Rugao, Jiangsu, China
This is my third day in Rugao. Weather a bit cool, about 25C and clear sky, no haze.
Yesterday spent whole day on tour of city area and the main place of interest was a huge mansion of a Ming Dynasty gentry, Mo Pi Jiang and his consort Dong Xiaowan. It was as big as Chinese Garden and with the houses and ponds still intact. would post some of the pics to show the architecture on my return.
Friday was a big rush, leaving office at 10.10am for Changi, depart at about 1pm, arrived about 5.30pm. Then waited at Pudong Airport in Shanghai for 1 and a half hour for our coach to Rugao. It took another 3 and half hour travelling in the day. The highway was new and smooth flowing and did not travel at high speed. Had a couple of stops along the way. Coach was new and comfortable.
Reach Rugao almost midnight. First big problem was struggling with the local Sim card. It did not work. The phone did not support the card and affected several of us. Finally confirmed the problem and had to rent a temp hp costing 10rmb per day this morning.
Rugao is a small city, probably 4th or 5th tier, about 1440 sq km, twice Reddot but only 1.4m people. It is a booming little city and the high rise is taking over the city scape. The residential homes were low rise semi Ds or detached and low rise condos. My, anytime better than ours and the roads were clean and nicely landscaped, quite like Reddot but cleaner in many places.
The people are well dressed, looking very well off and modern. But they are locals and were quite surprised that we could converse in Mandarin. Our Indian colleagues were celebrities and sought after for photo taking as novelties.
Oh, the lunch for the tour was unbelievable. About 14 courses in a restaurant private room. Cost, 38 rmb or about $8 per head. We were speechless as they kept pushing out the dishes non stop. And the dishes were good, very good, with green tea.
We had another great feast for dinner. When they served the cold dish, 8 plates, including cold steam prawns, cold beef, cold pork jelly etc etc, we were stoned. Definitely could not finish, the cold dish alone. And they served another 15 or so dishes, more prawns, crabs, big fish, pork leg, chicken etc etc, we gave up by the 4/5 dish. There were 6/7 of us per table.
Help came when another 6 late arrivals came to join us. Even then so much food were left unfinished.
Cost 600rmb per table. That is the cost of living here. Unspoilt by commercialism in a small ancient city with all the modern facilities. The shopping malls were no different from ours. I did not bring my shaver, thought it would be provided by the hotel and had to get a new Philips shaver, the cheapest at 119rmb.
In the evening there was a stage performance out our hotel next to a shopping mall to promote the opening of a gym. The stationary bikes for for the gym were the latest models, nver seen before. And the performers, all young people not different from our Orchard Rd kids. The drummer of the life band was a 12 year old boy and whacking the drums like a pop artiste.
Posted by Chua Chin Leng
Sunday, 24th September, 2017
36 comments:
Now that China accepts overseas Chinese as citizens, may consider moving there for retirement. If sell everything here can have a very very comfortable retirement there
Rb //Oh, the lunch for the tour was unbelievable. About 14 courses in a restaurant private room. Cost, 38 rmb or about $8 per head. We were speechless as they kept pushing out the dishes non stop. And the dishes were good, very good, with green tea.//
Ahgualand management is not really anything of a patent or rocket science or high barrier stuff that cannot be copied and replicated and multiplied by the thousands.
Many cities (the 1st and 2nd tiers) in China were already way ahead ahgualand 15 years ago in the early 2,000s.
At that time (2002), wooden block and his 2nd Gen merry men of mabok tan, yoyo jiak hong etc, were still in charge but had long lost the plot and game ...? The massive gap and fall behind caused by wooden block and his 2g merry men in the 14 years (1990 - 2004) were far too big for any future generation to ever be able to catch up ...? Wooden block and his 2g merry men are happily semi-retired or retired with millions and millions monetised and harvested on the back of the hardwork of the old guards and shoulders of future generations? The unsustainable mess, carnage and ruins left (behind by wooden block and his 2g merry men) in the economic, social scenes are likely irrepairable and "unsalvageable" to sustain future growth/ prosperity ...? Time will tell ...?
