Jin Mao Tower

This week I had another colleague of mine in Shanghai for company. We did a lot of shopping and roaming around before he left for Bangalore. Shopping we bought so many watches and one that I bought is like an old age watch. You can see the mechanism of the clock. And supposedly branded as Omega. If the company guys see this they will commit suicide. These guys fake or have replicas of almost everything in this world. Rolex, Gucci, Mont Blanc, Polo, Tommy u name it they have it. It can be a shoppers paradise. I was even advised not to carry clothes ;-). Yesterday we went to this place called Jin Mao tower. This is the fourth tallest building in the world. The first being in Taipei, second in KL: Malaysia, third in Chicago. I have been to the second tallest building. This building is 420.5m high and has 88 floors. The place has The Grand Hyatt hotel hosing itself from 56th floor to 87th floor. The other floors have offices and the 88th floor is an observatory for the public and tourists. Another interesting part in this building is the elevator that shuttles people. Boy o boy the speed of the elevator is 9m/s…..in less than 50sec u r up up an away. I wonder if superman can do that. AS soon as you get out of the elevator you can see the oriental pearl TV tower. The view from that height is just mind blowing and stumps u at the first instant. You can see the Huangpu river taking its course through Shanghai. You can see a couple of more spots but the binoculars. Then in the centre of the observatory you could peep down. Boy people fearing height don’t do it! It will surely take you for a toss. What you see is the Hyatt fully illuminated till the 56th floor. Just awesome. I was wondering how it would look in the night, I think we should be there when the night falls. Shanghai can be seen in its true, magnificent and bright colours. For dinner we went to our ex director and current director for Shanghai place. He had asked the cook to cook Indian food and I must say she has learnt well from him. My colleague was very happy to eat Indian food. His place is like heaven for me, phew what a place he has to live. Ah I was in love with that place. But then you need to be at that place in your career to be there. Long way to go !!!