禮拜天

禮拜六晚上我不知道為什麼睡不著。隔一天早上覺得還是很累。早上在家裡沒做什麼特別的事。中午去了松子(Matsuko)吃午飯。松子是有很多選擇的日本料理自助餐。吃了太多東西了以後離開了飯店﹐去買了朝陽劇場中國雜技晚上表演的票。買票是應該要排隊。可是﹐中國人大部份不受這種規矩。一直往前推。很討厭。買了票以後坐了出租車去王府井。通常坐出租車都很舒服。問題是﹐我們坐的那輛車有個很臭的味道。

王府井大街上就是一大堆店。我們一到先去了一家百貨公司。他們剛好有個TRANSFORMERS的展覽。有很多舊的TRANSFORMERS玩具﹐很多我小時候想要的玩具﹗參觀完以後﹐我們回到大街上繼續走下去。我們只是隨便的走﹐沒有什麼特別要看的。在走過的店比較特別的就是有很多賣奧運的店。也看到一個大書店掛了很大的新HARRY POTTER書的廣告。在回頭路上﹐我決定進去書店看看HARRY POTTER書有沒有英文版的。其實他們只有英文版的﹐而且有兩種--美國SCHOLASTIC版的還有英國BLOOMSBURY版的。我其實不是那麼愛HARRY POTTER﹐可是因為最近有很多朋友在念或討論這本書﹐然後因為有英國版的書﹐我就決定買了﹗

逛完街以後就去了朝陽劇場。其他的觀眾都是旅遊團或外國人。其實我六年半前跟旅遊團第一次來北京的時候去過了同樣的劇場看雜技節目。那麼久以前已經不太記得了。可是知道節目是有改進。他們特技表演的很利害而演的很不錯。

看完戲以後﹐我們還是不怎麼餓。決定去吃麥當勞﹗麥當勞和其他快餐在亞洲做的比美國好多了。吃完以後就回家了。

jumping on the bandwagon

so i was in the 王府井 district today to walk around and take it in a bit. at one of the malls there, they had a TRANSFORMERS exhibit going on with a lot of old school toys in display cases. talk about bringing back memories! after all these years (what's it been, 20 or more?!) i still would love to get my hands on an original Optimus Prime and certain other toys. they must've done a good job conditioning my brain as a kid, 'cause their programming's still there!

after prying myself away from the kiddie stuff, i noticed a big Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sign outside a large book store. after walking further down, grabbing a drink and sitting a bit to rest, i decided to stop in on the way back and see if they had the English version and possibly book 6 as well. turns out they only had English versions, but two kinds! both the American version as printed by Scholastic, and the British one printed by Bloomsbury. quick recap for those unaware: i'm not a HP fan and haven't read any of the books. i've seen the first five movies, and tried reading the first book but couldn't make it even halfway through. anyway, since they had the British version, i thought i'd pick it up. my sis got the Brit version of first book when we were in Europe four years ago, so i figure i'd get the last. i figure i'll watch the 6th movie then read this book. then, if i make it through this book okay, i'll go back and try re-reading the first 6 books. since you know, i'll have bundles of time on my hand when school starts... (yes, i'm being sarcastic.)