" Arriving passengers, please forward door alight!" - that's one of the signs with instructions on Chinese trains. If you don't know what that means there is still luckily the Chinese text on the sign which says "Arriving passengers please use the door in front of the waggon to exit the train."
Another funny translation on Chinese trains is the name of the town 'Guiyang". That's really a town name and on the English sign it probably should just say 'Guiyang'. However, the Chinese word 'gui' also means 'expensive' and 'yang' means 'sun' that's why the Chinese railway company proudly presents trains going to the Expensive Sun. Aha.
But originally I shortly wanted to write about last Sunday which I spent in Shanghai. On this very day I visited the Shanghai museum with a lot of old Chinese landscape paintings, sculptures and stamps and the Jade Budha Temple (Yufo Si). Yufo Si is still a very active temple with crowds of people going there to pray. Its Jade Buddha is wellknown and it says that it was brought to China from Birma. After a stroll on the bund (under the deep blue sky!) I took my parents out for dinner because it was the last day we could meet in China before their return to Germany.
Apart from that, on Monday we were happy enough not to notice anything of the big earthquake in China. We were at a company in Pudong / Shanghai holding a workshop and not even the ground did shake. Unfortunately, in other regions of China many people died or were injured. I guess you already read that in more details in the newspaper. Luckily it at least seems that all the people I know here are OK.
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