tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71760332636920317092024-03-13T21:42:16.390+08:00motherland or bustjonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-78285568860452171322012-03-10T11:33:00.005+08:002012-03-10T12:03:23.137+08:00china train tickets<div style="text-align: left;">first, i realize it's been over 6 months since my last blog. i considered making it a new year's resolution to blog more. then i remembered when i made it my resolution to floss my teeth every night and that never panned out, so i didn't even make any resolutions.</div><div><br /><div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pByqoQ2fuJI/T1rRFXTdF1I/AAAAAAAAAFw/ZXp-xBdSjYs/s320/IMG_5485.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5718112566985430866" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></div><div><br /></div><div>so my first blog entry of the new year (yes, i realize it's march) is concerning train ticket buying in china. when we first came to china 7 yrs ago you could only buy tickets from the departure city to the place where you wanted to go. living in a small city also meant that we were never given seats on the train. no matter where we went, if we left from our city (siping) we'd have to stand the whole way. that also meant that when you arrived at the city where you were going to, you'd have to stand in line and buy a return ticket back to siping. for chinese people, this was standard and no one seemed concerned about how stressful this was for americans. americans like to have everything planned out, especially traveling times and dates. showing up to a city and not being sure if you were even going to get a ticket to return home the day and time that you wanted was always stressful. sometimes we'd get the time we wanted, but most of the time we'd settle for some slower train and get home later and have to sit next to the guy with his pick ax and bag of dead chickens.</div><div><br /></div><div>two years ago policy changed we were allowed to buy tickets from anywhere in china. so that meant that we could purchase a return ticket back to our city from our city. man, that was like the best day ever! i couldn't believe it! so now if we wanted to travel to beijing for the weekend, we could buy a return ticket from beijing to siping in siping. holy cow! how awesome was that?</div><div><br /></div><div>well this year they started selling tickets online. i know. i can't believe that china is moving into the 21st century with online ticket sales. we just purchased our first tickets online this week. now let's see if we actually get on the train, but at least china is moving forward!</div></div>jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-15626060200543938112011-09-06T10:54:00.007+08:002011-09-06T11:16:55.182+08:00shopping in chinerso i know i'm the worlds laziest blogger, but i just can't seem to arrive that things to blog about. but as i was cruising the isles of the local grocery store, i stumbled upon some gems that everyone needs to know about.<br /><br />here's some of the pills found in the vitamin department:<br /><br />this is called "wine-less (sober up)". so for all you drunks out there, china has figured out a way for you to sober up.<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tIMaH8MtcWs/TmWMc4buT1I/AAAAAAAAAFI/oLJAuS-PtLQ/s320/IMG_1122.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649075735419047762" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">here is some "fur seal oil". what does someone want with fur seal oil? will it make their skin shiny?<br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PVA-G5BB_38/TmWMdSMAhpI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/U4DAlw36RqM/s320/IMG_1123.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649075742332454546" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></span></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tJOafSwHyak/TmWMeSG-yDI/AAAAAAAAAFg/CiqyXkL1wss/s1600/IMG_1126.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a>"essence of kangaroo", now what good is a little kangaroo for?<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XIEIeWgGG6A/TmWMd7VHeqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/TCpow-OFSeI/s1600/IMG_1124.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XIEIeWgGG6A/TmWMd7VHeqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/TCpow-OFSeI/s320/IMG_1124.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649075753376512674" /></a>here's some pig feet in the freezer. delicious!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tJOafSwHyak/TmWMeSG-yDI/AAAAAAAAAFg/CiqyXkL1wss/s320/IMG_1126.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649075759491237938" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></span><div>a little chicken complete with his little head.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u_eilRpaLcc/TmWMeySFPjI/AAAAAAAAAFo/tvo6FFyigrw/s320/IMG_1127.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649075768127733298" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">so, warmly welcome you to come shopping in china!