<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580</id><updated>2012-02-02T11:20:23.118+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Are YOU ready for China?</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>50</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-5264756522744455487</id><published>2007-08-22T20:19:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T20:37:11.004+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane</title><content type='html'>GoMA, from the bus&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RswsTB4p4mI/AAAAAAAABRA/C2EvN0MiCcw/s1600-h/July+27+-+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101501183339127394" style="DISPLAY: block; 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I just wish I had a proper bonnet to wear with my frock!&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsQ6ah4p4XI/AAAAAAAABPI/fbD5wFeAnSs/s1600-h/August+15+-+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099264905537249650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsQ6ah4p4XI/AAAAAAAABPI/fbD5wFeAnSs/s320/August+15+-+002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsQ6bh4p4YI/AAAAAAAABPQ/znsyfuOqrZs/s1600-h/August+15+-+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099264922717118850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsQ6bh4p4YI/AAAAAAAABPQ/znsyfuOqrZs/s320/August+15+-+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsQ6cB4p4ZI/AAAAAAAABPY/xCuSElAEnZY/s1600-h/August+15+-+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099264931307053458" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsQ6GR4p4WI/AAAAAAAABPA/ppLV8QO4Q_I/s320/August+15+-+041.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-3347575040594199549?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/3347575040594199549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=3347575040594199549&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3347575040594199549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3347575040594199549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/08/day-at-aussie-races.html' title='A day at the Aussie races'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsQ6ah4p4XI/AAAAAAAABPI/fbD5wFeAnSs/s72-c/August+15+-+002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-2192506497247072472</id><published>2007-08-14T22:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T20:57:11.780+08:00</updated><title type='text'>dinner at Garuva</title><content type='html'>photos courtesy of Jess&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGlfQx-UPI/AAAAAAAABOA/ZmZdLty58bc/s1600-h/003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098538209659212018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGlfQx-UPI/AAAAAAAABOA/ZmZdLty58bc/s320/003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGlggx-UQI/AAAAAAAABOI/alQm1r5JqwI/s1600-h/004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098538231134048514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGlggx-UQI/AAAAAAAABOI/alQm1r5JqwI/s320/004.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGlgwx-URI/AAAAAAAABOQ/J4pQ1uWbTVg/s1600-h/006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098538235429015826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGlgwx-URI/AAAAAAAABOQ/J4pQ1uWbTVg/s320/006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGlhgx-USI/AAAAAAAABOY/dMwJHaZhDko/s1600-h/007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098538248313917730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGlhgx-USI/AAAAAAAABOY/dMwJHaZhDko/s320/007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-2192506497247072472?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/2192506497247072472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=2192506497247072472&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2192506497247072472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2192506497247072472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/08/dinner-at-garuva.html' title='dinner at Garuva'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGlfQx-UPI/AAAAAAAABOA/ZmZdLty58bc/s72-c/003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-6226487976667217479</id><published>2007-08-14T22:30:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T20:33:24.850+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sydney</title><content type='html'>our hostel Wake Up! &lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRsQx-UGI/AAAAAAAABM8/QJJF_PlE1Ig/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098516442764955746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRsQx-UGI/AAAAAAAABM8/QJJF_PlE1Ig/s320/August+7-11+-+005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we're everywhere...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRsgx-UHI/AAAAAAAABNE/m226S-2WQW8/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098516447059923058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRsgx-UHI/AAAAAAAABNE/m226S-2WQW8/s320/August+7-11+-+012.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098516215131688994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRfAx-UCI/AAAAAAAABMc/Tsuwsmka4fY/s320/August+7-11+-+020.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRewx-UBI/AAAAAAAABMU/6-pr_kZsHFk/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098516210836721682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRewx-UBI/AAAAAAAABMU/6-pr_kZsHFk/s320/August+7-11+-+014.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRfQx-UDI/AAAAAAAABMk/dQIyJK66Hbc/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098516219426656306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRfQx-UDI/AAAAAAAABMk/dQIyJK66Hbc/s320/August+7-11+-+025.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRfgx-UEI/AAAAAAAABMs/ym3Xxjs6inw/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098516223721623618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRfgx-UEI/AAAAAAAABMs/ym3Xxjs6inw/s320/August+7-11+-+045.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQ6wx-T8I/AAAAAAAABLs/qqXuL6vnufw/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+064.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098515592361430978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQ6wx-T8I/AAAAAAAABLs/qqXuL6vnufw/s320/August+7-11+-+064.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQ6wx-T9I/AAAAAAAABL0/Pb3wxEeTW5o/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+077.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098515592361430994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQ6wx-T9I/AAAAAAAABL0/Pb3wxEeTW5o/s320/August+7-11+-+077.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQ7Ax-T-I/AAAAAAAABL8/ruefvg2W9Fc/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+081.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098515596656398306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQ7Ax-T-I/AAAAAAAABL8/ruefvg2W9Fc/s320/August+7-11+-+081.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQ7Qx-T_I/AAAAAAAABME/pQLMhbWj828/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+084.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098515600951365618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQ7Qx-T_I/AAAAAAAABME/pQLMhbWj828/s320/August+7-11+-+084.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQ7gx-UAI/AAAAAAAABMM/YFOBuP1pOcw/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+096.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098515605246332930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQ7gx-UAI/AAAAAAAABMM/YFOBuP1pOcw/s320/August+7-11+-+096.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQcQx-T3I/AAAAAAAABLE/D1gUF3HaHy8/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098515068375420786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQcQx-T3I/AAAAAAAABLE/D1gUF3HaHy8/s320/August+7-11+-+103.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Baker's Oven Cafe...mmm...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQcgx-T4I/AAAAAAAABLM/O13Tc6HIQ_c/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+105.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098515072670388098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQcgx-T4I/AAAAAAAABLM/O13Tc6HIQ_c/s320/August+7-11+-+105.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQdAx-T5I/AAAAAAAABLU/4tC2SKHgsMY/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+111.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098515081260322706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQdAx-T5I/AAAAAAAABLU/4tC2SKHgsMY/s320/August+7-11+-+111.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQdAx-T6I/AAAAAAAABLc/t3NDM-ikhzA/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+112.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098515081260322722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQdAx-T6I/AAAAAAAABLc/t3NDM-ikhzA/s320/August+7-11+-+112.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQdQx-T7I/AAAAAAAABLk/NP2-Sl9_YFc/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+115.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098515085555290034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQdQx-T7I/AAAAAAAABLk/NP2-Sl9_YFc/s320/August+7-11+-+115.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQBQx-TyI/AAAAAAAABKc/mmToHvuLBh8/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+121.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098514604518952738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQBQx-TyI/AAAAAAAABKc/mmToHvuLBh8/s320/August+7-11+-+121.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQBgx-TzI/AAAAAAAABKk/AEfqp_YouB8/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+127.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098514608813920050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQBgx-TzI/AAAAAAAABKk/AEfqp_YouB8/s320/August+7-11+-+127.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQBwx-T0I/AAAAAAAABKs/stoTUu0eyas/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+135.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098514613108887362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQBwx-T0I/AAAAAAAABKs/stoTUu0eyas/s320/August+7-11+-+135.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; our dinner at Musashi...mmm...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQCAx-T1I/AAAAAAAABK0/CLal4nF6I_Y/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+142.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098514617403854674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQCAx-T1I/AAAAAAAABK0/CLal4nF6I_Y/s320/August+7-11+-+142.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQCQx-T2I/AAAAAAAABK8/0sHla73oPlE/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+147.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098514621698821986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGQCQx-T2I/AAAAAAAABK8/0sHla73oPlE/s320/August+7-11+-+147.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this one's for Sabrina!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGOSwx-TtI/AAAAAAAABJ0/RDuhVZT8A8w/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+152.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098512706143407826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGOSwx-TtI/AAAAAAAABJ0/RDuhVZT8A8w/s320/August+7-11+-+152.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGOTAx-TuI/AAAAAAAABJ8/BnKbryUnYsE/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+162.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098512710438375138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGOTAx-TuI/AAAAAAAABJ8/BnKbryUnYsE/s320/August+7-11+-+162.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGOTgx-TvI/AAAAAAAABKE/CFb5MNdJ84Q/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+167.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098512719028309746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGOTgx-TvI/AAAAAAAABKE/CFb5MNdJ84Q/s320/August+7-11+-+167.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; creepy puppet shop&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGOTwx-TwI/AAAAAAAABKM/qEHsES7FF8w/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+176.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098512723323277058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGOTwx-TwI/AAAAAAAABKM/qEHsES7FF8w/s320/August+7-11+-+176.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGOUwx-TxI/AAAAAAAABKU/Fls-lFQQwd0/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+195.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098512740503146258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGOUwx-TxI/AAAAAAAABKU/Fls-lFQQwd0/s320/August+7-11+-+195.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the Opera House and bridge again&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNywx-ToI/AAAAAAAABJM/vhf-PT9PqvQ/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098512156387593858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNywx-ToI/AAAAAAAABJM/vhf-PT9PqvQ/s320/August+7-11+-+200.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNzAx-TpI/AAAAAAAABJU/3p3ik1S0wQw/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+204.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098512160682561170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNzAx-TpI/AAAAAAAABJU/3p3ik1S0wQw/s320/August+7-11+-+204.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; breakfast near our hostel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNzQx-TqI/AAAAAAAABJc/Yn_tWq2ZLy4/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+220.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098512164977528482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNzQx-TqI/AAAAAAAABJc/Yn_tWq2ZLy4/s320/August+7-11+-+220.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the Sydney Aquarium!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNzgx-TrI/AAAAAAAABJk/UuTg2NjGAoc/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+240.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098512169272495794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNzgx-TrI/AAAAAAAABJk/UuTg2NjGAoc/s320/August+7-11+-+240.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;a saltwater croc (it's real, trust me)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGN0Qx-TsI/AAAAAAAABJs/yWE4HiCROp4/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+241.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098512182157397698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGN0Qx-TsI/AAAAAAAABJs/yWE4HiCROp4/s320/August+7-11+-+241.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a freshwater croc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNVAx-TjI/AAAAAAAABIk/G7JoniwBVf8/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+246.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098511645286485554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNVAx-TjI/AAAAAAAABIk/G7JoniwBVf8/s320/August+7-11+-+246.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNVQx-TkI/AAAAAAAABIs/do34Aupt6Ms/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+250.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098511649581452866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNVQx-TkI/AAAAAAAABIs/do34Aupt6Ms/s320/August+7-11+-+250.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNWQx-TlI/AAAAAAAABI0/AfHTEq9UO3Q/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+255.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098511666761322066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNWQx-TlI/AAAAAAAABI0/AfHTEq9UO3Q/s320/August+7-11+-+255.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNWQx-TmI/AAAAAAAABI8/cPhUMjjCC5E/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+261.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098511666761322082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNWQx-TmI/AAAAAAAABI8/cPhUMjjCC5E/s320/August+7-11+-+261.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNWwx-TnI/AAAAAAAABJE/uk7i8OQgb6I/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+270.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098511675351256690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGNWwx-TnI/AAAAAAAABJE/uk7i8OQgb6I/s320/August+7-11+-+270.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;they have these petting tanks - here Jess is with a sea urchin...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGM2Ax-TeI/AAAAAAAABH8/KhBVksC7h9M/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+274.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098511112710540770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGM2Ax-TeI/AAAAAAAABH8/KhBVksC7h9M/s320/August+7-11+-+274.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;me and something squishy...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGM4Qx-TfI/AAAAAAAABIE/0KRW2qNuzuE/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+275.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098511151365246450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGM4Qx-TfI/AAAAAAAABIE/0KRW2qNuzuE/s320/August+7-11+-+275.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGM4Qx-TgI/AAAAAAAABIM/rvIGSS7WF78/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+290.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098511151365246466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGM4Qx-TgI/AAAAAAAABIM/rvIGSS7WF78/s320/August+7-11+-+290.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGM4wx-ThI/AAAAAAAABIU/GzMjqJaCOgM/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+296.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098511159955181074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGM4wx-ThI/AAAAAAAABIU/GzMjqJaCOgM/s320/August+7-11+-+296.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGM5Qx-TiI/AAAAAAAABIc/DawcS-L99ok/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+307.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098511168545115682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGM5Qx-TiI/AAAAAAAABIc/DawcS-L99ok/s320/August+7-11+-+307.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGMQwx-TZI/AAAAAAAABHU/RvweC5PdnKM/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+314.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098510472760413586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGMQwx-TZI/AAAAAAAABHU/RvweC5PdnKM/s320/August+7-11+-+314.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGMRQx-TaI/AAAAAAAABHc/S-Wxo-V8bjc/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+319.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098510481350348194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGMRQx-TaI/AAAAAAAABHc/S-Wxo-V8bjc/s320/August+7-11+-+319.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGMRgx-TbI/AAAAAAAABHk/Z3FYglHr3Yg/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+323.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098510485645315506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGMRgx-TbI/AAAAAAAABHk/Z3FYglHr3Yg/s320/August+7-11+-+323.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGMSAx-TcI/AAAAAAAABHs/RNw8kazMQ9E/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+325.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098510494235250114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGMSAx-TcI/AAAAAAAABHs/RNw8kazMQ9E/s320/August+7-11+-+325.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGMSQx-TdI/AAAAAAAABH0/X1KJCMFcIB0/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+329.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098510498530217426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGMSQx-TdI/AAAAAAAABH0/X1KJCMFcIB0/s320/August+7-11+-+329.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF8bwx-TUI/AAAAAAAABGs/pw2qq0IEFb8/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+334.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098493069552930114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF8bwx-TUI/AAAAAAAABGs/pw2qq0IEFb8/s320/August+7-11+-+334.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF8cAx-TVI/AAAAAAAABG0/5-wYQ604sHQ/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+350.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098493073847897426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF8cAx-TVI/AAAAAAAABG0/5-wYQ604sHQ/s320/August+7-11+-+350.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF8cQx-TWI/AAAAAAAABG8/DDzfszfILY8/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+357.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098493078142864738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF8cQx-TWI/AAAAAAAABG8/DDzfszfILY8/s320/August+7-11+-+357.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ferry ride across the harbour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF8dAx-TXI/AAAAAAAABHE/jQXXfOvuA20/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+373.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098493091027766642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF8dAx-TXI/AAAAAAAABHE/jQXXfOvuA20/s320/August+7-11+-+373.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF8dQx-TYI/AAAAAAAABHM/7Qx94c_nMLI/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+374.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098493095322733954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF8dQx-TYI/AAAAAAAABHM/7Qx94c_nMLI/s320/August+7-11+-+374.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF76Ax-TPI/AAAAAAAABGE/V-PDXGwEKPk/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+389.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098492489732345074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF76Ax-TPI/AAAAAAAABGE/V-PDXGwEKPk/s320/August+7-11+-+389.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF76gx-TQI/AAAAAAAABGM/e2lWHfSVwj8/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+418.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098492498322279682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF76gx-TQI/AAAAAAAABGM/e2lWHfSVwj8/s320/August+7-11+-+418.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF76wx-TRI/AAAAAAAABGU/SkZzr-f85JQ/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+420.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098492502617246994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF76wx-TRI/AAAAAAAABGU/SkZzr-f85JQ/s320/August+7-11+-+420.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF77Qx-TSI/AAAAAAAABGc/YCLiqWkBRSQ/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+434.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098492511207181602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF77Qx-TSI/AAAAAAAABGc/YCLiqWkBRSQ/s320/August+7-11+-+434.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; last look from the plane&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF77Qx-TTI/AAAAAAAABGk/FWUhEE4qCmI/s1600-h/August+7-11+-+470.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098492511207181618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF77Qx-TTI/AAAAAAAABGk/FWUhEE4qCmI/s320/August+7-11+-+470.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-6226487976667217479?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6226487976667217479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=6226487976667217479&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6226487976667217479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6226487976667217479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/08/sydney.html' title='Sydney'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsGRsQx-UGI/AAAAAAAABM8/QJJF_PlE1Ig/s72-c/August+7-11+-+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-8533191214461848499</id><published>2007-08-06T17:48:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T20:32:41.380+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Salt and Battery</title><content type='html'>I have been enjoying my share of fish and chips here, mostly in the sun or on the beach. photos courtesy of Jess&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF69gx-TNI/AAAAAAAABF0/PTqNo9_3Mow/s1600-h/stuff+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098491450350259410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF69gx-TNI/AAAAAAAABF0/PTqNo9_3Mow/s320/stuff+005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF6-wx-TOI/AAAAAAAABF8/6oY5TAciczs/s1600-h/stuff+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098491471825095906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF6-wx-TOI/AAAAAAAABF8/6oY5TAciczs/s320/stuff+006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-8533191214461848499?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/8533191214461848499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=8533191214461848499&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8533191214461848499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8533191214461848499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/08/salt-and-battery.html' title='A Salt and Battery'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RsF69gx-TNI/AAAAAAAABF0/PTqNo9_3Mow/s72-c/stuff+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-6613283542074030602</id><published>2007-08-05T20:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-08-05T20:20:58.534+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Go Broncos Go!</title><content type='html'>a beautiful day in Brisbane&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW_IAx-TMI/AAAAAAAABFs/44zQ4UwM7aA/s1600-h/August+5+-+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095188697809046722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW_IAx-TMI/AAAAAAAABFs/44zQ4UwM7aA/s320/August+5+-+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW--wx-THI/AAAAAAAABFE/YS--ah4LeNo/s1600-h/August+5+-+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095188538895256690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW--wx-THI/AAAAAAAABFE/YS--ah4LeNo/s320/August+5+-+006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a crowd of over 37,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-_Ax-TII/AAAAAAAABFM/DRn1UzRxJo8/s1600-h/August+5+-+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095188543190224002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-_Ax-TII/AAAAAAAABFM/DRn1UzRxJo8/s320/August+5+-+010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-_gx-TJI/AAAAAAAABFU/-9wNiURpD4A/s1600-h/August+5+-+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095188551780158610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-_gx-TJI/AAAAAAAABFU/-9wNiURpD4A/s320/August+5+-+021.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a Brisbane Bronco&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-_gx-TKI/AAAAAAAABFc/UWo4G_Xz7qI/s1600-h/August+5+-+026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095188551780158626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-_gx-TKI/AAAAAAAABFc/UWo4G_Xz7qI/s320/August+5+-+026.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW_AAx-TLI/AAAAAAAABFk/0tx1Lawv5bE/s1600-h/August+5+-+027.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095188560370093234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW_AAx-TLI/AAAAAAAABFk/0tx1Lawv5bE/s320/August+5+-+027.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-dwx-TCI/AAAAAAAABEc/zurfcUbVPGQ/s1600-h/August+5+-+028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095187971959573538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-dwx-TCI/AAAAAAAABEc/zurfcUbVPGQ/s320/August+5+-+028.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-eAx-TDI/AAAAAAAABEk/mNXiYfFt3cw/s1600-h/August+5+-+036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095187976254540850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-eAx-TDI/AAAAAAAABEk/mNXiYfFt3cw/s320/August+5+-+036.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-eQx-TEI/AAAAAAAABEs/VuAlswuScWg/s1600-h/August+5+-+045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095187980549508162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-eQx-TEI/AAAAAAAABEs/VuAlswuScWg/s320/August+5+-+045.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-egx-TGI/AAAAAAAABE8/g3YIkzzrU1U/s1600-h/August+5+-+062.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095187984844475490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-egx-TGI/AAAAAAAABE8/g3YIkzzrU1U/s320/August+5+-+062.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a real bronco&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095187980549508178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW-eQx-TFI/AAAAAAAABE0/yJZ9vkJz_zY/s320/August+5+-+048.