Hangzhou Lovin’

Best war quote…

“This is the only fella in history who got Germany not to go to war.”

What to do today, what to do this week?

guess I’ll just post it up here to make a public document of what I want to get done.

Buy some presents

Buy some clothes

See my friends

Avoid my enemies (or lacking enemies, people who annoy the fuck out of me)

Pack

Eat some last minute strange chinese food (the other day I had a meal where they gave us big beef leg bones craced in half with straws. We were suppsed to suck the marrow out of the bones with the straws).

Drink some cheap beer, but avoid getting to Drunk (and sick).

…Shit, I know I have more to do than just that, but I can’t think of any thing else to do. I guess I’ll post what I don’t want to do.

Go to a farewll dinner with my boss (unfortunatly this is unavoidable)

hanging out with prostitutes (but if I keep hanging around the dirty german I’ve been with lately this might be hard)

sitting in my room in front of my computer all day.

…Oh yeah, and I figure i should get in what I consider to be the two manditaory post topics of any chinese blooger: the “Hello” and Chinese girls.

If you think of anything else I should do leave a comment.

Prince Roy says what needs to be said

“There’s something that’s been bugging me for a couple of years now that I have to get off my chest. It’s women’s shoes. More specifically it’s the epidemic of pointy-toed shoes. I was really hoping that this would turn out to be one of those flash-in-the-pan phenomenons, but it appears that it is not going away. So I’m just going to give it to you straight: Ladies, you look ridiculous in these. Just like you did with those godawful shoulderpads in the 1980s. Take a look at the shape of the human foot. It does not end in a sharp point.”

Does this mean that women in the US are wearing these as well? The horror, the horror

Worse than SARS…

China blasts US over mullet epidemic

In the chinese population, I’ve observed that the “femullet” strain is most common.

Ridiculous bullshit from the newyork times.

It’s an article about a new book that claims, “Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity.” the basic point of this article is that asian writing systems block the creativity of asian people because the are not as abstract as alpabetical systems. (I’m not sure what “asian” means, the article only sites chinese, japanese and korean.) This is wrong on so many levels, but the main reason that it’s an absurdly stupid idea, is that there is zero evidence for it’s claims.

The article states “Mr. Hannas draws on a raft of data about Asian scientific research practices, technology piracy and graduate study abroad, all intended to show that Asians are brilliant imitators but poor innovators, adept at borrowing and improving on Western science but not so skilled at making advances themselves.”

From the articel it seems as if the “scientific research practices, technology piracy and graduate study abroad,” are taken from the last 100 years, but how long have the chinese been using Charecters?

About 5000 f’ing years.

And if we look at those five thousand years of charecter use, in how many of them are the Chinese the most technogically advanced people on earth?

about 4800.

I don’t undersand how these people get money. Stupid shit like this just pisses me off.

Good article in Slate about the media reaction to SARS. he argues that the sensationalism was probably a good thing. I tend to agree.

“All the fuss may well have contained what could have been a truly panic-worthy epidemic. While we have yet to learn how bad the epidemic will get, it is almost certain that without the WHO’s pre-emptive global alert and the resulting avalanche of news stories about the disease, the situation could have been far worse than it is. Though SARS is not quite as contagious as the flu, it can still be spread through relatively casual contact. If lots of sick people were taking long plane flights or wandering around on the streets for days, the risk of catching it from them might not be negligible. We know that a handful of individuals can spread the disease from one country to 26 others in a matter of weeks (SARS was introduced to Hong Kong, which now has the highest rate of infection, by a single person arriving from mainland China). How much worse would the epidemic be if travelers had not avoided certain cities; if airports had not quarantined symptomatic passengers; and if sick people had not confined themselves (or been confined) to their homes? Almost certainly much worse, in which case we would have had the hysteria and the economic damage, anyway. And we’d also have an epidemic on a scale that was really something to panic about. ”

One of the questions I alwas get asked in China (after they ask me all the retarded stock questions, (do you like chinese food? do you like China? Do you have a girlfriend?), is “What was your major?” I usually tell them psychology, because neuroscience is to hard to explain (anybody know the chinese word for neuroscience?). Usaully they are very impressed, and ask me if I know what they are thinking. I always tell them that “You are thinking that you don’t believe I can erad your mind” (I’m awfully clever).

The problem is that after this, they think I’m this completly sensative guy who has all the answers to their delicate little problems. (those of you who know me will know how ridiculous this is). One of the questions I keep gettinf is about this guy in one of my classes. I guess he is sort of an insomniac who can’t get to sleep because he is always thinking about school. So his friends always come up to me and ask me what he should do. I usually mumble something about
‘relaxing” and “getting invloved in other activites,” basically I’m useless.

Yesterday this dude said he was depressed and what cold I say? I would be depressed to if my spring break had been cancled and i wasn’t allowed to leave my school campus. Then he told me that He liked a girl. But she was rich and he was poor, he was shy blah balsh blah.

But then I had a solution, to cure his depression he should just get a girlfriend. So simple.

Damn this post was really boring. Sorry.

best SARS qoute-

“It’s like a white ninja convention on the streets, hella fools with masks. I am gonna get one and write SARS hella big and bold on it. I’d like to make a T shirt saying ” I came to China and all I got was SARS” ”

from Xiao Chong’s Journal