·beggars come to shanghai, i met more beggars today than i did in any other single day of this year
·for the first time i haven't received any greeting card (i mean personal ones), they sent me funny web pages for new years greetings, like this one
·don't go to large retail stores for shopping these days, it's dangerous
·visited an old shanghai gentleman, he spent half an hour to praise his japanese daughter-in-law, like how "traditional" and "chinese" she is than many shanghainese girls
·like every foreigner in china has a blog, every one living in my community has a dog (me an exception, i have other pets)
·DVD stores are full of people liek this one searching for the latest hollywood hits, Chen Kai-ge's "promise" is dumped as a promotion premium
·one of my bachelor friends called me to tell me that he played football with his 16-year-old son last week. i was shocked and later learned that he just married a divorced woman with a son
·what else? ah, my personal chopsticks. a lot of admirations and questions like "where can i get a pair?" or "what do you think if i send them as a new years' gift?"