Monthly Archives: April 2007

Road To Wedlock VIII: Thai’d The Knot Pt. 1

It’s been over a month since we returned from our honeymoon in Thailand, but I’ve only just found the time (or rather the patience) to wade through the hundreds of photos I took and pick out the ones to put online (and to print for our little honeymoon photo album). So, without further adieu，here is …

April 7, 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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Aprilfoolery with Chinese characteristics

Sorry for anyone that spent any amount of time searching China Daily for that article I referenced yesterday. As you may have noticed, it was tough to find… Despite having “claims” on inventing numerous things, baseball is most likely not one of them and the story is completely fabricated (as some of you seemed to …

April 2, 2007
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Chinese Invented Baseball

It’s hard to take this recent article, found on China Daily, seriously. Baseball a Chinese invention (Xinhua) Updated: 2007-04-01 08:35 Though long thought to have evolved from the UK-created rounders, new evidence suggests that the sport of baseball’s origins extend back nearly 500 years to China’s Ming Dynasty (c1368-1644). Li Gang, of the National Council …

April 1, 2007
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