I have just added scorpions and jellyfish to my list of strange foods :) Yeah yeah I know I'm a vegetarian now, but I've decided strange foods are an exception. Afterall, what self respecting person could say they were offered a deep fried scorpion but turned it down cuz they don't eat meat ( Read more... )

I cannot believe my time in Qingdao is almost over. Only 4 days until we leave for Beijing?! There's still so much I want to do here. Actually, I kinda want to just stay here for another year or so. But I don't think the school would be too happy about that...hehehe. Or my parental units ( Read more... )

ok, so four days ago I had to give up running because my knees were bitching at me. Mind you, I had walked about 20 miles in two days in sandals with no support...but still, they are weaklings and are on my shit list. I was very sad about this for three days. but then, lo and behold, on the fourth day I found a swimming pool! Or rather, was invited ( Read more... )

I ate bugs last night. Really. Cicada type things that were lightly breaded and deep fried. Actually tasted quite nice if you could get past the legs ( Read more... )

...so the good news is that I got matlab installed on my laptop for free ( Read more... )

mwahahaha....my computer at work is in the process of crashing big time. There's a million viruses and worms on it and I can't access any of my data. You'd think this would be a bad thing wouldn't you? But instead its a really great excuse to accomplish nothing ( Read more... )

curse creatively for several minutes about stupid computer's stupid inability to upload my stupid update ( Read more... )

House of Flying Daggers is a great movie...especially since its entirely in chinese (of which I only understand numbers, hello, goodbye, how much does this cost, and thats too expensive!!). But the music is fantastic and the scenery is breathtaking. Not to mention Gen's version of the dialogue is so much more amusing...at least to herself ( Read more... )

My tonsils currently look like grapefruit. Seriously. First it was just the right one, now its both. Tried to get listerine to garle with but couldnt find any. Don't know of the wisdom of gargling with salt water considering the water quality...maybe if I used the boiling water and just burned the damn things out of my throat...hehehehe ( Read more... )

hehehe. Everyone (and I do mean everyone) in qingdao plays badmitten. I hadn't played up til last night and now I'm thoroghly intrigued. Its a brilliant game, even though I suck at it...or maybe because I suck at it. I played with Andi first and we had fun, but then I played with Peter and we ended up running all over the place trying to keep the ( Read more... )