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It's APEC week here in sunny Sydney and the constant micro-violence of non-stop surveillance is testing my shit. I have a sense of mild unrelenting irritation. I think the choppers overhead have caught up with me.
I didn't think it was that bad, but my co-workers sending me pictures of snipers, gun barrels aimed into the street on buildings next to mine, the fenced in city and that fucking noise outside is building under my skin.
I'm not sure what it is. I see this kind of shit in China often enough. Maybe it's the hometown factor. In Beijing the street that divides Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City is about 14 lanes wide. It's called Chang An Jie, google it if you like. It's the biggest, flattest street I've ever seen. There's some thing really strange about seeing a roadway that large. The cars take up about 4 lanes either way, bikes another one or two and the rest is just excess.
I read somewhere that this street, which is basically ground zero Beijing, is like this so that when/if the shit goes down, it's large enough to land Hercules on. Move tanks in, get important people out. I'd believe it too. The street is completely devoid of permenent structures, street lights are set way back and there are no buildings more than 2 storeys high along this strip.The traffic lights that pepper the centre of the road are just bolted to the bitumen, not cemented. I checked. Amazing.
APEC weekend is what Sydney looks like when it's not taking any chances. Beijing was just built that way from the get go.
6:28 AM
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