financial tsunami

well, financial tsunami, my a*s.
as i was trying to find the hocc charity exhibition at harbour city yesterday...
weaving through the crowds seemed like an impossible job.
there were gazillions of people standing around, queueing up to pay for their new purchases...
and...of course, needless to say... the famous... mainland travellers.
i promised myself to get my mandarin up to speed so i would sound like a true peking person (is that noun pekinese? sounds a bit weird though), but that was a complete failure.
although i had fun mocking some when walking towards metro station with my friend in central.
the point here is that it's only okay if u mock them in central...
cos there are gazillions of them in TST, which then becomes just IMpossible to do without being beaten up (maybe to death)...
and i swear to _______, i will never ever try to "catch up" with friends in TST... it was simply too crowded.
though, such a small world it is, i ran into my friend from auckland in the kook*i shop at harbour city.
anyways, i took a walk after dinner along conduit rd, and saw quite a few vacant cabs driving around, they all looked excited when saw me walking around, thinking i might get one...but sorry, no...
i guess that is a sign of the tsunami?
and couple of victims of the lehman bros mini-bond were protesting in front of some banks along qcr were quite loud... another sign?
maybe the 3rd sign is the availability of tables at agnes b le pain grille? we stayed there for almost 3 hours, though all the tables were booked out, there was no 2nd rounds.
other than that, everywhere i went was packed!
maybe it be michelin starred restaurants (they bound to have more customers?), or just random restaurants... or just shopping malls...
god, for the first time, i saw so many people at jo*ce!
what is wrong with this world? or maybe it's just me...
having lived in the remoteland for too long.
now i'm in shanghai for family business/commitment, i hope i will see something different.
(for a start, it's so friggin cold up here! i was wearing singlets walking around all day, and people stared me like i'm an alien... rolling eyes...)
(damn it, i left my camera/phone connection cable behind in wellington... no pictures then...apologize in advance, though will post up them later upon my return...heaps of them.)
(also apologize to those who do not like reading in english, i haven't a clue how to work on this computer... there's no t/chinese input system... >.<)