According to the CCTV-1 weather forecast, most of northern and western China has entered winter weather "from a meteorological point of view" [really loose paraphrase of what the announcer actually said]. The rest of the country is still in autumn. Thing...
Here's a breath of fresh air: It's going to be a painful 12 months' wait for the Olympics. Well, it's less than 12 months, now, and it's already painful enough.... But wait, is that blogspot open again? That opened unproxified for me! And on the subject...
Right from the first reports, I suspected this would happen, but still it comes as a shock- a pleasant shock, but still a shock: Police drop all terror-related charges The police are not charging any of the so-called Urewera 16 under the Terrorism Suppression...
For some reason I've never managed to make decent good edible fried rice straight from fresh rice. I mean, cook the rice then fry it. Never. I've been trying since my university days, and the best I've ever managed has been reasonably tasty glue. I can...
I've made a new voicethread, stringing together eight photos I took one incredible day in the summer of 06, on a walk I took from Xinjiekou around Houhai to Gulou then down to, and up Jingshan. As before, the photos don't seem to come out anywhere near...
Third straight day of fog. And yes, there's a lot more than fog mixed into that soup outside. Still, I'm taking it relatively easy this week, not too much strenuous work. I suddenly realised that one of the characters in The Gods Must be Crazy 2 conveniently...
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the sheer childishness displayed by so many of my fellow Kiwis. The two things of the title of this post? Two examples: Take a look at this description of the recent protests outside the Labour Party conference....
Well, it's a good thing I recovered so quickly from Friday's illness. Actually, it wasn't too bad: Just needed to get the poison out of my system then rest up. It's a good thing, because my weekend got hijacked. I was going to use this weekend to catch...
I am a sick man. I am a headachy man. Bellyachy, too. In class this morning I had to send a student off to the shop to get me something to settle my stomach. He came back with a cup of some kind of orange drink. Boiled. Sickly sweet, but it did the trick...
Such a lazy day.... This morning's class was cancelled because the students wanted to attend a lecture by the "leader" [so the students described him] of Cisco systems. So I took the chance to start the day at a more leisurely pace than normal. It felt...
