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Photo(s) of the week

Found this a while back, it surely must be the holy grail of China-bike photography – can anyone beat this?  Is it even possible?

Since Chengdu’s tragic bus fire earlier this month,  sights like these have become more prevalent (although not usually this extreme…)

(apologies for the quality)

Below is a screen-shot of a skype conversation between myself and one of the girls in the office who kindly checks the Chinese media for local news we could include in the magazine.  However, the other day when I asked her about the news situation, the reply I received was a little unexpected…

A fine piece of ad work from China’s answer to the Land Rover

Sleeping beauties – part 1

The Chinese have a four word idiom “bi mu yang shen” (闭目养神）which kind of means “close your eyes and refresh your spirit”.  This bus driver was not doing that, he was fast asleep and was only woken by the furious honking of his fellow road users.

A baby chair with a difference…

Here’s a picture of a tree I found in one of the more well-off expat compounds in Chengdu.  It is hooked up to an IV full of plant feeder – the mind boggles…

Perhaps it needed some ‘tree’tment?

Number 15 – Ciggie Smalls

When leaving the office on Monday evening, the front door to our office building was blocked by two young ladies in matching white uniforms handing out what at first glance looked like information pamphlets.  However, they seemed to be extremely popular with the young men working in my building, and on closer examination they were from the ‘Pride Cigarette Company’, and were handing our free samples of their produce in nice little sample packs (see above).

Being from a country where even displaying an advertisement for cigarettes, let along smoking one indoors in a public place, is now illegal does still seem a little strange to me.  However, in a country where around 70% of the adult male population enjoys a regular puff, this type of thing really shouldn’t have come as too much of a surprise.

Number 14 – April Fool!

Not really a photo, but a truly special gag played by one Taipei daily on their unsuspecting public who, being already a little sensitive about issues involving the mainland, took the bate and went absolutely ballistic… (click on the picture to read the article).

Number 13  – Luo shui munchkins

Courtesy of Pop-pop Chengdon’t, here are a couple of little chaps we met up in the town of Luoshui in Northern Sichuan.