What to do in Shanghai at weekends?

February 13th, 2006 Filed under English entries, Life

@ 2006-02-13 21:47

The Problem
One of the problems I’m facing is what to do at the weekends. It’s really a headache and I have to rack my brains for, always, a not exciting idea.I always want to go out for some fun at weekends, don’t want to stay at home after a whole week of office work. The trouble with me (or with Shanghai) is that there’s no place for outting within the city and the I’ve been to nearlly all the site nearby the cities.

Our Choices
Last Friday, when Urecca and I were back to home after work, we had a discussion on where to go at the weekend. At beginning, we plan to go to the Jinjiang Amusement Park (http://www.jjlysh.com/). But soon we canceled this idear for there’s not many game attractive to us. Then the idea came to Urecca’s head was to pay a visit to Shanghai Science&Technology Museum (http://www.sstm.org.cn/), for she had heard that there’s much fun and interesting place there. But, it’s not long before we discard this idea, becaue the ticket is too expensive. And then we dicide to go fishing. I like fishing very much. There’re many fish pool near my BJ home and I used to fish for quite a lot times.So we began to search on the internet to see where we could go to fish. There’s not much info on this in the net but finally we found that there’s fishing place in Changfeng Park, not far away. But, just in minuts, we again denied the idea. Our conclusion was that we have to prepare too much for a ishing and it a recreation more for the old people.

The Decision
So we took out the Shanghai map and wanted find somewhere else we can go. The crowed city’s map is waved full by roads with no creativities. My fleeting glance at the outside of Shanghai found me a place right behind Shanghai, named Ping Hu (means calm lake in Chinese, 平湖). It’s just adjacent to Shanghai, but I have never heared of it. This is a very interesting thing, I wondered why? So I ask Urecca “Have you ever heared about Ping Hu?” She said no. So I pointed it on the map to her.She also excited about the idea to go there. So we began to search some related info in the internet. Search results showed that Ping Hu is really a nice and good choice for weekend outting. It’s besides the sea and some of the famous Chinese man was born or lived here, say, Li Shutong, a famous buddiest. So we quikly decided to go there for a visit. We had to take railway to Jiang Xing and change for bus there.

So we went to bed and waited to set off the next morning.

The Rusult
But, we were awake very late. So we decided to put off the visit and stay in Shanghai for the weekend. But, the question arised again: what to do?

What we did instead
Urecca is addicted to one fashion magzine these day. I criticized her and warned her not to become a metro woman. But it seem s difficult to resist the influence of the surrounding.I suddenly want to go Karaok! This was not a idea that would come out from my mouth, but I meant it.I suspected that I’m becoming a metro man. It would be a sad thing.We came to agreement and set off soon after dinner.

How we became members of Your Gym
We didn’t go direct to Karaok. Instead, we first pay a vist to a gym club on the half way. Days before, we also paid a visit to a gym club nearby and the reception woman introduced the club for us. It’s small club, somewhat shabby.The promotional price is RMB160 for 20 times excercise.But today’s Your Gym was a better one. It’s mucn more roomy, new and, of course, more expensive. Urecca and I did little exercise in the past year except some times of playing basketball. And we felt that we must take more sports and exersise more has become a goal of this year(our Benmingnian). The sales man of Your Gym quoted as for RMB30/time. After our bargining, the price had come to very low RMB20/time, which was very low, I thought. So, we make the deal and became two member of the club lah.

So, now you can guss how we spent the last weekend. After a 3hrs Karaok and supper, we go to the club and spended 2.5hrs that night at the gym.

That’s how me manage to spend the weekend. But when another weekend comes, what to do? Do you have any good idea about where to go or what to do within or near Shanghai?

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