T-80 左右小时s
Apologies, round 2. We all just handed in our final research papers to Professor Zhang’s mailbox two evenings ago, and up until then, things were exceptionally hectic. Heck, I’m inclined to say today was hectic as well — we hit up the Dirt Market (潘家园, located near Jinsong Station at the very end of the […]
Sifting through the library catalog
Search terms: “Australia” AND “China” Search Return #41: K835.6156/G293 How Mao died : Chinese love-story …What?
Snow：2nd Edition
Sunny September Morning (outside my bedroom window) Snowy November Morning
The Internet at Beida
Why yes, how on earth did you guess? There are few things more temperamental than a fussy newborn, and one of those things is the Internet connection at Beida. You want to run a Google Image Search pandas? Why don’t I just reset your connection? Oh, and throw GMail off kilter for a good measure? […]
First snowfall!
Okay, so it involved silver iodide missiles (which I didn’t find out about until three-four days later), but it snowed in Beijing! We weren’t here for it because we were out in Shandong Province (where it also snowed ridiculously, albeit quickly) for the weekend but there was still some left for me to enthusiastically take […]
How I Saved the World (or My Computer)
It was a pretty mundane work day, until I realized that the Internet didn’t work and had to move to connect my laptop to a different LAN port. I got up, laptop in both hands, and there was this strange noise coming from the hardware, like something broke off from the motherboard and scuttling around […]
Insufficient Planning
It is freezing in Beijing and I did NOT bring enough warm clothes. Spending last fall semester in D.C. has inappropriately skewed my perception of fall weather (see: Pulling out the peacoat in late November) and my only source of comfort is the recently-acquired 149 kuai 毛毯 from Carrefour. I was pretty scandalized by the […]
Streetside Quirks
Almost every day, there’s something small I see or hear outside that makes me smile. The other day, it was a little boy squatting on the sidewalk, Chinese-style with ankles firmly planted on the ground, poking the sand with a skewer. Today, it was hearing Yann Tiersen’s music on the subway platform. Amelie aside, I […]
Tanzhe Temple (潭柘寺)
Trekking out to the Western Hills (西山) to check out Tanzhe Temple was…an adventure. I was thinking about it the night before, on whim, and decided to go only just the morning of — which just happened to be the mid-Autumn festival. It’s funny, because I know myself to be the risk averse, planning ahead […]
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
You’d be surprised by the quantity and variety of these desserts in China. My father’s side of the family is Chinese so I thought I was pretty well acquainted with them, the sorts that come in fours inside elaborately decorated tin cans shipped from Hong Kong and bought at Chinese supermarkets in Flushing. Two weeks […]
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