Riiiriiiriiiriiiriiiriiiriiir!!! The sound of pneumatic drills cut through our apartment from time to time. Our neighbours are not one, but two, construction sites. One house just started, the other one is almost finished.
The demand for new apartments and office space seems endless in this city, judged by the construction workers pace - Saturday and evening work seems mandatory - and frequency of building sites.
But some empty concrete shells still stand empty as reminders of the economic crash in 1997.
"It was like a ghost city, one of Mina’s colleagues", told me. "Quite nice in one way, since much of the traffic vanished as well", he added.
On our tv I watch CNN-reports about the financial crisis in the US. It might spread to Asia the commentators say.
The other week an accident happened. The huge building crane next door collapsed with a sqweeking sound and hit the ground at the entrance gate to the building site with a bang.
Luckily, no one was killed or injured one neighbour told me. But it looked like a sign of a possible future and sounded like doomsday. Like if the crash stated: "There is no need for another sky scraper here".
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