Archive for October, 2006
Shield Your Eyes, Cup Your Ears
Happy Halloween, ghouls and ghoulettes.
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…
Buyer’s Remorse: Now in Pink!
Why oh why.
Perfect Beer Head — On Your Head
You hear that? That’s the sound of 700 million men rushing home to rinse, lather, repeat.
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.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]