I stopped at my hotel foyer and enquired about a train ticket to Dunhuang in Gansu province — the next stop on my itinerary — as I knew tickets could sometimes be hard to obtain.

However, in normal days, when John is about to hold a concert, one ticket can be sold at more than 100 dollars and it is extremely hard to buy a ticket even at such a high price.

I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work — that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star.