First shanghai expat blog get together

Reds831 wrote:

Hi all,
Let's have a get together this Wednesday evening at Brown Sugar in Xintiandi. We can have dinner and drinks inside. They have free Champagne for the ladies between 9:30-11:30. The plan is to meet at the spot at 7pm. It's ok if you come late.

Date: Wednesday, Sept 28th
Address: 15,181 long, Taichang Lu, near Madang Lu
太仓路181弄新天地北里15号（近马当路）
Subway stops: South Huangpi Rd (line 1);  Xintiandi (line 10).

Let me know if you wanna join. Hope see you there.

I will make a short stop between overtime at work and packing for my trip . Don't expect me at 7pm though, I will run late for sure. See ya

Hi guys,
I like the idea of your meetings... Is it free for anyone to join in?
thanks
Lola

Hi Lola, of course it is free to join in! Keep an eye on the blog for the next gatherings. I will update soon

hansvc wrote:

Reds831 wrote:

Hi all,
Let's have a get together this Wednesday evening at Brown Sugar in Xintiandi. We can have dinner and drinks inside. They have free Champagne for the ladies between 9:30-11:30. The plan is to meet at the spot at 7pm. It's ok if you come late.

Date: Wednesday, Sept 28th
Address: 15,181 long, Taichang Lu, near Madang Lu
太仓路181弄新天地北里15号（近马当路）
Subway stops: South Huangpi Rd (line 1);  Xintiandi (line 10).

Let me know if you wanna join. Hope see you there.

I will make a short stop between overtime at work and packing for my trip . Don't expect me at 7pm though, I will run late for sure. See ya

I will be there too, but late since I have my Chinese class.  And MissLola, we'd be excited to have you at any and all events!

I will be there with my friend Julia maybe:)

Thanks for attending the party yesterday evening and it's a nice place. I'll miss you guys.

Good luck and enjoy your work there~ Hope to see u oneday soon

When is the next meeting?


Kind regards Max.

Following events scheduled in the coming weeks:

1) JZ festival (organised by Asmus)

Date: Saturday, 15th of October
Time: 1pm
Venue: Expo Park, Pudong
Meeting point: to be confirmed
If you want to join, you can pm forum member Asmus.
Tickets can be ordered here: smartshanghai.com/smartticket/JZ-shanghai-music-festival-2011-greennote
More info here: jzfestival.com


2) Happy Valley Amusement park
Time: October 22, 2011 from 10am to 10pm
Location: Happy Valley Carnival
Street: SheShan station of metro Line9
Website or Map: sh.happyvalley.cn/flash/index2.shtml
I will post more details about where and when to meet later on

If anyone has some other great ideas for activities, keep'em coming

Oh noo!  I'll miss out on both of those sadly, as I work Saturdays.  And the Amusement Park sounds awesome.  Gutted.  Enjoy yourselves!  There's a film screening of Princess Mononoke at Vienna Cafe on Thursday eve this week, which I was thinking of going to.  It's free but you have to RSVP.  Thought I'd let people know about it.

http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/event/Fi … night.html

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Update for the JZ Festival: We will meet at 2pm in front of the Green Note Stage. Most bands starting at 1:30pm, so you will miss nothing. Please get your ticket in advance. You can buy it online as Hans wrote or go to Wooden Box, JZ Club or JZ School. For one day 150 RMB.
For all who will join the first time this festival - it is the biggest and best organized Festival in SH. And not only Jazz ;-)
We will stay the whole afternoon until late. Please bring something to pull over with you. At late evening it could be cold near the waterfront.
Any questions? Feel free to ask. See you all there.

chlo1986 wrote:

Oh noo!  I'll miss out on both of those sadly, as I work Saturdays.  And the Amusement Park sounds awesome.  Gutted.  Enjoy yourselves!  There's a film screening of Princess Mononoke at Vienna Cafe on Thursday eve this week, which I was thinking of going to.  It's free but you have to RSVP.  Thought I'd let people know about it.

http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/event/Fi … night.html

Hey Chloe (and everyone else interested):

I'm going to the JZ festival on a later moment (e.g. 6 pm or so) and would join the rest of the group at that time.

Let me know if this would suit you and what time.

