I like messes.

Ah, now this is the article I was looking for: Before Guests Arrive, Beijing Hides Some Messes.
I’ve read in the past about hutongs being torn down, so really these walls and nets are less harmful. But nevertheless, I would rather see Beijing as it really is, with all of its “messes” (more like street vendors, [...]

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Middlesex

I was looking for an article about Beijing that I read yesterday, but instead stubled upon this one. How invasive!

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On Beauty

I haven’t written in a while. I’ve been really busy.
This weekend I went into Boston to visit Steph, because she’s doing a music program at Berklee College of Music this summer. I took the T in from Worcester on Saturday evening, and went to  her apartment, which was small but homey.  We went to Shaw’s [...]

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Ju-no

Here at my tutoring job at QCC (community college), you can meet a lot of hilarious people.
Yesterday a girl came in who didn’t even mean to be funny.
About a month ago, she had promised to come in every day because she had a huge paper due and needed help with her writing. But then she [...]

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Article from Lele

Lele sent me this New York Times article a few days ago.. even though it’s a few months old, I decided to share it because I thought it had value:
A Sichuan Family and Tibet’s Future
In my opinion, this article was less biased than others I have read, and I thought that it captured the Chinese [...]

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Baller #4 – Whoever Invented JetBlue (David Neeleman)

The creators of JetBlue, travelocity.com, and Air China are all ballers to me tonight. I just finished booking my tickets back from China on December 14. Although it took a while to find good deals, I booked a flight from Beijing – New York on Air China, and from New York – Boston on JetBlue. [...]

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