Its one more week before i leave for Sunnyvale. I have been musing about Shanghai for 3 weeks now. Thanks to all my colleagues who have been patiently listening to me.
1) Terrible terrible service. Pleasant smile + warm service = Sunnyvale, Straight faced + warm service = Singapore, Grouchy look + cold service + heck-care attitude = Shanghai.
2) Blaring horns start at 6.30am, ends at 10pm. No tea break, no lunch break.
3) For the 1st time in my life, i see cracks on almost every taxi driver's steering wheel(where the horn is). It just goes to show how often they use their horn.
4) Ever experienced the feeling of biting sand between your teeth after you take a small breath through your mouth?
5) Every taxi driver swears at least 50 times a day.
6) Everyone is trying to snatch a piece of the road. As if there is not enough road for use!
7) "hhaaaarrrrgggghhhhh Puuuiiiiii!" - Red alert! Dart your eyes to watch out for phlegm bullets!
8) I think my lungs have accumulated a layer of 2nd hand cigarette smoke juz after this assignment.
9) Unfriendly - people look at me like an alien when i try to ask for directions.
10) Finally, how i wish i was more diligent during secondary school chinese lessons!
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I was about to show Will ur blog abt how beautiful Shanghai is.. and am thinking of persuading him to visit Shanghai together..
but with your latest blog, "Musings on Shanghai", I changed my mind...U would only make the matter worse..
pr
Let me know when you are back to Sunnyvale so we can have dinner together.
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