从安定门东街，从今天南锣鼓巷调查的一天，从今后开始…
[Starting from AnDingMen East St., today’s NanLuoGuXiang Market Study, from here on out…]

文宇AKA Money：你有甚麼打算改善你的經濟狀況？有季也快走了，有甚麼打算了吧？

自：不是發財但是要賺。首先，要打工。還要準備下一步的，我要學日語，要完整我四年在中國的日誌，也要做好心裡準備的，前面的路可不像近幾年那麼輕鬆。呵，我是認真的。

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Money: How you gonna improve on your current financial situation? Aki’s going home soon, what you got planned?

Me: I’m not planning on striking it rich but I’m gonna make some money. First, I gotta get some work on the side. Then, I got to start preparing for the next step. I got to study Japanese, finish documenting my four years of life in China and also get ready for the road ahead, mentally. It’s not going to be as easy as it has been these past few years. I’m not kidding.

wild daffodils (narcissus pseudonarcissus), taken at my grandparents’ house. they’re not around anymore. the house won’t be around much longer either. it’s february but these daffodils are blooming already. there were quite a few just waiting to bloom.

I did want to go to the Olympics in 2008 and see wushu as a sport. But it won’t be included as an olympic event. Not even a demonstration of it. That’s crazy.

I think the city will be beautiful though. I wonder if there’ll still be some donkeys in the streets. I doubt the roads will be so dusty. I want to see the Chinese interact with the foreigners. And in the games, I want to see Team USA take home a gold medal in basketball. And I wanted to watch Team China take a gold in wushu. They say there will be a wushu competition at the same time but not part of the games.

Beijing 2008