Beijing
I don't know if I should say that it suprise me or impresses me... Probably surprise...
Some wierd stuff I heard about Beijing
Before the Olympics:
-The government calculated how the clouds would move. According to how they move, they figured out what clouds would two days later be over any of the main attractions during the olympics. Then they put some kind of "rain powder" on these clouds to make it rain. This way, the cloud was "out of rain" the day that it would be in the sky over the olympic event.
-The government turned off all kinds of industries before the olympics so that there would not be so much smog. You know how Beijing always have this kind of dustcloud above it. All this so it would look pretty and have the blue sky presented to the world during the olympics.
-Restrictions on traffic. Depending on the cars license plate, the car could only be used certain days. So for example if the plate ended with an even number, they could drive on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Odd numbers would be Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Sunday was either everyone or no one. As you can tell I don't know exactly how it worked... But the idea.
And then of course you know about the restriction of number of children.
I don't really have a comment about this. To me it is just really really wierd? But I don't know exactly what to do about it. I guess there isn't really an answer. If it was and if I gave it to you here and now, I would prabably be the new Hu Jintao (or however that is spelled). That is China's president btw.
The reason to why I thought about all this is because I read today in the Swedish magazine aftonbladet (well... online at aftonbladet.se) that the government of China made it snow. The put "Snow powder" on the clouds this time. Because it was too dry or something?! wierd...
Alright... Enough of my "thoughts"...
Have a great night!!!
