Wearing
Pyjamas.

Eating
Coffee and biscotti, which is breakfast today.

Favourite outfit
What I wore to a birthday party last night at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Bund 19): strapless dress with orange and midnight blue brocade pattern ( photo of me wearing it), with this sequined medallion necklace and strappy sandals. The chunkiness of the ( Read more... )

Shanghai girls have a reputation for being:

self-obsessed,
fashionable,
career-driven,
materialistic,
educated,
independent,
unwilling to do housework,
high-maintenance,
immoral.

They (or should I say, we) are essentially (still) the bearers of the negative stereotypes that traditional Chinese hold towards the Western capitalist world (and their ( Read more... )

Well, now. I finally wrote it, my love song to Shanghai - or as close to one as I am capable of writing with my eyes open, knowing the place as well as I do. If you want the Lonely Planet version, look elsewhere ( Read more... )

I'm going to be here for the next month or so (until May 8), so that should make this meme doubly interesting:

Ask me to take pictures of any aspect of my life that you're interested in/curious about. Leave your request as a comment to this entry, I'll snap the pictures and post them.

stolen from
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Which is wet and bitterly cold. *sigh* Didn't want to wear my toasty Uggs in the rain, so I'm wearing old trainers instead ( Read more... )

I went to Sasha's on Hengshan Road/Dongping Road last night for the first time in years (the first time, I think, since I moved out of the neighbourhood). Two friends from Chile, a married couple whom I met in Sydney whilst doing my Masters, were travelling through China and spending a week in Shanghai. They spoke no Chinese, but after some initial ( Read more... )

Bought half a dozen lovely fresh figs from a guy near the Metro exit at South Shaanxi Road, and decided to make salad. Went to the supermarket in Grand Gateway for uncrushed walnuts, parma ham, buffalo mozzarella, arcadia honey, lemon, and black peppercorns ( Read more... )

Shanghai's weirdest foods.

Really? They all look normal to me. I have about half of them pretty regularly. I guess that goes to show how Shanghainese I still am at heart.

This entry was originally posted at http://the-grynne.dreamwidth.org/872972.html and has
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Just came back from a trip to some fabric shops near Huashan Hospital. I wanted to get a couple of pairs of trousers/pants made ( Read more... )

One of my favourite clothing boutiques in Shanghai, PAMPA on Jianguo Lu which sold women's fashion designed in Argentina, has either closed down or relocated to Lord knows where. Their clothing was colourful, youthful, modern, light-weight, comfortable - and importantly, very reasonably priced ( Read more... )