Shanghai Tan

Summer is officially here, since yesterday! All the sudden temperature rises to higher than 30°C, Sun light is stronger than ever. The major sites in Shanghai, such as People’s Square and Lujiazhui, have been throughoutly decorated, probably for the Spring and Summer, but most likely as preparation for the Expo 2010 that is only 358 days away from us. Subway TV is showing hourly promotional ads to prepare the citizens’ mind for welcoming people from litterally all around the world. Street signs are being re-translated for proper and standardized English. I once saw a huge billboard on Xietu road showing the Expo pavillion mock ups of many countries, one of them being spelled as Switch, instead of Swiss! Not that people won’t be able to guess it, but if someone could just check the dictionary once this kind of stupid mistakes could be avoided.

It seems to me that today’s People’s Square look more beautiful than last time I visited at Winter, and much better than during 2004. With such wonderful colorful flowers and clear blue sky, I have to say that, it’s easy to get lost on the streets and keep shooting and shooting until my head is burned by the Sun.

Besides flowers popping up from the grown, love couples also popup from their nest for wedding photo shots, en masse! Everytime I see them being posed and photographed on street for the entire day, I couldn’t imagine myself doing that one day, I just can’t stand it…

Anyway, it’ll be fun to hang out at Shanghai this time next year. Click here to see the whole album.

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