The mismatch between female/male spouse choice

January 31st, 2011   Filed under English entries, Opinion

There’s one interesting phenomenon in the offices in big cities such as Shanghai and Beijing: There are much more single females than single males. The reason is not because that the office ladies look ugly or make too littler money, rather, many of them are pretty, at around their late 20s or early 30s and have a good career future. They are actually good dating candidates if looks from the angle of a male. But why they are still single? As far as I observed, this is because the mismatch between the choices of dating partner of female and male.

Women tend to find candidates that are better than themselves so that they can rely on them and feel safety. On the contrast, men tend to look for women that are “lower” than them so that they can take care of them and feel the sense of responsibility. If a woman earns more than her husband, for most of the men, they wont feel comfortable. So most man prefer counterparts who are younger than themselves. For women, they don’t have this problem. They’d prefer a counterpart that are better than them in terms of financial, knowledge or experience. So, most women won’t refuse elder counterparts. If we divide both men and women into five groups in terms of their overall competency and then you will see the conflict. The Poor male and Excellent female are left and they can’t be together. This can explains why there are so many single women who are very competent in terms of experience and economic status. And I can deduct that there are many single poor man thought I didn’t meet them in my daily life.
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Twitter Weekly Updates on 2011-01-30

January 30th, 2011   Filed under Opinion

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Delayed at Changchun Airport

January 29th, 2011   Filed under Photography, Work

Fortunetely I don’t have much work to do tonight nor do I have a transfer flight to catch.

I found the probability of delay of China Eastern Airline are quite high. However, it managed to top the punctuality rank of domestic airlines. Do you know why the rank is so different from consumer experience? Because the measurement of whether a flight is punctual is by the time of the cabinet door closure instead of taking off. This clever company achieves high punctuality by close the cabinet door timely but would keep passengers waiting inboard for long time before taking off. When I asked the working stuff of the status of my flight. She told me that the plane closed cabinet door at 15:00 but was still in Shanghai waiting to take off. It’s already 17:30 when I asked the question. You can calculate how long the passengers had been waiting inboard.

Punctuality Rank of China Domestic Airlines 2010
  1. China Eastern Airline        79.0%
  2. Xiamen Airline                     78.6%
  3. Shandong Airline                76.8%
  4. China Southern Airline     76.8%
  5. Shanghai Airline                  75.2%
  6. China Airline                         73.8%
  7. Hainan Airline                      73.1%
  8. Shenzhen Airline                 71.3%
  9. Sichuan Airline                     68.6%
Source: CAAC

Changchun Airport

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Why it’s so hard to get a taxi in Shanghai?

January 27th, 2011   Filed under English entries, Life

Especially during rush hours of going off work. If it happen to be a rainy Friday, the battle for taxi between inpatient people would escalate into a martial art. Any in many cases, you would see two people rushing towards one stopping taxi and then a quarrel begin. Oh man, come on, be a gentleman. Do not compete with girls, let along quarreling on the street.

Shanghai taxi

I’m on business trip in Shanghai this week. The first day I left office at around 7pm and planned to take a taxi to hotel. However, when I came to the door, there already several people queuing for taxi. I waited for about ten minutes but no empty taxi. Realizing that I would probably had to wait an hour to get a taxi I had to go for subway. Today, when I saw the queue again, I just went directly to the subway.

I don’t know why it’s so difficult to get a taxi. Are there too many people taking taxi or there are too less taxi? A figure show that Beijing had over 60,000 taxi, the most among all cities, while Shanghai ranked second with total number of 50,000. I don’t know whether the situation has changed. If it doesn’t change, I think the root cause could be the number of taxi is in shortage.

On the other hand, Shanghai taxi drivers are more professional than Beijing peers. They follow strict stand to say hello and remind you of your belongings and say goodbye. Beijing drivers are obviously lack of such standard. You’ll find each of them behave on their own style. Some very polite, some very talkative and many of them seems just don’t like you.

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Beijing doesn’t snow/rain for three month

January 26th, 2011   Filed under English entries, Life

The media recently are buzzing with reports of drought in North China. The drought, which influences the major wheat production areas in North China provinces such as Heibei, Henan, Jiangsu and my hometown, Shandong, is reported to be the most serious in the recent 50 years. The drought is threatening the wheat production and, in some cases, lives of people and cattle.

China Drougth Distributioin

It’s now already two month of winter but I’m still waiting for the first snow fall on Beijing. As far as I know, there’s no single piece of snow fall into the Capital in this winter. I remember that the first snow fall soon reach Beijing when winter comes last year. Last weekend, when I drove along the Wenyu river, the mother river of Beijing (though many people don’t know), I saw the water level is quite low. Most of the surface is frozen and in some areas that are still unfrozen, I find many wild ducks resting there!

The weather is quite weird in recent years in China. While traditionally there are supposed to be snow falls in North China and rain falls in South China during winter, the real situation is that while the north is suffering drought, the south is suffering heavy snow fall. In 2008, the heavy snow fall in South China caused transportation failure and electricity network failure due to lack of preparation for unexpected snow falls. In the past, the South China didn’t need to prepare for a snow because they simply don’t have snow. But nowadays, they need to update their infrastructure standard in order to cope with heavy snow falls.

I’m now worrying about two things because of the drought. Will the drought result in deduction of grain production and thus further push up the inflation? Seems the market is worrying about that because all my agriculture stocks’ price is declining sharply (over 10%) recently. I guess that the government want to frozen some liquidity by smashing the stock market before the Chinese Lunar New Year in order to curb the inflation. However, this measure won’t work for long period. The decrease of grain production due to drought would soon be reflected into grain price spike. The second thing I’m worrying about is the life of relatives back in my home town Shandong province. They are all peasants. I don’t know whether they can cope with the drought. Most of their incomes are from wheat grow. If the drought is too severe and the irrigation system fail to work properly, their income could drop significantly. I will go back to hometown next week during CNY holiday. Hope all goes well

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Twitter Weekly Updates on 2011-01-23

January 23rd, 2011   Filed under Opinion

  • 村口开了奥特莱斯，村民们都来捧场，带孙子的老人很高兴，又多了个遛弯儿的地儿，中年人很沉默，心理惊诧：咋地这么贵？顶我几个月生活费。 #
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