Shopgirl's Shanghai

What I can’t staaaaaand with some folks is how ungrateful they are of their lives, ungrateful to people who has helped them, parents who have raised them or even to life itself.

I ALWAYS try to be grateful to things, even if I am not the luckiest girl in the jar. When something bad have happened to me I always climb back to my usual temper after I think about how much worse it could have been. Such as being blind, deaf, not being able to walk or even born to be ugly (although this is a relative word).

Let’s take a really good example of how ungrateful people are, actually I don’t blame them so much, we are indeed living in a very harmonious society where majority of things are generally awesome, so we start complaining when things are out of order – meaning not perfect. But gosh, people. Life is not perfect so isn’t the world we are living in!

Anyway, let me give you this example. In Sweden we receive money from the government to study in university (which tuition is also for free). In other countries people pay FORTUNES to just be able to study at university, and NO WAY that they would receive money from the government, and we are not talking about little money. Swedish university students receive about 350 USD a month, which is quite a lot.But still, I often hear students shouting, why haven’t my money arrived yet, I hate CSN (the system that pays out the money), their staff is soooo lazy and unefficient. Blah blah blah.

It’s really sad. I just want to slap them.

Being an university mistress in cities like Shanghai is quite common these days. It all started in Tokyo where young girls saw it was the only opportunity to gain their dream bags and other stuff that their parents would never buy for them. Now the trend has landed in cities such as Shanghai. My cousin who goes to a very prestigious business university in Shanghai personally knows girls who are kept as mistresses, and she also told me that there are even BMW’s and Mercedez Benz cars outside the university waiting for the girls or trying to recruit mistresses.

Those girls get offered up to 10000 RMB a month and other stuff such as fancy dinners, gifts, and some times even cars and apartments…

This trend is so widespread now that two big Chinese universities has launched a new law saying it’s forbidden that their students participate in those kind of activities.

For more information, please read here: http://shanghaiist.com/2010/08/20/no_longer_okay_in_china_being_a_uni.php

Seems to me that those mistresses are being treated even better than real girlfriends. Sad.

This is the coolest new hotel opening since Peninsula last year. The new Ritz Carlton in Pudong, in the new IFC building where the new Apple store is situated at. The new Ritz beats the old Ritz (Portmans’s) by faaaaar. Just look at the pictures… Halleluja!

The coolest rooftop bar at the moment, but does it beat Vue Bar at Hyatt on the Bund? Naaaaah…don’t think so!

This is quite old news (about a month old hehe) but I still want to report this to you. One of the world’s most beautiful Apple stores are of course in Shanghai (newly opened).

• The cylinder (40 feet high) contains the largest curved glass panels in the world
• There are more hands-on gadgets to play with than any other Apple Store (but no iPads or iPhone 4s yet)
• It’s one of the largest Apple Stores
• It’s got one of the largest Genius Bars It is in the new IFC building in Lujiazui, Pudong. IFC Building is a HongKong real estate building. One of the absolutely best malls I have ever been in, is the IFC mall in Hongkong. Let’s see if the new Shanghai IFC mall can beat the Hongkong one…

I absolutely Love Seoul, surprised that no one really think of South Korea as a dream destination to travel to. I miss the shopping, the nice people, and the atmosphere in the city. Korean girls are the BOMB! Totally smashing!!!

Pride parades for the LGBT community (also known as gay pride parades, pride events and pride festivals) are events celebrating the LGBT culture. The events also at times serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same sex marriage. 

Yesterday it was finally held in Stockholm, and of course a friend and I went to watch it. Here are some of the pics. Enjoy!

The other day I was accused for being shallow. I thought to myself, the word shallow is of subjective form, hence I regard this word as a relative*  word that only has the certain meaning from a certain perspective.

Obsessing about what designer labels people wear would be classified as a shallow behavior among the majority of people today (yes, I agree). But lets compare this kind of obsession with other obsessions such as making sure of talking to the right intellectual person when in a small group (which is not considered so shallow among the majority of people, correct?). In fact, I personally would find this kind of behaviour even more shallow! The reason behind this is that I find that the person is only looking at one certain charachter factor which we can name X among all other unknown factors that could stretch from A to Z if not even more.

Are you with me so far?

There is no profundity if there’s no superficiality, but remember, there is no superficiality if no profundity. Ying and Yang. Never forget.

*Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. Sit on a red-hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein

Who needs a diamond ring when you can have an iPhone 4G covered in diamonds instead? Rationality….duh!!!

Lunch at la Crepe (a pre-french-food experience before going to Paris, haha)

90SEK for a crepe with crayfish tails and other goodies including drink, not so bad

Have I gained weight? Don’t worry, I will gain weight after Paris after all the foie gras…Stockholm landscape!

Enjoying this instead of monsoon season in grey Shanghai