I’m back in Shenzhen. It’s good to be back, and a little weird. Seems like you can see the best of China here and some of the not-so-best.

My iPod was stolen somewhere around the Di Wang building. I have no idea how they did it. It was in the little pouch in my backpack, zipped up. The next time I looked at my backpack, the backpack was wide open and the iPod was gone. How?? Hats off to their skill, but I would have loved to have caught them in the act. Guess I’ll by the 30 dollar rip off iPod or just use my cell phone which has a pretty bad user experience for playing MP3s.

Here’s a shot of some of the madness around Hua Qiang Bei (taken with a cell phone). The cars are blocked because the people started crossing the streets in mass. Actually, I took this shot after a majority of the folks had already crossed.