I just have to say, before I do anything else, that this is my new favorite song. My gym instructor played it one day - quite out of character for him - and it's friggin' gorgeous. Yes at first I thought it was a cover of Chris Isaak but whatever. It's still gorgeous.
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I just got back from seeing the National Ballet of China's production of Raise the Red Lantern, performed for two nights only at the National Centre for the Performing Arts here in Beijing for its tenth anniversary. It was absolutely spectacular. I haven't seen that many ballets in my life (um, I think just one, I saw an adaptation of Edward ( Read more... )

So as part of my continued self-improvement, I believe I mentioned out casually filling in the application for KAOS Pilots, which I am not interested in applying for but have decided it would be a good idea to do their little test on "who are you - what are your interests", mostly to see if I can even work out what those things are ( Read more... )

Yeah, that's right friendslist, you're going to have to put up with me while I do all this "being engaged with life" stuff, because at the moment this is the only forum I've got. I suppose I could keep a blog, but... well... hmm, there's an idea.

Anyway, today it was aramatheydidnt that gave me some things to talk about ( Read more... )

Since World War One wasn't such a big deal here in China, instead of Remembrance Day or Veteran's Day, here in China it is Singles Day, celebrating the amusing state of being single. It's on 11/11 because, as you'll see, it's full of singles! The Chinese do love their puns. Anyway, it's sort of the antithesis to Valentine's Day (and not in the ( Read more... )

I just sent this email to my family; thought I should share ( Read more... )