George W. Bush earned kudos for speaking Spanish when he ran for president in 2000, and while it turns out his language skills are, at best, “halting to conversational,” having the confidence to use another language on camera in America probably still counts for something. Other heads of state are more legitimately bilingual, and a …Read More
What can I really say to this, other than: if necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is her sick and twisted evil half-sister. BEIJING (AFP) – Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China, threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday. In the …Read More
He stood there for a long time. Tami Joan and John Testprepwell desperately retreated until they reached the other side of the door, holding two sweaty CBAP test bodies tightly together. The drivers hand Testprepwell bent into the shape of a cup, CBAP test blocking the lights shone on the street light, looked at them …Read More
As a white guy married to a Chinese woman, I’ve had to deal with my share of “The Stare” – the look other Westerners (mostly recent arrivals) give to … well… white guys in relationships with Chinese girls. Sometimes it’s delivered as a plastic smile on the street, a nudge and whisper to a friend …Read More
I didn’t blog about the YouTube block earlier this month because I just couldn’t accept it as the truth. Sure, I got the denial of service message just like the rest of the folks stuck here behind the GFW, but something just wouldn’t let me believe it was actually happening. I woke up each day, …Read More
That was the nicest way I could think to put it. Â Forget self-censorship and beating around the bush. Let’s get right down to brass tax: Why is it that I always feel pressured by my Chinese friends, colleagues, and random acquaintances to believe in the “Glory of China”? Hey, China! I’m here. I’ve lived in …Read More
Shakes finally remembered the first of the police officers arriving at the scene to adapt to the fourth rule P is to protect the scene of the murder. Angry horn started flooding the air in the early morning Cisco 300-075 Dumps misty, quickly mixed into the Prepexamwell drivers roar angry. A moment later, she heard …Read More
Announcer: Well folks, it’s that time again. “What time is that,” you ask? Well, my naive foreign friends, it’s time once again to play “What’s My Party Line?” Which – coincidentally – works for either our beloved CCP or a bunch of friends on a shaky 1950’s telephone connection. [chortle, chortle] Ahem. Our contestants today …Read More
Sometimes, in China, people get bored. Look, I hate to be the one to burst your tiny ethnocentric, Sinopheliac bubble, but after the first three months of requisite ooh-ing and ah-ing at all the Cultureâ„¢, you’ve had your fill of berry-faced beggar children and all you want is a cup of hot chocolate and some …Read More
Back in June, I posted about The Walking Dutchman, Jans Vroomans. This dude is pretty hardcore. He set out last year, on October 14 (2006), from the Netherlands. His intention was to walk all the way to China, passing through the Ukraine, Russia, and Kazachstan. Ambitious hey? And here I find it hard to walk …Read More
I’ve lived in a few countries, travelled through some more, went to school, made friends, associated or worked with people from all over the world and have learned languages that were never spoken by any of my ancestors, but not before I crossed into the People’s Universe of China, had the concept of someone or …Read More
As some of you may have heard, the Olympics are coming to Beijing next August. No, really. And beside colourful rings, fancy logos and a bunch of sickeningly cute paraphernalia, the key imagery of the event has got to be the Olympic Torch. Starting last June the Olympic committee began hunting out the near 22,000 …Read More
Return to Top ▲
