prompt: Swan Princess!AU.

summary: marvel at how dumb this is.

disclaimer: apologies to John Steinbeck. and to Hans Christian Andersen for committing great crimes against The Wild Swans.

cheers: to the op and the km anons who replied. this hot mess is for you.

( eh, fuck it. )

APPARENTLY, OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD.

Mr. President, standing by to hear what you have to say.

[edit]: please take care and keep safe, my fellow expats!

UGH, IPAD FAILED ME YET AGAIN. since LJ is firewalled by our company's internal network, i access LJ via iPad (China Unicom 3G) at work. only every time i tried to bid logged-in, the iPad simply would not show me the captcha required to make my bids valid. i am so pissed like you wouldn't believe, but no amount of money can save me now. fair is ( Read more... )

WSJ, you are unreal. and not in a good way: "In Defense of the Western Mom", Ayelet Waldman's response (significantly less ragetastic) to Amy Chua's bullshit excerpt of bullshit. which is still the most popular article in the Asia section ( Read more... )

what the fucking fuck, Wall Street Journal. what is this shit:
"Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior"free speech and the right to have opinions aside, i fully regard this article and its author as a fucking disgrace. i am Chinese-American, and by no means was growing up under my mother's iron fist easy, but this piece of garbage is not at all ( Read more... )

i cannot freakin' believe that on the one day i'm free to go to the China Tea Expo, i get sick. body aches, headaches, the whole shebang. fuck that shit.

*sighs in frustration* at least i have a colleague who's going and willing to bring back photos and floral samples for me. ugh. and i was so looking forward to a day of rolling around in tea- ( Read more... )

so, while i was at home for ten glorious work-free days, i discovered that my dad sometimes makes really frightening noises in his sleep. it is more or less what werewolves sound like when they transform, i'm sure of it. the first time, i managed to convince myself i was hallucinating. the second, i was all, okay, i'm sane. what the fuck.of course ( Read more... )

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only three more days before i have to return to work.
(assuming my passport with renewed visa arrives on time. *eyes FedExi'm attempting to delay that thought with the help of apple pie & 2001 tokaji aszu ( Read more... )

of the left part of my brain ( Read more... )