Happy New Year! May You Live Long & Not Die of Boredom
February 14th 2008 A lot can change in 1 day. To all my friends who did not heed my advice to come visit me during Chinese New Year, you are wiser than I. Despite the fact that Chinese New Year is depicted as one big firework-laden, dragon orgy, it’s actually a very boring time to be a “laowai” in China. All those hilarious scenes of people stampeding each other and sleeping in bathrooms in train stations acro
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