a shameful waste of madhouse time

视频：奥运会开幕式DVD上海热卖_视频新闻_新闻_腾讯网 via kwout

According to this report, you can or will be able to soon.

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上海世博会门票9月28日首发 价格拟160元_社会频道_新华网 via kwout

What is more interesting to me is this weird picture from the Xinhua article where I got this information. Maybe this design image has appeared somewhere else on the internet before, but this is the first time that I’ve seen anything like it, though, like with the Olympics, the Expo is one [...]

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Some (questionably) funny snippets of life in Shanghai:
1. A boy riding a bike circles around a family of three black people walking down the street.
He says “three black people! Three black people! Oh what fun! Darlie Toothpaste!”
(三个黑人，三个黑人，真好玩！黑人牙膏）
2. Taxi driver, talking to me about things getting closed down in SH because of the Olympics.
“They are closing [...]

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I saw a guy in the subway that had a shirt that said “I speak English. Do you?” I looked at him for a moment, and dismissed it as just another
Chinglish shirt. He then walked over to me and was about to hand me a flyer for Wall Street English. I waved him away. One [...]

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So I subscribe to Shanghaiist events and i got this newsletter from SmartShanghai.com and this is what the first paragraph said:

Hey Shanghai!
Check yo’ delf! So many clubs opening in Shanghai I can’t even keep track of
them all.
But before we get to that - more importantly - “The Dark Night” opens in
theatres TONIGHT, son, [...]

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Hu Yang (胡杨) is the Shanghai based documentary photographer that takes shots of people living in Shanghai, in their native environments–their homes. He did a series that got a lot of publicity in the last year or so, it was called 《上海人家》 and showed Shanghainese people (or at least people who live here) from all [...]

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So I find myself at Starbucks, and you know how Chinese people aren’t that great at making lines. I was the only one in front of these three men that had come in after me, and although I had already placed my order but not yet paid they thought it was OK to yell out [...]

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…can be a bitch if you haven’t done it already. Here’s what I found in the course of my search. If you can’t read Chinese or cannot find someone who can, this isn’t going to be of much use to you. But here goes.
First, here’s a page that lists all the major PSB and police [...]

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The title piqued my interest: a thief in Jiaxing had been living in the area above the ceiling of a hotpot restaurant, in an area that was almost 600 square meters and was also above a fast food restaurant and a noodle shop. Thus if he ever wanted to steal things, he had his pick [...]

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At least that’s what it said on some guy’s T-shirt. I passed by a guy wearing a white T-shirt on which was written, in black letters, “Game On! China is the coolest country in the world…” I think there might have been another phrase in there as well, but i don’t remember now.

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