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Hail to the king: or why men are incapable of being faithful.

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

OK, so you might be wondering why I am reading an essay from the women’s section at 163.com, because that is SO NOT MY GENRE. But i was drawn to the title: “how should i deal with my husband’s many lovers”. At first I thought this meant a hubbie that was into menage a trois [...]

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Chinese MBA marriage meetups

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

MBA相亲会数百人参加 女性怨男性“素质低”(图)_网易新闻中心 via kwout

Hmmm it seems that kwout is having problems with Chinese character encodings…oh well. The link is to an article about a marriage, dating meetup that paired some highly-educated lasses with some not so tall men. Some men complained that they were afraid of women who were too well-educated, saying that they were [...]

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Guo Jingjing: yet another Chinese diver to marry a rich Hong Konger

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments

奥运结束众星结婚 迎娶郭晶晶霍启刚备1亿彩礼 via kwout

百度图片搜索_http://img.sport366.com/upload/2008/08/11/132200000.jpg的搜索结果 via kwout

Seeing that my Guo Jingjing post from a couple of months ago seems to be getting the most hits out of anything that I’ve written, I’ve decided to completely sell-out and write more about her. Yeah you heard me right. My ego needs the traffic. If I can figure out [...]

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A picture of Wong Kar-wai at Tony Leung/Carina Lau wedding–WITHOUT SHADES

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

This is the first time that I have ever seen Wong Kar-wai without his trademark sunglasses. I never realized his face was so big;
evidently the shades he wears occupy a good part of his face. He was in Bhutan for the wedding of Tony Leung and Carina Lau
and lots of other Hong Kong celebs, such [...]

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The Chinese polygamist: five wives and seven children. One-child policy my ass.

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Summary: born in 1969, Tu Shaoquan doens’t have a lot of money and isn;’t good looking, but in the span of year managed to get three women to bear him three children. After investigation, it was discovered that Tu had a total of five “wives” and seven children.
Ms. He was one of his wives. [...]

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Tony Leung and Carina Lau: Tying the knot in Bhutan

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

This is a picture from there…I guess they are getting married in a couple of days? Not like i really care that much, but I really thought that he was gay, and that the reason they had not tied the knot for so long was that and/or because they had other lovers.
oh well.

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40 million Cantonese speakers that were never born; no single moms allowed

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Saw this on vip.bokee.com–it says that unmarried women in Guangdong are not allowed to receive artificial insemination because the right to be a mother is tied to wedlock. Another factoid worth noting: in the ten years that they’ve been doing reproductive planning Guangdong province has “saved itself” an estimated 40 million people. That’s pretty darn [...]

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