RAFFLES CITY SHOPPING CENTER IN OUR BACKYARD!

That´s right! We actually have three shopping centers inour backyard within walking distance from our appartment in Dongzhimen in Beijing! And what isn´t within walking distance from our home in Minan Residential Complex? The subway, the food street, the long distance bus station, the 2nd ring road, the lama temple, the nan guan park, all the restaurants and bars(like more than over 500 ones!), the shops and so much more! It feels like living in paradise in Beijing, just two kilometers from the actual center of this city! In Raffles City I found a silver ring(just to much wonderful), so we went all over Beijing to find one much cheaper. No way! No ring looking like this one, and I mean cheap or expensive. You just can´t find it here in Beijing! We just went to Raffles City to have a look. There is very many shops and stores, bur mostly for the rich chinese people that live in this area! Hello I also live here! Am I rich? No, but in the eyes of the chinese people every westerner is rich! That is not true, but when we are in China we have much more money than the normal chinese people have.

Now we look at trhe stores in Raffles City. Here we find many different kinds of worldwide brands like the swedish "H & M". Really I was not that surprised when my wife Liping showed my a leather jacket(very nice look and feel about it) in another store(I believe it was european). It looked very nice on me(in fact I loved it), but the price was to much! Would you pay five thousand yuan(RMB) for a leather jacket that you can wear in the spring and autumn? I would not! But you have to remember and learn that here in our shopping centers goes almost only the rich chinese people and all of us westerner idiots! They think we can shop here! Of yeah!, we can, but only the food to eat at home or right here in the fast food chains. The toilets are very good as they have guards and you don´t need to flush them afterwards! They flush on their own! Surprise! It´s like on the Beijing international airport. Here I have bought my silver ring, and some food stuff(like fast food, chips, nuts and garlc baguette). But just being there is lifting your own feeling of belonging to the rich and beautiful people! This is all for todays blog.

Love Peter