February 25, 2007

• Went to chinatown and “accidentally” ran into the parade today.
  Unfortunately that wasn’t part of my plans and it got me entangled in the immobile crowd for a good half an hr.
  Didn’t have my camera either so there went making the best of it =p

  Snuck past some badly emplaced police barracades, which attracted the attention of an NYPD Sgt. who proceeded to threaten those behind me with summons.

  I snuck pass him too and asked the nicer cop behind him how in the world am I supposed to get to where the NY Chinese School on Mott St.

  Since he was the nicer cop, he told me to go around the barricades at Elizabeth St. to proceed to my destination.

  However when I got around those darn barriers, a female cop was allowing people to only leave the Mott St. area and nobody in.

  It’s wonderful hearing all the colorful words fly from her mouth about us asian people treating our elderly with such disdain (*in other words, slowing the procession of those leaving the parade area).

  She was only doing her job BUT there was an obvious lack of courtesy and professionalism.

  However I shouldn’t be surprised at this lack of planning of alternate routes for the pedestrians during this New Year festival. You see it whenever the traffic officers direct vehicle traffic too. Forcing drivers to go in the opposite direction of their destination without an word of advice.

  The same happened when I asked when the street will be open again.
  “When the parade ends”
  And when is that?
  “I don’t know, I’m NOT on the committee”

  Eh, it was ok in the end since luckily the school has a back entrance/exit, which I managed to sneak into too.

  What a day…

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