Archive for June, 2006

The Cloud
I know of a world that never retreats
it returns with grace, it returns with fury
it clings to the bottom of my familiar steps
it erodes and evolves and endures, but it does not escape
it never leaves
I sit in the back, the China sun masked in a haze of yellow rememberance
and I remember how it aches, [...]

My brother and I were only in the same school once. That was back in ‘90, when I was a sixth-grader at Chaparral Elementary School in Claremont, and he was in first grade. Being six years apart made it difficult to do things together, and even as we both adapted to our new environments (I [...]

In an effort to be more dedicated to this blog, I’ve decided to try to allocate some time every work day to pontificate a little bit on the state of the world and my quite exciting life (not sure if the sarcasm is coming through over cyberspace). This means that the time that I usually [...]

Alex was back in town and I had been MIA for all of two weekends, so I heeded the call of the wild and made my way out to Guandii. There was, after all, much to celebrate in life.

So once again I’ve been MIA for a week, and there’s no way in hell you guys can correctly guess why. No travel, no laziness, and only one hangover…I have actually been doing work! In fact, I’m taking a break from my spreadsheet to write something in this space. How dare the people who are [...]

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While the partying was supposed to be curtailing, we couldn’t pass up this opportunity to dress to the nines and pretend like we were rich, champagne-enjoying folk. Once again, leveraging our massive guanxi of guanxi, [...]

“I once was lost, but now am broke.”
After finally completing the May holiday chronology, I was prepared to start posting more frequently some of the incessant ramblings of the mind that plague me throughout the day; sort of moving away from the theme of being an expatriate in China to something more broad and encompassing. [...]

I believe the ancient Chinese saying goes something like this: “See the Big Buddha once in your life, find peace; see it twice in less than a year and wait in line for hours while doing it, you’re an idiot.” Thus, I was happy for my idiot self to be whisked away by the tour [...]