Sunday, March 01, 2009 @5:43 am
Febuary is now at a close, and I've spent a good part of my last 2 weeks of the month in China!
3rd week was spent jet setting. Going for flights the moment I'm back, managing to meet up with friends in between, and then going off for my 1 week holiday to Kunming and Lijiang.
While waiting for my flight back home, I attempted chronicalling my time in China. This was the result. lol
"I’ve now spent a week in China. Not in the international cities of Beijing or Shanghai as I’m used to, but in the rural areas of Kunming and Lijiang in Yunnan. Okay, maybe they’re not that rural, but they’re not like Beijing or Shanghai or even Shenzhen.
Over here, every few steps you’ll hear someone loudly clearing his/her throat, and a moment later throw his/her spit onto the ground, as far away from themselves as possible; something not so often seen in the cities with more international exposure.
Horses and horse drawn carts are a common sight here. A good number of them are for tourists, but there are also those whose main form of transport is their horses and carts. The saddles of the horses are made of tightly rolled cloth, and layered with many colourful blankets. Horses shit all over the road, akin to the Chinese spitting all over the streets. (one wonders why they think it’s perfectly fine to spit on the streets where everyone including themselves walk on but not in their own homes)
Driving along the roads out of the city, you’ll find yourself in the countryside where you’ll see fields and fields of yellow flowers (from which they make vegetable oil) and green leafy vegetables. Dotting the huge expanse of land will be the occasional tanned and wrinkled farmer, squatting with a huge basket strapped to his back and tending to his field."
Obviously I'm super long-winded and am never going to finish my story.
Coming back from China was the beginning of a fruitful week, beginning with the long belated Tony's birthday celebration.
Had breakfast with Tony one day, and then lunch with Ceci after that.
Did some personality test thing with Tony, and we talked about people's facades (yet again)
But the point is, some people just live life mostly under a facade that they make themselves believe in, and you don't know if you really know them.
Another conclusion was that I'm emotionally stable and have an organised life :D
Start of March...start of uni application process...start of unknown...start of test...application for new life?