CHANG CHANG CHANG
Nothing New
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Me:welcome back to the jungle
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Oscar:thanks
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Oscar:i think it's good to be back
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Oscar:did i miss anything?
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Me:They had another protest at Tiananmen but then it was erased from history
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Me:so, no.
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Oscar:right
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Oscar:i'm sure that never happened
Yeah, I can’t really tell you why a 4-foot-high celebratory (albeit 3 days belated) Natonal Day cake was on the hood of a car at a busy intersection at 8:50 a.m. in the morning, either.
Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland on why President Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize less than a year after he took office.
Oh okay, that makes total sense.
Kathryn Ma - All That Work and Still No Boys
Her writing epitomizes the average Chinese-American lifestyle. From U of Iowa Press:
How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement.
Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California’s Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss.
J.M.G. Le Clézio - Fever. This book was so intense. “Author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.”
(quote from NYT)
Female swimmers are wearing protective hoods all over their faces for protection against sunburn in Qingdao, in east China’s Shandong province, 30 June 2009. The hoods are fashionable this year at the local beaches for swimming.
via picturedesk.
