11.06.07 13.06.07

Just got back from trip. some notes on China Eastern Airlines.

As a crew at the Counter Service:
1. Do not be rude to your customers.
2. Do not cause interference to your customers just because you travel little.
3. Do not waste you customers' valuable time just so you can be guai lan.
4. You might as well quit your job and be a security guard since u like to kay poh so much
5. Do check whether your customer has mileage.

As a flight attendant:
1. Do not dig your ears in front of your passengers
2. Do not steal your passengers' pillow in order to sleep.
3. Do not speak Shanghainese on board unless they are your passengers
4. Do not always presume all yellow men are National Chinese and give bad service.

However, I must also say:
1. Catered food onboard has improved tremendously.
2. Service on board improved as well.
3. But, your mileage online feedback system still got broken English and service sucks. Why, after lunch woes issit?

31 chinese workers rescued from slavary, Shanxi, China

source: BBC

BBC recently reported a ground breaking news that happened in China. 31 workers were forced into slavery to work in a brickwork factory. They were duped into working in this brickwork factory which was located in Shanxi province.

They were recently rescued by local police in Shanxi. As they were treated badly throughout their time spent in the factory, they were very disoriented when they were rescued. It was so traumatising to them that 8 of the workers were only able to remember their names. The labourers had to work unpaid for 20 hours at a time(5am-1am daily), and were only given bread and water in return. Sources sited that most of the workers were pulled over from workers looking for at Zhengzhou and Xian train station.

The brickworks, in the poor inland province of Shanxi, is owned by the son of the local Communist Party secretary. Local police told the BBC that the owner, Wang Binbin, had been arrested, and that his father, Wang Dongji, was under investigation. Several other people have also been arrested, although the foreman is still on the run.


above: workers rescued shows signs of trauma and injuries from burns substained from the hot bricks. photograph taken by Li Ting Zhen

Harsh regime
According to a report in the Beijing News, citing the Shanxi Evening News, the rescued workers had been duped into working at the factory.

Once there, they faced a harsh regime. One man was even reported to have been beaten to death with a hammer, because he did not work fast enough.

The workers were only given bread and water
When police raided the brickworks they discovered foul-smelling workers who had been wearing the same clothes for a year. Most of them had no shoes to wear, and beards grew wildly and look unkempt. They had no facilities to wash, and they had not had their hair cut or brushed their teeth.

"The grime on their bodies was so thick it could be scraped off with a knife," the Beijing News said.

They had burns over their bodies after being made to carry bricks that had not cooled down properly.

Police are now arranging for the workers to get the wages they should have been paid, and then they will send them home, although the eight disorientated workers cannot remember where that is.

Local people said the brickworks, near Linfen, would have been closed down a long time ago had it not been for the protection of the party secretary.

China has tens of millions of migrant workers.

They leave their rural homes in search of work, but often have to endure harsh conditions, bad treatment and low pay.

There is little they can do about their lot, particularly when, as in this case, factory owners are protected by powerful local officials.

On ethics, transparency, and events evolving around...

Let's put down the situations faced recently over a couple of months by people I know:

Friend A, a Malaysian, walked into the Consulate General of Malaysia, Shanghai one day. His intention was to apply visa for a Chinese National friend for a trip to West Malaysia. Upon asking what was the fees charged for visa application, it was quoted 400RMB. Friend A paid for the fees. Later, he found out the fees needed for such a visa cost only 80RMB to be exact. He was furious, and went back to the Consulate and demand an explaination. Friend B, who worked inside the Consulate knew that the Chinese national in-charge of the visa application pocketed the money. Now look at the scenario, for everyone who went to apply for Visa, 400-80 = 320 RMB pocketed. If everyday, 10 people went to apply for visa to Malaysia, that will be 3200RMB pocketed, equalling to 1600 ringgit and 640 SGD respectively. One month down the road, cheebye you go calculate, how much lui he pocketed. Why issit that he is able to do it? Is it because there are people inside who also know about the situation, and they are sharing profit from it? Or is it because he holds power and authority within and nobody dares to touch him? Or issit I am given wrong information? o.O

