Shanghaied

Alright I am gonna have tough time writing the stuff for two weeks flat. The interesting thing about being in Shanghai is weekend starts exactly on Friday night and boy o boy…phew. Last Friday and this Friday we were at Malone’s. Once with my colleague from India and this week with my Chinese friends. Both the times we enjoyed the live band music and the atmosphere of the bar. From there we went to another pub called Baby Face. Now you may think naam mein kya rakha hai….man if Malone’s is flock of Americans and Europeans, Baby Face is a sea of Chinese. Man the place is fully jam packed. You have to pay 60 RMB to get an entry. And as you enter for sure u gonna rock. The music is awesome hip-hop and they keep belting awesome songs thanks to the Dj. We were there for about 3 hrs and I was sweating it out. There is no place to just free yourself. You have to literally push people and go any where in this place. It was like traveling in a BMTC bus back home. It was great fun till 2 in the morning. I was exhausted by the time I came out of the place. Oh yeah two consecutive weeks we have been playing football. And that 2hrs flat. Boy the first week I was bowled out. After the game my whole leg was frozen with movement inhibited. It took me two days to get it free. This week was fine no issues. Had a nice time. These guys play a nice game. It is really fun. The best part in the game is that after 5 goals the team who scores gets the other team members to do 5 push-ups for every goal from there on. It was fun to watch the opponent team to do pus-up’s for hmmm…..(I am counting)….We had to do it thrice. On Sunday I went to the Science and Technology Museum. This place is huge very huge, three floors of exhibition in two separate buildings. The exhibits are on a wide range of subjects, science, human life and evolution, space, IT, animals and more. They have put a very impressive and interactive museum. People come here more for fun than for knowledge. The exhibits are really nice, you know you can go and play games and see videos which are 3D in the midst of artificial factories, play foot ball and boxing and get o know something. The best thing that I liked in the Museum is the 3d and 4D movie that I saw in the I Max theater. The 3d movie that I saw was about helicopters. IT was about how they work and their roles in day to day life. It was nice except for the language it was in Chinese. Then was the 4 D movie, I was wondering what as the 4th dimension. Guess what it was the feel of the movie. The movie was about Lego Racing, in which a driver goes about driving his car in a race and there are crashes and falls in the race. These things are what you get to feel. The crashes make your seat to go down and when you bump into somebody it vibrates. When driving in snow they put up the foam and when somebody drives ahead of you in the snow water is sprayed on your face. Wow it was fun. After that I was exhausted and crashed back in the hotel.
On Wednesday we went to a Korean restaurant, the Chinese call it Barbeque (BBQ). This DIY (Do it Yourself) restaurant. Meaning to say all the ingredients are got to you and a stove in the middle of the table is used for cooking. You have to cook it. It was fun, my colleague was doing most of the cooking and I was enjoying the meal. What all did we have, sheep, chicken, octopus, some Korean rice dish and veggies and not to mention Pejo. It was a great dinner. I especially like the chicken and octopus. I guess it was the way it was cooked. Ah I am having a nice time eating nice food and now I need to get ready to go the Museum and Peoples Park.
The Shanghai museum is a huge place housing the Chinese history and art. It is really good. I like the way these guys have preserved their art and artifacts. The preservation is really good. They have so many things to display spread out in 4 floors. Phew it took me 4 hrs to see them till they actually threw us all out. The museum closes at 5 PM. The museum has bonze sculptures, stone sculptures, calligraphy, Chinese pottery, Chinese currency, Chinese painting and some miscellaneous stuff. I was literally lost in the sculptures, painting, carvings and pottery. Mind blowing images and intricate art. It was some sight to see and feel. Hats off to their collection. I was too tired to go to Nanjing road to have a stroll.