Shanghai Snippets - "Dance"

I was bringing Simin around Shanghai yesterday and chanced upon some live music playing at the shopping malls. While there were people dancing, only one person caught the attention of everyone...

[F][e][L][i][X] Entertaining SMU and beyond... since 2003.

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If you would be interested:

June 15th
Spring Break Party SESSION 2 @ Monsoon
9pm till late

2 DJs play new and old-skool Hip-Hop and sexy RnB. The free Jacuzzi and BBQ service are open to public.. wearing your Bikini or Beach-wear receive a free shooter.

Presale ticket: 50rmb (inc. 100 rmb Quiksilver shopping voucher)
At door: 75rmb
Include free massage, free body painting and the chance to win an Ipod and some high end prizes in a lucky draw.

buy any Quiksilver/ Roxy boardshort or bikini only @ Quiksilver Grand Gateway Mall, get a free ticket.

DJ line-up: DJ Kamikaze from Germany and DJ Elnomo from Barcelona.

For pre-sale tickets contact 13621827764, 13818928073

Farmer's Market in Shanghai

Farmer's Market

The second "Farmer's Market" of 2007 from 10am til 12.30 noon. It brings together some of Shanghai's finest suppliers. There will be freshly baked bread, pastries and cakes, a variety of organic fruit and veg and many home made snacks. Also available will be meats, seafood, cheeses along with a host of imported wines. Not only is food and drink available but freshly cut flowers will be available along with a whole host of other goods! "There will be enough delights on hands, come and join this fun shopping time!" The event is set to remain as a regular feature with the market being held on teh third Sunday of most months throughout the year. Free Admission.

We can't DJ, You can't Dance

Happening on Thursday 14th June. No cover charge and 10 RMB drinks all night!

What SMU Interns Do At Their Free Time

Taken at the South Bund Tailors' Market... WOO HOO~

For more exciting adventures, ask me and I may consider to add you to my private blog... wahaha!

To Anna, Dion, Yan Shiun and Jasmine: We need to compile all our pics together siah! How how?

To the others: Come on peeps, post your stuff here!

Updates!

Hey everyone,

Please take time to keep in contact with one another okay?

For those who have been hanging around with me the past weekend, I'm sure you know how exciting the weekends can be! Heh heh heh!

To Weizhe, Yan Shiun, Jasmine, Claressa: For access to my private blog let me know your Gmail address thanks!

To the other SMU interns: You wanna see our happening stories? JOIN US!

Gathering?

Thinking of organizing a dinner or chillout session this coming weekend. Anyone who is keen let me know!

More places to go can be found on www.smartshanghai.com. Allow me to make a couple of reviews of the places that I went (Weizhe went with me too!)

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1. Windows Scoreboard:

Review:
Situated in the bar district, Windows Scoreboard is located on the 3rd floor, which takes some time to find. The place is the venue where I was watching the FA Cup final with Weizhe and my friend, but I must say that the atmosphere was kinda lacking. While there were many TV screens all over the pub and a big screen in the middle, the bar management did not put on the speakers, so imagine watching a FA cup final without any sound... just plain weird.

What is good about this place though is the cheap food and beer. Pub grub can cost as little as 10RMB. I recommend the fried chicken with sweet mustard sauce. The place also serves decent food, starting from 20 RMB to 30 RMB max. The reccomendation here would be their BLT sandwich (25 RMB). Drinks here are dirt cheap (for a pub), with beers starting from 10RMB (Tsingdao and Tiger) to 25 RMB max (Heineken, Carlsberg, etc). Shots and cocktails starts from 10 RMB as well...

Verdict: 3 out of 5 stars

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2. Windows Too Club

Review:
Club plays pretty much RnB and Hip-Hop music, the kind that would be very much similar to Smoove (MOS) and Phuture. Drinks are slightly more ex than Windows Scoreboard, but still cheap as compared to some places. Atmosphere is pretty good, but unfortunately the club venue is small. They have a very small stage area, next to the DJ set-up. With metal chains and metal bar backdrop, one could just fantasize and imagine some kinky dance moves... provided you got the guts (or too high to care) to do it! Haha!

Not the best place to club, but still good for some decent (or indecent) fun.

Verdict: 3 out of 5 stars

hey angie,

me and rita are actually staying at chang ning district.. but apparently its quite big haha.. we cant help you with the accomodation as ours is by the company...
but if you need dinner or shopping kakis, do find us ! :)

do let us noe your contact no.. :)
there's parkson mall near our office... gd food.. movie... grocery store.. :)
we also found out there's a singapore restaurant here! :) for those missing food back in spore.. we have one here in hongqiao rd.. but hehe.. i dun noe the exact add.. just noe how to get there.. so anyone interested can tell us! :)

regards,
JEn

Good Places to Go/Eat/Chill/Shop

Hey all!