</span></span></div>jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-44348766672300182792011-04-02T17:52:00.005+08:002011-04-04T09:50:34.962+08:00my changing quality standardsever since coming to china my standard for food quality and service at restaurants has changed dramatically. maybe because you never tip the waitress and when you want service you just yell at the workers. literally, if we want someone to come to our table we just yell "fu yuan" and someone will yell back acknowledging us and then come to the table. at first it was strange, but now i love it. i sometimes imagine myself sitting at applebees or fridays and yelling for my waitress - i probably wouldn't get any service and someone would spit in my chicken fingers.<br /><br />anyway, i was thinking about how in america when you get weird flavored food or there is a hair in it, it's standard procedure to get another entree or get your food for free. like one time i went to eat at logan's in holland, mi. and i got a burger where there was mold all over the bottom bun. i was one bite away from eating it (thanks to rach for saving me on that one). the waiter was grossed out and the manager apologized and comped the burger. if that happened here, nothing would be replaced or comped. for my birthday we went to pizza hut and ordered a hawaiian pizza. when we started eating it, we tasted a very strong seafood flavor - yuck!!! i tasted some bits of crab and spicy seaweed junk in my pizza, so i decided to take some action and tell the manager. he was not phased at all by my complaint. in fact he said, "yeah, i know. we use the same knives and pans to cut the pizzas." what the heck? can someone say "cross contamination"? that evening was also spent in the w.c. as my body expelled the crummy pizza. then i went to kfc the next day and there was a hair in my drink and in my french fries. holy cow, a terrible string of dining experiences.<br /><br />imagine this beauty of a pizza mixed with the pizza you really wanted to eat.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UHeLebsAjYg/TZkda8qi8jI/AAAAAAAAAE8/C1XRHkrkxp4/s1600/20080909095007_98072989d9af2809007c293bc5002e519129.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 282px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UHeLebsAjYg/TZkda8qi8jI/AAAAAAAAAE8/C1XRHkrkxp4/s320/20080909095007_98072989d9af2809007c293bc5002e519129.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591532761155564082" /></a><br /><br />needless to say, if i was in america i would have complained up a storm and expected a refund. but in china, i just kinda roll with it. man, i've gotten lame.jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-21831044273989690642011-03-22T20:49:00.004+08:002011-03-22T21:05:23.253+08:00english classhere's the latest lesson from sam's preschool. rach and i noticed the english lesson on the door to her room last week. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pTdL36O7AIc/TYiceRkvEvI/AAAAAAAAAEs/g2RMeRoJ1K0/s1600/IMG_2014.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pTdL36O7AIc/TYiceRkvEvI/AAAAAAAAAEs/g2RMeRoJ1K0/s320/IMG_2014.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586887381680591602" /></a><br /><br />the interesting phrase that they are learning is "get off the bus piggy". who is piggy? i hope they aren't learning to call fat people piggy. that would be a shame. i'm not really sure what they are learning. i was hoping that sam would be going to english class, because i think it would be funny and her english is probably better than the teacher's. but she only goes to school in the morning and english is in the afternoon, so i guess she won't be going. oh well, at least her english is pretty good.<br /><br /><br />here's also a picture of the cabinet that i successfully opened.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nx6yURFchxY/TYice8aPoGI/AAAAAAAAAE0/umYIslP4GRY/s1600/IMG_4419.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nx6yURFchxY/TYice8aPoGI/AAAAAAAAAE0/umYIslP4GRY/s320/IMG_4419.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586887393179312226" /></a>jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-2824794329451021272011-02-28T16:00:00.002+08:002011-02-28T16:23:09.776+08:00my life as a criminalthere is a cabinet in our apartment that we inherited from another teammate 6 yrs ago when we first got to china. at the bottom are two doors with a lock on it. the doors have been locked for 6 yrs and no one ever gave us a key. on sunday i decided that i was tired of having a locked cabinet and really needed the space for all the extra stuff we recently inherited from our teammates who went back to america. so i went to our building "handyman" (term used loosely) to ask for a drill to drill out the lock. he wasn't there so i explained to another lady what i needed. this was all in chinese and i didn't know how to say drill, those are vocabulary words that you don't cover in introductory chinese classes. she said she would tell the guy when he got back. so i headed home anxious about getting this stupid lock opened (not sure why it bothered me so much, but after 6 yrs enough was enough of having a locked cabinet). so i started researching online how to pick open a lock with a paperclip. i tried multiple methods and nothing worked. the people online make is seem so easy to be a criminal and pick locks with minimal tools. finally i stumbled across a youtube video of a kid with the metal thing from a pen cap and paper clip. i attempted to pick the lock for the 20th time of the day and to my surprise it totally worked. i know, it was awesome! i'm totally going to break into people's cabinets now. i told sam that there must be some kind of treasure inside the cabinet too. because really, who would lock a cabinet and then take the keys with them? something awesome must be inside. when i opened the doors, there was nothing but an old iron and 2 paper bags. what a disappointment. it was like when geraldo opened up that tomb and there was nothing. man, geraldo, i totally feel your pain. it wasn't even a cool iron. it was like the first iron every made to plug in, it didn't even have the steam function. just a big block of metal with a cord.