At the Age of 27
By Jian Shuo Wang on 2004-01-13 21:54 · LifeThere is not much change in my life recently. The weather is still cold and became colder these days. It seems the cold weather has frozen my life too. I no longer think about going out and won’t do crazy things like cycling to Taihu or visiting a degree confluence point. The city life is the same - wake up, rush to crowded metro, step into office and sit down. The world is as small as a computer screen. The connection to the out side world are two lines - one network cable and one telephone line. Friends become smiley faces
in my MSN Messenger. A dinner at a hot pot restaurant is not expensive and can always please two of us. :-) Life at the age of 27 is not as exciting as that in younger ages. – I still remember a dinner at KFC needed two weeks’ planning when I was in university. Now KFC has became the last place I will go for dinner. That is progress. That is also the lose of fun.
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and being 27 is just at the beginning,,,
The other day, an American CEO who has 2 years experience in Shanghai showing up in an Japanese TV interview program, talked about his image of your Chinese, saying, they are so impressive to me, bright, ambisious, energetic, long-sight, and most of youth can speak English very well, even haven't any experience learning oversea. When I heard that, I felt my face flushed because I am far from fit in that image, but at the same time I was proud of something, because you came across my mind, yes, Xiao Wang! you just an best examle to his description, an incredible sample of our young Shanghainese, young Chinese.
I lived in shanghai from 1998 to 2003,for some reasons I have to leave Shanghai to Beijing,but I was attracted by Shanghai.Shanghai is really a wonderful city!
From your essaies,I knew what happened in Shanghai. Thank you!
I hope that can read more about you and Shanghai from your website!
Nice to find your webside. I love it. Thank you for bringing people so much fun and thoughts.
I am also 27 now but running a very different life from you. 27-year-old for a Chinese girl may mean starting her own family or,at lease, living a fixed life, but I am still traveling: one year in Shanghai, one year in Shenzhen together with some short private visit to other mainland cities\Germany\Australia and Hong Kong. Then I will be back to Shanghai again. Even though, Shanghai is still not the last place for me to settle down, I am quite sure. Therefore I dont have some long turn relation with people or companies. I dont have a nice place to stay in or cant raise a cat as I wish since I dont know when I will move again. You, just a few months older than me, have already worked for a company for 5 years, have a wife after dating for several years and have been running this blog for over two years. I cant imagine I would do the same thing as you.
I am not saying what is better or worse, good or wrong. Just mean that life can be so different. What am I looking for? Maybe a sort of intensive experience to life and the world.
Anyway, wish you all the best--too late to say happy birthday. ;-)
Carmen