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Recently while out of town, our landlord called us on our cell phone to inform us that he wanted his apartment back ASAP. Why, we asked? He wanted to renovate it, he said, but we were not convinced. You see, the few of us have been living in this apartment for coming to 3 years now, and there was this implicit agreement that we could stay on for as long as we liked, so some time back we didn't sign any lease with him, but continued to dutifully pay our rent each month (no delays) as we have done for such a long time.

The original Chinese article is here. This is our translation:

It’s true, the first Pompidou Centre in China is landing in Shanghai. According to this report (in Chinese) by Oriental Morning Post, Renaud Donnedieude Vabres, culture minister of France, and Bruno Racine, president of the Pompidou Centre (we're going to call it the "PC" from now on), the first PC in Shanghai is going to cover 10,000 square meters at the intersection of Huaihai Zhong Lu and Songshan Lu, near the site of the old French concession police station (pictured). The report was kind of vague, as they often are, but the historic building is expected to be preserved and somehow incorporated into the project.

Former Germany international Carsten Jancker has confirmed what many suspected and is to leave Shanghai Shenhua FC imminently and return to Europe.

You might have to use a line like this, or something similar in whatever language you use with your lover or spouse, in order to get a free ticket to Madame Tussauds wax museum. The Oriental Morning Post reported that from August 28 until September 30, you can buy one ticket and get one free if you demonstrate that you and your partner are in a romantic relationship. There are no official rules as to what gestures you can use, though we expect that quickies are out of the question. In this manner you can save 125 yuan, and the article states that for many a young couple, this is an offer they can't (or don't have good reason to) refuse.

Xinmin Wang (新民网) has an article on Chinabounder (in Chinese) that adds a few more puzzles to the story. It seems that the Oriental Morning Post (东方早报） has been getting leads and tips from the internet now claims to know the identity of Chinabounder.

So what new invention will soon be hitting the streets? Will it be innovative? Intelligent? Thought-provoking?

OK, you all know Shanghaiist is an animal lover, or at least you should, since we have written about it a lot. We're still pissed about the Fudan University cat torturer Zhang Liangliang and the fact that he got off so easily. But there isn’t much we can do since there is no animal protection law in China.

Shanghai Shenhua's stuttering season in China's top-level professional football league, the CSL, has taken a major twist after the club announced it signed former Bayern Munich, FC Cologne, Hansa Rostock, Udinese and Rapid Vienna forward, Carsten Jancker.

We found this little factoid from Pacific Epoch:

Remember way back to the time when you first came to this marvelous city and felt obliged to go to the Bund and get snap-happy with the Pudong skyline behind you? That impulse is what lures many a visitor to the Bund to employ the services of the good folks in green -- the people that take pictures for you, for a fee. Apparently they've been MIA for awhile because they've been undergoing training -- training on how to provide good service to people, and especially to correct their main vices -- taking too many pictures (so as to charge more) and also "carelessly composing" pictures (everyone slacks off at work, but composing pictures nicely when the target ain't even moving is not asking too much). No longer will they be trying to haggle and force tourists into taking pictures, because while that might bring in some quick cash, in the long run, they end up "damaging our reputation". Naw, you think? According to the new deal between the Bund folks and the photography folks, from now on, it's two strikes and you're out. Sounds like an anti-photographic pollution campaign we can agree with. Read the Chinese report here.

Did you know that the epithet "jerk" -- as in That motherf#%kin "jerk" riding his motorbike on the sidewalk nearly took my arm off -- actually comes from "jerk off", as in wacking, wanking ... you get the picture. Now we know why onanism has gotten such a bad rap these last couple of decades centuries. Wondering where Shanghaiist comes up with such pearls of wisdom? Don't worry, it's not innate, you too can learn factoids such as this from the official website of Shere Hite, the famous scholar of sexuality and author of the landmark Hite Report on Female Sexuality, which came out in 1976 and kicked a lot of ideological ass, from what we gather. Shere Hite is not your typical academician, she's been on a mission to delve farther into human sexuality than most people are either capable of or comfortable doing.

• That great rite of passage which is obtaning one's driver's licence just got a bit harder here in Shanghai -- applicants are now tested on obscure pieces of information called "traffic rules", and giving cigarettes to the test administrators isn't going to help you, because they now use robots, or rather, electronic devices equipped with sensors that can tell when you've made a mistake, such as forgetting to signal for a turn, or messing up the driving in the curved line or figure-eight parts of the rest. When you a fail, a voice will immediately notify you that "you have failed this item". At least you can curse these voices with impunity.
• October 10 was World Mental Health Day, and the Oriental Morning Post ran an article about Shanghai mental health professionals making a call for greater recognition and treatment for mental health problems. According to one professor of mental health, there are about 160,000 people officially classified as having some kind of mental health problem, but according to more general surveys and definitions of mental health, up to 7.1 percent of the adult population -- in Shanghai, meaning nearly a million people -- have what might be broadly termed a mental health problem. And yet there are only 1,300 doctors in the city to deal with this issue, so the ratio is 770 patients for every doctor.
• Speaking of mental health, a 21 year old girl recently attempted to drown herself in the Huangpu River. She was rescued and later claimed that she was suffering from some form of depression. (We'd be depressed, too, if we failed at killing ourselves.) The doctors' call (see above) is timely indeed.