Overall, it was mostly a working day in our Hong Kong Buying Office. The highlight of the day was the pigeon I had for lunch...once again, served with the head on the plate! It came in five pieces, two wings, the chest cut in half, and the head. I luckily ended up with a small wing...not much meat but I did try a few bites. The rest of the meal was traditional Chinese...bbq pork, beef, octopus, broccoli, dim sum (I am still trying to figure out what is inside this but it is some type of dumpling)and fried rice. At about 5pm we headed for China. It took abbot 3 hours to make it from our office to the hotel. This time most of the drive was at night. In China, there must be hundreds of deaths each day on bicycles...as we were approaching the hotel, in the dark, in the rain, on a 4-lane street...all of a sudden a bicycle is coming down the middle of the street the wrong direction...I seriously thought we were going to hit him but it didn't phase our driver. We had dinner at a Japanese steak house inside the hotel. The meal was very good and very similar to a Japanese steak house in the States.
I am not sure how much coverage the earthquake is still getting in the United States but it is all over the papers & tv here. Today was the official National Day of Mourning for the victims, the first such day in 30 years. At 2:28pm, there was 3 minutes of silence. At our office, we all gathered in a break room and watched on tv a ceremony taking place in Tienanmen Square. The moment of silence had a different twist than anything I have ever seen...during the entire moment of silence...every car horn, police siren, tornado siren, etc. was to be sounded as a symbol of the country's wailing/mourning for the victims. This began 3 days of mourning that includes no public recreational activities (i.e. sports). I will always remember being in China on both the day the earthquake took place along with this day of mourning. Also, the earthquake has now been upgraded 8.0 on the Richter scale. Since the quake, there have been 24 aftershocks of 5.0-5.9 and 4 aftershocks of 6.0 and greater.
Below is an attempt to post a video I took of Chinese television...
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There is a pigeon that has made its nest in the gutter of our house. In the last day or so we have seen the babies peeking their heads out of the nest...I will be sure to tell G and J that their Uncle Mark had one of those for dinner while in China.
RDM better be careful....G and J will want their mommy to fix them a pigeon like Uncle Mark had in China!
I don't think we have to worry about that b/c its SOO hot that prego L doesn't want to step one foot outside unless its to the air conditioned van!
The topper was last night when Mike (the guy I'm traveling with) ordered pigeon for dinner...unprovoked, we were eating by ourselves!!
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