Shanghai - Where it all began

Back in Shanghai...somehow it doesn't just feel like before. This city is so much huger now than it was 2 years ago. New skyscrapers in every corner and prices have also gone up a lot...The view from the Bund is still cool and they are really making efforts in this city because of the World Expo here next year in May. Maybe i'll come by and check it, Finland is suppose to have a pretty interesting building done for that expo but it's not done yet so we'll see about that later.

I went to see Ghana who is a old classmate of mine from Mongolia today. He lives at Min Yao Lu where i and Niko used to live before. Min Yao Lu had also grown, there were a dozens of new buildings just opposite our old apartment, before there used to be a shabby swamp...

When at Min Yao Lu i had to go and check out the Fried Rice guy who pretty much made a third of all the dinners we had with Niko back in the days. The guy who makes it is a 1 eyed man in his forties and he remembered me! He even remembered the exact ingredients i used to take 2 years ago! Not a bad memory...Picture of him!

I kinda prefer Beijing at the moment, there are districts for everything in Beijing and it's much easier to get what you want there(Wudaokou, Sanlitun, Hohai, Xidan etc etc). It's also a lot cleaner n Beijing, Shanghai has crap here and there on the ground and the environment is full of half build old houses and half build new houses...People still throw trash out of the buss and car windows in Shanghai, this is something that really seldom happens in Beijing...