June 26, 2007 - White skin won and Chinese Mermaid

I didn't type that wrong. Brent didn't win a Chinese Mermaid.

There's a Starbucks downstairs in our building (yes, they have it every few blocks here too) that had been renovating and looked like opening today. We saw some people there and went in to the front room where there were chairs and speakers. Brent was aggressively walking ahead of me as I thought it was staff only. A young woman came out smiling and said "hello" to Brent. Brent of course asked what is going on and she said it's "friends and family" day, and it'll open tomorrow. She then asked Brent what he wanted and she could bring it out to him for free. Brent shamelessly pointed to the Mango smoothie on the poster and said he'd like to try that. She came out and said they didn't have Mango today so she made him a banana chocolate mocha. I can swear that if I had walked in by myself no one would have come out and offered me free drinks.

P.S. Brent met a Linux "friend" he met on-line here last night and this guy is teaching English here. He said a lot of girls would want to be his girlfriend if Brent is teaching!

We also saw a kite that is a Chinese mermaid - global concept localized!