Sum up life in six words

I was just reading about a book collecting six-word memoirs, entitled "Not quite what I was planning". The one I liked best was "Me see world! Me write stories!" (Elizabeth Gilbert, who seems to me to have been on much the same track already with the title of her book "Eat, Pray, Love", about stays in Italy, India and Bali).I also liked "Am I lost or just wandering?"
It seems the inspiration was an ultra-short story by Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” I'm sure the form also features in ads like "No bells, no whistles, just juice", not to mention bumper stickers - if I had a bumper to stick one on, mine would read "So many books, so little time"..
As for my 6-word memoir: "Never the bridesmaid, never the bride" is true but too like Rip Riley's "No wife, no kids, no problems", and also a bit negative. I think I might settle on "I was a bookworm, mutatis mutandis", but only certain colleagues would understand it!

Busy in Beijing

I haven't managed to blog much since I started working full-time again last year. Among other things I have had to make a couple of business trips to Beijing, and this time, after our meetings got changed about, finally had some free time for some sight-seeing. Or in the case of the Olympic stadium, site-seeing (or just-about-seeing, it was a bit hazy in the city!):
Managed to get to the Great Wall (at Mutianyu) and the Forbidden City: