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Sunday, April 30, 2006
Chapter 1
Today we wake up for the last day of the tour. A day trip around the parts of Shanghai.
Now, I will just go over a story about housing. In Prince George back in 1980's, there was a grouping of low income housing on Rainbow Drive behind Spruceland Mall Shopping Centre. It was nick named the "Yellow Uglies" because there was nothing but these kind of buildings for a few blocks behind Ospika and several blocks up Rainbow Drive. They were multi-family apartments, usually 3-7 floors, and you had all matters of poor people living in them. They were all painted a dull yellow, which looked like crap, because all the years I went to school at Lakewood and PGSS, they were never maintained and thus started to look like a slum. Well, it was already a slum now I guess it is even worse... a ghetto. Anyway, even when I went back to visit 20 years later, the yellow uglies are still there and still yellow, although I think the owners have finally repainted them. I am sure every city in the world has their "not so good" part of town, this is it for Prince George.
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Here is our lame breakfast again. Notice we have been eating same kinda crap for the last 5 days.
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Some expensive hotels.
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Really tall Jin Mao Tower. It stands 88 stories, 420 metres high.
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side building
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Pearl TV tower from the observation deck 88 stories up.
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View of the first floor lobby from the 88th floor deck. Doesn't this look like something out of Star Wars?
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Remember my comment about the "Yellow Uglies"? Well, this is to give you an idea that an entire district is loaded with these things.
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Boats in the river travelling by the HSC building.
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By the replica on the observation deck.
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A view of the boats past the Bund.
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Me with the Pearl TV tower. Goes to show how you can't mix close and far objects with two different light conditons.
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Me at the front of Jiao Mao Buidling.
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Ami at the base of the building looking up.
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Me beside the Jiao Mao building.
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Me on the ground with view of Pearl TV Tower.
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Presentation at the on ramp of the Lupo Bridge.
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View of the bridge from the off ramp side.
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