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.