Life and Travel in China

I read a week ago about the Shenzhen-Beijing high-speed railway line (ten hours), currently the journey takes two days. Recently, while driving along the Guangzhou-Shenzhen route, I noticed that work on preparing further tracks was already underway on a distance of approximately one hundred kilometers. I drove along this route a month ago, but nothing happened, and now... Work is really booming here and it's no surprise that there's such economic progress. Day by day they are building new viaducts, widening tunnels, removing nearby houses and sharply widening the railway line, in some places there are eight tracks and these are not sidings but routes that run side by side for several or a dozen kilometers. The new line is to be ready in 2008, if I remember correctly, and they will probably keep their word.

Polish media, or more precisely TOK FM, reported (from Xinhua information) that stripteases are organized at funerals in China so that as many people as possible pay tribute to the deceased... I don't know how much truth there is in this, I have never seen anything like this. And I'm a fool, I go to bars, discos and karaoke at night, and no girl shows anything there, now I'll know that I have to go to the cemetery and look for excitement there.

Big fuss about nothing today! Well, I took a photo of a lion (common sculptures in front of buildings), it was not a government building, a police building or a military facility. Just an ordinary building, there isn't even a bank there. Someone noticed me and immediately alerted two security guards via walkie-talkie. When I was leaving, these two hyperactive uniformed officers blocked my way, and to get me they quickly came from the other side of the building. He asks me why I take photos. At first I pretend I don't understand. He continues asking why do I need this photo? I say I like taking photos. He told me to show the photo and wouldn't let me leave. I showed him the lion, said it was nice and left. Police state.

A foreigner, an Englishman, a lecturer at a university in Shanghai, slept with many Chinese women, his students and girls from outside the university circle. And since the guy was damn proud of it, he started a blog. Some Chinese have reached this site, I also saw it a few days ago. He describes how his girlfriend puts a condom on him, how easy it is to get laid by a Chinese girl, etc. In general, the guy has something on his mind. However, pride lost this Casanova a few days ago. The Chinese got angry (and rightly so, because some fag will brag about how he cheats on girls) and they figured him out, they even started a website with comments about him. The Englishman has already closed his blog, and someone already knows his name and what university he is talking about. Everything is now a matter of time. And the great lover, the hunter of Chinese women, will quickly be whisked away to his country unless the Chinese catch him first, because they made terrible threats on the forum.

There are many karaoke clubs (KTV) and massage parlors on my street, some are completely normal and others are just covert escort agencies. It happens that the police close some clubs, for example. There are basically no rules for this. Sometimes the legal ones are closed and the brothels remain. I guess it's just about bribes. One club was officially demolished today with the assistance of the police or China-Security. The place had been closed for a few weeks and apparently the boss had not reached an agreement with the local authorities. Today they destroyed the doors, logo, neon signs and the entire decoration. Next week there will probably be a new club under a new name.