As it turns out this Friday was a bank holiday in China, and normally that wouldn’t bother me too much. However as I’m in China on business trip this meant I was confined to my hotel room for the day to work. My travelling companion had flown on to Japan to do interesting things there, so I was a little short on company for the extended weekend.
Still I managed to keep myself occupied well enough. I spent most the time experimenting with TDD and writing some useful tools for the team. It worries me sometimes how I can spend hours on end with my own company and not get bored. I guess that’s what being an only child trains into you from a young age.
Still amongst all the work I somehow ended up buying a new camera from the local mall. I decided to go for the Canon IXUS 950 IS which I bought to replace my older (but still excellent) Canon IXUS 500. I was quite pleased with myself after some extensive haggling I managed to get an extra Canon battery, 2GB SD card, case, and a screen protector for 2300RMB (£165). However I got the impression she was pretty chuffed too with it all.
On Sunday I decided to give my new camera a work out at Shanghai’s very pretty Yu Yuan Gardens:
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Yu Yuan gardens are very nice, aren’t they? Did you walk around the old city as well?
Outside the gardens, the Bridge of Nine Turnings is there to ward off evil spirits; apparently they can’t turn corners. Also, the house in the middle of the bridge is the one they used for the very famous Willow pattern design (http://www.thepotteries.org/patterns/willow.html).
Just some fun trivia for you…