Chinese Lantern Festival

Today I ate boiled sticky rice dumplings with a sweet filling in honor of the last day of the Chinese New Year celebrations, and as a consolation to myself as I will most likely find it difficult to sleep tonight. There are, by far, more fireworks today than there were on the first or any other day of the celebrations. The amount of gunpowder dispensed could easily put the American Military to shame! As much as I hate the noise, it is, at least, prettier than what our people do with similar resources, and it might mean that China has sold fewer munitions to Sudan in the past few weeks. I am grateful that I don't live in a place where all of this noise would signify people dying. And on that happy note, a video of fireworks for your viewing pleasure.

http://american.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=528204047765 (I had trouble uploading it and since the error message is in Chinese, I'm out of luck for now)

Oh, and just for the heck of it, here's a great picture of the metro the day I couldn't bear to take it!