Shanghai Expo
Sorry guys!I have made a sort of schedule about what i am gonna talk about in what order but i kinda spoiled the whole thing....
Im going to talk about my trip to Shanghai Just this June holiday.I guess i am doing this now as some of my classmates did a presentation on this topic in class...Ill talk about the Expo in general and go on to talk about one or two of the most outstanding exhibitions i managed to visit....
some background information on the world expo.... a world expos are essentially large public exhibitions held in different parts of the world.The main attractions at World's Fairs are the national pavilions, created by participating countries.The Shanghai World Expo is also the largest World's expo site ever at 5.28 square km.The previous world expo was held in Zaragoza,Spain on 2008.The next one will be held at Yeosu,South korea.
So if you didnt realise and queued up.you be stuck there fir almost 5 hours!!(actually you can you do that in a 2km x 2 km cube....just excape from the side....)
However i think that China is doing everything they can possibly do, and that they are actually doing very well. despite my many criticism, i really commend the Chinese(im chinese too ^^) for doing such a SUPER job in this.(everything from the toilets to the service were very well done!)I throughly enjoyed myself! (we legs would like to disagree,after all that torturous queuing, we(the legs) have ached for almost a week before we were able to move properly again.... poor us....)
Im going to talk about my trip to Shanghai Just this June holiday.I guess i am doing this now as some of my classmates did a presentation on this topic in class...Ill talk about the Expo in general and go on to talk about one or two of the most outstanding exhibitions i managed to visit....
some background information on the world expo.... a world expos are essentially large public exhibitions held in different parts of the world.The main attractions at World's Fairs are the national pavilions, created by participating countries.The Shanghai World Expo is also the largest World's expo site ever at 5.28 square km.The previous world expo was held in Zaragoza,Spain on 2008.The next one will be held at Yeosu,South korea.
i'd like to say that that was my first time visiting something like the world expo.It is really cool as you literally can experience all the cultures of all the world countries in one single place.too bad you would really have to stay in china for a whole month for you to finish the whole place....
The pavilions I saw at the expo were honestly the best architecturally designed buildings i have seen, be it in real life or on the internet,tvs or books...I really believe them to be comparable to the 7 wonders of the world....
Perhaps it is because it is totally different seeing something in a picture or pixelated than to experience it in real life....Too bad they are going to be teared down after they have served their purpose...
Back to the topic.It was really hard to accept that i was in Shanghai and really experiencing the expo during the trip.Part of me refused to believe that i was not in Singapore.I really blame this on the convenience of traveling on the plane.Once you find out that you can get to another country i a short 3 hr ride, its like taking a taxi and it doesn't seem so exciting anymore....
One thing you have to watch out for in the Expo is that the Chinese people actually pretty damn rude, you ca see one big guy push you to the side and pretty much the whole queue moves in front of you...Adding perhaps another 15 minutes into your waiting time....After a while you will even see girls pushing you aside...sadd...my sister got so pissed she blocked them and owned them in chinese...haha PWNED(sorry for bad english but i cant help it... :D)
Oh did i mention that you can literally queue for 6-9 hours just to get in a single excibition? I really admire all the old chinese people that got the stamina to queue up for that long a time.(once you are in there is no backing out...You are practically trapped between two sea of people........hahahahahahah.The big joke is that you queue up seeing that it dosent look very long, only to realize that the queue takes a very long swirl around the whole exhibition before coming back at the entrance again(it winds around the whole about 2x2 km ground, winding down sort of like this(follow the line)(this is going down, thus maximizing the queuing space)
The pavilions I saw at the expo were honestly the best architecturally designed buildings i have seen, be it in real life or on the internet,tvs or books...I really believe them to be comparable to the 7 wonders of the world....
Perhaps it is because it is totally different seeing something in a picture or pixelated than to experience it in real life....Too bad they are going to be teared down after they have served their purpose...
Back to the topic.It was really hard to accept that i was in Shanghai and really experiencing the expo during the trip.Part of me refused to believe that i was not in Singapore.I really blame this on the convenience of traveling on the plane.Once you find out that you can get to another country i a short 3 hr ride, its like taking a taxi and it doesn't seem so exciting anymore....
One thing you have to watch out for in the Expo is that the Chinese people actually pretty damn rude, you ca see one big guy push you to the side and pretty much the whole queue moves in front of you...Adding perhaps another 15 minutes into your waiting time....After a while you will even see girls pushing you aside...sadd...my sister got so pissed she blocked them and owned them in chinese...haha PWNED(sorry for bad english but i cant help it... :D)
Oh did i mention that you can literally queue for 6-9 hours just to get in a single excibition? I really admire all the old chinese people that got the stamina to queue up for that long a time.(once you are in there is no backing out...You are practically trapped between two sea of people........hahahahahahah.The big joke is that you queue up seeing that it dosent look very long, only to realize that the queue takes a very long swirl around the whole exhibition before coming back at the entrance again(it winds around the whole about 2x2 km ground, winding down sort of like this(follow the line)(this is going down, thus maximizing the queuing space)
______________|(start)
|______________
______________|
|______________
______________| you see what i mean?its really really
|______________ really long if you do that in 2km x 2 km
|______________
______________| you see what i mean?its really really
|______________ really long if you do that in 2km x 2 km
So if you didnt realise and queued up.you be stuck there fir almost 5 hours!!(actually you can you do that in a 2km x 2 km cube....just excape from the side....)
However i think that China is doing everything they can possibly do, and that they are actually doing very well. despite my many criticism, i really commend the Chinese(im chinese too ^^) for doing such a SUPER job in this.(everything from the toilets to the service were very well done!)I throughly enjoyed myself! (we legs would like to disagree,after all that torturous queuing, we(the legs) have ached for almost a week before we were able to move properly again.... poor us....)
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