Friend B, who worked in the Consulate, knew that there was an Job application for the role of General Manager available in Consulate of Malaysia, Shanghai. MISS CHINA POWER who was in charge of interviewing possible applicants rejected all applicants, saying that they were not qualified for the role. After a long period of time in which the job remain vacant, the big head[dua tao] in Shanghai asked where are all the right-in resumes, the one responsible said that all the applicants' information were missing. Friend B, knew however, that this was not true. He knew where those applicant's resume were kept. Being, a small fry in the consulate. He decided to remain dumb about the situation. Eventually, MISS CHINA POWER became the general manager of Consulate General Malaysia Shanghai, hiring herself a LESS QUALIFIED STAFF TO BE HER ASSISTANT. Strangely, this time the applicant's resume never disappear. Power right, now one more cheebye kia in control of power, Consulate can be rightfully said still belonged to Malaysia meh?

I know of some Malaysians who dance for events held by the Consulate General of Malaysia. They learnt and dance a couple of folk dances from Malaysia. They are paid each time they dance. On this situation, Miss China POWER decided that hiring Malaysians to dance is very expensive. She decided that in the long run the Malaysians will be replaced by local chinese instead. Her reasons was of course to save cost. Now, Miss China POWER may be doing the right thing. But, what about those Chinese Nationals who are already dancing in the group, does that mean their pay will be lesser? Then, when all the Malaysians don't dance anymore, if one day those who are newly hired.. their pay rise.. this one how to say? NO PORK I TELL YOU! Traditional dance dun let own country people dance, still considered as traditional dance meh? wo ga li kong, lu eh considerate eh name ai mai change to deng nangs considerate general? lu bor power liao lor.. ah thiongs take over your power liao. can dengz chuz liao balek kampong lorzz...

Friend C, another Malaysian, who is serving her internship in a production firm under AAA Airlines, recently approached the Consulate General of Malaysia for help. As Friend C was doing video production in relation tourism, she approached Friend B to submit the proposal to MISS CHINA POWER upon receiving the proposal, without considering whether it is of any beneficial value, rejected the proposal flat. She deemed it advertising gimmick on her own personal judgement. Friend C reluctantly resigned to the decision. However, she continued to try her best in reach out to the Malaysiam Tourism Board. She contacted Sabah about the proposal and Sabah showed interests. For those who do not know, Malaysia is currently promoting her tourism "Visit Malaysia 2007". MISS CHINA POWER dunno know what's she doing or not. Straight away reject without considering to the nation's benifit in promoting the event. You all can consider whether this is an abuse in authority and poor management and judgement skills.

What is the role of the embassy? It is to provide information and linking their citizens in foreign land. Cheebye, now all this kind of things happening seems to be disrupting the standard procedures in relieving and connecting people together. I tell you, if my Singapore embassy in Shanghai got this kind of things happening, ah thiongz more powerful and can make final judgements without discussing with my lao dao in Shanghai, I tell you i really got nothing to say but, ah thiong you super power. I must be recently feeling super dulanz about my inability to write properly due to the knn China ISP here. Maybe my views maybe biased. But still, there are certain elements in which we shoud look at here: Is it write to pocket money here, is it ethical to do things for your own benifits and practice neopotism here?

We can look further at this. Philippines embassy in Shanghai at least tried very hard to pomote thier tourism when Friend C contacted them in such cooperation activities. From lack of knowledge until they know what's going on. This was suppose to be the way in which a channel of proper dissemination of information can take place. I feel a crumbling sadness for those who are affected by such decision made my an alien not belong to the same citizenship. And I sincerely hope that it does not happen globally elsewhere in other embassies. We should take pride of our own nationality and not let others who dunno anything abuse and put effect on decisions of our own nation.

The rest of you all can do ur own brain searching. Maybe knn my blog will be blocked in China. I seriously dun want think so much, just continue to post what I see and hear.

