krispy kreame
Have you ever ordered a brew box from Krispy Kreame? Well don't, its alot of coffee and they give ya like sixteen coffee cups, i guess its all good really, they didnt have hot tea though, so i had to do coffee. Didn't really have to, "have to" but is was early am, and my internal clock isnt working yet really.
I've been catching up on all my blogs to read, images to surf, tunes to listen too. I miss Beijing. China, I was in frickin China, gang! Thats amazing. Not many folks can say they've thought more than 2 seconds about china and I was there! Of course many people have been asking me about my stay there, what I did, what i saw, what'd I think about it. Its all still settling in. Going thru all the flickr stills and my video clips help.
I've been working on a music video concept for fun, a slice of Beijing thru my lens, something fun, groovy, dan like, etc.
Beijing seems like a fading distant memory for me. I can still city the city in my mind though. Driving around town im tempted to drive like the taxi drivers heh, whats so bad about riding the middle white line really.
I asked Chen before I left what she'd like to journal about. We have alot of new readers on floozyspeak lately. Many i'm sure are not used to my stream of conscience type journaling. I always wonder if i will inadvertly offend someone some how, i'm sure its possible, but never my intent.
Chen said "how bout a comparison between beijing and usa", more so where I live in the usa. Columbus, Ohio is a small town compared to Beijing. You see people in Beijing, in Columbus you need to really work to see people, find them at parks, at malls, but generally you dont see people outside moving around much. Its sunny and warm here, last night we watched the fireworks and I saw friends at work for the first time in awhile, it was good sorta, to be back. Good in that well i'm back and theres things to do, bad in that I miss Beijing.
I've been debating another trip to Japan lately. Watching the Starwood Hotel channel at the hotel in Beijing didn't help, it was endless hours of "go see kyoto in japan" channel on there that gets me thinking about Japan. I'd like to see Kyoto someday, but I'd love to go back to Beijing, so open, so vast, so free, so crazy heh.
It'll be a few more days before I can really get into the deep thoughts over china, and more so beijing, i dont know what to say really, i was there, the people we met there were great, we made friends there, its a big city, a big culture and its moving at million miles an hour. China is definately here to stay. Growth is amazing there, and sooooo much potential for biz there, yet so much potential for freakout as well. You can leap from a old school 50's mindset into how now brown cow 2005 cyber me baby culture without burning out a few brain cells.
I've been thinking about it. Japan is polished, you feel like you are in the future there at times. If the USA is in say the year 2005 on the good side of it, I'd say Japan is in the year 2007, and China...? China is in 1985. They are behind in polish, mentality, and ways. Not really a bad thing its just whats represented, and considering that 20 years ago they were like 1949 they've LEAPED forward a great deal already. You just dont get the sense of pure arrogance in china, you get longing, you get hunger, you get thirst, you get the raw forms of want and need. In Japan, back in 1999, I got the sense that Japan wasnt about want or need any more, it was about access, we have, its here, future is merely a door near by. In the states the need is gone, everything is want, choice, we choose the path we want, we dont have to need anything, the basics are a given. In china, the basics are just now getting to the point where they are barely on the edge of given. There is still this sense of need.
Whats another way to visualize my view of the three cultures? USA is cd disc, China is tape deck, Japan is holographic data. But in 10 years, USA wil be holographic data, China will be holographic data, and Japan will be holographic data. So really, look out folks, china is comin thru!
I saw this online today, hello beijing!