July 2009
4 posts
roasted duck and rice, Cola OR soup
says an item on the menu downstairs in the lobby. in Guangzhou, we drink soup like soft drinks. hot day? have a bowl of steaming hot soup. if you’re skeptical, come try it…i actually think it works (but only if it’s got the right chinese vegetables and roots in it)
June 2009
19 posts
what to think, what to think?
china’s been really amazingly fun during the last month (possibly because I’ve been with my family and vacationing) but every once in a while i snap back to my suspicious pre-summer self.
I’m glaring hatefully at the two slick-looking police walking in the opposite direction on the boardwalk before I’ve even found a good reason to dislike them. I don’t know that...
gotta get this mit vpn client thing...
i tried today but failed. wah.
so happy to have freedom from the chinese web scourers, but this celly internet is soooo slow. and i’m so behind!
eggplantparmaygiano:
mahfablife:
found out first hand that tumblr is blocked in China! so no more updates from connie. twitter is also blocked, quelle dommage, as is livejournal. No but seriously, it was done so people couldn’t express...
finding out half my family is buddhist
huh?
so first my aunt told me she’s buddhist, which doesn’t surprise me because she’s very into acupuncture and tea ceremonies and all that very chinese-y stuff. but now i’m staying in my grandparents room while they’re in another city, and i pick up their pillows and find all these prayer beads and books! and a little buddha statue with incense in the corner of...
back
using jamie’s cell phone internet =)
tumblr’s blocked by the government here, but they can’t touch this. ithink.
i have the same birthday as jay chou
who is pretty much the sweetest pop singer/ cheesy movie actor ever in the chinese/taiwanese world. also he’s the only chinese celeb i know.
he’s pretty hot too.
some words on summer housing
samnesia:
what is bexley? here, let’s present it in a way that would’ve made my seventh grade english teacher smile and my eight grade english teacher grimace.
some givens:
bexley is close to things
also, it’s not clean. well, it’s not actually dirty, so maybe i mean it’s not sterile
the rooms are nicely sized - my single is many times larger than a breadbox
some not-so-givens:
the thing:...
“Ashiya. It’s a Cameroonian word I learned from my high school calculus teacher...”
– -Kristen
The past few nights I’ve woken up feeling trapped and dirty. Trapped because I am here on MIT’s good name, and, living in this high school’s nice apartment which we gratefully recieved from a man that praises Mao and wants us back everyday by 10 pm. Dirty because...
if only we could do a country switch...
…because damn, some of these students are deserving. I came to China with some green-minded lessons, and a cooler full of Petri-films and other water-testing materials. I thought I’d teach a little bit about water pollution and point out that it’s quite a large problem here in China (duh.) My audience, I imagined, would be a group of spoiled only children who were solely...
diet exchange
After a week and a half in China, we’ve concluded that a tourist can eat as much as he wants here—constantly even—but he’ll likely lose weight. This has been the topic of discussion during several of our meals in the countless cheap eateries where you can choose from a menu of delicious rice or noodle dishes ranging from 3 to 8 yuan (50 cents to a little more than a...
December 2008
13 posts
Matt Nathanson—Bulletproof Weeks
I’ve...
IAP to-do list
On the subject of lists, here’s what I really should do over IAP.
Read Spanish books—suggestions from friends: Como Agua Para Chocolate
Doce Cuentos Pelegrinos—Garcia Marquez
anything by Garcia Marquez
Isabelle Allende
Che Gueverra—Motorcycle Diaries
Speak Spanish with anyone who is willing (Praveen? Anna?)
Get a head start on learning one technical class
...
new year's resolution(s)
1. (Shared resolution with Liz) Be a cleaner roommate
2. Read the news. Please, at least weekly, you hypocrit.
The less jaded voice in my head is berating me much more harshly for extending my impressive procrastination skills to the smothering—by ignorance—of my concern of the wider world…Yeah, remember that four months from now!
3. Take more pictures.
a few inspirational videos
In the hopes that I can re-inspire myself from my laziness during IAP and keep thinking…about the real world.
Question: Which girl would you rather be locked in...
(via mahfabulouslife)
Dordy: Wait, me or Connie?
Steph: I'd definitely pick Connie.. with her there's like, an 80% chance of her having sex with me, and I'm okay with that. But with you, there's like a 5% chance of you cutting off my feet. So I'm gonna go with 80% sex over 5% losing my feet.
Chronniecles...
me: i made a blog
Jamie: lol, o rly?
what's the link?
me: theres nothing on it yet and i don't know yet what i should call it for good
Jamie: the Chronniecles..
me: omg now
no
“So I’m smarter than you?”
– Danni, my 7 year-old sister, reading my last two posts
Things that make me feel happy inside:
Aaron: i'm reading this book my mom got me
100 things youre not supposed to know
so interesting
barbie was based on a german sex doll
the nuclear access codes
during the cold war
were 00000000
She's smarter than me
Jamie: hey good lookin :)
Danni (off the record, out loud to me): "good one"