
There's this funny-shaped pond outside my apartment building. For part of the winter it was dry, so I was wondering whether they were even going to fill it. They did, so for a while it was just a pool of dead water. Then last week as I returned home, I saw a couple of people standing around the pool, one of them holding a big orange bucket. Oooh, potential life forms! Indeed, he was adding goldfish to the pool.

Leeeettle tiny goldfish. About twenty or thirty, by my count, in that big pond. They're probably the only beings in Shanghai not worried about overcrowding.