March 22, 2006 Hung over in my room at the Grand Hyatt Shanghai watching Wacoal and Agent Provocateur lingerie commercials in several languages

Too many lychee gin and lotus juice sidecars last night. Very hung over after a whirlwind bar tour of Shanghai - picture above is a shot from People 7. Started writing my report for Swag:

"While Shanghai is famous for a local cuisine that is sweet and greasy, there are plenty of other options for the modern lean machine who favors a Hedi Slimane suit over a Sun Yatsen jacket. For a dramatically trendy dining experience, head to Shintori Null II, a Japanese restaurant nonpareil. My favorite part of the meal is when the perfect waitress – so perfect she looks like a computer-generated image – tosses an elaborate seaweed salad by placing the ingredients in a large glass jar which she then shakes violently over her head, as if she were performing a Shogun battle warm-up ritual. Next door to Shintori, connected by a meticulously elegant, dramatically lit forest of bamboo trees is People 7, a bar and fusion restaurant which reminds me of a set from the 60’s Star Trek series. At the entrance of the bar you are faced with an imposing stone slab that only opens after you thrust both your arms into two of the sixteen back-lit holes that are cut into another stone slab. If you choose the wrong holes, a booby prize door opens opposite the real entrance. Frozen vodka is served in test tubes that poke out of a large glass bowl filled with smoking ice by waitresses wearing smocks covered with blinking lights. As for the Alice in Wonderland-esque washrooms…..I won’t spoil the frustrating surprise."

I step away from the laptop and switch on the TV. Since the hotel rooms are equipped with satellite TV (which is technically illegal for Chinese citizens, however the Communist Party turns its back on urban middle-class satellite dish owners.) There seems to be a lot of lingerie commercials on which of course only reminds me that I need to finish my book Confessions of a Lingerie Model.

The girl in this Chinese and Japanese Wacoal bras commercial (above) is really cute. Later on, they showed this Agent Provocateur commercial which, funny enough, my ex-girlfriend had been cast for but was cut at the last minute when Kylie Minogue suddenly became available. She looks pretty hot in this.

Another Wacoal lingerie ad:

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