2 May 2006 – yeah yeah, holiday?
Seems not all Chinese are born equal. If one has too much money, some tips on spending it: Shanghai has some expensive villas for sale in Shimao Sheshan. The top one goes for US$ 31.25 million or RMB 250 million. “Smaller” ones go for RMB 50 million. Four years ago a similar one was sold at RMB 140 million. The record goes to one in Xijiao – 150 million. Shanghai saw sales of villas in 2005 at a rate of 6,308 units, good for 1.54 million sqm. The buyers: mostly Shanghainese or Hong Kong businessmen.
How to spend the “Golden Week” here for the May 1 holidays (May 1 to 7)? Just trying to catch up with work and working on the MAC – back-up, cleaning up files and folders. Hopefully I will be able to update some of the software.
The workers next door at the always-under-construction building also decided to work even harder and started banging and dropping metal pipes at 6 am. Hard workers those guys. Pity they always drop pipes. Maybe it’s a sport or they are slippery. Never found out what they are actually doing.
Our friend Xiao Yu (Ms.) has moved into her new apartment, above our new one. Hers is already looking good – ours still needs some final touches. So, the girly gang is shopping till-you -drop-dead.
We have experimented with some of the new restaurants around us, one Korean (in our Julong compound) and a Chinese one with Yunnan food across the street. I had enough courage to taste the fried worms (bon appetit!) but Xiao Yu apparently wasn’t as Chinese as I am… The worms are crispy, good for the health (all food in China has some health benefits it seems, the weirder the better).
The weather has changed from sandy and dusty to plain dusty and warm – over 25C. The “stick trees” that Sun brought into our compound are starting to grow. They are, well, like big sticks, over 4 meters high. Sun came in with two trucks of trees and other plants – about 100 in total. Ten of them mysteriously disappeared when left alone – stealing here becomes rather common. Our “security guards” of the compound had of course not seen anything (why am I not surprised?). That’s our contribution to the “Greening of Beijing”.
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