My last day in Shenzhen was spent lychee picking and lychee peeling and lychee eating ! Look at all the lychees! Lychees! Lychees Everywhere! Me => in tree, => munching lychees! Beats watermelon picking, that's for sure. The pictures of this joyful moment were captured on a friend's camera, and the pictures will go up when he sends them to me. (Me, to stop munching merely to take a picture? heh!) I'm off to Xiangtan! **edit** The pictures have arrived, courtesy of Cheng Pei and his dad! Thanks!!! ******* [View Full Entry]

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Profound thought acquired: I think that If one remains in a fixed location for a long time, one runs the risk of finding anything and everything different from one's immediate surroundings SURREAL For example, watching people ice-skate on an olympic sized rink on the fourth storey of a shopping mall? Or doing this while enjoying an excellent meal from a restaurant that doesn't take cash? All for the equivalent of a pound? I felt quite liberated to be contemplating how, just as the mind loses strength if not exercised, it also loses flexibility if n [View Full Entry]

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Well, Here I am in Shenzhen, after a beautiful flight across Russia (yay JON!) I love how the clouds look from above, it's so pure and full of promise. Shenzhen is a huge metropolis, littered with futuristic skyscrapers -watching all that japanese anime, I sometimes forget that there are cities such as Shenzhen which are actually pretty close to what's depicted on screen. And the lychees here are the size of golf balls! First mountain: Lian Hua Shan Not much of a peak, hence a perfect warm-up. It's right in the centre of the city, how come the UK doesn't get [View Full Entry]

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