Could somebody please press the little green button on the stop time machine? I'm not ready for the Chinese New Year holiday to end yet. I need one more week.
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One more week to have eight-hour walkabouts. One more week with no makeup. I haven't yet smeared enough eel grease over the pages of The Travels of Marco Polo whilst lounging in distant Hunnanese restaurants. I have more bus routes to pioneer! Another week's worth of laundry to neglect!
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Today, I visited a tourist attraction: the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel. I'll let the Ministry of Tourism tell it: "The Bund Sighseeing Tunnel is a river tunnel across the Huangpu river, first combining sightseeing and traffic functions in China. With high-tech of digital audio, laser and electronics, eight sightseeing areas are displaying in the Tunnel...Visitor, who is in bare feet or topless or drunken and trouble making, or suffering from acute infectious or psychiatric diseases...is not permitted to enter the Tunnel."
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There was no line, and I thought I was going to have a whole car to myself. Alone on the platform, waiting for the ride to start, I was contemplating whether anything in the history of the world had ever begged more urgently to be mooned than the cars coming through the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel in the opposite direction; alas, at the last minute, a family came ambling down the escalator and boarded with me. Moon mission aborted.
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The little car lurched down the tracks into the tunnel, and the noble eightfold multimedia/laser extravaganza began. Y'all. It was just a bunch of wack flashing lightbulbs!
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A recorded voice indicated the "eight sightseeing areas" as we passed through them, first in English and then in Mandarin. I scrabbled for a pen and was able to take precise notes: "Shining star! Sea swirl! Fossil variant! Nascent magma! Paradise and hell! Mental waltz! Basalt and blue water! Sea cadence! Meteor shower!" Yes, I count nine too, and can only conclude that I must have hallucinated one. Pictured: "sea swirl" (obviously).
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It cost 40RMB (=US$5.85) to get across the Huangpu river via the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, and 3RMB (=US$0.45) to get back across on the subway. Conclusion: the charms of the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel are not worth the exorbitant fee! Too much sea cadence, not enough antelope acumen.
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One more week to have eight-hour walkabouts. One more week with no makeup. I haven't yet smeared enough eel grease over the pages of The Travels of Marco Polo whilst lounging in distant Hunnanese restaurants. I have more bus routes to pioneer! Another week's worth of laundry to neglect!
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Today, I visited a tourist attraction: the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel. I'll let the Ministry of Tourism tell it: "The Bund Sighseeing Tunnel is a river tunnel across the Huangpu river, first combining sightseeing and traffic functions in China. With high-tech of digital audio, laser and electronics, eight sightseeing areas are displaying in the Tunnel...Visitor, who is in bare feet or topless or drunken and trouble making, or suffering from acute infectious or psychiatric diseases...is not permitted to enter the Tunnel."
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There was no line, and I thought I was going to have a whole car to myself. Alone on the platform, waiting for the ride to start, I was contemplating whether anything in the history of the world had ever begged more urgently to be mooned than the cars coming through the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel in the opposite direction; alas, at the last minute, a family came ambling down the escalator and boarded with me. Moon mission aborted.
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The little car lurched down the tracks into the tunnel, and the noble eightfold multimedia/laser extravaganza began. Y'all. It was just a bunch of wack flashing lightbulbs!
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A recorded voice indicated the "eight sightseeing areas" as we passed through them, first in English and then in Mandarin. I scrabbled for a pen and was able to take precise notes: "Shining star! Sea swirl! Fossil variant! Nascent magma! Paradise and hell! Mental waltz! Basalt and blue water! Sea cadence! Meteor shower!" Yes, I count nine too, and can only conclude that I must have hallucinated one. Pictured: "sea swirl" (obviously).
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It cost 40RMB (=US$5.85) to get across the Huangpu river via the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, and 3RMB (=US$0.45) to get back across on the subway. Conclusion: the charms of the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel are not worth the exorbitant fee! Too much sea cadence, not enough antelope acumen.
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