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The lonely night time in Beijing
2014-08-31 The rooftop bar time is over on friendship hotel in haidian.We three stay sometime and continue our political and social discussion since we started at 6 pm.Its now 11.15 and the bar boys are busy to close their arrangement. Finally they knock on our table.We getup and collect some more Beijing beer bottle.Since evening few hundred student from qinghua,Beida and expert living in the premises came to this open sky bar and stay sometime.Its the summer holiday in 1983.I am still in language institute.The other Ifti is a medical student in bei yi san yuan medical college.Bakr came from Shanghai and he is moving to almost every student dormitory, stay there for one or two night.We know the buses of Beijing stopped at 11 p.m. But it doesn’t make any matter to us.Today evening it is really hot weather. We carried out our bottle and start walking towards Beitai pingzhuang.Gradually one after one open up our sweated T shirt.

So quiet street.No sound at all.We was walking in the mid of the street.No wind at all.No building has been made to this street except many sheded slum for temporary living. We cross the rail bridge on the top of us.Suddenly a bus coming slowly and while passing through us ask us whether we need to ride on. We replied we are comfortable on walking.Only the driver and ticketman is on board.We heard a lot about this night time bus and first time we can see them.The street is almost dark as for saving energy they put a single light in the mid of the street.This is happens everywhere in the city of Beijing.Only few people comes out of their home in the evening if have some urgent things to do.I found after 7 p.m. the suburb of Beijing like our place is dead.Everyone stay at home and go to bed at 9 generally. I was really enjoy this walking with dark and no mans street in the midnight.No police or traffic and thousands of bicyclist are absent.Nobody owned a car and no govt. jeep can be found right now.Now we turn left and enter in a heavily dark street as this place is planted many trees together years ago.This street is known to me as we often go to the city center ride bus no.301.Then we change it here in Beitaipingzhuang with no.22 to Xidan.Again we take no 1 or 4 to friendship store in jianguomenwai.No jam,no harassing bring back us in due time.Few old houses both side of this street.Many people live here.Each family got one room and cook in the corridor.Simple life, simple eating,simple living was a common to a Beijinger. We turn again left and soon turn right inside the Bei yi’s area.A long way to end of the street is the foreign student dormitory.On the right is mass bath house for local staff and it is operated from 6 pm to 11 pm.For outside people many bath house is due for once in two weeks.Left side is a big football field now looks really amazing.We take a shower in hot water and take our meal order earlier by Ifti.He warm it once again , paratha the oily hand made chapatti and beef curry.After taking many bottle of beer,walking uncountable kilometers of street the food seems to be a unique meal for us.

Will you join us??

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aziz 2014-09-07 19:05

Very surprising ! Was my site  hacked?? Because I had little interest on that thread  and long ago I had visit only a day to see the fight between our member n it was a hot discussion.However I am not sure who made it.Thanks.

My nick is "aziz" not Aziz.

vf84tcat 2014-09-06 23:13

Aziz unless there are two different "Aziz" with the same identical image I beg to differ. On my thread supporting equal respect for both genders: "Female Patdowns of Males at Beijing Airport Very Offensive" you made numerous comments attempting to ridicule me. That is not consistent with the actions of a man with literary note. Perhaps you've changed your ways since you wrote thosr ugly, unkind remarks. If that's the case then I will applaud you for rejecting gender discrimination and treating both men and women with equal respect. That is the world of Ladies and Gentlemen  typical of true literary talent.

aziz 2014-09-06 21:41

vf84tcat----- probably you have dialed a wrong number.The content of this topic wont goes with your expression.Please see whether anybodies comments mistakenly placed in my blog.

vf84tcat 2014-09-06 09:00

You want to appear as a man of letters a reasonable, respectful man. But your comments about promoting gender discrimination show you not to be such a man. You believe it's proper in security searches throughout China to treat males with less dignity and respect. A man of intelligence, reason and class would never agree treating one gender with less respect than the other is a policy worthy of ladies and gentlemen.

aziz 2014-09-04 21:44

Ha Ha ,while you busy in drinking bottle milk we were busy in drinking bottle beer !! Amazing ------

财神 2014-09-02 22:14

wow! this story about 1983? i just came to the world. interesting memory, well done! 

teamkrejados 2014-09-02 10:21

Great scene!

aziz 2014-09-01 13:11

Thanks.

aziz 2014-09-01 13:11

Thanks for your kindness.

aziz 2014-09-01 13:10

Hello ,I got one who is about my same age and a witness to post 80's Beijing .Thanks laoren.