Chopsticks aren’t the only wooden slivers of Chinese culture slipping under my skin here, but they’re part of something I meant to mention in my previous post (I’m not as shallow and unappreciative as it might seem when I’m muttering about some tiny injustice). Sharing dishes at dinner is the only normal way now. Hepatitis […]
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There is no update. I didn’t burn. Excellent. One of my textbooks has changed from a three-hour reserve reading to a seven-day reserve reading. Checked out through Tuesday. This isn’t helping me prepare presentation materials for Monday. Dinner last night, at the infamous Mei King (where we eat when we say “Fu Tai”), was very […]
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Our excursion to Sai Kung ran into choppy water, so we went to Lamma Island instead. After attempting to put in at a beach where our small boat couldn’t safely dock, we settled for what is known as Power Station Beach. It was just as charming as it sounds. I had some fun, though, and […]
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Well, not new, but new in part to me. I managed to snag one of the Lingnan copies of HK Magazine (free English-language nightlife weekly) and after getting a chance to read all the way through one I’m floored: for WVians, it’s what Graffiti would be with competent editing and a world class city full […]
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The presentation was OK on Friday. That guy who likes to launch into mercilessly irrelevant blather about Chomsky in class was, on a day when I was discussing his idol, speechless. I was kind of looking forward to some debate from him… Friday was Mid-Autumn Festival, celebrating the Harvest Moon. Coincidentally, the moon was near […]
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My absentee ballot arrived in the mail today, a day after I asked the Consulate to send me a write-in form. Oops. It’ll go to good use for someone else, though. The ballot is rather thin this election in my precinct: no school board shenanigans, just one senator, and the usual two-year offices. I undervoted […]
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Having relatively important classes on Monday, Friday, Tuesday, and every other Thursday is not doing wonders for my travel plans. I may try to restrict myself to local travel, even on these three-day weekends. The low United fare to Ho Chi Minh is tempting, but the return flight is once a day in the morning—too […]
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OK, the fireworks were pretty cool.
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It’s the PRC’s National Day today. I’m not that excited. There might be some cool fireworks over the Harbour tonight—hopefully I’ll get out to them—but as communist as I’m sometimes accused of being I have a hard time celebrating anything to do with the Beijing government. 64.
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I guess a full-length bloviation on Macau won’t be coming any time soon. Brief notes, instead, follow: I suffered four passport stamps for the journey, including a re-stamping of the half-page Hong Kong student residency stamp. I hope that doesn’t happen every time I come back in but I think it does. Ouch. It was […]
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