Yilun in Beijing (8th July 2007)

House Drawn Carriage

Kickass building

Road Junction

Apartment Lobby

Bangkok Airport

Company Fruit Supplier

Cool sign

Anyway, as you guys can see, I got the bluetooth thingy today. You can now see the kind of condition I have been living in for the past week. I also went to get a book today. Prices here are about the same as those in singapore and the selection is puny. Nevertheless, I got a book that I think covers the bases of buying stocks pretty well that will allow a more systematic approach to such activities.

A highlight today was getting to meet Tang Nan's ( My flatmate) friends from this scholarship program she's in. Basically, I got to meet Phd Candidates from Tsinghua and a bunch of eople doing their postgrad studies. It was really nice to meet these people and I was really lucky to do so as there is little chance other than this to meet people like them as our worlds are totally different.

Anyway, a week here has been enough for me to understand the importance of cutting pollution. Beijing would be a great place if not for the pollution. The air is so dirty it feels bad just tobe here. Never before have I felt the effects of pollution in such a great scale. If we continue to neglect our environment, we would really have very little to live for. Only today did I feel the full impact of what Jeffery Sachs said during the BBC Reith lecture, if we don't take care of the environment, we have very little to live for. The pollution has made this otherwise very nice city inhabitable. We must do all we can to clean this up and keep other parts of the world clean. The rains swept the dirt in the air away when I came back, I never appreciated breathing fresh air more in my life.