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Thursday, September 4, 2008

It’s almost time for Mid-Autumn Festival (I think it’s officially on the 14th of September). As far as I can tell, Mid-Autumn Festival is the Thanksgiving to Spring Festival’s Christmas - it’s centered around a big family dinner, and people don’t go insane over it, they just have a good time. It’s low key and [...]

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Ten Hours for Three Minutes

Monday, January 28, 2008

I’m four days away from a three week vacation, which is absurd to me - I haven’t had this much time off work in my adult life, and I have no idea what I’ll do with all that free time (AHEM. learn Chinese, finally, Miss.). The high point of the Chinese year is coming up [...]

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