I went with the school to the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum (yes urban planning!). It showcased the shanghai yesterday, today and the future plans. The highlight of the tour was a massive minature of modern Shanghai. Shanghai is over 6000 square km but the model only showed about 150 sq km but still, it was quite an impressive sight. They had building coloured in white which represented planned buildings. They also included the Expo 2010 site. I guess Expo is big if the city of Shanghai has put such a large area of land for the event and even designed a massive walking bridge. The Shanghainese live in a big dream world. I wonder where they'll get the money for all of this planning.
This evening i went out with a big group of chinese language students to eat. originally they wanted to eat at some western food buffet but when we got there the food was cold and didn't look good...and plus it cost 39RMB ($6.50). Way too expensive for this quality. So when we went to a chinese restaurant and ended up playing 25 RMB per person for some really good quality food.
After we went to a RnB dance club called Pegasus. It was 'Ladies Night' so of course women get in free and for the men it cost 30RMB ($5) but it came with a free drink. The music wasn't bad, but my only complain that there was way too many people there. I've noticed there's a lot of foreigners at these night clubs...like a lot of them (and of course the young, rich, and beautiful Chinese). I was wondering, do they even limit how many people can enter a club? It seems that they don't because there's never a big line up to get in. And of course why turn paying customers away.
Well, after our 2 ours of cramped dancing I went with a group of guy to have a massage. I initially heard that it would cost 50 RMB for a full body massage but then i heard 80...then when we arrived at the fancy spa it turned out to be 98RMB. But knowing that we were going for the 'experience' we just went for it. First we had to shower before we went upstairs for massage. They provided clothes and towels too. We ended up waiting about an hour for our massage because they were 'short' on staff. Mind you, this was at 330am so we're pretty tired too. After complaining to management many times, the girls finally came. Ok, when they say 'full body' massage, with the exception of a few vital organs, you pretty much get a full body massage. I was in a room with three other guys and the when we had our massages the girls would ask us so many questions. I sort of just wanted to relax but it's hard to relax when you're trying to understand what questions they are asking you and wondering what the heck they are up to. It gets uneasy in the room if no one talks so another guy and i talked. i dunno. My massage was ok, it could've been a bit harder and longer. I didn't feel very relaxed afterwards, but it depends a lot on the masseus. I think each of us who went to have a massage had different levels of satisfaction; from 'Ok' to 'happy happy joy joy'! When we left we were left with a bill of 120RMB ($20)..20 rmb for a 'night' fee. oh geez! A bit expensive, but I'll justify the price because the place was very fancy and it was for the 'experience. Maybe if i go next time it'll be more relaxing.