It's been another hot day here today, so we called for a drink & a quick meal on the way home, and was staggered to find a wall had been built right along the street where the local eateries line the roadside. It wasn't there this morning when we passed, and - to their credit - it was obvious the 4-5 chaps who were still at it had worked like Trojans to do it in a matter of hours.
Having said that, the only 'technical' equipment in sight was a length of string....and the quality - even to the untrained eyes of us office boys in suits - looked just a tad suspect. Isn't the cement supposed to go all the way between the bricks, not just in haphazard blobby spots?
We thought about recent images of collapsed buildings....and only a few weeks ago, when touring a business I was 'visiting', I asked how long the place had been open - thinking I'd heard "9 years" as the answer, I suggested some serious refurbishment was in order (and muttered about crap build quality under my breath) but was staggered to be corrected by a colleague - "No - he said it as built 9 MONTHS ago!!"
Talking of quality, last night I watched a rather good film, 'Side Effect', directed by Steven Soderbergh (read my review in 'The Chron' next week) - his films demand viewer concentration at the best of times, but just as it was all being 'explained' at the end, the bloody soundtrack switched from English to what sounded like Polish!!! After some swearing (in English) I switched the subtitles to English (hitherto in Chinese because I can't figure how to switch them off because the bloody remote control is also marked in sodding Chinese) to see how it all ended ('cos I hadn't a bloody clue up to that point!)....
We have a phrase here, which we can even mutter in code during meetings and conversations with important people...."OIT" - "Only In China"....
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