Tag Archives: Columbia

Crazy Karate

By David Xia | Published: October 7, 2009
How to respond to a stranger's "What time is it?" without regaining consciousness in the back of an unmarked white van and how to collapse a thug's trachea with the spine of a book.
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Separated At Birth I: Peter Griffin

By David Xia | Published: October 4, 2009
Erich Ely (Columbia University's Director of Facilities Operations) = Peter Griffin
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HK Ivy Ball 2009 – Take Two

By David Xia | Published: July 14, 2009
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

By David Xia | Published: July 7, 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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