Every day in shanghai we are subject to one of the most remarkable and magical phenomenon in the world and most of us don’t even realise it. In the west we have the Tooth Fairy, Father Christmas, Jesus and Mr Hanky; in Shanghai we have the Satellite TV Pixie.
Every day, millions of people in Shanghai wake up / return home from work to find that the Satellite Pixie has visited and left sacred scrolls right inside their front door, sometimes he even visits while you’re sitting in your apartment, a silent ninja of the netherworld, deftly delivering his leaflets right under your nose.
These mystical scrolls (conveniently folded to fit under your door) contain messages from the ancients carried down through the ages to be delivered to us, “ABC” they say, “BBC World News” and “all for 1000 kuai”. On many of them sits an effigy, a female, scantily clad or occasionally just sporting asterisks to cover her modesty.
Yes, we all have questions, Who is the satellite pixie? Is it a he or a she? What does he/she look like? How does he/she visit so many homes on a daily basis? Does he/she use santa’s magic? What colour are his/her garments?
We don’t know answer to any of these questions here at Dingle Speaks and nor do we care, we don’t even know if she’s a real pixie or more like a fairy (or as some sceptics claim, a gang of unskilled workers from Anhui province) instead let’s just concentrate on how we can utilise these folded sheets of sacredness instead of just leaving them where they landed as an ever-growing door-mat.
Imagine, if you will, the poor satellite pixie lurking in your corridor waiting for that momentary lapse of concentration so she can secretly slip the paper under your door without you noticing and move on to the next door. “Not such a big deal” you say but imagine that the Satellite TV Pixie has to visit every one of the 10 million homes in Shanghai and repeat this every single day. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could do something to help the poor little fella? Damn right it would! So let’s do something about it!
So, without further ado DingleSpeaks presents the Mystical Satellite Pixie Delivery Basket(TM)
