east side v. west side

we live in puxi, which means west of the Huangpu river. today i went to a conference in pudong, which means east of the Huangpu river. i was asking my boss if there's a west side v. east side rivalry, kinda like back in the states, jokingly. she said puxi is like NY and pudong is like jersey. when i asked if that meant pudong is more ghetto and less urban, my boss said it meant the opposite. according to dave, that means pudong is suburban and puxi is urban. on an episode of How I met your mother, the main characters from nyc diss jersey, saying it's not happening enough and people have big yards. either way i was impressed with pudong, with my glimpse of the Oriental Pearl Tower, which is huge up close, and i saw what used to be the tallest building in the PROC, the Jin Mao Tower. there seemed to be a much bigger financial district and more and larger skyscrapers in my opinion. i was so glad to check it out and so wanna go back and take some shots of those mighty skycrapers! it takes about 50 min to get to pudong via subway from our apartment. i'm just glad the subway goes across the river. on the drive there, we went thru a tunnel that connects the 2 areas. 

the conference took place inside an int'l hospital, one i actually interviewed for last month for a psych position. it was interesting to meet the people i had only spoken to only on the phone. my boss pointed out the VIP ER admit area which apparently is much different and more lavish than the regular ER admit area where i was told hundreds of people sit in chairs with IVs sticking out of them. so much for privacy and patient comfort!

anyhoo i didn't get any foto shots this time, mostly b/c i was car sick and nauseous on the car ride back. the thing about driving in shanghai is that you have to be aggressive, erratic and cause car sickness for your passengers in order to get anywhere in decent time.

Pudong