"Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books."

i've started dogearing the books i read, and writing down my favorite lines. these are some of the bits i liked most...

some more excerpts from the china scene section of the china daily

Student flees through window to Net cafe A 15-year old boy who was so obsessed with the Internet fled home last Wednesday through a window to go to an Internet cafe, reports Yangtze Evening News. The boy cut his bed sheet into pieces and escaped with the rope made from the sheets. But he fell from the second floor, waking his neighbors who called the police. The boy was finally found in an Internet cafe the next morning.

Arm-wrestling ends in broken bones Two young men in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, suffered broken bones when an arm-wrestling match went wrong, reports Information Times Daily. Song and He are two giants in their factory. Song challenged He one day to a match. But victory hung in the balance after three rounds. When the fourth round started for only two seconds, Song's right arm lost strength suddenly, and could not move. At the sam time He was sent to hospital immediately, and was diagnosed as having fractured his arm.

Man walks around with knife in windpipe A man has had a knife removed from his trachea after living with it for eight months, reports Tianfu Morning Post. The 36-year-old, Mao Qiang, swallowed an 8-centimeter long, 1.6-centimetre wide knife to evade police checks when he was found taking drugs while being detained at a police station ins Chengdu, Sichuan Pprovince. Doctors who removed the knife said it could have killed Mao at anytime.