I went to the China Art Gallery at the weekend. There were some pretty pictures there.
Between the gallery and dinner, I managed to get a few photos of something I've seen quite often before, but never with my camera handy. It's one of the few things I could sit and watch all day. [...]

When I studied at university I read a bit about theories of hostage negotiation (I read quite a lot of other stuff that wasn't actually on the reading lists, and none of that turned up in exams either), and I found this article on Chinese first batch of trained hostage negotiators and the man doing [...]

From the top left, going clockwise.
1) 这根竹子不错， 有滋味有嚼头 还不塞牙， 俺很喜欢
Zhè gēn zhúzi bùcuò， yǒu zīwèi yǒu jiáotou， hái bù sāiyá， ǎn hěn xǐhuan
This bamboo's great, it's got flavour and it's tasty, and it doesn't get stuck between your teeth. I like it.
2) 我cool吗？没有眼袋吗？
Wǒ cool ma？ méiyǒu yǎn dài ma？
Am I cool? Any [...]

Advertisers are always going to inflate their products ability a little bit. I've seen TV spots for some kind of growth formula which claimed to be able to add 6 inches to the spine of any tiny teenager, and drunk green tea that cured radiation sickness (which, to be fair, I haven't yet suffered from.)
You'd [...]

I've just converted the wordpress system for 出语不俗 to Chinese. It was very easy, the only problem was that the instructions I found online made it sound more complicated that it was, and tells you a lot about the localization process which basically you don't need to know. So . . .
1) Get the zh_CN.mo [...]

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