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Written By: 孙智谦 on October 30, 2007 4 Comments

 

 

It’s apparently the “in thing” in America to learn Chinese. It must be if big news networks are running stories about it during their prime time slots. The NBC Nightly News article is actually pretty good. It starts off mentioning how how much times have changed, how schools have gone from offering French [...]

Written By: 孙智谦 on October 9, 2007 8 Comments

Please tell me this album won’t stink as bad as this promotional poster does.

 

Jay Chou is an entertainment juggernaut in Asia. He composes music, produces, acts, writes, directs…you name it, he probably does it. And up to this point, he’s for the most part delivered high-quality stuff. But I’m a [...]

Written By: 孙智谦 on September 17, 2007 No Comment

 

Well, Brazil totally beasted (to beast = totally dominate) China 4-0 this weekend in World Cup soccer. I can’t say I’m surprised. Disappointed, yes. Surprised, no. Brazil is like a soccer dynasty. I don’t really have much else to say about this that would be said any better than the [...]

Written By: 孙智谦 on September 12, 2007 No Comment

The Chinese women’s team celebrates their victory over Denmark, ironically without a single player “making the V”.

 

I don’t know how I managed to miss it considering I love watching international soccer matches, but the Women’s World Cup is going on right now! And doubly-irritating is the fact that I managed not to know [...]

Written By: 孙智谦 on August 22, 2007 No Comment

Just think, you could be eating your Chinese food with these very same chopsticks!

 

Today’s unsafe export of Chinese goods comes from Beijing, where a factory has been recycling people’s used chopsticks and then reselling them without disinfecting them at all. Yummy. Beijing News says that officials there have seized about 500,000 pairs of [...]

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