I Finally Got Around to Telling You What's Up

As some of you well know, I was at the LCCT on the 18th of June, yapping pretentiously into my cellphone at a Starbucks while loving my Java Chip Frappuccino. Then I got on my flight after making ten very long, very important, very ridiculous calls.
And it was a long flight. Filled with jelly beans and the offering of jelly beans to the Taiwanese passenger sitting next to me. Probably because I felt sort of guilty for bothering him five times throughout the flight.

"You wanna' jelly bean? Take one, I insist! TAKE ONE! TAKE ONE NOW!"

And that's why window seats may be considered bad...

But views like this is why they may be considered good.

Anyway, I went to tons of places the few days afterward. Places like Jinqiao Park, where they have clumps of trees that make you feel like you're in a video game with those CGI trees that precede the fighting of some giant forest monster... Or you know, a place where you can find Smurfs.

Yeah, see those trees? Those trees are hiding something.

And then, there was this mall where everything was so American. American in the sense that not one of the mall patrons were using the stairs and were trying to squeeze into the line of people using the escalators. That's right. A line. For the escalator.

They also had this underground Apple store, which I must admit is very Apple and very cool.

I even went to the Shanghai Aquarium place, where I took about a hundred pictures of fish and other animals you might find at aquariums.

"I shall call you Squishy, and you shall be my Squishy..."

 And then there was that awesome Tian Zi Fang place in the Lu Jia Zui area where they sold tons of stuff at what they say are completely reasonable prices.

"Come eat and buy at a store based in one of our old, old buildings!"

Then there was the French Concession where I sucked up every bit of history I could.

See these trees? These trees are imported. IM-POR-TED!

 Then there was that place I couldn't remember the name of but was basically from that scene in New Moon where they went to Italy.

"Edward, no! Wait, shit! Where's Edward?! EDWAAAARD!"

 Then I went to the Yuyuan Garden which was basically another place where they sold stuff at 'tourist prices'.

"Now if you look to your right, you will see a Dico's... Which is basically a McDonald's no one wants to go to."

Apart from unpopular fast food chains that have to resort to buy-one-get-one-free schemes, they also had completely Western chains in completely Chinese buildings. Which is a pretty interesting combo.

"Here we have a Eurasian child by the name of Starbucks Coffee.

 And then there's the mall I go to every other day to hang out and chillax. LifeHub, which is sorta' like MidValley Megamall minus the whole parking issue.

This entire place, is a a labyrinth of money-spending madness.

 I also visited this church that had pretty sweet architecture.

Now, tell me this isn't beautiful.

And at the end of the day, when you wanna' get home but don't know which direction to turn, just look for one of these...

"I am your beacon of hope, your symbol of survival! I AM THE SUBWAY SIGN!"

Find one of these babies and you're on the way home. Provided you have enough spare change and know how to make use of this very simple yet brilliant mode of public transportation.
Anyway, I'm sorry I couldn't upload more photos because if I did, then this post wouldn't be able to go on before next week. Seriously, I just don't have that kind of time...
And yes, I took these pictures. Except for the one with the jelly beans.
Alright then, I have to run now. Got to get to LifeHub and chillax and all that.