Saturday, August 29, 2009

Here's some highlights from Shanghai trip this week:

  • Paying 8 times the price to go in style, but return on white cloth seats
  • Watching the transformation of The Bund continue for Expo unabated
  • Being told that terrorism is in the eye of the beholder and that freedom is overrated.
  • Disappearing in a fever, slipping in and out of CNN for hours
  • Listening intently to small time politics consume two-bit players
  • Slowing down in the darkness of a deserted motorway to be sidelined by two black cars for a few seconds, before a casual wave.
  • Remembering that it is always 34 degrees when it is hot, dry, dusty and harsh.
  • Racing a monstrous thunderstorm, and losing.
  • Seeing live crabs tied up with string available for sale in duty free at Shanghai Pudong airport

This week's listening:

Icecream Hands - Broken UFO
Something for Kate - The Official Fiction
Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words
Karnivool - Sound Awake
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero