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The weather forecast is rubbish. It said it won’t rain in Shanghai on National Day, but look how wrong it was! Heavy rain all day on 1st Oct!
After watching the grand Military Parade on TV, I was so bored at home. So I decided to go to Lujiazui for some holiday mood anyway. Read More…
If you are visiting Shanghai during National Day Golden week this year, it seems that you’d better cross the Bund from your list.
As I blogged before, the whole water front area along the river is closed during the National Day week due to the construction. In addition, traffic control will be applied around the Bund area during certain time 1-4 October because of the arrangements for holiday lights and fireworks along the river. Read More…
In recent days if you happen to pass some restaurants, hotels, bakeries or food stores, you probably will notice that many people are queueing there for a box/bag of something. Some small bakeries are even closed because the space is completely occupied by those boxes and the people who are collecting the something. Read More…
Today I received a few photos of China National Day Military Parade rehearsal from Jian Guo, my photographer friend in Beijing. I was absolutely stunned!
An interesting thing about my friend’s name. Jianguo is a frequently used first name by Chinese, which means founding of a nation (Jian means founding, Guo means nation). If you come across a person whose first name is Jianguo, you can easily tell that he/she might be born in 1949 which is the year when People’s Republic of China was founded or born on the day of 1st Oct or in the month of October which is the National Day season. Read More…
Tomorrow (22nd September) is the No Car Day in Shanghai. It was reported that this year the No Car restriction will be only applied in part of West Nanjing Road (between Huashan Road and Shimen Er Lu) and only lasts 2.5 hours (8:00-10:30). During that time, only buses, taxis are allowed. Read More…
OK, this festival is brand new for me, Drinking Festival, mm…. interesting. I believe this is a kind of ’side dish’ of Shanghai Tourism Festival.
Anyway, from the leaflet, the festival looks very exciting, espeically for those wine lovers. Read More…
Okay, many of us may already know this because these two festivals take place every year around National Holiday time.
2009 Shanghai Shopping Festival (12 Sep - 8 Oct)
2009 Shanghai Tourism Festival (12 Sept - 6 Oct)
To be honest, as a person who lives in Shanghai, I can’t really tell what are the differences those festivals made in Shanghai. Probably Read More…
Today during the lunch time, the mums in my office were talking about what gifts they gave to their children’s teachers for the Teachers’ Day.
Then I suddenly realised that today is Teachers’ Day in China (10th September). (Sorry that I haven’t been to schools for ages).
Then I asked why the parents have to give gifts to the teachers because I think cards or flowers are enough to do the job. I remember that I wrote a card to my teachers when I was in school. Read More…
Oh, right, 9 September 2009 is the hottest day in China for people to get married, or maybe it was too hot, the Bund was on fire on the same day!
The news reported that the fire was caused by some improper operation of electric welding.
Photo courtesy of Xinhua Net Read More…