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-6613283542074030602?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6613283542074030602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=6613283542074030602&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6613283542074030602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6613283542074030602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/08/go-broncos-go.html' title='Go Broncos Go!'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrW_IAx-TMI/AAAAAAAABFs/44zQ4UwM7aA/s72-c/August+5+-+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-1856205370322111308</id><published>2007-07-27T23:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-08-02T13:45:19.481+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Brisbane!!</title><content type='html'>Jess and a giant ball-speaker thing (actually, it only lights up.  but it'd be cool if it was a speaker!)&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFuxwx-TAI/AAAAAAAABEM/X1DU6wp79lM/s1600-h/DSC00455.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093974454719892482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFuxwx-TAI/AAAAAAAABEM/X1DU6wp79lM/s320/DSC00455.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Treasury Casino&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFuyAx-TBI/AAAAAAAABEU/5MPa1Nw1mYc/s1600-h/DSC00456.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093974459014859794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFuyAx-TBI/AAAAAAAABEU/5MPa1Nw1mYc/s320/DSC00456.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Simon's basketball game - they're the 'Badly Wrapped Kebabs'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFujwx-S7I/AAAAAAAABDk/EKxlDaJA87s/s1600-h/DSC00474.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093974214201723826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFujwx-S7I/AAAAAAAABDk/EKxlDaJA87s/s320/DSC00474.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFukAx-S8I/AAAAAAAABDs/vGl9QkvXjAQ/s1600-h/DSC00483.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093974218496691138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFukAx-S8I/AAAAAAAABDs/vGl9QkvXjAQ/s320/DSC00483.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFukgx-S9I/AAAAAAAABD0/-GOUz2_VmZk/s1600-h/DSC00493.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093974227086625746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFukgx-S9I/AAAAAAAABD0/-GOUz2_VmZk/s320/DSC00493.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Jess doing the robot.  Why not?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFulAx-S-I/AAAAAAAABD8/SmxedRJqwBM/s1600-h/DSC00497.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093974235676560354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFulAx-S-I/AAAAAAAABD8/SmxedRJqwBM/s320/DSC00497.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; us having lunch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFulQx-S_I/AAAAAAAABEE/hRQAB7BVQcI/s1600-h/DSC00515.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093974239971527666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFulQx-S_I/AAAAAAAABEE/hRQAB7BVQcI/s320/DSC00515.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-1856205370322111308?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/1856205370322111308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=1856205370322111308&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/1856205370322111308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/1856205370322111308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/07/brisbane.html' title='Brisbane!!'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFuxwx-TAI/AAAAAAAABEM/X1DU6wp79lM/s72-c/DSC00455.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-8656516674994018746</id><published>2007-07-22T13:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-08-02T13:39:20.170+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Quick stop in HK</title><content type='html'>a funny looking flower that apparently only blooms at my grandparents' place&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFtUQx-S5I/AAAAAAAABDU/mA_hblXHi08/s1600-h/DSC00424.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093972848402123666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFtUQx-S5I/AAAAAAAABDU/mA_hblXHi08/s320/DSC00424.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a heated game of mahjong&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFtUwx-S6I/AAAAAAAABDc/2BJpoYVPfTQ/s1600-h/DSC00449.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093972856992058274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFtUwx-S6I/AAAAAAAABDc/2BJpoYVPfTQ/s320/DSC00449.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-8656516674994018746?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/8656516674994018746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=8656516674994018746&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8656516674994018746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8656516674994018746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/08/quick-stop-in-hk.html' title='Quick stop in HK'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RrFtUQx-S5I/AAAAAAAABDU/mA_hblXHi08/s72-c/DSC00424.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-4384828093860452746</id><published>2007-07-19T23:17:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T21:49:13.298+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lost in Translation</title><content type='html'>the entrance to the Ryokan Kangetsu&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8sUQx-S2I/AAAAAAAABC8/yflG8-BKcws/s1600-h/1+135.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093338430192896866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8sUQx-S2I/AAAAAAAABC8/yflG8-BKcws/s320/1+135.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8sUwx-S3I/AAAAAAAABDE/pHhIf5eZ2hU/s1600-h/1+137.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093338438782831474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8sUwx-S3I/AAAAAAAABDE/pHhIf5eZ2hU/s320/1+137.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Shibuya&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8sVAx-S4I/AAAAAAAABDM/B3iZloNGO3Q/s1600-h/1+167.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093338443077798786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8sVAx-S4I/AAAAAAAABDM/B3iZloNGO3Q/s320/1+167.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8r4wx-SxI/AAAAAAAABCU/16QPnpQRQac/s1600-h/1+192.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337957746494226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8r4wx-SxI/AAAAAAAABCU/16QPnpQRQac/s320/1+192.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8r5Ax-SyI/AAAAAAAABCc/iKFZcKDyQ9w/s1600-h/1+205.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337962041461538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8r5Ax-SyI/AAAAAAAABCc/iKFZcKDyQ9w/s320/1+205.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8r5Qx-SzI/AAAAAAAABCk/7xsHc1FjQp4/s1600-h/1+215.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337966336428850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8r5Qx-SzI/AAAAAAAABCk/7xsHc1FjQp4/s320/1+215.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8r5wx-S0I/AAAAAAAABCs/hskD9OvJOx8/s1600-h/1+219.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337974926363458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8r5wx-S0I/AAAAAAAABCs/hskD9OvJOx8/s320/1+219.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8r6Ax-S1I/AAAAAAAABC0/ybUHFPlAkgg/s1600-h/1+220.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337979221330770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8r6Ax-S1I/AAAAAAAABC0/ybUHFPlAkgg/s320/1+220.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rdQx-SsI/AAAAAAAABBs/6jxBM29sZJM/s1600-h/1+226.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337485300091586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rdQx-SsI/AAAAAAAABBs/6jxBM29sZJM/s320/1+226.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This one's for you Kate!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rdgx-StI/AAAAAAAABB0/PuaTmAM3pfk/s1600-h/1+244.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337489595058898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rdgx-StI/AAAAAAAABB0/PuaTmAM3pfk/s320/1+244.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;possibly the coolest front door ever!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rdwx-SuI/AAAAAAAABB8/gpVObzQ_Fic/s1600-h/1+251.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337493890026210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rdwx-SuI/AAAAAAAABB8/gpVObzQ_Fic/s320/1+251.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a public bathroom. very different from public toilets in Beijing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8reAx-SvI/AAAAAAAABCE/pR-YSVG_Kk4/s1600-h/1+259.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337498184993522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8reAx-SvI/AAAAAAAABCE/pR-YSVG_Kk4/s320/1+259.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8reQx-SwI/AAAAAAAABCM/crTnolJpVBY/s1600-h/1+274.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337502479960834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8reQx-SwI/AAAAAAAABCM/crTnolJpVBY/s320/1+274.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rBAx-SnI/AAAAAAAABBE/tS_aLnbyj9A/s1600-h/1+276.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093336999968787058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rBAx-SnI/AAAAAAAABBE/tS_aLnbyj9A/s320/1+276.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rBQx-SoI/AAAAAAAABBM/Aoo1AKp-85M/s1600-h/1+278.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337004263754370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rBQx-SoI/AAAAAAAABBM/Aoo1AKp-85M/s320/1+278.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; yes, I did have a hambuger in Tokyo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rBgx-SpI/AAAAAAAABBU/jV2dKH3y8W4/s1600-h/1+300.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337008558721682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rBgx-SpI/AAAAAAAABBU/jV2dKH3y8W4/s320/1+300.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rBwx-SqI/AAAAAAAABBc/_FVNlPMk_Ks/s1600-h/1+305.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337012853688994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rBwx-SqI/AAAAAAAABBc/_FVNlPMk_Ks/s320/1+305.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; A day in Ueno&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rCAx-SrI/AAAAAAAABBk/zqqHC1GkwM8/s1600-h/1+307.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093337017148656306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8rCAx-SrI/AAAAAAAABBk/zqqHC1GkwM8/s320/1+307.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyxGwx-SiI/AAAAAAAABAc/nIX6U3moEb4/s1600-h/1+310.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092640008381024802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyxGwx-SiI/AAAAAAAABAc/nIX6U3moEb4/s320/1+310.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyxHAx-SjI/AAAAAAAABAk/c5RxIq29yYM/s1600-h/1+317.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092640012675992114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyxHAx-SjI/AAAAAAAABAk/c5RxIq29yYM/s320/1+317.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyxHgx-SkI/AAAAAAAABAs/FWV3o8lzljg/s1600-h/1+325.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092640021265926722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyxHgx-SkI/AAAAAAAABAs/FWV3o8lzljg/s320/1+325.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyxHwx-SlI/AAAAAAAABA0/xw9oucfWe5M/s1600-h/1+332.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092640025560894034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyxHwx-SlI/AAAAAAAABA0/xw9oucfWe5M/s320/1+332.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyxIwx-SmI/AAAAAAAABA8/J0kDJ7nYLtM/s1600-h/1+338.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092640042740763234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyxIwx-SmI/AAAAAAAABA8/J0kDJ7nYLtM/s320/1+338.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqywtQx-SdI/AAAAAAAAA_0/8DAgSUan_ZE/s1600-h/1+341.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092639570294360530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqywtQx-SdI/AAAAAAAAA_0/8DAgSUan_ZE/s320/1+341.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqywtQx-SeI/AAAAAAAAA_8/oopRXN7fnXg/s1600-h/1+368.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092639570294360546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqywtQx-SeI/AAAAAAAAA_8/oopRXN7fnXg/s320/1+368.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqywtgx-SfI/AAAAAAAABAE/NQchXur1GPs/s1600-h/1+374.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092639574589327858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqywtgx-SfI/AAAAAAAABAE/NQchXur1GPs/s320/1+374.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; saw some of the most amazing woodblock prints&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqywtgx-SgI/AAAAAAAABAM/LHo1TuG-ETQ/s1600-h/1+396.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092639574589327874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqywtgx-SgI/AAAAAAAABAM/LHo1TuG-ETQ/s320/1+396.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqywtwx-ShI/AAAAAAAABAU/HUrTP1i_N48/s1600-h/1+399.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092639578884295186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqywtwx-ShI/AAAAAAAABAU/HUrTP1i_N48/s320/1+399.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyv5gx-SYI/AAAAAAAAA_M/dxBYHLgw_cA/s1600-h/1+406.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092638681236130178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyv5gx-SYI/AAAAAAAAA_M/dxBYHLgw_cA/s320/1+406.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyv5wx-SZI/AAAAAAAAA_U/b42hvO693o0/s1600-h/1+409.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092638685531097490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyv5wx-SZI/AAAAAAAAA_U/b42hvO693o0/s320/1+409.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyv6Ax-SaI/AAAAAAAAA_c/wiE5B0MASRM/s1600-h/1+412.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092638689826064802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyv6Ax-SaI/AAAAAAAAA_c/wiE5B0MASRM/s320/1+412.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyv6Qx-SbI/AAAAAAAAA_k/00-qQweycEE/s1600-h/1+418.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092638694121032114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyv6Qx-SbI/AAAAAAAAA_k/00-qQweycEE/s320/1+418.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyv6gx-ScI/AAAAAAAAA_s/AWUd5kKtZZg/s1600-h/1+422.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092638698415999426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyv6gx-ScI/AAAAAAAAA_s/AWUd5kKtZZg/s320/1+422.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-4384828093860452746?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/4384828093860452746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=4384828093860452746&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/4384828093860452746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/4384828093860452746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/07/lost-in-translation.html' title='Lost in Translation'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rq8sUQx-S2I/AAAAAAAABC8/yflG8-BKcws/s72-c/1+135.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-2581623972386914091</id><published>2007-07-12T23:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-29T23:06:04.508+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Back in Hong Kong</title><content type='html'>I have to thank my aunt Deana for showing me and my friends such a great time in Hong Kong, yet again. All the great meals I've had in Hong Kong were thanks to her and my uncle Edwin. Thanks again!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, this first one is for James. James, are you red enough?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqymfAx-SVI/AAAAAAAAA-0/M_QpSA7bAIU/s1600-h/July+7-13+-+A+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092628330364946770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqymfAx-SVI/AAAAAAAAA-0/M_QpSA7bAIU/s320/July+7-13+-+A+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqymfAx-SWI/AAAAAAAAA-8/E4XuB_6P9Gc/s1600-h/July+7-13+-+A+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092628330364946786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqymfAx-SWI/AAAAAAAAA-8/E4XuB_6P9Gc/s320/July+7-13+-+A+008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqymgQx-SXI/AAAAAAAAA_E/1dFfibwHhMk/s1600-h/July+7-13+-+A+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092628351839783282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqymgQx-SXI/AAAAAAAAA_E/1dFfibwHhMk/s320/July+7-13+-+A+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqylTwx-SNI/AAAAAAAAA98/7G09GhrcBX0/s1600-h/July+7-13+-+A+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092627037579790546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqylTwx-SNI/AAAAAAAAA98/7G09GhrcBX0/s320/July+7-13+-+A+011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqylUAx-SOI/AAAAAAAAA-E/Jfis-gcUmug/s1600-h/July+7-13+-+A+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092627041874757858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqylUAx-SOI/AAAAAAAAA-E/Jfis-gcUmug/s320/July+7-13+-+A+013.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqylUQx-SPI/AAAAAAAAA-M/1VIkO6GVRS8/s1600-h/July+7-13+-+A+017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092627046169725170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqylUQx-SPI/AAAAAAAAA-M/1VIkO6GVRS8/s320/July+7-13+-+A+017.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; heading up to the Peak of Hong Kong island.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqylUgx-SQI/AAAAAAAAA-U/a7G5JuVym9s/s1600-h/July+7-13+-+A+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092627050464692482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqylUgx-SQI/AAAAAAAAA-U/a7G5JuVym9s/s320/July+7-13+-+A+021.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; It is impossible to take a bad photo of Hong Kong's skyline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqylUwx-SRI/AAAAAAAAA-c/WP06-9MQJsU/s1600-h/July+7-13+-+A+028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092627054759659794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqylUwx-SRI/AAAAAAAAA-c/WP06-9MQJsU/s320/July+7-13+-+A+028.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; A day at Stanley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyaiAx-SII/AAAAAAAAA9U/XwtPp259h44/s1600-h/1+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092615187765020802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyaiAx-SII/AAAAAAAAA9U/XwtPp259h44/s320/1+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyaiQx-SJI/AAAAAAAAA9c/8mYr6UHIJIs/s1600-h/1+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092615192059988114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyaiQx-SJI/AAAAAAAAA9c/8mYr6UHIJIs/s320/1+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyaiQx-SKI/AAAAAAAAA9k/7iyFjJ_bJmA/s1600-h/1+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092615192059988130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyaiQx-SKI/AAAAAAAAA9k/7iyFjJ_bJmA/s320/1+008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyaigx-SLI/AAAAAAAAA9s/ZZ7-bNFIgkU/s1600-h/1+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092615196354955442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyaigx-SLI/AAAAAAAAA9s/ZZ7-bNFIgkU/s320/1+023.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; markets!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyaiwx-SMI/AAAAAAAAA90/m2DcURl_YHA/s1600-h/1+024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092615200649922754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqyaiwx-SMI/AAAAAAAAA90/m2DcURl_YHA/s320/1+024.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyS2wx-SDI/AAAAAAAAA8s/YA_9L26KHUQ/s1600-h/1+030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092606748154284082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyS2wx-SDI/AAAAAAAAA8s/YA_9L26KHUQ/s320/1+030.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"I'm a laaady!  I do lady things!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyS3Qx-SEI/AAAAAAAAA80/pU_Cdp7d9D4/s1600-h/1+034.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092606756744218690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyS3Qx-SEI/AAAAAAAAA80/pU_Cdp7d9D4/s320/1+034.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; more photos of my greatgrandmother. I love her!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyS3Qx-SFI/AAAAAAAAA88/m0-EZ5AXp3w/s1600-h/1+041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092606756744218706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyS3Qx-SFI/AAAAAAAAA88/m0-EZ5AXp3w/s320/1+041.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyS3gx-SGI/AAAAAAAAA9E/aTM56OWgIUU/s1600-h/1+043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092606761039186018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqyS3gx-SGI/AAAAAAAAA9E/aTM56OWgIUU/s320/1+043.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtLCgx-R-I/AAAAAAAAA8E/k3Fc-NsWUhk/s1600-h/1+075.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092246310203836386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtLCgx-R-I/AAAAAAAAA8E/k3Fc-NsWUhk/s320/1+075.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtLCwx-R_I/AAAAAAAAA8M/ire2MHILx-8/s1600-h/1+088.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092246314498803698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtLCwx-R_I/AAAAAAAAA8M/ire2MHILx-8/s320/1+088.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the building in the middle is being reflected onto the two buildings flanking it. magic!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtLDAx-SAI/AAAAAAAAA8U/gqHah5guYCs/s1600-h/1+103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092246318793771010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtLDAx-SAI/AAAAAAAAA8U/gqHah5guYCs/s320/1+103.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This one's for Evan and Stephen. Remember this vodka? This giant ad was spotted in Central.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtLDQx-SBI/AAAAAAAAA8c/AJwBBWkKUDw/s1600-h/1+115.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092246323088738322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtLDQx-SBI/AAAAAAAAA8c/AJwBBWkKUDw/s320/1+115.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hong Kong at night, yet again!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtLDgx-SCI/AAAAAAAAA8k/8f2Py5rqc44/s1600-h/1+117.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092246327383705634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtLDgx-SCI/AAAAAAAAA8k/8f2Py5rqc44/s320/1+117.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-2581623972386914091?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/2581623972386914091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=2581623972386914091&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2581623972386914091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2581623972386914091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/07/back-in-hong-kong.html' title='Back in Hong Kong'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqymfAx-SVI/AAAAAAAAA-0/M_QpSA7bAIU/s72-c/July+7-13+-+A+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-8479962271895837535</id><published>2007-07-05T21:47:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-29T20:57:44.542+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sanya: A Russian Paradise!</title><content type='html'>our first foggy, stormy day&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJdQx-R4I/AAAAAAAAA7U/FfcMwOs2J-c/s1600-h/June+29-July+6+-+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092244570742081410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJdQx-R4I/AAAAAAAAA7U/FfcMwOs2J-c/s320/June+29-July+6+-+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJdgx-R5I/AAAAAAAAA7c/qVdDjtYL3kU/s1600-h/June+29-July+6+-+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092244575037048722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJdgx-R5I/AAAAAAAAA7c/qVdDjtYL3kU/s320/June+29-July+6+-+004.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJdwx-R6I/AAAAAAAAA7k/1tIEJVMjrr8/s1600-h/June+29-July+6+-+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092244579332016034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJdwx-R6I/AAAAAAAAA7k/1tIEJVMjrr8/s320/June+29-July+6+-+006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJdwx-R7I/AAAAAAAAA7s/hNU8t7hItwE/s1600-h/June+29-July+6+-+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092244579332016050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJdwx-R7I/AAAAAAAAA7s/hNU8t7hItwE/s320/June+29-July+6+-+010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the view from our window...jealous?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJeAx-R8I/AAAAAAAAA70/GzaNmsiApa8/s1600-h/June+29-July+6+-+016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092244583626983362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJeAx-R8I/AAAAAAAAA70/GzaNmsiApa8/s320/June+29-July+6+-+016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we're all looking a bit toasty, eh?  (photo courtesy of Scott)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092244892864628690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJwAx-R9I/AAAAAAAAA78/HDF2k4YZez8/s320/DSC03751.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-8479962271895837535?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/8479962271895837535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=8479962271895837535&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8479962271895837535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8479962271895837535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/07/sanya-russian-paradise.html' title='Sanya: A Russian Paradise!'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqtJdQx-R4I/AAAAAAAAA7U/FfcMwOs2J-c/s72-c/June+29-July+6+-+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-4674024339239510338</id><published>2007-06-29T20:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-27T18:08:57.624+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Korea's got Seoul II</title><content type='html'>more markets.  I do love markets!&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDpwx-RzI/AAAAAAAAA6s/pSni29dOtTY/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+149.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091815975955613490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDpwx-RzI/AAAAAAAAA6s/pSni29dOtTY/s320/June+24-29+-+149.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDqAx-R0I/AAAAAAAAA60/KtPlT90OBVc/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+152.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091815980250580802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDqAx-R0I/AAAAAAAAA60/KtPlT90OBVc/s320/June+24-29+-+152.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDqQx-R1I/AAAAAAAAA68/TM4QswSAr2Y/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+155.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091815984545548114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDqQx-R1I/AAAAAAAAA68/TM4QswSAr2Y/s320/June+24-29+-+155.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDqgx-R2I/AAAAAAAAA7E/42mU_jH_zSU/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+158.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091815988840515426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDqgx-R2I/AAAAAAAAA7E/42mU_jH_zSU/s320/June+24-29+-+158.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDqwx-R3I/AAAAAAAAA7M/uNV3oAUKKWE/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+162.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091815993135482738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDqwx-R3I/AAAAAAAAA7M/uNV3oAUKKWE/s320/June+24-29+-+162.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDKwx-RuI/AAAAAAAAA6E/1eDQTK09zVo/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+169.