3 years ago...

Around Fudan University, you could see lots of construction works going on, building of the central highway in Shanghai, that passes through Handan Road, at which where Fudan University was located. Everyday, students crossed the roads in order to reach their classrooms. Whether it was raining or shiny, it was a real hassale. Students wearing masks was a common sight then. However, students took it easy and everything pass as smoothly as the University's Centennial Celebration.

The constructions are over, but we can still see that Shanghai will always be in an ever changing state, in which one construction ends awaiting another to be complete.


above: construction worker moving across a traffic of students and workers


above: how high can the p.s.i be?


above: such uniformed workers are a common sight around china. they are usually volunteers, old people who had retired. In shanghai, they can be a fierce sight, in which their whistles blow loudly, sometimes screaming at padestrians who jaywalked


above: everything ends with a smile


above: the newly completed central highway 中环线, 2006


above: an evening shot of the surroundings around Fudan University.

This is no art street performance

I took this two shots with my Yashica T3 during 2006 when i was on my way to the Shanghai Museum in summer. It was in the late afternoon, there was a lot of people crossing the busy streets around Nanjing Road, People's Square and Xizang Road. This old lasy sat down near a cross junction attracting lots of attention from passer-bys. She was not performing or basking. She was apparently outcrying to the public for some wrongs done to her, seeking justice and attention. There were a couple of street police and traffic police trying to clear the crowd. I took the shots quickly and left.

Notice the passer-bys, they were curious as well as dumbfounded of the situation. Some tried to look at what was written on pieces of clothes that the old lady dressed herself with. I did not get the chance to read what was written or take a picture of the content.

China CCTV currently is reaching out their hands in telling the social issues happening around in China. You can access the website here. The content is in Chinese and Mandrin. The english version can be accessed here.

Photography of Note - China - Coal Mine Workers

I would like to take the time to present to you all a series of photographs which depict coal mine workers in China. They are fine works of art which should be shown to a larger scale of people globally. They are not works of mine. If there is anyone who know which photographer did this series of work, please leave comments and notify me. I would like to write a story on them in english.

Apparently I freaked when I cannot access

Blogspot up-ed again.

apparently, there seems to be something fishy on the posts i made on zeng jin yan.

[i cut and paste her blog over to mine so that people can access it and read.]

either some scripts were wormed inside her blog or there are certain keywords causing that post to auto-error and blog to shut down each time china site tried to view it.

i am moving on. i dun wish to linger too long on the effect of such hindrance.

Ah thiongs, too bad you can't view it. Your Thiong Kog damn power, want censor things so too bad for you all. anyway, a small part can be accessed here. The rest can be found here. but apparently blocked, so too bad. That's my old site. You need to browse old posts to find it. I dun care if that site goes down. I have moved here. Zzzzz

Ah thiong 万岁！！！ You all damn power!

China Students Abusing Elderly 70 years old teacher

I remember there were news happening in Singapore these few years in which seems to be radical to asian values. Teachers were either complained and sued by Parents when their kids were disciplined involving physical contacts which they considered as physical abuse. At times, these teachers faced school administration problems of being disposed like tissue papers.

What's the problem with our these generation of parents and kids? The kids seemed so pampered.. no need to worry anything and just need to sit in front of the bloody Plasma Screen TV, happily triggering away on their PS3 machine. When their school holidays arrived around the corner, they whine to go overseas to some distant lands, so they can come back and boast to their classmates. If their parents settled anything like Johore Bahru, these kids will most probably end up screeching from Woodlands to Sentosa. I DUN WANT GO TIOOOOOMAAAAAAAAN IIIIIISSSSSSLANNND!!!!!

yuh yuh when your reach 18years old you got ur first babe girl friend, see you want to go a not.

siao eh, I think the first time i took a plane was when i was 15 years old, somemore not to have fun, but to visit relatives in china. My parents brought me up not to ask for things impossible. This generation of parents give to their kids the possible, but forget to equip these kids with the proper sanction of living with moral and values of what is right. So when they grew older, they think they are some big cocks, and they are always right.

