My Opera【Day 50】The Shanghai Speed
Friday, September 8, 2006 10:11:16 AM
Shanghai distinguishes itself in its speed
Buses are going faster than taxies in Xi’an, you could feel the breeze going and coming beside you and face the wind all the time;
Metro system, the most advanced in China is such a net that perfectly solve the traditional headache for floating people in SH or even locals.
Yet I am a little bit stick on to my tradition: would rather by bus rather than the expensive metro.
Let me put up the list of my trip expenses from home to Shanghai Book City:
Bus(712)2+Metro4+Metro3+Bus(Channle8)2+Bus(830)2+Bus(43)2 =15
If I carefully choose the route, it would be Bus(43)2+Metro4+Metro3+Bus (Channle8)2=11
So in this efficiency-oriented city, my speed of actions and thoughts must go hand in hand with it.
Because the if you do not forge ahead, you will surely fall behind.
What’s more, the efforts and things you do on the slower level do not bring you much benefit.
Just like I take wrong buses and waited long, my time and patience are worn out.
Yet
I find another pace in this city:
The graceful traditional one: it happened that I came to a bookstore selling second-hand and old-aged books and papers
The environment was so good, as if soaked in history.
Plus I could not help remembering HU BIN Road,(river nearby road), all the architecture was made of blue-black stones, the wine shop, the paining gallery and lines of bars;
So nice as if there is a life-pace area in this noisy fast-going city.
So this is good about SH, sometimes it made you to pace up, sometimes you enjoy the pace of urself, just be there.
Buses are going faster than taxies in Xi’an, you could feel the breeze going and coming beside you and face the wind all the time;
Metro system, the most advanced in China is such a net that perfectly solve the traditional headache for floating people in SH or even locals.
Yet I am a little bit stick on to my tradition: would rather by bus rather than the expensive metro.
Let me put up the list of my trip expenses from home to Shanghai Book City:
Bus(712)2+Metro4+Metro3+Bus(Channle8)2+Bus(830)2+Bus(43)2 =15
If I carefully choose the route, it would be Bus(43)2+Metro4+Metro3+Bus (Channle8)2=11
So in this efficiency-oriented city, my speed of actions and thoughts must go hand in hand with it.
Because the if you do not forge ahead, you will surely fall behind.
What’s more, the efforts and things you do on the slower level do not bring you much benefit.
Just like I take wrong buses and waited long, my time and patience are worn out.
Yet
I find another pace in this city:
The graceful traditional one: it happened that I came to a bookstore selling second-hand and old-aged books and papers
The environment was so good, as if soaked in history.
Plus I could not help remembering HU BIN Road,(river nearby road), all the architecture was made of blue-black stones, the wine shop, the paining gallery and lines of bars;
So nice as if there is a life-pace area in this noisy fast-going city.
So this is good about SH, sometimes it made you to pace up, sometimes you enjoy the pace of urself, just be there.
