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polished notes from shanghai
When you work my line, you have to give up quite a few things. One of which, is a set of clean polished nails 24/7. At the end of every exhibition set-up, I'd be left with a set of chaffed, dry, dull-looking, chipped nails. I don't know how I managed to earn them. The weather perhaps. I'm always going to cold places. Can't wear my (now missing) leather gloves; I'd look ridiculous to my colleagues. I extended my stay in Shanghai for a couple of days. First thing I looked for: a nail parlour. I didn't think that finding a nail parlour would be somehow difficult. After all, Chinese have become affluent, the ladies have become more fashion-forward and Shanghai is one of the most cosmopolitan city in China. A colleague told me an average manicure costs only RMB 20 (like... SGD 5?). Fascinating!But after walking from Louyang Road to Lu Jia Zui Road, from Nanjing East Road to XinTianDi, I see no nail palour. (For those who are familiar wiith Shanghai, it's damn long a walk I took.) Even the working people at Centra
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