Zhangyulong's Blog

Don't take carmera in trip

I believe a philosophy: go travelling without carmera, it would take much time to take picture to miss some beautiful landscape, or it would leave you limited time to enjoy the nature totally. I was inspired by a author, and it's approved during my travel to Huang Mountain by myself when i was a sophomore, I took friend's advices and rented a camera(not digital). During my climbing on the mountain, I found it so beautiful as in propaganda, I opened my eyes widely and hope to take all these scenery into my mind, too many people took out their camera and took the picture into the machine. I followed them and took out my poor camera, took the picture carefully, from then on, I took the picture all the way and had little time to see the scenery and feel the nature with my own eyes and heart, later I fount that I was to take pictue back, instead of travelling and enjoying the nature, I should spent most of time to enjoying the nature, but not taking pictures all the time.

Of course, when I came back, I forgot most of my experience and had to take out the picture to remind me of this trip, it's such a sad thing, actually, I can find the picture in internet or book or booklet, but I spent my budget and time to take some not good picture back, I betrayed my original intention.

There's a saying goes: when you like to find something in your memory, you're becoming old. It's right, when we're young, we have much thing to do, much dream to imagine, we have no time to go back to our memery. When we're old, if we have no ability to work, to pursue our dream, we would lose, and prefer to take memery from the last times.

I like to dream, I think there would be much thing to do even i'm very old, I have no time to go back to old times.

Brother Xing

Brother Xing came back this afternoon, he is so thin and weak after two months stay in home. He experianced too much in the last two months, he turned to be a husband and father in such a short time from a active boy.

Xing really went through a hard time, he's two years older than me,already 29 this year, when he and his GF start associate, his GF has been pregnant for 4 months, but he didn't know at all, and she also didn't told him. After they cohabiting for some days, he found there's something wrong with her and after inspection in hospital, it's confirmed that she has been pregnant for 4 months, it's a bolt from the blue for him! No one can accept this fact, it's betray to him, but he can't desert her because of some days association and there's feeling in both of their heart. Everyone has past, him too, after some days struggle in mind, he decide to continue their relationship on the premise that she have to abort, cast this small life. It's rational to everyone, althougt it's illegal, but it turned out that the abortion can't be operated due to the baby is too big, if insisting on aborting, it would lead to future problem like never giving birth from then on. But if the baby is born, it's so unfair to Xing, how can he face the fact that the first baby is not his?

At last, he still decided to breed this baby, and more, he concealed this thing to his family to avoid unpleasure between his GF and his family. The baby was born on October 2nd, 10 days later, he was on the way to work, there's too much burden on his shoulder, he have to work and earn money to raise his family and his baby. I admire his courage and respect his choice, he's a nice guy, very few in this material society, he would be a nice husband and nice father in future.

Shanzhai culture

Recently there's a phenomenon prevails in china mainland, it's named Shanzhai, now it covers many fields and mostly electronic products like: MP3,MP4,cellphone, DVD, carmera and even laptop.

I think shanzhai is an extension of "made in china", shanzhai originated from Guangdong Province, there're too many factories doing OEM for foreign customers, in the last many years, these factories always played the role of factory, earning a little profit from processing, these factory got design and technology from foreign buyers and produce according the buyer's requirement. After many years development, their factory has their own R&D department, they can make the similar products as the big brand in the market, they tried to sell some outdated products with their own brand, in order to promote their products in short time, they use the similar trademark, brand name or Logo with the big brand, the customers can be easily confused, but their motive is not to infringe the big brand, this way is the quickest way which can earn the market in short time.

I had an experiance this morning, I want to buy Tina a MP5, her colleague bought a MP5 near her factory, seems good, she borrowed it the other day and watched film with it, a entertainment at spare time and she can learn English by it. I'd like to buy SonyEricssion MP5, which is advertised on Hunan TV, I firstly find the relevant information on www.taobao.com , the price is very attractive, I suspected the quality, after all, it's electronic products. I continued to look for information on the official website, but got nothing, I suddently had a sense that the 索爱 is not the real SonyEricssion, I confirmed later this 索爱 is really a brand of Guangdong province, this owner registered 索爱 due to the SonyEricssion didn't register it in time, the factory was sued by SonyEricssion, but failed. It's the fact!

This is another kind of "Made in China", I hope its quality would not disppoint me.

Hukou system

Hukou system in china is the unique system in the whole world, it's a residential permit, you're relocated in the place where you were born, actually it's still not exactly, your Hukou is follow your parent's Hukou, if your parent's Hukou is village, your Hukou is village, even though you were born in a big city. Hukou in china is basically divided into Village Hukou and City Hukou, what the difference? If you have hukou of village, you would have land, the land is the most important property in old times. If you have Hukou of city, you can own medical and social insurance, it's much more attractive than land, after we have stepped into industrial age from agriculture age.

