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Q: BCDE - Best China Day Ever
So far we've learned that BCD means "Bad China Day", but maybe it should be "Best China Day" or BCDE "Best China Day Ever" Yesterday generally a very good day. Some highlights. My Drivers License showed up in the morning. First action after this was to put some tunes on an appropriate digital device and then go for a cautious joy-ride during the hours of wee traffic. Alas, my digital skills failed, so I find myself sitting in the car with a selection of the MILs CDs, crappy radio OR.... a memory stick with only Jan Hammer Crocketts Theme. The sun was shining so windows down, slowly into traffic. I actually had a couple of errands to run so perfect. Got that done. After some hours of adjusting to Chinese traffic, the most wonderful thing happens. An a-hole drives right in front of me from a side road. Since I know how to operate a vehicle, I let the car come to a halt, so close to his car that he was forced to reverse. When he starts to do so, I think I might as well get into the spirit of driving in China, so I hold the horn, the douche has his woman in the car and all windows down. When he finally manages to get his car moving in the right direction it happens. He flipped me off. Totally well deserved, I am being a jerk to the jerk. I wave back at him with a matching finger and gives him a confident smile and as his side window passes mine, I can see him getting slapped by his woman. This while Crocketts Theme plays for the brazillionth time. Anyway, I then drove 100 meters more, parked in front of a bakery and had what turned out to be pretty decent cake and a cup of very god coffee. I've promised myself never to use the horn again, unless of course I really have to 
It is actually more joyful to cruise the streets of Zhuhai than I'd thought (based on how my sweet wife looks like she is about to stroke out when she drives here) I love that as soon as you slow down to give way, to be polite, to not kill people, you hear the sounds of horns and a car, truck or city bus will violently pass you. I love how pedestrians look baffled by the fact that I stop at pedestrian crossings. The rest of the day spent with the wife, cup of wine. Evening stroll along the South China Sea.
Some days it doesn't take a lot, I am sure I've had better days in China, but this one stands out as the first day with sunshine after a long period of humid grey weather. What was your BCD ? (and have you ever been flipped off by a local)
Not too long ago, I forgot my phone (I must have missed the inner pocket and it must have slipped through my jacket) in a very crowded bus. Not the latest fancy gadget, but still a OK phone.
By the time I found out, I just didn't consider it could ever be possible for me to see it again. Well, the guy who found it called my home phone, and even went through the trouble of going out on a rainy day to wait for me at the bus station.
A 25 years old or so modest office guy, living in a place where it would have been easier for him to just sell out my phone. He didn't want nothing, he just gave me back my phone, a bit of small talk and that was it.
I didn't really care much about the device, but the encounter was nice and forced me to an introspection on my usual rants. Don't give up hope.
louischuahm:
You are lucky, I lost two phones in two days! Both were in taxis. Iphone and samsung. Both cost a fair bit. What to do? Just live with it I guess.
icnif77:
What to do? Always buy cheap 'brick'. My favorite is Nokia, for HK$ 180
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However, one of my privates told me: 'In China, only losers have similar phone!'
andy74rc:
Losers are the ones who spend a month salary to do not look like losers. Oh, forgot, logic do not apply in China...
Scandinavian:
I got a t-shirt saying "Born Looser" does that mean I get to buy expensive gadgetry without changing to a higher level of looserness ?
Tl:dnr
Any day that you either do not have a near-death experience or do not wish to cause someone else to have a NDE is a BCDE.
Scandinavian:
you gotta get over the NDEs, the fact that the bed you wake up in hasn't been crushed by the above sections of building. counts as a NDE.
I love BCDEs. Our Best China Day Ever was finding out my wife was pregnant with our lovely daughter.
Sinobear:
Mike is Hulk's daughter's father? Is there something we all should know?
I had a "Master Card" moment today.
Two chinese girls walking behind me were talking about me (honestly, all good things !!) in chinese.
When one of them told the other one "don't worry, he is a foreigner, he would not understand it", i knew it was the time to tell them in my broken chinese that i could understand just enough to know that i was being talked about.
The look on their face.....priceless !!
Best China day for me? I was not even in China.
It was the day I got my Z visa and knew I would at least have a few years with my wife in China 
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Hum, a very simple day, no real story behind... I was in a remote town, in Sichuan, high in the mountains (3500 meters high ^^). The landscape was gorgeous, Tibetan version of the Garden of Eden. Spent the whole day walking around with my bro. It felt out of the world, out of the chaos, and it was bliss.
