Blogs from Jing An, Shanghai, China, Asia

Lewis was being pulled off the pole and put at the last on the grip, thanks to Mclaren's stupid boss Whitmars under fueling his car ... They managed to screw him up again.. Very successfully ... What's the heck wrong with Mclaren this year ? A top team, but somehow can't even manage the car's fueling ?? Whitmarsh should be fired !!!! Idiot ! Mad.... Not much interet left in watching today's F1 race..... Viv/Sloan at Big Bamboo !!... read more

May 27 - maybe a bit city tour and a relaxing Thai massage after? Ha - Wat Phra Kaew, A.K.A, Emerald Budda - seriously don't know how to pronounce that ... But it must be very crowded over there.. have to get up really early to avoid the crowd!! - Grand Palace - Thompson's House - I am more interested in what happend to him rather his house. Rumor has it that one day he was just walking on some street in Malaysia and suddenly disappeared and no one saw him thereafter, and in the same year his sister being murdered in USA... he used to work for CIA... um... feels like one of those hollywood conspiracy moive.. ha - China Town? I do wanna go check out, but if it's too hot or too crowded.... ... read more

This will likely begin and end with food. As I had bought some bananas last night that served as a sort of breakfast but decided that I had better have a relatively early lunch. It was indeed fortunate that barely 100 m from the Hotel is a place called Shanghai Grandmother which supposedly served hearty food. So that seemed as good as any for a top up. I ordered some cold eggplant and garlic dish to keep up my vegetable component - there was virtually crushed garlic on top. However this was nothing compared with the pork and black fungus and garlic. There were only about five very thin slices of fried pork in it, quite a lot of black fungus which was okay, but an unbelievable amount of sliced garlic (to the extent that I ... read more

Shanghai-NOUN: economic powerhouse of Mainland China; located in the southeast; largest shipping port in the world; estimated population...22 million Shanghai-ed: VERB:to kidnap, usually by drugging, for service aboard ship...to induce another to do something through force or deceit I've been Shanghai-ed. Without the drugs or the coercion but I know something happened and I'm still reeling. This gleeming, futuristic metropolis knocked me off my feet and I'm still recovering from the whirlwind romance the past few days. As I previously stated, China wears many masks. In the massive "family" that makes up this country of wonders...Shanghai is the naughty one. The attractive one in the family who pouts her lips, seduces with her eyes, makes one commit frivolous acts, is sulky when she's unhappy and is viral in her ectasy. You just can't resist her. The ... read more

Welcome to the wedding recap blog. So much to share. First the background. Jiyi works with Mark and they’ve known each other for 3 years. Melody is his lovely bride. They asked the kids to be the “flower children”and for Mark to be the Best Man. We went dress and tuxedo shopping for the kids with Jiyi and Melody and Nathan even got a hair cut before the wedding. You probably won’t be able to tell, but he really did. The day of the wedding, Emily, Mark and I set out on a white shoe mission for Emily. Shoes and tights. I was pretty confident that even though we were unsuccessful in finding white shoes in Emily’s size at the 3 stores we visited in our nearby mall the previous week, we’d find the shoes at ... read more

The chinese national holiday is October 1st. You may have seen the impressive parade in Beijing. I saw it on TV. The next day October 2nd we boarded the plane for Shanghai to start a week holiday. I will never complain about a plane flight again. To begin with the airplane seats are closer together, some of you may be wondering if this is possible. Trust me it is. My knee was jammed into the back of the seat in front of me for the whole trip. Has anyone ever watched the home shopping network? How about for an hour straight? Did you turn the volume up to the highest level possible? If was in Mandarin Chinese then you know what I am talking about when I say they were selling everything from the Sky Mall ... read more