The year was 1983. I was five years old and had just come to the States, not really knowing what to expect in this land of unfamiliarity. I had left everything I had ever known and loved behind, coaxed to come to a place across the ocean to join my parents in what they thought was "the pursuit of a better future". Except I did not know what that ( Read more... )

I cannot believe LJ is turning 10 this year. Then again, maybe I do. Has it really been that long since I started blogging on the internet? First on Asian Avenue, then on Livejournal ( Read more... )

My first taste of China came without any expectations. After a 17 hour limb-numbing flight followed by extreme jetlag that left me starving at 4 in the morning, I was ready to eat anything that was not airplane food and was open at this hour. The solution? Jin Ding Xuan.


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Just got back from Beijing. Busy for the next two weeks, but will share my adventures when I return to LJ at the end of the month. Wait for me!

Hope everyone had a good spring so far.

Headed to Beijing tonight to experience some pre-Olympic madness and sight-seeing. No, actually the real reason I am going is to take care of some personal matters, but I will try and squeeze in some tourist outings here and there ( Read more... )

K sent me this forward today, which I found very amusing because it is more or less true. Anyone living with me has got to have a spare bathroom, because when I hit the showers I do not come out for another half hour at the very least. Hehe.

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Pills, drugs - so small, so harmless looking, yet so lethal. That makes two talented young actors in the recent past to lose their lives to them. Brad Renfro and Heath Ledger. I watched nearly all their movies and felt equally sad, but I know that is not the case for most. Honestly, the only ones who really suffer are the victims and their loved ( Read more... )

Some days you just cannot do anything right. That is when even the easiest of tasks can suddenly pose a challenge. And the more you try to fix the problem, the worse it becomes. Argh.


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While Labor Day weekend was indeed labor free, recounting it for my journal has been laborious. If it was not for the little historian in me that keeps nagging me to finish my half-told stories, I might never bother. The fact is I enjoy posting, but there is never enough time to sit down, write, edit, and upload for everything I want to say. I ( Read more... )

I always seem to be running ( Read more... )