Shanghai Travel
On Saturday afternoon I went to Shanghai, I've got to take a taxi to the train station and go to Shanghai by train. My train was super late, I had got to wait for it about one hour at the station. waiting in a very noisy environment. but I can only do that. Fortunately I was with my HK colleagues; they're Andrew, Ken, Clarence, Leo, Jacky and me altogether six people, Andrew got to come back the same day so he's gonna be back very soon right after he arrived in Shanghai.
I got there at about 17:30 to the Shanghai Railway Station, my colleagues sent me to where I should be meeting my friend Christl and got their own way to travel. I was happy that they're very gentlemen always, hehe.
I was waiting for her and observing the first sight of Shanghai. Honestly speaking, Shanghai Railway Station isn't very nice, very messy and a little dirty, probably too many people there from outside...after I saw Christl, she told me that we were supposed to be going to see a government official---I was really nervous coz I was wearing a jogging suits, but there's no way, I already got there. So we asked a taxi driver, but he told us to walk there coz it's closed, after we'd been walking for about 15 minutes to a remote place, we found it's hard to walk there, so we hailed a taxi again, we found it's very far from the station, don't know why the taxi driver doesn't want to drive us there, it's 20 yuan for the taxi fare, so it's must be around 8-9 kilometers! He told us to walk!
We've got that place to see him---he's a middle-aged man, wearing glasses, and talking softly. He doesn't speak English; the secretary---a friend of Christl's---was doing the translation, and I was correcting her translation when it's necessary. The man was inviting us to an apartment, it's so called his office, it's a middle-sized apartment, with a lot of arts inside, I don't know if they're real or fake, I just heard him introducing about everything inside, the Jade table is 200 million years old~the stone is the only one here in China costing about 4 million~the wood's the best of all~the stone tablet is the best natural shaped of all~something like that, I consider it bullshit! Coz I am a questioning person and I could hardly believe whatever strange person or thing came to me. After about one hour of bullshitting to us, he took us to the ChongTsing Little Swan Restaurant. I've heard of that restaurant before, but I'd never got a chance to eat inside, so that's became the only worthy thing for me that night. When we came in I saw about 10 super beautiful girls doing belly dancing! That's my favorite, haha! I mean the sexy dance's my favorite, I enjoyed very much watching them at a very close seat, they're not dancing so good but their beauty got my eyes, hehe~~~
Our dinner was wonderful because of the girls but awful because of the people sitting beside me. They spoke business to me while in dinner~God I don't like talking about bullshitting business in my dinner table, especially with so many beautiful girls aside!!! But I gave him enough face to talk about whatever he likes, when I don't want to listen, I just eat and eat, or pretending not listening to him but watching the girls, hehe. He's okay, not talking too much, so this also caused him would like to talk even more to me after dinner.
We went back to his office, so called office apartment, he told me about his business going, about his company website or something like that, and showed me the~not saything the worst, but almost the most boring website I'd ever seen. Coz he treated me a wonderful dinner with the girls aside, I tolerated him and gave him also some bullshitting comments, hehe, maybe those things are enough for him~Christl was reading the Album of his with the introduction of the secretary girl, Christl was so patience~I have to learn from her. When we came home the girl even asked us to (live/sleep over/stay the night) with us~ Oh my God, okay, whatever, if me alone, I'd be very boring also, at least she's a talker to make us not feeling boring. Christl took us home.
We came home at about 22:30 with three bottle of beers. I would like to buy three because I would like to share with them, but at last I drank almost all of them, and my friends only got half a small cup of beer each. Probably I got 1.5L. It's just okay for me, not much not little. I was quite happy that night talking with them, about love, about life and about Sociality. I was introducing my way of helping the Homosexual people, and giving them the insights of respecting them as friends etc., we'd been talking till 4:25 am, and all of us got to sleep, Christl has a colleagues' cat to take care of, the cat was staying with us in one room and Sunny's staying in the other room. Christl was taking a shower and I slept very fast~ I am a dirty person, hehe, I just taking shower at my place and hotel, hehe.
We woke up at 9 am Sunday. We went to St. Peter's Church. 10 am is the English Mass, the Mass music is my favorite Mass of Creation. I enjoyed it very much. The Mass was celebrated by the bishop of Shanghai Diocease, he's very old but looks very healthy; to my surprise he speaks excellent English! All the altar boys are foreigners. We prayed the rosary altogether and waiting for the Mass start at 10:30am. The Mass was wonderful! I love it very much, took a lot of pictures. After the Mass we asked the priest to bless our rosaries, I also bought a Bible there. Then we left for the Bund
We got to the Bund about 10minutes later, it's really beautiful a Bund, looking from Puxi side, we see a lot of western buildings, we took pictures, and walked to the Nanjing Rd. also we went to the Yu yuan and the City's temple, we spent the whole afternoon in Puxi, the City's temple is a Taoist temple, with 3 halls in one temple area, it's a beautiful temple, I don't know much about it's history, it's said it's built in the beginning of 15th Century, and rebuild in 1926. the most famous Zhengyi Taoist Branch temple. Yuyuan Park is the garden of this temple, the temple's gate ticket is 5yuan, very cheap, the yuyuan Park is 40yuan, that's expensive but worthy to look at it, the whole temple plus the park is totally 10,000square meters, it's not very big but very attractive and delicacy. After the city temple's travel, we supposed to eat outside of the temple, it's widely spread that the temple's snack's the best of China, we weren't hungry, so I just planed to eat some barbecues, but just to the point before I buy it, a Singaporean warned me that's not roast pigeon at all, it's a roast bat! I was shocked and determined not to be a bat eater~
Later we walked to the sight seeing tunnel, it's also famous because it's a tunnel between east and west of Shanghai. I didn't know there's cheaper way for subway or bus before, we spent 30yuan for one way going to Pudong side, 3minutes in the tunnel. We saw many weired things inside of it, there're so called ghosts—which looks terribly ugly and not scary at all, there are lights shinning, I think generally speaking it's okay, just the “Ghost”destroyed my dream to it, haha.
After we got Pudong, we saw the Pearl's Tower at a close sight, took pictures of it, and we also went to a big shopping mall, on second floor there's a Italian restaurant, we ate there, I ordered the sea food rice, cooked with tomato, I love it very much, Christl got chicken with mushroom rice, which cooked by milk, I tried some of hers, still think mine's more matching me. hehe.
We went out of it, took picture of the pearl's Tower at close, the tower at night's super beautiful! We love it very much, then we went to the subway station, I went back to the railway station back to my city Kunshan, and she went home directly.
After I got the train at 22:02 I saw my colleagues, they bought a lot of things from Shanghai, I talked with them, half an hour later I got back to Kunshan, 22:36. The taxi they called arrived, don't know what's wrong with the driver~He drove a QQ to pick all of us, 4big boys and one girl as me! We squeezed ourselves to fit the super limited space, Jacky as his biggest size sitting in front of us, I sit with other 3boys at back, Ken and I are sitting by the side, and Clarence and Leo's sitting in the middle, Ken and I round our arms on Clarence's shoulder in order to stablize ourselves, Leo's a little fat, he tried to sit as front as possible to give us more space for our hips, haha, it's really wonderful an experience, Ken kept shouting coz he felt his hip's super painful and numbed at last. Our car droved crazily, got home just by 22:56! It's never been this fast! Remember that we took about 2hours when we came dim the time we waited for the train? It'd be wonderful if everytime's like this speed! Haha!
I got my hotel soon, and enjoyed my night dreaming of Shanghai...
