its as if we left ourselves back in 2006 while being pulled into 2007
the inertia weighting us down..
as we move in this new year with swimming pool slowness...
Perhaps the imminent chinese new year will jolt us into action
But even the new year has taken its time to come
Being the year of the pig...
who can be surprise ;p
And I shall celebrate it like the pig that i am..
havign seen 2 full cycles of the zodiac..
my time has come again!
celebrate all ye fellow pigs...
it is our year
and what best way to celebrate it than to eat
yes...
barbecued pork and roast pork and pig trotters!!
yums
i can wait for the slaughter to start..
bawhhahahhaha
well before the aroma of honeyed crispy skin can fill the air
let us celebrate the perfume of flowers
hundreds and hundreds of bouquets
i saw being unloaded at the florist
while i was out for lunch
you can almost see the florist grinning with manic glee
thinking about all the poor guys she can swindle off money
"buy a bigger bouquet lahh"
she will say ..
"the more flowers "..
"the more she will love you.."
as if flowers can be quantified into love
the only thing these innocent looking roses can quantify into
is 12 bucks each.. flying outa your pocket..
phew.. faster than u can say....
"i love you" ...
In this mad captilaist world
let us all take a moment to ponder and remember
that love is not about ...
what brand of chocolates you get
or how many gifts you have unwrapped
in the end
the number of flowers dont mean a thing
However i am not a total sad sack ;p
let this be my ode to my Shanghai Romance
my love for natural lattice work
The view outside my hotel
cute hoghe-porch of small houses with a backdrop of sky scrapers
interesting colonial houses that the british left behind
The wonderful french connection
Obscure art galleries tucked in a corner of the industrial area
Blackie in repost
Lots of art work on anti-capitalism
The outside grafitti is just as interesting
To my relief .. the museums were not all about traditional art
While abstract is not my cup of tea ..
i think it has provided an intresting education
perhaps i am not giving the art form enough credit
alot of time was spent reading maps in the cold...
While i entertain myself snapping pics..
its wonderful to walk the small streets
and discover the real city beneath all that cosmopolitan
althou with a heavy heart
i can see its character slowly being erroded
under a film of shiny westernisation
where every few feet is a starbucks
and mass consumerism moves to the beat of mass standardization
Even this little villiage of zhou zhuang
is no longer the quaint water-village it used to be
its claim to fame as the
Venice of the East
had brougth millions there
including Tom Cruise
who filmed Mission Impossible 3 on location there
but regardless of all that ..
it is nice to try and imagaine
yourself back in time
enjoying a true blue ancient chinese sunset
and this is one of my sweetest memory of Shanghai
I loveeee breakfast..
But this of course will be the saccarin-dripped-in-honey-sweetest
memory of alll..
awww....
to the one who kept me warm
fed me well
and made sure we dint get lost
<3
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