May, 2010

AK and KA Home


Click to popup fullsize image Grant and Jae try cutting some bottles...
Click to popup fullsize image Birthday cake, styled after Dragon Boat Festival.
Click to popup fullsize image A typical scruffy vehicle driven here in China, like our neighbor's new ride, doesn't even have a place for the front license plate.
Click to popup fullsize image "Chinglish" is a well-worn topic. Here is the sign at our neighborhood pool.
Click to popup fullsize image Speaking of Chinglish, is your router "heart-touching"?
Click to popup fullsize image We went to local sports bar at 10am to watch the US in the world cup.
Click to popup fullsize image After attending the Guangming BBQ, AK's Taiji folks do their thing.
Click to popup fullsize image Based on the article I read in Make Magazine, we visited the awesome "Peasant Da Vincis" exhibit at Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. Here is the one picture I took before being asked not to take pictures. The exhibit features contraptions (some functional, some fanciful) made by eccentric peasant farmers.
Click to popup fullsize image We visited the Shanghai World Expo. Here Grant watches an industrial robot stack and unstack a mural made of boxes.
Click to popup fullsize image This is a model of the recently-built Guangzhou train station. When AK and I visited this train station in 1994, I mistook it for a refugee camp. I'm curious to find out if the fancy new building has the same old clientele.
Click to popup fullsize image Speaking of trains, G and I rode the Maglev train into the Shanghai airport. 431 km/hr on land. In China of all places.
Here we are riding the train.