Happy Easter weekend, everyone! As part of my celebration, I cancelled classes on Good Friday and headed to Chengdu. No budget hotel for me this time – I booked a room at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Chengdu. By Chinese standards, this hotel is super luxury, like one rung below a Ritz-Carlton. The Ritz-Carlton is […]
This is my PlayStation 3. It is an American PS3. I brought it to China. Notice, it is plugged into the wall with only an adapter. The transformer I brought for the sole purpose of protecting my PS3 sits to the side. I did a lot of research on this – I looked at ask.com, […]
Currency rates for the rmb currently stand at 6.2 to 1. So 100 rmb is roughly 16usd What can you do in WenJiang for 100rmb, apart from eat? I present two options, if you had to choose: 1: You can go see a movie. I finally found out how to get into the movie theater! […]
OBE is an acronym – a military acronym which means “Overcome by Events.” It is used to describe a situation in which nothing has gone correctly, and there is no salvaging a plan. Today I was OBE. Interestingly enough, I also found the point at which I walk out of a situation. I’ve never walked […]
Of all the fish to put on a bag of fish flavored chips – why the one that looks like a shaved dog with an eye fried out of its socket? I wanted to buy them and try them for you, my good readers, but at the time I just couldn’t justify it. I mean […]
Gal's Got Moxie 