I might as well do some blogging here, to keep this site alive. To do I will put some my photos and experiance in Shanghai down here.
Today my boss came back from Inner Mongolia, and gave me shitload of work, ranging from design new magazine advertisements, translating manuals, to finding someone to build us a display at our up comming convention. Oh if anyone is interested, I'm working for Lincoln Industries, we sell Lubrication Technology :laugh: ... not that you dirty minded people.. we sell grease guns, pumps and stuff for factories, tools, cars, engines, etc. it has a moving part, we grease it.

oooooh Shanghai! Sounds exciting, how do you like the city so far? Have you had any good chinese food? :)

Hope you're having a good time there and the boss is not working you too hard. Updates from Shanghai will be great. I need something interesting to procrastinate with here...hehehe
Shanghai is very exciting, one moment you would think you are in New York, the next you could be in the slums, and then back into highrises before you even noticed what you had gone through. I live in a very nice part of town, a good mix between old and new, rich and poor. Plus it only takes me 45 minutes to get to work. I take a crowded bus, and the an even more jam packed ferry accross the river, and then walk to my office building in Pundong

Here are some pics:

View from my apartment

View from the Ferry


In a city where water costs the same as beer and beer cost the same as Whisky... no joke  :cool:

Quote (Thorsten @ June 27, 2005,21:19)
In a city where water costs the same as beer and beer cost the same as Whisky... no joke  :cool:

That's pretty damn cheap! In Syracuse a bottle of cheap store-brand water at the store will cost you 59 cents, while beer is as cheap as 33 cents! In Austria the cheapest, crappy beer is as low as 28 cents for 0.5L, while a bottle of water will cost you 75-95 cents!
At the club a beer will cost you 48 rnb, a Bottle of water 50rnb and a Whisky 50 rnd. As such you see everyone with a bottle of whisky and such.. In Austria it's vodka, here it's whisky!
Just curious: so why is the water so expensive? Is this tap water or bottled water you're talking about? Is it because there is too much water pollution in China?  ???
Water is pretty much expensive everywhere today... It's pathetic... Even in the States a bottle of Aquafina or Dasani (which are both nothing but purified water ala filter) costs nearly as much as soft drinks (sometimes even the same, such as in a vending machine) and more than beer. Try getting a bottle of water at a concert. In fact the riot at Woodstock '99 was largely caused by people being upset with paying $4 for a bottle of water.
Oh okay, I think I sort of misunderstood the comparison there. Guess it's because I've gotten used to free drinkable tap water here in Goettingen and bottled water that only costs 0.70 euro on campus here(I love how all the food on campus here is subsidized - it's so cheap!  :bigwow: )

And yeah I agree that Dasani and Aquafina are a bit pricey, which is not good since I drink them all the time because I'm such a big water-drinker and the tap water in Davis tastes so bad that it's not even worth mentioning.
yeah.. I've also been pampered by Vienna's good water. You can't drink the tap water here without boiling it. As such when you ask for water, u usually get it in a bottle or it's hot. As such when you go to a club they sell you the most expensive bottle of water they can find. Normally in the supermarkets you can get your jug of water for 5 rnb, instead of 50 which they charge at the clubs. :laugh:
You should sneak your own water in, I bet all the Chinese are doing it!  :D
Or perhaps you don't really need to since all the cheap whisky will keep you quite full... ;)
:) Just got back from a Dinner with our Shanghai Distributor and our AP( Asia Pacific) General Manager. All I can say is crazy... we were all drunk before dessert.

you're allowed to get drunk before dessert as long as you don't SKIP dessert :)