heh, just want to gloat: you guys would have LOVED the ferragamo exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art! They even brought the craftsmen who make the bags n shoes in to sit there and work (and you can touch the shoes on the table), and there's an italian lady there to translate any questions. Someone picked up a scrap of leather and asked to keep it, and the old man making the shoes gave her a real insole w the logo and all, and plucked the scrap out of the hands =) now even I want ferragamo shoes. custom made =P

Also today: peoples's park on a sunday morning. the usual gambling crowds of old men, the lone taichi ppl in varo\ious corners, one wannabe chinese opera singer guy, and the new thing is the hordes of old/middle=aged peopl with handwritten posters looking for marriage or partners, stating stats and what they're looking for. not sure if it's for themselves or their children or what. Another smaller group of young pple practising english nd waylaying unsuspecting westerners.

Akso today: Putong. Very impressed by the huge mall at the mrt station. Huge, and wonderful layout that really makes the huge bulding work very well in bringing people ard, and visibity of shops, and orientation of the place, and making sense of such a huge place, and having different kinds of spatial experience within so ppl don't get tired visually or mentally. of course a mall of that size can only work in a city of shanghai's scale, in china...

less impressed w the rest of pudong, or the view of the bund. they eally should light up the place. also, very cold today.

shall not hog internet. ciao!