While shopping at Carre Four, here is the sign right by the meat department. Check out the great English grammar.

This is from the street across the river. Notice the accumulation of dirt on the snow patch. It is literially so dirty and so fine it is like black ash.

The kids mall on the fourth floor, where they have a caged area off to be used as a petting zoo. In this pen, they have colourful baby chicks and rabbits.

A little bit of home, one of the few Western restaurants around other than KFC and McDonalds.

The Korean place in the Food Fair. Note the uniforms. All the big chain stores and restaurants really dig uniforms.

A night at the Karaoke box.

You can really see the mess we made with all the shells from the nuts. I feel sorry for the guys who have to clean up the mess.

Some city workers doing snow removal. Some days I see them loading snow into their bike carts and moving them. Some days I see them throwing snow into traffic to melt it. I even saw some of them throwing snow down a manhole.

Samples of the lower Chinese currency.

Yes it is WOK with me, and today's meal will be beef in tomato sauce on long pulled noodles.

Ok. tomato sauce on spagetti...

Ah, she thought it tasted just fine.

And see, it isn't poisoned!

Yum.. Next time, lets try to get the spagetti sauce more like sauce and less like soup..

Dinner with the former Mayor and his wife (centre) and two other of her government co-workers (on left and right). The one on the left is the improv pro.

Me hard at work in Ami's study.

The stadium used for track, soccer and concerts.

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