Not all that lost in translation
[2010-07-21 10:06]After a 13-hour flight from the United States, I arrived in Beijing starry-eyed, excited, and slightly jet-lagged.
When modern rock meets ancient guitar
[2010-07-15 09:20]When foreign friends see it, they ask, "What is it?"
My road to becoming an armchair sports fan
[2010-07-14 10:15]As a kid, I played basketball and baseball, which are the only sports I understand. Baseball became boring and basketball is now a game for spoiled, overpaid, vulgar players, so I was no longer interested. That is, until Yao Ming joined the Houston Rockets.
Give us this day our daily bread
[2010-07-13 10:28]"I'd like to learn to make bread, can you teach me?" asked my neighbor.
Hounding a vet for answers to our dog's problem
[2010-07-08 10:26]A dull street lamp vaguely lights us from above. Dust is flying through the air.
Measuring up to learning Chinese
[2010-07-07 09:43]The response of Chinese on learning their foreign friends are learning Chinese, is almost invariably - "Learning Chinese is very difficult."
Thief's serial mistakes end with me getting phone back
[2010-07-01 09:36]I was in Guomao subway station listening to a Mariah Carey song on my iPhone when the music suddenly stopped.
A banquet survival guide
[2010-06-30 10:00]I woke up in some hotel room I'd never seen before in Danjiankou, Hubei province, with no idea how I got there.
Recycling begins at home
[2010-06-29 09:12]My wife and I are trying to reduce our contribution to landfill, in whatever small we can. As Wen Hengfeng, a full-time garbage campaigner at Global Village Beijing says, "Even the smallest actions can help save the planet".
Passengers kept waiting in the wings
[2010-06-24 09:45]An airport departure lounge in the thunderstorm-prone summer afternoons is like a visit to a dental office in the US.
