The Italians, plotting someone's demise. Or just eating a pre-flight meal and working on compositions.
What do Asian kids eat when stuck at the airport? Asian food, duh.
Arriving at Shanghai airport, finally.
First dinner in Shanghai after being awake 24+ hrs
New Aisa? Is that a new continent?
View from window in New Aisa--I mean, Asia--hotel
View in sepia
Note the nice little rooftop garden
Rooftop garden
View from outside Shanghai New Asia Hotel window
rooftop garden
Nanjing Road
Nanjing Road Signs
Folding bike in a “shady goods” store
Shady goods! I try to haggle with the vendor with the ubiquitous large calculator.
Donald Neuen!
Bus 3 in it's natural sleepy state.
Bus 3, in a rare moment of alertness
Shanghai Road
Shanghai road
Shanghai Times Square
Shanghai Concert Hall!
Shanghai Concert Hall. Can't believe I sang a solo on this stage!
Shanghai Concert Hall
Sop, Tenor, and Bass soloists after a long and hard practice. Alto soloist (a.k.a. me) was taking the pic.
Shanghai Skyline
Shanghai Skyline + Chacha, the accompanist
The Neuens and Christine, the tour organizer
Well-fed soloists, thanks to Neuen!
@ Shanghai Museum
The Masters students
Roc, Chacha, and Irene. Third wheel, Irene!
Shanghai Museum lobby
Ooooh, crystal ball...nah, just the roof of the Shanghai Museum
Shanghai Museum Lobby
The choir going up the escalators
Money money money...life is honey...
Skateboard-like Money
Very mod traditional Chinese dress
Native Chinese clothes
Very pretty embroidery
Little ceramic musicians
Oooo, horsie!
This is a ceramic pillow. WTF?
Another ceramic pillow. No wonder the Chinese had to come up with acupuncture and acupressure. Neck strains must've been horrible.
Yet another ceramic pillow. Rather creepy.
I wanna eat off this...
Oooh, blue and gold--Bruins colors!
Another blue and gold vase
How to make ceramics
Kiln
Mushu-lookalike! On a plate!
Buddha statue. Lots of these around.
Arrrrgh, angry warrior!
Musician couple statue
Rather cranky statues
Ring my bells...
Little bronze teapots
Bronze cow-shaped holder thing
Spearhead w/ creature. Cute.
At Shanghai Museum
Bund Tourist Tunnel
Pudong district Skyline
Pudong district skyline
Perspective Shot @ the Bund
Chris and Irene
At the Bund
Yes, we are the Shanghai Scenery
The entire choir!
Choir gang sign! Crescendo decrescendo FTW.
Modern and Traditional, separated by the river
Pretty kitty @ Yuyuan Gardens
Yuyuan Garden structures
pretty kitty again
Yuyuan Gardens
yuyuan gardens
Yuyuan gardens
Street food!
More street food!
KFC? Haagen-Dazs? DND, I'm eating.
Kitty uses 100+ year old trees as a scratching post. *sigh*
Yuyuan Garden epic battle sculptures
Dragon! And deer too.
Moar Pandas! Moar Pandas!!
Our sign!
Best. Motto. EVER.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Lots of bikes
SJTU
Nice sign for bikes and cars
SJTU. They have bridges!
So...we can take some home right? Ok, gimme a shovel.
Me and Acacia on the duet
Sarah, sleeping
Neuen bought him for me at Paul's Bakery in the French Concession! Isn't he adorable?
EEEK, BEHEADED!!!
AAARGH, DISMEMBERED!!!!
RIP, Paul. We will miss you.
The bike was playing peek-a-boo.
Escalator pic!
UCLA store concert!
A very dapper men's section
Little Asian Ladies promoting UCLA store
UCLA clothing store!
Restaurant!
Oooh, live fishies for us to eat!
EEEEEE, dead alligator!
Can't be bothered to smile, I'm eating!!!
Mariko, Ai, Janelle, Sam
Silk worm life cycle.
cocoons
Making silk stuff
Streching silk cocoons
Oooo, pretty.
Most music-nerdy silk pattern ever. I got pillowcases made of this to advertize my music nerdiness.
Silk reproduction of Gustav Klimt's “The Kiss”
Dude on folding bike
High-rise housing in Shanghai
Pockets of green amidst the high rises
There's a panda on my head!!
Imitating the Shanghai World Expo mascot
A school of Jesus fish! O_o“
Nanjing Road by night
Making dumplings!
Eating dumplings with GBCB from BikeForums! Yum.
The Chinese Gucci ad has a sexy bike. Ooooh.
Hey, the airplane made a smiley!
Gate at Tiananmen Square
Forbidden City
Forbidden City Seven Bridges
Nice wall @ Forbidden City. I want one.
Me and Steven, the awesomest Beijing tour guide ever
Ai, Mariko, Ray, Zhu, and Me. The Japanese-speaking folk in choir.
The Chinese and the Russians
Commie hats for one and all!
Detail at Forbidden City
Oooo, colorful!
Pretty ceiling...
Springtime at Forbidden City
Outside the Forbidden City
Traditional and Modern
Rickshaw/pedicab
Me and Mariko
The pedicab driver didn't want to be in the shot.
Our pedicab/rickshaw driver
Getting a history lesson on the Hutongs
A tree growing from the roof of the house. No kidding.
Rather large bonsai
River
Random folding bike
Another random folding bike
Cute red folding bike
Gate to bar district
Near bar district
University of Central Nationalities
Random people on folding bikes at the Uni
Neuen and the University of Central Nationalities band
Beijing soloists
More bars in more places! Even in China!
More bars in more places...even in China!
Oh, so green!
Interesting rock formation on the way to Great Wall
The non-recyclable trash can is angry!!!
Sarah, Tony, and Ryan Hatch proxy (Yellow smiley)
Tony and Ryan!
Neuen and his gang of TAs
Stone carver @ Great Wall
Tony: whatcha see Ryan?
Ryan: ahh, not much, just a very big fence
Tony: hey Ryan I can see the hotel from here!
Moments before someone came rolling down the hill to topple us like bowling pins. Just kidding.
Tony: I see what you mean thar, Ryan...
Was Tony doing something weird?!?!?!
Great Wall + Olympic sign
Great Wall
I ate Magnum on the Great Wall!! Er, that sounds wrong...
Beijing Concert Hall exterior. Not as pretty as the Shanghai one
Beijing Concert Hall Stage
Beijing Concert Hall
At Practice
Neuen and Christine, talking about Hymn of Light
Neuen: and this is my baton, I wave it around for the orchestra and choir to ignore...
More bars in more places (Beijing soloists version)
Entire choir and Chacha, waiting for Neuen to come out and play
Irene conducting!
The entire choir, Neuen, and Chaha on a badly tuned Bösendorfer
Bass & Tenor duet w/ Beijing soloists
The Choir in action!
The Choir in Action!!
Alto section rules! (oh, and some stray tenors too)
100+ people were singing happy birthday to me. That explains the stupid face I have
Lil Miss Sunshine and Lil Miss Darkness
Irene Messoloras and Tony Maglione. Mediterranean folk rule.
Aww, look, they're all wearing yellow!
Epic Neuen pic
Steven with the cap we gave him (courtesy of me)
Olympic Mascot and Me
At Beijing airport
