Football and Cameras
September 26th, 2005 by Greg
I’m staying in a hostel at the Workers stadium so was given a free ticket to see Beijing vs. Chongqing there last night. Not being an avid football fan I only stayed for the first half as I was getting hungry and also being eaten alive by mosquitos. The first half ended in a nil-nil draw in what seemed quite boring football (although those that know me would know that I haven’t got a clue about such things), but the crowd loved it. Its a massive stadium and everyone has these inflatable bats that they bang together, when thousands of them are doing it at once its quite an impressive sound.
Bought quite a good digital camera today in Zhongguancun, a district full of massive electronics shops. Some bloke on the ground floor of one building led me through a maze to this shop where i haggled and bargained over a camera. managed to get a really good deal, about 200 quid less than in the uk – i had the foresight to bring “Which digital camera” magazine with me, which i also used as a bargaining chip as they wanted my copy of it to help lure other foreign customers. so expect the occasional photographic masterpiece published on this blog.
I want to go travelling for the next couple of weeks but its the national day on 1st oct and the whole of that week is a holiday, which means that buying travel tickets becomes nigh on impossible because 1.3 billion people are travelling. I’ll end up somewhere but be unable to move on or return from there, so I’ve got to plan it wisely.
This is really interesting Greg. I’m better informed about your trip than telephone calls! Looking forward to some pics. How about some other comments from people?
maybe my friends don’t have as much time on their hands as you, mum.
are any of you reading the blog at all???
I don’t think that I’m less busy than your friends. I just have different priorities. (That’s what being a mother is all about!)
Keep on writing.
I have also found time, but decided to keep my comments for Greg’s eyes only.and therefore sent to his email address.
But yes the blog is great and you miserable gits who claim to be his friend , tell him!!
steady on dad!.
Greg, stumbled across your website, just wanted to say that if you go to http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html you can access blocked blogs in China.
Will return to see what is happening in Beijing, also, by co-incidence, we have some pretty good football down here too: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://whydidyouresign.blogspot.com
as my blog reveals.
peace, SU