Points of Interest

I had originally intended to tweet this, but alas I couldn't squeeze down the characters so here it is in milliblog form. For times when I have shorter points to make check out my Twitter.

I haven't had an interest in the pop charts in years but only in the last few months have I found myself not knowing who the current flavours of the month are, most likely down to reading less of The Sun. It is a refreshing feeling but as a result of this whenever I do hear a new name I am clueless as to who or what it is. For example, it was recently explained to me that Nicki Minaj is a woman.

Previous information I had no desire to know which hogged space within my brain is slowly drifting out to be replaced by tidbits of trivia that I do find interesting. Did you know that to eliminate the culture of queue jumping in Beijing before the 2008 Olympics, Chinese officials introduced "Voluntary Wait in Line Day" on the 11th of every month?* The "Voluntary" part wasn't emphasised I imagine.

*Info supplied by Gary Finnegan in his book "Beijing for Beginners"