Busy, busy, busy here… Five hours of class per day, Chinese to English editing work and no time for blogging or blog browsing. Here’s a nice Chinese New Year photo collection from the Boston Globe. Peruse that for a while and come back in a few days! See ya soon, when I get a moment!
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I also love being cheeky! Hope you spend the day with someone you love!
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Okay, I know I am sometimes lukewarm on China, but nothing makes the heart grow fonder than absence, and I have been gone for a month. Plus, the return to China took so long that I had plenty of time to ponder and change my attitude towards being back, towards the locals and towards China [...]
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Sometimes editing Chinglish improves my English. For example, did you know that to gloze means to rationalize? Leechdom, however, I did not believe could possibly be in the dictionary. (As in Infection of alcohol and leechdom for “ingestion of alcohol and drugs.”) What the hell is leechdom? Turns out it means medicine. Crazy. Went shopping today for Chinese New [...]
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Good morning, all. The weekend has begun, but I hardly care since the DH and I are on day 4 of our !Surprise! New Year’s holiday. Four days of freedom. Four days off from work. Four days with nothing to do. I really shouldn’t complain, but it is quite annoying when your company tells you, out [...]
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2008 – The Year That Was Suffered from China-Related Rot Gut many times. In fact, I may or may not have a parasite. Good times! Avoided the doctor yet another year. (I don’t know if this is something to celebrate or not. Will make appointment soon…) Could not avoid the dentist. Had a root canal. [...]
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I was not joking about our kitchen being a meat locker last week. (Actually, I think I said “ice locker,” but of course we both know it is supposed to be meat locker.) It is better now that the temperatures are hovering right around 0 degrees and the central heating is on for part of [...]
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Christmas decorations at Linyi’s TaoRanJu Hotel Christmas in a small Chinese city is pretty quiet, as you can imagine. We worked as usual. Actually, the DH has been working everyday for a month now. At the moment he is doing a pretty good job of being a one-man flight school since the other flight instructors [...]
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Stephansplatz, Vienna December 2008 I love this photo because it reminds me of what a wonderful place Vienna can be in December. With the Christmas tree beside St. Stephan’s and all the people hurrying here and there, it feels me with holiday cheer. Honestly, though, what I love the most is the fact that I just barely [...]
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I recently received an email from a friend with a Christmas Meme included. One of the questions asked, “Do you like egg nog?” When I read the question, I was suddenly seized by an overwhelming craving for the stuff. A serious craving that I would in no way be able to satisfy in Linyi, China, [...]
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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. ;)
