Archive for October, 2006

Shield Your Eyes, Cup Your Ears

Happy Halloween, ghouls and ghoulettes.

Posted by Kurt on October 31st, 2006

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Mind-Blowing Lays

So many flavors, so little hair! Fried Chicken! Ziran Steak! Char grilled Pork! French Chicken! *munch munch munch* Italian Red Meat, Peking Duck, Roast Pork, *munch munch munch* Seafood, Cool Cucumber, Cool Lemon *munch munch munch* Mabo Tofu…

Posted by Kurt on October 30th, 2006

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Buyer’s Remorse: Now in Pink!

Why oh why.

Posted by Kurt on October 29th, 2006

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Perfect Beer Head — On Your Head

You hear that? That’s the sound of 700 million men rushing home to rinse, lather, repeat.

Posted by Kurt on October 28th, 2006

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Standing Orders

Let’s just say it was hard explaining to security why I had a chair strapped to my bicycle on the way out.

Posted by Kurt on October 25th, 2006

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The Guffaw Explodes the Menu

We all knew this was coming:

Some choice dishes from the menu:

Sea Rice Rape
The Temple Explodes the Corn Meat
Old Adopted Mother Beef
It is Red to Draw the Mire Bowel
Piece of Hot Son Chicken
Return a Meat
Living to Explode the Salt to Frying the Meat
Very Smooth and Slippery Fillet

The BLCU cafeteria serves up some hearty dishes at reasonable [...]

Posted by Kurt on October 20th, 2006

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Random Beijing Facts, Some Actually True

1. Beer is sold in sizes starting from “Barrel” to “Freight Container”. The average serving size is 600ml, “ml” for “million litres“. Sure, they have cans of Heineken here, but those are for preschoolers.
2. The say if you haven’t had a hotdog by the street in New York, you haven’t really been to New York. [...]

Posted by Kurt on October 18th, 2006

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The Heat is On, and I’m Freezing

The first week of class was easy, the second was fine, and we were actually beginning to think, “Hey, piece of cake!” Then, of course, week three skipped along whistling and punched us in the face. Suddenly, things got REALLY. HARD. It’s as if the faculty suddenly discovered Viagra.
In the first week we were doing [...]

Posted by Kurt on October 13th, 2006

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