Why is the situation reversed so much. If a kid whacks a teacher, it is because he is brought up wrongly, do not know rights from wrongs, at most he's being sent to some boy school to be brainwashed and curfewed. My secondary school teacher, whom we lovingly and fearfully known him as Tiger Tan, was physically attacked when he was out of school. He was my discipline master during my secondary school days. Was this reported in the news? No. Why, students all now big boss now?

Social Issues in our daily lifes to not revolve around what is the best selling stories that a newspaper can report. Sometimes, it is to raise an awareness on things ethical to living. I always feel that I am the last half breed man half breed kuniang army boy after i ORD. To me, all these bunch of kids now in this generation could be considered as kuniangs who complain and whine at the smallest things.. never satisfied.. want the most of out of the least..

A recent article on how students in a high school abused and show disrespect to a 70 yrs old elderly also brought back such thoughts. Maybe the world is rounder, but many kids do not behave properly, and do not understand what can be done and what cannot be done. What happened to the asian values of upbringing we believe in? Has the drive to keep ourselves materialistically rich left our souls empty?

You can blame the west to introduce the idea of capitalism and individualism into our society. But the westerns still do know how to live, and know what is right from wrong? Our generation of people only know how to look at MTVs and think whatever's from there is cool and right. What happened to our sensibility?

maybe because i want to see how people write, maybe because i really am interested in such news, i begin to realise that i had not been paying attention to what's going on in china. -.- below is an article in relation to the abuse of the 70 yrs old teaher in Haidian District, Beijing, China. Its good writing by shanghaiist and dongnanxibei. I hope one day I know what I can write just like them.

source: shanghaiist

The Beijing Haidian District Art Vocational School (北京市海淀区艺术职业学校) has found itself in the centre of a controversy when a video clip of several students abusing a 70-year teacher was circulated online on video sharing sites and enraged netizens across China, sparking a debate over the state of the morals of Chinese youths today. Angry netizens have overwhelmed the school's website (now inaccessible) with comments, and hackers have blacked out the website.

The 5-minute video shot a week ago shows a boy with an earring approach his teacher to pull his cap off, and another student throwing a bottle at the teacher (which missed), while the rest of the students were laughing away or sleeping. The clip also included very colourful language from the students, eg., "That is a stupid c*nt. Kill him!" [那是一傻比，弄死他！]

EastSouthWestNorth tells us of the ensuing manhunt, started by netizens on the Tianya and MOP forums:

On the afternoon of May 26, a campaign began to identify these students. Both the Tianya and MOP forums started their human flesh search engines (人肉搜索引擎). At 6pm, a Tianya netizen noted that the blackhoard had the national flag of Uzbekistan with words of welcome for the friends from there. This netizen searched for visits by Uzbekistan groups and found about the staff of the Ubzekistan embassy being invited to visit the Art School in Haidian district, Beijing. Meanwhile another netizen had broken the passwode of the female student who posted the video and found many photographs and related information. The netizens were able to pinpoint a particular class in the Haidian Art School. In the evening of May 26, the names and telephone numbers of several students in the video were published.

This online rage soon spilled over to the real world when a group of netizens took it upon themselves to hunt down the students. They went down to the school and stopped a school bus that was taking some of the above-mentioned students home, demanding that they step out of the bus. The confrontation only ended when the school security guards came over and enabled the bus to leave.

In the meanwhile, Jiefang Daily reports that the 70-year old teacher Sun Xinmao (孙辛卯), who was hired in 2003 and is paid RMB40 per lesson, said the students have already apologised, and there was no need to pursue the matter. He says that he was only verbally abused by the students and remained physically unharmed, and added, "The education of students takes place over a process. Teachers should bear some responsibility if the students remains uneducated." [学生的教育有一个过程。老师没有把学生教好，也是有责任的。]

*Image from EastSouthWestNorth.

