a shameful waste of madhouse time

Blogger and author Chen Xingzhi on Bokee talks about his experiences at the Chinese Communist Party School, where they study Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Deng, and Jiang Zemin. He is, of course, a Party Member and no doubt in some kind of leadership position. He spent four months as in the Party School, attending [...]

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Some (questionably) funny snippets of life in Shanghai:
1. A boy riding a bike circles around a family of three black people walking down the street.
He says “three black people! Three black people! Oh what fun! Darlie Toothpaste!”
(三个黑人，三个黑人，真好玩！黑人牙膏）
2. Taxi driver, talking to me about things getting closed down in SH because of the Olympics.
“They are closing [...]

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I saw a guy in the subway that had a shirt that said “I speak English. Do you?” I looked at him for a moment, and dismissed it as just another
Chinglish shirt. He then walked over to me and was about to hand me a flyer for Wall Street English. I waved him away. One [...]

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So I find myself at Starbucks, and you know how Chinese people aren’t that great at making lines. I was the only one in front of these three men that had come in after me, and although I had already placed my order but not yet paid they thought it was OK to yell out [...]

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At least that’s what it said on some guy’s T-shirt. I passed by a guy wearing a white T-shirt on which was written, in black letters, “Game On! China is the coolest country in the world…” I think there might have been another phrase in there as well, but i don’t remember now.

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From Lifehacker and then metagrrl.com i found some links about “Discardia”, a new holiday that occurs between the solstice and equinoxes � which makes it right about today or so, three months after the shortest day of the year in December, and three months from the longest day of the year in June.
This is [...]

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Ever since stumbling across his grave at the Montparnasse cemetery, I have been not quite obsessed � persistently inquisitive � about the life and times of the Romanian-French poet Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of the Dadaist movement. I was just looking over his single entry in Wikipedia, and found this quote plastered on [...]

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I dont know why but Portland has been figuring on my mind lately. Probably because I am thinking if there is something better than becoming a lifer in Shanghai or some kind of nomad. As much as I would just love to be able to roam , i think it would get old–maybe it already [...]

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An article from the Berkman Center for the Internet & society regarding teenage girls as “cyberpioneers of the internet”–it refers to a Pew report and a NY Times article on the subject. The whole subject of digital natives is quite interesting, to me. I am not quite one, being 30–the same age as Apple computers. [...]

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that’s a good description of me and others in this situation.
i hate all those motivational speakers that tell you how you can escape the 9-5 life and live on a beach somewhere and still rake in thousands of dollars a month.
but it’s true, i’ve become one of those people that hates my job (sometimes, or [...]

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