Cheers

Hey Hans, good to hear that you will join us later. I and the group will be there for sure.
I would suggest following: let's gather first time at 2pm in front of green note stage and at 6pm we will gather there again to catch all late coming ppl. Hao bu hao?
Does someone need my mobile no? Please send me a PM and I will let you know. EB is a bit too big to publish the number public ;-)

About Vienna Screening - if you have time to join Hans, do it. It is a nice location and the movies are always good. Even you might not know the movie it is nice atmosphere. I will miss it today.

See you around, Asmus

Hey Asmus,

Let's say we meet around 6.30pm as I will gather with some friends at 6pm at the entrance

So to resume, for those interested, it's still not too late to join in for the JZ festival. We will meet in two shifts: 2pm and 6.30pm in front of the green note stage. Anyone who wants my number just in case u want to find the group on Saturday, feel free to PM me.

Btw, tickets delivered at home can be ordered at smartshanghai.com/smartticket/JZ-shanghai-music-festival-2011-greennote

Our monthly "Apéro Caprice" event will happen this week ...

Location: La Rhumerie
http://www.smartshanghai.com/wire/dinin … n-mansionshttp://www.smartshanghai.com/event/15548

When: Thursday, October 20th ...

Time: From 19:00 till ....

For those who don't know about this event, it is a casual way to meet people in town, newbies or oldies ...

No entrance fee, special prices on drinks and finger food ... A special area is provided for us at each occasion ...

See you all there

I understand that Hans is already coming

Thanks Matt for reminding me

Was great meeting newcomers and the regulars at the JZ fest, thanks Asmus for organizing!

Next events on the agenda:
1) Apero Caprice (laidback social event)
Date: Thursday, Oct 20 at 7pm
Place: Rhumerie Bounty (Sinan mansions)

2) Happy Valley Amusement park
Time: October 22, 2011 from 10am to 10pm
Location: Happy Valley Carnival
Street: SheShan station of metro Line9
Website or Map: sh.happyvalley.cn/flash/index2.shtml
I will post more details about where and when to meet later on

3) Lazy Sunday afternoon activity tbd
Time: Sunday Oct 30
Place and activity tbd

4) Akon concert
Time: Saturday, Nov 5 at 7pm
Place: Mercedes Benz Arena Shanghai
Let me know before Oct 20 if you are interested, so we can order tickets together and sit together We are going for the RMB 580 tickets.

I'm looking forward to seeing you guys this week at Sinan Mansions on thursday. I was going to suggest an event, but since you already planned something on the 30th. One of the venues I work for, Boxing Cat Brewery, is organising it's annual halloween party. For 150 RMB you have a freeflow from 7-11 pm. And mostly everybody is also dressed out in nice costumes, there's a bbq, etc. Just suggesting!

I second what Hans said... thanks Asmus for organizing the JZ event this weekend. It was a lot of fun!

First thing, it's Line and my birthday on November 1st, so we definitely want to go out on Saturday (the 29th) for Halloween so I will talk to Line and we will post details here if anyone wants to come (MaximD's idea for Boxing Cat sounds good to me, just have to check with Line).

Second, for the future, I think we should go to karaoke at some point (I've never gone in China, and I bet some people in this group are quite amazing singers... and then some like me, terrible). And I also heard about a cooking class that is currently only charging for food (~50 RMB/person if I remember correctly).  If a group wants to go do that, I can organize for some evening/weekend.

Thanks again Asmus for organizing for the JZ festival and hope to see you all soon!

There is an other Forum Post about Diwali Party next week. I will not bring the infos here in, as it mass up to much. Please take a look on the other discussion as well. Thanks

Thanks for all who joined our JZ Festival Event. Was great fun again with you all.

For all who like to go to Happy Valley Amusement park this Saturday. Here again the Infos and the mobile number from Eloise: 15026674437.

When:
22nd Oct 2011, Saturday. 10：00-22:00

Meeting Point:
SheShan station of metro Line9, there is a sign showing direction of Happyvalley, we could gather there. I will also bring a sign of "Shanghai Stuff". You will find the group either way.

Bring: RMB, Cam, napkin, hat, shades

sh.happyvalley.cn/flash/index2.shtml

Hope many of you will join her.

EmilyV wrote:

I second what Hans said... thanks Asmus for organizing the JZ event this weekend. It was a lot of fun!

First thing, it's Line and my birthday on November 1st, so we definitely want to go out on Saturday (the 29th) for Halloween so I will talk to Line and we will post details here if anyone wants to come (MaximD's idea for Boxing Cat sounds good to me, just have to check with Line).