If you are in the Huangpu area and working near People's Square, you might want to consider to go to this place.

Barbarossa Bar/Lounge
231 West Nanjing Road, inside People's Square Park
南京西路 231 号，人民公园内

And on the topic of go/eat/chill/shop, please provide your inputs if you know any good places to go okay? Facebook, Friendster, Blogspot.

Just in case we get banned here...

Hi all,

For those who went to shop for bags and watches today (Norm, Weizhe, Anna, Sandra)... well that was lots of fun wasn't it!

Haha, seeing Weizhe bargain is S.C.A.R.Y. But you the man lah you!!!

Anyway, just in case blogspot is banned, I urge all of you to use Facebook and Friendster in the meantime okay? Post messages on the Facebook wall!

Sorry Angie, I'm not too sure about the Chang Ning district. Use the contact list sent out to ask around k?

Anyone staying at Chang Ning District?

Hello all,

how're u guys doing over at the pearl of the east?:P anw wanna ask if any of you are staying in or anywhere near chang ning district. i'm going over on the 13th June but i'll only have accomodation from July 1 onwards, so will need to find a temp place to stay for 3 weeks to a month. if any of you are familiar with chang ning, any hostels to recommend? my work place wld be at hong qiao road near the zooo!!!!:D did u guys put up at a hostel before finding perm. accommodations too?

Angie

Shanghai Ah Beng

Not sure how many of ya gotten your internet yet, but for me since I'm staying at a hostel with free wireless I'd might as well got the ball rolling...

Some of you might be wondering why I got this title for the blog post, I'll be explaining this to you very soon... in the meantime, I hope all of you who are here are doing fine and enjoying yourselves. Pity I couldn't make it in time for the gathering, since I only arrived on 5th May itself.

Anyway, about my 1st night here, I was walking along the busy streets when all of a sudden I felt something tugging at me...

Turned out it was some robber trying to grab my pouch!!!

Little did he knew, I'm the Chao Ah Beng from Singapore. And I was armed with my anti-theft pouch.


Yeap, you heard me. ANTI-THEFT POUCH.


I turned around and furiously kicked the bugger, in fact one kick actually hit his balls I think. I was basically screaming “你奶奶地” (Ni Nai Nai Di), talk about being adaptive to local culture eh?

One more thing: Is it just me, but why do all those sleazy men like to come up to me, walk 2 streets with me just to tell me to go for a "massage" and "have some fun"? I had to spit on the shoes on one guy just to make him get off my back!!! Boy this reminds me of my time backpacking Europe and when I was in Frankfurt...

Will be posting pictures soon.

Temp Housing @ the Hostels

Hi all,

For those who have been emailing me to ask about housing becos of the recent pull-out as mentioned by Ricky, pls go to Hostel World for a list of respected hostels in Shanghai.

I know there are other hostel booking websites, including the Hosteling International page. However this page I have used thruout my backpacking days across Europe and many other countries, plus I have the Gold Card membership which allows me to book for free (you only need to pay the 10% deposit online). As for those that just give a reservation and no payment, I've got bad experiences since they can "cancel" your booking, because you didn't pay for it...

So for those in need, pls let me know okay? My contact details are given in the excel sheet I sent out earlier.

Cheerio,

~ Lixie ~

Dinner in Shanghai

Thank to Weizhe for recommending this place to party for all of us. The details are abstracted from the email as follow. Please send him an email to indicate that if you are going.

Date: 5th May 2007 , Saturday

Time: Evening, 8ish

Place: O' Malley's, Shanghai

Hengshan Lu, Tao yuan lu

Wad are we doing: Meeting up to eat and drink and network

Steven

Shanghai Housing Links

Hi ppl, for those who have yet to find housing, here are two links,

http://rent.sh.soufun.com/
http://rent.anjia.com/

Though they are in Chinese, the prices found here are much more reasonable than the English classifieds.

intro myself

hey all,
i am jen... 2nd yr econs student..:)
nice to noe so many people going to Shanghai for internship... let's have a welcoming dinner when reached there can? i think some leaving very soon rite?

btw, i heard from my frens that karaoke there is cheap and good... as in those got standard de.. not those ermm dirty one hehe... so if any of u like to sing.. :) we can go there tog !!!
woohoo! internship in china would be great with you all there! :)

Jen =P

Start the ball rolling

I believe all of us are excited to go for the trip and it is good for us to maintain contact of one another. This blog is set up so that all of us can share our stories, photos or experience here, especially if there are any good food and places to visit in Shanghai.

Do keep in contact with one another. Let's meet up one day in Shanghai for a good dinner! =)