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I’m Not Dead
I’m just applying to US grad schools. Same same but different! No travel, no drama, no new things, everything is going according to plan or exceeding expectations, and I’m happily going through the motions of preparing to complete my undergraduate existence within the next 8 weeks. Grad school applications are a bitch, but it’s time I [...]
Juggernaut
What I’ve been working on: a feature of 3000 words + 40 accompanying photos (out of.. 3000??) about the Rath Yatra, festival of chariots in Puri, Orissa, India (turn out: 1 million). It’s done, but it’ll only be published in February 2008 (Asian Geo). Such is the nature of this industry. I must be the [...]
It Was All Yellow
As a Chinese person in a predominantly Chinese country with mostly non-Chinese friends, I was always happy to partake of a good “yellow” joke (w.r.t. the skin colour of my race). I have absolutely no qualms referring to myself and my brethren as “munjen” (after the Tamil word for ‘yellow’), and almost fell laughing into [...]
Completely Random Conversations
The conversation took place among a collection of random people at my university who were going to graduate in the next 80 days (including yours truly), and concerned itself with what our respective plans were. They had job offers and such, and concrete plans involving the moving of cities/countries in exciting jobs. A: “I don’t [...]
Girl Photographers
Hilarious.
Thai-Indian Music Video
Those of you who read this site will know my seemingly neverending love affair with India and Thailand. I spend a considerable amount of time in India each year, but hit up neighbouring Thailand about four times a year, so much so that Bangkok is almost home to me. Predictably, I went to Thailand after [...]
Because the Chinese Can Copy Anything
My brethren (I’m Chinese after all!), not content to merely copy iPods, iPhones, fake baby food and even fake buns, not content even to copy an entire English town, have decided to copy Paris too. China already is the manufacturer of the world. Perhaps it wants to manufacture the world too? Nothing about that country surprises [...]