Happy Birthday!

[Sun Fin]

Happy Birthday plunged! Apparently its been almost a year since your last post! I hope you're well .

[Dong Zhou]

Many Birthday Wishes plunged, I ope things are going well for you whatever your doing now.

[Sun Fin]

Happy Birthday Pi Ka Chu!

[Dong Zhou]

Happy Birthday Jia Nanfeng! As one of the big zero's, hope you had or have something special planned

[Sun Fin]

I hope you have a fantastic day Jia Nanfeng!

[Jia Nanfeng]

Thanks guys!

Nothing major planned for my big 0 day. Took the work day off so I can just be lazy all day! I’m hoping my family maybe bought me some more Chinese books to read too.

[Sun Fin]

Oooooh, any particular books you're hoping for?

[Death]

Happy birthday Jia Nanfeng , lazy days are always the best, especially if you do get some new books to read. Hope you have a great day

[Jia Nanfeng]

Thanks.

I indeed got some books today! In fact, my family pretty much all got me China-related things.

- I got a copy of The Art of War, which I surprisingly hadn't owned a physical copy of yet.

- I got a copy of Xun Xu and the Politics of Precision in Third-Century AD China, which I similarly didn't have a physical copy of yet. Very happy about this one -- I've just stuck with digital because it's so expensive but my Ma managed to find it for pretty cheap!

- And I got Jin Gong Yao Hou: Jia Nanfeng, which is a Chinese novel about Jia Nanfeng. It's in Chinese so I can't read it. But I wanted it for completion sake! It's a good reason to stop procrastinating with learning Chinese too. (Judging by the summary, the book is kinda mean towards her... but I still wanna read it.)

- I also got a really amazing handmade ceramic & porcelain statue of an imperial concubine; it stands about a foot tall. (Click here for pic I took.) My Ma ordered it from a China. It has Chinese writing inside the foot and on the back of the headdress -- I'll upload high res photos of it sometime to get a translation.

[DaoLunOfShiji]

That's a damn good birthday. The book on Xun Xu is incredible and I enjoyed it a whole lot. Glad to hear your got some great gifts and had a good day.