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
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.
25 Things About China
You can find a lot to dislike about pretty much anything and China is no exception. Here are some things about China (Shenzhen in particular):
I have not had any amazing cultural-spiritual awakening or enlightenment and probably won’t. I haven’t stood on any mountain tops and looked across the countryside or shared an intimate meal [...]
Calling The US From China
I found this cool service called Rebtel that is based in Sweden and allows you to call the US for a few cents a minute without dialing some goddamned calling card number.
Prior to this, for 100 Yuan ($14.50) I could call the US on my cell for maybe 15 minutes. Seeing that 100 Yuan would [...]
