1. Go to a club/meat market called Windows where the expats hang out seven days a week. Request “Golddigger” and crip walk. Have a Chinese female thug battle you on the dance floor. Lose. Respectfully give mad props all around.
2. Lunch at T8 in Xintiandi, the posh shopping district in Shanghai where the head chef is famous enough where your friends know the gossip regarding his compensation package.
Chris, Josh, Josh's cousin, Vince
To really seem like you are a baller, I'd recommend not taking pictures of your food. 
3. Watch the US fail to take destiny into their own hands by losing to Ghana. Be upset for two and a half minutes then realize you were just on the bandwagon anyway. Buy a round, pour a one for the homies restin in peace, and continue being a baller for the rest of the night.
4. Refuse to go to all you can eat Brazilian BBQ because too much meat makes you a gluttonous person, but DO agree to dine at $20 all you can eat sashimi/tepanyaki and all you can drink beer and sake. For sashimi and sake, regardless of quantity, is refined dining and balleresque. Tip your chef generously. Wink at the waitresses if you're blessed with that talent. I am not.
5. Buy a Longines timepiece (from Xiang Yang Market. Duh)
6. Forgo Friday night at the disco for a late night 90 minute full body massage at Da Ban for $15. No scoffing guys and gals, I'm talking about the real deal. No happy endings here. 
Josh is really excited about his massage.
Being A Baller in Shanghai, #1342 on life's to-do list: Check! Oh Shanghai, you truly are the pearl of the Orient.
I've given you Shanghai from a baller's perspective. For an interesting report on another side of Shanghai, check out the recent NY Times front page article on the city's aging population:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/30/world/asia/30aging.html
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