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A few snapshots of me, Aki and Makiyo from the latest SS Party at Privé last Saturday night.

 


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• Guys. If you see a girl you're attracted to, be a gentleman and ask the bartender to send her a drink from you. If she declines, thats life. Maybe wear a different shirt next time or go a little easier on the hair product. 

• Girls. If a guy you don't know tries to start a conversation, politely direct him to the nearest short pier and ask him to demonstrate his long-distance running prowess. If someone becomes a nuisance, discretely inform a member of staff and we'll take care of it.

• Please don't bring anyone to our venue that you wouldn't happily invite into your own home, especially after they have had a few drinks.
  
• We make very strong cocktails, so be sure to drink a couple of glasses of water before you go to bed. You will thank us in the morning.

 
Nobody with any sense of reality is going to write something like that on an actual information page, unless he/she is in-directly trying to be funny, but I strongly doubt that. If the text would be taken for sarcasm its brilliant, but I get the feeling the person who wrote it is actually serious (which makes me feel sad for him/her). Whoever wrote this is not just the biggest lunatic of today, but also the biggest comedian.

Thanks, Upper East, for the good laughs! :)



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The best thing about celebrating the Chinese New Year in Shanghai is that you'll never gonna need to buy any fireworks yourself. There will be enough. Trust me.

Yo folks. Welcome to my blog. This is actually my second entry already, but I guess I should introduce myself first and tell you what kind of scrap/crap you'll expect to see here... Well, I'm a 20 year old Swedish guy living in Shanghai (which I'v been doing for more than 1 year now), a city marketing itself as the new big center of business, culture and entertainment in the far east. Whatever other people might tell me about this city I'll always stick to the fact that I do consider living here for the rest of my life... Because it's just simply amazing. If you don't believe me, follow my blog continuously and I'll personally guide you into every hotspot and corner of Shanghai. And its definitely not all about the clubbing.

Before I studied Chinese here, or call it "Mandarin", a language so easy to learn speaking, but incredibly "impossible" to learn writing/reading. I started in September 2009 at Jiao Tong University here in Shanghai, but fucked up my studies last semester at due to difficulties and misunderstandings with my teachers. The Chinese way of teaching its students is not very popular and sometimes not acceptable enough for us foreigners to understand, who simply cannot keep up with the Chinese highschool masterminds. Shortly said, in China the education is about learning as much as possible in the shortest amount of time, which means endless amounts of homework, tests and accounts. This wasn't an easy thing to get used to, so in the end I jumped off the course.

Now I'm trying to find a way to get a stabilized life here. A life as a Chinese, a life with a Chinese. If its possible or not I'm not sure, but I'll do whatever I can to make it possible. That's my puzzled reality.



Welcome to Shanghai.

"I love this city! When I go out, I meet people from everywhere! Germany, Mexico, Russia, Philippines, Sweden, Colombia, France, Australia, everywhere! That never happens in the States."
- Henry Jaeger, USA

"Im not an alcoholic, I just live in Shanghai!!!!!!"
- Nathan Greaves, Australia

WE DO LIVE IN SHANGHAI. No doubt about it. And when you first start thinking of it, there's probably nothing that beats a good night out. No matter if it's a trashed down houseparty at your friends place, a dizzling cold cocktail at the roof terrace of M1NT, a booming bass night in G+, or a delicious Windows Burger for 10 kuai 4 o clock in the morning - We undoubtedly do live in Shanghai.

What is it that makes this city so stunningly great? Is it the cheap food? The free drinks? The job possibilities? The feeling of residing in the next center of the world? You could say it's a mix of all those, but the answer is far more simple than that. The PEOPLE is what makes Shanghai so great, since we're are a mix of everything (well not genetically mixed, but still). This is no city nor country where expats are generally people who's only staying there for a short vacation or an occasional business trip. We people in Shanghai, we actually come together from all over the world LIVING here. We are living here in Shanghai, a city so easy to fall in love in, and painfully hearbreaking to say goodbye to.