Daddy bought gold o.O
“my sword crashes through your breastplate splashes the blood across your scared face drops leave a trail in the snow showing a clear trace…” I have been thinking and talking and watching gold for a long time, but I never had the cash to actually buy any and join the club. But I did recently [...]
A question of existence
I came across some interesting thoughts the least couple of days. Although I don’t write about current affairs nearly as much as I used to, i still rant about stuff during my lunch break or late at night to bean, who listens politely. I’ve explained a few times already why i don’t write about US [...]
A few days in Sanya
For years I avoided Hainan because as far as I had heard, it was a dirty, rude knock-off of nicer islands farther south and west (Bali, Phuket, Hawaii). Well, after four days and five nights in Sanya, I am going to have to set the record straight for any others out there who may have [...]
An anti-establishment radical caught in a corporate setting
Today I picked up the cash portion of my pay. here at Ctrip.com we foreigners have two different forms of payment: 1) Taxable income that is wired in 2) non-taxable income that is given in cash The non-taxable income is basically our rent. In the initial negotiations with HR, we were going to hand them [...]
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