No electricity today…but they’re prepared for that. Unlike the UK, where if the power goes out, nothing gets done and everything grinds to a halt.
More public park apparatuses or devices. I’ve worked out what you’re supposed to do with some of them, the rest are still a mystery.
Fake Apple Stores in Xilinhot. There’s four of them in my neighbourhood. One is quite convincing, the rest are not so convincing.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/07/21/the-ultimate-knock-off-a-fake-apple-store/
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Exercise machines or kinky devices?
You see them in many public parks and apartment complex courtyards. Vivid, garish, blinding apparatuses made of cheap aluminum, polystyrene and whatever plastic was available at the time of construction.
Rusty and rickety….Xilinhot’s very own theme park.
I’ve never actually been on a ride at a theme park or fairground in China, except for Hong Kong Disneyland…I certainly wasn’t about to start here, that’s for sure. I know what they can be like for NOT maintaining and servicing machinery in mainland China. The pirate ship ride (top left picture) was certainly making some really horrible and worrying noises.
I’ve started but I will not finish..II. That rusting crane hasn’t moved an inch in over two years.
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The red carpet treatment at a Hong Kong shopping mall… no stealing, no smoking, no eating, no drinking, no spitting, no littering, no sitting, no tripping, no stumbling, no breathing…. but your credit cards are always welcome….and remember to smile at the cameras.
Ten green bottles sitting on the wall,
Ten green bottles sitting on the wall,
And if one green bottle should accidentally fall.
There’ll be nine green bottles sitting on the wall.
More electrics..400 VOLTS!! Armoured 3-phase 400V supply cable coming straight from the substation, connected to a rather thin domestic mains cable with sticky tape, which was feeding a 300 AMP welder. No fuses, no breakers, no RCDs and of course no electric meter.
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