Holiday Relocation

October holidays is a 7 day vacation when 1.3 billion relocates themselves. Plus a tiny little bit got relocated abroad temporarily. There is a general principle to perform the relocation: cross the developed and under developed regions. So Shanghai has been flooded by rural Chinese who think that this is the best place in China when Shanghainese spread out to small towns closeby or even Tibet and Inner Mongolia.

I took a cheap trip with some good friends to some islands on Tai Hu (Tai Lake) for 3 days. Main activities were walking under the trees enjoying the great view of the lake, eating a lot, drinking at the lake side late at night. And most of all gossipping: all my friends are working in an intensive environment (work and office politics) who needed nothing but a holiday when brain is useless.

We got very amazed by how tasty the food was: home-fed chickens and ducks, fish and crabs grown up in the lake not in a pond, fresh vegetables. We ate like we were refugees. We also got amazed by how blue the sky was (not as half blue as Europe or Australiasia! but much blue-er than Shanghai for sure), the fresh air...It's like getting out of the jail for all of us.

Thanks to the relocation and the great contrast, we found our desire to peace and nature. For me, it remains an eternal question that how much of it I'll want to have and what I would like to give up for it.