Lol I got pwned by US customs. First, the custom official asked me way too many detailed questions. Usually they're just like "How long did you stay? For what reason?" and that's it. This time, it was "How long have you lived in Austin? What school did you go to? Where were you born?", and he looked at me funny the entire time. :/ After that, the ( Read more... )

I just got back to Shanghai from visiting my grandparents in Wuhan. I didn't have internet access while there, and I didn't have an internet to access before that. Doom, when I logged on that day, I couldn't get on any American websites, but all Chinese sites were totally fine. Me: Oh noes! The Chinese internets police are on to me! It's mostly ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas! It's actually the 26th over here, but you don't need to know that. ;)1. Lol at Chinese people "celebrating" Christmas because it's trendy to celebrate foreign holidays, and because anything foreign is trendy. All the nicer apartments/restaurants have sad little 3-feet-tall Christmas trees with sad little decorations, and all the ( Read more... )

( Featuring nerds, trees, BSTs, some more nerds, and of course, squirrels. )

Let's see...I'm back, for starters. I learned on this trip that a 9-hour connecting flight to San Hose is so much better than the 13-hour connecting flight to Chicago I had last year. So if you're going from the US to SE Asia or vice versa, do switch flights in California ( Read more... )

Greetings, all you beautiful people. :) I got back (to Shanghai) from Beijing yesterday, so sadly, we must do this again: ( Observations )

Yay I have internet again! *glomps laptop* So, I'm back in Shanghai. Beijing has been postponed until July because my cousin wants to tag along. ( Wuhan Observations )

Soooo...I've been in Shanghai for a week and a half. ( Observations )

...can all be rendered fluffy by the love of a good man, or so goes the lesson of MohabbateinI finally saw Mobat yesterday with Kim and Nelly, and wow, it was one huge cliched cheesefest. I thought I've seen some fluffy/cheesy/melodramatic/cliched things in my life, but nothing comes even close to this. Heh at least it was entertaining ( Read more... )