Shameful

These are the pictures posted by a blogger who was in an anatomy class
for a group of medical students in Chongqing. Shameful. They were
using bones and all as props. Welcome to the next generations of one
child for one family policy. Most social paths coming our ways soon.

one day diff

What the heck with airline ticket pricing? One day difference and my
one way fare went from CAD 1,200 per adult to CAD 380.00. That's
ridiculous. I guess I will depart MSP on the 6th coming back to Regina.

dam C0mM!es

They are doing it again with the Internet; have been switching us from
one network to another at anytime at any day. This is just like the
bloody ever so unreliable subways. Yesterday was our No 2 line having
power failure at morning rush hours; now this morning is No 1 line
with derailment at rush hours.

And on top of the random Internet switching, the provider starts
intercepting HTML requests and insert whatever so distasteful
adverts. Here's an example right on my screen!!!

living

Here's a real life footage of a small coal mine outfit. This shows
how miners live. Perhaps this should be a mandatory Grade 12 pre-
graduate 2-week program.

http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/34941868/v.swf

cold

So how cold is here? COLD! It was -1.5C outside; so in the apartment
without the heater was about 9C or so. Nothing frozen yet, good
thing. Here's the way we work from the apartment during this week
long cold snap. Just kidding. I was just getting ready to venture
outside into the cold brisk Shanghai street at -1.5C with about 50%
humidity and wind.

During my walk later on the day, it was warm enough that with the same
amount of layer I started to sweat a bit. It was due to the nice
quality of clothes I wore. All Paul & Shark cold weather gear.

special service

This link shows pictures of the military special service stationed in
Macau: http://slide.mil.news.sina.com.cn/slide_8_199_2205.html

Di$ney

As everyone knows that there will be a Disney at my city close to the
airport. The Central Leadership approved the project about 2 months
ago. Here's the kicker; the size should NOT be bigger than HK's.
This will avoid any unfair competition and potential lost of revenue
for the HK Disney; how considerate! By the way, the HK Disney is so
"Dismal" it actually has been losing money left and right. So why do
one want to have a new one even smaller than the one in HK?

I have just read a local Disney related news article. In order to
build, about 2000 sq meters of land from a local cemetery will be
expropriated. Compensation of moving a tomb is RMB 300.00. That's
less than CAD 50.00 per tomb. And another kicker is that the new tomb
at the new cemetery is about RMB 3,600.00; that's CAD 564.00. So
who's getting ripped off? The first batch of tombs being moved is
about 400.