Yes! China is very very different today.
There are many many many super/mega rich people in China!
China is where actions are!
Yes! China is the world!
Rb //The drummer of the life band was a 12 year old boy and whacking the drums like a pop artiste. //
But, but ..... in ahgualand .....
They decreed 18 to 40 yo ahguamen soldiers no need do pull up cos "TOO TOUGH" leh?
Like that, how to be hopeful of the future generations?
Sinkaput is kaput already when the greedy minotars started to sin when their eyes turned green and red when they saw the Natiinal Reserve soaring, and GIC and Temasick were paying their CEOs and Directors more than the Pee-Aim.
The moment the greedy minotars dipped their sticky hands into the tax coffers to pay themselves out of this world's salaries and bonuses, I knew it is going to be a downhill ride for the majority (taxpayers) of Sinkaputians.
This kind of legalised corruption is worse than the common corruption, which is subject to the laws and order. One can seek redress in court. But cunning legalised corruption is an incurable disease like cancer, which must be surgically removed or radically treated with chemotherapy, in early stage.
So, Sinkaputians will never catch up with China. That's why I sent all my for children to study at Beijing and Shanghai and work their. Now, each of them has got their ownn house, fully paid, in different parts of China. My wife and I go amd visit them every month. My eldest son bought an appartment, equivalent to a 5-room hdb flat, for me and my wife to stay. He wanted us to migrate there. But my wife doesn't want to go. She told me to wait until her mother goes to heaven to join her father. Her mother is already 98 years old. So I have no choice but to stay back to accompany her.
This is the price to pay being the playground for the rich in Singapore. While prices are going up by the day, real wages continue to slide or at best remain constant. How to live here without tons of money?
When you have 'honest' monisters who pay themselves by the millions and become instant multi-millionaires in one year, you should already know that you are going to be fucked good and properly down the road of no return.
Enjoy your life Sinkies! May God have mercy upon you!
Hi, Quitter,
God have mercy no use lah.
God must strike the Sinkies head with lightning
and wake them up.
in singapore if you are financially ok you are ok
safe and sound
if you are not financially ok, then it will be siong
will be more and more siong as days go by
here up there up here tax there tax, how to tahan
singapore is a high cost society, he most expensive city
no money no talk
you die your business
so must 3Ms to survive here
yes! can kpkb and kbkp,,,,,,,but cannot dont 3Ms
what to do, this is singapore,,,,,,,,HOME!
***小人物的心声***
Wake up also too late already liow See what happened to House Speaker transformed into President within less than one month at will. Resigned on 18 Aug and declared President on 13 Sep and sworn in the next day.
This is called Speedy Gonzales Operandi The Powerful Hand that moves Heaven and Earth. What can the pathetic Sinkies do, even if they wake up? God only help those who help themselves! Don't forget ah.......
.
Tiok.
Must kpkb and also MMM, and also don't forget to vote Opposition, even if Oppo still not ready to be government.
Make the Oppo kpkb for you. The Oppo that dare not kpkb must kick them out next GE. Vote in the Oppo that is willing to kpkb. Vote in as many as possible - each party at least one.
These from yesterday's post on subject matter should be here today:-
Anonymous said...
The residential homes were low rise semi Ds or detached and low rise condos. My, anytime better than ours and the roads were clean and nicely landscaped, quite like Reddot but cleaner in many places.
Virgo49 3:52 pm
So is it good for Chinese Sinkies to emigrate to Rugao? Any problem with that?
September 24, 2017 6:00 pm
Anonymous Anonymous said...
If Chinese Sinkies emigrate to Rugao, India nationals will swamp over Singapore. They are waiting . . .
September 24, 2017 6:03 pm
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Under the India-Singapore CECA, 1.1 billion Indians can come to tiny Singapore.