Drug detox center sells patients

Miel 发表于 2007-05-13 01:27:07

Drug detox center sells patients
Beijing Today, Friday, July 25, 2003
Sun Ming

"I didn’t participate in the activity, so they let me go. I knew nothing about the sex-trade before it was exposed." A licensed drug quitting center in Guangzhou decided to boost its income by selling female patients into prostitution. The illegal sex-trade was exposed in March last year. However, even though the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center was closed after the scandal was exposed, and some of the staff were arrested, the heads of the center have not yet been charged.

News Probe, an influential program on CCTV, broadcast the whole story on Monday last week. The program questioned why the heads of the Changzhou Drug Abstention Center are still at large.

Midnight telephone call
Zhao Shilong, a reporter from Yangcheng Evening News, a local newspaper in Guangzhou, received a phone call from a young woman at midnight on March 14 last year. The woman just called herself Awen. She said the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center had sold her to pimps who forced her to be a prostitute. Fortunately, she had escaped to freedom. “I know it’s wrong to take drugs, but I didn’t deserve this punishment,” Awen later tNews Probe.

Shocked by Awen’s story, Zhao arranged to meet her the next day. “She looked like a drug user, pale and very skinny,” said ZhaoAwen, 31, was introduced to drugs by some friends 10 years ago. Her family has tried to help her get over the habit and has spent many thousands of yuan in helping her quit. She has been to four different drug clinics in the past few years in Guangdong Province, and these clinics tend to be pretty expensive. But Awen kept returning to her addiction. On December 2, 2001, police arrived at her small apartment and caught her taking drugs. Two days later, she was sent to the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center.

Four months later, on March 2 last year, two pimps came to the center and took Awen away. In the following four days, Awen was forced to experience the life of a prostitute.

Reporters disguised as pimps
In order to gain evidence, Awen took Zhao and his colleague Gong Ling, a photographer, to the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center in the south of Guangzhou on March 16, 2002. "We were disguised as pimps,” said Zhao. “I couldn’t believe the center coue so terrible. But as Awen told me, they really did sell women into prostitution.”Zhao showed two pictures they took secretly to News Probe. One picture was taken when Shao Liai, a worker at the center, introduced two women to Zhao. The other shows Zhao giving money for them to Shao.

After being informed by Zhao and Awen, Guangzhou police closed the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center on March 19. On December 25 last year, Guangzhou Municipal Procuratorate charged two staff members of the drug center and four local pimps, Mao Zufu, Wang Xianzhen, Ding Chuanju and Peng Anle. The two staff members were Chen Taizhong, a section chief at the center, and Shao Liai, a common worker, but the heads of the center haven’t received any punishment yet.“It’s strange, isn’t it?” Zhao tNews Probe. “I think Luo Xianwen, the director of the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center, should be the major culprit in the center’s sex-trade. And there must be more people who supported Luo in the dark, because Luo himself couldn’t manage the whole thing.Zhao thinks that the heads of the Guangzhou Second Workers Sanatorium are also responsible, because the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center was operated by the Sanatorium.

Sex-trade conducted in reception room
A reporter from News Probe interviewed Awen in Guangzhou on June 14 this year. Awen, who asked for a shadow over her face in the program, said that she hadn’t been able to live a normal life for over a year since she reported her story in March last year. “I don’t dare to go back to my hot own in Chigang, in the suburbs of Guangzhou. I’m afraid those people will take revenge on me or my family,” said Awen. “I won’t feel safe until all the people who supported the sex-trade are brought to justicAwen told News Probe that she was sold in the morning of March 2 last year. At that time she had been at the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center for four months.

“Chen Taizhong, the section chief of the center, told me that two people in the reception room would pick me up. I was quite surprised with the sudden news,” said Awen. “I thought they might be my family. Instead, they were two people she’d never seen before. Besides Awen, there were several other female patients in the reception room.