<br /><br />i should have been preparing for class, but now i learned a valuable life skill. thanks a lot 13yr old kid from youtube!jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-9248761844424801392011-02-19T16:23:00.002+08:002011-02-19T16:41:10.167+08:00back in actionhere i am back in chiner :) we just arrive 3 days ago. i love me some jet lag too. how do you explain to a 3 yr old that even though their tummy says it's time to eat, the clock says it's time to go to bed. the first night here, sam went to sleep at 3 pm and then woke up at 1 am ready to go for the day - ugh! at least things are starting to look up. we're all going to bed around 9 pm now and getting up in the middle of the night, but at least the little sam actually goes back to sleep (without a snack).<br /><br />so here's what's shakin' in china:<br /><br />1. pizza hut!!!!!!! seriously, we have a pizza hut now. we don't even have a mcdonalds, but we actually have a pizza hut. we went for lunch today and they wouldn't make us a pepperoni pizza. how lame is that? isn't the pepperoni pizza what all pizza places were started on? it was difficult to explain that we didn't want the seafood toppings and that we only wanted the pepperoni, after the manager put the negatory on it, we were stuck ordering off the menu. but don't order the cheese pizza today, they don't have it. i know you're thinking - is it really pizza hut? according to the logo and prices it is.<br /><br />2. crappier roads and an increase in taxi fares that's what else is new here. <br /><br />3. chinese food still jacks up my tummy. i think i put some weight on after living in the states for a few months, but after the last days, i'm pretty sure that i'm back down to my "china weight".<br /><br />now were are trying to wipe all the dust off our stuff and unpack all our stuff. i'm also realizing that 3 girls in one tiny apartment is going to be a difficult thing. man, those girls have a lot of clothes!<br /><br />i'm still in shock about the pizza hut. when we first arrived in siping 5 yrs ago we just got snickers, and they were even hard to find. now i'm waiting for the mcdonalds.jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-51290983319226077132010-11-13T03:42:00.005+08:002010-11-13T04:14:36.634+08:00austin's animalsi was born in a city, no farm animals or farms. the closest thing to the farm was the orange groves (which is cool but lacking in big farm animals). so whenever i go to the midwest, i love the cows and farms. i'm also a fan of the small towns in america. that's the reason why i love to go to rach's hometown and read the local newspaper there. it's pretty awesome. one of the things they have in the paper is the local police reports. here is where they chronicle every activity that the police do throughout the day. so today's blog is dedicated to the entries in the police report that relate to the animals of austin.<br /><br />tuesday:<br />* deceased cat found (that's it? nothing said about if there was an owner looking for it)<br />* officer dispatched to a deer that was hit by a car near international paper<br />* checked the area of 13th street and ninth avenue for loose dog, returned to owner<br />* report of a dog to be tied to duffle bad on interstate 90 (this is my favorite)<br />* loose dog in the 500th block of 4th street<br /><br />wednesday:<br />* picked up an injured rabbit at 900 block of 23rd ave sw<br />* report of an animal complaint at the 100 block of 10th st<br />* checked on a dog that was inside a car for several hours at 600 block of 9th st, dog was fine<br />* checked the area for a dog that jumped at a mailman at the 1400 block of fifth street<br /><br />so i came to the conclusion that the police in austin do more for the animals than the people.<br /><br />on another note, here's a picture of us at austin's most famous museum - the spam museum.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/TN2e3w8mebI/AAAAAAAAAEc/kinQhE4AMO8/s1600/IMG_6198.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/TN2e3w8mebI/AAAAAAAAAEc/kinQhE4AMO8/s320/IMG_6198.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538757797604653490" /></a>jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-17540629014502740392010-10-30T00:28:00.004+08:002010-10-30T00:43:04.442+08:00hangin' in NCi realize that i'm the world's worst blogger, but i'm okay with that. the last entry was from china and now we are in cary, nc. we've been in the states since july and we're heading back to chiner in feb 2011.<br /><br />since we've been home, we've been to a ton of place. we're putting miles on my parents mini-van, cuz they don't. here's some highlight so far of our time in america. <br /><br />sam learned to waterski - this is more of a highlight for her dad.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4133/5040351083_6fd4d6366a_z.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 426px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4133/5040351083_6fd4d6366a_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />we went to disney world.