The inscrutable people at China Travel Service foiled yet another of my plans today by refusing to sell me bus tickets from Shenzhen to Yangshuo. I don’t know if they’re sold out already or if they just don’t like me. I’m going to run up to Shenzhen tomorrow to find out. I wouldn’t be surprised […]
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It’s official: I booked a ticket (with Becky) from 4 to 15 January, Macau to Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia (and Singapore) here we come.
It embarrasses me to admit it, but this 16 degree (~60 Fahr) weather late at night actually feels a bit chilly to me. I hate to think of how cold I’ll get in real cold weather. I went hiking yesterday behind the school with one of the tutors and a friend. It was refreshingly wooded. […]
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To those of you about to get buried by a foot of snow in the midwest: I just got back from a barbecue. On the beach. You’re welcome :-) In other weather news, the (rather late, amusingly named) Typhoon Durian just made an unamusing dash through the southern Philippines… they’re really getting hit this year. […]
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I got back from my Thai Thanksgiving Thrip more or less on time. There’s a lot to say but I’ll try to keep it interesting (brief). I didn’t keep paper notes so this is just from the top of my sun-addled head. Gulf Air was a shade better than mediocre, if only because of the […]
Reaching into my pockets to empty them, I’m reminded (by the crumpled, fortunately clean wrapper) of the decent-tasting red bean flavor soft-serve from a 7-11 a bit after lunch time (gulped down at the last second to board the minibus back). Normally I don’t like red bean much, but the 7-11 soft-serve version isn’t gritty […]
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Alarmed by the increase in HKG–BKK fares for the holidays, I decided to get my December trip into gear. Thanks to a sympathetic final exam schedule and still-cheap flights from Macau, I booked a round-trip to Bangkok from 12–28 Dec. After the ferry tickets it still comes out around 300 HK cheaper than the going […]
No Guangzhou this weekend. Couldn’t get hold of any single accommodations—hotels are targeting business, not lonesome backpackers (who tend to stay in more scenic places). Too bad. The visa is a sunk cost anyway. I had red curry this evening to make it all better. Also watched Munich. Not sure what I think about it. […]
My mentioning of Yangshuo and Guilin has only served to get together a group of other exchange students to go there at times when I can’t miss class. Oops. I’ve read that it can brown out a bit in the winter, so that scenery may need to wait for spring. This leaves me with two […]
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Today our Mandarin teacher took us out for an extremely generous lunch at the Spring Deer restaurant in TST, where we feasted on Peking Duck and everything else you could possibly imagine. It was a long lunch and I think we’re all grateful and a little sore. Afterward, we walked around Central. A lot. Taking […]
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