Rants

Tom Cruise makes my thetans tingle

I’m no fan of “organized” religions by any stretch. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists… they all astound me in the faith they have for something that for all intents and purposes doesn’t exist but for the fact that they will it to. What further astounds me are the things that are and have been done under …

January 20, 2008
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Why not to study Chinese at university

As some of you may know, I’m enrolled at Suzhou University (or Soochow University, SuDa) studying Mandarin. Having just completed my mid-terms, I want to give a bit of a summary on the problems I see studying in this way. First, the title of this post is a bit of a misnomer, as overall I …

November 2, 2007
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China quietly scolds Burmese junta

With a bunch of people having been killed, this situation in Burma is fast turning into a nightmare, but it might be one that yet has a positive outcome. Not at all to marginalize the deaths of those unfortunate to get in the way of the Burmese security forces’ “warning” shots (incl. Japanese journalist Kenji …

September 28, 2007
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In Love & Hate of Chinese Supermarkets

Hey, so I’ve started a new Group Writing Project over at Lost Laowai called China: Love It Hate It. Essentially I’m asking China bloggers (not at all limited to English-speaking bloggers) to chime in and sound off on what they both love and hate about China. The post can be written in any form or …

September 26, 2007
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Am I A Racist?

I’ve been pondering this question a bit lately. First I/this blog got called such in the comments on Time‘s rather prominent The China Blog. Then, lately I’ve had a bit of a dimwit spamming my comments with this drivel. I got three separate notifications of his comments being posted. Each notification gave the text of …

August 10, 2007
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My Thoughts: China’s ex-SFDA chief sentenced to death

Yeah, this is just stupid. I mean, not that he doesn’t deserve to be punished, but are the powers that be so completely blind to outside opinion that they believe people will buy this bullshit attempt to nullify their involvement with all the sub-standard crap (toothpaste, pet food, contact solution, etc.) they’re allowing (through ignorance …

May 30, 2007
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Haier Ground

First, sorry. Sorry, I’ve been so craptastic at posting regular – but this sorta fits, as life in China, in EVERY way, is not regular (yes, that was potty humour, laugh damnit). Anyway… the reason is I’ve been working on a couple new “projects” – don’t you love that term, so vague, yet so official …

May 25, 2007
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I’m Not Kid Friendly

I often relay to people the story of my flight over to China back in January of 2005. I had travelled quite a bit at home and abroad, but had never set foot in the Middle Kingdom. My total combined knowledge of China at that point was a rough hash of info compiled from reading …

April 4, 2007
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