My mom wants me to apply for a job teaching English at a Chinese college. Given that I have no experience teaching, and my limited Chinese is what bars me from applying to other, more interesting jobs, I say...WTF? Considering the ad was in a Chinese paper and written in Chinese, I'd say that a good, solid grasp of business Chinese is vital. ( Read more... )

My mom made a very good point today that I found interesting. My family, even at our financially best, has never been particularly attracted to 'luxury' items per se. The bulk of our 'fun' expenses were spent on travel, theme parks, and resorts. ( On traveling, and staying at home. )

I spent twenty minutes trying to find the train station from my hotel despite having a deceptively easy-to-read hotel map with me, another five minutes trying to find customer service so I could ask how the hell I could get to the general region of the place I had my interview, spent half an hour on the subway henceforth, and then once I got off at ( Read more... )

So. Post-meltdown. More drained than I've ever been post-meltdown, but that's what happens when I decide crying is a luxury I can't afford ( Read more... )

I tried reading Kimi wa Pet yesterday, and found it...rather dull for a shoujo manga with such a potentially hot premise. *sigh ( Read more... )

So I can't for the life of me find out what the original Japanese title of "超級變變變", but y'all should definitely check out this clip of a winning team's performance. It's a ping pong match....in skit/sketch form. Watch and be in awe. There's a reason this program is imported into Taiwan and much loved, to the point of contestants going to Japan from ( Read more... )

I love the Japanese programs we get on Taiwanese cable. My favorite is TV Champion, which is a competition between various 'experts' on a given subject, done in rounds. Last week the theme was cardboard creations, and this one competitor made an amazing cardboard gorilla, self-powered Rolls Royce-esque pushcart, and a playhouse for a pair of pet ( Read more... )