Mai and I at MIDI

suzhou rocks

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May 12th 2009
So it all started on Tuesday. After taking several AFD's and catching up on sleep after MIDI I was feeling social and ready to play again! Fortunately, given I had no classes on Tuesday afternoon I managed to escape my office. Unfortunately, none of my new friends shared my luck. Given it was going to be a quite afternoon I decided to head into The Bookworm, with of course a good book and enjoy th ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more