When we were at the Temple of Heaven we met some vendors selling wooden models of the temple on the way out. Guy wanted one, I didn’t. Guy, as usual, won. The negotiation started at RMB 80.00, and we ended up getting it for RMB 20.00. The bad thing about not having set prices, is [...]
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If only Salvador Dali was alive, yesterday was a surrealistic day, I’m positive he could have captured it in one of his amazing paintings… Yesterday was the first day of Hanukkah. The Jewish Festival of Lights. I am clearly not a self-loathing Jew, and yet, in my mind Hanukkah is one Jewish Holiday not connected to [...] When we were here between 2006-2008, we frequented Carrefour. At the time, it was a reasonable shopping experience, reasonable lines at the cash registers, a good combination of Chinese and Western goods. It was our choice of supermarket. When we came back here in 2011, we naturally started shopping at Carrefour again. Compared to three [...] Just a few days ago I wrote here that the weather was smoggy, humid and hot. In the last few days, though, there was no evidence of pollution, no cloud in the sky, just infinite blue. The athletes are here already and the reports suggest that they’re happy with the Olympic Village. The Olympic Committee [...] |
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