Mei Guan Xi（没关系）

A couple years back, I heard about parents gathering at People’s Square (a well-known park in the center of the city) perusing for suitors, mind you via resume, for their sons/daughters when it was year of the pig – a particularly lucky year to get married.
Little did I know that the practice still goes on […]

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Thanksgiving is not much of a holiday here in China, but I usually have virtual Thanksgiving via webcam. (thanks to skype). But this year was especially fun because not only did I have virtual Thanksgiving with the fam, but we also got to watch the Macy’s Parade together live! (thanks to earthcam).
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It’s called 光棍节 (guang1gun4jie2) since it’s November 11th, or 1111, it’s designated a day for singles.
What do people do? Not really sure, but it’s the 7th most popular search term on Google.cn as of right now (2pm China time). The top 6 are all related to this girl who apparently had […]

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The earthquake in Sichuan happened a little over a week ago, but I was actually oblivious to it until 10 minutes later some of my friends IM’ed me asking if I felt it. Nada…but for some of my friends in high-rises, they said the entire building shook laterally at least 3 feet for […]

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raise your hand if you’ve laid claim to anything similar to the following:
“All the girls in our class had the biggest crush on boy xyz because he always got the best grades”
or equally classic
“I duped my wife to go out with me because I told her that I was in this prestigious physics competition. Actually， […]

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Happy Chinese New Year from Beijing!
It’s amazing to think that it’s already my second Chinese New Year in China, though instead of spending it in Shanghai, this year I spent it in Beijing.
The last (and only) time I was in Beijing, I didn’t have much of a chance to get my bearings since it was […]

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I am a little late to the party since this ‘news’ is at least 2 months old, but doing a quick search on Google News for “china space moon” clearly shows that it didn’t quite make the splash that it did here in China.
In a nutshell, China sent a satellite traveling a quarter million miles […]

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…inadvertently
at first every time people pointed to something, like say on the menu, I’d do a double take and internally be thinking “why are you flicking me off?” but after a split second, I’d realize that they didn’t mean anything by it.

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I’ve noticed on many occasions that drivers don’t automatically move to let ambulances through. For example, a couple days ago I was approaching a really busy intersection and heard the ambulance siren blaring from afar. The ambulance was about 200 meters away (~600ish feet for you english metric people) to my left on a […]

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It’s funny, but since being in China, I’ve had sudden revelations about events that happened in the past. Not sure what I mean? Here is a good example:
A couple years ago, while still in the US, one of my Hong Kong-ese friends IM’ed me and said “I have a favor to ask, do you have […]

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