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091815443379668706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDKwx-RuI/AAAAAAAAA6E/1eDQTK09zVo/s320/June+24-29+-+169.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDKwx-RvI/AAAAAAAAA6M/xjeRbMKCEuI/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+170.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091815443379668722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDKwx-RvI/AAAAAAAAA6M/xjeRbMKCEuI/s320/June+24-29+-+170.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDLAx-RwI/AAAAAAAAA6U/ucMP_gvhdqM/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+172.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091815447674636034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDLAx-RwI/AAAAAAAAA6U/ucMP_gvhdqM/s320/June+24-29+-+172.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a little bit of Morocco in the middle of Seoul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDLAx-RxI/AAAAAAAAA6c/W0uef3LZBzY/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+184.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091815447674636050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDLAx-RxI/AAAAAAAAA6c/W0uef3LZBzY/s320/June+24-29+-+184.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDLQx-RyI/AAAAAAAAA6k/20vyILuPgEI/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+189.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091815451969603362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDLQx-RyI/AAAAAAAAA6k/20vyILuPgEI/s320/June+24-29+-+189.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Stephen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCvgx-RpI/AAAAAAAAA5c/7GxrMtJ_nMo/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+196.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091814975228233362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCvgx-RpI/AAAAAAAAA5c/7GxrMtJ_nMo/s320/June+24-29+-+196.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Marcin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCvgx-RqI/AAAAAAAAA5k/blmZpKT50Zo/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+198.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091814975228233378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCvgx-RqI/AAAAAAAAA5k/blmZpKT50Zo/s320/June+24-29+-+198.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in the DMZ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCvwx-RrI/AAAAAAAAA5s/KBzfGuF_mpw/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+207.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091814979523200690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCvwx-RrI/AAAAAAAAA5s/KBzfGuF_mpw/s320/June+24-29+-+207.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCwAx-RsI/AAAAAAAAA50/4m5jjV2joVM/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+216.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091814983818168002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCwAx-RsI/AAAAAAAAA50/4m5jjV2joVM/s320/June+24-29+-+216.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a brief glimpse into North Korea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCwAx-RtI/AAAAAAAAA58/533Dz2e_b0I/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+224.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091814983818168018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCwAx-RtI/AAAAAAAAA58/533Dz2e_b0I/s320/June+24-29+-+224.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the Freedom Bridge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCYQx-RkI/AAAAAAAAA40/fPJmUGTGg9A/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+241.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091814575796274754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCYQx-RkI/AAAAAAAAA40/fPJmUGTGg9A/s320/June+24-29+-+241.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCYgx-RlI/AAAAAAAAA48/esSgcTisy6c/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+244.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091814580091242066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCYgx-RlI/AAAAAAAAA48/esSgcTisy6c/s320/June+24-29+-+244.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCYwx-RmI/AAAAAAAAA5E/zmhiIl0Ha5Q/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+245.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091814584386209378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCYwx-RmI/AAAAAAAAA5E/zmhiIl0Ha5Q/s320/June+24-29+-+245.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCZAx-RnI/AAAAAAAAA5M/UAd6xgIeOgA/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+247.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091814588681176690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnCZAx-RnI/AAAAAAAAA5M/UAd6xgIeOgA/s320/June+24-29+-+247.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-4674024339239510338?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/4674024339239510338/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=4674024339239510338&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/4674024339239510338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/4674024339239510338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/koreas-got-seoul-ii.html' title='Korea&apos;s got Seoul II'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnDpwx-RzI/AAAAAAAAA6s/pSni29dOtTY/s72-c/June+24-29+-+149.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-4698859975787923607</id><published>2007-06-27T23:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-27T17:58:20.508+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Korea's got Seoul!</title><content type='html'>Firstly, before I go any further, I have to thank Marcin for showing Stephen and I an amazing time in Seoul.  Without him we wouldn't have ever seen or found any of the great places and things that we experienced!  Thanks a bunch!&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAqwx-RjI/AAAAAAAAA4s/Ea4hW-pIKD8/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812694600599090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAqwx-RjI/AAAAAAAAA4s/Ea4hW-pIKD8/s320/June+24-29+-+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this is the place where the little fish eat the dead skin off your feet...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAhgx-ReI/AAAAAAAAA4E/yVzqZpVsRA0/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812535686809058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAhgx-ReI/AAAAAAAAA4E/yVzqZpVsRA0/s320/June+24-29+-+010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAhwx-RfI/AAAAAAAAA4M/tHVJR32n2Yc/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812539981776370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAhwx-RfI/AAAAAAAAA4M/tHVJR32n2Yc/s320/June+24-29+-+016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; strange heart-like sea creatures...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAiQx-RgI/AAAAAAAAA4U/THbB8g2ZX94/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812548571710978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAiQx-RgI/AAAAAAAAA4U/THbB8g2ZX94/s320/June+24-29+-+017.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; parking lot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAiQx-RhI/AAAAAAAAA4c/52lbtsgRGGw/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812548571710994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAiQx-RhI/AAAAAAAAA4c/52lbtsgRGGw/s320/June+24-29+-+022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; cold noodles!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAiwx-RiI/AAAAAAAAA4k/iQt495ylUuA/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812557161645602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAiwx-RiI/AAAAAAAAA4k/iQt495ylUuA/s320/June+24-29+-+025.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAFQx-RZI/AAAAAAAAA3c/94615bfwU_w/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812050355504530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAFQx-RZI/AAAAAAAAA3c/94615bfwU_w/s320/June+24-29+-+029.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAFgx-RaI/AAAAAAAAA3k/MhzpGUA9Ktg/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+034.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812054650471842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAFgx-RaI/AAAAAAAAA3k/MhzpGUA9Ktg/s320/June+24-29+-+034.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Stephen, Marcin and I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAFwx-RbI/AAAAAAAAA3s/mtAvFHyY-7o/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+035.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812058945439154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAFwx-RbI/AAAAAAAAA3s/mtAvFHyY-7o/s320/June+24-29+-+035.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAGAx-RcI/AAAAAAAAA30/3jw5CP5u8ZA/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812063240406466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAGAx-RcI/AAAAAAAAA30/3jw5CP5u8ZA/s320/June+24-29+-+041.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAGgx-RdI/AAAAAAAAA38/tgxyPdL5t7k/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+053.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091812071830341074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAGgx-RdI/AAAAAAAAA38/tgxyPdL5t7k/s320/June+24-29+-+053.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm-hgx-RUI/AAAAAAAAA20/d5GQYmQDljI/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091810336663553346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm-hgx-RUI/AAAAAAAAA20/d5GQYmQDljI/s320/June+24-29+-+057.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;great dumplings!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm-hwx-RVI/AAAAAAAAA28/2quFm_E0YTI/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+064.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091810340958520658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm-hwx-RVI/AAAAAAAAA28/2quFm_E0YTI/s320/June+24-29+-+064.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm-iAx-RWI/AAAAAAAAA3E/Vzk5XJbBD4U/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+067.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091810345253487970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm-iAx-RWI/AAAAAAAAA3E/Vzk5XJbBD4U/s320/June+24-29+-+067.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm-iQx-RXI/AAAAAAAAA3M/bocrMv7k4G4/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+068.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091810349548455282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm-iQx-RXI/AAAAAAAAA3M/bocrMv7k4G4/s320/June+24-29+-+068.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm-igx-RYI/AAAAAAAAA3U/T44RC8qt5YM/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+104.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091810353843422594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm-igx-RYI/AAAAAAAAA3U/T44RC8qt5YM/s320/June+24-29+-+104.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm9TQx-RPI/AAAAAAAAA2M/-mTU7gGKTTY/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+130.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091808992338789618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm9TQx-RPI/AAAAAAAAA2M/-mTU7gGKTTY/s320/June+24-29+-+130.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm9Tgx-RQI/AAAAAAAAA2U/jzdbtA-4-40/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+135.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091808996633756930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm9Tgx-RQI/AAAAAAAAA2U/jzdbtA-4-40/s320/June+24-29+-+135.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm9Tgx-RRI/AAAAAAAAA2c/h_HDDc8zTvI/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+141.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091808996633756946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm9Tgx-RRI/AAAAAAAAA2c/h_HDDc8zTvI/s320/June+24-29+-+141.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm9Twx-RSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/pdzE-nmckzY/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+145.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091809000928724258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm9Twx-RSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/pdzE-nmckzY/s320/June+24-29+-+145.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm9UAx-RTI/AAAAAAAAA2s/1B_lJIb51uc/s1600-h/June+24-29+-+148.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091809005223691570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm9UAx-RTI/AAAAAAAAA2s/1B_lJIb51uc/s320/June+24-29+-+148.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-4698859975787923607?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/4698859975787923607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=4698859975787923607&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/4698859975787923607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/4698859975787923607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/koreas-got-seoul.html' title='Korea&apos;s got Seoul!'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RqnAqwx-RjI/AAAAAAAAA4s/Ea4hW-pIKD8/s72-c/June+24-29+-+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-1016332379857323605</id><published>2007-06-23T21:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-27T17:35:02.295+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Goodbye Beijing!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7fQx-RNI/AAAAAAAAA18/SzxO8bUPpYA/s1600-h/May+24-30+-+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806999473964242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7fQx-RNI/AAAAAAAAA18/SzxO8bUPpYA/s320/May+24-30+-+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7fQx-ROI/AAAAAAAAA2E/q-vFYwFqZrA/s1600-h/May+24-30+-+031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806999473964258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7fQx-ROI/AAAAAAAAA2E/q-vFYwFqZrA/s320/May+24-30+-+031.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cao Chang Di's Time Square&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7RQx-RII/AAAAAAAAA1U/ixsoj9WHwoE/s1600-h/May+24-30+-+171.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806758955795586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7RQx-RII/AAAAAAAAA1U/ixsoj9WHwoE/s320/May+24-30+-+171.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7Rgx-RJI/AAAAAAAAA1c/ZBdnb-STyhI/s1600-h/May+24-30+-+177.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806763250762898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7Rgx-RJI/AAAAAAAAA1c/ZBdnb-STyhI/s320/May+24-30+-+177.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7Rwx-RKI/AAAAAAAAA1k/5JWIem3ECBQ/s1600-h/May+24-30+-+179.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806767545730210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7Rwx-RKI/AAAAAAAAA1k/5JWIem3ECBQ/s320/May+24-30+-+179.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;some of the best dumplings are made here...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7SAx-RLI/AAAAAAAAA1s/gdYH2BqhU8g/s1600-h/May+24-30+-+185.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806771840697522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7SAx-RLI/AAAAAAAAA1s/gdYH2BqhU8g/s320/May+24-30+-+185.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7SQx-RMI/AAAAAAAAA10/1GTont7gPvw/s1600-h/May+24-30+-+186.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806776135664834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7SQx-RMI/AAAAAAAAA10/1GTont7gPvw/s320/May+24-30+-+186.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the best bread!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm65Ax-RDI/AAAAAAAAA0s/eYBX7hdOVOw/s1600-h/May+24-30+-+195.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806342343967794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm65Ax-RDI/AAAAAAAAA0s/eYBX7hdOVOw/s320/May+24-30+-+195.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm65Qx-RFI/AAAAAAAAA08/ST0Ii3L04kk/s1600-h/May+24-30+-+208.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806346638935122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm65Qx-RFI/AAAAAAAAA08/ST0Ii3L04kk/s320/May+24-30+-+208.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm65gx-RGI/AAAAAAAAA1E/q-Fks-kICA0/s1600-h/May+24-30+-+210.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806350933902434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm65gx-RGI/AAAAAAAAA1E/q-Fks-kICA0/s320/May+24-30+-+210.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm65wx-RHI/AAAAAAAAA1M/GmBKcizENPU/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+202.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091806355228869746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm65wx-RHI/AAAAAAAAA1M/GmBKcizENPU/s320/June+16-17+-+202.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Burning Meats IV&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6awx-Q-I/AAAAAAAAA0E/9qQwfPgOeP4/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+216.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091805822652924898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6awx-Q-I/AAAAAAAAA0E/9qQwfPgOeP4/s320/June+16-17+-+216.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6bQx-Q_I/AAAAAAAAA0M/r5a1d51-BIg/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+225.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091805831242859506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6bQx-Q_I/AAAAAAAAA0M/r5a1d51-BIg/s320/June+16-17+-+225.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6bQx-RAI/AAAAAAAAA0U/mEDDmWFqbFs/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+237.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091805831242859522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6bQx-RAI/AAAAAAAAA0U/mEDDmWFqbFs/s320/June+16-17+-+237.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6bgx-RBI/AAAAAAAAA0c/qqtuVQcN6QM/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+240.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091805835537826834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6bgx-RBI/AAAAAAAAA0c/qqtuVQcN6QM/s320/June+16-17+-+240.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6bwx-RCI/AAAAAAAAA0k/wnAqkzMGfdQ/s1600-h/June+22+-+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091805839832794146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6bwx-RCI/AAAAAAAAA0k/wnAqkzMGfdQ/s320/June+22+-+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the last party at BASE &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6FQx-Q5I/AAAAAAAAAzc/-zjdiwyW2Jg/s1600-h/June+22+-+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091805453285737362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6FQx-Q5I/AAAAAAAAAzc/-zjdiwyW2Jg/s320/June+22+-+008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6Fwx-Q6I/AAAAAAAAAzk/X66aQPNbHnw/s1600-h/June+22+-+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091805461875671970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6Fwx-Q6I/AAAAAAAAAzk/X66aQPNbHnw/s320/June+22+-+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (a whole goat!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6Gwx-Q7I/AAAAAAAAAzs/wveZ07TWUMs/s1600-h/June+22+-+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091805479055541170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6Gwx-Q7I/AAAAAAAAAzs/wveZ07TWUMs/s320/June+22+-+012.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6Gwx-Q8I/AAAAAAAAAz0/UhEU_Vxbysw/s1600-h/June+23+A+-+027.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091805479055541186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6Gwx-Q8I/AAAAAAAAAz0/UhEU_Vxbysw/s320/June+23+A+-+027.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Madame Yang&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6Hgx-Q9I/AAAAAAAAAz8/Zo3paoxBxso/s1600-h/June+23+A+-+049.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091805491940443090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm6Hgx-Q9I/AAAAAAAAAz8/Zo3paoxBxso/s320/June+23+A+-+049.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-1016332379857323605?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/1016332379857323605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=1016332379857323605&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/1016332379857323605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/1016332379857323605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/goodbye-beijing.html' title='Goodbye Beijing!'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm7fQx-RNI/AAAAAAAAA18/SzxO8bUPpYA/s72-c/May+24-30+-+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-8291169205339739649</id><published>2007-06-17T17:12:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-27T17:22:11.964+08:00</updated><title type='text'>first glimpse at the Olympic Village</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm5Ggx-Q3I/AAAAAAAAAzM/pL6em_Z_ux8/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091804375248946034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm5Ggx-Q3I/AAAAAAAAAzM/pL6em_Z_ux8/s320/June+16-17+-+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm5Ggx-Q4I/AAAAAAAAAzU/eY-r22PnSIk/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+034.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091804375248946050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm5Ggx-Q4I/AAAAAAAAAzU/eY-r22PnSIk/s320/June+16-17+-+034.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm46gx-QyI/AAAAAAAAAyk/DcquULblZYA/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+042.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091804169090515746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm46gx-QyI/AAAAAAAAAyk/DcquULblZYA/s320/June+16-17+-+042.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm46wx-QzI/AAAAAAAAAys/5k-HEXFIjvM/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+058.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091804173385483058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm46wx-QzI/AAAAAAAAAys/5k-HEXFIjvM/s320/June+16-17+-+058.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm47Ax-Q0I/AAAAAAAAAy0/_Fh6sXrdeIw/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+087.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091804177680450370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm47Ax-Q0I/AAAAAAAAAy0/_Fh6sXrdeIw/s320/June+16-17+-+087.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm47Ax-Q1I/AAAAAAAAAy8/GUyMjCNWlnQ/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+148.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091804177680450386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm47Ax-Q1I/AAAAAAAAAy8/GUyMjCNWlnQ/s320/June+16-17+-+148.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm47Qx-Q2I/AAAAAAAAAzE/vnqxStSb3ds/s1600-h/June+16-17+-+155.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091804181975417698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm47Qx-Q2I/AAAAAAAAAzE/vnqxStSb3ds/s320/June+16-17+-+155.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-8291169205339739649?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/8291169205339739649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=8291169205339739649&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8291169205339739649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8291169205339739649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/first-glimpse-at-olympic-village.html' title='first glimpse at the Olympic Village'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rqm5Ggx-Q3I/AAAAAAAAAzM/pL6em_Z_ux8/s72-c/June+16-17+-+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-6703573141023207451</id><published>2007-06-09T23:48:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-06T19:59:21.937+08:00</updated><title type='text'>back in Ping Gu village</title><content type='html'>some kind of donkey wedding?&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4uQpnEl2I/AAAAAAAAAyc/dAdR2cCDX1s/s1600-h/June+9+-+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084051892930385762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4uQpnEl2I/AAAAAAAAAyc/dAdR2cCDX1s/s320/June+9+-+015.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4tw5nElxI/AAAAAAAAAx0/ugNQaMM2F_A/s1600-h/June+9+-+033.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084051347469539090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4tw5nElxI/AAAAAAAAAx0/ugNQaMM2F_A/s320/June+9+-+033.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4txZnElyI/AAAAAAAAAx8/kAlugnOaT7A/s1600-h/June+9+-+037.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084051356059473698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4txZnElyI/AAAAAAAAAx8/kAlugnOaT7A/s320/June+9+-+037.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4tx5nElzI/AAAAAAAAAyE/FyC6H0D13rc/s1600-h/June+9+-+043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084051364649408306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4tx5nElzI/AAAAAAAAAyE/FyC6H0D13rc/s320/June+9+-+043.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4tyJnEl0I/AAAAAAAAAyM/xQ3ZAu_zt_U/s1600-h/June+9+-+050.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084051368944375618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4tyJnEl0I/AAAAAAAAAyM/xQ3ZAu_zt_U/s320/June+9+-+050.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4tyZnEl1I/AAAAAAAAAyU/qYCJ_WvICvg/s1600-h/June+9+-+057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084051373239342930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4tyZnEl1I/AAAAAAAAAyU/qYCJ_WvICvg/s320/June+9+-+057.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4siJnElsI/AAAAAAAAAxM/uO5NxPScAfs/s1600-h/June+9+-+161.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084049994554840770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4siJnElsI/AAAAAAAAAxM/uO5NxPScAfs/s320/June+9+-+161.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4sipnEltI/AAAAAAAAAxU/KARcdgn5giM/s1600-h/June+9+-+170.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084050003144775378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4sipnEltI/AAAAAAAAAxU/KARcdgn5giM/s320/June+9+-+170.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4sjJnEluI/AAAAAAAAAxc/G5FTXiDP1Po/s1600-h/June+9+-+231.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084050011734709986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4sjJnEluI/AAAAAAAAAxc/G5FTXiDP1Po/s320/June+9+-+231.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4sj5nElvI/AAAAAAAAAxk/JzMd6oTn_M0/s1600-h/June+9+-+302.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084050024619611890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4sj5nElvI/AAAAAAAAAxk/JzMd6oTn_M0/s320/June+9+-+302.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4skpnElwI/AAAAAAAAAxs/q02i7xvAJIc/s1600-h/June+9+-+308.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084050037504513794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4skpnElwI/AAAAAAAAAxs/q02i7xvAJIc/s320/June+9+-+308.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-6703573141023207451?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6703573141023207451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=6703573141023207451&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6703573141023207451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6703573141023207451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/back-in-ping-gu-village.html' title='back in Ping Gu village'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4uQpnEl2I/AAAAAAAAAyc/dAdR2cCDX1s/s72-c/June+9+-+015.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-7762215597056466123</id><published>2007-06-08T23:40:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-06T19:44:04.795+08:00</updated><title type='text'>back and BASE</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4qtpnElnI/AAAAAAAAAwk/cgxqEmoFgFs/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+397.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084047993100080754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4qtpnElnI/AAAAAAAAAwk/cgxqEmoFgFs/s320/June+6-8+-+397.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4qt5nEloI/AAAAAAAAAws/QxVHd-zrqtY/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+400.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084047997395048066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4qt5nEloI/AAAAAAAAAws/QxVHd-zrqtY/s320/June+6-8+-+400.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4qt5nElpI/AAAAAAAAAw0/8-gBJNwJPDw/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+412.