Yay BIRTHDAY partaaay!!

Let us know what/when/where!

Hi Hans,
Am new to SH and chanced upon this forum
Looking forward to your Lazy Sunday on 30th Oct.
Please post details.

Addie

Hi Addie,

Welcome to SH and to the forum!

As it's halloween this weekend, we might just have another activity instead (e.g. Halloween party on Fri or Sat). We will keep you posted, but you can start looking for a costume already

I mentioned before that Line and I share an almost Halloween birthday (November 1st) and we would like to go out and celebrate Halloween this weekend in style.  So the details for the event are as follows.

Where: Boxing Cat Brewery at Sinan Mansions
Sinan Mansions,
Unit 26A, 519 Fuxing Zhong Lu,
near Sinan Lu
思南公馆26A,
复兴中路519号,
近思南路

When: October 29th starting around 7 pm (Free flow drinks from 7-11 pm for 150 RMB)

Bring: Money, costume, your dancing skills and gifts for me and Line (haha, just kidding about the gifts!)

My costume will help me blend in with the surroundings, so give me a call if you can't find me.  Hope to see you there!

I'm looking forward to meet you guys! Probably i'll be working so sure you'll see me behind a bar or draft. Who's coming?

Hey Maxim, will we recognize you when u wearing a costume ?

I m guessing somewhere around 10 ppl of the forum will be there, can be more unlikely to be less... But anyway, we ll see ya on Sat!

Btw: as an employee of Boxing Cat I'm sure you can arrange a group discount for Expat.com members? Just consider it a welcoming gift from u to ur new friends

If you'd just come on a normal day I could give you some free beers but with this event you have to buy a bracelet + stamp and there are no such things are group discount (Oooh it's china allright haha).
And for the costume you'll recognise me for sure

So to summarize, what you are saying is:

MaximD wrote:

I could give you some free beers

That's all I'll remember anyway, didn't read any further

It's a sad thing there's no like button haha! Do you guys have facebook?

Hi Maxim, thx for the invite, I had a great night but for some reason I couldn't find you - guess there were too many ppl ... or ... or ... you were hiding to avoid giving free drinks .

So...let's start thinking of a next gathering. Let's go for some ART! They have a Picasso exhibition going at the Chinese Expo Pavillion or we can go visit the 1933 building/Moganshan Rd area. Let me know if anyone's up for one of those activities so I can start planning for one of the coming weekends.

Hiding I wouldn't say.. and yes probably a lot of people who had a little to much of those free drinks

Awesome night Saturday.  I can vouch that some additional free drink was floating around.. Whisky from the bottle...

I would certianly be up for a bit of culture in the near future Hans (as long as it's on a Sunday).  Nice idea.

Hi guys are there anymore events coming up soon, i wiould love to meet you all as i flew in from England Thursday night so don't really know many people.

Please feel free to add me as well but if you guys are heading out anywhere i would love to tag along if you dont mind.

Dave

Hi Hans, hi all of you, I will be out for some time. Need some fresh air from my hometown. On the 21st of November I will be back in town and looking forward for some new events.

I got tickets for Akon on saturday.. is anybody going? I've got them from Belvedere together with a pre party.

Kind regards

Hi all,
any new meet up these days? looking forward to see you all....

Hey Ashley, Maxim, Dave and all others

We are thinking of meeting up coming Sunday, Nov 13th in the afternoon for a walking tour and some drinks or dinner afterwards for those interested. The first thing that popped in mind was Moganshan Rd as I have never visited it before, but we are open to other suggestions.

So let's meet up at 3pm this Sunday, meeting place still to be confirmed.

I am in

hansvc wrote:

Hey Ashley, Maxim, Dave and all others

We are thinking of meeting up coming Sunday, Nov 13th in the afternoon for a walking tour and some drinks or dinner afterwards for those interested. The first thing that popped in mind was Moganshan Rd as I have never visited it before, but we are open to other suggestions.

So let's meet up at 3pm this Sunday, meeting place still to be confirmed.

Hi All,
New to Shanghai. been here 2 weeks and looking to meet some new people. Like to get out and see the place and travel during the weekends. Open to suggestions and would go anywhere. Im also up for the walk on Sunday and any other events

Cheers
Alex