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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Romanization
I notice things. Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised when I point something out to my Chinese coworkers that they had never noticed before. A few days ago, I went out to lunch with some of them to a Hong Kong … Continue reading
Pixie
Funny Face was on Cinemax Asia yesterday. (Pretty far from their usual fare.) 1957. Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Directed by Stanley Donen (who you might remember for the single greatest Oscar acceptance speech of all time.) I always thought … Continue reading
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Calendar
5000 years and this is the best calendar they can come up with? (Not to mention the muddled graphic design. Somewhere Edward Tufte is weeping into his hands.) Today is my one day weekend before the Chinese New Year.
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Wiggle
Yesterday, I got to experience my first 年会 (nián huì, literally “year meeting”) where, traditionally, Chinese companies have at the end of their (lunar) year and just before the. Chinese New Year and — based on my one data point … Continue reading
Sanitary
In L.A. County we rate restaurants with As, Bs, or Cs. Shanghai’s scale is more fun:
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Animals
Ever since Alex told me that the German word for “raccoon” was “waschbär” meaning “wash bear” I’ve been absolutely fascinated by foreign words for animals. Some of words for animals in Chinese are just straight-up calques. The word for “sealion” … Continue reading
Sheep
On February 19 it will be the Year of the Sheep. In unrelated news, I was invited by coworkers to dinner to eat an entire sheep. Yeah. An entire sheep. Here it is:I was told it usually serves twenty people … Continue reading
Cosmopolitan
A month or so ago, I saw a comedian here who told a joke about how wonderfully cosmopolitan Shanghai is. “I mean today, I saw a white man holding hands with…a white woman!” I have a coworker who categorizes expats … Continue reading
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Wrong
Throughout my life, I’ve been plagued by the nagging fear that I’m doing things wrong. Regularly, I worry that I’m “doing China wrong.” Today, I met my boss’s boss for breakfast to debrief about work. On the metro ride in to … Continue reading
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Titanic
As far as I can tell, this is sort of China’s “My Heart Will Go On.” I was pleasantly surprised by how many words I recognized.
Orange
I was pontificating about how many states have an Orange County and was surprised to find that there were eight. But then I was even more surprised to find that Orange County is tied for 44th in the frequency of … Continue reading
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Mall
This is the three story mall ODW’s office building is attached to. I’ve been trying to think of something clever to say about it. But it’s just a mall.
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Bet
Okay, I’m going ahead and betting on the 2016 Best Foreign Film Academy Award going to One Night Stud. Prove me wrong, academy. Prove me wrong.
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