
During the weekends, I managed to find time to explore the city. The streets are crazy. Its worse than grand theft auto. The middle divider is just a yellow line, painted on the road. So its not very rare to see busses traveling in the opp direction, and blasting their horns at those cyclists who just cycle and don give a damn to them. Its like they are the sheep and the bus is the sheep dog.
Sat night when I first stepped inside the club “babyface”, I was shocked to find around 8 girls, standing in the row at the entrance greeting me. China really no lag of manpower. I sent my coat and bag for safekeeping before going in. There is the hip hop room and the normal clubbing music room. We got a table in the latter. The lights, music and the girls really blew me off my feet. We dance quite a bit. Cos that is the only exercise we can get. Entrance fee 80 yuan. 1 bottle of chivas 550 yuan. 6 bottles of green tea to mix with the whiskey 210 yuan. Like any other famous city, not everyone can keep up with the pace and jump on the band wagon.
As you walk down the streets of the poor, you will find that the homes of the poor is so dilapidated that they might crumble when the wind is too big. And all this is just like 2 streets away from the posh skyscrapers. Sometimes you can’t help but stop and wonder, life is really so unfair. Anyway, after eating at the posh restaurants and eating at the broken down road side stall, the food is not much of a diff… its not like the road side stall food taste like crap.
They also not too bad. And they are dirt cheap. Like 2 yuan for one big bowl of 18 +- dumplings. Quite cheap for a city like this. The definition of a rat race is that the rats are just running to beat each other in a never ending race. Some rats may be in the front, driving huge cars, eating good food, wearing nice clothes, some may be behind, living under the bridges, and burn wood for warmth… but the fact is they are all rats… why should anyone despise the poorer rats just because they have a bit more of stuffs then them? The best things in life more often than none are free… When you find yourself so caught up in the rat race, its good to take a break, enjoy a simple evening with the ones closest to you… because in doing so, you are actually enjoying the most precious things in the world…