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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Cheen

After trying to equip me with all the required weapons (like, attempting to teach me Chinese, in which I failed miserably) my company finally parked me in China, a city called Xiamen to be precise, a very beautiful island in south China.
As soon as I entered here, I was shocked to see its flyovers and sky-scrapers.

The image I had of China was of a developing nation where people work very hard and are not very rich, move around on bicycles, where the government is very stingy, but you land to this place and you can confuse it with any Canadian city, Canada, of course because of its Chinese population ;).
(I realized I should not rely too much on Jackie Chan movies).

This city is so well developed and clean, with all German and Japanese cars running, beaches too clean to qualify to be of any Asian country (NO OFFENSE).
Well of course, language is a big problem here, but that’s only in small city like Xiamen.

That was my first impression of the Dragon-Land, but in last 2 months, this is my third visit here and now I have settled enough to see it nicely…. In China its like, Japanese cars running on USA roads with German speed but traffic sense, that of India (You know, I think in India we still have some traffic sense as compared to China). People here follows absolutely no rules !! No Lane system, don’t follow divider rule. As a habit, here too I sit on the navigator’s seat in a cab, and trust me, for the first time I had put on my seat-belt not cause of fear of a traffic-cop but to save my life.

The accidents here are fatal. I see a crashed car almost everyday and by the look of that car, I know there are absolutely no chances of any survivor in that.
And the best part, I dint see any Traffic Inspector here (probably they too are scared to stand amidst these speedy drivers ;)..), and cameras also at few selected places.

So want to have a car-race here ;) ??

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great!.
Finally she wears seat belt..
I had lost hope in persuading this girl, how important is to wear seat belt.

But good.. Finally chinese majic did the trick :)

7:05 PM, July 13, 2006  
Blogger Jenifer said...

Hi Anonymous,
Seat belt in India !!! Well, every country has different rules (of-course made and followed by us ;)…) and Indian traffic, (specially Banglaore) will never cross 30Km/Hr so there is no need of a seat belt actually ;)

1:54 PM, July 14, 2006  
Blogger Jenifer said...

Hi Maverick,
Thanks a lot for asking about China, I was just waiting for someone to mention it and me to explode :). China, people are good at heart but are a bit smelly and dirty :(... I couldn't explore much about people as I was busy bargaining for DVDs ;) and other stuff. And it came out to be true that it is a cheap country !!!
Bargaining, you don't have to bargain, just walk out of the shop, the shop-keeper will run after you, reducing the price :)).

Also, it was a good laugh for me to see their expression when they confirmed with me that in India, we still go for an arrange marriage :)).

And yes, being a foreigner here, I do get special treatment sometimes, Xiamen is not a tourist place as such and people here haven’t seen much Indian (specially girls) so any shop I enter once, they will (and they do) recognize me next time and I get a nice smile and a wave.
Phew, I feel so relieved now.
I missed blogging all these months ;)

1:57 PM, July 14, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good!

10:24 AM, July 18, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

now that's surprise to me? I can expect any other country with 1B+ population on the same lines as you wrote but I though lifestyle is far better is china; so is infrastructure and so is the discipline in life and on road.

So the traffic is something like this or even worse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9OoitJcNrA

10:52 PM, August 22, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the cities are really spic. the villages are a whole different story

3:44 PM, November 04, 2006  

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