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55,740 Heartbreaking Number

Fri, 23 May 2008 | By williamwong | Views [839]

China has officially reported the death of the quake 55,740 today. What a heartbreaking number! 55,740 people, if they form a town, it will be a thriving town; if they lie on the road, it can be 10km long; they are from at least 20,000 families; their ... Read more >

Gallery: Ghost City, Xinjiang

Fri, 23 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Photo Gallery


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Coach bags and silk wallets

Fri, 23 May 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [1424]

I had plans to meet Mario and Ilan at a clothing market after class, but I fell asleep and they had already left.  I went anyway because for the past six months or so I've been trying to get there to buy my aunt a fake Coach bag and my mom ten of these ... Read more >

God of sex

Thu, 22 May 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [880]

I gave my students a group project.  They got into their groups, and I just kind of wandered around checking their work and answering their questions.  I let them choose their groups.  Chinese have a weird phobia of the opposite sex, so almost all ... Read more >

Mourning for the victims & Encouraging the survivors

Thu, 22 May 2008 | By williamwong | Views [878]

For the first time in Chinese history, the government has announced 3 days mourning to the victims of such natural disaster. From the Chinese President to the ordinary people, from north to south, from China to Chinese overseas bureaus, from all concerned ... Read more >

Gallery: Cambodia

Thu, 22 May 2008 | By gabyber | Photo Gallery


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A rose is a rose is a rose

Wed, 21 May 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [493]

Gertrude Stein wrote it, and I doubt she was talking about Beijing, but it applies. Because the city is absolutely covered Rose Parade style with the thorny, sweet-smelling flora. The flowers are planted everywhere and of all colors. Along the ... Read more >

Utah --> Xinjiang

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [773]

Xinjiang?  Take Utah, make it as big as Alaska, wrinkle it up some, pull its bottom down below sea level, make its mountains a mile taller.  Then, for good measure, put in it a desert as big as--Utah itself.

First Words

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [612]

Do you remember your first human touch?  Your first steps?  Your first words? Alas, these memories are irretrievable to us all. But the sensation can still be attained later in life.  The first time you say something to a stranger in a foreign language ... Read more >

Verticality in Xinjiang

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [618]

There is no English map of Xinjiang.  Not even Pinyin.  Only Chinese.  But I can read the elevation numbers: four thousand, five thousand, six thousand, seven thousand.  Not bad, thinks a mind accustomed to elevation in feet.  But that mountain is not seven ... Read more >

Immensity

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [572]

The immensity of China's West is as the Immensity of Space: it can be witnessed, but not comprehended.

Mount Whitney

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [545]

If you pushed Mount Whitney out of an airplane over the mountains here, you might not be able to find Her again.

Friendly Intercourse

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [670]

"The top-grade present for friendly intercourse." --Printed on a box containing stone ornaments.

Kernfucious Say:

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [521]

Kernfucious Say: If you know what it is you seek, you needn't leave home.

Bicycle Parking Fee

Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [592]

Is it wrong of me to pretend I don't know there is a fee for bicycle parking, shrugging my shoulders until they give up asking?  I think it is wrong to charge a bicycle parking fee. There are very few Absolutes in Life, but that Bicycling is the Godliest ... Read more >

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