Comments on: Shanghai – not quite like I’d pictured it… http://www.blahblogblah.com/2009/10/06/shanghai-not-quite-like-id-pictured-it/ Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:17:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: injera http://www.blahblogblah.com/2009/10/06/shanghai-not-quite-like-id-pictured-it/comment-page-1/#comment-112 injera Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:50:39 +0000 http://injera.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-112 SJ - I, too, would take navigating duties over zip-lining, eating-steaming-bowls-of-something-fetid, pogo-stick-combat... but I think my partner would expect me to bring more to the team. Ah, well! Raver - will pack the gnome next time. I had a spare 1.4 kilos in the baggage by trip's end. Jess - yes, finally! So glad I didn't go last year when it was first planned - the smog really did play up with my slightly healed windpipes. The level of English there was surprising: street signs, subway maps/ticketing systems, announcements on public transport. Very impressive. And I was also very pleased with the "no comment" umbrella, lower case and all! SJ – I, too, would take navigating duties over zip-lining, eating-steaming-bowls-of-something-fetid, pogo-stick-combat… but I think my partner would expect me to bring more to the team. Ah, well!

Raver – will pack the gnome next time. I had a spare 1.4 kilos in the baggage by trip’s end.

Jess – yes, finally! So glad I didn’t go last year when it was first planned – the smog really did play up with my slightly healed windpipes. The level of English there was surprising: street signs, subway maps/ticketing systems, announcements on public transport. Very impressive.

And I was also very pleased with the “no comment” umbrella, lower case and all!

]]> By: Jess http://www.blahblogblah.com/2009/10/06/shanghai-not-quite-like-id-pictured-it/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Jess Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:41:04 +0000 http://injera.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-114 So you made it to China in the end! I remember you telling me about your plans ages ago, but not when they got rescheduled to. It sounds like you enjoyed your holiday up to the point at which you wrote this email, so I hope that trend continued. I'm kind of astonished by the number of signs that are in both Chinese and English, even if the English on some of them is a little creative. I suppose it's to encourage tourism, but still, the fact that they even translated the "Model Unit" signs is impressive. I also like that they sell umbrellas with the slogan "no comment". At least, it amuses me. So you made it to China in the end! I remember you telling me about your plans ages ago, but not when they got rescheduled to. It sounds like you enjoyed your holiday up to the point at which you wrote this email, so I hope that trend continued.

I’m kind of astonished by the number of signs that are in both Chinese and English, even if the English on some of them is a little creative. I suppose it’s to encourage tourism, but still, the fact that they even translated the “Model Unit” signs is impressive.

I also like that they sell umbrellas with the slogan “no comment”. At least, it amuses me.

]]> By: Reality Raver http://www.blahblogblah.com/2009/10/06/shanghai-not-quite-like-id-pictured-it/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Reality Raver Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:50:24 +0000 http://injera.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-113 I now really want to go to China - it sounds like you packed a lot in. Also handy that C knew a bit of the language. You need to be carrying a gnome to be racing around the world... to poke cab drivers with. I now really want to go to China – it sounds like you packed a lot in. Also handy that C knew a bit of the language. You need to be carrying a gnome to be racing around the world… to poke cab drivers with.

]]> By: SJ http://www.blahblogblah.com/2009/10/06/shanghai-not-quite-like-id-pictured-it/comment-page-1/#comment-111 SJ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:28:53 +0000 http://injera.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-111 Hah! I have the same adventure racing fantasy. JB gets to jump off things and drive in weird cars, I get to navigate. (He's hopeless!) Great post :-) Hah! I have the same adventure racing fantasy. JB gets to jump off things and drive in weird cars, I get to navigate. (He’s hopeless!) Great post :-)

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