I was delighted to pick up a hefty and well wrapped up parcel from the University post room yesterday and after a lengthy battle involving a pair of scissors, parcel tape and some concrete-reinforced cardboard I finally managed to prise the box open. Inside there was a whole pile of goodies plus a nice letter and some newspaper clippings - kindly sent over by my Gran.

It sort of makes me realise all the things that you can’t buy over here in China that really are delicious! Anyway, that will keep me going for a week or two

Thanks Nain, really appreciated!!!

As some of you may have noticed - I have added a ‘Twitter‘ plugin to the sidebar of this blog (on the right hand side underneath my ‘Flickr‘ photos. Twitter is an online status updating tool that lets other people on the web know what you are up to. For example, you might want everyone to know that you are going to the cornershop to buy some milk (and hence won’t be at the computer station for a moment or two), in which case you would display the message:

Jonathan: is going to the cornershop to buy some milk.

More realistically, you can use it to let people know about what you have been up to of late. For example, I might let Twitter know that I am going to visit Tianmen Square today, or that I am starting classes again at University tomorrow. In this way you can find out about some of the other things I have been getting up to in China that are not necessarily worth writing a full blog post about. If you want to keep track of my Twitter you can visit my Twitter page here. You can also view the latest updates on this blog or subscribe to my Twitter RSS feed.

After years of searching, a couple of wars, ridiculous money wasting and lots and lots of government propaganda Osama Bin Laden has finally been found… by me! Yes indeed, when I was wandering around the Temple Festival in Beijing yesterday I chanced upon a curiously familiar Kebab seller who was flogging two juicy lamb kebabs for 10 kuai, bargain! When I looked closer, it was no other than the long sought-after Bin Laden himself - not hiding in underground caves in Afghanistan as we had previously been made to believe, but instead making a small fortune with his kebab selling business in Beijing, China and hanging out with his Xinjiang comrades. If you don’t believe me then here is my snapshot to prove it:

Here is a short clip of some of the Acrobatics that we saw at the Temple Festival today. Pretty impressive!