Last week, I went to the Wong Tai Sin temple complex in kowloon. It’s a pretty big tourist draw (including groups wearing same-colored nametags led by young women holding flags), but I thought it would also be a good occasion to burn some incense to commemorate the death of my grandfather. So I bought a [...]
Archive for September, 2007
I commit another faux pas
29 September, 2007
language
25 September, 2007
One of the things that had me most excited about going to Hong Kong was the chance to learn Cantonese. It feels like a language I can claim (my grandparents speak it, although it wasn’t their local dialect), “sensible” people don’t want to learn it (since putonghua is rapidly catching up even here, where Canto [...]
20 September, 2007
Sidenote: the hit counter that I put on back in August 2005 (or so) has me at 4998. It is taking EVERY LAST CELL IN MY BODY not to just reload the page a few times to see it turn over.
Also, I’m optimistic we’ll hit 10000 before, say, October 2009. Open question: where do you [...]
keeping in touch, 2007 edition
20 September, 2007
Tomorrow morning will be the morning when I complete all those tasks on my to-do list left over from earlier this week. Familiar. But I guess it’s nice to know that you can move me halfway around the world and I’ll still keep all my bad habits intact. List-making does help a little, but it’ll [...]
apparently, it was destiny
11 September, 2007
So the other day was my friend Joe’s birthday. He’s interested in astrology, numerology, Daoism, etc, and so I thought it would be a nice thing to go to a fortune teller to celebrate. We went to literally the tiniest office I’ve ever seen (room for him, a desk, and two chairs for us only), [...]
quick follow-up
1 September, 2007
Since I’d almost forgotten: the scooter plan is pretty much out. Not for road-handedness reasons (though I’m sure it would make things more difficult), but rather because of the remoteness of our campus. I could get to the Tai Po town center from here no problem, but basically everything else requires highway driving. Oh, and [...]
