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So here is the first of a few posts in regards to my vacation.
Shanghai Flickr set.
En-route to Myanmar, had a 12 hour layover in Shanghai. Options were to stay in Pu Dong airport for 12 hours or go into Shanghai and do a bit of exploring. Since november, China has relaxed their visa requirements which allows people with connecting flights within 24 hours not to have visa and leave the airport. So we went to Shanghai.
Pu Dong airport is a new airport. With this, they have a bullet train that goes into Shanghai. It is really nice… 7minutes and 20seconds to the city from the airport at speed of 430km/h on the maglev train. Then a 10 minute subway ride and we were at People’s Square. The heart of Shanghai.
Shanghai itself is a nice city. Very modern with a touch of the classical chinese architecture. We walked around People’s Square and looked at the Christmas festivities that were going on. We then grabbed a taxi to a Nanjing Road, which is the shopping and tourism area. After be barraged by people trying to sell fake rolexs and other items we managed to have a decent time exploring and eating real chinese food and getting real chinese boba/bubble tea.
Thoughts on Shanghai
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Greetings all, a little delayed but I hope everyone had a merry xmas and a happy new years! I have spent nearly the past 3 weeks in Thailand and Myanmar, hence the lack of posts. More to come about all..
あけましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくおねがいします。
(akemashite omedetou gozaimasu. kotoshi mo yoroshiku oneigaishimasu.)
happy new year. I look forward to a good year with you.
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ode to the rednecks… with dueling banjos; deliverance style.
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Well I just finished reading the new Harry Potter book. Not too bad of a read, I am not for sure how I feel about it yet though.
Some spoilers follow, so if you expect me not to ruin it, you are wrong.
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As digital as our(my) lives is, I ask this question.. what are you reading right now? And what was the last thing you read. Let me clarify by saying: newspapers, blogs, websites, pdf’s, ebooks and digital mediums do not count. Magazines and books.. more so books.
Currently I am reading Quicksilver. Good book but damn it is long and difficult to read at times. Typical Stephenson.
The last book I read was Dune. Quite a good read.
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Went to the theatre to see Batman Begins tonight. I have to say this was a damn good movie. The story line was really well thought out and answered a huge number of questions. I will say I am disappointed by the portrayal of a few of the cast, it was a movie though.
I am still undecided about Christian Bale.. his performance is good, but when he is batman, he talks like a 60 year old smoker with half a lung. Other then that, the scarecrow was done well and Liam Neeson did a great job.
A lot of the visuals were great, especially the tripping scenes where batman has red glowing eyes and breathes fire. Makes me want to climb a mountain in china.
Two thumbs up.. watch it in the theatre and then wait for the dvd rip to download it.