Wednesday, March 19, 2008

March 19, 2008

These should have made it in yesterday:

The light switches all are up when off-the opposite of the U.S. I spend about 50 cents per day in electricity turning lights on when I want them off!

You have to “top up” (add value to) your metro/bus card in person at a desk in the subway station (or at a 7-11, I hear). There is no way to add value on line or even at a machine with a credit card.

Yet, you can buy a soda from a machine with the card.

How can the technology be so cutting edge on one side and so ridiculously inefficient on the other????

Last thing—you have to drop mail off at a post office. The mailman comes and delivers our mail here every day but we have to go to the post office—he doesn’t take it! Weird huh?

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