Tag Archives: Young
Quick Couple Lines on Palin
Quote from China blogger Matt Schiavenza on Palin, Obama and the media: The Republicans paint the Alaska Governor as the moose-hunting hockey mom the whole party can love. The Democrats seem to be employing a shoot-the-moon strategy, trying to raise … Continue reading
Official Something Or Other
Via Top 100 Female Bloggers | Enkay Blog Welcome to the First Official Top 100 Female Blogger List. I had previously created the Top 50 Female Blogger list which soon grew to a 100. This list is updated as of … Continue reading
Yanjing
My specs had a tragic accident today. After Sven helped me out at school with a superglue temporary fix, I went to the specs store to get new ones. We get Stick’s contact lens solution at a little glasses shop … Continue reading
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Today we stopped playing Civ long enough for lunch at Mexican Wave and a visit to the Guiyou silk market. (Stick’s discovered that if you don’t develop alphabet, but everyone else does, you really don’t need it to trade techs.) … Continue reading
Character Studies
Yesterday afternoon, I had a job interview at a Singaporean-owned English academy, to do training and prep for Chinese students who’ll be studying overseas in English-speaking countries. My prospective boss asked me two or three basic questions, then told me … Continue reading
Following Traditions
When I was younger, right before Christmas, my family would drive to Kearny, NJ, where there was a street of Scottish import stores. We would get our all-important Christmas meat pies and sausage rolls, and eat our the traditional pre-Christmas … Continue reading
Professor Xavier’s Primary School For The Gifted
Amy campaigned tirelessly to be called a “postal worker” and not a “mail-cyclops”. Dr. Colin gives a booster shot of anti-gravity serum to his young patient. Although being a giant firefighter was a rewarding career, Kim couldn’t find pants that … Continue reading
Life In China
I’ve often wondered at the futility of making advance plans in China. Black And White Cat explains why. The boss says to his secretary: I’m taking you to Beijing for a few days. Get ready to go. The secretary phones … Continue reading
Sicken-Me Elmo?
The story about Mattel’s factories in China has been floating around China news and blogs almost as much as the cardboard-filled baozi. I first heard of it when my dad sent me a link to this New York Times article, … Continue reading
Nothing Happened In Tiananmen Square
Chengdu Evening News fired three of it’s editorial staff after they accidentally mentioned Tiananmen Square. On the 18th anniversary of the crackdown Monday, the lower right corner of page 14 of the Chengdu Evening News ran a tiny ad reading: … Continue reading
