Archive for December, 2006

In my building, there are two kinds of people that everyone has come to hate. The first are the folks who take the elevator either one floor up or one floor done; but especially those that take it one floor down. I work on the 7th floor, and give evil looks to anyone who makes [...]

Nothing to offset winning a can of soup at Yankee Swap with an open bar and hip hop at Bon Bon. Even when it’s cold, it can still be oh so hot!

The beautiful white DVD player I had paid 300 RMB extra to buy because it was beautiful and white has a USB outlet on the side. Initially, I tried to plug in my external hard-disk to see if the player could play all the mp3s and video files that I had downloaded throughout the past [...]

We celebrated my brother’s arrival P.D. (Pre Diarrhea) by, what else, making him do stuff for us. Thus, early last week he found himself in the kitchen, working on making burritos and salsa and tacos for the panda household.
For those of you who have never met my brother, he’s a stand-up fellow with a very [...]

My venerable little brother Andrew is in town for an undetermined amount of time, and accordingly I took some time off to make sure that he had someone with whom to spend his wintry Shanghai December. Good intentions can lead to gruesome results, however, as I took him to a New York style deli a [...]