Posted in random on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, I didn’t think I would have been able to keep this blog going for this long… and I really didn’t expect to get more than five hits a day, but lo and behold after a few months I check the counter and I have ten thousand visits.
Thank you readers for taking the time out [...]
Posted in china, random, tagged beijing, china, heat, hot, weather on June 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Damn, it was hot this weekend in Beijing. I’m extremely envious of all the more ‘plump’ Chinese men who can roll up their shirts and rest the bundle on top of their bellies. Whenever I try to do that, it fails miserably because my girlfriend hits me multiple times.
Other methods of keeping cool in the [...]
Posted in china, random, tagged china, dreamworks, jade empire, kung fu panda, mass effect on June 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
First of all, let me say that Kung Fu Panda is a pretty fun movie. I enjoyed it, though not quite as much as I liked Shrek, which is my favorite Dreamworks film. And I like pandas. They’re fat and useless, which is what I aspire to become once I get older.
And Dreamworks was also [...]
Posted in china, random, tagged beijing, china, flood on June 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So I get off at work at 6pm every day and I just take a ten minute walk to get back to my apartment. However, there was a barrier in the way today. I huge lake where the underpass used to be. No cars were moving and the whole place was sealed off. It rained [...]
Posted in random, tagged supreme ruler 2020, computer games, pc games, demo on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The demo for Supreme Ruler 2020 is now out. You can find all the download links here.
Why am I posting this on a China blog? Well, mostly because it’s my blog and I can do whatever I want, but also because this is the sequel to one of my favorite games and I believe it [...]
Posted in china, culture, random, tagged art, china, culture, money, RMB on June 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I once asked my students who they thought the ideal Chinese person was. The overwhelming response was Zhou Enlai, Bruce Lee, and Liu Xiang. However, there were a few oddballs out there. For example, there was this one girl who kept on insisting that Wu Zhetian was ideal while another was absolutely in love with [...]
Posted in random, tagged 20th century boy, manga on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
But then again, I’ve been reading Manga instead of the news for the past few days. If anyone has a few days to waste, I highly recommend “20th Century Boy”
You can read it online for free at One Manga.
Posted in china, culture, earthquake, random, tagged china, construction, culture, earthquake, reality series, tv show on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Judging by how popular Super Girl is, I think there’s a huge demand for reality series in China. So here’s my idea for a new show that rips off almost every major American reality series that ever existed and adding some Chinese characteristics. I personally think it’ll be a smashing success.
The show will be about [...]
Posted in china, random, tagged china, soy sauce on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Buying Soy Sauce
I like random Chinese phrases that become extremely popular on the internet. I personally think they’re much more interesting than those 4-letter chengyu that the ‘cultured’ people use.
Posted in china, culture, economics, olympics, politics, random, tagged china, olympics, politics, economics, yao ming, earthquake, hackers, democracy, sports, liu xiang, black taxi on May 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Alright, I kinda wanna talk about something other than the earthquake, so here are some random things I’ve been thinking about.
First of all, there’s sports. A lot of people in the United States like to call Yao Ming and Liu Xiang tools of the CCP. I mean they really don’t have much personality when compared to [...]