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/TMr43ZGP_GI/AAAAAAAAAEI/-AT1rglR8gU/s1600/IMG_1245.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/TMr43ZGP_GI/AAAAAAAAAEI/-AT1rglR8gU/s320/IMG_1245.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533508722691669090" /></a><br /><br />we've carved some pumpkins (my is the one of the right).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/TMr3_yyEKQI/AAAAAAAAAEA/pL140H-oSAM/s1600/IMG_1354.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/TMr3_yyEKQI/AAAAAAAAAEA/pL140H-oSAM/s320/IMG_1354.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533507767513655554" /></a><br /><br />we also went to the state fair last weekend and it was quite the experience. i love people watching in china, but the fair is way better. it's like i was in another country. ahh the fair, full of awesomeness!jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-27257184553597857542010-05-30T12:02:00.004+08:002010-05-30T12:08:42.504+08:00chinese walmartsif you ever wondered what they sell at a chinese walmart, just think chinese stuff all packed into one ginormous store. last month we went to walmart in changchun with my parents and they had pigs hanging from their feet and some butcher cutting slabs off of it for people to buy. this website also had some wonderful images from walmarts across chiner. so if you think your local walmart is kinda trashy, think again ... at least they don't sell this stuff. although walmarts in china are actually pretty nice compared to the local stores.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/16-products-they-only-sell-at-chinese-walmarts">chinese walmarts</a>jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-28204608472541446562010-05-24T16:02:00.005+08:002010-05-24T21:29:09.408+08:00thatched butt?today in class, we were talking about different types of homes. the students were supposed to brainstorm as many types of homes as they could. one pair of students wrote down "thatched butt". i politely corrected their mistake and then went on my way to the next group of students. but i'll be honest i did the junior high giggle the whole way up and down the isle of students. i couldn't stop laughing, it was just cracking me up. i'm not sure if it was because she had actually wrote the word "butt" on the paper or the mental image of a "thatched butt", either way i had a good laugh.<br /><br />just so you know, i was not thinking of this image:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/S_p-99ENMwI/AAAAAAAAADs/-ycWMW0MBu8/s1600/63YND00Z.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/S_p-99ENMwI/AAAAAAAAADs/-ycWMW0MBu8/s320/63YND00Z.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474827899851584258" /></a><br />but now i am. i could really use a little time on the beach. we've had some crummy weather this spring and it's raining again. yuck! i hate the rain!jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-85681478797230321812010-05-16T10:26:00.006+08:002010-05-16T11:01:45.456+08:0060 bottles of beer on the wallwhere's wu? yes it's been a month since my last blog entry (and i was doing so good). this last month has been so crazy!!! <br /><br />for the first time in five years, we as teachers had to "supervise" seniors for writing their senior thesis papers. talk about crazy chinglish, 20 pages of pure awesomeness. i want to pull my hair out when reading some of these papers, they didn't make any sense and those that did make sense, i had to bust for plagiarism (i'll save that for another time). so that's been consuming the majority of my time. <br /><br />also i've been coaching the department soccer team, who decided that practicing at 6:00am was the best thing for the team. when 13,000 kids share one field for the entire school, field availability times can get a little crazy. even though we get there at 6:00am, we are only given a quarter of the field to practice on. if we are lucky we can actually get a goal to practice on. ughhh, the joys of living in a land of 1.3 billion people. but we just played our last game this week and lost in the semifinals. which is where the "60 bottles of beer" came from. we had a celebratory banquet for the team to finish the season, in which the team and i and some department leaders gathered for one big party. basically it was all the boys and leaders toasting until the cows come home and drinking themselves into a drunken stupor. if you know anything about the "asian glow" these boys had the "glow" going on! since our organization has a no alcohol policy and the leaders and students know it, i was saved from being a causality of the asian glow. even those i was saved from the plethora of alcoholic beverages, i still had to drink something every time a toast was given. which was a problem since every single kid had to toast the coach, so i downed an entire 2 liter of pepsi and some during the festivities (i don't even like pepsi). i've also never seen so many grown adult males cry. every one of the seniors weeped as they thanked me for being their coach and said they should have played better to be the champions. to which i told them, "you're right! you made me get up at 6:00am everyday, and you didn't even win, you guys really are losers!" just kidding, what do you say to these kids after that? i just smiled and said that it was okay. but i did learna few cultural lessons that night:<br />1. chinese people are even formal when they are having a "party". i tried to imagine american college students doing this, but i couldn't even fathom that.