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Walking in Shanghai - Yan Chang Road

First the new bread store:



The fireworks have already been exploded and now just the trimmings remain to be finished!



Just down the street, new signage ...



Then further on down we have food for sale - talk about fresh!!!






Umm ... it doesn't LOOK worried!!!

Then, OF COURSE, we have the all important dryer - the SUN!!!
Posted by Andrew at 3/25/2012 3:42 PM | Add Comment

Movin' IN!!!

Domino's Pizza ... now on the corner - just down the street and on the same block as KFC and Pizza Hut!



Checking out the delivery "vehicles"!  ROFL!
Posted by Andrew at 3/21/2012 2:25 PM | Add Comment

Delivery Vehicles!

Just on the corner of the street is KFC with Pizza Hut nearby, we can see the delivery vehicles all ready to go!



Oh, here's a delivery guy now!


 
(Don't forget that McDonald's is just down the street and they deliver too! ... ROFL!)
Posted by Andrew at 3/9/2012 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Interesting Fish for Sale

As the sleet and rain continue to pour down ... the weekly trip to the grocery store produced this gem:
Posted by Andrew at 3/6/2012 8:00 AM

Shanghai Streets

Renovating the Pharmacy on the corner!





Looking good ... then right down that street, Ping Xing Guan Road (my street but looking north, whereas my block is to the south).



About 7:20 am (see how fuzzy it is that early in the morning? grin) ... Then down to Middle Huai Hai Road and another Apple store!



And, of course, near where I buy my bread, a view of Tomorrow's Square top, the J.W. Marriot Building (above the sign for Changle Road). 



Posted by Andrew at 2/28/2012 7:39 PM | Add Comment

Saturday in the Rain ... nice



Nanjing pedestrian street near the end ... looks like it will be extended with a HUGE building - you can see one of the many cranes in the background.  About 41 degrees F. at this point ... in search of the Bund Brewery - now defunct!!!



After a court in Shanghai ruled in favor of Apple, the iPad 2 can still be sold in Shanghai, here at one of the Apple stores...



And then we have a picture looking at the Tallest buildings in China, in Pudong Financial District across the Huang Pu River.



YES - Citibank and Aurora - no, they are just small buildings on the river front - the ones in behind are the big ones, grin!
Posted by Andrew at 2/26/2012 10:41 AM

Grocery Pictures Miscellaneous

 Over to Da Run Fa (RT MART) - the local grocery store (enhanced a bit for foreigners)



Squid anyone - fresh squid!



The Checkout lines - no worries this early in the morning!!



What's THIS???  Doublemint GUM???  M&Ms???  You betcha!  grin ...
   Not just McDonalds and KFC ... there are lots of American companies here!
Posted by Andrew at 2/21/2012 7:38 PM | Add Comment

Let's build a Block!

Well, then ... we have to move the street, of course!!!



Which means the sidewalk is moved too ...



Which creates opportunities ...



Eh ...



Fun!!! ...
Posted by Andrew at 2/16/2012 8:15 AM | Add Comment

Fresh Cherries?

On February 12, I am JUST back from the U.S. and here's a woman selling cherries!
Posted by Andrew at 2/13/2012 1:45 PM

Yuan Dan - Happy New Year in Shanghai

元旦快乐!!  HAPPY NEW YEAR!

When Sun Yat-sen took office as the temporary President in Nanjing at the beginning of January of 1912, he set the 1st of the 1st lunar month as the Spring Festival while the 1st of January was set as the New Year, which was also called Yuan Dan.(from the Chinese Confucian Website)
Posted by Andrew at 12/31/2011 5:22 PM | Add Comment

Interesting Spreads

Very interesting how the crude price, wholesale price, and retail price spreads change ...


Courtesy AAA
Posted by Andrew at 12/9/2011 4:40 AM | Add Comment

Water markets in 20 to 30 years ....

“I expect to see a globally integrated market for fresh water within 25 to 30 years. Once the spot market for water is integrated, futures markets and other derivative water based water instruments – puts, calls, swaps – should trade over the exchanges and over the counter will follow. There will be different grades and types of fresh water just like the way we have light sweet and heavy sour crude oil today. Water as an asset class will, in my view, become eventually the single most important physical commodity based asset class – dwarfing oil, copper agricultural commodities as well as precious metals.”

Willem Buiter, Citigroup economist. (to me via Chris Carter ScotiaGroup email)

Hmmm .... maybe much sooner in certain countries ... we shall see
Posted by Andrew at 11/19/2011 7:17 AM | Add Comment

Halloween in Shanghai

You can buy anything here in Shanghai!  Da Ning department/grocery store RT Mart:
Posted by Andrew at 11/1/2011 5:53 AM | Add Comment

Steven Jobs on sale in Shanghai, Yan Chang Road

Less than one week to hit the streets of Shanghai!
Posted by Andrew at 10/31/2011 3:46 PM | Add Comment

Ohhh ... advertising!!!



ADVERTISING!
Posted by Andrew at 10/31/2011 10:38 AM

Oh my goodness ... WHAT ...



... the heck????
Posted by Andrew at 10/30/2011 10:42 AM | Add Comment

Looks like RAIN! Tropical Storm Sarika!

YEAH - hoping to totally end the drought!!!



Southern China receives much of their rain in the form of Tropical Storms.  The weather forecast is for rain through Sunday.
Posted by Andrew at 6/10/2011 6:14 AM | Add Comment

Closer to home in Shanghai ...


Right Now Next 36 Hours
Fair Today Tonight Tomorrow
Partly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy T-Storms
Fair Partly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy T-Storms
97°F 90° 74° 81°
Feels Like: 101°
 
High Low High
Past 24-hr precip is only available for the contiguous U.S. Chance of Precip:
10%		 Chance of Precip:
20%		 Chance of Rain:
90%
Wind:
From S at 9mph 		Wind:
SE at 8 mph 		Wind:
S at 9 mph 		Wind:
SSW at 12 mp


Posted by Andrew at 6/9/2011 1:26 PM | Add Comment

The FIRST Tropical Storm - North America




A birthday storm!!  That's IT - just turned the double nickel!!  grin
Posted by Andrew at 6/9/2011 7:30 AM | Add Comment

BACK IN THE U.S.A.!!!



Posted by Andrew at 1/15/2011 1:45 AM | Add Comment
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