Monthly Archives: May 2006
Post 9/11 Blues
Watch this video – it’s hip. Yes it’s perfectly acceptable for me to use the term hip. Yes, I know it’s 2006. Yes, “hip” is not “hip”. But let me tell you, as hip goes, hip is a pretty hip word. So there. And it works backwards too…. if you don’t like it… pih, what …
South Of The Border, West Of The Sun
I finished reading South of the Border, West of the Sun this morning. What a fantastic book. It was loaned to me with high expectations, as Rick touted it as an amazing book from one of his favourite authors. I had heard of Murakami’s Norwegian Wood before, but had not had opportunity to read anything …
Bye Bye Blogger
In my ongoing quest to find additional reasons to sit at my computer, as well as my rather successful attempts at procrastinating what I REALLY should be doing on here – I’ve decided to switch how I publish my blog – and in the process do a complete redesign. The redesign is actually a product …
Chairman Mee-ow!
I guess a bunch of Chinese foreign students are upset over the parody their New Zealand uni newpaper did on Chairman Mao (cover left) and communist China. As such, there’ve been numerous protests from the Chinese students exclaiming they’ve been insulted to their core by such blatant defialment of their once great leader. In near …
Shifting Commitments
It seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t stay on task with any one thing for long. It’s troubling, and completely the product of these wonderful things: No Attention Span Too many hobbies Horrible procrastination I’ll get deeply into something for a few days (or weeks) and then it shifts to a new …
vLog.03: Field Trip!
So here it is, a bit of a wait for it, but vBlog numero three! For this entry I decided to turn my camera on those that know the most about life – kids, roughly five hundred of them to be non-exact. My primary school recently invited me to accompany them on a field trip …
Us Against Them
This is certainly not a new topic for China bloggers, but I just finished reading an article on ESWN entitled “How I Was A Chinese Traitor” and it brought back memories of my own similar experience in Beijing. For those in too much of a hurry to click and check out the article – essentially …
AdNon-Sense
I’ve been in a bit of an e-mail exchange with Google AdSense lately. They wrote to inform me that one of my pages is in violation of their policies. I’ll be the first to admit, I may have skimmed that policy/terms of agreement bit a tad quickly before clicking the little “I Agree To The …
Windows Dead Mail
That’s it, I give up. I’ve stuck with Hotmail since like ’97 or something… tao_monkey acidhartha thehumanaught… Me and Hotmail, we’ve had some good times, we have. But I’m tired of having to battle with the commies to access my e-mail. I mean, I’m not exactly a political dissident, an active activist, or anything… Besides, …
This Day In History: The Cultural Revolution Begins
Right, so it was forty years ago today that Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The gist: Mao Ze Dong, feeling the power he had gained over the first two decades of CCP control in China beginning to slip into the hands of others, began a purge of “bourgeois” from government and the rest …
