I haven't been on LJ for a long time and haven’t made an entry for even longer. Thanks to miss_porcelain to nudging me and letting me know I'm not forgotten ( Read more... )

Oh that's right, it's all coming back to me now. Havent been here in ages ( Read more... )

OK so It has been exceptionally bad form not getting into LJ ask often as I'd like, I feel like a poor community member not having had more of a role in my friends journals, who are so diligent in commenting on mine. Ahh commitments, commitments ( Read more... )

An exclamation left in response to my last post has prompted me to write about another quizzical aspect of Chinese custom (or perhaps biology ( Read more... )

My first LJ in a long time, and (cue David Attenborough voiceover) the beginning of a series in which I will start to explore what it is that is Chinesesiness. It's differences and idiosyncrasies and ideologies, and often amusing anecdotes as viewed through the eyes of a Laowai (old outsider ( Read more... )

Ok so even a post so long as my last does not excuse such a lapse...but I'm still kickin ( Read more... )

Recently I have been struggling with being considerate to GF who, since starting her job at my arrival, rarely wants to do anything except blob in front the TV (in the company of BF who hates TV) and sleep, and my desire to go out and discover something of this new life. It started out well with regular social excursions, but these seem to have ( Read more... )

I think therefore I am.

Ergo:

I think it is therefore it is.

a much simpler way of putting my first post. Thank you Ville Lady.

I HAVE FRIENDS!!!

...joy ( Read more... )

OK...so In should spend less time emailing people telling them I am finally on LJ and more time actually updating my journal.

Time is a commodity I seem doomed to forever be in deficit of...oh well.