gin akigan na ko sang admin sang over blog ngaa kuno wala na ko ka blog sobra na 20 days. sheeeshhhhh. pwede na gali?

Around shanghai are various water towns. The weekend Narelie visited, we went to Tong Li and Zhou Zhuang (the supposed "Venice of China"). This was also the weekend that it really snowed in Shanghai.
Our only goal for going to Tong Li was the Acient Sex Culture Museum. But the tour ticket we paid for included a stop over at this lonely little island that had nothing on it but a temple and a mini-lake in the middle. We had more fun building miniature snow men while trying to ignore our frozen toes than exploring the things in the temple.
The Sex Museum changes your view that china is conservative. Jeesh. They had the kama sutra engraved onto bathroom tiles, pictures hidden on the underside of teacups (demure seduction?), and dildoes made from every conceivable material!
By the time we reached Zhou Zhuang, we were freezing, hungry, and tired. But the canals with the little boats and boatmen were picturesque. Such a a contrast from the hurried, harrassing, busy life in Shanghai. Such a pity that the city is so commercialized. You dont get to appreciate the essence of the place thanks to the hawking locals offering everthing from dried crabs to beaded bags from their shops lining the canals.The price of economic survival.
At the end of the day, it wasnt the places we went to or the things we saw that mattered. It was the memories made and the friendship that was strenghtened that made it all so special.