<B>In Shenzhen: Where are all the hotties?!</B>
As already mentioned above, my last two days and nights in China were spent in Shenzhen. Thirty years ago it was just a village. Then the Chinese government made it the first, or one of the first, New Economic Zones(?)
Today it is a HUGE city with many many tall condo and office towers in different parts of it. Some are quite eye catching too - as a search of Google Images will verify.
During the first afternoon there Xiaoyan suggested we go to Luohu Commercial City. It is in the east part of Shenzhen. (Remember that's where the Shenzhen MTR station is that you encounter when crossing the border there - after catching Hong Kong's MTR to its Lo Wu station).
I liked the area so we went back the next afternoon too. It's a busy shopping district bustling with people. There are at least two 24 hour KFCs; two 24 hour McD's; and, I think, two Pizza Huts. It also has all the kinds of shops you'd expect in any shopping area.
Most importantly it has at least one Starbucks! It was there that I decided to spend the last hour or two of my last day in China - people watching. Actually, to be more accurate, my intention was to watch all the hotties walk by. Someone should have informed them though.
Guys I sat on the patio in front of Starbucks for about two hours, from about 4:00 or 5:00 until 6:00 or 7:00 PM. In that time, along the ten meter wide pedestrian mall in front of me, countless people walked past. Thousands I guess. So it was with some disbelief and disappointment that so few hotties did. In fact, I could number them on my hands, and probably have a finger or two left over.
Are my standards now impossibly high? I don't think so. To qualify as a hottie I had to imagine that, if the girl were to stand in a KTV line, she'd turn more than a few heads. Very few qualified. In fact very few would have met even the lowest standards of the KTVs I visited.
I don't know but maybe most of them were in Chang An and Chang Ping doing just that! (Turning heads - and tricks. Ha ha ha).
Oddly enough the previous night I saw two very yummy looking girls while eating in a Pizza Hut. We sat at a window that looked out on an interior shopping hallway. In the space of about ten minutes these two walked by - separately.
They were sufficiently hot that, had I not been with my temporary wife, I might have waved to them. Then if I'd gotten an encouraging smile in return maybe I'd have gone out to talk to them; invite them to join me. Of course that would have been a wee bit difficult with less than five words of Mandarin.
Actually one did give me a bit of an appreciative look when she noticed the slightly awed look on my face as I <s>gazed</s> stared at her.
On an unrelated note, I told one passerby what I thought of him using a few gestures. He walks around with a monkey that's missing a leg. He and the monkey beg for money. I assume he's a fixture in the area.
He approached me and I made the following gestures:
I pointed at my chest; then at my head (brain); then at him; then at the monkey - making a chopping motion with one hand against a wrist.
He got my meaning exactly and denied emphatically that he'd done that.
Thinking about it later I decided he probably didn't. If he had, the monkey would be afraid of him for life. No. He probably got someone else to do it and then "rescued," the poor thing.
Then again maybe he's innocent of my accusation. Just in case he isn't though, I wouldn't give him any money.
Chica Chaser
As already mentioned above, my last two days and nights in China were spent in Shenzhen. Thirty years ago it was just a village. Then the Chinese government made it the first, or one of the first, New Economic Zones(?)
Today it is a HUGE city with many many tall condo and office towers in different parts of it. Some are quite eye catching too - as a search of Google Images will verify.
During the first afternoon there Xiaoyan suggested we go to Luohu Commercial City. It is in the east part of Shenzhen. (Remember that's where the Shenzhen MTR station is that you encounter when crossing the border there - after catching Hong Kong's MTR to its Lo Wu station).
I liked the area so we went back the next afternoon too. It's a busy shopping district bustling with people. There are at least two 24 hour KFCs; two 24 hour McD's; and, I think, two Pizza Huts. It also has all the kinds of shops you'd expect in any shopping area.
Most importantly it has at least one Starbucks! It was there that I decided to spend the last hour or two of my last day in China - people watching. Actually, to be more accurate, my intention was to watch all the hotties walk by. Someone should have informed them though.
Guys I sat on the patio in front of Starbucks for about two hours, from about 4:00 or 5:00 until 6:00 or 7:00 PM. In that time, along the ten meter wide pedestrian mall in front of me, countless people walked past. Thousands I guess. So it was with some disbelief and disappointment that so few hotties did. In fact, I could number them on my hands, and probably have a finger or two left over.
Are my standards now impossibly high? I don't think so. To qualify as a hottie I had to imagine that, if the girl were to stand in a KTV line, she'd turn more than a few heads. Very few qualified. In fact very few would have met even the lowest standards of the KTVs I visited.
I don't know but maybe most of them were in Chang An and Chang Ping doing just that! (Turning heads - and tricks. Ha ha ha).
Oddly enough the previous night I saw two very yummy looking girls while eating in a Pizza Hut. We sat at a window that looked out on an interior shopping hallway. In the space of about ten minutes these two walked by - separately.
They were sufficiently hot that, had I not been with my temporary wife, I might have waved to them. Then if I'd gotten an encouraging smile in return maybe I'd have gone out to talk to them; invite them to join me. Of course that would have been a wee bit difficult with less than five words of Mandarin.
Actually one did give me a bit of an appreciative look when she noticed the slightly awed look on my face as I <s>gazed</s> stared at her.
On an unrelated note, I told one passerby what I thought of him using a few gestures. He walks around with a monkey that's missing a leg. He and the monkey beg for money. I assume he's a fixture in the area.
He approached me and I made the following gestures:
I pointed at my chest; then at my head (brain); then at him; then at the monkey - making a chopping motion with one hand against a wrist.
He got my meaning exactly and denied emphatically that he'd done that.
Thinking about it later I decided he probably didn't. If he had, the monkey would be afraid of him for life. No. He probably got someone else to do it and then "rescued," the poor thing.
Then again maybe he's innocent of my accusation. Just in case he isn't though, I wouldn't give him any money.
Chica Chaser
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