Speaking of which...

Hello again. I apologize to my loyal reader(s) that I haven't blogged in awhile. First, I was out and about and all over the City. Then it got too cold and I couldn't unravel myself outta the fetal position to get to my computer and blog. So, my apologies.

So on Saturday, I walked almost 8 miles around Shanghai. "Eight mile!" as in the mobile home park where Eminem lives. Nevermind. Anyhow, that was fun. Saw lots of the City and sometimes for the second or third time. I didn't eat lunch before I left thinking that there might be some affordable street-side food I can pick up. Unfortunately, in my haste of where to go, I decided to head over to Xintiandi, which is the like the last place in Shanghai anyone would ever go to get grimy, street-side food b/c there basically isn't any.

So now my stomach is growling and the juices are starting to eat away my intestines (yeah that's basically how hungry I was) and I really don't have the bankroll to eat at one of those high-class joints in XTD. Well, I do and Lawry's looked freakin' good, but something about eating at a nice place alone (while not on business) doesn't seem quite right to me. So I gave in and surrendered to the Coffee Leaf & Tea Bean. Had an awesome egg salad sandwich and a normal coffee w/o all the other crap in it. (Or as a bastardized Borat would say "I like my coffee black not.") It was pretty good. I was also quite surprised to see a lot of Apple laptops in the Leaf & Bean, since the only Apple retail store that I know of is in Beijing.

From XTD, I walked over to People's Square, then to The Bund for a view of Pudong, as evidenced by the picture above. On the way back, I decided to walk towards Beijing Road instead of Nanjing Road b/c I took the latter over to river walkway area. Yeah bad move on my part. Common sense would tell someone not to walk down a street that was under construction and apparently at that particular moment I lacked some serious common sense. As you can see from the picture, a man (not me) is walking over some large pipes and cut-up road material; that was the "sidewalk". Fortunately, I now have a good story to share. Yay.

Quick aside, if you hear in international news soon that a Chinese American male in Shanghai dropkicked an older Japanese man out of his 2nd story dorm window b/c that motherfcker was constantly making too much noise at all hours, that might just be me. I'm gonna fckin hadooken him then dropkick his ass out the window.

THE END jk

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