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084047997395048082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4qt5nElpI/AAAAAAAAAw0/8-gBJNwJPDw/s320/June+6-8+-+412.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4quJnElqI/AAAAAAAAAw8/wrkKatB6mew/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+423.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084048001690015394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4quJnElqI/AAAAAAAAAw8/wrkKatB6mew/s320/June+6-8+-+423.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4qwZnElrI/AAAAAAAAAxE/jGmSY3zKd3g/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+426.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084048040344721074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4qwZnElrI/AAAAAAAAAxE/jGmSY3zKd3g/s320/June+6-8+-+426.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-7762215597056466123?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/7762215597056466123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=7762215597056466123&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/7762215597056466123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/7762215597056466123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/07/back-and-base.html' title='back and BASE'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4qtpnElnI/AAAAAAAAAwk/cgxqEmoFgFs/s72-c/June+6-8+-+397.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-6793414923121692145</id><published>2007-06-06T23:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-06T19:40:43.209+08:00</updated><title type='text'>craziness in Shanghai</title><content type='html'>ceramics at the Shanghai Museum&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4pK5nElkI/AAAAAAAAAwM/hEvepYEcrS0/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+091.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084046296587998786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4pK5nElkI/AAAAAAAAAwM/hEvepYEcrS0/s320/June+6-8+-+091.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4pLJnEllI/AAAAAAAAAwU/q53_Ja-MHEs/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+095.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084046300882966098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4pLJnEllI/AAAAAAAAAwU/q53_Ja-MHEs/s320/June+6-8+-+095.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a night of sushi, sake and karaoke&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4pL5nElmI/AAAAAAAAAwc/qMkfjXHW81E/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+325.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084046313767868002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4pL5nElmI/AAAAAAAAAwc/qMkfjXHW81E/s320/June+6-8+-+325.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4o0pnElfI/AAAAAAAAAvk/GrgxPtfoYww/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+330.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084045914335909362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4o0pnElfI/AAAAAAAAAvk/GrgxPtfoYww/s320/June+6-8+-+330.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4o1JnElgI/AAAAAAAAAvs/31tFXGdNDhs/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+334.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084045922925843970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4o1JnElgI/AAAAAAAAAvs/31tFXGdNDhs/s320/June+6-8+-+334.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4o1ZnElhI/AAAAAAAAAv0/HmICUbUtePo/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+373.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084045927220811282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4o1ZnElhI/AAAAAAAAAv0/HmICUbUtePo/s320/June+6-8+-+373.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4o2JnEliI/AAAAAAAAAv8/tU3HvkuXiQY/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+376.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084045940105713186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4o2JnEliI/AAAAAAAAAv8/tU3HvkuXiQY/s320/June+6-8+-+376.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4o2ZnEljI/AAAAAAAAAwE/5iVl6GMihsw/s1600-h/June+6-8+-+377.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084045944400680498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4o2ZnEljI/AAAAAAAAAwE/5iVl6GMihsw/s320/June+6-8+-+377.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-6793414923121692145?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6793414923121692145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=6793414923121692145&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6793414923121692145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6793414923121692145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/craziness-in-shanghai.html' title='craziness in Shanghai'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Ro4pK5nElkI/AAAAAAAAAwM/hEvepYEcrS0/s72-c/June+6-8+-+091.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-2143229666736771043</id><published>2007-06-05T23:45:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-18T22:15:24.745+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Socialist village</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaSWiMIEeI/AAAAAAAAAvU/vz4Nk-aCAFU/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077406545739256290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaSWiMIEeI/AAAAAAAAAvU/vz4Nk-aCAFU/s320/June+5+A+-+100.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaSWyMIEfI/AAAAAAAAAvc/s_cjQGdWm-c/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+266.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077406550034223602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaSWyMIEfI/AAAAAAAAAvc/s_cjQGdWm-c/s320/June+5+A+-+266.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;possibly one of the craziest places I've been....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaR9yMIEZI/AAAAAAAAAus/qm2vy-VKIbM/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+338.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077406120537493906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaR9yMIEZI/AAAAAAAAAus/qm2vy-VKIbM/s320/June+5+A+-+338.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I can't explain this one&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaR-CMIEaI/AAAAAAAAAu0/nd1vmFHtrww/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+351.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077406124832461218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaR-CMIEaI/AAAAAAAAAu0/nd1vmFHtrww/s320/June+5+A+-+351.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaR-SMIEbI/AAAAAAAAAu8/pAK7C7nC388/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+374.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077406129127428530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaR-SMIEbI/AAAAAAAAAu8/pAK7C7nC388/s320/June+5+A+-+374.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaR-iMIEcI/AAAAAAAAAvE/UapGvOxFHhI/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+383.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077406133422395842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaR-iMIEcI/AAAAAAAAAvE/UapGvOxFHhI/s320/June+5+A+-+383.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaR-yMIEdI/AAAAAAAAAvM/btd-kBoVWDY/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+425.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077406137717363154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaR-yMIEdI/AAAAAAAAAvM/btd-kBoVWDY/s320/June+5+A+-+425.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaRgiMIEUI/AAAAAAAAAuE/JWp-yH0Fah4/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+428.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077405618026320194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaRgiMIEUI/AAAAAAAAAuE/JWp-yH0Fah4/s320/June+5+A+-+428.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the village as seen from the tower:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaRgyMIEVI/AAAAAAAAAuM/PImx0pwa-Z8/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+447.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077405622321287506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaRgyMIEVI/AAAAAAAAAuM/PImx0pwa-Z8/s320/June+5+A+-+447.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaRhCMIEWI/AAAAAAAAAuU/B_UURzRc_fA/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+453.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077405626616254818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaRhCMIEWI/AAAAAAAAAuU/B_UURzRc_fA/s320/June+5+A+-+453.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;more animal shaped buildings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaRhSMIEXI/AAAAAAAAAuc/D831XfNixw8/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+458.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077405630911222130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaRhSMIEXI/AAAAAAAAAuc/D831XfNixw8/s320/June+5+A+-+458.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaRhSMIEYI/AAAAAAAAAuk/z0qCWNIQFes/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+464.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077405630911222146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaRhSMIEYI/AAAAAAAAAuk/z0qCWNIQFes/s320/June+5+A+-+464.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stephen, as seen from the tower&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaQySMIEPI/AAAAAAAAAtc/1UfshAWLAEI/s1600-h/June+5+A+-+518.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077404823457370354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaQySMIEPI/AAAAAAAAAtc/1UfshAWLAEI/s320/June+5+A+-+518.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;boat cruise along the river&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaQyiMIEQI/AAAAAAAAAtk/CiCcspWWK4E/s1600-h/June+5+B+-+016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077404827752337666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaQyiMIEQI/AAAAAAAAAtk/CiCcspWWK4E/s320/June+5+B+-+016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaQzSMIESI/AAAAAAAAAt0/fUAIrZIuafw/s1600-h/June+5+B+-+060.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077404840637239586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaQzSMIESI/AAAAAAAAAt0/fUAIrZIuafw/s320/June+5+B+-+060.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaQziMIETI/AAAAAAAAAt8/A6mG4-yXJDI/s1600-h/June+5+B+-+063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077404844932206898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaQziMIETI/AAAAAAAAAt8/A6mG4-yXJDI/s320/June+5+B+-+063.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-2143229666736771043?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/2143229666736771043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=2143229666736771043&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2143229666736771043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2143229666736771043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/socialist-village.html' title='Socialist village'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RnaSWiMIEeI/AAAAAAAAAvU/vz4Nk-aCAFU/s72-c/June+5+A+-+100.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-672914899946807410</id><published>2007-06-04T23:48:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-11T20:04:39.621+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Zhujiajiao + Qingpu</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05YyMIEKI/AAAAAAAAAs0/BneKG5O-EN8/s1600-h/June+4+-+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074775453068693666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05YyMIEKI/AAAAAAAAAs0/BneKG5O-EN8/s320/June+4+-+010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05ZCMIELI/AAAAAAAAAs8/kPGRTdy4RzA/s1600-h/June+4+-+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074775457363660978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05ZCMIELI/AAAAAAAAAs8/kPGRTdy4RzA/s320/June+4+-+015.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05ZCMIEMI/AAAAAAAAAtE/C50YtaF2VAw/s1600-h/June+4+-+031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074775457363660994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05ZCMIEMI/AAAAAAAAAtE/C50YtaF2VAw/s320/June+4+-+031.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05ZSMIENI/AAAAAAAAAtM/XdsGp-GoEZM/s1600-h/June+4+-+036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074775461658628306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05ZSMIENI/AAAAAAAAAtM/XdsGp-GoEZM/s320/June+4+-+036.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05ZiMIEOI/AAAAAAAAAtU/Nkzh6iaYMgE/s1600-h/June+4+-+038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074775465953595618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05ZiMIEOI/AAAAAAAAAtU/Nkzh6iaYMgE/s320/June+4+-+038.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for mom:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm047yMIEFI/AAAAAAAAAsM/kPa7T-z1g9w/s1600-h/June+4+-+046.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074774954852487250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm047yMIEFI/AAAAAAAAAsM/kPa7T-z1g9w/s320/June+4+-+046.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm048CMIEGI/AAAAAAAAAsU/-0yMg-3GbE4/s1600-h/June+4+-+058.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074774959147454562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm048CMIEGI/AAAAAAAAAsU/-0yMg-3GbE4/s320/June+4+-+058.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm048SMIEHI/AAAAAAAAAsc/ZAYpupP14x4/s1600-h/June+4+-+074.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074774963442421874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm048SMIEHI/AAAAAAAAAsc/ZAYpupP14x4/s320/June+4+-+074.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm048iMIEII/AAAAAAAAAsk/FNFks94YBkA/s1600-h/June+4+-+080.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074774967737389186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm048iMIEII/AAAAAAAAAsk/FNFks94YBkA/s320/June+4+-+080.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm048iMIEJI/AAAAAAAAAss/87l-v00BR0s/s1600-h/June+4+-+086.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074774967737389202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm048iMIEJI/AAAAAAAAAss/87l-v00BR0s/s320/June+4+-+086.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm04LyMIEAI/AAAAAAAAArk/vnTCrE9wHDE/s1600-h/June+4+-+102.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074774130218766338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm04LyMIEAI/AAAAAAAAArk/vnTCrE9wHDE/s320/June+4+-+102.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm04MCMIEBI/AAAAAAAAArs/TP93e5JmzU8/s1600-h/June+4+-+110.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074774134513733650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm04MCMIEBI/AAAAAAAAArs/TP93e5JmzU8/s320/June+4+-+110.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;river shrimp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm04MCMIECI/AAAAAAAAAr0/wPJhkxCGPI0/s1600-h/June+4+-+116.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074774134513733666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm04MCMIECI/AAAAAAAAAr0/wPJhkxCGPI0/s320/June+4+-+116.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a M.A.D.A spam project in Qingpu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm04MSMIEDI/AAAAAAAAAr8/NAFmSMvKW-0/s1600-h/June+4+-+158.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074774138808700978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm04MSMIEDI/AAAAAAAAAr8/NAFmSMvKW-0/s320/June+4+-+158.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm04MiMIEEI/AAAAAAAAAsE/3z_llxbJUHc/s1600-h/June+4+-+171.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074774143103668290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm04MiMIEEI/AAAAAAAAAsE/3z_llxbJUHc/s320/June+4+-+171.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atelier Deshaus' take on the modernist cube&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm03rCMID7I/AAAAAAAAAq8/jriGFkhJHXQ/s1600-h/June+4+-+210.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074773567578050482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm03rCMID7I/AAAAAAAAAq8/jriGFkhJHXQ/s320/June+4+-+210.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm03rSMID8I/AAAAAAAAArE/AY0dbEhCZ4M/s1600-h/June+4+-+220.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074773571873017794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm03rSMID8I/AAAAAAAAArE/AY0dbEhCZ4M/s320/June+4+-+220.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm03riMID9I/AAAAAAAAArM/39p9G60HWjg/s1600-h/June+4+-+221.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074773576167985106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm03riMID9I/AAAAAAAAArM/39p9G60HWjg/s320/June+4+-+221.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm03ryMID-I/AAAAAAAAArU/uaOzvPPVLnQ/s1600-h/June+4+-+222.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074773580462952418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm03ryMID-I/AAAAAAAAArU/uaOzvPPVLnQ/s320/June+4+-+222.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;from the 54th floor lobby in the Pudong Jinmao tower&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm03ryMID_I/AAAAAAAAArc/kH4dnvz5z3Q/s1600-h/June+4+-+250.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074773580462952434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm03ryMID_I/AAAAAAAAArc/kH4dnvz5z3Q/s320/June+4+-+250.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-672914899946807410?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/672914899946807410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=672914899946807410&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/672914899946807410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/672914899946807410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/zhujiajiao-qingpu.html' title='Zhujiajiao + Qingpu'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm05YyMIEKI/AAAAAAAAAs0/BneKG5O-EN8/s72-c/June+4+-+010.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-7727656757655829435</id><published>2007-06-03T23:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-11T19:48:48.819+08:00</updated><title type='text'>gardens in Suzhou</title><content type='html'>Humble Administrator's Garden&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm02NiMID6I/AAAAAAAAAq0/WWjvIt1uug8/s1600-h/June+3+-+102.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074771961260281762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm02NiMID6I/AAAAAAAAAq0/WWjvIt1uug8/s320/June+3+-+102.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm014CMID4I/AAAAAAAAAqk/8s7pxxBewTU/s1600-h/June+3+-+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074771591893094274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm014CMID4I/AAAAAAAAAqk/8s7pxxBewTU/s320/June+3+-+006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm014SMID5I/AAAAAAAAAqs/z_hzFqEI6Gc/s1600-h/June+3+-+031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074771596188061586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm014SMID5I/AAAAAAAAAqs/z_hzFqEI6Gc/s320/June+3+-+031.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm01diMIDzI/AAAAAAAAAp8/f9Xj7isZW3I/s1600-h/June+3+-+071.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074771136626560818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm01diMIDzI/AAAAAAAAAp8/f9Xj7isZW3I/s320/June+3+-+071.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm01eCMID1I/AAAAAAAAAqM/Jp6AXK4wzVc/s1600-h/June+3+-+108.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074771145216495442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm01eCMID1I/AAAAAAAAAqM/Jp6AXK4wzVc/s320/June+3+-+108.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm01eyMID2I/AAAAAAAAAqU/6hE0QaRLwfc/s1600-h/June+3+-+117.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074771158101397346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm01eyMID2I/AAAAAAAAAqU/6hE0QaRLwfc/s320/June+3+-+117.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm01fCMID3I/AAAAAAAAAqc/qPHOJjMcQAU/s1600-h/June+3+-+123.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074771162396364658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm01fCMID3I/AAAAAAAAAqc/qPHOJjMcQAU/s320/June+3+-+123.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;back downtown&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm007yMIDuI/AAAAAAAAApU/TFsmDYIrbOE/s1600-h/June+3+-+127.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074770556805975778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm007yMIDuI/AAAAAAAAApU/TFsmDYIrbOE/s320/June+3+-+127.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm008CMIDvI/AAAAAAAAApc/qwc2Ekbq8_E/s1600-h/June+3+-+130.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074770561100943090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm008CMIDvI/AAAAAAAAApc/qwc2Ekbq8_E/s320/June+3+-+130.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm008CMIDwI/AAAAAAAAApk/B-IwXV0H9kw/s1600-h/June+3+-+133.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074770561100943106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm008CMIDwI/AAAAAAAAApk/B-IwXV0H9kw/s320/June+3+-+133.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm008SMIDxI/AAAAAAAAAps/iVypwqI5zCo/s1600-h/June+3+-+138.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074770565395910418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm008SMIDxI/AAAAAAAAAps/iVypwqI5zCo/s320/June+3+-+138.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm008iMIDyI/AAAAAAAAAp0/I2hGW_PgnFc/s1600-h/June+3+-+142.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074770569690877730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm008iMIDyI/AAAAAAAAAp0/I2hGW_PgnFc/s320/June+3+-+142.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-7727656757655829435?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/7727656757655829435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=7727656757655829435&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/7727656757655829435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/7727656757655829435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/gardens-in-suzhou.html' title='gardens in Suzhou'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm02NiMID6I/AAAAAAAAAq0/WWjvIt1uug8/s72-c/June+3+-+102.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-6229470884794760865</id><published>2007-06-02T23:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-11T19:39:22.387+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shanghai again.</title><content type='html'>around the neighbourhood&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0zZyMIDqI/AAAAAAAAAo0/x_PfaZSD_Ek/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+289.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074768873178795682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0zZyMIDqI/AAAAAAAAAo0/x_PfaZSD_Ek/s320/June+1-2+-+289.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0zaCMIDrI/AAAAAAAAAo8/PQhAQWJ1rMs/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+290.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074768877473762994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0zaCMIDrI/AAAAAAAAAo8/PQhAQWJ1rMs/s320/June+1-2+-+290.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0zaSMIDsI/AAAAAAAAApE/VDjwdmtEiRE/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+296.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074768881768730306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0zaSMIDsI/AAAAAAAAApE/VDjwdmtEiRE/s320/June+1-2+-+296.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;watermelon?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0zaSMIDtI/AAAAAAAAApM/nbqy8jH80oE/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+305.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074768881768730322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0zaSMIDtI/AAAAAAAAApM/nbqy8jH80oE/s320/June+1-2+-+305.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yjSMIDlI/AAAAAAAAAoM/Gqi03OmWbmM/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+312.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074767936875925074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yjSMIDlI/AAAAAAAAAoM/Gqi03OmWbmM/s320/June+1-2+-+312.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yjiMIDmI/AAAAAAAAAoU/HkD9zU46v3M/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+317.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074767941170892386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yjiMIDmI/AAAAAAAAAoU/HkD9zU46v3M/s320/June+1-2+-+317.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pudong&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yjyMIDnI/AAAAAAAAAoc/AgMvVxU8up8/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+335.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074767945465859698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yjyMIDnI/AAAAAAAAAoc/AgMvVxU8up8/s320/June+1-2+-+335.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the Bund&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yjyMIDoI/AAAAAAAAAok/8blJMYT7UZw/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+340.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074767945465859714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yjyMIDoI/AAAAAAAAAok/8blJMYT7UZw/s320/June+1-2+-+340.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0ykCMIDpI/AAAAAAAAAos/_7au5ED9z5s/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+346.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074767949760827026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0ykCMIDpI/AAAAAAAAAos/_7au5ED9z5s/s320/June+1-2+-+346.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yDSMIDgI/AAAAAAAAAnk/l2KMXx72jD0/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+354.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074767387120111106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yDSMIDgI/AAAAAAAAAnk/l2KMXx72jD0/s320/June+1-2+-+354.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; lace?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yDSMIDhI/AAAAAAAAAns/79vPi9XLj0A/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+370.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074767387120111122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yDSMIDhI/AAAAAAAAAns/79vPi9XLj0A/s320/June+1-2+-+370.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yDiMIDiI/AAAAAAAAAn0/Wcah6dlmfcI/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+376.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074767391415078434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yDiMIDiI/AAAAAAAAAn0/Wcah6dlmfcI/s320/June+1-2+-+376.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yDyMIDjI/AAAAAAAAAn8/2VkniAYfSEU/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+380.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074767395710045746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yDyMIDjI/AAAAAAAAAn8/2VkniAYfSEU/s320/June+1-2+-+380.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yu Yuan Gardens&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yECMIDkI/AAAAAAAAAoE/pTTFgArEgbk/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+394.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074767400005013058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0yECMIDkI/AAAAAAAAAoE/pTTFgArEgbk/s320/June+1-2+-+394.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; textiles?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0xhiMIDbI/AAAAAAAAAm8/oT7c3S9K-7o/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+418.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074766807299526066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0xhiMIDbI/AAAAAAAAAm8/oT7c3S9K-7o/s320/June+1-2+-+418.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;this one's for dad: I think it's some kind of hologram...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0xhyMIDcI/AAAAAAAAAnE/bNlX7juQwA8/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+452.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074766811594493378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0xhyMIDcI/AAAAAAAAAnE/bNlX7juQwA8/s320/June+1-2+-+452.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0xhyMIDdI/AAAAAAAAAnM/8L-XctNTC4Y/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+453.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074766811594493394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0xhyMIDdI/AAAAAAAAAnM/8L-XctNTC4Y/s320/June+1-2+-+453.