I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else…. And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?
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As a skinny bloke, it seems to surprise people that I love food, I love to drink and I love combining the two. The eternal hedonist, I’ve always been great at eating and drinking beyond my means. Living in Suzhou is no exception however my motives are somewhat different so that when I eat out […]

It never ceases to amaze me what people can get away with in China in terms of service levels and more specifically for the purpose of this post standards of contruction.  I remember when I used to teach in Yantai arriving to my freshly painted classroom to find I couldn’t pug in my laptop let […]

Ice Hazards
What is the obsession with those super slick and shiny paving tiles so often used in China? Since Suzhou and much of China was buried in Snow and Ice last week I have slipped on my ass about 5 times. The most recently, outside one Suzhou Industrial Park’s busiest office buildings, where I slipped […]