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musings

• Shanghai, Uncategorized, headaches, musings

  Amnasia

  08.14.10 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  Just over a year ago, I wrote the Chopstick Manifesto, detailing my experiences and perspectives on living in China. I noted that China has very complicated problems, as does the rest of the world, and that life is better here, especially if you are a foreigner and especially if you are white.

  And here I am [...]

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• huzhou, less food-related, musings

  The Sound of Intimidation

  12.17.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  On the road that leads into the downtown district, right where the traffic starts to get heavy, there’s a place called Fumiao. Or rather, a place that used to be Fumiao. Until June it was a warehouse of stalls, where one could by anything from candles, clothes, and motorcycle helmets to plates, bedding, and suitcases. [...]

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• Shanghai, Uncategorized, headaches, huzhou, less food-related, musings

  One Day Is Fine, the Next Is Black

  10.20.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  While I’ve been charming you with tales of Korea (and I’m not finished) like Scheherazade, there have been big things brewing. Or I thought they were, and now maybe they’re not?
  It’s probably somewhat apparent that my relationship with Huzhou is tumultuous at times. This city is isolating, I’ve been unhappy. I’ve tried to make [...]

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• Jeju, Korea, Parks, entrees, fish, musings, out and about, travel

  Yay Means Nae

  10.18.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The way my father tells it, he and 5-or 6-year old Ellis (not yet ellis, but probably around the time I insisted everyone call me Crystal) were at McDonald’s, eating our hamburgers before we were allowed to eat our French Fries.
  “Dad,” said wee Ellis. “Where do hamburgers come from?”
  Oh boy. Almost as tough as “Where [...]

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• headaches, less food-related, musings, unruly chefs

  Breaking Out My Finest Liberty

  09.24.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Like my personal life, I generally don’t like to air my political beliefs. But here I go, making exceptions again, because really, is there anything more infuriating than Sarah Palin? No.
  Apparently she was just on my continent, in Hong Kong to be exact, to give a speech at an Investor’s Forum. Because obviously Palin’s [...]

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• Gerald, Shanghai, dessert, musings

  Chalk A Lot

  09.21.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  The summer before I started high school, I was assigned my very first summer reading list. On it was Dickens’ Great Expectations. I knew reading that book was going to be an epic battle of the will when, on the first page, I encountered the word ‘vittles.’ I asked my dad what it meant. He [...]

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• Chinese, huzhou, less food-related, musings, out and about

  Days of Our Laowai

  09.07.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I’m not one to talk about my personal life too freely. I can usually talk about stuff with my parents (though of course, they still get a somewhat censored version of my life); I have one friend who gets the whole story, whether he likes it or not. That’s it. Thus, you can imagine that [...]

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• huzhou, musings

  The Chopstick Manifesto

  08.29.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Currently the world, especially the United States, is in a state of anxiety about China. What is China? They own our debt, manufacture our goods, make up one sixth of the world’s population. Will they surpass us? Own us? Will we wake up one morning to a world ruled by the Chinese Communist party?

  You [...]

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• chicken, headaches, huzhou, less food-related, musings

  Lysol on the Soles of Her Shoes

  08.21.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Much as I enjoy living in China, there are things that continue to ‘get to’ me. Like, say, the traffic: the blatant, widespread disregard for red means stop, green means go; the whole idea of ‘right of way,’ ‘yield to pedestrians,’ or, for that matter, ‘yield.’ There is not only a manifest ambivalence for traffic [...]

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• America, animals, fish, less food-related, musings, travel

  One small step for man

  06.30.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Physics has never been my forte (ditto with anything numerical or scientific), but one thing I do recall from my high school Intro to Physics class is the general idea of the Theory of Relativity. Basically that someone traveling the speed of light for a certain amount of time will age slower than a stationary [...]

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