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0xiCMIDeI/AAAAAAAAAnU/w0a_1Klab5Q/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+506.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074766815889460706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0xiCMIDeI/AAAAAAAAAnU/w0a_1Klab5Q/s320/June+1-2+-+506.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0xiSMIDfI/AAAAAAAAAnc/d_VGY7KAKOA/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+509.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074766820184428018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0xiSMIDfI/AAAAAAAAAnc/d_VGY7KAKOA/s320/June+1-2+-+509.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-6229470884794760865?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6229470884794760865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=6229470884794760865&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6229470884794760865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6229470884794760865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/shanghai-again.html' title='Shanghai again.'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rm0zZyMIDqI/AAAAAAAAAo0/x_PfaZSD_Ek/s72-c/June+1-2+-+289.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-3212253367046880871</id><published>2007-06-01T23:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-10T14:10:41.589+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shanghai!</title><content type='html'>our neigbours in Hangzhou&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuUZyMIDUI/AAAAAAAAAmE/MHBHYcHgFmY/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074312575853268290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuUZyMIDUI/AAAAAAAAAmE/MHBHYcHgFmY/s320/June+1-2+-+002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Nanshan Lu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuUaCMIDVI/AAAAAAAAAmM/JG4XwUI5L9A/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074312580148235602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuUaCMIDVI/AAAAAAAAAmM/JG4XwUI5L9A/s320/June+1-2+-+004.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; boats on West Lake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuUaCMIDWI/AAAAAAAAAmU/H9OQ078ZkBM/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074312580148235618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuUaCMIDWI/AAAAAAAAAmU/H9OQ078ZkBM/s320/June+1-2+-+021.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074313456321564050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuVNCMIDZI/AAAAAAAAAms/niklXOITLKU/s320/June+1-2+-+029.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuUaSMIDYI/AAAAAAAAAmk/CIwqhqdacYs/s1600-h/June+1-2+-+146.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074312584443202946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuUaSMIDYI/AAAAAAAAAmk/CIwqhqdacYs/s320/June+1-2+-+146.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Arriving in Shanghai&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuTXiMIDKI/AAAAAAAAAk0/uMMVr1eWJHg/s1600-h/sJune+1-2+-+172.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074311437686934690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuTXiMIDKI/AAAAAAAAAk0/uMMVr1eWJHg/s320/sJune+1-2+-+172.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074313924472999330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuVoSMIDaI/AAAAAAAAAm0/j00X-jAAEzE/s320/sJune+1-2+-+178.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Tongji University&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuTXyMIDMI/AAAAAAAAAlE/rKEsC1NhSVU/s1600-h/sJune+1-2+-+210.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074311441981902018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuTXyMIDMI/AAAAAAAAAlE/rKEsC1NhSVU/s320/sJune+1-2+-+210.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; finally, someone who can rival James&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuTYCMIDNI/AAAAAAAAAlM/oVhhN7Vo2Cs/s1600-h/sJune+1-2+-+256.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074311446276869330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuTYCMIDNI/AAAAAAAAAlM/oVhhN7Vo2Cs/s320/sJune+1-2+-+256.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuTYCMIDOI/AAAAAAAAAlU/v5kwQRM6tfs/s1600-h/sJune+1-2+-+276.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074311446276869346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuTYCMIDOI/AAAAAAAAAlU/v5kwQRM6tfs/s320/sJune+1-2+-+276.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-3212253367046880871?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/3212253367046880871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=3212253367046880871&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3212253367046880871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3212253367046880871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/06/shanghai.html' title='Shanghai!'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuUZyMIDUI/AAAAAAAAAmE/MHBHYcHgFmY/s72-c/June+1-2+-+002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-3590960591045813270</id><published>2007-05-31T23:47:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-10T13:57:54.585+08:00</updated><title type='text'>not city, not country</title><content type='html'>taken in 2 villages outside Hangzhou:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdSMIDFI/AAAAAAAAAkM/E8306ks03aM/s1600-h/May+31+-+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074310436959554642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdSMIDFI/AAAAAAAAAkM/E8306ks03aM/s320/May+31+-+008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdSMIDGI/AAAAAAAAAkU/m7Iesn1vTeY/s1600-h/May+31+-+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074310436959554658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdSMIDGI/AAAAAAAAAkU/m7Iesn1vTeY/s320/May+31+-+014.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdiMIDHI/AAAAAAAAAkc/84VGBeWrCCo/s1600-h/May+31+-+017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074310441254521970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdiMIDHI/AAAAAAAAAkc/84VGBeWrCCo/s320/May+31+-+017.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdiMIDII/AAAAAAAAAkk/yh58iGC5QOk/s1600-h/May+31+-+024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074310441254521986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdiMIDII/AAAAAAAAAkk/yh58iGC5QOk/s320/May+31+-+024.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdyMIDJI/AAAAAAAAAks/8PjRMeeaGZ4/s1600-h/Valerie+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074310445549489298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdyMIDJI/AAAAAAAAAks/8PjRMeeaGZ4/s320/Valerie+1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSBSMIDAI/AAAAAAAAAjk/OQxVU-RKrUY/s1600-h/May+31+-+028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074309955923217410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSBSMIDAI/AAAAAAAAAjk/OQxVU-RKrUY/s400/May+31+-+028.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSBiMIDBI/AAAAAAAAAjs/7zsPQ8BAEEs/s1600-h/May+31+-+056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074309960218184722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSBiMIDBI/AAAAAAAAAjs/7zsPQ8BAEEs/s400/May+31+-+056.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSByMIDCI/AAAAAAAAAj0/4cUUUOye_XU/s1600-h/May+31+-+083.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074309964513152034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSByMIDCI/AAAAAAAAAj0/4cUUUOye_XU/s400/May+31+-+083.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSCCMIDDI/AAAAAAAAAj8/oGGdluIwjqk/s1600-h/May+31+-+091.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074309968808119346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSCCMIDDI/AAAAAAAAAj8/oGGdluIwjqk/s400/May+31+-+091.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSCCMIDEI/AAAAAAAAAkE/Pg-zLWBAN7g/s1600-h/May+31+-+105.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074309968808119362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSCCMIDEI/AAAAAAAAAkE/Pg-zLWBAN7g/s400/May+31+-+105.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuRBSMIC7I/AAAAAAAAAi8/wNb1r0Je6yI/s1600-h/May+31+-+137.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074308856411589554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuRBSMIC7I/AAAAAAAAAi8/wNb1r0Je6yI/s400/May+31+-+137.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuRBiMIC8I/AAAAAAAAAjE/Y_RsTcYsfaI/s1600-h/May+31+-+159.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074308860706556866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuRBiMIC8I/AAAAAAAAAjE/Y_RsTcYsfaI/s400/May+31+-+159.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuRBiMIC9I/AAAAAAAAAjM/LW1WcxAlOmo/s1600-h/May+31+-+195.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074308860706556882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuRBiMIC9I/AAAAAAAAAjM/LW1WcxAlOmo/s400/May+31+-+195.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuRByMIC-I/AAAAAAAAAjU/Ey896uqbMpk/s1600-h/May+31+-+198.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074308865001524194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuRByMIC-I/AAAAAAAAAjU/Ey896uqbMpk/s400/May+31+-+198.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuRByMIC_I/AAAAAAAAAjc/vXo4P5BjDq0/s1600-h/May+31+-+223.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074308865001524210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuRByMIC_I/AAAAAAAAAjc/vXo4P5BjDq0/s400/May+31+-+223.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-3590960591045813270?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/3590960591045813270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=3590960591045813270&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3590960591045813270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3590960591045813270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/not-city-not-country.html' title='not city, not country'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuSdSMIDFI/AAAAAAAAAkM/E8306ks03aM/s72-c/May+31+-+008.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-5044845853706391756</id><published>2007-05-30T23:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-10T13:47:20.668+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Arriving in Hangzhou</title><content type='html'>flying in over the city...&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPZiMIC4I/AAAAAAAAAik/M-_AOjq75cY/s1600-h/May+30+-+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074307074000161666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPZiMIC4I/AAAAAAAAAik/M-_AOjq75cY/s400/May+30+-+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;construction at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPZiMIC5I/AAAAAAAAAis/Qmk5KPmjkvs/s1600-h/May+30+-+076.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074307074000161682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPZiMIC5I/AAAAAAAAAis/Qmk5KPmjkvs/s400/May+30+-+076.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPZyMIC6I/AAAAAAAAAi0/-0n1vFI1KPM/s1600-h/May+30+-+079.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074307078295128994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPZyMIC6I/AAAAAAAAAi0/-0n1vFI1KPM/s400/May+30+-+079.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPEyMICzI/AAAAAAAAAh8/Ctu156-HXp8/s1600-h/May+30+-+113.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074306717517876018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPEyMICzI/AAAAAAAAAh8/Ctu156-HXp8/s400/May+30+-+113.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPFCMIC0I/AAAAAAAAAiE/d8dC3BhhTnw/s1600-h/May+30+-+121.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074306721812843330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPFCMIC0I/AAAAAAAAAiE/d8dC3BhhTnw/s400/May+30+-+121.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; architecture students at the Academy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPFCMIC1I/AAAAAAAAAiM/Rjrb2JaEH7A/s1600-h/May+30+-+203.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074306721812843346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPFCMIC1I/AAAAAAAAAiM/Rjrb2JaEH7A/s400/May+30+-+203.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;model at the West Lake Museum&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPFSMIC2I/AAAAAAAAAiU/uLxYCl0NQBw/s1600-h/May+30+-+229.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074306726107810658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPFSMIC2I/AAAAAAAAAiU/uLxYCl0NQBw/s400/May+30+-+229.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPFiMIC3I/AAAAAAAAAic/x3ARKsXk97Q/s1600-h/May+30+-+241.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074306730402777970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPFiMIC3I/AAAAAAAAAic/x3ARKsXk97Q/s400/May+30+-+241.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a pub on Nanshan Lu (South Mountain Rd.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuOeCMICuI/AAAAAAAAAhU/ajCV8a6JlBg/s1600-h/May+30+-+252.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074306051797945058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuOeCMICuI/AAAAAAAAAhU/ajCV8a6JlBg/s400/May+30+-+252.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;kinda gross&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuOeSMICvI/AAAAAAAAAhc/eAl508eAr_o/s1600-h/May+30+-+255.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074306056092912370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuOeSMICvI/AAAAAAAAAhc/eAl508eAr_o/s400/May+30+-+255.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;taken on a rowboat crossing West Lake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuOeSMICwI/AAAAAAAAAhk/WvOiWFHI8Xw/s1600-h/May+30+-+264.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074306056092912386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuOeSMICwI/AAAAAAAAAhk/WvOiWFHI8Xw/s400/May+30+-+264.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuOeiMICxI/AAAAAAAAAhs/5SufSN_YdhQ/s1600-h/May+30+-+265.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074306060387879698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuOeiMICxI/AAAAAAAAAhs/5SufSN_YdhQ/s400/May+30+-+265.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuOeiMICyI/AAAAAAAAAh0/Sf0ahfiJwZI/s1600-h/May+30+-+267.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074306060387879714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuOeiMICyI/AAAAAAAAAh0/Sf0ahfiJwZI/s400/May+30+-+267.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-5044845853706391756?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/5044845853706391756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=5044845853706391756&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/5044845853706391756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/5044845853706391756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/arriving-in-hangzhou.html' title='Arriving in Hangzhou'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RmuPZiMIC4I/AAAAAAAAAik/M-_AOjq75cY/s72-c/May+30+-+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-8819469364364715752</id><published>2007-05-22T23:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T17:11:29.352+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Capital Steel and Iron danwei</title><content type='html'>our cab driver&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanoQJ-BqI/AAAAAAAAAgs/_zC3F6LdxYs/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+062.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068422740625458850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanoQJ-BqI/AAAAAAAAAgs/_zC3F6LdxYs/s400/May+21-22+B+-+062.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanpAJ-BrI/AAAAAAAAAg0/jU4aOxtK8Ls/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+078.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068422753510360754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanpAJ-BrI/AAAAAAAAAg0/jU4aOxtK8Ls/s400/May+21-22+B+-+078.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanpgJ-BsI/AAAAAAAAAg8/F3JYWG7JL-Y/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+096.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068422762100295362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanpgJ-BsI/AAAAAAAAAg8/F3JYWG7JL-Y/s400/May+21-22+B+-+096.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanqgJ-BtI/AAAAAAAAAhE/SaDviodUBnM/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+117.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068422779280164562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanqgJ-BtI/AAAAAAAAAhE/SaDviodUBnM/s400/May+21-22+B+-+117.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanrAJ-BuI/AAAAAAAAAhM/dJ01Mx68i_k/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+127.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068422787870099170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanrAJ-BuI/AAAAAAAAAhM/dJ01Mx68i_k/s400/May+21-22+B+-+127.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanGwJ-BlI/AAAAAAAAAgE/YYgcF6fusjk/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+129.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068422165099841106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanGwJ-BlI/AAAAAAAAAgE/YYgcF6fusjk/s400/May+21-22+B+-+129.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanHQJ-BmI/AAAAAAAAAgM/QGJRpEHJUkA/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+193.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068422173689775714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanHQJ-BmI/AAAAAAAAAgM/QGJRpEHJUkA/s400/May+21-22+B+-+193.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanHgJ-BnI/AAAAAAAAAgU/5tXZGMXyTgM/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+228.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068422177984743026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanHgJ-BnI/AAAAAAAAAgU/5tXZGMXyTgM/s400/May+21-22+B+-+228.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanIAJ-BoI/AAAAAAAAAgc/zNSJXyoY1BM/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+277.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068422186574677634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanIAJ-BoI/AAAAAAAAAgc/zNSJXyoY1BM/s400/May+21-22+B+-+277.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlamdgJ-BgI/AAAAAAAAAfc/J4tLdqoG1bY/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+281.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068421456430237186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlamdgJ-BgI/AAAAAAAAAfc/J4tLdqoG1bY/s400/May+21-22+B+-+281.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlameQJ-BhI/AAAAAAAAAfk/bzkeDRPIetM/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+324.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068421469315139090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlameQJ-BhI/AAAAAAAAAfk/bzkeDRPIetM/s400/May+21-22+B+-+324.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlamewJ-BiI/AAAAAAAAAfs/efClMWxEgvY/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+377.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068421477905073698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlamewJ-BiI/AAAAAAAAAfs/efClMWxEgvY/s400/May+21-22+B+-+377.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlamfgJ-BjI/AAAAAAAAAf0/k0m554ddz98/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+380.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068421490789975602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlamfgJ-BjI/AAAAAAAAAf0/k0m554ddz98/s400/May+21-22+B+-+380.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlamfwJ-BkI/AAAAAAAAAf8/XY659zZ6VLg/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+436.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068421495084942914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlamfwJ-BkI/AAAAAAAAAf8/XY659zZ6VLg/s400/May+21-22+B+-+436.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-8819469364364715752?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/8819469364364715752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=8819469364364715752&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8819469364364715752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8819469364364715752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/capital-steel-and-iron-danwei.html' title='Capital Steel and Iron danwei'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlanoQJ-BqI/AAAAAAAAAgs/_zC3F6LdxYs/s72-c/May+21-22+B+-+062.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-7825040400903972952</id><published>2007-05-22T16:44:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T17:00:42.446+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Birthday Stephen!</title><content type='html'>a suburb in Beijing?&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlalCAJ-BeI/AAAAAAAAAfM/B8T4ntrLwrM/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068419884472206818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlalCAJ-BeI/AAAAAAAAAfM/B8T4ntrLwrM/s400/May+21-22+A+-+005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Green T. House Living for lunch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlalCwJ-BfI/AAAAAAAAAfU/LTPiXomRuOk/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068419897357108722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlalCwJ-BfI/AAAAAAAAAfU/LTPiXomRuOk/s400/May+21-22+A+-+015.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlakkwJ-BZI/AAAAAAAAAek/O_IyAgPTcgM/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068419381961033106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlakkwJ-BZI/AAAAAAAAAek/O_IyAgPTcgM/s400/May+21-22+A+-+021.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaklQJ-BaI/AAAAAAAAAes/Mpjl4V9vvkA/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068419390550967714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaklQJ-BaI/AAAAAAAAAes/Mpjl4V9vvkA/s400/May+21-22+A+-+022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Peking University&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlakmwJ-BbI/AAAAAAAAAe0/AIqHYX1O37k/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068419416320771506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlakmwJ-BbI/AAAAAAAAAe0/AIqHYX1O37k/s400/May+21-22+A+-+029.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlakngJ-BcI/AAAAAAAAAe8/psasy9pRoNo/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+035.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068419429205673410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlakngJ-BcI/AAAAAAAAAe8/psasy9pRoNo/s400/May+21-22+A+-+035.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaj7gJ-BUI/AAAAAAAAAd8/xceLr4WxGTk/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068418673291429186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaj7gJ-BUI/AAAAAAAAAd8/xceLr4WxGTk/s400/May+21-22+A+-+045.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaj8AJ-BVI/AAAAAAAAAeE/yaPgg7LML1M/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068418681881363794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaj8AJ-BVI/AAAAAAAAAeE/yaPgg7LML1M/s400/May+21-22+A+-+056.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we harrassed this guy until he gave us a tour of the architecture building...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaj8wJ-BWI/AAAAAAAAAeM/l4iwRfeSZcc/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+061.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068418694766265698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaj8wJ-BWI/AAAAAAAAAeM/l4iwRfeSZcc/s400/May+21-22+A+-+061.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaj9QJ-BXI/AAAAAAAAAeU/uSQJjqDhbVs/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+102.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068418703356200306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaj9QJ-BXI/AAAAAAAAAeU/uSQJjqDhbVs/s400/May+21-22+A+-+102.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaj-AJ-BYI/AAAAAAAAAec/hL3t4SQpYtA/s1600-h/May+21-22+A+-+107.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068418716241102210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaj-AJ-BYI/AAAAAAAAAec/hL3t4SQpYtA/s400/May+21-22+A+-+107.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; people having skewers on the street&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlajWgJ-BPI/AAAAAAAAAdU/3JYtmIG1TmE/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068418037636269298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlajWgJ-BPI/AAAAAAAAAdU/3JYtmIG1TmE/s400/May+21-22+B+-+015.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Happy Bday Stephen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlajXAJ-BQI/AAAAAAAAAdc/igiubLBHs5U/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068418046226203906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlajXAJ-BQI/AAAAAAAAAdc/igiubLBHs5U/s400/May+21-22+B+-+032.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlajXQJ-BRI/AAAAAAAAAdk/h9r_sJt1xfk/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+033.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068418050521171218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlajXQJ-BRI/AAAAAAAAAdk/h9r_sJt1xfk/s400/May+21-22+B+-+033.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlajXwJ-BSI/AAAAAAAAAds/3-f7a-MgrSg/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068418059111105826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlajXwJ-BSI/AAAAAAAAAds/3-f7a-MgrSg/s400/May+21-22+B+-+040.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlajYAJ-BTI/AAAAAAAAAd0/f3I_NbvrHIE/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+042.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068418063406073138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlajYAJ-BTI/AAAAAAAAAd0/f3I_NbvrHIE/s400/May+21-22+B+-+042.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaibQJ-BKI/AAAAAAAAAcs/EiB-I-9odSE/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068417019729020066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaibQJ-BKI/AAAAAAAAAcs/EiB-I-9odSE/s400/May+21-22+B+-+043.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaicAJ-BLI/AAAAAAAAAc0/UICqUTPS92o/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068417032613921970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaicAJ-BLI/AAAAAAAAAc0/UICqUTPS92o/s400/May+21-22+B+-+045.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaicQJ-BMI/AAAAAAAAAc8/_7VipiA1IdE/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+046.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaicwJ-BNI/AAAAAAAAAdE/jSvdr50vsLU/s1600-h/May+21-22+B+-+047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068417045498823890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaicwJ-BNI/AAAAAAAAAdE/jSvdr50vsLU/s400/May+21-22+B+-+047.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-7825040400903972952?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/7825040400903972952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=7825040400903972952&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/7825040400903972952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/7825040400903972952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/happy-birthday-stephen.html' title='Happy Birthday Stephen!'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlalCAJ-BeI/AAAAAAAAAfM/B8T4ntrLwrM/s72-c/May+21-22+A+-+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-6160030764220933259</id><published>2007-05-21T16:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T17:12:01.825+08:00</updated><title type='text'>10 km and 4 hours later...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlagWgJ-BHI/AAAAAAAAAcU/LidQIF2_2K8/s1600-h/May+20+-+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068414739101385842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlagWgJ-BHI/AAAAAAAAAcU/LidQIF2_2K8/s400/May+20+-+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlagWwJ-BII/AAAAAAAAAcc/aylOuLkj9S4/s1600-h/May+20+-+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068414743396353154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlagWwJ-BII/AAAAAAAAAcc/aylOuLkj9S4/s400/May+20+-+005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlagXgJ-BJI/AAAAAAAAAck/Aj9w1YRHX5s/s1600-h/May+20+-+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068414756281255058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlagXgJ-BJI/AAAAAAAAAck/Aj9w1YRHX5s/s400/May+20+-+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaf6QJ-BDI/AAAAAAAAAb0/sVUeu_8zh3s/s1600-h/May+20+-+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068414253770081330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaf6QJ-BDI/AAAAAAAAAb0/sVUeu_8zh3s/s400/May+20+-+013.