It’s been 8 months since my last blog post (sounds like confession). Where has the time gone?
Since then I’ve changed jobs and finished my degree.
And the world seems to have gone quite mad.
At least the Blogosphere is still turning.
Shanghai Smog
Concealed in the sameness
the faded blue suit
Clark Kent by day
Who cares, who cares to look?
But out there
when darkness falls
it’s kite-flying breathtaking riddles
out of dayshadows, an infinite teasing
of zetetic minds
unphysics exploding:
The Universe –
ultimate mystery man.
I’ve had the good fortune to travel to Shanghai twice in the last 6 months for work. On my most recent trip there, I was lucky enough to be shown around by wonderful hosts, and so I got to see the some of the incredible architecture in the Pudong area for the first time.
This is the interior of the Shanghai Grand Hyatt hotel from the top floor, a view not for the fainthearted.
In time, Nature conquers all.
A Rainy Day – Ningxia Road, Shanghai
“This week, share a photo of something vibrant. Let’s wash the web with a rainbow of colors to keep the winter gloom at bay.”
The Daily Post
Eurasian Tree Sparrow – Yuyuan Gardens, Shanghai
He’s thinking, “Lunch!” I’m thinking, “Wildly optimistic.”
I’m in a city of 14.50 million
(give or take a few, including me)
souls. I know no-one
here. I’m a nano-human, a speck
in the smog. I make myself big
riding the subways with no-one
with light-coloured hair. No-one notices
the gweilo; the ghost-person, I think,
until I step into the deluge at Shanghai
Library, and a dark-haired
girl steps in time beside me, her umbrella
banishing the rain, her words, my ghostliness
“Where are you going?
Can I take you there?”
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