New layout! (Here‘s a link for those of you on feeds.) I was inspired by the Dior Cherie ads, hence the pastel colors¹ and balloons. And it’s been far too long since I’ve made my own template; the last² layout for the blog was a modified template.

Since the firewalls here aren’t too fond of my website³, I’m going to delay the Australia and Shanghai photos and maybe give an update or two on my life. I have one more week of break left before I head back to NY. There are many things I’m looking forward to, such as watching the inauguration on TV and my 20th birthday among other things. But as far as break-after-Australia goes, not much has happened.

Except for a car accident that happened the other day. In China, the Asian-driver stereotype is quite true to a frightening degree⁴, yet the amazing thing is that I have never seen a car accident occur there. Ever. Anyway, that day I wanted to go get KFC, which is 10 minutes away by car, whereas my dad insisted that I get some exercise and walk to the nearby grocery store for food. Since I hadn’t had Chinese KFC in ages, there was no way I was going to pass it up. So as we’re driving out of the neighborhood, we have to take a U-turn at the end of the divided street. As we’re taking the U-turn, another car also attempting a U-turn rear-ends us. Nothing serious though, considering that nobody was hurt and both cars got scratched and nothing more. But before that, I had never been in a car collision of any sort nor had I ever seen one in China. There’s a first⁵ for everything, I suppose.

Oh yeah, and when my dad heard about what happened, he spared me the if-you-had-walked-this-wouldn’t-have-happened talk. I can’t exactly say that the KFC was worth all the trouble though.

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¹: Is it spring yet? Because that’s usually the season for pastels and I could really use warmer weather these days.
²: And first.
³: Unless you have dialup or an equally bad firewall, you have no idea how slowly my site loads here. I’ve had this “Add New Post” page opened up for a good 15 minutes, and the page is still loading. Thank goodness for XXAMP otherwise I would never get around to uploading the layout. When I first posted my last entry, the site lagged for so long that half my entry got cut off!
⁴: Passengers yield to cars, not the other way around.
⁵: And last.

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Photos from the Shanghai Museum visit yesterday. I kind of want to visit the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum now; I went seven years ago and I thought it was awesome! Anyhoo, I figured that I should probably post these photos before I leave for Australia.

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Hello! So here’s the dealio:
« I am in China. Shanghai, more specifically.
« LJ is blocked in China.
« I doubt I will be using a proxy.¹
« I might update LJ when I am in Australia.²
« I’ll be back on LJ on January 17th, when I get back to NY.
« …. so expect more updates here.
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¹: The proxies here … kind of suck. Maybe because I don’t know a good site. Or maybe because they’re bad at accepting cookies (hence I can’t log on), they sometimes just don’t load, and they tend to go crazy with the pop up ads.
²: That is, if I have Internet. And if that is the case, there might be updates from the 24th-31st of December. Nevertheless, I’ll be updating from here as well.

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