“Chen told me and two other women to leave with the two guys. I realized that they us to be pimps, because I had heard some rumors about this sex-trade before. I cried out and struggled. I told Chen that I wouldn’t go with them. But he forced me. Our family haven’t paid your expenses here. We can’t serve (sic) you free of charge,” Awen quoted Chen as saying to News Probe.

“Luo Xianwen, the director of the drug center, entered the room when I cried out. "It’s so noisy. Take her away, the sooner the better."I felt despahen I heard that. Even the head of the drug center supported the sex-trade,” said Awen. Awen said she and the two other women were sold for 1,000 yuan each to Mao Zufu and Wang Xianzhen. The three women were taken to Kangle village, Haizhu District, Guangzhou.

Escape to freedom
“We arrived there in the afternoon that day. The pimps ordered us to take a shower first and then put on some make up. In the evening, around 8pm, a female pim took us to a dark street.”On the street, Awen encountered several other women whom she had met in the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center before. “The pimp told us to just stand there. I wanted to escape, but the pimp always kept a certain distance from us. She told us that if we tried to escape, they could always catch us and then they would beat us to death,” said Awen who was forced to service clients for the following four days.On March 6.

Awen escaped with another women when the pimp who was watching them went to the bathroom. Awen got in a taxi and hurried to a friend’s home in downtown Guangzhou and stayed there for a whole week.On March 14 she decided to report the case to Yangcheng Evening News, an influential newspaper in Guangzhou.

Sex-trade conducted since 2001
“The Changzhou Drug Quitting Center conducted its sex-trade for at least a year,” an unnamed tired worker from the Guangzhou Second Workers Sanatorium told News Probe. The retired worker revealed that the sex-trade had happened occasionally and in secret before, but after March 2001 the drug center began to sell female patients two or three times a week and usually seven or eight people were sold at a time. The price ranged from 500 to 1,000 yuan.

He explained that all the drug quitting centers in Guangdong Province which were not established by the departments of public security were to be shut down by 2002. The Changzhou Drug Quitting Center, which was established by Guangzhou Second Workers Sanatorium in 1991, wanted to make more money before it was closed. Another inside source revealed that the drug center usually chose patients whose hometown was outside Guangdong Province, because they rarely contacted their families.

“Helping drug users recover involves a very heavy economic burden, so a lot of the patients had simply been given up by their families. The drug quitting center just took advantage of this to conduct the sex trade,” said the insider.

Head people involved
According to Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, Chen Taizhong and Shao Liai, the two arrested employees of the center, insisted that they were just carrying out the orders of their bosses. The two men are still n detention and awaiting final judgment. Zhao Shilong, the reporter from Yangcheng Evening News, also said that when he went to the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center with his colleague and Awen last year, one of the people who bargained with them was Luo Xianwen, the director of the center.

“He asked for 1,800 yuan for one woman, and then cut the price to 1,400 yuan, and then 1,200 yuan. At last we made a bargain at the price of 1,000 yuan.”An insider also told News Probe that Luo and Zhang Yiping, the head of the Guangzhou Second Workers Sanatorium were involved. “Woul common employees really dare to sell patients to pimps without their bosses’ permission?” The insider told the program that after police closed the drug center on March 19 last year, Luo Xianwen and Zhang Yiping lookevery calm.

“They organized a meeting and asked their employees to burn all the account books relating to the sex-trade,” said the insider who claimed to have seen the account books. “It took half a day to destroy all them.

Interview with Luo Xianwen
Luo Xianwen still works for the Guangzhou Second Workers Sanatorium. He accepted an interview from News Probe at his office on June 14 this year.

News Probe: Why was the Changzhou Drug Quitting Center closed by police in May last year?
Luo: They said that some staff members organized prostitution.

News Probe: Who organized the activity?
Luo: Police took more than 10 staff members including me to the police station after they closed our center. I didn’t participate in the activity, so they let me go.
I knew nothing about the sex-trade before it was exposed
Zhao Shilong (the reporter from Yangcheng Evening News): I can prove what you just said is a lie.

News Probe: Do you know him, Director Luo?
Luo: No.

