What a weekend! Work kept us busy with all these fun activities. Thursday night was our karaoke/office “Idol” competition (First #1) — which I am proud to say, my roommate has made it to the final round based on his performance of Stray Cats’ “Stray Cat Strut.” Then Friday afternoon, we boarded a bus to […]
I have persevered and conquered! My photo gallery* now comes with links. How convenient for you guys. Now, do you prefer the links to open in the same window or new ones? Next up: figuring out how to change the type to Century Gothic. In case you haven’t noticed, I already learned how to do […]
On the surface, China doesn’t feel all that different from the States. Except for the occasional culture shock, I barely notice I’m in a different country. For one thing, my routine is pretty much the same: I wake up, go to work, come home and eventually find dinner somewhere. I ate out all the time […]
In China, it is possible to lock someone in the house. This happened to me the other morning, as in, my roommate locked me inside our apartment. I thought I was going crazy, forgetting how to open the door. Fortunately, I was not losing my mind. The door doesn’t unlock from the inside if it […]
I never cared much for the 1989 Tian’anmen Square Incident (or any of the other ones either). Not knowing what China was like 20 years ago, I can’t speak on how the incident has affected China or how much China has changed. What I can say is, I’m adding my more-or-less ambivalence on the incident […]
Today, being God’s day, I decided to make it a lazy Sunday. Roommate and I were feeling a little beat from all the excitement of the past week, I think. Yesterday we took another walk, this time around our neighborhood, and I discovered a nice strip of shops the next (very large) block over with […]
I spoke too soon. A blue sky over Beijing today! I noticed it when I looked out my balcony this afternoon. It was bright and sunny — beautiful! I immediately asked my roommate to go out with me. We thought we’d go fly kites over Tian’anmen Square, but apparently no one flies kites there. Still, […]
So airports actually don’t have all the stores you could ever possibly want or need. I learned this the hard way. There I was, in Terminal 1 at JFK (after landing at Terminal 2), settling down at my gate during a layover. Where’s a post office? Shouldn’t there be a gajillion of them scattered between […]