Currently rocking Wilbur Robinson hair, but everyone in at work thinks it’s “Angry Birds”.
Sometimes I wonder what I need to do to get some pop-culture love up in here…
…other times I wonder how they ever put me in a position of responsibility.
(h/t simplydisney)
Source: img6.bdbphotos.com
As if to illustrate the point, and why I end up leaving China during the public holidays…
In October’s Golden Week last year (one of the country’s semi-annual seven-day national holidays), 302 million tourist trips were recorded. When foreigners join these flows they are mere drops in the torrent.
Source: Guardian
Trying to do anything in China is like trying to fuck a porcupine. One prick against a billion.
[With apologies to Wilson Mizner]
Rather unfortunate subtitle on a movie my team are making. I’m leaving it in the final cut.
Starchild of the Day: A boy born with bright blue eyes in a southern Chinese village is said to be able to see clearly in the dark.
“Could Nong Youhui be [an Alien] Hybrid or Starchild?” Obviously.
[reddit.]
Am I the only one thinking that the X-Men is not too far away…?
(via coldbloodedboy)
Source: thedailywhat
One of the most intersting parts of living in China is witnessing first hand how a culture is taught how to spend money.
Less than a month ago this same column at my local supermarket was full of Halloween stuff, now it’s all Xmas’d out. You may wonder what the Chinese care about Halloween (a pagan originated harvest festival) or Christmas (a traditionally Christian festival)… well the sad answer is that this is all about commercialism. And the fun part is that people are buying into it - no pun intended.
Soon, the massive Chinese middle class will be indoctrinated just like the rest of us. Then the engine driving the world’s commercial economy will be based here.
I shouldn’t complain. I am riding this wave after all.
A new book store opened up in the mall across the road from my apartment. This made me awesomely happy since there were no bookstores near me before this, and the chances of finding one that sells English books is incredibly rare in GZ.
This one ticks both those boxes and there’s a cafe inside!
Break on campus until 2pm.
In the library awaiting a meeting with my partner for a project due Tuesday and starting to write my final project for another class - draft due Tuesday.
Wow. I thought “Let’s merry.” was a bad Chinese translation on the Starbucks cups/sleeves here. I guess it’s a thing, then.
Source: ning3bar
What should we have for dinner?
This gets better every plate.
SHENME?
Lunch at school was DELIGHTFUL!
“Things I don’t eat in China” for a hundred, please, Alex.
Journalistically, you know you’re doing the right thing when the Chinese censors tear up your magazine.
China: When people take pictures of you without you knowing and post them on the internet.
I wonder what they do with those pictures. Like, do they put them in their family photo-albums next to their photos of holidays and picnics?
Just imagine them flipping through one day, showing a friend the vacation photos…
“This me next to the river… and this is me with a random white guy… “
Cisco, one of the world’s largest technology companies, is being sued by Chinese political prisoners for allegedly providing the technology and expertise used by the Chinese Communist Party to monitor, censor and suppress the Chinese people.
They aren’t just selling routers to a corrupt regime. They are selling the technology, training and software specifically designed to monitor, censor and suppress the Chinese people.
Source: smh.com.au