I was born in a small village, when I was very little, our parents admired those person who had hukou of town, and my father also tried to applied for the town hukou but failed, at that time, town Hukou means that you can get subsity on both finance and material, instead of working hard everyday in the field and turned in certain quantity grain to government, mostly for those person who own city or town hukou. There's really big difference even between village and town. As the developent of ecomony and the policy to peasants turned well, the gap between village and town became smaller and smaller.

After graduation and wored for 3 years, when I think about my future settlement in Ningbo city, the Hukou pops into my mind again, it's really a big problem I need to consider! Think about it, when I was sick and took treatment in hospital, I have to pay for three times higher price on the fees than the patient who has kukou of city. When I was old, the city goverment burea would provide you pension monthly, it would be a great help to relax the burden on your children.So many advantage, isn't it?

How can I get the Hukou of this city? the only way would be buy a house or sign labor contract with a good company, so difficult!

Guanxi

Along with the chinese Reform and Open-up, more and more foreigners come to China personally to do business, they begin to know more about china with their eyes. The most frequent words I heard from foreigner businessers are Political system in macroscopic aspect and Guanxi in microscopic aspect.

Guanxi is relationship among people in china, it's a network in the society and daily life, everybody has his own guanxi, he would be abandoned without guanxi in China. Guanxi exists everywhere from kindergarten to business in adult world, guanxi is referring to social interaction in other words, this skill is emphisized all the time, if somebody is not good at guanxi, he's difficult to do everything in this society.

It can be understood that this phenomenon exists in political world, but the degree and prevalence is startling, the daily route of chinese officers is improve the guanxi between him and colleague, his superiors and him, he did all these things just to join into the others' guanxi. So it's very common that most of chinese officers don't do anything for our tax payers, it's not that he doesn't own the ability but doesn't have the time to do things for us. They are always busy developing the guanxi in their community. The guanxi also results in corruption in political system, there're many ways to develop and improve guanxi in politics, the most direct and efficient method is to bribe the person you meant to come closely with. Communication and interact skill are just basic thing you need to do, you have to do some substantial thing to epedite you step, like bribery.

It's ridiculous that guanxi exists in academic circles, somedays ago a chinese won Chemistry Nobel prize, but his nationality is not China, he grew up and studied overseas, he is not a chinese actually. Look back on the past, there're many chinese citizens won Nobel prize, but never a real chinese, it's not a atmosphere to breed Nobel prizer. Think about it, more and more outstanding talent emigrating to owerseas, i heard before that one scientist in Chinese research institution can't endure the guanxi among perple in his institution, he don't like to spend time improving the guanxi in his circles, so he happened many hesitage handicaps in his daily working, he has to leave this country for future development. There's no national boundries in science, talented people is welcome to every country, including China, but the best people don't like this country.

Guanxi is improtant, but not the most improtant, there're many other things deserve our effort.

To be undependent parents

What i'm thinking and doing all the time are how to be a qualified saleman, how to find a decent job with higher salary, when and where to buy my house? These questions always puzzles and urges me to study more and more. Everybody would say, see! what a aspirant he is! Sometimes I'm proud of myself for my future blueprint. But actually the blueprint is not my dream, my original dream. I'm now fighting and struggling for a material aim, this goal is based on my now situation, I don't have time and energy to pursue my dream, no mention to make it true, it's a sad, isn't it? I'm so young, but I have to give up. Why? I analyzed and found it's not all my duty, e.g. I should enter a prestigious university, I should insist on my dream in my university, because i have plenty of time to develop my interest. There's an important factor that affect my choich and my career, it's family burden.

I'm always hard working because I don't have security sense in my life, I can't do my favorite with regardness of my family, my parents expended all their energy to afford my education, when I'm graduated from university, they are all old, more older than the same age people live in city. It always hurt my heart when I see them, they are so old now, they have nothing except me and my sister. They have to depend on us in the future, it's my duty. Every choice has risk, before I have to make a desicion, I must think carefully, because I have no retreat. If i failed, I would lose all, both my future and my parent's future. I'm their hope, they lived for this hope, I must compromise when coming to a crossroad.

I must word hard not just for my parent's hope, my happiness, what's more, I would unload the burden on my children, and provide him a relaxed environment to grow up and develop himself. I'll be a undependent father.

Buying a house in a county VS ningbo city

It's time to thinking about buying a house for my future mariage, but I don't think I have the qualification to be a house slave, I can't pay for the down payment and followed by monthly installment. I've worked for 3 years, but no cent in my account, i'm a graduate and my job is not so bad, but my situation is such a mess, no mention to other people who can just get lower salary.

