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Category Archives: China
Five Reasons Why You Should Visit Xiamen
Located in China’s Fujian province across the strait from Taiwan, Xiamen is a bustling coastal city offering all the usual amenities for travelers with Western sensibilities as well as a rich plethora of traditional Chinese culture and customs.
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Why I Wouldn’t Live in Hong Kong
"For creature comforts, Hong Kong is unsurpassed, but Hong Kong is culturally barren. Living there is something like living inside a cash register."
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Anime-Comic-Game Hong Kong (ACGHK) 2009
I have never before found myself immersed in something so utterly foreign and bizarre. The manga fans I know in the States are mere wannabes compared to the 600,000 plus enthusiasts who flocked to this year’s ACGHK sporting imitation M41 carbines, full sets of samurai armor with matching katanas, and hair of every conceivable unnatural color under the sun.
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Tai Mo Shan, Done
A sign reading "No Trespassing," a ten foot high fence wrapping all the way around, barbed wire everywhere? Sounds like an unambiguous invitation to me.
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Getting Away From the Machine
There’s a digging machine at a construction site near my workplace in Hong Kong Central. Enormous, cylindrical, and piston-shaped, it prepares the foundation of a new building on Pedder Street by driving a sheer metal shaft at least two feet in diameter into hard, raw concrete. When steel collides with stone, the ground shakes and an ear-splitting clangor pulsates through the air as the threatening piston trembles and rises to strike again. An auditory manifestation of the city's pace of development, the piston slams into the ground again and again – a metronome beating out the urban tempo.
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“It’s like all the Mexicans in NYC just stopped working one day.”
Imagine every Sunday all the Mexicans in NYC with low-skilled jobs stop working, go to Wall Street or Times Square, and just throw one big street party.
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HK Oddities
Living for a month in any one place really lets you discover its little idiosyncracies and oddities. I present to you some of HK's below.
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HK Ivy Ball 2009 – Take Two
I have been challenged to rewrite my previous post, which may have come off as a one-sided and unpleasant diatribe to those who actually attended the Ivy Ball. Since I am not one to let a challenge go unanswered, I present to you a different, yet truthful, rendition of the same sequence of events.
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HK Ivy Ball 2009
Ivy Ball is a social extravaganza for Ivy League alumni who live in Hong Kong. Every summer, hundreds of men in tuxedos and women in evening gowns enter the Grand Hyatt ballroom, which overlooks the harbor on land reclaimed from the sea, for professional networking and auditory/gustatory entertainment.
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Citadels of the Almighty Dollar
HK has at least a dozen Swarovski stores, Armani shops selling not only clothes but even books and flower arrangements, and a Louis Vuitton-sponsored art exhibition at the HK Museum of Art (raising too many disturbing questions than this post can address).
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What Is a Trowel?
troweling: using a trowel, digging a hole, pooping, wipe with leaf, then refill the hole.
Massive, Harmonious Madness
A day spent experiencing HK's is enough to put any urban-dwelling American to shame.
CEO HK Interns
Here are some additional flattering pictures of the CEO contingent.
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Joules of Wealth