It's absolutely gorgeous weather here. Low 70s with lots of sun and a nice breeze through our office window. I'm not used to getting fresh air while at work so it's a welcome change.
All of you fans of Romain Noodles will be happy to hear that they have them here too. But their not called Romain. They're buckets that you add hot water to and eat. Only about 30 cents for one. That was breakfast this morning and pretty good but still no McDonald's. I might have to stop there tomorrow before work. We are going to the Irish place tonight for a big juicy burger! That sounds so good right now.
They have a bunch of bootleg DVDs here. There's a bunch of the newer ones that are in the Theatres (King Kong and Narnia) - all bootlegs of course on the theatre movies. They only cost about 75 cents a piece and are worth a viewing at that price. I caught Mr. and Mrs. Smith which was ok. Angelina just doesn't do it for me I guess. And I also watched War of the Worlds. That was pretty dumb in my opinion. I have seen the original and all this version was was a poor remake that spent way too much money on cheezy effects. Just my thoughts. I'm tired of movies about aliens and how they want to only kill us and take over. I also hate seeing the Aliens. Like in Signs. That movie was so much better till they actually SHOWED the alien. Then I was done with it. Like X-Files where you never see the aliens, only the hybrid folks that look like humans (since that is where they started as) only with special hard to see features.
I read something today that surprised me:
Which commonly consumed commodity has the greatest markup in price from the cost of raw material to the price paid by the consumer?
My guesses were CDs or bottled water.
Popcorn at a movie theatre has a 5000% Markup!!! Yet another reason I don't go to movies in the theatres.
By the way - here's a map of Shenzhen (click on the map for a larger image (without my pointers though):
Just to give you an idea of how big this place is..... To get from arrow one to arrow three by van going anywhere from 50mph to 70mph in low traffic at 7am takes us about 30 minutes. After work takes us at least an hour to go that far in traffic. This place is pretty huge! Per August 2005 estimates, there are 10 million people that live here (only 310,000 people 25 years ago when i was born) and another 7 million people in Hong Kong. So 17 million people living in the map above!!! That still blows my mind. New York City by comparison is estimated to be 8.1 million. Do the math.
Hope all is well back in the US of A. I get home in exactly one week. Well, besides that 38 hour day I have on the way back that I'm not looking forward to. I'll be glad when that one is over with. Make sure I have my sleeping pills with me!
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