Travel Log
You see, I just happen to run to this place. I asked the
taxi driver to send me to some hotel or motel which
costs like 40k and indeed he did what I required. How do
I get the price? I remember that in movie My Sassy Girl
Friend. Funny?
I begin to wonder why such a small place is concentrated
with so many motels? Maybe it is a kind of place where
Korean men bring their mistresses for pinky-panky.
Then I try to explore the shopping center after I
settled down. Quite suddenly I headed to a special place
where many iron-roof flats are covered with thick red
flannels in their french-window. And one of these flats
is open and a woman is changing. Of course you know what
is this place. It is the red-light-zone of Seoul. And
can you imagine that is right behind the famouse
shopping mall--Shinsegae or New World and Times Square.
The Times Square is a marvelous shopping mall where
luxury commodities are presented. In New World, You can
even hear the greetings in Chinese through PA.
The motel is a kind of OK. YOu have what you need:
bathroom, TV, computer, internet, telephone, minibar,
water cooler, video recorder, hair dryer, towls,
slippers, air condition, automatic vender machine(for
condoms?). The room is quite small, but it is a kind of
clean, no bad smell. The bed spread is quite white. Even
though there is no light in bathroom. The light on
corridor is sound-controlled and you can have light in
bathroom. I cannot find switch in bathroom. Anyway, the
highspeed internet with computer is the best thing about
this. Apart from this, the TV has one channel playing
"star craft" game playing. Now it is a special game
which tests the fighting capabilty of zealots against
various enemies, like marines, fire spitter, etc. It is
a kind of fun.
Korea is a concentration camp for beauties. I mean women
here really understand their position in this male
dominated society. They have to use their beauty to
exchange to fulfill their life value. Is it hard to
believe_ Me are using mustle or brain to obtain some
social resource to survive. How about women. Apart from
reproduction ability, they have to contribute something
when population is already a social disease to control.
Then it comes the price of beauty. You have to
understand that in this world, everything comes with
price and if you want to get something, you have to
exchange with something you have. And in order to get
something more, you have to invest more. As for women in
Seoul, they understand that value by purchasing cosmetic
operations which proves to be true value+increasing. You
see, you cannot just buy some cheap creams, or fibrics
to put on to increase your charming. The world already
advances to the age that you cannot cheat eyes of men by
using these cheap tricks. You have to rebuild your body
either physically or chemically. That is true economics
of society and korean women demonstrate this very well
to world around. The bodies of labourers are part of
production power, disregarding their genders. When we
talk about bodies of laborer, we really mean the
physical body or brain. Is there any difference to rent
your body to a capitalist staying in skyscraper or in
coal mines.
Actually I am now in Incheon Airport, sitting in a free
internet lounge. I should say, Korean is a much good
place to visit as the facility is very good and
considerate. For example, you may not be able to find
such free internet lounge around world. Free WIFI?
Maybe. But here you are experiencing some newest models
of notebook. Like the one I am using, is probably one of
the hottest models girls might be seeking. It is the
thinnest model from MSI, if my memory is correct, of
which the thinnest part is just 0.5mm, like razer? I am
kidding. However, like the computer I am using in my
motel, the keyboard is Koreanized and characters are
also in Korean. I cannot even type in Any English
characters in the address bar of IE. The only way for me
to surf internet is by typing everying in "notebook"
from accessory program and then copy&paste. Anyway
consideering it is free of charge, what else can you
explain?
The Inchion International Airport is really a wonderful
airport. Not only all the equipments are new and
advanced, the designer also injected many elements of
green environment. for example, there is a "star-gardern"
which is build in the "air". What I mean it is a gardern
hanging in the air of waiting lounge. Does this remind
you the ancent Babylon's Hanging Gardern? And almost
everywhere in the airport you can see some plants here
and there. This really add some life among the concrete
and steel.
The subway system in Seoul is so much complete that it
even becomes too complicated for me to figure out. Sorry
for being an idiot in this path-finding. I mean the
subway system must be four or five times larger than the
one in Montreal. And can you imagine that the municiple
government have spent more than thirty years to pay back
the debt for constructing the subway system. Therefore
you can imagine how big the whole system might cost in
Seoul. And I haven't mentioned the auxiliary system
which connects Seoul to Inchion which are exactly two
seperate city. The reason I am mentioning about this is
the fact that Xiamen municiple government cannot even
support a simple light-track system. The BRT is costing
like seven billion chinese dollar. And it is very clear
that subway is much more expensive than light-track
which is also much expensive than BRT system.
Before I started my trip to Seoul, I googled some
comments in internet. And many guys from China comment
Seoul like this: The city is shabby and has fewer
skyscrapers than Shanghai and so on. At the end of my
trip, my conclusion is that those comments are quite
inaccurate. First of all, I don't really like
skyscrapers as it has nothing to do with common people.
What can you gain from those magnificant buildings? Are
they the symbols of city or success of business or just
signature of wealth of local capitalists? On the other
hand, the public transport system is more closely
connected with everyday's life of common citizens. And
indeed it costs much more to build subway than a bunch
of skyscrapers which brings more benefits to local
economy. For example, the public transport system not
only ease the traffic jam, but also provides underground
shopping centers, small shop which is way of many small
business rely on. People from China are more or less
blind in seeing these facts when they are misguided by
Evil Chinese government's propoganda.
Let me just give you one more example to illustrate my
point of view. In Seoul, you can always find something
you cannot imagine in china. It is the scene of poor
people's tin-roof cottages all around Seoul. In china,
you know, the Beijing or any other municiple government
would definely banish these poor people from living in
city. Why? It destroys the view of prosperous economy.
But do these poor people have rights to live a life they
are pursueing? In the constitution of USA, or the
Declaration of Independence, it says something like
this. We believe everyone is born to be equal and
entitled with the rights to pursueing happiness of life.
And doesn't those people have the rights to live where
they are? This downtown gutter area have long been proof
of examples of efficiency between Chinese dictatorship
over Indian democracy because Indian politicians have no
way to force those homeless people to leave their
tin-roof cottage in Bombay. What happens if Seoul
municiple government tears down those cottages, roadside
small factories and move them to somewhere else, like
suburban? It may make Seoul look much better. However,
those poor people probably cannot survive any more. That
is the factor of life. And the so-called harmony of
society can never be reached.
I keep asking myself what I gain from my travelling.
Obviously I am forced to go this trip to obtain my
Chinese visa. (God damn evil Chinese communist
dictatorship! You see, the whole world is open and
welcome Canadian passport holder except China. Many
country don't like USA, like Korea, but they do welcome
Canada who is benign and harmless to any country on this
planet. Why is China government doing this? Because
they are only serving their own group interests.)
However, the travel makes me thinking and exploring. You
see, life is already a misarable tragidy for almost
everyone because everyone has his/her problem. If you
keep thinking about your pains in heart, it only drives
crazy. One good way is to think about other people's
pains which more or less relieves your bad feeling. It
can be called the phylosophy of human life. People are
buying some cheap sympathy by giving some of their
social resources to exchange for some psychological
balance. This can be called way of life. I feel much
better when the trip ends here because I see the good
and bad side of other people's life.
OK, let's stop here as the flight might be scheduled for
boarding soon. And if you reach here, I would be much
surprised because I don't believe anybody would spend
time to read these garbages, especially they are written
in poor pigeon Chinglish which is sometimes more like
gibbish.