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaf7QJ-BEI/AAAAAAAAAb8/DAmK5lGMk14/s1600-h/May+20+-+016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068414270949950530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaf7QJ-BEI/AAAAAAAAAb8/DAmK5lGMk14/s400/May+20+-+016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaf7gJ-BFI/AAAAAAAAAcE/nh2LQeBvfiI/s1600-h/May+20+-+025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068414275244917842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaf7gJ-BFI/AAAAAAAAAcE/nh2LQeBvfiI/s400/May+20+-+025.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaf8AJ-BGI/AAAAAAAAAcM/Wcijcedp6gM/s1600-h/May+20+-+035.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068414283834852450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlaf8AJ-BGI/AAAAAAAAAcM/Wcijcedp6gM/s400/May+20+-+035.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlafXAJ-A9I/AAAAAAAAAbE/xKwNGF8Gfvs/s1600-h/May+20+-+054.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068413648179692498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlafXAJ-A9I/AAAAAAAAAbE/xKwNGF8Gfvs/s400/May+20+-+054.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlafYQJ-A-I/AAAAAAAAAbM/j5xzDVJt4U4/s1600-h/May+20+-+057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068413669654528994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlafYQJ-A-I/AAAAAAAAAbM/j5xzDVJt4U4/s400/May+20+-+057.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlafYQJ-A_I/AAAAAAAAAbU/nXuUJsrnLvQ/s1600-h/May+20+-+061.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068413669654529010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlafYQJ-A_I/AAAAAAAAAbU/nXuUJsrnLvQ/s400/May+20+-+061.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlafZAJ-BAI/AAAAAAAAAbc/-AyNWHK0TSM/s1600-h/May+20+-+066.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068413682539430914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlafZAJ-BAI/AAAAAAAAAbc/-AyNWHK0TSM/s400/May+20+-+066.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlafZgJ-BBI/AAAAAAAAAbk/jRTbAAozBsM/s1600-h/May+20+-+068.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068413691129365522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlafZgJ-BBI/AAAAAAAAAbk/jRTbAAozBsM/s400/May+20+-+068.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the path just dropped off...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlae0QJ-A4I/AAAAAAAAAac/dZuAzzp2DFg/s1600-h/May+20+-+074.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068413051179238274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlae0QJ-A4I/AAAAAAAAAac/dZuAzzp2DFg/s400/May+20+-+074.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; taking a short break&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlae1AJ-A6I/AAAAAAAAAas/vyduOTiAyp8/s1600-h/May+20+-+113.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068413064064140194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlae1AJ-A6I/AAAAAAAAAas/vyduOTiAyp8/s400/May+20+-+113.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlae1QJ-A7I/AAAAAAAAAa0/sbcx3FbrXtE/s1600-h/May+20+-+147.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068413068359107506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlae1QJ-A7I/AAAAAAAAAa0/sbcx3FbrXtE/s400/May+20+-+147.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlae1gJ-A8I/AAAAAAAAAa8/hR2XOhNkhiI/s1600-h/May+20+-+151.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068413072654074818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlae1gJ-A8I/AAAAAAAAAa8/hR2XOhNkhiI/s400/May+20+-+151.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;it really is that steep&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaeTgJ-AzI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/cvoxRpWjMMg/s1600-h/May+20+-+156.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068412488538522418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaeTgJ-AzI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/cvoxRpWjMMg/s400/May+20+-+156.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaeTwJ-A0I/AAAAAAAAAZ8/j6e7X1kZAdg/s1600-h/May+20+-+214.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068412492833489730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaeTwJ-A0I/AAAAAAAAAZ8/j6e7X1kZAdg/s400/May+20+-+214.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaeUQJ-A1I/AAAAAAAAAaE/x_YLvcVmwSQ/s1600-h/May+20+-+223.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068412501423424338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaeUQJ-A1I/AAAAAAAAAaE/x_YLvcVmwSQ/s400/May+20+-+223.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Adrian Blackwell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaeUgJ-A2I/AAAAAAAAAaM/bwQoH-fwpko/s1600-h/May+20+-+227.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068412505718391650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaeUgJ-A2I/AAAAAAAAAaM/bwQoH-fwpko/s400/May+20+-+227.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this was the zip line I took to the bottom...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaeVAJ-A3I/AAAAAAAAAaU/LGwfXwyOiSU/s1600-h/May+20+-+235.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068412514308326258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaeVAJ-A3I/AAAAAAAAAaU/LGwfXwyOiSU/s400/May+20+-+235.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-6160030764220933259?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6160030764220933259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=6160030764220933259&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6160030764220933259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6160030764220933259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/10-km-in-4-hours.html' title='10 km and 4 hours later...'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlagWgJ-BHI/AAAAAAAAAcU/LidQIF2_2K8/s72-c/May+20+-+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-2652107416411407723</id><published>2007-05-19T16:15:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T16:25:58.546+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Temple teahouse and dinner</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlac_wJ-AxI/AAAAAAAAAZk/fEtv9dlkzbQ/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068411049724478226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlac_wJ-AxI/AAAAAAAAAZk/fEtv9dlkzbQ/s400/May+18-19+-+020.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RladAQJ-AyI/AAAAAAAAAZs/CQq-MPOO92w/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068411058314412834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RladAQJ-AyI/AAAAAAAAAZs/CQq-MPOO92w/s400/May+18-19+-+036.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacsQJ-AsI/AAAAAAAAAY8/m1gb-80i3pI/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068410714717029058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacsQJ-AsI/AAAAAAAAAY8/m1gb-80i3pI/s400/May+18-19+-+043.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacsgJ-AtI/AAAAAAAAAZE/CpaL-cYqZA0/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+053.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068410719011996370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacsgJ-AtI/AAAAAAAAAZE/CpaL-cYqZA0/s400/May+18-19+-+053.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacswJ-AuI/AAAAAAAAAZM/VwZIMSujLwg/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+065.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068410723306963682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacswJ-AuI/AAAAAAAAAZM/VwZIMSujLwg/s400/May+18-19+-+065.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlactgJ-AvI/AAAAAAAAAZU/I6TGTw43bN0/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+070.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068410736191865586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlactgJ-AvI/AAAAAAAAAZU/I6TGTw43bN0/s400/May+18-19+-+070.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacvAJ-AwI/AAAAAAAAAZc/qn71j9FcuEQ/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+075.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068410761961669378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacvAJ-AwI/AAAAAAAAAZc/qn71j9FcuEQ/s400/May+18-19+-+075.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the first of the student organized "Burning Meats" dinners&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacLwJ-AnI/AAAAAAAAAYU/LYa9NhlbKPE/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+079.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068410156371280498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacLwJ-AnI/AAAAAAAAAYU/LYa9NhlbKPE/s400/May+18-19+-+079.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacMAJ-AoI/AAAAAAAAAYc/pNi6nMJpU7I/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+115.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068410160666247810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacMAJ-AoI/AAAAAAAAAYc/pNi6nMJpU7I/s400/May+18-19+-+115.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacMQJ-ApI/AAAAAAAAAYk/9ORw-2STxtk/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+119.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068410164961215122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacMQJ-ApI/AAAAAAAAAYk/9ORw-2STxtk/s400/May+18-19+-+119.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacMgJ-AqI/AAAAAAAAAYs/L9MnF64oI3s/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+120.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068410169256182434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacMgJ-AqI/AAAAAAAAAYs/L9MnF64oI3s/s400/May+18-19+-+120.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacMgJ-ArI/AAAAAAAAAY0/9lzWxnlEWfA/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+123.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068410169256182450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlacMgJ-ArI/AAAAAAAAAY0/9lzWxnlEWfA/s400/May+18-19+-+123.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlabjAJ-AiI/AAAAAAAAAXs/rPAe3-K6dwQ/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+127.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068409456291611170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlabjAJ-AiI/AAAAAAAAAXs/rPAe3-K6dwQ/s400/May+18-19+-+127.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;on the roof of the hotel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlabjQJ-AjI/AAAAAAAAAX0/4oRsbscG3ME/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+138.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068409460586578482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlabjQJ-AjI/AAAAAAAAAX0/4oRsbscG3ME/s400/May+18-19+-+138.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;can't explain this one...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlabjgJ-AkI/AAAAAAAAAX8/2kJE5V1aTRU/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+144.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068409464881545794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlabjgJ-AkI/AAAAAAAAAX8/2kJE5V1aTRU/s400/May+18-19+-+144.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlabkAJ-AmI/AAAAAAAAAYM/inioMrM-Ruw/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+164.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068409473471480418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlabkAJ-AmI/AAAAAAAAAYM/inioMrM-Ruw/s400/May+18-19+-+164.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-2652107416411407723?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/2652107416411407723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=2652107416411407723&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2652107416411407723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2652107416411407723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/temple-teahouse-and-dinner.html' title='Temple teahouse and dinner'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/Rlac_wJ-AxI/AAAAAAAAAZk/fEtv9dlkzbQ/s72-c/May+18-19+-+020.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-8591784501526823088</id><published>2007-05-18T15:54:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T17:12:40.528+08:00</updated><title type='text'>architecture descends upon Ping Gu village</title><content type='html'>driving into Ping Gu village&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaZHQJ-AhI/AAAAAAAAAXk/_myo4TLXaVE/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+088.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068406780526985746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaZHQJ-AhI/AAAAAAAAAXk/_myo4TLXaVE/s400/May+12-16+-+088.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;a photo with the mayor of Ping Gu and his buddies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaY3QJ-AcI/AAAAAAAAAW8/0KskECutPSE/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+134.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068406505649078722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaY3QJ-AcI/AAAAAAAAAW8/0KskECutPSE/s400/May+12-16+-+134.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaY3gJ-AdI/AAAAAAAAAXE/pjK3rUyg5aU/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+151.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068406509944046034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaY3gJ-AdI/AAAAAAAAAXE/pjK3rUyg5aU/s400/May+12-16+-+151.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaY4AJ-AeI/AAAAAAAAAXM/nZVd1ab78vc/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+158.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068406518533980642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaY4AJ-AeI/AAAAAAAAAXM/nZVd1ab78vc/s400/May+12-16+-+158.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaY4QJ-AfI/AAAAAAAAAXU/hO0IQjeolXA/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+161.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068406522828947954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaY4QJ-AfI/AAAAAAAAAXU/hO0IQjeolXA/s400/May+12-16+-+161.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaX-QJ-AXI/AAAAAAAAAWU/cHfQtzmf0vg/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+184.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068405526396535154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaX-QJ-AXI/AAAAAAAAAWU/cHfQtzmf0vg/s400/May+12-16+-+184.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaX_gJ-AYI/AAAAAAAAAWc/l826mymUMUE/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+195.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068405547871371650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaX_gJ-AYI/AAAAAAAAAWc/l826mymUMUE/s400/May+12-16+-+195.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaYAAJ-AZI/AAAAAAAAAWk/I-l4lrrA818/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+212.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068405556461306258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaYAAJ-AZI/AAAAAAAAAWk/I-l4lrrA818/s400/May+12-16+-+212.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;it's a village of 100 people...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaYAwJ-AaI/AAAAAAAAAWs/iZYWiII6hVo/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+217.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068405569346208162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaYAwJ-AaI/AAAAAAAAAWs/iZYWiII6hVo/s400/May+12-16+-+217.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaYBQJ-AbI/AAAAAAAAAW0/WJWHrrotsPo/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+247.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068405577936142770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaYBQJ-AbI/AAAAAAAAAW0/WJWHrrotsPo/s400/May+12-16+-+247.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;can you see the chickens?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaXVAJ-ATI/AAAAAAAAAV0/c8SJadR609I/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+266.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068404817726931250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaXVAJ-ATI/AAAAAAAAAV0/c8SJadR609I/s400/May+12-16+-+266.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;peach orchard&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaXVgJ-AUI/AAAAAAAAAV8/oncOYi20WMs/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+306.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068404826316865858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaXVgJ-AUI/AAAAAAAAAV8/oncOYi20WMs/s400/May+12-16+-+306.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaXWAJ-AVI/AAAAAAAAAWE/lLn-hRou0ZE/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+348.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068404834906800466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaXWAJ-AVI/AAAAAAAAAWE/lLn-hRou0ZE/s400/May+12-16+-+348.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaXWQJ-AWI/AAAAAAAAAWM/CbGhwSAEI_U/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+366.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068404839201767778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaXWQJ-AWI/AAAAAAAAAWM/CbGhwSAEI_U/s400/May+12-16+-+366.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Bolitai, a neigbouring village&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaWrAJ-ANI/AAAAAAAAAVE/muRvPa9kNzc/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+379.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068404096172425426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaWrAJ-ANI/AAAAAAAAAVE/muRvPa9kNzc/s400/May+12-16+-+379.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;I was very tempted to put him in my purse... &lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaWrgJ-AOI/AAAAAAAAAVM/V111SQH4Bns/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+398.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068404104762360034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaWrgJ-AOI/AAAAAAAAAVM/V111SQH4Bns/s400/May+12-16+-+398.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaWrwJ-API/AAAAAAAAAVU/lSxg5oWcIJ4/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+405.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068404109057327346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaWrwJ-API/AAAAAAAAAVU/lSxg5oWcIJ4/s400/May+12-16+-+405.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; gypsy jazz band at Salud&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaWsQJ-AQI/AAAAAAAAAVc/96up8RFQ28Q/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+419.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068404117647261954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaWsQJ-AQI/AAAAAAAAAVc/96up8RFQ28Q/s400/May+12-16+-+419.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaWsgJ-ARI/AAAAAAAAAVk/5OjBRmgBOwI/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+424.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068404121942229266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaWsgJ-ARI/AAAAAAAAAVk/5OjBRmgBOwI/s400/May+12-16+-+424.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-8591784501526823088?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/8591784501526823088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=8591784501526823088&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8591784501526823088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8591784501526823088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/ping-gu-village.html' title='architecture descends upon Ping Gu village'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaZHQJ-AhI/AAAAAAAAAXk/_myo4TLXaVE/s72-c/May+12-16+-+088.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-3256560353937376197</id><published>2007-05-16T15:46:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T15:53:52.153+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I call this the "blurry series"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVTAJ-AMI/AAAAAAAAAU8/2gLWmFkRnIM/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+049.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068402584343937218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVTAJ-AMI/AAAAAAAAAU8/2gLWmFkRnIM/s400/May+12-16+-+049.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVIwJ-AHI/AAAAAAAAAUU/dvrIR5q2GOM/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+054.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068402408250278002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVIwJ-AHI/AAAAAAAAAUU/dvrIR5q2GOM/s400/May+12-16+-+054.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVJAJ-AII/AAAAAAAAAUc/KSJ89EoL7bA/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068402412545245314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVJAJ-AII/AAAAAAAAAUc/KSJ89EoL7bA/s400/May+12-16+-+057.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVJQJ-AJI/AAAAAAAAAUk/lxeup-plfws/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+059.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068402416840212626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVJQJ-AJI/AAAAAAAAAUk/lxeup-plfws/s400/May+12-16+-+059.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVJgJ-AKI/AAAAAAAAAUs/bKXjD6ZHDHI/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068402421135179938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVJgJ-AKI/AAAAAAAAAUs/bKXjD6ZHDHI/s400/May+12-16+-+063.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVJwJ-ALI/AAAAAAAAAU0/QC9wLZKj8Eo/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+066.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068402425430147250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVJwJ-ALI/AAAAAAAAAU0/QC9wLZKj8Eo/s400/May+12-16+-+066.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;these are from the roof of our hotel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaUtAJ-ACI/AAAAAAAAATs/TTUah8tV2tA/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+137.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068401931508908066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaUtAJ-ACI/AAAAAAAAATs/TTUah8tV2tA/s400/May+18-19+-+137.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaUtgJ-AEI/AAAAAAAAAT8/PiyoOfbkWFU/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+149.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068401940098842690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaUtgJ-AEI/AAAAAAAAAT8/PiyoOfbkWFU/s400/May+18-19+-+149.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaUtwJ-AFI/AAAAAAAAAUE/kygCPLrK12k/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+155.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068401944393810002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaUtwJ-AFI/AAAAAAAAAUE/kygCPLrK12k/s400/May+18-19+-+155.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaUuAJ-AGI/AAAAAAAAAUM/DqrJvtuEBOE/s1600-h/May+18-19+-+176.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068401948688777314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaUuAJ-AGI/AAAAAAAAAUM/DqrJvtuEBOE/s400/May+18-19+-+176.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-3256560353937376197?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/3256560353937376197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=3256560353937376197&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3256560353937376197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3256560353937376197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-call-this-blurry-series.html' title='I call this the &quot;blurry series&quot;'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaVTAJ-AMI/AAAAAAAAAU8/2gLWmFkRnIM/s72-c/May+12-16+-+049.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-1461309906942369165</id><published>2007-05-15T15:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T15:45:44.426+08:00</updated><title type='text'>more random photos</title><content type='html'>a game of Jenga at Boheme&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTtQJ-AAI/AAAAAAAAATc/42PqTqrvThM/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068400836292247554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTtQJ-AAI/AAAAAAAAATc/42PqTqrvThM/s400/May+12-16+-+008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; chubby little boy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTXgJ9_7I/AAAAAAAAAS0/hgh-uqQgPRs/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+035.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068400462630092722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTXgJ9_7I/AAAAAAAAAS0/hgh-uqQgPRs/s400/May+12-16+-+035.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; our desks at BASE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTXwJ9_8I/AAAAAAAAAS8/s850G__Ppus/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068400466925060034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTXwJ9_8I/AAAAAAAAAS8/s850G__Ppus/s400/May+12-16+-+041.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; mezzanine of BASE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTYQJ9_9I/AAAAAAAAATE/wH9zFwHAgS8/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+042.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068400475514994642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTYQJ9_9I/AAAAAAAAATE/wH9zFwHAgS8/s400/May+12-16+-+042.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; main entrance into Dashanzi 798&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTYgJ9_-I/AAAAAAAAATM/vnwoHDLxY2o/s1600-h/May+12-16+-+431.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068400479809961954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTYgJ9_-I/AAAAAAAAATM/vnwoHDLxY2o/s400/May+12-16+-+431.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTYwJ9__I/AAAAAAAAATU/-fN1IWtxL0g/s1600-h/composite.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068400484104929266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTYwJ9__I/AAAAAAAAATU/-fN1IWtxL0g/s400/composite.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-1461309906942369165?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/1461309906942369165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=1461309906942369165&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/1461309906942369165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/1461309906942369165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-random-photos.html' title='more random photos'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RlaTtQJ-AAI/AAAAAAAAATc/42PqTqrvThM/s72-c/May+12-16+-+008.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-5475871564516883007</id><published>2007-05-14T16:17:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T16:23:22.136+08:00</updated><title type='text'>random photos</title><content type='html'>the People's Gym&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcShvUqMI/AAAAAAAAASs/kDx9892sTko/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+269.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064328885598202050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcShvUqMI/AAAAAAAAASs/kDx9892sTko/s400/May+9-11+-+269.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcGhvUqHI/AAAAAAAAASE/rM4kFiZCiKM/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+274.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064328679439771762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcGhvUqHI/AAAAAAAAASE/rM4kFiZCiKM/s400/May+9-11+-+274.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcHBvUqII/AAAAAAAAASM/hozSZZ50YYc/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+277.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064328688029706370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcHBvUqII/AAAAAAAAASM/hozSZZ50YYc/s400/May+9-11+-+277.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcHhvUqJI/AAAAAAAAASU/GDQTfl7bmEY/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+280.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064328696619640978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcHhvUqJI/AAAAAAAAASU/GDQTfl7bmEY/s400/May+9-11+-+280.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcIRvUqKI/AAAAAAAAASc/9dE9_5c9mrU/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+283.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064328709504542882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcIRvUqKI/AAAAAAAAASc/9dE9_5c9mrU/s400/May+9-11+-+283.