Archive for July, 2004

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Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

As Carl likes to say “if incompetence were bricks I could build the f’ing great wall,” So my flight from milwuakee to minneapolis, where I had to make a connecting flight to japan was delayed by about 3 hours.  Of course they didn’t tell me it was going to be delayed this long until it was too late and I already missed my flight.  I tried to take a connecting flight but thanks to osama, I can;t be flying on a different flight than my luggage so they shut me down.
 
the main reason I’m writing this is my friend jude was supposed to meet me in Minneapolis, i never showed up; as of this writing he is somewhere on the great circle route to tokyo.  If you read this jude, get a hotel in shanghai, enjoy yourself, I’ll be there tomorrow on the same flight so meet me at the airport.
 
I’m trying to get back to china, the man just won’t let me. 

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Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

Wow, “Open letter to new york” by the beastie boys, redefines the term “wac MCs.” What the hell were they thinking?

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Saturday, July 3rd, 2004

ok ok, here’s a new post all ready you goddamn addicts,

random thoughts about america

Hawaii kicks ass, it is by far the coolest state I have ever been too. And it is cool while being extermly american. Even though the landscape was so much different from the one I’m used to, the culture there jsut screamed americana. The laid back attitude of all the clerks in the store. The highways, the strip malls, the diviersity. I loved it there, I want to move there.

American air is so clean. There are trees everywhere. American cities are tiny. As we where flying into Milwaukee, I looked out the window and at first what I thought was the smallish University of Milwuakee campus, turned out to be Milwuakees entire downtown surronded by endless subburbs all saturated with trees. I guess I don’t even consider milwuakee a city anymore. It just dosn’t have the population density. Newyork is probably the only place that comes close in the states to what I’m used to in China.

American driving is scary. There is a certain edge to american driving for me now which I do’t feel when I am in a chinese car. I don’t know what it is, but I feel somehow less safe by the knowledge that people can’t drive wherever they want and ignore alltraffic rules. I feel the strict following of the rules is more likely to cause an accident than the compleate abndonment of them, I’m not really sure why this is.

Typing on a compact laptop sucks.

Intriguing…