<br />2. there is an extreme respect for those in authority (teachers, coaches, leaders).<br />3. when you are being toasted you have to drink everything in the cup or else it shows you don't respect the person toasting you. which meant i had to pee the rest of the night.<br />3. even big boys cry.<br />4. i hope samantha inherits the "asian glow" so i can bust her for drinking if she ever tries.<br /><br />so that's the latest scoop from wu's world. sorry it's been so long.<br /><br />also in case you don't have facebook:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/S-9fRAwoaTI/AAAAAAAAADk/1oFaE1SkgUU/s1600/ultrasound.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/S-9fRAwoaTI/AAAAAAAAADk/1oFaE1SkgUU/s400/ultrasound.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471696818144831794" /></a><br /><br />coming around thanksgiving of 2010 :)jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-51141666059375709462010-04-03T18:07:00.001+08:002010-04-03T18:09:42.988+08:00please come to siping mcdonalds!i read this little article about mcdonalds, i really hope they come to our city. in case you didn't know, our little city doesn't have a mcdonalds, but they do have 3 kfc's. i know what you are thinking - who goes to kfc? i never go while in america, but here in siping, i love it.<br /><br />McDonald's to double China outlets in 3 years (March 30, 2010, AP)<br /><br />McDonald's said Tuesday it plans to nearly double its number of outlets in China by the end of 2013 as the US fast-food giant seeks to expand its presence in the world's biggest developing economy. The company aims to boost the number of its outlets in China to 2,000 from around 1,100 in three years, Dow Jones Newswires reported, citing Tim Fenton, the company's president of Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa. McDonald's will open 150-175 outlets in the country this year, its China chief executive Kenneth Chan said.jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-21473783546538089732010-04-01T20:47:00.004+08:002010-04-01T20:53:34.805+08:00text messagehere in china, text messaging seems to be the only way to communicate with each other. for one thing it's wicked cheap. so we always get funny text messages from our students who try to explain things to us in english, but clearly have no idea what the english word really means that they just wrote. <br /><br />for example tonight i got a gem of a text message:<br />"dear mr. wu, i'm vivian (name changed to protect the identity). sorry to disturb you. there appears herpes simplex virus infection again. it's a great pity to miss your class again. i'll be back next week. thank you!"<br /><br />ahh classic :) thank you chinese-english dictionary. and yes it is a big pity, but a bigger pity for you and your virus.jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-43888173949115609362010-03-25T22:00:00.001+08:002010-03-25T22:01:52.728+08:00some facts about chinatoday i got this about some numbers and facts about china. take a look.<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/china/"><img src="http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/china/china.gif" alt="The Numners Behind China" width="500" border="0" /></a><br />Via: <a href="http://www.onlineschools.org">Online Schools</a>jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-78397341985316783012010-03-20T21:23:00.014+08:002010-03-21T22:38:18.550+08:00the great chiangmai t-shirt exchangeif you have ever visited chiangmai in thailand you know about the night market. the night market is pure awesomeness. they basically have an entire street lined with little carts that sell everything: t-shirts, purses, wooden games, magic tricks, dvds, wii games, watches, lamps ... and on and on. you name it, it's there. they especially have a ton of t-shirts that range from funny ones to downright crass. in fact, when our teammate jude was 5 and learning to read he really liked the t-shirt with the mcdonald arches on it that said "Mcs@#$". yeah, oops, not a good place for a kid to be learning to read. but they're not all bad. in fact there are so many clever ones that we decided this year at conference to have each team member draw the name of another team member and then have to buy that person a t-shirt from the night market. this is what resulted (we're all acting out our shirts):<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4403242869_0288b764d5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4403242869_0288b764d5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />my t-shirt said "teamwork" and pictured a silhouette of some guys kicking the poo out of a guy on the ground. very clever.<br /><br />but the bestest (yes, i used a word that even my chinese students don't use) one went to sonny. kami bought him this gem:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4404011742_a3dd616935.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4404011742_a3dd616935.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />no explanation needed. he was very embarrassed to be seen in this shirt and many people thought he was a really big fan of michael. ahh, poor sonny. everyone thinks he's a big m.j. fan. but hey, who isn't?jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-2624073741190714312010-03-13T10:25:00.005+08:002010-03-13T11:21:46.875+08:00the ladies of china basketball association (wcba)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4428648142_4a29ea7daa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4428648142_4a29ea7daa.