Monthly Archive: June 2011

Jun 26 2011

Flash Flooding

We have flash floods across Beijing the other day. I found this video in the local YouTube equivalent site. Luckily i was home but we did have several powercuts. Play this video to see for yourself.

Jun 12 2011

1 in 4000 photo

A few nights ago i was staying up writing my next book. Beijing gets a lot of thunderstorms this time of year, every second or third day gets a few storms passing over. But at 2:30am the lightning was so frequent that the thunder was a constant rumble. I took 4,000 photos and only one …

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Jun 01 2011

New Haircut

After Haircut

Yes, after 13 months of not cutting my hair i got it cut. Sadly the hairdresser got my instructions lost in translation and ended up with something totally different. Luckily once the natural oil balance in my hair returned it didn’t look too bad.