It's Ian here, blog world, hello.

I am currently in shanghai, where i am about to work
with W+K shanghai till the end of the year. I have been out and about
my first few days soaking up some Chinese culture. (see above.)

I have to say Shanghai is amazing. Wo ai Shanghai (I love it). It's really amazing
here. I managed to use my basic mandarin to order food and drinks and
have been understood so far which is pretty nice. On my second day I
was told I have a baby face and rabbit teeth by a nice girl on the
street.

The pictures are of me drinking when I met up with
scott, liana and kerli who I know from W+K. There's me sight seeing…

…and
then there's a tv ship that plays adverts on the river…

…a terrible
haagen-dazs advert "love her, love haagen dazs" (hopefully I can do better
when I get into some projects).

There's an ad agency sign from the
shanghai advertising company, just round from W+K, which sums up
everything that we ad folk offer in a nice little montage. 

The
newspapers are displayed each day on the streets (i just look at the
pictures- it was of the chinese astronauts space walking).

There is a mild sulphur smell in the air from all the
construction work, but i haven't found the pollution too bad, but it's the
end of typoon season so i guess the wind is keeping it clearer.

All in all an amazing start to my time here, it's really tai hao le (great).