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Family Portraits (and a Petition)
While I was having fun with my new iPhone, I came across the Hubba Hubba app that so accurately captured the finest features of my family. My mom, a.k.a. Goody Two-Shoes, thinks Daddy-O looks like...
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Babytalk: A Phenomenon!
Does every couple develop a dialect/accent/language/voice of their own? Particularly babytalk? Is it necessary for lovers to speak to one another in babytalk in order for the other to understand? Do...
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Spring: The Season of Love
Spring has arrived, in doses. It has brought a breath of fresh air and mighty winds that pave way for blue sky. Perhaps it can even bring me somebody to love. I was once told that Spring is the Season...
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to be a kid again
If Peter Pan showed up at my window and asked me to join him in Neverland, I would fly away in a heartbeat. I’m only 23, but I can feel that as time ticks away, so do bits and pieces of things I...
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Emily, The Awkward Turtle 2: Never Set Emily Up With A Boy
An interesting thing happened the other night. Someone tried to set me up with a Taiwanese man. A girly one. I went out to dinner with Dingding, her boyfriend and a couple of new folks, Frank and May...
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Brooklyn, The Place Where People Say Hello
I have been in New York City for 2 weeks now, visiting friends and places I’ve missed in the past 9 months of living in Beijing. As happy as I am to be surrounded by friends again, I can’t help but...
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Southern Hospitality Widespread in Guizhou Province
The people of Guizhou province are the friendliest, most hospitable and generous individuals I have ever met in China. This observation is even clearer now that I’m back in Beijing, where everyone...
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Disturbing Signs of Anti-Japaneseism
Yesterday a cab driver asked me if I thought China and Japan would go to war. Then today I saw this sign outside a real-estate agency in Wudaokou, the local hub of international students: I was taken...
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The China Train
To sum up what I’ve learned in less than two semesters of grad school in China; Studying development in a (developing) country where censorship, hypocrisy and saving-face are embedded in daily life is...
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Sunshiney Day
It’s one of those days where everything is dandy and not necessarily coming up roses, but pretty yellow weeds. The sun is up, the sky is blue, the pollen content is off the charts, the wind is strong...
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