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcIhvUqLI/AAAAAAAAASk/GH1rSTdIhmc/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+288.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064328713799510194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcIhvUqLI/AAAAAAAAASk/GH1rSTdIhmc/s400/May+9-11+-+288.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-5475871564516883007?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/5475871564516883007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=5475871564516883007&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/5475871564516883007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/5475871564516883007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/random-photos_14.html' title='random photos'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgcShvUqMI/AAAAAAAAASs/kDx9892sTko/s72-c/May+9-11+-+269.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-2116933612691219697</id><published>2007-05-12T16:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T16:17:27.823+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Godzilla...in the Museum of Urban Planning</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgawxvUqDI/AAAAAAAAARk/rYlzjtx580k/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+214.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064327206265989170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgawxvUqDI/AAAAAAAAARk/rYlzjtx580k/s400/May+9-11+-+214.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaxRvUqEI/AAAAAAAAARs/KfJwq1KPfr4/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+219.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064327214855923778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaxRvUqEI/AAAAAAAAARs/KfJwq1KPfr4/s400/May+9-11+-+219.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaxxvUqFI/AAAAAAAAAR0/YuHly-CGzyk/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+223.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064327223445858386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaxxvUqFI/AAAAAAAAAR0/YuHly-CGzyk/s400/May+9-11+-+223.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaxxvUqGI/AAAAAAAAAR8/9QlnycAs_4I/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+224.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064327223445858402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaxxvUqGI/AAAAAAAAAR8/9QlnycAs_4I/s400/May+9-11+-+224.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaVBvUp_I/AAAAAAAAARE/XzONK_kvGM4/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+228.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064326729524619250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaVBvUp_I/AAAAAAAAARE/XzONK_kvGM4/s400/May+9-11+-+228.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaVhvUqAI/AAAAAAAAARM/mt3TBkH7OJ0/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+237.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064326738114553858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaVhvUqAI/AAAAAAAAARM/mt3TBkH7OJ0/s400/May+9-11+-+237.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaWBvUqBI/AAAAAAAAARU/UiMOb5mHDj8/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+242.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064326746704488466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaWBvUqBI/AAAAAAAAARU/UiMOb5mHDj8/s400/May+9-11+-+242.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Zaha Hadid's &lt;em&gt;Future House&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaWRvUqCI/AAAAAAAAARc/QpoHV4GWP4w/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+250.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064326750999455778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgaWRvUqCI/AAAAAAAAARc/QpoHV4GWP4w/s400/May+9-11+-+250.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-2116933612691219697?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/2116933612691219697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=2116933612691219697&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2116933612691219697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2116933612691219697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/godzillain-museum-of-urban-planning.html' title='Godzilla...in the Museum of Urban Planning'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgawxvUqDI/AAAAAAAAARk/rYlzjtx580k/s72-c/May+9-11+-+214.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-6952817419297791873</id><published>2007-05-11T16:06:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T16:08:56.043+08:00</updated><title type='text'>breakfast at Passby Bar</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgY3xvUp3I/AAAAAAAAAQE/boaJbAVz7H4/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+174.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064325127501817714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgY3xvUp3I/AAAAAAAAAQE/boaJbAVz7H4/s400/May+9-11+-+174.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; read the poster.  it's a pretty good life philosophy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgY4BvUp4I/AAAAAAAAAQM/THI0s3qgIIA/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+175.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064325131796785026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgY4BvUp4I/AAAAAAAAAQM/THI0s3qgIIA/s400/May+9-11+-+175.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgY4RvUp5I/AAAAAAAAAQU/I4KTj0i8IEY/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+178.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064325136091752338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgY4RvUp5I/AAAAAAAAAQU/I4KTj0i8IEY/s400/May+9-11+-+178.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgY4hvUp6I/AAAAAAAAAQc/5Di3ZqL-obY/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+185.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064325140386719650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgY4hvUp6I/AAAAAAAAAQc/5Di3ZqL-obY/s400/May+9-11+-+185.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-6952817419297791873?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6952817419297791873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=6952817419297791873&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6952817419297791873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6952817419297791873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/breakfast-at-passby-bar.html' title='breakfast at Passby Bar'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgY3xvUp3I/AAAAAAAAAQE/boaJbAVz7H4/s72-c/May+9-11+-+174.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-7361108335275065106</id><published>2007-05-10T15:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T16:05:42.813+08:00</updated><title type='text'>798 - Dashanzi art district</title><content type='html'>imagine exhibiting pieces in a space like this!&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgXlxvUpzI/AAAAAAAAAPk/TP-wZ9ApLi0/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064323718752544562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgXlxvUpzI/AAAAAAAAAPk/TP-wZ9ApLi0/s400/May+9-11+-+026.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgXnxvUp0I/AAAAAAAAAPs/vSeF-slrqc8/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064323753112282946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgXnxvUp0I/AAAAAAAAAPs/vSeF-slrqc8/s400/May+9-11+-+043.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgXoRvUp1I/AAAAAAAAAP0/St4e3pXIwqg/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+055.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064323761702217554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgXoRvUp1I/AAAAAAAAAP0/St4e3pXIwqg/s400/May+9-11+-+055.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgXoxvUp2I/AAAAAAAAAP8/KwgVJhbdD_A/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064323770292152162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgXoxvUp2I/AAAAAAAAAP8/KwgVJhbdD_A/s400/May+9-11+-+057.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgWqhvUpvI/AAAAAAAAAPE/cax279kx6Sk/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+059.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064322700845295346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgWqhvUpvI/AAAAAAAAAPE/cax279kx6Sk/s400/May+9-11+-+059.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgWrRvUpwI/AAAAAAAAAPM/UmHG3A49Xak/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+078.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064322713730197250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgWrRvUpwI/AAAAAAAAAPM/UmHG3A49Xak/s400/May+9-11+-+078.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This was a Nike AF1 museum of sorts...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgWrhvUpxI/AAAAAAAAAPU/hQyH26OlZtU/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+099.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064322718025164562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgWrhvUpxI/AAAAAAAAAPU/hQyH26OlZtU/s400/May+9-11+-+099.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the MUJI AF1!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgWsBvUpyI/AAAAAAAAAPc/En59BBs7j7E/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+114.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064322726615099170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgWsBvUpyI/AAAAAAAAAPc/En59BBs7j7E/s400/May+9-11+-+114.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgV0RvUprI/AAAAAAAAAOk/_eLm9CthnVg/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+126.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064321768837392050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgV0RvUprI/AAAAAAAAAOk/_eLm9CthnVg/s400/May+9-11+-+126.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgV0xvUpsI/AAAAAAAAAOs/H3xj3TfWX0k/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+144.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064321777427326658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgV0xvUpsI/AAAAAAAAAOs/H3xj3TfWX0k/s400/May+9-11+-+144.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hot pot dinner for Robin's birthday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgV1RvUptI/AAAAAAAAAO0/6JiNTlmRIvU/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+163.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064321786017261266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgV1RvUptI/AAAAAAAAAO0/6JiNTlmRIvU/s400/May+9-11+-+163.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; street musician serenading Evan with &lt;em&gt;Kang Guo Lai&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgV1xvUpuI/AAAAAAAAAO8/cMb75kCCxAQ/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+170.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064321794607195874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgV1xvUpuI/AAAAAAAAAO8/cMb75kCCxAQ/s400/May+9-11+-+170.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-7361108335275065106?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/7361108335275065106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=7361108335275065106&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/7361108335275065106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/7361108335275065106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/798-dashanzi-art-district.html' title='798 - Dashanzi art district'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgXlxvUpzI/AAAAAAAAAPk/TP-wZ9ApLi0/s72-c/May+9-11+-+026.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-8260726481176609229</id><published>2007-05-09T15:46:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T15:50:55.629+08:00</updated><title type='text'>random photos</title><content type='html'>this one's for mom and dad...it's a rabbit, made out of a tomato!&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgUQhvUpoI/AAAAAAAAAOM/2Igq2_RQNww/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064320055145440898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgUQhvUpoI/AAAAAAAAAOM/2Igq2_RQNww/s400/May+9-11+-+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;some of the workers next door&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgURBvUppI/AAAAAAAAAOU/shrWgejqIKI/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064320063735375506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgURBvUppI/AAAAAAAAAOU/shrWgejqIKI/s400/May+9-11+-+014.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; James bravely trying the corn on the cob popsicle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgURhvUpqI/AAAAAAAAAOc/UnCJfQu9Ljw/s1600-h/May+9-11+-+024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064320072325310114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgURhvUpqI/AAAAAAAAAOc/UnCJfQu9Ljw/s400/May+9-11+-+024.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-8260726481176609229?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/8260726481176609229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=8260726481176609229&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8260726481176609229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8260726481176609229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/random-photos.html' title='random photos'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgUQhvUpoI/AAAAAAAAAOM/2Igq2_RQNww/s72-c/May+9-11+-+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-6657346161090566081</id><published>2007-05-08T15:19:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T15:45:41.882+08:00</updated><title type='text'>BASE and galleries...</title><content type='html'>so finally, here's a quick photo of the outside of base...more to come...&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgRkRvUpmI/AAAAAAAAAN8/yrOC9UVsx84/s1600-h/May+6+-+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064317095912973922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgRkRvUpmI/AAAAAAAAAN8/yrOC9UVsx84/s400/May+6+-+002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Galerie Urs Meile close to BASE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgRkxvUpnI/AAAAAAAAAOE/ExeNsp97xOc/s1600-h/May+6+-+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064317104502908530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgRkxvUpnI/AAAAAAAAAOE/ExeNsp97xOc/s400/May+6+-+008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; an exhibit called &lt;em&gt;Shooting 10 000 Arrows at Once&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgQ2xvUpiI/AAAAAAAAANc/pARivf_iJ2k/s1600-h/May+6+-+016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064316314228925986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgQ2xvUpiI/AAAAAAAAANc/pARivf_iJ2k/s400/May+6+-+016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgQ3hvUpjI/AAAAAAAAANk/rI6IGd_kOpc/s1600-h/May+6+-+019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064316327113827890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgQ3hvUpjI/AAAAAAAAANk/rI6IGd_kOpc/s400/May+6+-+019.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgQ4BvUpkI/AAAAAAAAANs/tPIFnE7UtIQ/s1600-h/May+6+-+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064316335703762498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgQ4BvUpkI/AAAAAAAAANs/tPIFnE7UtIQ/s400/May+6+-+022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Li Songsong's &lt;em&gt;Global Bikini&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgQ4xvUplI/AAAAAAAAAN0/SaZb_PgWNzE/s1600-h/May+6+-+027.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064316348588664402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgQ4xvUplI/AAAAAAAAAN0/SaZb_PgWNzE/s400/May+6+-+027.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgP6BvUpeI/AAAAAAAAAM8/oJk2rcW2dA4/s1600-h/May+6+-+028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064315270551872994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgP6BvUpeI/AAAAAAAAAM8/oJk2rcW2dA4/s400/May+6+-+028.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ai Weiwei's &lt;em&gt;Ruyi-3&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgP6hvUpfI/AAAAAAAAANE/mvPWfMUMrLo/s1600-h/May+6+-+036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064315279141807602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgP6hvUpfI/AAAAAAAAANE/mvPWfMUMrLo/s400/May+6+-+036.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgP7RvUpgI/AAAAAAAAANM/Uk0BLJJNhTU/s1600-h/May+6+-+037.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064315292026709506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgP7RvUpgI/AAAAAAAAANM/Uk0BLJJNhTU/s400/May+6+-+037.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In Universal Studios Gallery next door. Kaz Oshiro's piece...looks like mini-fridge...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgP8BvUphI/AAAAAAAAANU/6vxrc0J0kP4/s1600-h/May+6+-+043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064315304911611410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgP8BvUphI/AAAAAAAAANU/6vxrc0J0kP4/s400/May+6+-+043.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ...but it isn't!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgO9BvUpaI/AAAAAAAAAMc/04t78VqDMrY/s1600-h/May+6+-+044.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064314222579852706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgO9BvUpaI/AAAAAAAAAMc/04t78VqDMrY/s400/May+6+-+044.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Final review for the students from Dusseldorf's Peter Behrens' School of Architecture&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgO9xvUpbI/AAAAAAAAAMk/N3BweuTnBSY/s1600-h/May+6+-+053.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064314235464754610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgO9xvUpbI/AAAAAAAAAMk/N3BweuTnBSY/s400/May+6+-+053.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;paint&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgO-hvUpcI/AAAAAAAAAMs/65Hu1n--Org/s1600-h/May+6+-+057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064314248349656514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgO-hvUpcI/AAAAAAAAAMs/65Hu1n--Org/s400/May+6+-+057.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; towels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgO-xvUpdI/AAAAAAAAAM0/zM3zQyFvaqM/s1600-h/May+6+-+064cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064314252644623826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgO-xvUpdI/AAAAAAAAAM0/zM3zQyFvaqM/s400/May+6+-+064cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-6657346161090566081?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6657346161090566081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=6657346161090566081&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6657346161090566081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6657346161090566081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/base-and-galleries.html' title='BASE and galleries...'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkgRkRvUpmI/AAAAAAAAAN8/yrOC9UVsx84/s72-c/May+6+-+002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-6774185258745571161</id><published>2007-05-07T00:23:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T01:03:37.934+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Landed in Beijing!</title><content type='html'>This is the cafe next to BASE. The man in the jacket is Jason, who teaches our Mandarin classes.&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCsRRvUpWI/AAAAAAAAAL8/-n6YUmUFawc/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+138.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062235393984079202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCsRRvUpWI/AAAAAAAAAL8/-n6YUmUFawc/s400/May+5-7+-+138.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCsRxvUpXI/AAAAAAAAAME/YY4pb9wulhg/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+141.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062235402574013810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCsRxvUpXI/AAAAAAAAAME/YY4pb9wulhg/s400/May+5-7+-+141.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCsShvUpYI/AAAAAAAAAMM/9E5RxTlNrTs/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+145.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062235415458915714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCsShvUpYI/AAAAAAAAAMM/9E5RxTlNrTs/s400/May+5-7+-+145.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This man had a cricket in the little cage hanging on his rickshaw.&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCsTRvUpZI/AAAAAAAAAMU/cYERmvH2dFc/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+148.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062235428343817618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCsTRvUpZI/AAAAAAAAAMU/cYERmvH2dFc/s400/May+5-7+-+148.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;crossing the street underground&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCq8BvUpSI/AAAAAAAAALc/rhNpRVSZ8PI/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+150.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062233929400231202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCq8BvUpSI/AAAAAAAAALc/rhNpRVSZ8PI/s400/May+5-7+-+150.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCq8hvUpTI/AAAAAAAAALk/F9DjZeGy55I/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+162.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062233937990165810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCq8hvUpTI/AAAAAAAAALk/F9DjZeGy55I/s400/May+5-7+-+162.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCq9RvUpUI/AAAAAAAAALs/Vk20vt9hHas/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+173.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062233950875067714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCq9RvUpUI/AAAAAAAAALs/Vk20vt9hHas/s400/May+5-7+-+173.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCq9hvUpVI/AAAAAAAAAL0/vuc_NbQmqJ0/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+191cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062233955170035026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCq9hvUpVI/AAAAAAAAAL0/vuc_NbQmqJ0/s400/May+5-7+-+191cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCp1xvUpOI/AAAAAAAAAK8/j58sFPVOLO0/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062232722514420962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCp1xvUpOI/AAAAAAAAAK8/j58sFPVOLO0/s400/May+5-7+-+200.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCp2hvUpPI/AAAAAAAAALE/7XVhEbAmsaA/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+203.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062232735399322866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCp2hvUpPI/AAAAAAAAALE/7XVhEbAmsaA/s400/May+5-7+-+203.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCp3RvUpQI/AAAAAAAAALM/dG1rpdItmKs/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+224.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062232748284224770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCp3RvUpQI/AAAAAAAAALM/dG1rpdItmKs/s400/May+5-7+-+224.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCp4BvUpRI/AAAAAAAAALU/KmtFWxcdfJA/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+236.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062232761169126674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCp4BvUpRI/AAAAAAAAALU/KmtFWxcdfJA/s400/May+5-7+-+236.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062227675927848146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkClQBvUpNI/AAAAAAAAAK0/Ac3JaNix9kc/s400/May+5-7+-+238cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062227671632880834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkClPxvUpMI/AAAAAAAAAKs/xw3uCIwI_8U/s400/May+5-7+-+253.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Outside Ai Weiwei's restaurant &lt;em&gt;Qu Na'r?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkClORvUpKI/AAAAAAAAAKc/1aM7MJJPB7Y/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+266.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062227645863077026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkClORvUpKI/AAAAAAAAAKc/1aM7MJJPB7Y/s400/May+5-7+-+266.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;inside the restaurant...dinner!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkClPBvUpLI/AAAAAAAAAKk/0EsQ3klzLs0/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+263.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062227658747978930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkClPBvUpLI/AAAAAAAAAKk/0EsQ3klzLs0/s400/May+5-7+-+263.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-6774185258745571161?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6774185258745571161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=6774185258745571161&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6774185258745571161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6774185258745571161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/landed-in-beijing.html' title='Landed in Beijing!'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCsRRvUpWI/AAAAAAAAAL8/-n6YUmUFawc/s72-c/May+5-7+-+138.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-8749835310279980998</id><published>2007-05-05T23:43:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T00:22:44.462+08:00</updated><title type='text'>last day in Hong Kong</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCh6xvUpGI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/wbIoAvNRSvA/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062224012320744546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCh6xvUpGI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/wbIoAvNRSvA/s400/May+5-7+-+011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Stephen and my uncle Edwin discussing the concrete retaining system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCh7hvUpHI/AAAAAAAAAKE/ETekZMBRE_o/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062224025205646450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCh7hvUpHI/AAAAAAAAAKE/ETekZMBRE_o/s400/May+5-7+-+021.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Stanley Park&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCh8BvUpII/AAAAAAAAAKM/KukffbN1WH4/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062224033795581058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCh8BvUpII/AAAAAAAAAKM/KukffbN1WH4/s400/May+5-7+-+024.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCh8xvUpJI/AAAAAAAAAKU/JgEeRdmA_vQ/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062224046680482962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCh8xvUpJI/AAAAAAAAAKU/JgEeRdmA_vQ/s400/May+5-7+-+032.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a temple in Stanley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCf4RvUpCI/AAAAAAAAAJc/gfhGjwdgzvc/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+033.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062221770347815970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCf4RvUpCI/AAAAAAAAAJc/gfhGjwdgzvc/s400/May+5-7+-+033.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCf4xvUpDI/AAAAAAAAAJk/Pwms0euwsqw/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+048cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062221778937750578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCf4xvUpDI/AAAAAAAAAJk/Pwms0euwsqw/s400/May+5-7+-+048cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We drove around a town called Shek O. It's hard to believe that this is also Hong Kong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCf5RvUpEI/AAAAAAAAAJs/AyP8rtYpAqk/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062221787527685186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCf5RvUpEI/AAAAAAAAAJs/AyP8rtYpAqk/s400/May+5-7+-+057.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCegBvUo-I/AAAAAAAAAI8/SgOk9-ehGxM/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+067.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062220254224360418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCegBvUo-I/AAAAAAAAAI8/SgOk9-ehGxM/s400/May+5-7+-+067.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Stephen and my aunt looking at crabs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCegxvUo_I/AAAAAAAAAJE/XmP2z9B3Cbw/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+069.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCehhvUpAI/AAAAAAAAAJM/PjpPknhZim0/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+080.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062220279994164226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCehhvUpAI/AAAAAAAAAJM/PjpPknhZim0/s400/May+5-7+-+080.