Shanghai Photos I

This lovely building is not a stadium or a concert hall. It actually houses a Rest & Service outlet along the Elevated Expressway just outside the Shanghai City limit.


The Maintenance and Toll Charges motorists had to pay to use the Elevated Expressway.


This multi-tier Flyover Interchange in the heart of Shanghai City is supported by a huge column as main support. Story had it that there was exteme difficulty carrying out piling and constructing the column and the Feng Shui master was consulted. He found out that nine dragon lived below this huge interchange and to calm them, the City Council must carve the image of these nine dragons on the circular column. True enough, the work was smooth after that and the interchange was completed without further difficulties. Unfortunately, the Feng Shui master died soon after for "letting the secret out" about these dragons. Believe it or not?


These guys were strung from the top of this multi-storey building cleaning the tiles. Spider Men they were indeed.


Not sure what is the name of this shrub but the pink leaves are so sweet.

The Cruise Boat at The Bund had this notice on its wall.


The high-speed Maglev Train from Pudong International Airport to Shanghai City. Capable of a top speed of 450 km/hr, it was unfortunately grossly under utilized due to cost of tickets.

The Bund at night.

Definition of Money

Quote from David Marshall:

I've got nothing against money. I'd like to have money myself! I'd like to have a house and a garden and dogs and a car and a chauffeur but, look, I've got a flat. I've got a swimming pool attached to the flat. I've not even got a car but I use taxis. I have a dignified way of life without being wealthy.

I don't see the necessity of owning a Mercedes-Benz and a swimming pool and a couple of mistresses. I think we've got our values all wrong. What the hell do you do with all that money? You can't eat it! What do you do with it? Your children don't need all that money.

My children have had the best of education. In fact, I'm very proud of them. One of them is a senior registrar to two major hospitals in Oxford. Another of them is a consultant in European law to the Securities and Investment Board in the United Kingdom. They've had their education. There are no complaints. I never earned $60,000 a month or $90,000 a month. When I was Chief Minister, I earned $8,000 a month.

Look, what is happening today is we are encouraged to and are becoming worshippers of the Golden Calf.

We have lost sight of the joy and excitement of public service, helping our fellow men. The joy and excitement of seeking and understanding of the joy of the miracle of the living the duty and the grandeur. We have lost taste for heroic action in the service of our people.
We have become good bourgeois seeking comfort, security. It's like seeking a crystal coffin and being fed by intravenous injections through pipes in the crystal coffin; crystal coffins stuck with certificates of your pragmatic abilities.

The New Definition (For the Mandarin Educated)

职位定义

總是在裁人的，就稱總裁；

老是板著臉的人简稱老板；

總想監視人的叫總監；

經常沒道理的人，就叫为經理；

讓領導秘密舒服的，自然是秘書。


窮人富人論：

欠個人的錢是窮人，欠國家的錢是富人；

喝酒看度數的是窮人，喝酒看牌子的是富人；

寫書的是窮人，盜版的是富人；

吃家禽的是窮人，吃野獸的是富人；

耕種土地的是窮人，買賣土地的是富人；


貧窮與富裕的新解：

貧窮時養豬，富裕後養狗；

貧窮時種稻，富裕後種草；

貧窮時想娶老婆，富裕後想找情人；

貧窮時老婆兼秘書，富裕後秘書兼老婆。