Zhao: Have you never seen me before?
Luo: No.

Zhao: I bought two women from you.
Luo: No. I never did any business with him.

News Probe: Are you sure?
Luo: Definitely.

News Probe interviewed Zhang Yiping the same day, who also denied that he’d been involved in the sex-trade. (Source: CCTV). Li Xuewei, an editor from News Probe told Beijing Today on Tuesday that two days after News Probe was broadcast on July 14, Guangzhou Municipal Discipline Inspection Committee ordered Luo Xianwen and Zhang Yiping to come to the committee to explain themselves.

“It was hard to cover this case,” added Li. “The departments of public security, the procuratorate and the court in Guangdong Province all refused to speak to us. This is no simple case.”

http://bjtoday.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=2450062
--from Dony Agustinus, Thursday, July 31, 2003

that news stand man..

Miel 发表于 2006-11-10 23:00:17

that news stand at bu xing jie just suddenly pop into my head.

the man i saw when i went to his news stand to buy 2 magazine weeks back.. when he thought i came from southwestern china just because i am carry a sling bag made of ethinic origin. he asked where i was from. so i said i'm from singapore. and he said he'd been there.

OH..

it was rather puzzling the way he said it.. like not just mere conversation, trying to be friendly. he was not showing off too.. but i had no idea what what that feeling that made me stun..

it was not that he said beer is expensive in singapore.. costing 100rmb for a jug..

today i figure it out..

he is trying to tell me"以前。。中国人不行。。但先在。。我们要去哪里都可以。。我们有能力了。。"

that's right.. the economic power of china is disturbing to the eyes of even foreigners.. that even the sorts of man.. who operates a news stand, could afford to even travel out of china. that they are not any the least worse off , to be chided, to be embarrassed..

the thing is.. the ignorant part about it all it a large majority will never learn to show a good impression to foreigners. simply because of the need for speed to upgrading standards of living...but never actually having an aura of good mannerism included in the aura surrounding them..

chinese can be protective to people who they know.. who they considered kinsman. but they had not learn to be considerate to the people surrounding them, who to them are strangers.. who to them.. might not be significant.. but because of this insignificance.. people look at them with distaste...

take note.. i am chinese.. my blood runs of it.. but.. my nationality differs.. and the way my parents brought me up differs from many kids here.. though of the same generation..i can be considered fortunate even.. that i do not need to 6/4... my parents need not live through cultural revolution..

but the thing is... i cannot accept that even though we are of the same blood that i should bear and gulp down the pissing fact that:

1. i go to the museum n there's a q behind me. 2 young ladies(most prob students like me), could push my girl and I off the ticket booth(fat bitches.. ZZzZZzz)
2. the reckless bastards who tries to kill me daily on the road because they do not know what is called pedestrian crossings and green light.
3. again the Qs. THERE is NO Q.
4. the cheebye aunties at kedi, lawson's can throw my change at me.
5. the fucking peeps speak to me in shanghainese even though they i dun understand, cursing me in the process
6. theres lots more but that not the main thing.

what i want to say is.. yes.. you guys.. can make it now.. you people are richer than my mum and daddy.. but.. you do not know how to live with people in this world.. you go around quarrelling in this huge country of urs.. and when u are overseas.. you do things that make people look at you with distaste...spit.. talk loud.. squeeze in Qs..pay for a person's buffet but ended up 4 people going.. trying to cheat off transport fees because transport is expensive overseas.. or solicict money.. or those who considered themselves as students and applied for VISAS but apparently every night standing at the streets in red light districts covering themselves with skimpy tight clothes. corruption.. yada yada

for gods sake.. 5000 years of history.. with the most interesting culture..of all places..but what happened to the supposely respect that u should earn? o.O

Chen Yu Fei - 2004 [３５ ｗｅｌｃｏｍｅ ｇｉｆｔｓ ｆｏｒ ｍｅ] depiction of social issues

Miel 发表于 2006-10-24 18:14:53