Microphone mania today — the top bidder of Wang Minglu crosstalk works got the media in a frenzy — and ended up on the front cover of the Wanbao. On the front page in big headlines, though, is bad news: 7 cases of H1N1 was found in one primary school. That's 21 new in all for the day...

Ever experienced this? In our article of the day on page 6, a certain Yikang Juneng health club in Chunshuyuan, just on Xuanwumen Outer Street, shut its doors right after it finished accepting new fitness club members. Renovation works were scheduled for July 1 — 31, but nobody — not even employees — were told. The police, of course, were summoned promptly.

We still have pretty scorching skies with us tomorrow — that'll be 23°C – 36°C with plenty of sun and a fair bit of clouds. Also: out tomorrow, last day of the week, are cars trailing in 4s and 9s, plate-wise.

The one way to save yourself these days from overheating in the open is to drink like mad. Your Beijingologist guzzled just about three liters of water (of which two liters were mineral water alone) in just about four hours' time. That suuure is a lot...