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The Daring Game For Girls
When I wasn’t teaching or running around Manhattan with packs of teenagers, I checked out The Daring Game For Girls on the DS. I know this is the girl-player stereotype, but I just can’t overstate how important a customizable avatar … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Raleigh
Tagged cooking, daring game for girls, e3, family, games, glasses, LOST, Lost in Blue 2, nintendo DS, teaching
5 Comments
Game Review: Sims 2: Castaway
One day, you’re standing on the dock, waving goodbye to a friend, when you slip and fall and land in a crate, which is sealed and loaded onto a cargo ship, which is caught up in a storm and your … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews, Raleigh
Tagged candy, cooking, Eric, games, Google, random, reprints, Sims, Sims 2, Strangetown, ThumbGods, WarCraft, World of WarCraft
2 Comments
Extreme Shopping
Cooking Mama 3′s shopping game is uncannily like shopping in a Chinese supermarket. Mama sends you out to find 4 pieces of unwrapped, unrefridgerated meat, but as you search the store to fill your reusable carrier bag, you’ve got to avoid oddly familiar store characters — shouting shop assistants in pastel uniform aprons or a girl with a basket of squid, shellfish and other distinctly Yantai seafood — who’ll slow your shopping progress by trapping you into minigames. Higher levels add loose eggs, heads-on fish and mushrooms to your shopping list, and more people to the store. I keep trying for the elusive perfect score, since I imagine it’ll unlock a “Sunday In The Auchan” extreme challenge level. Continue reading
Posted in Chinese life, Raleigh, Yantai
Tagged Beijing:Raleigh, chinese, cooking, Cooking Mama 3, games, nintendo DS, ThumbGods, Yantai
6 Comments
Still Lost In Blue
The other day I was googling for “I’m stuck on an island with a total moron,” er, I mean, reading a bit about Lost in Blue 2, and I stumbled upon this Guide 2 Games review of Jack and Amy’s … Continue reading
Posted in game culture
Tagged awesome, coffee, cooking, family, game culture, games, LOST, Lost in Blue 2, Merscom, nintendo DS, reading, Shutter Island
5 Comments
Lost in Blue 2
I’ve been playing Lost in Blue 2 on the DS for a while now, and while I always love games about island survival, like MyTribe, Sims 2: Castaway, etc., there’s a lot of room for improvement in Lost in Blue. … Continue reading
Posted in game culture, Game Reviews
Tagged cooking, frustrations, Game Reviews, games, girls play that too?, Google, LOST, Lost in Blue 2, mail, MyTribe, nintendo DS, Sims, Sims 2, ThumbGods
9 Comments
Revenge Of The Artichokes
No matter how obscure an activity is, you can find other people on the internet who do it too. Saw this in my Google analytics today: I guess I’m not the only person to battle the artichokes, and lose. Tweet … Continue reading
Bosphorus
Bosphorus Restaurant 329 North Harrison Ave Cary, NC I drive past Bosphorus restaurant every week on my way to teach at Chinese school, but it was our first time eating there. Inside, Bosphorus is decorated with posters of Turkish landscapes … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina, Raleigh, teaching teenagers
Tagged cary, Chains, China, chinese, classicists, coffee, cooking, noodles, RACL, restaurant reviews, teaching teenagers, Western food
9 Comments
All Artichoked Up
It’s been years since I ruined dinner badly enough to scrap it and order take out. Look, I’m not saying I’ve never had trouble boiling water, and there was that time in college when I set off Eric’s smoke detector, … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh
Tagged adventures with Stick, awesome, cooking, Eric, food?, Google, Stick, things I'm not good at
12 Comments
Victory Milk
Coupons depress me. If you summed up everything I loved about our expat adventures, clipping supermarket coupons would be the opposite. It seems to sum up the repetitive mundane side of life in the US, which is of course made … Continue reading
Posted in Beijing, Raleigh, Yantai
Tagged Beijing:Raleigh, China, cooking, Jenny Lou, mail, melamine, Stick, travel, Vanguard, why I love Stick, wo ai xi can, Yantai
3 Comments
Jersey Girl
I flew up to New Jersey yesterday to see my family. The upside to the visa hassles and life upheaval is that I get to visit my folks! It’s been just under a year since I’ve seen my family. Now … Continue reading
Posted in New Jersey
Tagged cooking, Cosmo, Eric, family, hutong, Jersey girl, mail, my family is crazy, New Jersey, repatriation
8 Comments
