Today, IT technology has let me down! Unfortunately, I cannot upload any photos for you because of a technical hitch with this Blogs website. I know this is traumatic moment for all my readers but alas this is the IT days and times we live in. Could you imagine Youtube without videos, Facebook without embarrassing photos, okay you get my point. Don't shoot the blogger!
However, the show must go on so perhaps this is an opportunity to inform you of my challenging visit to the Bank of China yesterday just a few hundred yards off Tiananmen square. I was aiming to exchange some Swiss francs in to Yuan (RMB) and naturally approached the window that read 'Olympic rapid express foreign exchange service' Impressive I thought. Almost 2 hrs later I left with cash in hand! What took so long, well the process was actually very efficient but after a very comprehensive check on my passport (and I mean comprehensive!), three cashiers having to be involved and paperwork which amounted to a finished dissertation I finally left knowing that I could afford my next soup noodle! The moral of this story; China is a big country and the cogs of industry turn but sometimes a little slowly than one would wish! Thankfully I was the first in the queue but by the time I left I think most of the Olympic teams and their entourage were behind me! So much for their VIP passes!
Anyway, enough for now, I need to write to Blogger.com to let them know that my blog depends on photographs and their ability to transfer all their resources to rectify their technical glitch by tomorrow.
The usual features are still present however....
Fascinating fact for today: No other country in Olympic history has spent so much, built so much and done so much to host the Olympic games than China. So far the UK committee for the next Olympic games to be held in London 2012 have promised one thing; they will raise taxes to pay for it!
2 comments:
Hi Gavin, have been reading your fascinating blog and was going to offer you a job as CEO of Blog Development at Microsoft on a salary of US$5m a year, but after todays lack of pics have changed my mind. Oh well! Anyway, glad to see you work hard for a change, but has all that work or is it the smog that has turned your hair even greyer?
Dear Bill; no problems, I have yahoo and google who now want me on their payroll! They don't discriminate for those with grey hair! Keep logging on, thanks.
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