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />on thursday we took a road trip to anshan, a city about 4 hours away on the train, to see our friend katie play in the wcba finals. she's an american who is playing for the henan elephants (they are really far away), and the finals just happen to be kinda close to us. so we decided to road trip and take along with us some of our students to watch the game. <br /><br />here's a few of my observations.<br /><br />1. riding on a train is even longer when you sit near the door and everyone is blowing smoke on you. ahh, give me more second hand smoke!<br />2. two of the girls we took hadn't ridden the train longer than 1.5 hours before and had never left the province. so they really had a swell time.<br />3. sam really likes watching basketball. she was so excited that she was shaking. although, she didn't really understand that we just wanted to cheer for katie's team. we'll work on that. <br />4. katie is much taller than the rest of the chinese players.<br />5. during timeouts the fans nearest katie's bench would blow these annoying horns as loud as they could so that the team wouldn't be able to hear the coach. it worked.<br />6. chinese people need some tutorials on sports watching. they always cheer at the wrong times. whenever the home team had the ball it was dead quiet. why not try and cheer up the team?<br />7. while it was dead quiet, i was able to yell, "airball" over and over again. no one around me understood what i was saying, but it drew a lot of stares. at which point, sam said, "dad, don't do that!" ahh, sam, this is the start of your dad embarrassing you for the many years to come.<br />8. this was our second time watching katie play in china. i was surprised at how good some of the girls actually played. when i play basketball with my students, i'm like michael jordan. so my idea of chinese people playing basketball is not high. but these girls were pretty good.<br />9. in the end the henan elephants lost game 2 of the finals, which puts them down two games. they play today, if they win, they keep playing. which the league hasn't even scheduled yet. ahh, china, you never stop surprising me.<br />10. if they lose, katie and her husband, todd, can go home. i think they won't be too sad to lose and go home :)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/4428649422_1b2c4ac288.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/4428649422_1b2c4ac288.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2783/4427884645_4cd4a8d52c.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2783/4427884645_4cd4a8d52c.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />so that's my trip. we took the train back to siping and got home at 4 am. then i had a chinese class at 8. surprise to everyone, i actually went.jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-61008201778532764052010-03-06T20:51:00.002+08:002010-03-06T20:58:29.617+08:00saturday is really monday?so today is saturday but according to the school it really is monday. sound confusing? welcome to my world. whenever we have a holiday the school gives us some days off, but then we have to make them up. why give us a holiday then? is it really a holiday if we have to make it up when they take away our weekend? <br /><br />because sunday was the lantern festival, we got monday and tuesday off. not really though, because today we had to make up all our classes like it was monday. then next week saturday we have to make up all the tuesday classes that we missed. it's so crazy, i think we should just have class on monday and tuesday because now i have to work on saturdays. i used to try and figure out why they did that, but now i just do whatever they tell me to do.<br /><br />i guess they really shouldn't tell me i have a holiday. they should just say that classes are on a holiday delay. oh well, happy monday everyone.jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-853938764763732462010-03-03T17:41:00.006+08:002010-03-04T07:32:43.283+08:00fireworks rock!as a pyromaniac, i live for fire and things that go boom. this year was my first time in 5 years to experience the entire length of a chinese new year celebrations. on the eve of chinese new year the fireworks began around 6 AM and continued until 3 AM the next morning. around 10 PM on the eve of the new year, the place got lit up. fireworks were going all around our building. i've never heard or seen anything like it before. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2733/4401638700_4cda11072f.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2733/4401638700_4cda11072f.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/4401641608_1d01f7fdce.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/4401641608_1d01f7fdce.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />the party didn't stop on new years day. for the next 15 days, fireworks are "legal" for all residents to use, so everyday from 6 or 7 AM till the wee hours of the night, fireworks could be heard. on the 15th day of the new year (according to the lunar calendar) the chinese celebrate the lantern festival. this evening includes setting off even more fireworks to end the festivities. so to celebrate we went to the market and bought a plethora of fireworks. it was awesome!