Friday, December 19, 2008

Revlon Of Water Proof Make Up

Fear of traffic, lunch untouchable even if more "salty", dormitories ...


Traffic in Shanghai
by decade_null
The slow traffic means that Chinese have a crazy fear of speed, and everyone, including taxi drivers are afraid to go, even in empty streets, more than 50 km / h. And so the ambulance, which uses only the siren, no hurry at all. Untouchable is the slow lunch break at noon and a half, 30 minutes in which time stops, taxis no longer circulate, Shanghai seems immobilized and-only for a while '- stops running. And this, despite the rise in prices. Throughout the world there is nothing to talk about the rise in agricultural commodities, and here one sees the effects Direct: Saizeriya , a chain of inexpensive restaurants where you can buy a plate of pasta with a meat or € + potato + egg + nag them to 1.60 euro, has revised upward the price of rice, that those 10 cents before, it is these days is doubled to 20.
I say about because there is another fact: the revaluation of the yuan (the Chinese currency ), which is becoming "stronger" than before: in January 1000 when the yuan was around € 90, today equivalent (11 months later!) to 120 €.
And even if this is happening, the cost of labor continues to remain low, and workers in some way non appagati: proprio l'altro ieri, camminando per strada di sera, ho visto degli operai che dormivano in un dormitorio alquanto strano. Il loro posto di lavoro: finita la loro mansione di muratori, hanno allestito delle brandine con delle coperte sudicie, e si son messi a dormire lì, nella casa in cui lavoravano, forse per 5-6 ore, per poi riprendere a lavorare il giorno successivo e martellare per 18 ore consecutive.
Ma, ripeto, va sempre apprezzato lo sforzo del governo cinese che sempre più sta adottando misure per risolvere situazioni disagiate, sempre attento com'è alle esigenze della crescita (anche culturale) della propria popolazione.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Taunts For Basketball

Teachers still on fake Chinese market, Berlusconi and ASEM, Churrascheria

"With increasing prosperity, they all realize, sooner or later, you have something to defend." John Kenneth Galbraith


One Sunday morning in Xujiahui,
by Marc van der Chijs

giving private lessons in the language here is paid from 12 to 15 euro per hour, I went well now, having already found two boys (Jason, an Englishman who wants to marry an Italian, and Diane, a beautiful Filipina who was accompanied by a - to date - our Italian politician). In two weeks will also begin to teach part-time at the School of Italian Language in Zhongshan Park, fifteen hours week.

The area is where I'll go to Xujiahui, famous for the southern station, brothels and some f ake market, on the other hand, the fake market there and elsewhere, as in Fuxin Lu and Fuzhou Lu (two blocks from the Piazza del Popolo, the main square of Shanghai). Both relate to technology stuff: for example you can buy one of those electronic dictionaries Pocket invoice Japanese (speaking English, Chinese, Japanese, and English) at 50 €, whereas in Tokyo it costs 6 times as much. But also in terms of clothing is not joking: if in the shopping center there are only original brand clothing, in street markets there is everything and more, sometimes a price less than 30 times. And often, these items are not fake, they are simply inventories of large brands that are allowed along a parallel market after approval of the large multinationals, in contrast to the feel of it around. In fact, with this system, while the trends are taking hold at low prices, including youth groups, and then strengthen and "legalize" in shopping centers: a boy who begins to dress "trendy" always search for that brand, albeit at higher prices.

Meanwhile, a few weeks ago, the Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi arrived in Beijing to participate in the proceedings of the 7th ASEM should lay the foundations for East-West cooperation. The Chinese political do not see the buon'occhio beyond the Protocol, because of his words a couple of years ago: "China boiled babies were to be used as fertilizer." Expect from him, again, an official apology.

However, I suggest, to relax from politics, to go to a Brazilian restaurant where about 16 euro per person with the food at will, including the most varied buffet, meat and fish, and then, once at the table, a waiter brings you every 5 minutes a piece of meat than the previous one, as one of the best Churrascheria .

If a man scream for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days would produce enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.