More Shanghai photos

Shanghai photos - Sep 07

some interesting photos from shanghai. 3 persons bike, public newspaper for the public reading, bicycles near nanjing lu etc.

Auckland photos

met a 60 years old-plus maori cab driver who drove me to airport to catch my qantas flight to melbourner. he said he went to malaya during the 60s, serving as nz army.
was in kl again in the 80s for some consulting works and he was amazed by the drastic change to kl city skyline. met another ozzie colleague who also used to stay in malacca back in 60s/70s as his dad served in oz's airforce. he was lucky as his dad travelled a lot and he ended touring china, visiting many cities along yangtze river via cruise during those days.

Auckland NZ - April 2007

was in auckland and otahuhu for one week's work. city did not change much since the last i was here back in 2001. but, traffics flow is quite bad nowadays, as many cars on the road and there are many koreans and korean restaurants along queen street. the thai restaurant near sky casino is still there and had dinner there once. took a ferry ride to davenports and climbed up the mt victoria to checkup the auckland city view plus the twin-peaked volcano rangitoto island.

australia drought-april 2007

saw some nice chalk paintings on the ground, along the way to crown casino.
the drought painting aptly show the drought that hit downunder for many years now. farmers are committing suicides as losing biz. due to lack of water.
the other painting shows a happy tree once there is water. pray that the rains will come soon, as i need better wines supply from oz. love their shiraz & cab sauvignon (normally, i got my supply from rosemount estate & during wines warehouse sales at sri damansara). cheerio mateys!

April'07-Melbourne Australia

gooday mateys, was in melbourne in april for works. went around bacchus marsh-to checkup apples orchards and outputs, geelong to visit the company's plant, beaconsfield (near dandenong)& camberwell for office visits/meetings. had yummy vietnamese beef noodles in victoria street, bubbly crown lager beer, rosemount estate shiraz wine etc. met up with my wife's sis family as they just got back from tasmania vacation & they stayed along prospect hill road which is near to the hotel i stayed, beside yarra river. drove a zippy toyota yaris during the stay, courtesy of avis rental and lost my way from airport to the hotel the first nite i landed in melbourne after the short flight from auckland. cheers.

London Circus photos

London Circus in Puchong Utama-9 Sep 2007

after my shanghai's trip, came back to KL & my other half told me her sister's good friend's hubby is a part-owner of London Circus and passed her close to 30 free VIP tickets. so, no choice, had to bring the family out for the show. somehow, these past weeks are like circus days for me, full of excitements and to checkup the circus acts in shanghai and KL. London Circus performers are mainly from Russia, elephant, dogs and horse/monkey acts from M'sia or India and the two MCs (lady and guy) that sang quite good opera songs (incl. from phantom of opera) are most likely filipinos, as they had great and powerful voices. the kids love the magician show. 5 bikes in the round cage compared to 8 bikes in Shanghai circus. the shanghai circus is of better quality and more scary performance. went to matta fair and taiwan alisan dancers were performing, bought 8-days thailand trip for the family (bangkok, pattaya, chiengmai). will go there in december. in another week, will be heading to redang island (laguna resort) for 3 days snorkelling and relaxation. been there few years ago and enjoyed the sea and sun and the snorkelling.

Days in Shanghai plus ERA Circus show-August 2007

August 26 to Sept 1, 2007 (Shanghai)
Was in Shanghai for works and also, acts as tour guide to three American colleagues.
ate Korean beef BBQ, downed with TsingTao beers at Pudong, ate Chinese food & downed with Chinese white rice wine (~38 alcohol content)at Xiao Nang Kok Restaurant (next to HongQiao Pearl City shopping mall), shanghainese xiao long pau (little dragon bun) etc at Lu Bo Lang, Yuyuan and then, ate deep fried 'ta wan ser' (King of Snake) etc at Xiao Nan Kok's Restaurant (near Wanda Shopping Mall) before heading for circus show (Era-at Shanghai Circus). Cost is around rm 130 for side seat, near stage. quite enjoyable shows, as the stunts plus the music and lighting and special effects are quite good. highly recommended if u have time to spare at nite in Shanghai. See
http://www.era-shanghai.com/EN/about.asp for details. The last I saw a circus show was when I was a little kid and that is more than 30 years ago. The best stunt is the one on the photo, those guys blindfold and walked on top of the rings while it swung around, and they even jumped on a rope. It was scary as it is high (>4 storeys) and there is no safety rope in case they slipped. walked along nanjing lu, the main shopping street in shanghai and saw people reading public newspaper on the board. look up for the chap with his own-made boxer, quite a funny scene. took some nite shots of pudong skylines, the world financial centre is at its top now (still under construction) and now, ranked 2nd tallest building in the world, close to 500 metres high.