Archive for the 'Mo Yan' Tag
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
I’m back in Vancouver at least temporarily and because my new roommate has basically no furniture mine finally comes out of storage. If you own as many books, CDs, DVDs and VHSs as me you need to assemble a lot of Ikea furniture in your life. I don’t have room for everything so much will [...]
Posted in Depression, Literature, Online Social Networks, Vancouver |
and Tagged: books, CDs, DVDs, IKEA, journals, Mo Yan, quotation, Samuel Pypes, shelves, social media, Twitter, VHSs |
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
2006 was largely a waste, I finished my MBA but I still haven’t recovered. One thing I did do was write a lot of crap in this blog. Most of it isn’t of interested to anyone or at least very, very, very few people. Sometimes it is better to say nothing than to speak the [...]
Posted in Blogging |
and Tagged: Badaling, Chinese, frog, Great Wall, Korean, Mo Yan, quotations, Top 10, Yellow Mountain |
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
I finally went to the National Museum of China. It has been on my ta-do list for months. I went alone during the Chinese New Year. It wasn’t that busy. I didn’t have much enthusiasm. I think I’m museum’ed out. I’ve seen the one in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Xi’an now. Shanghai is the best. [...]
Posted in Beijing, Blogging, China, Literature |
and Tagged: Chinese, memory card, Mo Yan, Nanjing, Nietzsche, Norman Bethune, photos, SanDisk, Shanghai, Starbucks, The Economist, Wang Fu Jing |
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