Rant Warning! I forgot to mention the appalling things I observed while in downtown Linyi last night. I don’t like to harp on the hygiene issue in China but I find it all so abhorrent that I am going to call them out on every indecent thing I see. It’s just not right. Case point [...]
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The Melamine contamination has spread to liquid milk. It has been found in the milk produced by the biggest dairies in China, the ones that produce the milk I buy. Crap!! I don’t like milk. I can’t drink it. Never have. But I like it in my coffee… and I’ve consumed a TON of yogurt [...]
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I’m pretty detached from world events at the moment – despite having BBC in the hotel room here in Qingdao. I just can’t deal with the US election right now – all that negativity, name calling and mudslinging, etc. It really gets to me. I don’t like any of the candidates anyway, and I will [...]
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So I am just sitting here by the pool at a friend’s country house in Mijas, Spain. There is a small mountain directly behind the house and last night it caught fire. While I was out in Puerto Banus being overwhelmed by the yachts and fancy cars, residents of a few housing developments had to [...]
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AP Photo Algae Woes Hit China’s Olympic Sailing Host City Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press 30 June 2008 To host the Olympic sailing events, the Chinese port city of Qingdao moved a massive boat yard, relocated industries and spent about $850 million on transport links, parks, pollution controls and coastal green belts. But with little more [...]
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I am so mesmerized by these photos and I wish I could see them in person. Enlightening, eh? We humans use a lot of stuff…
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Ever been on the roads of China at night? Just go down to your local Wal-Mart, walk around and look at all the products on display. Then just imagine all of the parts they are made up of loaded on heavy trucks, thundering across the highways of China. That is what it is like. Fairly [...]
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Yesterday the DH and I shamed a man in our neighborhood. I don’t know if he lost face or not, but I hope he did. We were on our way to the bus stop when we saw this man fling a large garbage bag into the ditch that runs in front of our apartment building. [...]
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New York Times is featuring a special series on the devastating impact of China’s “epic pollution crisis.” It is worth reading, although I feel like I’ve read all of this before. It is painfully obvious to anyone living in the PRC just how degraded the environment is, or how at risk many areas are for [...]
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First it was Out With the Old. Then it was In With the New. Now they’re making progress: At ground zero of Linyi’s newest construction explosion. Whether or not it will actually look like this when complete is debatable…
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window. And, yes, I do wear my santa hat year-round. ;)
