Chasing the Dragon By the way, "Chasing the Dragon" actually means to smoke opium/heroin. You use it to describe travelling around Asia!! (Also enough with the Paris of the East and Whore of the orient overused and basically out of date buzz phrases. It might have have been true in the 1900's when the term was invented but I don't think it's relevant today).
NIMBIN HI PAUL, HOW R U, IM VERY INTERESTED IN NIMBIN, LOOKS LIKE A GREAT RELAXING PLACE TO LIVE..I AM THINKING ABOUT JOINING A HIPPIE COMMUNE SOMEWHERE, DO YOU ANY GOOD ONES.. APPRECIATE ANYTHING YOU CAN COME UP WITH, AND THANK YOU.....
Silly Chinese, silly follow the crowd mentality. What is wrong with you. has your ignorance made you impossibly arrogant or are you just too dense to realize that different cultures react differently from your ideal of what is proper. perhaps it was the earth's orgasmic excitement over you birthday or the Devil clapping his hands with glee that he would someday get to host you on his turf.
Really happy to see someone's deep thought about China when he or she spent some time there, and actually I also had discussed such kind of things with my westerns friends who have been in China for a long time. You are right, neither side knows each other very well, but i guess those who have lived both in China and in US for a while like us will have a better understanding of that.
yo Yeah! I lived in Shanghai 3 years, and while I certainly didn't learn as fast as you, I can relate to this whole article. Can also recognize those bar pics.
Oh, and I f**kin hate Da Shan! What a tool.
what You did not go to the West End markets on a satuday or eat at the cheap, trendy resturants? Did you go to the valley where they have progressive trance tunes and great music venues such as Tivoli - did you go to new farm and dine at exclusive Japanese/Indian/Italian resturants? Did you walk down James street to the markets and the ind. cinema area? Have a drink in the queen street mall at night - walk around southbank and chill - the climate - the no rush of sydney - cmon mate
Chinese food Mark, I heard this story on NPR Radio a few weeks ago and thought of you...since you are talking food you may want to check it out...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90135206#89926061
ai yooooooooo Haha, quality recap!
I lived in China a while back and this brought all the memories rushing back.
It’s all so absurd but true. These are the things that used to test my nerves but now they are the things that I miss and laugh about the most.
Ni shuo de tai hao le! Thanks for this one.
Hillarious Mark, funny and enlightening. And to think, I was about to start complaining about having to throw the paper in a wastebasket vice in the toilet. Makes me appreciate what I have more. How is the bike planning coming?
I am now officially chasing the dragon! 3 months of travel around Australia & Asia has done nothing but whet my whistle for another year abroad. Now, hear my adventures from the Whore of the Orient, the Paris of the East, the city that's one great big opium den itself - Shanghai! Will a year in China before heading off to USC Business School finally satiate my wanderlust? or will it just suck me in even further in the quest for a new rush. On this last trip, the world only got bigger for me. The more I've seen, the more I realize there is to see. Stick around and hear my tales.... full info
David B.Fuglsang
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Chinese people seem to like just about everything. :)
maybe I'm crazy, but it sounds like Chinese people like the same things that Americans like.