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The Mobile Styrofoam Army 1st Division

The Mobile Styrofoam Tank Division

Some things just amaze me.  This Post on nikdaum.com reminded me of what a few of us watched going by Big Bamboo downtown last week.  A bike, with a woman on there somewhere, surrounded by styrofoam boxes came rolling down Nanyang road in the early afternoon.  Judging by the boxes in the front, it’s not the same one, but what would be more scary is the frequency of these sightings.

Once again the phone camera doesn’t do it justice.  I’m really going to have to bring my wife’s camera out with me more often.

The Livingston Death-mobile

Livingston American School, the new bane of my existance.  In the last three months, I’ve been at least knicked by 3 cars while riding my bike to work.  The 2nd one I posted about earlier.  The first was 3 months ago on the way to work, and the latest, some jackass in a Suzuki Swift decided to create his own lane on Hami Road, thinking that his car could squeeze through a space no wider than my bike, while I was next to him squeezing by.  I’m truly becoming an Angry Cyclist.

Livingston, however, have the most asinine bus drivers.  For two years I’ve traveled the same route to work, mostly by bike, and I almost always see one of their buses.  A few times now, one of their drivers either cut in front of me, nearly missing me, got so close behind me that I thought I would be served up at the Roadkill Cafe, or drives so close to the curb, while I’m riding next to the bus.

This particular bus however, didn’t kill me using vehicular homicide.  As I was on my bike, and it’s tough keeping up with this fucker while holding a (rather lousy) camera phone, I inevitably couldn’t get the money-shot, a large obnoxious plume of cancer gas eminating from the tail pipe.  It’s not bad enough that they’re lousy drivers, they also have no sense of vehicular maintenance.

Seriously, Livingston.  Get with the program here.  You’re an international school.  Fix the damn buses. You’re supposed to be representing my country of origin. Obnoxiously black smoke plumes coming out of the exhaust, stinking up the last half-mile isn’t the way to do that.

According to Metersbonwe, he (it?) is apparently.

From Shanghai China- Miscellaneous Pics 2009

I spotted this last sunday, after a nice bout of binge eating & drinking with the missus at one of our favorite buffet restaurants by Loushanguan station.  Meters/bonwe is apparently at the forefront for Transformers apparel, and their designers created a couple dozen designs.  Another can be seen on their taobao page (click on the image to see it more close up).

But wait… who’s General Grievous?

Star Wars' General Grievous

One of the cooler villains from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones is all.  Wielding not one, but FOUR lightsabers is pretty badass in my humble opinion.  Anyways, enough with the geekdom.

General Grievous a Transformer? You be the judge.

Is there a new Transformer that just happens to be a distant cousin of Grievous?  Guess we’ll find out when the movie is out on DVD (this week Shanghai-time).

Cheers, Victor!