This week in Shanghaiist
- The BBC has a great picture slide show of the “spouse market” in
ZhongshanPeople's Park, where worried parents put their kids' resumes up in hopes of finding them their significant others. [BBC] - Being the good neighbors that we are, Shanghai has donated 50,000 face masks to our Japanese “sister city,” Osaka. Did anyone even know Osaka was our sister city? [Xinhua]
- The USA Pavilion just got their fourth sponsor - YUM Brands (the guys behind Taco Bell and KFC). That means they're probably only $50-some million away from their fund raising goals now! [LA Times]
- The Wall Street Journal is fascinated by those Touchmedia screens in our city's taxis. We wonder how fascinated they'd stay if they had to deal with them as much as we do. [WSJ]
- A reporter goes back to the Xuhui district to see the houses her grandfather, architect Robert Fan, designed before fleeing the country in 1949. [Washington Post]
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The beiggest complainers of touchmedia are foreigners. Many locals don't bother with it. Just like the TVs on HKG buses, most of the complainers about noise pollution are expats. Locals have no problem with them. I guess, if they had no market, they wouldn't have installed it. It seems Westerners have less tolerance to noise and stimuli than Chinese people. Or else why do so many Hong Kongers abandon their monster houses in serene Canada to move back to Urban Hong Kong? LOL! I guess death by boredom is so true.
I think the matchmaking is in People's Park. Zhongshan park is for dancin'
If locals didn't complain, would the government listen to a few "outsiders"? I mean, really, I thought that you said that China was beyond the sway of a bunch of foreigners.
And as for the second comment, let me say that they probably wouldn't do that without a Canadian passport safely in their hands. Or you didn't get the memo about Canada not being "serene" for the past who knows how long.
(but then again, I was taught never to argue with a pig- I'm only getting mud all over me, but it's just too annoying)