Ambercrombie and Titch

Engrish T-shirts just crack me up. I think the coolest one I've ever seen was on a little girl at the playground. It read "Queen Killer Junk Rocker". Isn't that awesome? And of course, there are the ones that are mildly appalling such as the seemingly popular "Surfers have wet dreams" and "bedtime is f-time." I have to believe that the people wearing them have no idea what they say, or at least what they mean. By far, the funniest example of english-cluelessness that I've seen was a woman wearing a Tampax jacket. Given the fact that tampons are very difficult to find here and most Chinese women have no clue what they are, I'm supposing that woman would be mortified if she knew what Tampax really were.

On Saturday we went to Purple Mountain to visit the Ming emperor's tomb and Sun Yat-sen's tomb. Wow, that was soooooooo many stairs to climb. I thought it was so that when we finally reached the top, we'd be cursing Sun Yat-sen's name, but Chris assured me it was more to discourage grave robbers. Oh. I suppose that makes more sense. We took oodles of pictures, but I shall post a few at a time so as to spare you sightseeing-picture-overload.

( Pictures, pictures everywhere and not a drop to drink )

Has anyone watched "Heroes"? We downloaded it because we were so frustrated waiting for Lost to post. We both agree that we liked it much better than Lost. It was refreshingly different...you know, the way Lost used to be.

Zack got dinged by a bicyclist today. We were standing at the crosswalk, waiting for the light to turn. We were not out in the road, but just on the edge, by the curb. Out of nowhere, a guy on a bike comes wobbling right into us. He swerved away, but not before he scratched Zack on the arm. Thankfully it didn't draw blood, just left a surface scratch. It's very frustrating, because it sometimes seems like people on bikes are so busy gawking at us that they forget to steer. As a matter of fact, they start to steer towards us as they stare. This guy just kept right on going, and I was too surprised to fuss at him (plus I was worried about Zack.)