Anjo also hates Qibao

I’m do­ing lo­ca­tion por­trai­ture again! The last one I did was nearly a year ago, and it was of three ugly guys from San Francisco. Good to shoot at es­tro­gen again.

First up is Anjo, a uni­ver­sity stu­dent who un­for­tu­nately had to live by Qibao, way out in Minhang District. I un­der­stand the pain she went through.

D.Kwan: Where are you from and when did you move to Shanghai?
Anjo: I am from Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. I’ve been in Shanghai since September 2005. No spe­cial rea­son, just be­cause my school is Shanghai Jiao Tong University (the top one in Shanghai!) but I’m go­ing to grad­u­ate soon. I choose to work in Shanghai be­cause I found a job here and I want to try it. Not sure for how long though.

DK: Do you miss home?
A: Definitely yes. I used to get pretty home­sick but now I’m get­ting bet­ter. I like to hang­out with my friends to have fun.

DK: How is Shanghai dif­fer­ent from Wenzhou?
A: Compared to Wenzhou, Shanghai is much big­ger as it’s a me­trop­o­lis with a higher pop­u­la­tion. It’s good for shop­ping, par­ties, travel, etc. Shanghai has lots of clubs and bars, but in Wenzhou the clubs are usu­ally much big­ger and have fab­u­lous dec­o­ra­tions. There’s no “open bar” like in Shanghai.

DK: You’ve lived way out west (Qibao) and way out east (Pudong) in Shanghai. Which do you pre­fer?
A: I pre­fer Pudong for sure. It’s a very good area to live since it’s pretty quiet and new, and very con­ve­nient as well. Like where I live, very near the Thumb Plaza. You can get every­thing there. Not so many peo­ple go to bars there though. People usu­ally like to go to Puxi, in­clud­ing my­self. Qibao is very his­tor­i­cal but not good for liv­ing, es­pe­cially for young­sters. I don’t re­ally like it. It’s quite dirty there, but it’s good for visiting.

DK: You go to bed very late. What do you do all night?
A: It de­pends. If I stay at home, I’m prob­a­bly surf­ing the in­ter­net. Party some­times, since most of the time I can’t stand be­ing alone.

DK: As a self-​​proclaimed party an­i­mal, which clubs would you rec­om­mend to some­one who’s vis­it­ing for just a cou­ple days?
A: I wrote party an­i­mal on my pro­file just for fun ac­tu­ally. I don’t think I re­ally am. But I like par­ties, and I like trance and house mu­sic, hip-​​hop some­times. I think Muse is a good club to rec­om­mend, both Muse 1 and Muse 2. But af­ter mid­night and you still wanna go some­where, it might be Windows or Dragon.

DK: What do you look for in a guy?
A: Good per­son­al­ity, hon­esty, re­spect, easy-​​going, ro­man­tic, ma­ture, so­cial and in­tel­li­gent and ed­u­cated, etc. Someone who can make me happy and make me feel spe­cial, and can dis­cover an­other side of me that maybe my­self even don’t know. We should have some things in com­mon. About ap­pear­ance, he shouldn’t look bad and must be taller than me.

DK: What do you think about Mr. Daniel Kwan?
A: When I just saw Mr. Daniel Kwan’s pic­tures on his pro­file, I thought he was a cool guy and I still do. He takes nice photos.

DK: So how many girls have you kissed so far?
A: NONE!

Shanghai Stuff hap­pened to start its Member Spotlight fea­ture around the same time, so I of­fered to team up and help out. You can see the SS ver­sion here.