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| Well, I'm firing up the old blog again, but not on Xanga. You can see the blog here.
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| Yes, I have been absolutely horrible about posting these last few months. And, despite the fact that I'm posting now, that's actually not changing: this actually won't be much of a post. Been on the road for about a month now, and I've got another month and a half ahead of me. Most of this doesn't include internet access, and even when it does, it involves anything but lots of time in front of the computer. The rare exception, like my current Shanghai layover, is almost completely devoted to doing all the work that I'm not doing on the road.
But, I just uploaded a bunch of pictures from the SE Asia leg of the trip. These are from Cambodia (Phnom Penh and Siem Riep (Angkor Watt)) and Lao (Luang Phabang). This is one of my favorites from the group, from trekking in Lao (before the leaches -- NOT joking).
I've also started working on uploading pics from earlier in the year (Flickr limits how much you can upload each month unless you pay). I've just uploaded an album from Hong Kong in December.
You can see them all here.
Now (literally RIGHT now) I'm walking out the door to catch (find, actually, since I am without a ticket) a flight to Beijing. From there I'll catch my flight to Mongolia, where we'll spend two weeks wandering the steppe... After that it's Malaysia and California, so don't expect me to get too much better about posts in the near future...
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| Just got back from a trip to Beijing to cheer on the great wall marathon crew and hang out with everyone passing through (Lucers from Mongolia, Beijing and Shanghai, and friends-of-Luce (they should form a support group) from Sri Lanka, Nanjing and the US). I'll try to pick the best pics and do a full entry for the weekend in the next few days, but until then, the full (unedited) set of pics is here.
As you'll notice, the most photo-worthy portions of the weekend were the marathon and the midnight trip to the massage parlor. Details coming soon...
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| Once again, this makes it up less because it's particularly interesting than because I've had such a dearth of postable experiences lately...
China Radio International (CRI) is the Chinese equivalent to the BBC or Voice of America (in aspirations more than presence, obviously). They have a daily politics/current events show, and on Tuesday they interviewed me for my analysis of President Bush's immigration speech on Monday night. Now I hesitate to share this, because it is NOT pretty. It's my first experience with something like this, and mostly it'll be a good thing for me to identify things to improve. There are some I already know (I talk WAY too fast) and some that I didn't know, or that are new to me (I've developed a speech rhythm where, apparently, my volume fluctuates quite a bit, and I've got a habit of speaking haltingly between points by repeating my transition word (and-and, but-but) - that isn't quite as bad as "uhhhh," but it's not much better). Also remember that immigration is definitely not my specialty, so this is much more as a politics/foreign policy generalist. Anyway, here it is.
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| This isn't much of a post, but I haven't had much worth sharing in the last few weeks, so I figured I'd settle for this.
It probably comes as no surprise that there are certain terms in english that are directly adopted in Chinese. This often ends up taking the form of using Chinese characters that make the same sound as the english word (thus cola becomes "ke la"). But I've learned there are a few terms where even the roman/english characters are used. Yesterday I learned two new ones.
The first was "email."
The second was "UFO."
Naturally.
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