Today is Day (1-2-3-4, yes) 4 of my physical and spiritual trip through the Buddhist heartland of Tibet. I am now seated next to smoking Tibetans playing various computer games at this fantastic Internet cafe in Lhasa, capital of Tibet. It has been a good few days. Where to begin? Well, how about at the beginning ( Read more... )

Who says China is a patriarchal society? Well, it truly is, but the existence of "ducks," or male gigolos, is evidence that there's a small faction of women clamoring for their portion of the companionship by. Having heard about a "duck bar" in Shanghai, where female patrons went and paid for an evening's worth of company from some finely sculpted ( Read more... )

When Judy was in town we used to anticipate the release of the new issue of "that's Shanghai" because we could flip to the Personals section and read some of the ads that the local Chinese would write. Here are some current samples that I thought were fun to read, courtesy of the "that's Shanghai" website:

La Dolce VitaThis is a Chinese lady of ( Read more... )

My dad bought some golf clubs last weekend that he was going to use as gifts during one of his business trips. Before he left for Southeast Asia, he told me that one of the drivers had some scratches on the shaft, and wanted me to return to Xiang Yang Market to exchange the club ( Read more... )

"So passes Eric's liver, son of Eric's digestive system." - Gandalf the White ( Read more... )

i;m beyond drunk right now. i always wanted to see how i would typed slurred
the way that i talk
i guess this is it
wow
my speclling is not so bad
oops
i guess i overestimated myself
kids...dont' drink so much on weekinght
you'll get bad grades
cheers
eric

The most recent "that's Shanghai" cover story is about the differences between Shanghai and Hong Kong, both being large and important commercial port cities in China. To me, however, there really is no comparison: Shanghai still has a long way to go if it wants to even sniff Hong Kong's reputation as an international cosmopolitan hub. In fact, I ( Read more... )

There are a lot of people in Shanghai ( Read more... )

Since writing trivial bullshit on my website doesn't really count as publishing, I though I'd leave a link to the first time I have ever had anything officially published as media. It's an article that I wrote for "that's Shanghai" and I got paid quite handsomely for it, at about $60 US for my troubles! Free-lancing rocks ( Read more... )

Courtesy of Wil ( Read more... )