out here. except for the frozen dog meat we found in a local supermarket.

people - they're great too. juz tt btwn them n us, theres one thing missing. and thats communication. yep we're chinese, n they're chinese. but its diff. totally. u can listen hard, but most of it juz dont sound like chinese. but overall, they're awesome pple. rly friendly. LOUD. but friendly. o they like to knock pple around when they walk too. we got knocked outta the way several times already.

o one MAJOR thing here. that's the shopping. for a shop-o-holic like me, that spells h-e-a-v-e-n. i got tons of stuff in the 3 days my folks' wallets r emptying out pretty quickly. i wont even bother listing out wad i bought here. its too gd to b true. there're stuff like 'prada' sweaters, a new cell phone, n 'GAP' stuff. shop haven.

so anyways~ today i got my first manicure. french manicure to b specific. it cost bout 118 bucks. local money. it was cool. juz a lil difficulty trying to get a conversation going while the lady was doing my nails. but its all smooth n cool after tt i even took a picture wit her.

i miss my music tho. i didnt bring my CDs wit me n i itch to blast some smashmouth. miss my friends too lol. u have no idea. lol but its been great fun we camp out in front of the tv every night wit like 50 billion DVDs to watch. they almost dont cost a thing. ALMOST. so we've watched like hundreds of movies at night. theastronaut'swife, princess diaries 2, paycheck, lionking2.. i cant rmb. cozy stuff :)

aight i gotta bounce.. signing off frm shanghai 4:57pm.