Oct 21 2019

The Ghost Town


Oct 21 2019

Raffles City 来福士


Chaotianmen Docks
ChongQing, China

According to CNN, the $3.8 billion mega project began in 2013. It was opened in September 2019.

The mall is huge – calling it ‘city’ is not exaggerating. Supermarket Ol


Oct 21 2019

Ole


Raffles City 8 Jiesheng St.,
ChongQing, China

The supermarket is pretty up scale on Chaotianmen Docks. I bought green cheese and frozen durian (300g


Oct 21 2019

Faker hates fakers


世纪荣耀 Century Glory @ ChongQing.

Waling around the boat, wandered into this sneaker shop. They look like Skechers to me, but with different logo.

My friend sees one pair and would like to try. The sales girl is polite and finds her size.
“Oh, it’s so comfortable.” My friend says.
“Yes, they’re,” sales girl says.
“Where are they made?”
“Oh, we’ve many places to produce them.”
“So, not centralized in one location?”
“No.”
“Why?”
“Because so many are trying to copy us, we’ve to be careful, spread out our production, so it’s hard for them to copy.”

LOL … are you kidding me? You’re the copycat, and now you don’t like to be copied? Guess the counterfeit dislike counterfeit … how does that work?


Oct 21 2019

世纪荣耀 Century Glory

My second cruise trip.

On board the ship: 2 star out of 5. Grossly over priced.

It claims to be the best river cruise in China and the price reflects it. They say the Yangzi River cruise is to be taken again and again (18 times is the current record). If I were to retake the journey (most likely not), definitely will NOT be this shitty boat.

  • Cost for 3 night: the 3rd level double with a balcony is