Went snowboarding at the weekend. Never been skiing or snowboarding previously, and I'm not sure I enjoyed it enough to go back and do it again, but it was good to try.
It was out at Nanshan. There hasn't actually been any snow yet, and they only had artificial snow on a couple of the [...]

Driver #205476, 'fessed up when he realised that he'd missed the exit from the 2nd ring road, stopped the meter at 18Y and drove me round the long way at no extra charge, instead of pretending that the long way isn't a long way as most drivers do when they miss the exit. Accepted a [...]

I'd seen baijiu (like vodka, without the smooth taste) in plastic bags before (on the left). You get milk in bags in loads of countries it seems, but I'm not sure how widespread this form of packaging is for strong spirits.
I'm not convinced by beverages in bags though. It dribbles, it's difficult to put [...]

Breakfast, 2Y from the breakfast-selling lady down the street.

I couldn't resist the cover of this 1993 book on AIDS prevention. The characters across the bottom read 'hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil, do no evil', although a closer look at the gentlemonkey on the right will leave you in little doubt as to exactly what kind of evil it is [...]

As part of my job, I often spend quite a bit of time looking at specialist websites for just the right bit of vocabulary. Today, I came across the extremely specialist Manure Happenings, which I recommend to all of you who are interested in, y'know, like, shit. . .