I spend an hour or two in a local coffee shop from time to time. The name of the place is “SPR Coffee.” I was a bit curious as to where the name came from, but I didn’t have to look far to find the answer. A sign told me “SPR comes from SPRING.” Yes, that’s right. They took the first three letters of the word Spring for their name. Bizarre.
Once again, Asians show us that they may be …
Wow.
I thought I’d heard some pretty cheesey Chinese pop, but I think this song by “Y.I.Y.O.” tops them all. It’s called 《嫁给我好吗？》 (“Marry me, OK?”). As if the singers themselves looking as cheesey and lame as possible wasn’t enough, they took their nauseatingly saccharine lyrics and merged them with 50′s-style doo-wop! The result is mind-blowingly horrible. At the risk of my own sanity, I did some checking up and discovered that the group only seems to …
A Chinese story:
At 8:40am I called her on her cell phone. “Are you headed off to work?” I asked.
“Sure am!” she laughed back.
Choking back a sob, I said to her, “Wen… I’m sorry.”
After a moment of stunned silence, she replied, “why are you apologizing to me?”
“It’s nothing,” I explained.
“Xiao Nuo, you…” she started, but I quickly hung up.
At ten minutes past noon I dialed her office number.
“Why isn’t your cell phone on?”
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Micah recently did a summary of the Chinese Blogger Conference. Then he updated it with a link to Rebecca MacKinnon’s thoughts on the matter. Wow. I thoroughly enjoyed her post, and was glad to be able to read a condensed list of key ideas. I recommend you read her whole article (blocked in China), but here are some key quotes to represent what I considered the most interesting ideas:
One of the
Just in case your inner geek is the least bit curious about what went down at the Chinese Blogger Conference in Shanghai over the weekend, Micah offers a fairly extensive account.
So yes, I was curious how it went. Did I read Micah’s whole account? Yes. Do I wish I had gone? No. (I had to beat Shadow of the Colossus over the weekend! Man, that is a truly awesome, ground-breaking game.)
I think we can expect another …
Last Friday night my friend DJ Carl was spinning so I went to check his set out at La Fabrique with my girlfriend. While there a kind soul gave us tickets to see Scott Bond at DKD so we did that too. I learned a few things:
A girl can look pretty hot with her hair up and chopsticks in her hair.
The chopsticks in her hair are not actually to be called “chopsticks.” That would be silly. They are
My friend Wayne likes to come up with interesting questions and then pose them to his friends. His latest question was, “How do you make someone trust you?”
He posed this question to a male Chinese friend. That friend’s answer was:
There are two ways:
- You can tell that person all your secrets.
- You can give that person all your money.
Hmmm…
One of Wayne’s past questions can be found in the entry Versions of Truth.…
John has lived in China for
11.8
years. He is a linguist focused on SLA and tech.
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