Bankers in the City of London

Rena and I have been out in the City of London for a whole day to interview people randomly on our group project and I have found something really interesting about bankers "surviving" there.

Our ideal trip started early in the morning - managed to arrived at the London Bridge around half past eight when bankers are rushing across to get to their destination - the City of London. We have taken a few marvelous shots of the flowing "homosepian" stream by the Thames River successfully, and we even tried to record women's heel sounds as well.

Following the rushing bankers, we have got to the financial centre of the country - although Canary Whalf is apparentlly more famous in the world today, we still cannot deny that London's reputation of being one of the three biggest financial centre, started right from this place.

We saw RBS, HSBC, BOS, BOE, BOC... and numerous other banks with their names written in different languages in totally novel shapes to me. Well, Hello, the City of London.

Rena and I started doing some vox-pops first outside a cafe shop with a blackboard in front of its entrance saying "the BEST coffee in east - by TIMEOUT London". Wow~ Then we assume that bankers would certainly love this east-BEST-coffee and we have set our camera there up.

And we did manage to finish a few... yet none of our interviewees were bankers. Why is that??? Wrong spot???

Definitely not... The reason for this is extremly simple! Bankers are busy!!!

Of course we did not take this phenonmenon personally. And we totally understood their rush yet we have complaint a lot about this afterwards. Both of us thought they don't even have proper lives.

Bankers in the City of London rush, in a really high step pace with "agony" faces. Next time when you come to the City of London, it is quite easy to identify bankers among commoners - they do not smile, they look at the ground, they think while walking... Oh no, while running. Yes, they run.

Actually they are nice people, some of them kept saying sorry after declining our interview requests and murmuring words like "I wish to but I really don't have even a minute..." as they flee-ing away.

Funny experience anyway. And I do feel sympathy for them. We need normal lives. Money is something yet not everything. At least normal lives offer us more chances and mood to smile back at people. :)