The differences...
Shopping, shopping and more shopping...
Seems like the only thing we know what to do right now after our common test...
We went to this place (forgot the name...) where it supposedly sold cheap stuff. Well there was indeed cheap stuff but it did not satisfy my taste or worth my money. After some walking, some of us decided to head to the 'Computer City'. We decided to take a cab. And so, the battle begin. Many did not want to hire us. They said something and just drove off. We were definitely irritated. After 15 minutes of waiting, a cab hired us. At last. We then asked the driver on why most the taxis we hailed did not pick us. He explained that on every consecutive days, only certain taxis are allowed to cross the big bridge to go to Computer City. That is to say, even-numbered number plate taxis are allowed to cross the bridge whereas odd-numbers are not allowed to. The next day however, the odd-numbered number plate taxis are allowed to ferry passengers across the bridge whereas even-numbered ones are not allowed to. That definitely interest me alot because we do not hear such things in Singapore except for the weekend cars and so forth. I guess this law was passed so that there would not be traffic congestion every day. There are probably over millions of cars in Wuhan alone that this measure has to be done. This is a very effective measure i should say. Hopefully Singapore does not emulate this law though. I will have my fingers crossed.
While in the taxi, i had a good look around as we drove on. And i noticed something. Something very obvious.
The rich
The poor
Seems like the only thing we know what to do right now after our common test...
We went to this place (forgot the name...) where it supposedly sold cheap stuff. Well there was indeed cheap stuff but it did not satisfy my taste or worth my money. After some walking, some of us decided to head to the 'Computer City'. We decided to take a cab. And so, the battle begin. Many did not want to hire us. They said something and just drove off. We were definitely irritated. After 15 minutes of waiting, a cab hired us. At last. We then asked the driver on why most the taxis we hailed did not pick us. He explained that on every consecutive days, only certain taxis are allowed to cross the big bridge to go to Computer City. That is to say, even-numbered number plate taxis are allowed to cross the bridge whereas odd-numbers are not allowed to. The next day however, the odd-numbered number plate taxis are allowed to ferry passengers across the bridge whereas even-numbered ones are not allowed to. That definitely interest me alot because we do not hear such things in Singapore except for the weekend cars and so forth. I guess this law was passed so that there would not be traffic congestion every day. There are probably over millions of cars in Wuhan alone that this measure has to be done. This is a very effective measure i should say. Hopefully Singapore does not emulate this law though. I will have my fingers crossed.
While in the taxi, i had a good look around as we drove on. And i noticed something. Something very obvious.
The rich
The poor And these two block of flats were right beside each other. The block of flat(top) looks just like the ones we can find in Singapore. However, the block of flat(below) looks just like the ones we could have seen in Singapore 50 years ago probably. So what does this imply? There is a major gap between the rich and the poor. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. Sad isn't it? It's lucky that Singapore does not have such cases. Looks like China has a long way to go before it is called a developed country.
posted by kumaran | 7:05 AM
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