These days i can't help viewing the real estate market in Ningbo, it's my destination, but this market is still so crazy! As if there's no any impact from crisis to this city,even at the suburban district, the house prices are over 6000RMB per square meters,the average price in New 3 districts is RMB8000!If I would buy a 90m3 house, the down payment is 220,000.00, and the installment is RMB 3100! According to the expert's suggestion, the installment should not exceed 30% of total income, that means we need to get 9000.00 per month, it's really impossible to achieve within 5 years. I can just expect the total income at around RMB5000 in the future 3 years, what I can pay for the down payment is just 130,000.00, within such low downpayment and small installment, what house I can buy in Ningbo? It's absolutely a very remote place, with not good facility and enviroument.

I'm now thinking about buying a house in a county, maybe Ninghai is a good choice, I need to think more about this, it's really not a good idea to squeeze in the terrible city. There're too much foam in this market, I'll wait until the normal days coming, then I'll go back to this city again.

My sister's engagement

Yesterday my sister's wedding is engaged but the exacted date has not been confirmed yet, anyway it would be very soon, my mother told me the big day would be at the end of this year the latest.

It's not a long journey for my sister's engagement, they started dating 2 months ago and engaged the marriage yesterday, it's marriage, isn't it? Take my sister's experance as example, the follow processes are what the couples need to go through before marriage:

After they knew each other well and accepted each other, my sister would negotiate some terms with her BF, including asking for house, car, house facility, and deposit etc., if her BF's family is rich, my sister can ask for more from his BF, but if her BF's family is not rich, they need to negotiate and compromise with each other. It's Chinese tradition, the facility is for bride herself, but the deposit is for the bride's family, to return what her parents given to her during her grown up.

After they negotiating certain terms successfully, they proceeded to next step, two families would meet and have a lunch to confirm the engagement. After engagement, the groom's family requested for the bride's "eight letters", the groom's family would ask a fortune teller to choose a good date as marriage date. (p.s. In chinese calendar, there're 22 letters we use to represent date,ten are known as"tian gan" and twelve are "di zhi",two letters are used to represent each of the follow: year, month, day and time. All together, eight letters would represent one's birthday)

I expect my sister's marriage.

Another difference between rich and poor

I just read Wang jianshuo's article" Go to top of SWFC within 100 RMB", he shared a secret with our budget visitors about how to visit the highest building Shanghai World Financial Center" with low price as the locals do.

You just need to go to a restaurant on 91st floor, instead of go to the observation deck directly on 101st floor. The lowest fee for normal table is RMB400, but you can choose the cheapest tea at the price of around 45-50RMB(all the fees are subject to 15% sevice fee), you can expect to have a nice drink and a good look at Shanghai within 60RMB, it's much lower compared with 150 ticket on 101st floor. The point is you need to check the end of the menu and find the cheapest drink, what's the feeling for our first time visitors? Maybe it's not a big deal for those person who always go there and cusume sometimes, having a cup of tea is just like their normal meal, the servent would would take it as normal, but regarding a new comer, or a traveller, the servent would not think so, he may look down upon you and express some dis-respect to you, i don't think you can enjoy the view at the place, i would prefer to pay higher price to visit at the observation deck, maybe it's Face.

Everybody has face, espically for these guys who has restively low salary, they need more respect from others, they are more sensitive to others' thinking of them. It's a interesting phenomena: when you're successful and earned respect, you don't care about other person's thinking; when you are at a low position, you care much about the thinking and respect of other people.I think it's a psychology subject.

Tina's young brother Zhangyang

The biggest achievement i got from national holiday is not travelling in Hangzhou but accompying Tina's young brother successfully.

I've heard much of Tina's brother Zhangyang, who dropped out of school before this year's College entrance exam, and went to Suzhou to do milling apprentice, he tolerated very hard work and very low salary and very poor accommodation. Maybe it's not a big deal for most of young boys who worked as operator in many factory in many cities, but Zhangyang is very different, he is a very smart and handsome boy, he entered high school with very high score, but can't endure/bear the studying atmosphere in the best local high school. He was such a active and sunshine boy in junior school, he didn't study hard but always achieved good score in exam, he owned the ability. After entering the so called senior high school, his nature was controlled and limitted, there're always some birds can't be closed in cage, Zhangyang is one of these birds.

After quitting school, he was seen as a rebellious young man, a bad boy instead of a talent. He became silent and didn't communicate with relatives. He is a premature boy, with his own thinking and idea in his mind, he is critized as not good boy because of his difference with others. But i believe there's much potential in his body, it need time and experance to be developed.

At the first sight of him, i found he is really a handsome boy with clean shirt and jeans, he's a silent boy, didn't speak a word with me and Qianjie, he just speaked with Tina, and there's a little smile on his face when they talked some interesting things. He talked with me the second day when we were in Hangzhou, we lived in one room and watched Army show in the evening, he knew well about the military, and told me something about the army things in China. Later, Tina told me Zhangyang knows many things, and he likes to study many things and learns very fastly.

I like him, although he is a silent boy, I believe he would be a golden boy in the future.