I'm surrounded by computer nerds. I hear the heavy clack clack of keyboards as someone, somewhere trys to kill a seventh level mage in the nether regions of Hibiscia or something like that. I'm sitting in an internet cafe in Shanghai that seems to be used primarily for games.
Shanghai is cool if not a bit more expensive than Beijing. Tall buildings rise up out of the ground putting my hometowns skyline to shame (it doesn't really have one in retrospect) and each building is capped with a unique structure. It reminds me of a normal city in which each building had an alien space ship land on top of it. The other night Jen, some guys from England, and some fellow American travelers tried to go to the top of Jin Mao to loiter and drink beer in the classiest hotel bar in Shanghai with a view overlooking the colonial architecture along river bank which locals refer to as the Bund. The laughed us out of there. Apparently we can't wear shorts, sneakers, sandals (they call them slippers for some reason) up to the top. So pretty much we were shut out. We ended up drinking at a roof top bar across the way with a pool table and two american dollar beers (pretty good for Shanghai)...
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Right now we're meshing out rules for a fun drinking game involving Suntory, rolexes, skates, foam mice, panhandling children, and the Bund... Look forward to it!
Shanghai is cool if not a bit more expensive than Beijing. Tall buildings rise up out of the ground putting my hometowns skyline to shame (it doesn't really have one in retrospect) and each building is capped with a unique structure. It reminds me of a normal city in which each building had an alien space ship land on top of it. The other night Jen, some guys from England, and some fellow American travelers tried to go to the top of Jin Mao to loiter and drink beer in the classiest hotel bar in Shanghai with a view overlooking the colonial architecture along river bank which locals refer to as the Bund. The laughed us out of there. Apparently we can't wear shorts, sneakers, sandals (they call them slippers for some reason) up to the top. So pretty much we were shut out. We ended up drinking at a roof top bar across the way with a pool table and two american dollar beers (pretty good for Shanghai)...
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Right now we're meshing out rules for a fun drinking game involving Suntory, rolexes, skates, foam mice, panhandling children, and the Bund... Look forward to it!
