OT: Today is a Happy Day …

… because someone dropped two hundred dollars …
… and I found it just in front of me while I wandering around …
… and I could pick it up without anyone noticing it …
… and I could not find the one who dropped the money …
… and I then found a donation box in one book [...]

Shanghai - One Hundred Years’ Old

It was pretty new to me. A water village closes to Shanghai city - Zhou Zhuang. It’s new to me because there are dozens of shops there and somehow every restaurant, inn, cake shop, souvenir shop etc. etc. all claim they have one hundred years’ old histories. They must be kidding … you can see [...]

OT: Travel Guide Books

No matter where I travel, I would visit the bookstore there. So I visited the biggest bookstore in Shanghai in my conference trip there and as usual, I visited the travel book section first.
The first book I picked up, among many books in the same category, reads “Beijing : The Travel Guide”. And I flipped [...]

#55

Every year, around that time, I will buy a lot of books and magazines … all about news of the year, photos of the year, products of the year, person of the year, quote of the year etc. etc. It’s hard to explain why I have such consumer behavior, but I guess you will understand [...]