My second favorite act of the weekend was by a band called 零壹 (Ling Yi).  Their website isn't so good but the group is very talented.  There are two vocalists, the drummer and the lead, the lead vocalist has an incredible range he can sing low, high, slow, or fast and on top of that he can growl and scream.  零壹 (Ling Yi) isn't the type of music ( Read more... )

There over 100 acts during the 4 day festival. I did not even get close to seeing half of the acts. Even if I was not able to see everything I still enjoyed every second of the festival. I am not a music connoisseur by any stretch of the imagination but many of the acts were absolutely amazing they were technically skilled, innovative, and full ( Read more... )

This past weekend has been my best weekend in China.  Kevin, Andrew, and I went up to Beijing for the MIDI festival www.midifestival.com/english/index.htm .  It started off on Friday night by taking an overnight train to Beijing.  We got standing tickets for the 12 hour trip from Wuxi to Beijing.  The train was crowded at one point there were 20 ( Read more... )

I have my interview with the University Of Minnesota coming up in a couple of hours so I thought I could do a quick update of what I've been doing in my free time here.

Lately I have been taking pictures with phone.  It is a lot easier to wander around with out a big clunky SLR camera because no one stops to stare, it is easier to climb fences, and ( Read more... )

Some of my friends that were on the bike trip with me took some pictures.  These pictures are a bit unusual because I have found my self in the picture.
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I had my birthday party on March 19th.  I invited 35 people to my party with the intention of half of the people saying attending.  I was a little surprised when nearly everyone said yes.  30 people decided to have dinner with me at my favorite Korean restaurant in Wuxi.  I reserved a room for only 20 people.  Thankfully, the restaurant had no ( Read more... )

My friend Steve gave me one of his old aquariums.  I've been helping him out by giving him general advise on caring for fish and by goading him into buying larger and larger aquariums. 
This is the second aquarium he has given me.  The first aquarium I had a Betta and some shrimp.  Unfortunately the Betta died.  I only had one power strip available ( Read more... )

This semester I don't have classes on Fridays so this last Friday I decided to take a drive just down the road to Turtle Head park. I had some old bread so I went to the park to feed the fish. It might not be healthy diet for the fish but once they started to wake up from their cold induced nap they seemed to enjoy it ( Read more... )

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Fishermen on Tai Lake (太湖) catch absolutely everything and they find a use for absolutely everything.  There is a month long fishing season but it was not for a specific species but just an open season on anything that was in the water.  This fact does not come as surprising because as long as I have been here I have noticed most people do not live ( Read more... )