Baby Yanyan has already been compiling quite a stash of jewelry. (I think her loot has already grown bigger than mine.) But the other day she received her first personalized piece: her name on a grain of rice. The English name was not an issue- but the Italian shop workers were a little hesitant to try the Chinese characters on the reverse side. Thankfully they gave in with a little bit of the old reverse psychology. ("Yeah I thought all along it would be pretty tough for you to do... I figured you couldn't write Chinese characters that well...")