Gnawa
I sometimes go through long periods where I don't listen to any music at all. That's why I haven't made any videos.
Anyway, suffice it to say that I've snapped out of it. This is my latest original!
Beer Here
Seeing this in a local bottle shop really made me miss Shanghai.
When we were living in Shanghai, a carton of Tsingdao would cost about 36RMB, about six dollars. A carton would be six of these bottles, and they would be delivered.
A sweaty old man, would bring them up the escalator, lift, and two flights of stairs, through the patio and to the door of our apartment. I'd pay him in cash for his troubles, minus a deposit for the empty bottles, which he'd take from me.
But here in Sydney, the same product costs $50, about eight times the price. And you have to drive yourself to the bottle shop, carry it to the checkout, to your car, load it in, drive home and lug it up the stairs to your kitchen get the same result. Eight times the price, and you have to do everything yourself, including throwing away the empties after.
A free and open press, separation of legislature and judiciary, and political transparancy is all fine and good, but we still have a lot of things to learn from the Chinese.