September 24, 2017 6:13 pm
Amos Yee should have gone to China instead of US.
But he speaks like potatoes.
So may be he likes ang moh more than his own roots.
Go US kena tekan from back-door - now kena jail for 11 months already.
May be his asylum could be revoked through back-door also.
Go China, back-door may not work because of South-China Sea fiasco.
Silly Amos Yee never think properly.......Too late. What to do?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
If Chinese Sinkies emigrate to Rugao, India nationals will swamp over Singapore.
6:03 pm
Possible.
Because one way or another, PAP will have to replace the Sinkies who left Sinkieland for good with foreign talents.
But not necessary with India nationals lah, but definitely PAP will have to replace the lost Sinkies. If not, how to get the target 6.9M population, u tell me lah?
September 24, 2017 6:15 pm
Anonymous Anonymous said...
So is it good for Chinese Sinkies to emigrate to Rugao?
6:00 pm
Hahahaha.
My PRC boss, having made lots of money after more than 10 years working in Sinkieland, just recently upgraded his Sinkie home from condo to semi detached. He said he intended to settle in Sinkieland for good.
That says a lot about emigrating to Rugao, or for that matter, any part of China, tio bo?
September 24, 2017 6:23 pm
Anonymous Anonymous said...
@anon 6.23pm
Who knows ur boss got another house in China? Probably as standby in case Sinkieland economic fail or any crises ur boss can 'run road' faster. Sama sama to the Sinkies who r rich ..
September 24, 2017 6:46 pm
Hi Anon 6.46
All, if not most of these Immigrants who are here just for the dough had not cut of from their homelands.
Only daft sinkies believed in them.
And one of my daftest old sinkie bachelor friend who does not own any flat here recently applied for one a two room flexi.
He had a condo and a shared apartment with us in Melaka.
New HDB rules stated no private properties must be owned by him in sinkieland and overseas.
Told him not to declare his interests as this is just a general question and the Board do not have the means to check.Matland authorities will also not disclosed to them.
Stupidly, he ignored our advice and just like all daft sinkies who are just too afraid of the Nincoompoos declared his interests.
Now, he has to depose them within six months after obtaining the keys to his pigeon hole.
Instead of a sanctuary there he wanted to live in a pigeon hole.
So, you think the Ah Nehs, China men and Pinoys got no property in their homeland??
September 25, 2017 8:09 am
/// If Chinese Sinkies emigrate to Rugao, India nationals will swamp over Singapore. They are waiting . . ///
Whether Chinese Sinkies emigrate to Rugao or not, It goes without having to even think about it, India nationals are going to pour in like nobody's business. India has plans for taking over Sinkieland. That's why they put LKY statue up in a certain part of India. Modi is a very ambitious and totally ruthless person. Sinkieland is already controlled by Indians:
President - Indian Muslim pretends to be Malay-Muslim
Chief Justice - Indian
Law Society Chief - Indian.
DPM - Indian
Home Affairs - Indian
Foreign Affairs - Indian.
Law Ministry - Indian, same person as Home Affairs.
Finance and Economics - Indian DPM controls.
Both Think-Tanks are controlled by Indians.
Out of all the powerful key ministries, only PM and Defence are in the hands of a Banana Cheena.
/// God must strike the Sinkies head with lightning and wake them up. ///
September 25, 2017 8:48 am
If LHY & family and LWL cannot wake up Singaporeans.
Do you think God and his lightning can wake up Sinkies?
Do you think there is any cure for stupidity?
Dont play play.
Dont bring GOD into the situation in this pee sai.
Unless and only unless if there is an internal split within PAP, otherwise business will be as usual.
Tan ku ku if you hope the oppostion can do something.
Dont waste yur time.
Anyway can still kpkb also not bad already.
But, dont forget to MMM!
Cheers.
When a Pee-M is surrounded by Indian Chiefs, he hears the voices of the Indian Chiefs all the time.
