Hong Kong MTR train derails

Looks like 77 injured. Cause may have been high-speed related. I have never personally traveled on the MTR in the northwest New Territories, location of the derailment. 

I want to be like Treadmill Dancer

Amazing.

Ferrari FF 'crash' in Shanghai

Not much of a crash, but probably still embarrassing and expensive. Was being driven by a foreigner. 

This 'positive compliation of Russian dash cams' made my night

Now I can go to sleep peacefully. From Jalopnik. 

If you're planning to do Kendo, buy lots of tape

So much hurt right now.

The Boston bombing is making news in China

Images are playing on the Shenzhen Metro cars' TV screens as I sit here. The other big story? Bird flu.

China's first breast-milk bank opens in Guangzhou

Just thought you should know. Donating mothers will receive a free health checkup.

Sidewalks - apparently not just for people anymore

Cars also enjoy driving and parking on them. I almost just got hit by one.

Shixiabei, Futian, Shenzhen.

My water came with pH test strips

This is a first. I'm interested to see the pH level of my water. Water brand: Nongfu Spring.

Even Angry Birds don't like air pollution

Shenzhen Metro.

Sinkhole kills one in Shenzhen near my home

It rained in Shenzhen for three days straight prior to my departure from the city on Wednesday. This is the result:

A massive sinkhole apparently brought on by heavy rain opened up in Shezhen, China, swallowing a security guard alive and causing nearby residents to evacuate. Yang Jiabin, 25, was walking in the Futian district near new construction yesterday afternoon when the ground gave way beneath him, opening into a 26 foot-wide, 52 foot-deep crater; despite the quick arrival of rescue workers, he reportedly died on-scene.

Futian is the district I live in. Scary. 

By the way, why does it seem so difficult for foreign journalists to correct spell 'Shenzhen?' Roughly half of the news articles I read about my city misspell its name. 

Oh my Lady Gaga! Chinese hospital lines can get quite long.

At least I wasn't in a situation of having to wait in line to buy anesthesia while bleeding profusely out of a cut on my hand. Unfortunately that was the exact situation of the man standing behind me. I did my good deed for the day and let him switch places with me in line. Hope the surgery on his hand was successful.

Nanshan Hospital. Nanshan, Shenzhen.

The poster in the bathroom says "No Drugs"

This is why you should heed their warning. Coco Park, Futian, Shenzhen.

This is not even remotely attractive

Ladies, if your arms actually look like this in real life, it means you had some extreme birth defect and are currently also severely malnourished.

Shopping Park Metro Station. Coco Park, Futian, Shenzhen.

225 days of Beijing skylines in one photo

From the China Daily:

[The above photo is a] combination of 225 photos taken at the same angle from a building on the Third Ring Road between 8 and 9 am from March 1, 2012 to March 5, 2013 record the different shades of blue and grey skies that shroud the Chinese capital. Beijing has been suffering dangerous levels of pollution in the past year and the city has promised to take effective measures to curb the choking smog.

A few years ago I had a discussion with an Australian man living in Beijing and he told me that for all the time he spent in Australia in his youth and older age, the single most beautiful day he ever saw happened to be in Beijing. As you can see above, there are some amazingly beautiful and serene days. You can also see there are days when the pollution makes it so dark outside the windows reflect the interior ceiling lights in the middle of the day. 

By the way, the headline of this China Daily post is, "Beijing's 225 shades of grey." Is this supposed to be a play on the novel 50 Shades of Grey? If so, *slow clap*.