Yesterday at work I was talking to Craig and Alex at work about my friend Karin's backpacking trip to Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in 2 weeks. Karin and I been talking whether it is safe to travel in Thailand after the coup, I said yes and stressed I wanted her to get a picture of tanks in Bangkok... They think I am obsessed with tanks and military in general. I said I wanted to add tank pictures to my collection of rebel soldiers in Burma.
On the way home getting off the seabus, I saw Chinese naval servicemen all dressed in black with China flag on the shoulder. The Canadian Navy was docked right beside the seabus...
Again today on my way home from work, instead of the Chinese... it was the South Koreans. The Korean warship was docked beside the Canadian frigate... proudly hanging South Korean flags.
I'm not obsessed... these things come to me. I know what the South Koreans want... they want consultants on how to overthrow Kim Jong Il. I'd happily do it for free...
As for those Chinese... in Vancouver can't stop hearing about China's rise to be the next superpower within our lifetime. If not in school... it is on TV, or on city streets. Tons of writers, academics and conferences talking about Asia & China. I even got my copy of China Inc. signed by Ted Fishman last month at his talk. This world needs a new superpower, tired of Bush and his rant on his vision of the world. But the Chinese are worse...
Only in school fulltime till April 2007... and then got my own plans for China... followed by India, Japan, Korea, Thailand and etc. The countdown is on folks...
Posted by Jay at October 4, 2006 06:38 PMWow, almost like Canada is being invaded... I could put in a joke here about Canada... but... I'll be nice.
Should be fun visiting all those places. I need to mention something about one of those places to you, I'll shoot you an e-mail though.
Posted by: Jonathan at October 4, 2006 07:21 PM