Summer...where did you go?

o, the wonder

IDEA: email per country

This probably a niche market, but I think people who travel often might appreciate it. In the group of expats I know who straddle China and their home country, they spend roughly one month per yeah at home, sometimes going back twice or more- besides business trips to other parts of Asia and the world. They have lives in all of those locations to maintain- and something that has been driving my inbox buggy is all those location specific emails-

"Join us for a lecture at Kathleen's 5 at Nanjing Road...."

or

"RPS collective hosts a screenprinting 101 this weekend at the Oakland YXZ..."

Maybe its my fault for subscribing to these mailing lists- but its so much easier have info sent to me, instead of me searching to see what cool thing is going on this weekend, wherever I am. Monthly discounts, events, etc. and living in two places has gotten me twice as many (and I do use the discounts!!) Why go out and buy a newspaper if you can have it delivered to your door?

You probably could have an email for each place... but thats another set of business cards, etc and more passwords than I need to remember!

SO I propose that there should be a email sys that filters out emails regarding parties and such per location, so you won't feel let down that you got excited to go see you favorite band, oops, in Boston. Seems silly, but anyone who hurredly skim emails for the details always manages to miss some.

Tying the knot~

This knot was on display at the Ancient village walk (half a mileabouts??) where you follow a path and visit about 9 different little "museums" on the way, which were really well done. And by well done, I mean surprisingly modern presentation on mostly historical objects, and no display cases with hedgehogs and toy tanks....(That was at the Sea museum at the amusement park) The funniest exhibit we saw was the last one, featuring a few rooms about "The china fly man" aka stunt man/actor/daredevil on a motor bike jumping tall buildings, mountains. Really cool!

This is the beach in Shi pu, 5 hours outside of Shanghai by bus. We came here for a wedding of timon's friend. This amusement park had rides and a ferris wheel, you could rent a four wheeler or a pony. People could buy swim suits and sandals... but no one was swimming. The water was coffee colored, to say the least.



Below is a view from the bridge at sunset! So beautiful!!




The wedding car!




Here is the lovely couple in a very fanciful stage. The Bride entered and the grom got on one knee and gave her flowers. They cut their cake, poured champange, and exchanged rings. They had an emcee in a pink shirt who mixed their names... calling the groom the brides name and vice versa... eek awkward pause. After that a delicious lunch banquet was served that was just AMAZING. Shi pu is a fishing town, so fresh seafood if their forte. Amazing!

shanghai october holiday

200 photos and 2 weddings later, I am super jetlagged and back home. I worked a few days a week, an experiment to see how it'd be like working remotely from SH as well as visiting one of my boss's contacts. I did TONS of shopping for the wedding tons of hanging out with friends and tons of talking with Timon.


Origami exhibit at Narita Airport


Teal


Cutting the cake


Timon's speech



kristimon!