After 13 years as Pee-M, his mind also thinks like an Indian, his tongue also speaks like an Indian and his loyalty goes to India?. His priorities also go to Indians.That's why he continues to honor CECA to screw his own country men and women?
This is called retribution? His father refused to allow his sister to marry Indian. His sister until to is still not married.
Heaven has eyes?
(( If LHY & family and LWL cannot wake up Singaporeans.
Do you think God and his lightning can wake up Sinkies? ))
LHY and LWL are not God mah. They also from the Elitist Gang mah.
Sinkies may be daft but they know how to see which way the wind is blowing mah.
Sinkies are kiasi and kiasu subservient obedient bo-lan-par and por-lan-par - only two main groups.
Hahaha
Anon 1031am called others kiasi, kaisu, bo lan par and por lan par!
You leh?
Don't anyhow say say.
No. They are not. They are indeed very smart sinkies.
Maybe deadly flu or super bugs will return. Its the best solution against foreigners coming here and steal jobs.
To stop sg becoming the first state to be colonised by indians, sg must quickly become a state of usa. Me think better to let whitemen be in charge than indians.
What the f#@k is this asia masters 2017.
Looking at the picture it looks like some kind of sporting event for oldies.
Did you bring along your walking cane?
Haha.
Hi b @3.28
See now, chiak liat liao. Go by cars pass Woodlands And Tuas, all passengers got to come out and thumbs scan.
Wah Piang, jams now gonna be six hours instead of three.
See our Great GateKeeper. How powerful.
So better better under the Whites.
KNN, jammed until so jia lat. Now then cleared custom.
5.43pm, you think your comment very funny is it? You don't have aged parents and you yourself won't grow old? Knn You are one real motherfucker to be laughing at RB. You want people to make bad remarks on you? If You Kena matilar, he will say he will fuck your Mother or Wife or Sister or Daughter and give them natural face masks too. How do You then fill?
6.54pm. What the fuck are you so worked up for.
This here is for everyone to comment and since the Bean is with so many oldies, it isn't far off to assume that some will need their walking cane to go to Lugao.
I think you must be another fucking useless oldie just waiting to die. That's why you're so worked up. Sitting at the void deck smoking your pipe not exciting enough? Just join Beanie man.
As for Matilar, whoever he is, he will fuck anyone, even a donkey.
Wah piano bro Anon 12.30
Only Tuesday week day, already so turuk.
Only cleared Customs so still got immigration
Wah piang another two hours for thumbs scanning.
The PAP still got another three beautiful long years to screw you right and proper.
See how powerflu our Gate keeper.
Scared of even own shadows.
mom.
Even now by air,kena checked twice at Malaysian side and back Singapore another round Security Check.
8.52 am, cool down Lar. the guy just try to be helpful and caution you only. He just stated what you may get from matilar. In fact you really need to be careful in what you are posting especially those anti government type of post. If you are one of them, be warned that you may Kena lim Kopi in aircon room then share room with dangerous criminals who like sodomised you at night. Don't think you are strong it's ok. Go to you tube u see one big dude Kena prison and sodomised by many people cause they have the numbers to pin you down. There was even photo of him in blood from his ass hor. So don't be too cocky. And by the way, covering your mouth with your hands also will not help you when these people get excited and force their rods into your mouth.😰😰😰😰😰
8.52am, don't make fun of old people. You may be young but likely if you open your garage, it could a small Canon resting on two punctured tires?
Many youngsters think they are Invincible and that oldies are weak and fragile.
Little does they know that they could also meet their Makers before they even complete a third of their life journeys.
Oldies are grateful that they able to live to their PRRSENT age.
So Anon 8.52. DONT be cock sure that you be able to live to a ripe old age.
Human proposes and Heaven opposes.
See how many young due prematurely.
Here today and gone tomorrow.
If you are lucky to live to our age, maybe you need more elderly aids than most of us.
And the next young generation young like you now will also laugh and made fun of you.
Everybody goes the same path of life.
Some fortunate some unfortunate.
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