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4401647596_b1e3d045d3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4401647596_b1e3d045d3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />that's a photo of us shooting off some roman candles at sam and rach in the apartment. as the fireworks came out of our roman candles we were yelling harry potter-isms - "alohomora!"<br /><br />at the local park, they set up a display of lights to celebrate the lantern festival, very similar to a christmas lights display. apparently they hadn't done this in siping for a few years, so this was the first time in a long time that they had this display. i went and froze my buns off. there is a ice festival display in harbin (5 hours north of here) which is during january and the temps are well below zero there. i figured if i can't handle single digit temps, then there is no way i'll ever be able to go there.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2796/4401677142_cee38c57ff.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2796/4401677142_cee38c57ff.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2692/4401674298_34ec387ccd.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2692/4401674298_34ec387ccd.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4400893951_66047f95c1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4400893951_66047f95c1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />the festivities are finally over and we can get back to life without fireworks all day long.jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-665196712270682272010-02-24T15:34:00.009+08:002010-02-24T16:09:59.010+08:00compare and contrast - zoosthis semester we are teaching our sophomore english majors how to write comparison and contrast essays. i thought i'd do a little ditty on american zoos versus zoos in asia. so here's my scoop.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3618/3665695061_eb286c6ce0.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3618/3665695061_eb286c6ce0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> 1. i'd like to start with the giraffe exhibits. this summer we went to the zoo in nc, which was super cool and very nice - that being said, they just opened an special area to view the giraffes. we got there and the giraffes were a mile away and we could barely see them. here's a picture of mavis and sam, the giraffes were supposed to be behind them, but you can't really see them. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />the zoo keeper made us whisper and told us that they may get within 100 feet of us so we could see them. blah, blah, blah. here's the real deal lady. go to thailand where you can pretty much touch those guys and feed them bananas and beans for less than a dollar. and we didn't have to whisper.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4370594654_31aae62af4_b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4370594654_31aae62af4_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2702/4369846827_3b7caf96af.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2702/4369846827_3b7caf96af.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />point goes to the thailand zoo.<br /><br />2. hippo exhibit. the zoo in nc had some hippos really far away, i didn't even take picture because they were too far. now let's look at the hippos in thailand. here you see the exhibit featured 3 gi-normous hippos who came right up to the side of the enclosure and we could feed them and touch them. we paid 50 cents to throw sweet potatoes and carrots into their mouths and grab hold of their teeth. i know, awesome!!!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4369842077_70afa639de.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4369842077_70afa639de.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4370590292_090eea92fb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4370590292_090eea92fb.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />you can see how jude's little hand can reach over the railing and grab those little guys.<br /><br />point goes to the thailand zoo.<br /><br />in conclusion, the zoos in thailand are cheaper, but dirtier, and you may leave feeling a little bit sorry for the animals. in the end you get over it, cuz the awesomeness factor of touching animals is way better. why do americans care so much about safety anyways? asia doesn't and look at the cool things you can do. sure that hippo could rip my arm off or that giraffe could bite my hand, ehhh, but who cares? i got to touch a hippo!jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-87121844940867586112010-02-23T15:00:00.002+08:002010-02-23T15:11:39.938+08:00VPNs are swellNi hao internet world, i'm back online. there is probably no one that reads this wonderful blog anymore, but that's okay, i'll try to resume updating. i recently bought a VPN so that i could access my blog, facebook, youtube, and other sites. so now i can surf freely (take that china firewall).<br /><br />in other news: <br />1. i'm hanging in siping with sam while rachel is in america for a wedding.