Chinese New Year in Shanghai

Shanghaiist.com re­cently did a photo fea­ture about Chinese New Year in Shanghai. A cou­ple of my pho­tos are in there, one of them shot with my iPhone, and the other with my Coolpix. My two SLRs have been hibernating.

Another tid­bit about how Chinese peo­ple in China are hard­core about Chinese New Year: they cel­e­brate it for 10 15 frikkin’ days! And they don’t work dur­ing those 10 days. And every sin­gle night (and day) dur­ing those 10 15 days, peo­ple shoot up fire­works. [Fixed some in­cor­rect info. Let me know if still wrong.]

I don’t know about any­one else here but I haven’t been get­ting much sleep. As soon as I fall asleep there’d be a loud wheeeeeeeeew BANG! PONG! BAM BAM BAM! Damn py­ro­ma­ni­acs! Fortunately for me I’ve never been in a war zone, but I imag­ine it sounds pretty much like Chinese New Year in China.