Apparently, it’s hilarious when I show people my name-card, because I hand it over with two hands and bow my head a little. I understand that that’s a presentation specific to HK, but how do Americans exchange cards? I can only envision some kind of oh-too-cool wrist flick or something, like a way that is [...]
Archive for December, 2007
at home, he’s like a foreigner
27 December, 2007
a white Christmas!
26 December, 2007
hooray!
It definitely snowed like four to six inches today. And it was great. Happy holidays!
five minutes of random thoughts
19 December, 2007
because I need to get up at 6am to fly to boston and visit my grandma tomorrow morning (yay!)
– we spent a week in Guangzhou just before I left for the US. lots to say, but not at the moment.
–home is a lot colder than HK, which was colder than GZ. Boston will be coldest [...]
advice
8 December, 2007
A bad paraphrase of Sartre: you are always solely responsible for your own decisions. Even if you ask someone’s advice, planning to do what they say without condition or qualification, who you choose to ask is in some sense based on your knowledge of them as a person, and what you think they’ll say. Example [...]
the opt-out
6 December, 2007
I should really go to bed (I have to give a presentation for the Chinese University of Hong Kong Women’s Association bright and early tomorrow morning), but I just wanted to throw something out there, since I was encouraged to write more by the way friends actually commented on that last entry. [*cough*]
Basically, I’ve been [...]
um, jeez
3 December, 2007
I kinda just realized it’s december. Why was I deceived? Well, Thanksgiving this year really didn’t feel like Thanksgiving. I mean, there were pies (which were delicious, so kudos to Diana and Sarah for that), but somehow the holiday turned into an American Cultural Event, for which small gatherings were held throughout that week (none [...]
