As if last week's crushing work stress wasn't enough, this week i had two - count 'em - social events lined up to sap every ounce of my mojo ( Read more... )

After threatening to dive into the Confucius wiki hole a couple entries ago, i decided i'd do just that. But rather than going straight to the man himself, i figured it'd make more sense to get a broader overview of Chinese history before deep-diving on philosophy that i've previously barely shallow-dived on. Also i figured it'd help so next time i ( Read more... )

It's a birthday miracle. I actually spoke to a real Taiwanese person for more than 5 minutes ( Read more... )

Oh brother, Muang Sing is something. I decided to take the first bus up here which would leave enough time to go back same day if it wasn't worth it. The bus ride was the most picturesque i've been on yet, sadly in one of those tinted window minibuses so i couldn't take any photos. It takes you up a small river canyon with full jungly forest on ( Read more... )

So tonight i watched the BBC documentary Hong Kong's Fight For Freedom. And it brought everything back up again ( Read more... )

Starting a new job and doing all the other new country stuff is keeping me busy. I haven't really had much downtime and probably won't until September. But the big news of this week is i received my resident card and moved into my new apartment. After 12 months on the road, i am finally housed up again ( Read more... )

Is it problematic to eat at a cult ( Read more... )

It's time for another morning update. I suppose i should write about the last leg of my journey along the Magdalena Alto and through the Tatacoa desert, but i'm not feeling it. Currently in Neiva, strongly considering finding a bus to take me back north - there's not much left for me to do along the Magdalena ( Read more... )

I feel like it's about time to do another travel update, but nothing much of note happened on the route. For posterity, the route was La Jagüa → Curumaní → Pelaya → Aguachica → San Alberto ( Read more... )

It's a three-post day! What's going on?

I got sidetracked reading (more) about food, and specifically Chinese sponge cakes, which have been annoying me for several years now due to there being several different names for what appears to be the same thing.

So far on Wikipedia, i have found the following:

Song gao or 鬆糕, a Shanghainese sponge cake ( Read more... )