the spam ratio for this blog is increasing, how exciting.

i saw this little boy on the walk to work this morning. He was having a great time jumping up and down on the steel support he is standing on in this picture. Once he saw the camera though he froze and just stared. Actually it might have just been me. Sometimes when people walk out of a door and see me they just stop moving and stare at me until i am past them (actually they might continue staring i just don't know about it once i pass them).

i am trying to put together a fun weekend for my friend jasmine who is visiting so if you have seen something in one of my posts (or somewhere else, traitor) that looks like fun in Beijing let me know and i will make sure she sees it as well. Right now i am planning on hitting the main tourist sites and some interesting markets.

i ate tonight at rbt which has a picture of a rabbit on its sign but is apparently called something different in Chinese. The food was the closest to American Chinese food i have had here but the bubble tea was great. More of a sit down and chat place than a eat dinner place.

guess what they are putting together here? If you said another restaurant you are almost right. They are just putting the shine on an empty restaurant that closed because it was no longer "new". After they change the tables and the decorations it will be the hottest restaurant on zhichun. i bet the people who just finished putting together the new restaurant down the street from me (and this place) are pissed.

music recommendation, David bowie - the best of bowie - virgin. changesbowie is probably overall better because it really has no filler (aka bowie's latter stuff) but the first disc of this set reminds you of why bowie is so influential and has a lot of songs that weren't on changesbowie. Sure he did a awful collaboration with Mick jagger but he also did suffragette city. Listening to this shames the current glam movement (new York dolls reuniting without Johnny thunders, wtf mate?).