Life and Travel in China

I'm a bit worried about the development of digital photography. I don't claim to be a photography expert, a great artist, etc., but at least I started with typical SLR cameras, I know what aperture, ISO, shutter speed are, etc. Most people who bought any digital camera took a photo of a finger, their own foot, a bottle of beer, or a photo of their brother in the garage and they think that they are real photographers and immediately post such photos to various photo galleries on the Internet. What for? Let them keep it in their family album! I don't know why they have such a sense of superiority, they all just have the souls of artists... and just any digital camera.

Several gentlemen from Poland came to Shanghai. One of them told me that they were shocked, they expected that China was a poor and, above all, backward country! They couldn't believe the cars, trains, subways, buses and huge skyscrapers surrounding them. Their first visit to China, of course they also visited smaller towns, not only Shanghai. We should thank the Polish media and our politicians for shaping this image of China! Most people from Poland are afraid to come here because of communism, death penalty at every step, soldiers with AK74, tanks on the street and hard work for a bowl of rice - good luck to those who believe in it. 100% of people who came to China for the first time were pleasantly surprised and surprised by the power, progress and development of the middle country. In Poland, bad things are written about China, and when good things are written only in numbers (God forbid we should praise something or model it on something): "natural growth... GDP... US-China trade..." such dry facts.

A Chinese friend invited us to karaoke. Imagine several dozen rooms with TVs and a karaoke system. Plus atmospheric lights, beer, fruit and girls (about 30 to choose from). I talked to one of them. 23 years old, of course her parents don't know how she earns money, her older brother has a job. I asked if she liked it here, she said no one liked it here. I asked why she didn't have another job, for example a waitress (she only finished primary school), she said it was a tiring job and there was little money. Sad but true... sometimes we end up singing and joking, other times we end up in bed with some Chinese or foreigner. Tomorrow is another day, another night, another men...

On April 6, I was at the airport in Shanghai and I had to wait a long time for someone, thousands of passengers arrived and the passport control took over an hour and thirty minutes in total. I watched some cameramen who also came with equipment and tripods, I thought that maybe they were doing some reportage here. As it turned out, on the same day the Rolling Stones flew to China for the first time in history! And that's why (I suppose) so many fans followed them from all over the world to a concert in the Middle Kingdom. If such a team counts on China, then China must really mean something in the world!

The Chinese are like little children. At 12:30 they have to eat dinner, even if there is a fire, they have to eat it, they cancel the meeting, they stop talking on the phone, they turn off the computer and they have to eat on time. But why, like children? Because after dinner, some people even sleep, even on the desk, they put their head next to the keyboard and sleep. And dinner is always around 6:30-7:00 p.m. for health reasons, because everyone knows that eating right before bed is not good for our body. We can learn nutritional punctuality from them!