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Apparently there was an earthquake last night in Taiwan, around magnitude 7 depending on who you ask. I heard about this not because I am particularly good at keeping up with the news, but because when I got into work this morning, nobody could connect to a number of overseas websites or services. Evidently, this [...]

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I think Chinese people from a very young age must have all the pain receptors in their mouths systematically killed. I don’t understand how people go get these super hot foods and then immediately start wolfing them down. Today at dinner, I went and grabbed a big bowl of noodles in soup, much like the [...]

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I told him I was worried about getting a haircut because I won’t be able to effectively communicate with the cutter. me: What’s going to happen, in my imagined scenario at least, is I’m going to go in, and make clear I want a haircut, and that’ll be ok, then I’ll get sit down, and [...]

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Sometimes I wonder if it really has all been done before. Ok, that’s not really true, I don’t wonder if everything has already been done, but I do wonder if I will ever do something really original. I feel like I’ve never really created anything, never come up with something new. I’ve spent my entire [...]

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Well I didn’t really have any plans so when my great aunt called me up and said I should come over for dinner on Christmas Eve, I agreed. While I was sitting around, I was presented with this bowl. What could be in these shiny wrappings? Candy? Yum! But wait, what is this? This isn’t [...]

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