well look where we found to eat http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/IMG_0210.jpg
― jergins, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
aw don bo fun!
― lxy, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link
some people eat cicadas here. i haven't heard them yet this summer
― amon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
how bad was customs?
― amon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
china's was fine, it was canada that fucked me like usual. ever since i got strip-searched and rejected at the quebec border in 2000 i've been on their equivalent of a no-fly list or something. in vancouver i ended up in the secondary customs/immigration line. the place was some kind of sad 21st century ellis island. what a beleagured batch of humanity: the saudi trader under immediate suspicion, the mexicans who had never left mexico, happening to take a vacation in BC, arab families, overseas chinese with no english, their child speaking for them. i overheard some shit, security to security "Where you have him now?" "He's in the fishbowl" i mean wtf canada i hate u most when you seem like the usa. my wait in line was nearly two hours, just standing there, jetlagged, knowing i'd done nothing wrong. fuck you canada i won't go back you fucking dicks.
― jergins, Thursday, 10 July 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus. is that the closest airport
― amon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=7478
― amon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
cicadas are banhammered
haha no we have our very own airport here. it's just how the tickets worked out that j. flew sea > b.c. > shanghai, whereas i flew sea > tokyo > shanghai. my experience w/ immigration was not so awful as his, proving that sometimes canada is more american than than america is.
― lxy, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i talked to serenity today. until a few weeks ago her parents lived on a golf course in a gated community in far pudong out to the east.
i guess their new building is all chinese, except for them, and close-in.
she actually said "when i get to the airport i'm so happy to see a white person." um ok. all the white people in line were totally fucking annoying except for the one cute canadian. i liked the chinese more!
― jergins, Friday, 11 July 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
that's pretty uhh. not only the white people in line but every where else too, pretty much. the blacks in china seemed okay, though.
― lxy, Saturday, 12 July 2008 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
love my chinese african people they are going for it and it is commendable in such a fucked place
― jergins, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
less fucked than africa tho which is why it makes such sense (wrote 'suck sense' and realized how drukn i am)
― jergins, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:10 (fifteen years ago) link
21st century emigration patterns are like the most interesting thing people IT IS TELLING US HOW IT IS NOW
i fear me throwing PEOPLE into every third post will become the equivalet of chaki's 'GOD'
― jergins, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
'people' is perhaps too expansive on a board 5 people read
― jergins, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
persons of interest
y bcuz u all r intrsting
CONFIDENTIAL TO THE BROTHER IN SHANGHAI KFC: lxy loved u
― jergins, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
cctv's website is cracking me up http://english.cctv.com/index.shtml http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/beijingolympics.jpg
― jergins, Sunday, 13 July 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
请准备从火车的左边下来
― lxy, Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
"And finally, there’s the stinky tofu. Wafting down every alley and byway in Taipei is the unmistakable and often appalling odor of this unusual food. The grilled sausages and squid, with their smoke and flame, are the most visible street food in Taipei, but they are not the most aromatic.
The effect of stinky tofu on Westerners is a universal wrinkling of the nose, such as a Chinese person might feel after stumbling into a cheese factory. Summoning up some courage, I ate a piece of stinky tofu, albeit well-smothered in soy, vinegar, garlic and chili sauce. It has a sharp flavour, not at all similar to the smell. And how does it taste? You won’t know until you give it a try." so says travelintelligence.com
― lxy, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
and now we know. thanks! neatorama has some good pics of what probably is the world’s largest scale model of a city
― jergins, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
HEY HOW COME we didn't go to the street where they sell nothing but adhesive tape
― lxy, Friday, 8 August 2008 08:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j95/wsbadmf/random/emot-iiam.gif
― jergins, Friday, 8 August 2008 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
just watched andrew zimmer get owned by stinky tofu in taiwan
― amon, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't judge him because that (baby)shit will own anyone
― lxy, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
and why didn't we go to the pigment street!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/2871509526_ccb96922e8.jpg?v=0
― lxy, Friday, 19 September 2008 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
was looking at something else and came across this guy. remember him?@! good shithttp://www.galeriebertin.fr/en/artistes/liu-bolin.htmlwould buy
― jergins, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
that was a great gallery
― lxy, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
while in shanghai jergins and i wondered how cold it would have to be at home before we wished for shanghai heat. friends, today at the bus stop i tried to manifest shanghai heat.
i expect i will try again tomorrow.
― lxy, Friday, 19 December 2008 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.netgoose.co.uk/pages/Huangpu.html
pretty good series called "both sides of the huangpu"
yup, looks like the place
― lxy, Friday, 19 June 2009 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/shanghai_prepares_for_expo_201.html
― Ö¬·¾¸Î (jergins), Monday, 22 March 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2010/04/15/shanghais-metro-now-worlds-longest-continues-to-grow-quickly-as-china-invests-in-rapid-transit/
― Ö¬·¾¸Î (jergins), Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
re: pajamas in publichttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/opinion/17gao.html
― jergins, Monday, 17 May 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link