Bank of China experience, 中国银行体验

Back in Beijing now for what it is coming to be real autumn, colder weather, less green and clearer skies.

I came from home with some cash that needed changed and also had to pay our landlord a big chunk of money for our rent. Like always, I go in, take a number in the line and then wait. Like always there are over 100 people in front of me, but only about 30 present - who takes the other 70 tickets?

In the meantime, I had lunch, had a tea and still after coming back to check on the line I had more than one hour to wait. After the actual payment occurred, I must say that it took me 2.5 hours to complete everything making every trip to the bank like a nightmare.

Just as a information systems curiosity, even though I use Bank of China online banking, you can't make a payment to another account outside of Beijing. Isn't that crazy? Plus, the whole system is still in Chinese, making it very hard to navigate.

Hey, but this is China. It's fun...