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shanghai is amazing, people are fun, so foreign, good friends in faraway places, an awesome and new metro system, foreign food, foreigners who look chinese, ordering who knows what, buses, late nights walking in the rain…
ugh. it was bound to happen--something I ate, yesterday--probably the pidan tofu, is making a stomach and me very unhappy. good thing it happened here and not overnight while I was on the train. UUGghhhh. I hope this…
miscellany: I'm getting more and more tired these days. I often feel like as soon as I lie down, I'll be able to fall asleep, irregardless of how much sleep I've actually had. I'm so lazy. I believe I'm getting more …
Hi again--more commentary from me, whether you like it or not. This time, without much structure or thought; mostly random bits of consciousness: My grandma watches a lot of news. Her and grandpa, when he was still al…
http://web.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=3650
More musings from a lonely me in China. Family--here I realize what a big impact it has had in shaping who I am. Entering the darkened house of my uncle the other day, he turned around and laughed, and in the light, an…
hallo again everybodee!!! time for me english speakin' o the day! So, just got back from a day's excursion to Beijing. The city quite impressed me. I had to supress a smile going through a lot of the city, though--th…
Hey yup, guess who. So I'm on my grandmother's dialup connection right now--I think they use a phone card type thing, so I can't use it for too long. And the brief internet time that I get, I find myself on xanga. Oh …
so this seems to be THE trip where random things happen. I get to cincinnati, and they tell me the flight is overbooked--$200 off your next delta ticket to anyone who will take the next flight--45 minutes later. Shoots…
another quickie: hawaii was beautiful. my new home is tiny but comfy. sorry I wasn't able to see the vast majority of you guys--I needed to spend time with my family, I really did. They've given me so much and I owe …
quickie: kings island doesn't open til memorial day. >___< we went to cincinnati zoo, instead. no cicadas. Everyone said they'd be there, but I didn't see em. saw plenty of little buggers, though. at pittsbu…
Brood War http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2647052 Ok guess what. The concentration of these things is going to be around Indiana, but Ohio is simply a hop skip and a jump away. For those who didn't …
ok WTF I HATE being irrational. BUT, ARGH what gets me is that that's pretty irrational itself, being that I am only human. WTF MATE ----------- Oh, hey, read this! http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/nyregion/10jou…
After Finals
So, for as long as I can remember, my mom always told me to drink milk. "It'll make you taller," she would say. And of course, me, being the dumb kid that I am, couldn't really believe her. Just some sort of moms' tal…
OK now this one deserves its own entry: I'm going to be in Hawaii!!! Where there's a will, there's a way, I guess. Though it was too expensive to stop over in Hawaii on the way to China, I found a great deal, as a rou…
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/politics/07CND-ABUS.html On a different tone than the previous article, which is, by the way, freakin hilarious. No, this is a lot more somber. The thought of these occurences, and ind…
http://www.satirewire.com/news/feb02/warship.shtml
butterflies . . . do they flutter by?
Ah. It's been a long time since I've put up pictures. I guess it's been a long time since we've taken any; of course, the following were taken with Alex's camera. So, being that my finals were in the morning, my after…
And so, today, in Scobell Lounge, will arrive over 1000 wings and more than 500 chickens. It is as sickening, terrible, and inhuman as it is simply awesome. I ask for a moment while we fully consider the VOLUME and sig…
Things are sort of coming together, finally: after finals will be New York, at Columbia (and a haircut? ), then Boston, at MIT, then back to Pittsburgh to pick up my Visa and Passport, then to LA -- where I have a 5 ho…
On certain levels, life can't be all that bad
LOL! Bush To Iraqi Militants: 'Please Stop Bringing It On'WASHINGTON, DC—In an internationally televised statement Monday, President Bush modified a July 2003 challenge to Iraqi militants attacking U.S. forces. "Terrori…