Saturday Night

I had a late night conference call to the states this evening which left me walking home from the office late. Shanghai is safe at night, thankfully. There is always activity on the street, and although many residents would be happy to relieve you of your wallet, they are content to leave your person alone.

The Diarrhea Clinic was very potent though. I'm not sure what's causing the latest outbreak of cholera, but they seem to have run out of pot to reduce the smell.

Winter has arrived and it is cold. I went to the Shanghai Art Museum with a friend today to check out the Rembrandt exhibit and a tapestry exhibit. Well, I don't think it was tapestry, but some kind of sewing that was quite detailed and intricate. In Vietnam, this type of sewing art was popular and many of the state owned "friendship" type stores carried the stuff, but it was on a Velvet Elvis level instead of museum quality. Quite a difference I must report.

My knowledge of art is embarrassingly embarrassing, but I enjoyed the exhibit. If I need a quick lesson in quality art, I can now look around my apartment at the meager "works of art" that I have collected during my stay in China. It is immediately apparently that I didn't bargain enough for any of the pieces given that the prices should have approached zero.