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCeiBvUpBI/AAAAAAAAAJU/n_Z_5OXYYPw/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+089.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062220288584098834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCeiBvUpBI/AAAAAAAAAJU/n_Z_5OXYYPw/s400/May+5-7+-+089.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCc2xvUo6I/AAAAAAAAAIc/GsDgC9SOMRQ/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+122cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062218446043128738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCc2xvUo6I/AAAAAAAAAIc/GsDgC9SOMRQ/s400/May+5-7+-+122cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;looks like bamboo scaffolding&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCc4BvUo7I/AAAAAAAAAIk/6zAj4JZfxtw/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+128.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062218467517965234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCc4BvUo7I/AAAAAAAAAIk/6zAj4JZfxtw/s400/May+5-7+-+128.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Norman Foster's HSBC headquarters again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCc4hvUo8I/AAAAAAAAAIs/q670rU7XhWg/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+134.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062218476107899842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCc4hvUo8I/AAAAAAAAAIs/q670rU7XhWg/s400/May+5-7+-+134.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This last one's for Sando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCc5xvUo9I/AAAAAAAAAI0/xmh-YYk76sk/s1600-h/May+5-7+-+136.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062218497582736338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCc5xvUo9I/AAAAAAAAAI0/xmh-YYk76sk/s400/May+5-7+-+136.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-8749835310279980998?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/8749835310279980998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=8749835310279980998&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8749835310279980998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8749835310279980998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/last-day-in-hong-kong.html' title='last day in Hong Kong'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RkCh6xvUpGI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/wbIoAvNRSvA/s72-c/May+5-7+-+011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-1797010911535908545</id><published>2007-05-05T02:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T04:02:17.688+08:00</updated><title type='text'>my second-last day in Hong Kong</title><content type='html'>Evan and Jess. When in Rome... We're on the Star Ferry on our way to Tsim Sha Tsui.&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuPrRvUo2I/AAAAAAAAAH8/Z9zpkzoz6zw/s1600-h/May+4+-+001+-+cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060796579939918690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuPrRvUo2I/AAAAAAAAAH8/Z9zpkzoz6zw/s400/May+4+-+001+-+cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Jess, Evan, Patsy and Stephen in Sai Kung. &lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuPsBvUo3I/AAAAAAAAAIE/Zzx5nO-h7TI/s1600-h/May+4+-+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060796592824820594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuPsBvUo3I/AAAAAAAAAIE/Zzx5nO-h7TI/s400/May+4+-+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Me and two giant fish!&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuPsxvUo4I/AAAAAAAAAIM/p2XNdewRhGE/s1600-h/May+4+-+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060796605709722498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuPsxvUo4I/AAAAAAAAAIM/p2XNdewRhGE/s400/May+4+-+010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;enjoying various flavoured daiquiris.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuPthvUo5I/AAAAAAAAAIU/GmODQg9PcuY/s1600-h/May+4+-+028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060796618594624402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuPthvUo5I/AAAAAAAAAIU/GmODQg9PcuY/s400/May+4+-+028.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-1797010911535908545?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/1797010911535908545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=1797010911535908545&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/1797010911535908545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/1797010911535908545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-second-last-day-in-hong-kong.html' title='my second-last day in Hong Kong'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuPrRvUo2I/AAAAAAAAAH8/Z9zpkzoz6zw/s72-c/May+4+-+001+-+cropped.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-8002143473143216734</id><published>2007-05-03T01:37:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T03:52:38.128+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Company arrives!</title><content type='html'>wandering around Times Square...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuNXBvUoyI/AAAAAAAAAHc/MP3schmPgwk/s1600-h/May+2-3+-+014+cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060794033024312098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuNXBvUoyI/AAAAAAAAAHc/MP3schmPgwk/s400/May+2-3+-+014+cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuNXRvUozI/AAAAAAAAAHk/7sS5dIv56Bw/s1600-h/May+2-3+-+016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060794037319279410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuNXRvUozI/AAAAAAAAAHk/7sS5dIv56Bw/s400/May+2-3+-+016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Evan and Jess arrive in Hong Kong and we decide to go for dim sum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060792851908305682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuMSRvUoxI/AAAAAAAAAHU/Qy3EsDlh88w/s400/May+2-3+-+031.jpg" border="0" /&gt;the view from our restaurant, which we found by following people around Wan Chai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuNYhvUo1I/AAAAAAAAAH0/1X0i86MIX_M/s1600-h/May+2-3+-+029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060794058794115922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuNYhvUo1I/AAAAAAAAAH0/1X0i86MIX_M/s400/May+2-3+-+029.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The HSBC Headquarters by Foster + Partners.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuMQhvUovI/AAAAAAAAAHE/Vo5SSzlLkdQ/s1600-h/May+2-3+-+044.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060792821843534578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuMQhvUovI/AAAAAAAAAHE/Vo5SSzlLkdQ/s400/May+2-3+-+044.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060792804663665378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuMPhvUouI/AAAAAAAAAG8/57xjQlU3hlw/s400/May+2-3+-+056.jpg" border="0" /&gt; This building below is supposed to look like koalas climbing a tree.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuMRRvUowI/AAAAAAAAAHM/m_VIQUFe-BU/s1600-h/May+2-3+-+041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060792834728436482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuMRRvUowI/AAAAAAAAAHM/m_VIQUFe-BU/s400/May+2-3+-+041.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-8002143473143216734?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/8002143473143216734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=8002143473143216734&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8002143473143216734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/8002143473143216734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/company-arrives.html' title='Company arrives!'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuNXBvUoyI/AAAAAAAAAHc/MP3schmPgwk/s72-c/May+2-3+-+014+cropped.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-3377051812379096994</id><published>2007-05-02T01:15:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T03:36:23.729+08:00</updated><title type='text'>a day in the country...</title><content type='html'>It was Labour Day on May 1st and my aunt, my uncle and I decided to head into the country. Here's a look at Clearwater Bay and Sai Kung.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuJYxvUosI/AAAAAAAAAGs/iylQWQNGWY0/s1600-h/May+1+-+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060789665042571970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuJYxvUosI/AAAAAAAAAGs/iylQWQNGWY0/s400/May+1+-+022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;seems a world away from the bustle of the city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuJZxvUotI/AAAAAAAAAG0/4eht2VK17UM/s1600-h/May+1+-+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060789682222441170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuJZxvUotI/AAAAAAAAAG0/4eht2VK17UM/s400/May+1+-+014.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuI1BvUooI/AAAAAAAAAGM/PZb57b_XX78/s1600-h/May+1+-+125.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060789050862248578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuI1BvUooI/AAAAAAAAAGM/PZb57b_XX78/s400/May+1+-+125.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuI2BvUopI/AAAAAAAAAGU/SCHCDZ1hrB4/s1600-h/May+1+-+090.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060789068042117778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuI2BvUopI/AAAAAAAAAGU/SCHCDZ1hrB4/s400/May+1+-+090.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuI2RvUoqI/AAAAAAAAAGc/Q_9vl-B9bHA/s1600-h/May+1+-+043+cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060789072337085090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuI2RvUoqI/AAAAAAAAAGc/Q_9vl-B9bHA/s400/May+1+-+043+cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuI3BvUorI/AAAAAAAAAGk/Hmc6v-KG_Uc/s1600-h/May+1+-+038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060789085221986994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuI3BvUorI/AAAAAAAAAGk/Hmc6v-KG_Uc/s400/May+1+-+038.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuINBvUomI/AAAAAAAAAF8/o9dCIVVaPzI/s1600-h/May+1+-+171.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060788363667481186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuINBvUomI/AAAAAAAAAF8/o9dCIVVaPzI/s400/May+1+-+171.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuINxvUonI/AAAAAAAAAGE/lzI2G-0BQ-w/s1600-h/May+1+-+155.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060788376552383090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuINxvUonI/AAAAAAAAAGE/lzI2G-0BQ-w/s400/May+1+-+155.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuHfBvUogI/AAAAAAAAAFM/TQtOjCis4uk/s1600-h/May+1+-+234.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060787573393498626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuHfBvUogI/AAAAAAAAAFM/TQtOjCis4uk/s400/May+1+-+234.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I just thought this milk bottle was really cute.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuHfxvUohI/AAAAAAAAAFU/NcbIJMYpqPk/s1600-h/May+1+-+230.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060787586278400530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuHfxvUohI/AAAAAAAAAFU/NcbIJMYpqPk/s400/May+1+-+230.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't seem to stay away from markets.&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060788337897677378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuILhvUokI/AAAAAAAAAFs/7Z3QH00TAaY/s400/May+1+-+174.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuHhRvUojI/AAAAAAAAAFk/V8f2zLRcqJA/s1600-h/May+1+-+188.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060787612048204338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuHhRvUojI/AAAAAAAAAFk/V8f2zLRcqJA/s400/May+1+-+188.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060788350782579282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuIMRvUolI/AAAAAAAAAF0/2ljKLICw5Fg/s400/May+1+-+173.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-3377051812379096994?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/3377051812379096994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=3377051812379096994&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3377051812379096994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3377051812379096994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/day-in-country.html' title='a day in the country...'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuJYxvUosI/AAAAAAAAAGs/iylQWQNGWY0/s72-c/May+1+-+022.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-3527382941438750262</id><published>2007-05-01T02:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T03:15:27.861+08:00</updated><title type='text'>more great-grandma and more markets!</title><content type='html'>&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060784257678746034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuEeBvUobI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Bo3HdUUFqLI/s400/1+105.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuFOxvUocI/AAAAAAAAAEs/eHrotA029BU/s1600-h/1+107.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060785095197368770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuFOxvUocI/AAAAAAAAAEs/eHrotA029BU/s400/1+107.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuFPhvUodI/AAAAAAAAAE0/b9B6cMnwOMU/s1600-h/1+110.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060785108082270674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuFPhvUodI/AAAAAAAAAE0/b9B6cMnwOMU/s400/1+110.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuFQRvUoeI/AAAAAAAAAE8/0318SyJLk48/s1600-h/1+112.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060785120967172578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuFQRvUoeI/AAAAAAAAAE8/0318SyJLk48/s400/1+112.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuFQxvUofI/AAAAAAAAAFE/vP8AYC79yQ4/s1600-h/1+138.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060785129557107186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuFQxvUofI/AAAAAAAAAFE/vP8AYC79yQ4/s400/1+138.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuEcBvUoYI/AAAAAAAAAEM/iAMXi2xSRgE/s1600-h/1+057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060784223319007618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuEcBvUoYI/AAAAAAAAAEM/iAMXi2xSRgE/s400/1+057.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuEcxvUoZI/AAAAAAAAAEU/qF0fx651ssY/s1600-h/1+059+-+cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060784236203909522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuEcxvUoZI/AAAAAAAAAEU/qF0fx651ssY/s400/1+059+-+cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuEdRvUoaI/AAAAAAAAAEc/WAUpH8cVLAs/s1600-h/1+067.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060784244793844130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuEdRvUoaI/AAAAAAAAAEc/WAUpH8cVLAs/s400/1+067.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuDhBvUoUI/AAAAAAAAADs/jPP7ASVs0LI/s1600-h/1+033.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060783209706725698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuDhBvUoUI/AAAAAAAAADs/jPP7ASVs0LI/s400/1+033.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuDiBvUoVI/AAAAAAAAAD0/9sdEZ19ggP8/s1600-h/1+047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060783226886594898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuDiBvUoVI/AAAAAAAAAD0/9sdEZ19ggP8/s400/1+047.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuDihvUoWI/AAAAAAAAAD8/XcJ1zujNUSk/s1600-h/1+053+-+cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060783235476529506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuDihvUoWI/AAAAAAAAAD8/XcJ1zujNUSk/s400/1+053+-+cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuDixvUoXI/AAAAAAAAAEE/iHm9B5SzRQY/s1600-h/1+055+-+cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060783239771496818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuDixvUoXI/AAAAAAAAAEE/iHm9B5SzRQY/s400/1+055+-+cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; whatever they're selling, they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want you to buy it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-3527382941438750262?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/3527382941438750262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=3527382941438750262&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3527382941438750262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3527382941438750262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-great-grandma-and-more-markets.html' title='more great-grandma and more markets!'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjuEeBvUobI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Bo3HdUUFqLI/s72-c/1+105.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-2802176782709525632</id><published>2007-04-30T01:04:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-03T19:50:54.959+08:00</updated><title type='text'>a day at the races...</title><content type='html'>The Queen Elizabeth II Cup at the Shatin Racecourse&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059269272389591186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYimRvUoJI/AAAAAAAAACU/ebbS5EQSbx8/s400/1+015.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059269293864427682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYinhvUoKI/AAAAAAAAACc/sJfn4srKeIM/s400/1+033.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYmABvUoRI/AAAAAAAAADU/f2P2zQx_Yn0/s1600-h/1+108+cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059273013306106130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYmABvUoRI/AAAAAAAAADU/f2P2zQx_Yn0/s400/1+108+cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the jockeys and horse owners (they kinda look like Oompa Loompas, eh?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYmBxvUoSI/AAAAAAAAADc/h5fqlLMhw88/s1600-h/1+120.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059273043370877218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYmBxvUoSI/AAAAAAAAADc/h5fqlLMhw88/s400/1+120.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; paper streamers after the championship race&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYkwBvUoOI/AAAAAAAAAC8/kwdfbK_1IAE/s1600-h/1+077.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059271638916571362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYkwBvUoOI/AAAAAAAAAC8/kwdfbK_1IAE/s400/1+077.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYkwhvUoPI/AAAAAAAAADE/JBNLDLoce5s/s1600-h/1+079+cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059271647506505970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYkwhvUoPI/AAAAAAAAADE/JBNLDLoce5s/s400/1+079+cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this guy came in 3rd and I lost $10 HKD...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYkxBvUoQI/AAAAAAAAADM/nPSYdhhiSH0/s1600-h/1+086+cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059271656096440578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYkxBvUoQI/AAAAAAAAADM/nPSYdhhiSH0/s400/1+086+cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;random rich people...&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYjjxvUoNI/AAAAAAAAAC0/YzD_oINCwms/s1600-h/1+068.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059270328951546066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYjjxvUoNI/AAAAAAAAAC0/YzD_oINCwms/s400/1+068.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-2802176782709525632?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/2802176782709525632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=2802176782709525632&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2802176782709525632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/2802176782709525632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/day-at-races.html' title='a day at the races...'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjYimRvUoJI/AAAAAAAAACU/ebbS5EQSbx8/s72-c/1+015.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-5225259759756014413</id><published>2007-04-28T20:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-04-29T00:02:45.426+08:00</updated><title type='text'>a day at the market...</title><content type='html'>As if I haven't had enough of markets already...&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058458760521228370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjNBcRvUoFI/AAAAAAAAAB0/cP8JCZXb-SA/s400/1+005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjNBbRvUoEI/AAAAAAAAABs/H15s7xEXWQ0/s1600-h/1+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058458743341359170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjNBbRvUoEI/AAAAAAAAABs/H15s7xEXWQ0/s400/1+010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058458713276588082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjNBZhvUoDI/AAAAAAAAABk/WLu9CpPAkB8/s400/1+032.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjNAiRvUoCI/AAAAAAAAABc/GH1x3DMHlYA/s1600-h/1+034.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058457764088815650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjNAiRvUoCI/AAAAAAAAABc/GH1x3DMHlYA/s400/1+034.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058464378338451586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjNGjRvUoII/AAAAAAAAACM/IXg_Zgt04v8/s400/1+044.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it politically incorrect to call MUJI my mecca?&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjM_lhvUoAI/AAAAAAAAABM/GF_-UQxUDVA/s1600-h/1+063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058456720411762690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjM_lhvUoAI/AAAAAAAAABM/GF_-UQxUDVA/s400/1+063.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;we went to a condo sales office, where I learned the towers to be built were designed by Foster &amp; Partners....do I miss my model-building days? not at all.&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjM_ABvUn_I/AAAAAAAAABE/RVXZFARPPHA/s1600-h/1+106.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058456076166668274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjM_ABvUn_I/AAAAAAAAABE/RVXZFARPPHA/s400/1+106.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;again, my great-grandma at the condo showroom with a Phillip Starck goblet&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjM-ZhvUn-I/AAAAAAAAAA8/VgVzcQRkvaQ/s1600-h/tai+3+cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058455414741704674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjM-ZhvUn-I/AAAAAAAAAA8/VgVzcQRkvaQ/s400/tai+3+cropped.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;at the grocery store: apparently, this drink contains 'ions'...&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058454980950007762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjM-ARvUn9I/AAAAAAAAAA0/KfgOmbp2Kn4/s400/1+124.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-5225259759756014413?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/5225259759756014413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=5225259759756014413&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/5225259759756014413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/5225259759756014413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/04/day-at-market.html' title='a day at the market...'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjNBcRvUoFI/AAAAAAAAAB0/cP8JCZXb-SA/s72-c/1+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-3548554205640425460</id><published>2007-04-28T20:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-04-28T20:57:58.104+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Adam, this one's for you</title><content type='html'>Clearly, this isn't one of my best photos, but I had to post it anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam, she was some kind of model and was being photographed by the guy walking next to her. And not only was she a model, but if you look closely, she's wearing a Steelers t-shirt...a Steelers t-shirt! (though, I think it's reversed for some reason)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058460950954549346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjNDbxvUoGI/AAAAAAAAAB8/MuI_ERbVewc/s400/1+116.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058461406221082738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="185" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjND2RvUoHI/AAAAAAAAACE/xSR97Tll6aU/s400/steelers+cropped.jpg" width="157" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-3548554205640425460?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/3548554205640425460/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=3548554205640425460&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3548554205640425460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/3548554205640425460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/04/adam-this-ones-for-you.html' title='Adam, this one&apos;s for you'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjNDbxvUoGI/AAAAAAAAAB8/MuI_ERbVewc/s72-c/1+116.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-6351902788474931996</id><published>2007-04-28T01:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-04-28T01:03:35.138+08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Here's the view out on my aunt's balcony&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058154444908437442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjIsqxvUn8I/AAAAAAAAAAs/3t0XYSyHO-I/s400/april+26,+2007+-+005+-+crop.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-6351902788474931996?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6351902788474931996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=6351902788474931996&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6351902788474931996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/6351902788474931996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/04/heres-view-out-on-my-aunts-balcony.html' title=''/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjIsqxvUn8I/AAAAAAAAAAs/3t0XYSyHO-I/s72-c/april+26,+2007+-+005+-+crop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189071868216600580.post-115577650485532413</id><published>2007-04-27T17:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-04-27T17:55:03.790+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Made it to Hong Kong</title><content type='html'>I've finally made it to Hong Kong after my flight was delayed a day...had to stay in Chicago for the night - actually, I don't even think it was Chicago. I think I was in a place called Mannheim, aka Hell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some photos I took out the window of the plane:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjHFPBvUn5I/AAAAAAAAAAU/zTVtUih905c/s1600-h/blog+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058040718469406610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjHFPBvUn5I/AAAAAAAAAAU/zTVtUih905c/s400/blog+008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjHEXRvUn4I/AAAAAAAAAAM/Or7PwPFJvvo/s1600-h/blog+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058039760691699586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjHEXRvUn4I/AAAAAAAAAAM/Or7PwPFJvvo/s400/blog+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; flying over the Chersky mountain range in Siberia&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is my great-grandmother, she's one of my most favourite people ever!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058042354851946402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjHGuRvUn6I/AAAAAAAAAAc/D5Isi1nk3xw/s400/blog+032.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/189071868216600580-115577650485532413?l=valinchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/feeds/115577650485532413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=189071868216600580&amp;postID=115577650485532413&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/115577650485532413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/189071868216600580/posts/default/115577650485532413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://valinchina.blogspot.com/2007/04/made-it-to-hong-kong.html' title='Made it to Hong Kong'/><author><name>Val</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11644715582841978600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_8GBneczKAK8/RjHFPBvUn5I/AAAAAAAAAAU/zTVtUih905c/s72-c/blog+008.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
