A few Shanghai tickets, receipts and wrappers

bazza
November 04, 2007, 11:43 AM posted in General Discussion
Pearl Tower ticket M&Ms wrapper Water bottle label Maglev train ticket Jinmao Tower ticket Subway receipt Taxi receipt Mcdonalds receipt Mcdonalds price card Mcdonalds Ketchup
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lunetta
November 04, 2007, 02:59 PM

Thanks for sharing, Bazza!

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RJ
November 08, 2007, 01:36 PM

I think the word you want is attentive. On the other hand you have created a hybrid between attentive and affectionate. Whos to say you are wrong.

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bazza
November 04, 2007, 07:29 PM

BTW If you click on the images it will take to the flickr page and I'm slowly adding notes with characters that you should be able to copy and paste for translation purposes or read with an annotator.

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excuter
November 04, 2007, 07:41 PM

yep, it works (at least for the 金茂大厦 one) thanks :-)

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bazza
November 07, 2007, 07:20 PM

Ocean Aquarium Ticket What does 毒门秘笈 mean? Poisonous door secret trunk?

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goulnik
November 07, 2007, 09:10 PM

I guess it's a game, check the corresponding sectionon the aquarium 水族馆 (shuǐzúguǎn) website. 秘笈 or 秘籍 (mìjí) is a secret / extraordinary book rather than a trunk...

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goulnik
November 07, 2007, 09:20 PM

弗有鱼 专攻毒门武艺 其致命绝枝收载于《毒门秘笈》 今秋 伤害海洋水族馆 各家水族劈波斩浪之势 一触即发 毒门秘笈 致命水生物展

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excuter
November 04, 2007, 06:27 PM

Hehe, saw the waterbottle-wrapper and instandly thought: "Nestle Aquarel?" and I looked again and saw that it realy was from Nèstle. :-)

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John
November 08, 2007, 07:43 AM

Cool stuff, Bazza! I enjoy seeing this stuff too.

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goulnik
November 08, 2007, 07:57 AM

the 麦当劳 wrapper is a give away though, I mean spending a week in Shanghai and getting that food? Other than anthropology it's a mystery to me why anybody would want to do this when there's so much tastier (probably cheaper) local food available

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bazza
November 08, 2007, 08:30 AM

It had to be done really, I only went once. ;) I was quite surprised to find no English on the display board.

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goulnik
November 08, 2007, 11:32 AM

just teasing you Bazza :-) still wouldn't walk in there myself though

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bazza
November 08, 2007, 01:07 PM

I was alone the majority of time (I wouldn't really recommmend going to Shanghai on your own) so it was easier to find somewhere I was a bit familiar with and you can get away eating alone in Mcdonalds. ;)

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goulnik
November 08, 2007, 01:26 PM

interesting perspective - I was also alone a lot of the time, but I guess I wasn't looking for familiar places so much, rather the contrary. I found that being alone actually makes it easier to practice your Chinese. Restaurants are a drag with all the formality and because you can't order too many dishes for yourself, but little places are great, I sometimes had to elbow my way around particularly at lunch time, but mostly people were very attentionate (does this word exist?), very nice anyway and eager to get into a conversation. I had more than one 老板 (young or old) come and sit next to me, enquire about the price of my cellphone, did I like their food and such like. Next time I promised my wife I'll take her along, this time I wanted complete immersion for maximum practice

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goulnik
November 08, 2007, 07:04 AM

oops, got (at least) one char wrong :

弗有鱼 专攻毒门武艺 其致命绝收载于《毒门秘笈》 今秋 伤害海洋水族馆 各家水族劈波斩浪之势 一触即发 毒门秘笈 致命水生物展