Pizza

Pizza, something that welcome and popular all over the world. However, like noodles and sushi, the more common a food in a culture, the rarer and the more expensive you see it otherelse, at least people feel, like pizza.

In my home city, Chengdu, a huge city with 3.6 million people, has merely 10 or 20 pizza restaurants. We prefered one restaurant in the center, at the ground floor of a 34 floors huge building, it's called Gao Fei Pizza, a interesting name, meaning flying pizza. I'm hungry, I don't want a flying pizza, I just want a pizza lying on my table quietly.

A pizza cost from 48 RMB to 88 RMB. A 88 RMB (about 115 SEK) pizza is big, but still normally big. I and my girlfriend always ordered just a 48 RMB pizza, because although I ate a lot, she eats as little as a cat. A 50 SEK pizza in a restauant closing to Vildanden is quite huge and enough for two people, maybe for three or four little cats like my girlfriend.

Rice here in Sweden costs from 15 to 40 SEK per kg. In China it cost from 2 to 5 RMB. Considering how much a Swede earns and also a Chinese earns, rice is still expensive for us and cheap for them.

But obviously Chinese young people love pizza, although I do not. Suppose a pizza cost 20 SEK for one person (it will be resonable), I think the consumption per year could be double or treble or even more, we should make every Chinese eat at least one pizza every year, that means, 1.4 billion pizza, 28 billion SEK.

Cecilia, you must teach me how to make pizza! I want to share that 28 billion!

English

Some argue that Chinese people speak very poor English, Chinese people, if hear of this, will say their English speaking is at least better than that of Japanese or Korean. This is really a riddle because I gradually find lots of Japanese and Koreans speaking excellent English.

We, I mean in the communist period, studied Russian for 30 years, then English. In the Northeast part Japanese study is also a tradition (or sub-culture) because this part has been invaded by Japanese long time ago. Few people study French and German, even less people study Spanish and Arab.

Among the 7 top political leaders, only one has been to study abroad. And I'm afraid even he, Luo Gan, has forgotten German already. Bureaucratic life needs no foreign language at all. That's ironic that he is recommended to be in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because only he has experience in communicating with the west, but foreigners didn't like him because he had suppressed Tian'an Men Protest. Western school life didn't help him to be tolerant.

Now many new leaders can speak English, some speak very good. The next generation, people born in the 1970s, and our generation who born in the 1980s, speak English in general. There is going to be a whole country can speak English, although average poor. We don't want India to steel our cake from hands of American and European.

Bachelor

I know it's difficult to imagine that there are going to be 30 million bachelors in 2030, no, no, it should be more, the statistics says that there are going to be 30 million more men than women in 2030 in China.

And also, there are 5 or 6 million Bachelors (of Arts or of Science) graduate every year in China. China is such a country always has huge numbers, it's really a heaven for mathematics lovers. Now one third of these bachelors can't find jobs, majority of them can't find decent jobs. That's life in China, although lots of people are enjoying luxurous life.

But I'm never going to talk about a sad stroy (if later my story is sad, I'll surely never talk about it). I'm going to ask you how to deal with these 30 million male bachelors (and this can be possible only if every woman marries, and the partner must be a man, it's far too difficult)? I'll try to encourage them to have gay-love, the more the better, but avoid AIDS please. To those Bachelors, I'll encourage them to migrate abroad (that was a suggestion from Guo Gan, the fourth or fifth leader in China I guess). Are my ideas ridiculous? Maybe no...

A Japanese bio-genetical professor argues that poor families have more chance to born boys, rich families have more chance to born girls. He proves this, on a way I never understand. Luckily I remerber the conclusion. I will try to born a girl, but a boy is also ok. I'm tolerant, but sorry! Sorry! No bachelor!

Gathering and Party

Yesterday we had a party. Party is one kind of gathering, a gathering of people. If people are all dead, gathering becomes collection. Yesterday's gathering was also a food exhibition, and gathering can also be drinks (usually alcohol) exhibition, and later stupid performance show (I joined this show many times).

That's parties in Sweden. In China we don't have parties. We have something similar to party, that's gathering. People come and sit and talk and drink and eat and leave. That's enjoys for guests, but not for hosts. Hosts will do all of the stuffs. When we were poor (I mean 10 or more years ago) we did this because time was not valuable for us, now people always went to restaurant, for example, my mother doesn't want her carpet to be dirtied.

But it cost a lot. I always feel hard to understand a ancient essay saying that the official was so poor so he could just serve his friends in restaurant because he didn't have enough dishwares at home. Logic changes, I think. Ancient is foreign.

Back to gathering. We don't have freedom to gather, if gathering must be held in public. Private gathering is partly free, according to the scale and the topic (and how much the police know). My father has gatherings almost everyday, Majiang gambling, normally 4 to 6 people, his favorite, and nobody inspected him ever.

Sorry maybe you misunderstand me, we have very much freedom to gather in fact, but you should not be in public. Even in democratic Japan gathering is partly forbidden because it's easy to be sued of affecting the traffic (we are always in parks, right? they will answer).

During Olympic games gatherings among foreigners were prohibited. What was the definition? 3 people, of course, and more. But no body knew anything if you really did. If so, how clubs and bars and something survive? They can also gather at home. They can have party, they will say, no, that's not gathering! Party, party is also forbidden, police would say, we already have China Communist Party!

Internet

Internet is so important to me, I will be isolated without internet, no matter in China or where else. Although now I'm using the worst internet in a 7-11 at the Copenhagen airport, I can still know news happening around me. I know a plot, not sure; and I know some people are really busy, I hate them.

Internet cost is quite cheap in Sweden, and efficient. Problem is, you can not (or, should not) download lots of things. I don't know what will happen if you do so, just try.

In China you can download anything, some softwares were downloaded millions of times because with which a movie can be downloaded within 3 minutes. My friend has downloaded more than 2000 movies. Hollywood will go down soon I guess.

Why there are many Manchester City football supporters in Copenhagen? Just google it... Too lazy to do that, I don't keep a good mood to do so. I feel a little bit anxious about tomorrow (at narrow and also board levels). I read more than 30 pages today, it means I am still a hard-working student, right? But if I tell you that book has no business with my studies?

I love Copenhapen, it's great! I promised I would not come alone without my girlfriend, but I failed to fulfill it. I will say, I leave majority of the magic city to her, I mean, us, next time, together.

Danmark is famous country in China, but next time I will concentrate on Sweden. Sweden is even more popular, although many Chinese people don't exactly know where the country is. Thank for internet, now most of my friends know where the country is. Geography is fucking important!

CCTV

CCTV, is China Central Television, the biggest and dominante TV station in China. It has numeous channels, although most of them have few audience. I think it is the richest TV station all over the world, but it doesn't know how to use money. So it build a new huge headquarters building which is designed by Ole Scheeren (maybe famous) and cost 1 billion EUR. But the common people call the building "the Big Underpants", and there is a huge LCD screen in the crotch of the huge underpants, so creative, romantic and erotic...

However, CCTV also means Closed Circuit Television. "You are under CCTV" can both mean you are monitored by the police (maybe not only police) or you are watching the TV programmes under the crotch of that building. It's cool! Isn't it?

Several years ago a local TV station held a series of programmes exactly like the "American Icon", and attracted lost of audiences belonged to CCTV before (tens of millions I guess). CCTV so forbided the local TV station to hold new programmes.

Another thing is, the translation jobs in CCTV must be the toughest because these translators don't know when the foreign language should be translated "politically correct" (which means "literally incorrect"). I think I'm too stupid to work in CCTV always.