i'm gonna slap the next person that asks if i'm an ethnic minority just because i'm from yunnan. i'm serious.

last summer i had to work two days a week up in lbl while living in san jose. there was no way mother was gonna drive me up to berkely every time, so she just dropped me off in downtown san jose every morning at 7. i'd take an hour of 180 express bus from there to fremont bart, then another hour of bart to berkeley, and spend half an hour getting ( Read more... )

strange how some ppl can be funny in one language, but not in another, even tho they feel comfortable with both languages.

今天做的藕比较好吃. 以后还是不要偷懒, 藕片切小点的好.

大小姐又要俺写东西...

俺很想活着看到以后的生活倒底是怎样的, 有没有因自己曾经存在过而改变?
不过话又说回来, 能够永远不老死的活着对我来说其实是种很恐怖的境界. ( Read more... )

http://schiller.dartmouth.edu/chinese/maps/maps.html

this is very interesting. so according to map 4, the kunming dialect that i speak is actually considered to be a form of mandarin - southwestern mandarin.

darn it i already forgot what happened ( Read more... )

alvin: so how are we gonna get some dirt to put off the fire ( Read more... )

the moment we got to camp, we lost anna. it scared the scheisse out of all of us since it was almost 9 and the forest was too dark to see anything. i still don't understand how anna could just walk in this absolute darkness simply by feeling the path beneath her feet. very brave ( Read more... )

i can't believe i'm saying this, but i actually did miss america a bit while i was in china. it wasn't a strong feeling that made me want to come back to the US, i just thought about the great ppl i met in berkeley, and looked forward to another great year. i also missed the smell of america， 那种草地夹杂着洗衣粉的清新， 第一次来美就深深印在脑中的味道。大概是中国真的太杂闹了 ( Read more... )