What a pity Oh,What,a,Year!

  Icelebrated my one-year anniversarywith China last month. It"s been awhirlwind romance full of highs andlows, disagreements and reconcilia-tions, admonishments and promises, all ofwhich have led up to my marking our bigday with a special kind of commitment: Isigned a new lease on my flat. So now thatChina and I are bound together in bizarrematrimony for another year, I thought I"dmark the occasion by cataloging the high-lights of my first 12 months in a countrylike no other. So without further ado, andin no particular order, here we go: