The Jinmao tower

As one of the landmarks of Shanghai and amongst the highest buildings in the world -with an observation deck at 340 meters- i thought it would be worth throwing in a few pics!

.. from the outside..



.. from inside out..


.. and inside.. this giant spiral is the column of balconies of the 30 floors of the Grant Hyatt hotel!




.. oh, and by the way, if you were wondering where she was hiding, Cheng Yue Hui, the most beautiful girl in China works as an elevator operator in the Jinmao tower!..

I hate it when they do that!

You know, the hotel maids..
..cause the first time you go to wash your hands, and only when they're wet you realise you forgot to open the tiny soap bar in that plastic wrapper that's just impossible to open with wet hands.. so finally you open it and wash your hands and leave your brand new soap bar by the sink so you can use it next time..
but then you come the next day to wash your hands, and there you are with your wet hands and damn! the soap bar has gone! your brand new soap bar that you barely used once, they threw it away and gave you a brand new neatly wrapped soap bar that you can just open again so they can throw it away the next day!

Help us saving the environment!
Join the movement at http://www.swtthsba.org
The Stop-Wasting-Them-Tiny-Hotel-Soap-Bars Association

Shanghai facades

Just a little compilation of building facades i shot this morning.. thought it looked funny.

Chinese characters

One intruder has slipped into this series of chinese caracters.. will you be able to recognize it?

..and so i woke up at 4am on saturday to catch the train to Hangzhou, with a terrible hangover!


Once upon a time, in the peaceful county of Zhejiang, lived Bei Suzhen the beautiful fairy..
And Bei Suzhen the beautiful fairy fell deeply in love with Xu Xian the poor simple dude because he let her borrow his umbrella -chicks were a lot easier to pick up in these early days!
But Fa Hai the evil bastard magician priest disagreed with this love between a beautiful fairy and a poor simple dude and although it was none of his business, wouldn't let them mary and live happily ever after!
So beautiful fairy Bei Suzhen got super mad and started breaking all kinds of shit (you know how girls are when they get mad) and she launched a war campaign against evil bastard magician priest Fa Hai.
Great magical powers were unchained, the earth trembled and as a result of all this mess, the region got flooded. And that is how this war gave birth to the west lake as a symbol of the love between beautiful fairy Bei Suzhen and simple dude Xu Xian...
Now it seems that naughty -yet beautiful- fairy Bei Suzhen had not quite been a good girl all the way as she already had a baby in her womb when she launched the magical attack!
As a result, her magical powers were diminished and Fa Hai the evil bastard magician priest was very powerful so he defeate naughty beautiful fairy Bei Suzhen and to punish her, emprisonned her inside the Leifeng tower, by the newly created lake..
And this would be the first fairy tale i know of where the bad guy wins in the end, if -god knows how, and don't ask me cause nobody seems to remember!- the tower didn't somehow collapse years later, freeing beautiful fairy Bei Suzhen and her grown up son so they could meet again with the old beloved simple dude Xu Xian -who never did anything in the story except for lending his umbrella (and maybe a little nick-nack-pushy-pushy-whack with beautiful fairy Bei Suzhen, but who'd blame him!)- and finally live hapilly ever after... it was about time!

You can go to sleep now children!

ASB's new year party

There was a company party on friday for the chinese new year.. about a hundred people in a restaurant yelling "chi'nye how" (or something like that!) and of course you have to finish up your glass every time!
..needless to say i got back to my hotel completely drunk!