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Emily Ford is a European who has been living in Shanghai for 6 months… and has decided that she wasn’t living an authentically “Chinese” life, whatever that is.So she decided to change her life for a day try to live like the locals, and she made the mistake of writing about it for a rather popular online Read More

This is for all the ladies out there. I have had massages in the states before and the masseuses are pretty aware of their client’s sense of privacy. Imagine my surprise, then, the first time I got a massage in China and she massaged my boobs. And my butt. And, you’re pretty much naked for Read More

This post is part of a series for AbsoluteWrite’s January 2013 blog chain. The theme is “13” in honor of the new year.  In a recent episode of Elementary (the great new Sherlock Holmes series on CBS), Holmes deduces a man was a gambler with a penchant for mahjong because of his obsession with the number 13. He Read More

Well, hard to believe we are already back home. I didn’t get to blog as much as I had hoped while on the trip, but I guess that’s a good thing. We were so busy or exhausted during the trip we hardly had any real relax time. So, I thought I would just do a Read More

No trip to Chiang Mai is complete without a tour of a few of the city’s temples. The city actually has over 300 temples (called ‘wats‘ in Thai), but there are four that people are specifically pointed to if you ask which temples are not to miss. Click “read more” for a run down of Read More

Thailand seems to be the hot travel destination this winter, so here are a few travel tips that I picked up. 1) Money. Most places in Thailand do not accept Union Pay. I always ask, but about 90% of the time the answer is “no.” However, there are ATMs on every street corner that do Read More

I’m pretty ticked off that I have to take time out of my tropical holiday to post about this, but as soon as I read it I knew I had to post.  China is currently experiencing the coldest winter in 28 years. Reports of homeless people freezing to death are trickling in, including at least Read More

I remember as a kid going to the Ripley’s Believe it or Not odditorium in San Antonio and seeing a wax figure of a “Giraffe Woman of Burma.” Of all the crazy, odd things to be found in a Ripley’s museum, I remember that. I kind of figured that this was something Mr. Ripley was lucky enough Read More

Yes, we have finally made it to the land of smiles, Thailand! We haven’t see or done too much worth posting about, honestly. Bangkok is a big city, pretty much like every other big city out there. I am looking forward to getting up north to the countryside and really seeing some of the country. Read More

We need a bit of a chuckle, so I thought I would share this anecdote. For some reason, holiday ideas and events fell into my lap when I came to work at the game company. I didn’t mind and found it pretty fun. It is one of the best things I have enjoyed about working here. Read More