Life and Travel in China

A personal journal with stories, travel experiences, funny situations and everyday life in China

Friday, 11 May 2007 at 03:15

The area of ​​Poland is only 1.8 times larger than the Guangdong province where I live. China is truly an unimaginably huge country.

Tuesday, 15 May 2007 at 12:16

I had the opportunity to spend 2 days at a leisurely pace in Shanghai. I usually just have some meetings there or I'm at the airport. During these 2 days I took 575 photos, the most interesting ones will of course be presented on this website. In addition, about 70 photos from Ningbo. I even took a tripod, so there will be no shortage of night views. I must admit that Shanghai is a specific city. Many foreigners, I even came across a conference devoted to Africa. People are more communicative, in one day I was approached by 6 different girls (not from the massage parlor), but Chinese girls who were also visiting Shanghai as tourists. And what beautiful old buildings, traditional architecture, an amazing atomsphere that cannot be found anywhere in Shenzhen. I even came across a commercial film set in a small park outside the city center. I visited the tallest skyscraper in China (420.5 meters, 88 floors) - the tallest in the world is in Taiwan, but I already have photos from Shanghai of a skyscraper under construction, which will be number one.

Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 14:33

I was recently in Hong Kong and brought back 440 photos. I already have over 300 outstanding that I haven't added to this page. I don't know how it will continue... A curiosity from Hong Kong, in a side street, perpendicular to Nathan Road, Kowloon, a little Indian girl, maybe 25 years old, approaches me. A simple and specific question "Hash?". I was surprised... I looked there because there was a kiosk and I looked at what magazines they had in English. And she was passing by, so she thought she'd catch a customer. Apparently white people come there for such specialties. I've been to Hong Kong dozens of times, in the same place, but this was the first time I saw such an offer.

Friday, 25 May 2007 at 03:14

Being abroad, I of course follow information from my home country. And so I wonder what the future awaits us. Well, there will be no hospitals (because there will be no nurses and doctors), schools will probably only be private (because state-owned schools, as you can see, still have no money), all the young people will leave, there will be no pensions or health insurance (where to get the money for it, ZUS doesn't have it), the ruling party will put the entire SLD in prison and hold Poles from the entire 20th century to account (by only dealing with the past, they won't determine anything for the future), and a dozen or so years later, even a Chinese worker will have better wages at home and will not work in Poland. I don't know what it will be like in a dozen or so years?!

Friday, 25 May 2007 at 11:28

When cooperating with the Chinese, I should have some harmful additive. They are so difficult... 80% of people don't understand anything. There are always mistakes, misunderstandings, lack of understanding, and then repetitions of the same mistakes. What's wrong with them? How many times can you explain the same thing?

 

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