Monthly Archives: June 2005

Chinese Dragon Awakens

Awe crap… China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials. [Read whole article] Yeah, I know… American politics and media are full of paranoia, but still, this just makes me think back to …

June 27, 2005
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A Box Of Goodbyes

So, Thursday night was the big farewell party at The Box for all the peeps that work(ed) as English teachers at Neusoft (a Dalian university). The term has ended there, and some of the key players in the Dalian social scene have left. Most significantly are Dean (Canadian), Dan (British) and Derrick (Canadian). Next term …

June 27, 2005
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Peanut Gallery: Online

Right, so after a couple e-mailed comments from readers of the site, I got it through my rather thickset head that I should look into there possibly being a problem with my comments section – as I never get any. I’m happy to report that it’s fixed and you are all cordially invited to leave …

June 20, 2005
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Halfing The Count

So, in recent months I’ve really only had four foreign friends in Dalian that I hang out with. Lorna, Justin, Alan and Vanessa. Well, never have I had the population of my friends in a given demographic split so swiftly in half. Under the cover of darkness, in a veil of secrecy that still has …

June 20, 2005
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Drunk Monkey

As promised, here is a bit of a lighter entry. Though I’m not sure how easy it’s going to be to write… as I’m currently in the process of arguing with Mandy on MSN. If ever there was a reason to never use MSN for communications, this would be it. Not sure how things are …

June 17, 2005
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My World Is A Flood

Below the waterline: the final marks left by drowning primary school students. At the risk of delving in to too political a topic as Chinese media censorship and what Western countries actually care about the deaths of children thousands of kilometres away, I felt the need to put something about this on here if for …

June 16, 2005
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I’m Gay, Let’s Gay

Nono, I’m not coming out of the closet. I, in fact, don’t have a closet. But even if I did… that’s not what this post is about. The title for the post simply comes from something Karen’s boyfriend Sky aparently often says as a joke and it’s caught on a bit with me – though …

June 15, 2005
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Proverbial Cats & Bags

Well, I question the wisdom of letting those at my school know that there’s a bit of a girl in my life – alright, I know “bit of a girl” sounds a bit retarded … but it works on the “oh, she’s so tiny…” and the “ah… so you’re not really ‘together’ then…” levels and …

June 12, 2005
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The Re-education of Mr. Mc

It’s a bit embarassing that it took a, albeit cute, Chinese girl to teach me that O. Henry is one of North America’s literary greats, and not, as I had thought, just a chocolate bar. Mandy said she has read something like 100 novels of classic Western literature. Am I really this uneducated? I’ve not …

June 7, 2005
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Your Asian Eyes

Great, now I’ve got Corey Hart stuck in my head. Anyway, not much to update really, as I’ve done bugger all this weekend, EXCEPT, complicated my existence here the one way I’m really good at complicating things – with a girl. Mandy came over Saturday to spend the day… and left this morning (Monday). Now …

June 6, 2005
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Roads Are For Sissies

Well, there’s no doubt about it – the weather is finally hot. Aside from a new sheen of sweat and a bit of desperation to find some sandles, the heat has brought with it copious amounts of construction. Along with the numerous buildings coming down and going up in Jinzhou, work on a light rail …

June 4, 2005
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Metro: An Island in the Chinese Sea

Right, I know – this is the third post today, but I just realized that I didn’t really talk about the beautiful thing that Metro Supermarket is. I could have just tacked it on to that last e-mail, but it really deserves its own recognition. Metro is a ‘Western-style’ supermarket in the north end of …

June 1, 2005
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