The Adventures of Daniel Kwan

第215天: 上海骑车

Kindly translated into Chinese by Caroline Hsu. Thank you!

Ten of us went bicycling in Shanghai yesterday, from Billion’s shop by Xintiandi to Lujiazui, and back to his shop. I had a great time and I hope everyone who showed up did as well. Big thanks to the staff of Shanghai Bicycle Rental: Billion, Chris, Edward, and Lao Wu!

昨天我们一行十人参加了上海自行车游玩活动, 路线起始于在新天地的 Billion 的商店, 终止于陆家嘴, 然后再返回他的店. 我玩得很开心, 我也希望和我一起的同伴们也如此. 非常感谢 Shanghai Bicycle Rental (上海自行车租赁公司)的员工们: Billion, Chris, Edward 还有老吴!

Our tour was followed by a massage near the shop, dinner at that Singaporean restaurant on Tongren Lu, and then parties at various bars (Red Beat, Night Shift, The Shelter, C’s Pub).

我们游行回来后, 还在附近的店内享受了按摩, 在铜仁路上的新加坡式餐厅享用了晚餐, 然后在各种酒吧内参加派对 (Red Beat 酒吧, Night Shift 酒吧, The Shelter 酒吧, C’s Pub 酒吧).

This bicycling event and some of the other ones I’ve blogged about were organized by people in Weekend Ideas. I’ll write a bit about the group sometime.

此次自行车游行和我在博客里提到的一些活动都是由 Weekend Ideas (周末奇想)里面的人员组织的. 某个时间, 我还会写点关于这个团体的东西.

Some photos in this post were shot by Jim and Billion. Thanks guys!

Jim 和 Billion 提供了此次博文的一些图片. 谢谢伙计们!

I’m glad I didn’t have to work today (company had a scheduled power outage) because the weather was absolutely perfect! Blue skies, cool breeze, about 70 degrees F – perfect for biking, and that’s what I did.

But I busted the rear tire before I even got anywhere. Fortunately there was a bicycle repair shop just a block away. The repair cost me only 1.5 RMB, I shit you not. Less than a US quarter.

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Finally some real nightclub photos! Special effects lighting, fog machines, dancers, mayhem! Everyone was speaking English, I almost forgot I was in Shanghai. Anyway, enough words. Pics from last Saturday night at Candy Club:

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Below is a transcript of Barack Obama’s victory speech.

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Our next President of the United States: Barack Obama!

(Image from barackobama.com.)

Ahh, my first Halloween in China, and I can’t remember half of it.

It started at Bonnie’s friend’s company’s party, where we got free food and drinks, Josephine won a quarter-bottle of wine, and Bonnie lost to a Ninja Turtle.

Then our group went to Night Shift and met with Joe and DJ Malfan (aka Bunk).

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After spending half a year in China, I finally got a bicycle. I got an entry level mountain bike from Shanghai Bicycle Rental near Xintiandi. The shop, which just opened last month, has an English-speaking staff and the owner, Billion (yes his name is Billion), is the most laid-back guy you’ll ever meet. Seriously, go take a look. He’s fun to watch.

Yǐjīng zài 中国 dāile bànnián, zuìjìn zhōngyú mǎi 了 yibù 自行车. 是个 entry level mountain bike, 在 Xīntiāndì pángbiān 一家 diàn, 叫 Shanghai Bicycle Rental, mǎi 的. 这家 diàn 上个月 cái 开的. Owner hé staff dōu 会说英语.

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A couple hot chicks and I watched Shanghainese band Cold Fairyland (冷酷仙境) perform last Friday night. Great show! Later we even got autographs when the band coincidentally showed up at the same bar we were at and sat at the table next to ours. They were really nice.

上礼拜五晚上我和两只热小鸡去看冷酷仙境(Cold Fairyland)的表演. 好show! Later我们刚好去一样的酒吧, 就根他们要亲笔签名. 他们很nice.

• ColdFairyland.com
• Miyadudu.com (Chinese)
• MySpace (sample tracks)
• Wikipedia

So what do you do when you’re an ABC who can understand some spoken Chinese but can’t read Chinese and there’s a Chinese webpage you have to read and the few bilingual friends you have are tired of translating for you and you’ve run out of money to pay them to do it?

Go to the webpage in question and copy the text that you need to read.

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第189天: 上海性文化博物馆

Kindly translated into Chinese by Belle. Thank you!

Shanghai’s Sex Museum is a little hard to find. I don’t have an address for it, but it’s at the end of the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel on the Pudong side. I don’t have an address for the tunnel either, but it’s near the Oriental Pearl Tower. I don’t have an address for the tower either, but it’s that giant needle with pink balls on it. You can’t miss it.

上海性文化博物馆的地理位置有点难寻秘.我甚至没有关于它的具体地址,但它位于上海浦东新区外滩观光隧道的尽头. 我也没有外滩观光隧道的地址, 但它靠近东方明珠. 我也没有东方明珠的地址, 但我知道东方明珠像是一个巨大的横撑木镶嵌着许多粉色的球体. 你不会错过它的.

I know you don’t want to ask around for directions to the Sex Museum. That’s okay, because you get the museum ticket (20 RMB) at the same booth as the tunnel ticket. So just ask for directions to the tunnel, and you’ll find the museum.

我知道你不想在路上问怎么去性博物馆. 没关系, 因为你是在外滩观光隧的售票处买到的博物馆的票子(20元). 所以你只要在那问到外滩观光隧的地理位置就能找到上海性文化博物馆的.

Stuff you’d see there:

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