Because I got a couple days off for the Chinese Tomb Sweeping Festival, I decided to take a 10 day trip to Vietnam. It was a great trip, and I’ll try to break it down into smaller parts to make it easier to read. I left Shanghai at 10pm at night, and after a 4… [Read more…]
March 17, 2011
China is building up to a slow panic over this nuclear fallout business resulting from the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami. First of all, I am fine. Shanghai is pretty far from Japan, and from what I’m hearing the nuclear cloud is headed straight for Cali, so yeah, no worries from me. The Chinese, on… [Read more…]
February 15, 2011
The Chads have been dying, not sure why, the first was when Dixi was fishsitting them while I was on Malaysian vacasian, and since then 3 have bitten the bullet, or maybe I should say are now no longer swimming with the fishes. It started when I broke their big fish bowl while cleaning it.… [Read more…]
February 9, 2011
Wow, Chinese New Year. This is my third time to experience China’s biggest holiday, and I’m still amazed by it. This year was no exception, as we said goodbye to the Year of the Tiger, and welcomed in the Year of the Rabbit. Chinese New Year is huge, and the whole time period encompasses about… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
On January 1st, 2011, we arrived back in Kuala Lumpur, this time knowing more, decided to take a taxi as opposed to the airport bus. This time we were staying at a different hostel, this time not in Chinatown, but right next to Burkit Bintang (Burkit Heights). It was a little bit tricky for our… [Read more…]
January 29, 2011
Second part of the trip: The next day, we decided to take our motorcycles all around the island to explore. We first had a mediocre breakfast at the hotel, then I took the map, and took the lead on our trip to the highest point on the island, Gunung Raya, or Mt. Raya. It was… [Read more…]
January 9, 2011
When I found out that my parents were coming for 2 weeks during Christmas and New Year this year, I thought it would be fun to escape my cold home of Shanghai and we could all go on a little vacation to a warmer destination. After much convincing, my parents finally agreed to go, and… [Read more…]
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April 21, 2011
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