View taken from my bedroom’s window

It’s midnight now and I couldn’t sleep. My room is freezing even I got my heater on. Unlike cities in Northen China, each apartments and condos have their own central unit heater sponsored by the Chinese goverments.

I took out my mobile phone and start shooting anything outside my window. It’s snowing… I am staying in an old service apartment at the end of DingXi Road, very near to ZhongShang Garden and 5 mins walk to the 5 starts MayFair Hotel. It’s consider a crowded area beside Shanghai City center. The advantages staying here are: you can get almost everything here, walking distance to fast food restaurant like McDonald and KFC, Cantonese Restaurants, Shanghainese Restaurants, Italian Restaurants, shopping centers… It’s great! When midnight comes, it’s very quiet, and what wake me up in the morning at 6.30am? A group of elderly playing ‘Tai Chi’, along with their radio with loud music and followed by China’s National Anthem at 7am! I am staying in 18th floor, can you imagine that ??

By 7am, you can hear car horns starting. I don’t think the Shanghainese need alarm clocks, they can just wake up when the honking starts!

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