Saturday, February 05, 2005
The Last Entry in China
The White Swan Breakfast Buffet
At the White Swan
Daddy and Tian Eating Cheerios
Tian Wants the Camera
Daddy and Tian after a Long Walk
Tian is settling in for the night and I'm trying to finish this last post. Today, with nothing to do we took long walks through the streets of Guangzhou.
Tomorrow we have late check-out and will go from our room at 5PM to the Airport. The China Southern flight leaves and 9PM and takes 12 hours. We then take the Sunday nite red-eye from LAX to Atlanta. Unless we're dog tired we should be home around Noon on Monday.
For those who want more news of China I will close with these headlines from today's CHINA DAILY.
SPIDER GRANNY RESCUED SCALING BLOCK OF FLATS
A 78-year-old granny's spider woman stunt got her as far as the third floor of her apartment building. But when firemen arrived to rescue her, the indomitable old lady, who had locked herself out, refused to come down. She was adamant about getting to her fourth floor balcony.
TRAPPED BAT CAUSES MIDNIGHT SCARE
A Tianjin household trembled with fear when they heard strange sounds coming from their front door at midnight. The noises went on for about half-an-hour before finally the family called police, convinced a burglar was trying to break in.
HUDGE'S EMBARRASSMENT OVER ONLINE ENCOUNTER
A woman judge in Zhengzhou never expected that one of her close net friends would raise the money to visit her by stealing and selling a car.
ROVING CROCODILE CAUSES TRAFFIC MAYHEM
A crocodile which fell off the back of a lorry, brought traffic to a standstill wandering along a major road in Guangzhou.
RADIOACTIVE SHOCK FOR FACTORY BURGLAR
A thief had a nasty shock when he picked up his local newspaper. A crime report covering his theft from a cement factory carried an urgent police alert. The seven-kilogram haul of metal he had taken was in fact radioactive Caesium 137.
and finally
HAND CLAPPING PENSIONER SOARS ON DECIBEL SCALE
A 68-year-old man can clap his hands at an ear-splitting level of 106.9 decibels. Jiang Mingsheng has always loved clapping, whether he is sad or happy. For the last three years he has been practising raising the decibel level of his party-piece. And recently the local Environment Protection Burea--tasked among other things with investigating noise disturbance--measured his claps. No details of where he practices were included in the report.
At the White Swan
Daddy and Tian Eating Cheerios
Tian Wants the Camera
Daddy and Tian after a Long Walk
Tian is settling in for the night and I'm trying to finish this last post. Today, with nothing to do we took long walks through the streets of Guangzhou.
Tomorrow we have late check-out and will go from our room at 5PM to the Airport. The China Southern flight leaves and 9PM and takes 12 hours. We then take the Sunday nite red-eye from LAX to Atlanta. Unless we're dog tired we should be home around Noon on Monday.
For those who want more news of China I will close with these headlines from today's CHINA DAILY.
SPIDER GRANNY RESCUED SCALING BLOCK OF FLATS
A 78-year-old granny's spider woman stunt got her as far as the third floor of her apartment building. But when firemen arrived to rescue her, the indomitable old lady, who had locked herself out, refused to come down. She was adamant about getting to her fourth floor balcony.
TRAPPED BAT CAUSES MIDNIGHT SCARE
A Tianjin household trembled with fear when they heard strange sounds coming from their front door at midnight. The noises went on for about half-an-hour before finally the family called police, convinced a burglar was trying to break in.
HUDGE'S EMBARRASSMENT OVER ONLINE ENCOUNTER
A woman judge in Zhengzhou never expected that one of her close net friends would raise the money to visit her by stealing and selling a car.
ROVING CROCODILE CAUSES TRAFFIC MAYHEM
A crocodile which fell off the back of a lorry, brought traffic to a standstill wandering along a major road in Guangzhou.
RADIOACTIVE SHOCK FOR FACTORY BURGLAR
A thief had a nasty shock when he picked up his local newspaper. A crime report covering his theft from a cement factory carried an urgent police alert. The seven-kilogram haul of metal he had taken was in fact radioactive Caesium 137.
and finally
HAND CLAPPING PENSIONER SOARS ON DECIBEL SCALE
A 68-year-old man can clap his hands at an ear-splitting level of 106.9 decibels. Jiang Mingsheng has always loved clapping, whether he is sad or happy. For the last three years he has been practising raising the decibel level of his party-piece. And recently the local Environment Protection Burea--tasked among other things with investigating noise disturbance--measured his claps. No details of where he practices were included in the report.
# posted by lorrainegriffith @ Saturday, February 05, 2005 
