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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

China is a place where there is little respect for the lives of individuals. China has the highest female suicide rate in the world, the highest number of abortions, the second-highest rate of automobile-related deaths, and the highest rate of executions. It is a place where 60 million women are missing because of gender-related abortions Read More

The turmoil of the people of Changsha at the hands of the Japanese (and even Chiang Kai-shek) during WWII/the Second Sino-Japanese War is pretty well documented. But never before have I read anything about that time period by a foreigner who lived in Changsha at the time. Joyce Roberts was the daughter of missionary parents Read More

It’s hard being a pet parent in China. If you live in a “rural” area (meaning anything less than 2,000,000 people), you most likely do not live near a vet. When Vash was only a few months old she ate an entire bottle of gum. This was in the middle of the night and the Read More

This past Thursday was Thanksgiving in America, affectionately known as “Turkey Day” because the whole point of Thanksgiving is, honestly, gorging on the most delicious of fowls, the turkey. Chinese friends and students always take note of the glazed, dreamy look Americans get in their eyes when speaking of this mythical bird of scrumptiousness and wonder what is so amazing Read More

I’ve had so much material for the Ugly Foreigners series lately that it’s been depressing. Just because the 100 days of foreigner crackdowns is over is no reason to go hog-wild with bad behavior, people. Recently there has been a rash of bad behavior in the lawless border town of Shenzhen (Shenzhen isn’t really like that. Read More

As much as the Chinese love their horror movies, Halloween is still a rather unobserved in China. But Halloween is one of the most popular holidays in the west. Spending is second only to Christmas, still earning retailer s whopping 8 billion dollars in US sales alone. It is also growing in popularity in the UK, with Read More

According to a report issued by a government agency and made public through Xinhua, the official news outlet for the Chinese government, it is time to start putting the one child policy to rest in China. A government “think tank” will issue the official report within a couple of weeks (most likely after the National Read More