Tuesday, October 21, 2008  Pool party?  Clean and blue? It's
just an illusion!  A friend of a friend went to the
‘International Gymnastic Center Swimming pool’ in Zhongshan park
in Shanghai the other day to enjoy a swim. This is a kind of
fancy pool. I have been there myself once, so I know the drill:
You pay quite a bit of money (if I remember it correctly it was
more than 100 kuai) and get 1,5 hour pool time. This means that
within 1.5 hours you have be out of the water, or…. ? Actually,
what happens if you are still in the water when your ‘time
limit’ has expired is yet unknown as I wasn’t rebellious enough
to stay in the water on ‘over time’ when I was there. But I can
only assume the girls in the reception get a bit angry. Maybe u
have to pay an ‘over due’ fee, like you do when you return your
library books too late? (Although don’t ask me how they monitor
people? Sure, there were shit loads of Baywatch wannabes but not
one for every visitor… or was there?!) I can only assume that
they have this rule in