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I defend by saying: we have different kind.

In the movie Kill Bill, I remember the same remark.

John, is this a stereotype you have for some chinese too? that is funny. We think we are pretty funny:)

But I have to agree that I don’t get a lot of Garfield comic on yahoo page every day.

Edel,

Well, I wouldn’t say Chinese can’t understand sarcasm. Rather, sarcasm is often subtle, and subtlety is not a Chinese trait. Chinese movies are a good example: everyone cries too hard, the heroic acts too heroic, the characters all too perfectly good or bad, etc. HERO is a good example: Leung Chiu Wai proves he loves Cheung Man Yu by letting Cheung kill him (!). And if you don’t get how much she loves him, she kills herself too–but not before screaming at the sky to show her pain. Haha. Compare HERO with the end of MILLION DOLLAR BABY, a movie I didn’t particularly like but one that superbly shows subtlety. In the hospital, Clint Eastwood injects the poison, and Hillary Swank dies, and then Clint Eastwood gets his bag and leaves. No crying, no overblown music, no screaming–and the man was practically killing his own daughter. I can’t imagine ANY Chinese director filming this scene like Eastwood did.

If he had been a little further back in the 4th pic it would have looked like the girl was squatting atop the mail box.

Actually, for foreigners like us, we get stared at, pointed at, and sometimes laughed at numerous times like circus freaks. Whipping out my camera and pointing it back is just my way of sharing the love.

On a more serious rationale, China is changing fast. What the cultural revolution didn’t destroy, mass modernization and domestic tourism surely will. Like Beijing’s disappearing Hutongs, pictures are just a record of the passing times.

regards,

Frank

Hahaha. most bloggers burn out after a few years like me…John is the Iron Blogger. Keep on truckin.

I highly recommend using Flickr for your photos. It’s easy to upload and organize them and you don’t have to be involved in any of the communities.

Sean,

Because I need to study, I haven’t been going out much at all lately. I have been studying, but all that mental exertion requires periodic breaks. I’ve been doing a lot of blogging during those breaks.