better city better life??!!

if singaporeans' favourite pastime is queuing, then the prcs' favourite pastime is queuing and SQUEEZING.

this was at the entrance to the expo. we reach there at 830 am and was shocked to see the huge amount of people. the expo is only open at 9 am.

and this is the squeezing part. these pple cant afford to give any breathing space for the person in front of them. somehow they have this mentality that the more they squeeze the pple in front, the queue will move faster. 


actually we went to the expo at the wrong time. because they have this 端午节 super long weekend holiday, from 12th june (sat) all the way until the day of 端午节 (16th june wed). we were in shanghai from 11th june to 15th june. so everywhere was packed with pple. expo packed with pple. 外滩 packed with pple. shopping centres packed with pple. restaurants packed with pple. every single tourist attraction packed with pple. it is like every prc from every part of china come to shanghai during this super long weeekend holiday. 


ok let's continue with the expo tour. 

the expo has water coolers every where for pple to fill their water bottles or drink water. but later on, i see pple washing their hands at the water cooler. and then hw said he wun be surprised when he see pple carry their babies to pee at the water cooler.


the most popular pavilion in this world expo is the saudi arabia pavilion. because they have too much black oil and thus too much money, they invest alot in their pavilion. heard that they got 3D movie screening inside the pavilion. so guess how many hours we need to queue to get inside the pavilion? scroll down for the ans:




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this only shows part of the queue

yup you got it! 9 freaking hours! totally absurd.


now let me introduce the pavilions.


first the countries from ASIA!!! 

even the singapore pavilion queue is so long! so we din bother to queue and go in, cos we heard that singapore pavilion nothing much to see.


next, the countries from EUROPE!!!

since every single pavilion has a long queue, we were totally turned off. nzj wanted to go for 3 days, but looking at the crowd and other unpleasant things, he decided not to. 1 day is enough for all of us.


so if you guys are wondering what are the pavilions we went into, we only went into two countries' pavilions. one country is laos, which we queued for about 30 minutes, and the pavilion really has nothing much to see.


the other pavilion is the switzerland pavilion. we queued for 3 hours!!! so while queuing we played charades and pple were looking at us and were also entertained by us. during the queuing there were some unpleasant incidents like pple fighting, pple squeezing with us left, right, centre. squeeze to the extent that nzj can feel a guy's penis poking his butt. some pple also tried to jump queue by climbing across the fence and they kenna whacked. got one auntie even more power, claimed that her child got lost and squeeze her way to the front to look for her child, and she found her child, and she is at the front of the queue! honestly we dunno whether the missing of her child is genuine or not. 

the freaking long queue at switzerland pavilion.

yes we are finally inside the switzerland pavilion! xiaoyun said that she want to place a singapore flag at the top of the pavilion because it was a great sense of achievement to go through the 3 hours of queuing ordeal.


while we are inside the pavilion, the queue outside is still freaking long:

some ride thingy inside the switzerland pavilion. honestly the switzerland pavilion does not have any amazing stuff. it only looks nice on the outside.


and we concluded the end of the world expo tour with a buggy ride, which cost us 10 yuan each.

yes, the theme for this world expo is BETTER CITY, BETTER LIFE.


but seeing the behavior of the locals, the theme may need some modification. honestly the 7 of us were quite disappointed with this world expo tour. it could have been better if there is one day per week which is allocated to foreigner tourists, but god knows whether it is possible for that to happen.


let's hope the better city better life??!! will really become BETTER CITY BETTER LIFE.