okok..onto the main part of this blog post....
the 10 things i dun really like abt shanghai
(cannot say dislike la..too strong a word..haha)
10)Shanghai is really big...way big
ah yea..shanghai..is pretty big to us sgeans who live in a tiny red dot for quite some time of our lives.. haha... shanghai itself is a tiny part of china..but wa... like 1 side of puxi to airport alr takes like 2hrs... ok la..airport is ulu..but still..shanghai v big...to the locals 20mins walk is quite short..to me..its jus crazy....
9)over salty and oily food
quite alot of food is gd in shanghai..but..quite alot of them are oily and overly salty too... even i this kinda food lover took a while to get used to it.. imagine..u ordering a bbq octopus, after waiting for 10mins and taking ur 1st bite..ur 1st tot is "did i order octopus with a dash of salt or salt with a dash of octopus" trust me..salt with a dash of octopus is nth gd..and i tried it a few times at chui-er bbq stores..haha..places like the really awful Joyful(hey rhymes) sells chicken with cheese on top which is more accurately written as chicken with oil and fats on top.. those health conscious ppl beware! (apparantly locals there are rarely fat..mayb cuz they walk too much alr...)
8)fluctuating weather
well this happens esp during winter.. during winter hor..usually the average is ard.. say lowest 8 to highest 12-14... but some days..it was like.. 12-17 degrees..which is gd la..quite warm(then la.. i still need to wrap myself like popiah in order to walk outside) but hor..some days will be like.. 2-8 degrees..or worse.. -3 to 7 degrees(tt night when i was out with celest's juniors..-3+wind blow... can freeze)..its like u wanna tell shanghai or whoever u believe is controlling the weather "can u make up ur mind??"
7)floods
ok..this one i know happen once in a 100 yrs..lets jus call me suay ya.... the day tt flooded was like any other normal day.. monday somemore..suffering from mon blues+ raining heavily in the morning.. so like.. ok lor..rain heavy..then i reach 宜山路站, there was mini waterfalls along the stairs liao..wa lao..sainz lor..shoe wet..but socks inside still dry..so took mrt(then i didnt know got straight bus to my company) and walked.. then when exit the station.. it was like HOLY #*($@*@()#*... the entire stretch of road is flooded..
ankle lvl..but sianz alr..then walk walk...then sudd became knee lvl...kns la...can swim to work lor...hahaha...end up half the cpy was late for work..jammed for the entire morning...6)ppl snatching taxis
jus when u think u got a taxi..some middle aged to old guy comes running out of nowhere to snatch ur taxi away... its totally sianz lor.. they hide anywhere from inside shopping centers to under bushes..jus to make some poor person flag a cab for them b4 they magically appear and equally magically take the cab away from the person who originally flagged it...
5)kan cheong ppl pushing u, ppl cutting queue
kan cheong ppl pushing u usually happens during peak hour travelling in mrt or bus... smths..locals dun believe the bus driver tt the bus is full or tt 5-10mins of waiting for another bus will kill them.. so they jus rush and push and squeeze in in any way possible...even when u think the bus cant take anymore ppl..hey! another 2-3 ppl jus squeezed in....
cutting queue happens often...esp when buying train tix... sudd when u feel like u will nv reach the receptionist chances are many ppl are cutting ur queue.. best ive seen is when i was buying my tix from the recep some old aunty chaped in and wanted to buy tix lor... sianz leh... i was half buying tix alr and u still chap in?!?! @$^#@&*$#@&$(
4)poor services
shanghai has quite a few of those...unfortunately... waiters and waitresses who bo chap.. but shanghai poor services mainly comes from the phamacists and other owners of small shops.. those tt will scold, give black face and all... hey..we are here to buy ur stuff at least treat us with some courteosy man... i will rmb the hospital incident for a long time lor.. call and ask abt the price of consultation, whats the procedure, do i need to bring passport cuz im a foreigner blabla.. tt lady over the line said v rudely "要来看就来看!!!!!" crap..i was jus asking cuz i dunno the procedure right??
3)chui traffic
yea..in shanghai..traffice jus plain sux... prob most of china oso like tt.. zebra crossing are there cuz the govt has too much white paint to spare.. so they painted zebra crossings.. white useless lines on the road... no cars ever stopped for me while i cross their "zebra crossings" b4...they are jus plain useless..other than tt.. endless horning, chionging, illegal u-turns... china's roads are like some kinda school children who ran amok...
2)ppl "kaaaaaaaaaaaaa pui!!!"
warning! if u hear the "kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" part, do nt ever turn ur head in tt direction.. i repeat, do nt turn ur head in tt direction!! if nt u'll see some guy spitting...spitters are everywhere..and even though its illegal to spit in china... if the police really catch those spitting, i think half the china's population sure kena... but even if u dun see..must get rdy to siam fast fast... esp if the spit comes in ur direction...
and the no1 dislike is......*drum roll*......
1)crowds
yea..this u see everyday during peak hours travelling..and u cant escape them... shanghai and china too many ppl la...everyday sure squeeze one... up till body to body lor..ok la..guys will 赚到if they body to body with chio bu la..but the girls sure nt worth it one lor..esp when they have to squeeze thru tons of men and other women everyday..strangers touching them... sure sianz one... so...tts my no.1 dislike in shanghai! hahaha
well..tt summaries my most dislikes in shanghai..hahahaha... mayb after reading ms pro can easier consider whether wanna go exchange or nt..haha..
ah..ivp coming liao...5 more weeks..so fast lor... ok la..ojang so far nt bad la..but their 1st real tests will be the club performances, followed by the sch/public performance whichever comes 1st.. ojang are all zai ppl.. jus hope they can and will take the 5 more weeks of boring and repetitive training..
ah yes..of cuz..i need to catch up on tuts...soon..really soon....
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