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Live Free Or Die Hard: Asian Women in Hollywood

Hell ya! For any that don’t want to wait and watch that … that is the teaser trailer for Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard. It makes me excited in ways that Maggie should be jealous of. Die Hard is an institution for any of us kids that grew up spouting off John …

December 16, 2006

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Fwd This!

Alright, I like a funny forward as much as the next guy. I got this one this morning and loved it. However, what I cannot understand is how, after a decade of being online in some way, people can still be forwarding fucking chain letters. I should apologize to some of my friends, I am …

December 15, 2006

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Chinese Character Riddle

Hey, so my Chinese learning book (still level one, sigh) has a riddle in part of the homework. I have my suspicions of the answer, but am not sure. As such, I figured I'd post it here and see what you guys have to say (hover over for pinyin): äººæœ‰"ä»–"å¤§ å¤©æ²¡"ä»–"å¤§ è¯·é—®"ä»–"æ˜¯è°? ä½ ä¹Ÿè®¤è¯†"ä»–" My first …

December 13, 2006

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Tenacious Me!

Alright, this is got NOTHING to do with China, but it has everything to do with Jack Black – and surely China needs to appreciate JB a bit more. As do the rest of you! I've been a fan of JB since seeing High Fidelity a few years ago, but I didn't KNOW JB until …

December 12, 2006

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How Do You Wrap “It’s The Thought That Counts”?

I've been asked a few times by the folks back home if China celebrates Christmas. Aside from the rather odd phrasing of the question (how does a country celebrate anything?) I'd have to say no. Not in any direct sense at least. I mean, you see some decorations scattered here and there. The towering Holiday …

December 11, 2006

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Commie Copies Clutter Canada

I never said I wasn't a sucker for illiterations. So, with wedding looming, it's a bit ridiculous to think that the topic of babies and such hasn't been breached with Maggie, rather 'by' Maggie. Chinese get married to have babies, ah, a baby. Just ask any mother in law. Actually, you won't need to, as …

December 7, 2006

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Impossible Potential

Well, the ChELB is abuzz with positiveness, and I feel like a dick for not adding to it. It's no secret that a lot of my conversations (online and off) are rather negative to this, my host country. After reading two excellent posts (Positive Solutions' "10 Reasons Why Living In China Is Great" and The …

December 6, 2006

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Little Forest – Little Honour (å°‘æž—-å°‘å…‰)

Last Spring Festival I tossed around several travel ideas before finally settling on our trip to Haerbin. Top of the list prior to that was making our way through Shandong towards Xi'An – stopping in Songshan to visit the famous Shaolin Temple. You know the Shaolin monks, right? They're the guys that can do all …

December 3, 2006

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Joining the Economixer

Alright, when it comes to economics (and a rather large handful of other things), I'm a complete idiot. Aside from some high school accounting classes, basic current awareness classes in college and a general understanding of the world, I've really not the first clue of the differences between Hong Kong and the place where I …

December 2, 2006

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Linktastic III

Well, here it is, LINKtastic III. My semi-frequent solution to not having time to post. Sinocidal.com: I've been looking to post about this site since they announced its creation a couple weeks back, but wanted to see it for myself first. Sadly, due to what seems to be angering the Olympic Powers with a now-taken-down …

December 1, 2006

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The Rise of Nations

I just caught this story on ESWN and found it extremely interesting to get a more in depth look at what Chinese people think. The article is basically a collection of translated comments from people who happened to have watched CCTV's recent 12-part series called The Rise of Nations. The show details, using CCTV-style history, …

November 29, 2006

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Blogger Unblocked, Again

So, don't I just finish posting a new LLW entry regarding getting around the Great Firewall of China, when it opens up and lets Blogger/Blogspot blogs through. I swear there's just some Party member hanging out in a room somewhere deep underground in Beijing flicking a switch connected to various Web sites. Just sitting there …

November 28, 2006

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