Archive for March, 2007

Below is my latest Shanghaiist post, with some follow-up thoughts after:
According to the Shanghai Youth Daily (via CRI), 10 women have been scammed selected to make a trip out to Silicon Valley to meet the potential loves of their lives.
Apparently, an online dating website is organizing a tour in partnership with an agency in [...]

When my co-worker Kasper was out here last year for a brief assignment, he told me that he tried as hard as he could not be an “ugly, American expat.” He would use the term intermittently throughout his stay, and it sorta stuck with me. Ugly. American. Expat. I couldn’t change the last two, but [...]

Everyone loves panda bears.
I’ve been known as “Panda Bear” or “Panda” ever since high school. Apparently, all the females on the school paper staff (of which I was not a member, by the way) one day exclaimed that with my slanty eyes and circular face, I looked very much like a panda. Since it was [...]

Yes, so I’ve changed the theme of this site again. Moving from Blogger to Wordpress has really fucked up my already puny productivity. Now that I have all this open-source power in my hand, I can do what I do best with my blog: freeload off of other people’s labor. And, with thousands and thousands [...]

Well, not really. For the past few weeks, on my way to work at the Jing’An subway stop and on my way back at the Zhongshan Park stop, I’ve stared intently at this billboard, trying to figure out if Kevin Smith, writer and director of movies both crappy and good, was the Bob Harris of [...]

The guy in the cubicle an aisle away from me has burped out loud about 10 times in the past 30 minutes. I have totally cracked up to myself the last eight times, and I’m so anxious to hear his next one that I’m here blogging about it.
The poor guy who sits adjacent to me doesn’t [...]

In early ‘05 I made my first trip back to the States after moving out here. Wanting to make the most of my time there, I booked a flight on Jetblue out to New York so that I could eat bagels with Jean and get stoned with Betty in her Brooklyn apartment.
Since it was a [...]