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less food-related, out and about
Fierce…?
12.08.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments
This is why Tyra would kick me off America’s Next Top Model:

(Though I might penalize the photographer for shooting from an angle that make my hips look HUGE and make me look like a giant.)
I have one look.

And I don’t do it particularly well. Just what is in the upper corners of an elevator?

Though let’s [...]
Chinese, entrees, huzhou, less food-related, out and about, restaurants
Elevator Pitch
11.18.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments
It was bound to happen sometime.
Hi Ellis, this is Apple from web. Would u mind doing me a favour? My friend’s company in Nanxun need to take some pic. Of 2 foreigners, which will be put on their poster. Well would u like to be the girl model? Coz u r the prettiest foreign girl [...]
animals, less food-related, out and about, temples, travel
So a foreigner walks into a bar…
06.11.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments
I’ve been through many breakfast phases in my life. There were the frosted strawberry Poptarts, the toaster oven frozen hash browns, the Honey Bunches of Oats, the Honey Nut Cheerios, the hard boiled eggs and toast, the huge bowl of pineapple, the Good Friends, cold pepperoni pizza. These were all separate phases, of course. I [...]
From the Mouths of Babes, KFC, animals, out and about, travel
When In Doubt, Seek Colonel Sanders Out
12.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?
During pertinent lessons, I’ve asked my students: “If my parents came to visit Huzhou, what would you tell them to do/eat/see?”

“Don’t come here!”

“Why would they come to Huzhou?”

“Huzhou is boring.”

“There’s nothing to do here.”

They may sound like whiny teenagers but…they’re kind of right. In Huzhou, one can shop (not much to [...]