Enchanting Xiamen

I have been in Xiamen for one week now, and find it to be quite an nice city. The emotions being here evokes reminds me of my time in Melbourne. Of course they are vastly different cities across the Pacific Ocean. I don’t think the people sitting in the office buildings surround me at Starbucks Lu Jiang Dao will agree with my statement though.

Last night I saw an elderly man dig for leftover food in disposable food containers in a rubbish bin. Perhaps there is something about visuals that penetrates the soul, just like how the video of Yueyue shook the world.

If the opportunity arises, I wouldn’t mind settling down in Xiamen. While it is not a cosmopolitan metropolis like Shanghai or Beijing, Xiamen has her own aura of home. Relatively smooth traffic, clean air, the less frequent use of English making Chinese more prominent. It is the Chinese standard of a land of mountains and water (有山有水), bordered by mountains on the west and water on the east.