Archive for the 'Transport' Category

BEIJING TRAFFIC: as American Football

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Taken shamelessly from Good Morning China!
BEIJING TRAFFIC: as American Football
To help you understand Beijing traffic, and perhaps to one day navigate its hazards, I’ve come up with the following analogy. I hope you find it helpful.
BEIJING TRAFFIC: as American Football
Traffic lights: BAD QUARTERBACK
In Beijing, a traffic light is like a quarterback- an extremely bad one. [...]

Beijing Traffic Lesson: Left Turn

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

This is not from me, but it’s too damn funny not to post it. It’s definitely something that you might see in Beijing.
As I may have mentioned before, traffic in Beijing is its own art form. The city is adding thousands of cars per - I don’t even know, week? Which means you have a [...]

Hit and run against my car

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

This evening some stupid son of a b…h bumped his car onto mine and drove on without any regards to the damages inflicted to my car. I am so F..KING pissed right now.
I went to Flic en Flac to have dinner with a good friend of mine. He wanted to [...]

Hogging the fast lane

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I have recently acquired a new pet peeve. I take the motorway to go to work and get back home everyday. Here, in our small island, the speed limit is a mere 90km/hr. Which is easily exceeded by most cars and lorries on the road.
Many drivers consider themselves to be an ace behind the wheel [...]

Home - impressions

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I have been back home for almost two weeks, but been very lazy to write. As usual. Getting more and more lazy.
So what are the news? My mother’s trying to feed me like one tries to feed a turkey before Thanksgiving. :D (Moi ki ti croire mo pou kapav plati ventre ene ti p :P)
Forgot [...]