No vacation this year for you?? When I was in CH, I noticed the first thing that comes out of gals' mouths was almost always "how much money I earned" .. not my profession or anything about me .. lol .. kinda scary with the exception of Xiamen .. gals at least still retain some innocence .. know what I mean?
I had to pay to enter a TEMPLE .. wtf. Then I got arrested in Hangzhou . .I didn't see everything I wanted to but enough for now .. probably will never go back to else where in China except Xiamen.
LOL, I didn't even know one had to ask, ha ha... Seriously, I don't pay much attention to status symbols. I'm here because I like the discussions and the people, who are all mostly very easy to talk to. For me, it's like getting into a daily conversation with the same people at the morning bus stop. Though one really doesn't know one another, the contacts are so regular and frequent as to become routine. Thus a community of sorts is born. But, blue or not, I'm still the same Ralph ;)