June 20, 2006

• boxers and bellies

  beijing summer heat is no joke.  it’s above whatever boston’s getting right now, sans the humidity.

  
  

  lots of ice cream, bottled water and beer is consume in this heat.  people also lighten the attire:

  
  

  some men choose to wear only boxers outside to relax in restaurants/beer gardens/the gym.  i mean, that wouldn’t fly anywhere in the states without questioning by the establishment’s staff.

  
  

  some men choose to roll their shirts up to expose their bellies.  i’d say stomachs, but i see mostly bellies around these parts of beijing = ) taxi drivers, dads, vendors, drunk old men….the list goes on.  men love showing the belly.  i’m sure it cools them down.  too bad women can’t do the same here.

  
  

  every time i see those bellies, i’m reminded of when i was a child in the summer.  whenever my brothers, my dad, and my friends who were boys got to wear nothing but the skin on their backs due to heat….i’d get insanely jealous because i couldn’t do the same. i had exactly what my boy counterparts had, at the age of five…there was no risk there.  sucks.

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