<br />2. while in siping with sam, sam stuck a sunflower seed up her nose and i had to take her to the hospital to get it out. it was the chinese new year's eve, so there were no taxis and the school official had to get a fancy school car to take us. i was slightly embarrassed because those two guys (the official and school car driver) had to be taken away from their families on one night where all you do is spend time with your families. so to wayne and the car driver: "sorry again - 不好意思 ".<br />3. on chinese new year's eve there were more fireworks all day than i've ever heard in my whole life. 4th of july is so lame now. i've never been in a war, but i can now imagine what constant gun fire sounds like.<br />4. because of the chinese new year, no restaurants and stores have been open, so i've been eating pb&j and ramen noodles for a week. sure wish they had mac and cheese here.<br />5. olympics being broadcasted in chinese on chinese tv aren't really that exciting. thank you sling box.<br /><br />that's all for now.<br /><br />here's a shot of sam from the pool in thailand.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/S4N_fP0WuBI/AAAAAAAAACQ/Mov2x8dramU/s1600-h/sam+goggles.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wsCCIvpG3vE/S4N_fP0WuBI/AAAAAAAAACQ/Mov2x8dramU/s320/sam+goggles.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441332949592487954" /></a>jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-63687979010391987292009-07-27T00:15:00.001+08:002009-07-27T00:15:35.958+08:001 more weekone more week left of wheaton :)jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-23484581379476006312009-07-13T01:35:00.003+08:002009-07-13T01:36:48.542+08:00grip it and rip it sam!i took samantha for a little wakeboard ride:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3311/3666502828_390f8b20b8.jpg?v=0"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3311/3666502828_390f8b20b8.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /></a>jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-90770090780941274422009-07-13T01:29:00.003+08:002009-07-13T01:34:13.032+08:00back in usanow that i'm back in the usa, i guess i can get back to blogging.<br /><br />not much to really blog about, except that i'm in my last month of classes at wheaton :) almost done!<br /><br />yesterday the in-laws were in town and they brought me the local austin, mn. paper. which contains the local police reports. it entertains me for hours, i love it. next to the spam museum, it's my favorite thing to do in austin. the best one was the report from the fourth of july. in it, there was two complaints for loud noise and one fireworks complaint. it's the fourth of july the one day that people are allowed to be loud and light off fireworks?jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-33657135925717182552009-04-17T21:00:00.002+08:002009-04-17T21:06:44.801+08:00gender colorsin china i quickly learned that pink and blue have no special meaning for boys and girls. boys are always wearing pink, purple and pastels. girls wear everything under the sun. when samantha goes out in her pink parade of clothes, it always confuses me when people ask me if she is a girl or boy. i kinda look at them with a stupid face and say, "of course she's a girl, that's why she has all the pink." obviously it's not obvious to them that colors help tell people the gender of the child. but then i realized that the kids all wear split pants, so it kinda takes the guessing out of the picture; with the split pants it's pretty obvious if it's a girl or boy. maybe we're the stupid ones, with all our colors and stuff.<br /><br />here's a picture of a pink jeep with a robot and a machine gun. now in america, i'd say this was for a girl (just based on the color), but in china, i'm not sure, it could go both ways. either way it's pretty sweet! guess what sam is getting for her birthday?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3407/3437703807_eb81eb157a.jpg?v=0"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3407/3437703807_eb81eb157a.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /></a>jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7176033263692031709.post-46372289108561360342009-04-12T20:01:00.006+08:002009-04-13T21:32:08.140+08:00spring is here!spring has arrived earlier than normal in siping, i'm pretty stoked about it. the only thing is that the siping peeps, aren't as excited about it as i am. students are still wearing long underwear and bundling up. old ladies in the park are concerned about our health when we are not wearing enough clothes. so i decided to write a poem and dedicate it to the old ladies in the park:<br /><br /><br />Dear old lady in the park on this super fine day.<br />Yes I know it’s not the first of May.<br />But do you know it’s 80 degrees out today?<br /><br />What if I told you it was my birthday?<br />Would that make you stay away?<br /><br />Stop harassing me. <br />You’re scaring me. <br />Great, now I have to pee!<br /><br />Yes lady, I know my kid is wearing too little<br />I’m the one that picked out her clothes; really, she’s not very brittle.<br /><br />What? You’ve never seen flip-flops before?<br />You can buy them from the blue store.<br /><br />Yes I know I'm showing my toes.<br />But did you know in America, anything goes.<br /><br />Yes, I own more clothes but this is my favorite T.<br />Besides, it’s 80 degrees, are you kidding me?<br /><br />So thanks for your concerning,<br />But my toes are way too happy and you look like you are burning.jonnywuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04723352457947404103noreply@blogger.com4