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Thursday, March 26, 2009

wow it has been so long since my last entry that I don't even remember how to make a new posting..

It will be 2 years since I've return back to the States from China this Saturday. Time really flew by. There have been serious downs, there have been days when I thought coming back was the best decision I've made, and there have been days when I really wonder "what if I stayed?"

My life back in the states is a little less interesting. I work almost all of my waking hours. I usually go home right after work because I am soo exhausted from all the stress and drama. My partying here in comparison to China is non existant. When someone asks me my most hated question of all time "WHAT'S NEW?" the answer is "nothing", and I really mean it. But as boring as things may seem now, I cannot imagine myself living the life I had in China again. It was the best time of my life. Maybe it is a part of growing older, but I'm ok with this...well most of the time.

During our "economic crisis"...I'm really thinking again about what I am doing with my life. Sometimes I want to drop everything and move to another country again. Which really scares me because I thought I got that out of my system when I did it the first time. Maybe it is a personality thing and I am one of those restless people that cannot do the same thing for too long.

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Saturday, June 14, 2008

	What a difference one year makes...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

What is Shanghai?

Imagine the weirdest (Susie loves weird people), strangest (by saying this I am admitting I'm not quite normal myself), most energetic people you have ever met in your life. Now imagine them all congregated in one place. This is what I can sum up about Shanghai in one sentence: The world's most eccentric people in the world's fastest growing city.

Lessons learned..

Am I Chinese? Am I American? American-Chinese? I don't think I could have fully understood what it is to be any of those "labels" until I lived in China. College was about learning who I am. For me, China was about finding out where I'm from. Its ironic..I came to China to get in touch my "roots"...only to realize that I am less Chinese than I thought...and more American than I wished.

I will never forget...

Everyone that shared my experience with me. It wouldn't have been the same without any of you..

I know you will read this Crystal since u found a way to cheat the Communists Roomie..Thanks for being SO convincing and turning my 1 month into 1.5 years in Shanghai. You are born to be in PR man..

Fan...I would have been lost without u when I first came. Showing me 'that pearl looking thing thats kinda ugly...and that building that looks like the embassy.' great tour guide..

Dan, me trying to cop a cheap feel off Tim Wu, Mike's eye, and missing Pat....aka the "Ase*ual 4." My source of endless entertainment, quotes from Idiocracy, vegging, Wii, deep conversations, dumb conversations, frolicking, etc.

Hot Pot with the cool table (but only because it was the only table)...

Mike, Wo, Justin

And the biggest winners of them all! Jay, Pat and Dan at the airport to send me off. I would have probably missed my flight if it wasnt for u guys. Susiepoo was tres not sober..

xiang ni ai ni hao chang si jian (booted translation: MISS YOU LOVE YOU HO LONG TIME!)

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Friday, March 09, 2007

Just came back from Yunnan..

Yunnan is southwest of China. It borders Vietnam, Laos, Burma and Tibet..making it a very interesting place. Its known for its beautiful scenery and very diverse ethnic national minorities. I went to Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, and Shangri-la. Even though they are all within the same province and only a few hours by car from each other, they are all very different in terms of people and culture.

Not much to do in Kunming except to visit the Stone Forest. Kunming is the probably the most urban in Yunnan..

The Poopies family

A really fat baby..

Lijiang was my personal favorite place. This is when the elevation starts to get really high. We were about 3000 meters(?) above sea level at one point. Cool part is that you can see snow covered mountains...bad part is that you start to feel sleepy all day long and your skin and mouth gets really dry.

Shangri-La aka "Don't look with your eyes, but with your heart." That is what our tour guide told us. Shangri-La is really a name given by the yellow haired-blue eyed laowai who came and thought this place was beautiful. Its suppose to be every person's fantasy place. Which I think is a little BS...since my version of Shangri-La has Green Tea Vitamin Water flowing down the waterfalls and hot men of all colors running around wearing nothing but a rag. Nonetheless...it was still pretty. The Chinese name for Shangri-La is Zhongdian and is only 300 km away from Tibet. It is also known as "Little Tibet" so lots of Tibetan touches all over the place.

4000 meters above sea level.

Their "city center"

Me spinning those Tibetan spinny thingamagigs

This could have been a cool picture...if I didn't look like I was squatting..

Tiger-Leaping Gorge...so the story is that a tiger was being chased by a hunter...and the tiger leaped onto the big rock in the picture to escape to the other side...hence the most clever name.

The Tiger-Leaping Gorge also flows into the Yangtze River..

It comforts me to know that there are still some places in the world that has not been tainted with technology, pollution, and superficial things. I've never seen such a huge mass of land that is still untouched and pure. Some places, especially when you go to the mountains are still rich in culture and people still wear their traditional clothes. I love it when I see people keeping true to their roots (saids the anti-China anti-America Chinese-American). I'm also proud to say that I can now squat in the grossest and shittest (yes pun intented) "bathrooms" I've ever encountered without turning around or dry heaving. The road to being as Chinawoman as I can is completed....

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Friday, February 23, 2007

	I fell in love with Hong Kong all over again..
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