day 7 shanghai

gooodness....when am i going to finish all my shanghai posts????
sorry for my tardiness....well....blame cafe world and laziness.
whenever i switch on the computer now, it is straight to facebook and then to cafe world.
it is kinda childish but the game is getting more and more fun with so many die-hard fan friends. yes, i have got a group of my friends playing it and we are helping each other to finish the tasks. talk about teamwork. we even have a special chain e-mail circulating among us updating each other about the progress of our task. talk about organised. muahaha.....don't let the fun stop.

okok...but i have to get back to the real world too ah....but if there is a machine to suck me into my 'cafe'.....i would like to have it please. i think i will make a good restaurant manager.

ok day 7 in shanghai.....another leisure day. aaah......oh, it was hari raya that day, 10 sept. was thinking of all my colleagues who i did not sms with my greetings. usually i do sms them. well, it was too expensive to do that.

pearl tower.....i went up once many years ago so this time, we skipped this. you need to pay about rmb100 to go up and they have different tiers of prices for different levels of the tower.

this is the place we went to first on that day....shanghai ocean aquarium. it is right next to the pearl tower. i think we spent more than 2 hours here leisurely strolling along all the aquariums.

the world's longest underwater viewing tunnel. yup, quite long and u only have to stand on the travellator. the long standing time was quite tiring though. haha.

the big roundabout outside.....
the building with a hole is world financial centre. i think they have an observation level you can go up to but of course, with a price.

from the aquarium, we went to the science and technology museum which is situated on the same metro route.
again, the building is massive and impressive. what you see is only 2/3.

a replica of an ancient time measuring equipment i think. we saw the original one at the museum.

there were not many visitors and we got 10% discount as we had our expo cards with us. they have many halls and gosh, my legs were going numb walking from one hall to the next and from one level to the next. i wish they had more hands-on stuff for us to try instead of exhibits. it would be great if they do it like our petrosains.
we spent quite a few hours inside exploring all the halls....yes...all of them in that huge building. i think we spent almost 3 hours inside.

then dad suggested going to a cultural street called doulon road. it used to be a cultural gathering street. it was almost 6 when we were there so it was getting dark already.
the buildings are still retained in its original size but of course on the outside of the buildings, you can see air-conditioner units spoiling the sight.
bookshops and shops selling chinese brushes and things related to the academia are found here.
we found ourselves at a small street at the end of the road and there was a cart selling all sorts of pirated books. uncle pek bought 2.
dad found himself in a shop selling tea and he bought some green tea leaves.

yup....that was our day. a very slow one eh? but it was still interesting visiting places which packaged tours will not bring you too. we don't see any tour groups at the places we went to at all. definitely worth checking them out.