There's a song in chinese that's something like "the wind blows over the sand, and it's plain to see I miss you ( Read more... )

HOLY SHIT.

So about a month ago, I couldn't sleep one night and flipped through a few infomercials, watched one, went to do some research on it, and was blown away by my findings.  I wrote an e-mail to myself to document everything I'd discovered; it's postmarked 7/24.

A month later, it's a NY Times article: Http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/ ( Read more... )

I got a great recipe for frying a whole fish in a wok today. It's not exactly frying, but I don't know the right word ( Read more... )

I'm going a little crazy cause I've finished reading all the books I brought here with me ( Read more... )

Today I went to the Lotus Supercenter, which is pretty much like a Meijer ( Read more... )

I am sick ( Read more... )

I'M IN SHANGHAI ( Read more... )

Tonight I had dinner with very wealthy men. This is no stretch of my imagination - these are fellows that my uncle knows through business who were drinking each other under the table with toasts of "may your business continue to prosper." And everytime you toast, the polite thing to do is to drain your cup. IT's also polite to toast everyone at ( Read more... )

The winds have been kicking up something fierce since yesterday. All the windows in the house are open just a little bit and we don't need to turn on the AC or fans; I suspect the windows are also being kept slightly ajar so they aren't tempted to implode from the force. Last night the wind blew 2 CD cases off the desk from a window opening of ( Read more... )

Um, I'll change my picture as soon as I can. That's not an ear/shoulder I really want to be looking at anymore ( Read more... )