When Oz pig meets Bj fish

22/5/2007 - Renewal of my blog

Posted in Beijing 2008

The other day I received an email from one of my best friends. She had a scornful but caring tone, asking me why I hadn't put up any new post yet.

I was so happy to learn that I have her as my permanent reader. I was perparing to write some posts with good topics; however, I have been really busy with work and I just want to have a rest and refuse to use my brain on the weekend.

Actually, there is another quite important reason which prevents me from writing any new post - I have found myself an extremist or a Nazi in my personal campaign against WAIDI Ren and I am afraid that any further writing may turn out to be fascist propaganda.

I am trying not to feel disgusted at WAIDI Ren and try to appreciate their contributions to Beijing, which used to be MY city. Nevertheless, I always feel it so difficult for me to think in a positive way. Yesterday, standing in a packed bus heading home, I overheard the conversation between two WAIDI people:

- 'The traffic is so bad in Beijing. And there are so many people.'

- 'It won't be livable in three years!'

Sure, we have too many WAIDI ren here in Beijing who buy cars, apartments, use water and take our job opportunities. I had a look at their working cards hanging around from their necks - insurance salespeople, which is the easiest job WAIDI ren can find here to stay in Beijing. IRONIC! They didn't realize that they are the very criminals who are making Beijing unlivable. SAD!

So now you see why I stopped writing.

I will try to move my attention to less racist or fascist topics and I am trying...

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22/5/2007 - You're back

Posted by zhangbohan

Finally I get to see my baobei in print. Who are those WAIDI ren trying to kid? Beijing IS ALREADY unliveable. It is really a shame that all of Beijing's culture is being destroyed so quickly. And now they want to continue runnning a wrecking ball through our beloved Dongsi. 2009 is the deadline baby.

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1/6/2007 - Congratulations !

Posted by Jamieson

I read your blog and it seems you are a very cool Chinese lady. Congratulations on your successes ! It seems that more and more Australian guys are getting Chinese wives. Me ? My de-facto lovely Chinese wife (Anhui) and I have been living together for more than 3 years in Suzhou, maybe 4 arguments in that time. It is not because she is passive - far from it !

Anhui women are a bit like Anhui men. Punch first and ask questions later. I figured out the situation pretty quickly, the secret to any successful inter-cultural relationship is RESPECT.

Whilst we don't totally understand each others' culture, if there is respect for each other, kindness, gentleness and understanding, help and of course, caring and love then a relationship can flourish.

I have to get her up to speed on Australian customs, habits, and the whole thing. If she's going to face an interview at the Consulate in Shanghai then I'd better work fast. We hope to get officially married in Nanjing this month (June).

No problem, she is a TEM8, English Major and her English is fantastic.

Tell your hubby that we should have a tinnie and a barbie (not doll) sometime.

www.20six.co.uk.uk/jamiesons-luck-new

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8/6/2007 - Hey, nice to meet you!

Posted by Beijingfish

Thank you for your lovely comment or description about yourself.

Obviously, you sound much less abnormal than your posts suggest..

It'll be good to see you and your future wife sometime.

P.S.: I hope you and your wife won't come to Beijing and settle down here... :p

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8/6/2007 - @last comment

Posted by zhangbohan

LOL!

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7/7/2007 - WAIDI ren

Posted by Anonymous

I read the entire first page of your blog. I am surprised at the ungraceful way you speak about others, waidi ren, classmates and even people you speak of as friends. Your speech is hateful and do shame to Beijingers with your petty insults. Can you preserve Beijing by representing the local population as bigoted and close-minded. You do the same thing you accuse the government of doing...and what you think the waidi ren do.

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

I will not return here again.

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9/7/2007 - Re: Waidi Ren

Posted by Beijingfish

I have to tell you one thing: you will never see it my way 'coz you are not me. You don't understand the current situation in Beijing and the living conditions of the real Beijingers.

On the other hand, I have made it very clear in this post that I will stop writing in this 'hateful' way. That's part of the reason why I haven't contributed to my own blog for such a long time.

Furthermore, if you had read my very first page of the blog, I think you wouldn't have written such a piece of 'hateful' comment.

Anyway, thank you for dropping a comment on my blog.

Cheers!

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9/7/2007 - My wife

Posted by zhangbohan

I know my wife very well and she is a nice person. She is not a bigot as suggested by the comment above. I think her writing is refreshingly honest and is a reflection of what most Beijingers feel. It is actually a reflection of what most people feel when their hometown is swamped by outsiders. Despite her language not being politically correct, please enjoy the rarity of someone offering an honest opinion.

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23/7/2007 - Friends and foreigners

Posted by AngelaJames

I hear you on the having friends waiting to see what you'll say. I always anticipate what my friends will say when they read what I write.

I know it can be frustrating when you have a lot of new people come into your area. I've lived in the same part of Brisbane all my life and my grandparents live there too. Because so many new people have moved to Brisbane, property prices have become very inflated and I can't afford to rent let alone buy into the area I know and love. It's frustrating and it's easy to be resentful. Especially when you feel ownership of the place your in.
It would be different as well in China, here in Australia we can put it down to the free market economy and just take it as one of the prices of market freedom.

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