I remember after my uncle came back from Vietnam he was never quite the same.
“That place changes you, man” he said to me, “Big time”.
When he came back to the US, where things were supposed to be better, sometimes they weren’t.
Sometimes they were just different. He had nightmares. He took to drinking heavily.
That he went [...]
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How China Will Change You
Dinner In China
Yep. It’s all-you-can-eat dog night again.
The Gwailo
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. William Faulkner
I’ve been reading William Faulkner. In fact I read anything I can get my hands on here. Part of me wishes that I was out here writing a novel or script instead of internet businessing but that’s stupid because [...]
Using An Elevator In China
You’re in China. You want to go to go upstairs or downstairs quickly without actually using stairs. What do you do?
If you said ‘take the elevator’ give yourself a pat on the back. You’re gonna go far.
Using an elevator in China is different than using one in other places.
Let’s begin.
I Accidentally Ate Dog
I went to dinner with my friend Felix and he had thought that I knew that Hot Pot at this certain place meant dog. I didn’t know. During a later indignant speech about how eating dogs is wrong Felix told me that I had in fact eaten dog already. Later Felix pointed it out on [...]
American Movies
I watch a lot of American movies here in China. I’m not a movie-watching kind of person back home.
But now:
I like them. They understand me. I understand them.
(Also, DVDs are 60 cents with slim packaging and $1 with professional packaging)
Breakfast Roulette #2: Won Ton Soup
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Breakfast Roulette#2: every morning I will eat breakfast at one of two restaurants that have breakfast menus, but in chinese. I point to one of the 10 items every day and must eat it. Yesterday was thin bread with steak and hollandaise. Win! Today I lost pretty bad. 18 more to [...]